[chrishajer]

This has been covered in the forum before: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/439?replies=2

Seems like the problem is with the CSS:

#profile-menu {

list-style: none;

position: absolute;

right: 0;

}

The position:absolute and the right:0 cause it to be anchored all the way over on the right side of the screen. Not much that can be done with it on bbpress.org, but if you are using the same template, you can fix your own CSS.

[kensav]

After I installed and got into the first page I noticed there was no styles.

Seems every link points to: http://www.kensavage.com/forums/forums/

I figured I added a trailing slash or something but it seems ok. When I take the extra forums/ out of any link it works fine including the css. Any ideas?

My config file:

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.kensavage.com/forums’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forums/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Making IT in Massachusetts Forums’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘ken@kensavage.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘true’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = ’30’;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = ’60’;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = ‘-5’;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘false’;

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘ks_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.kensavage.com’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.kensavage.com’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

/* Stop editing */

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

[Trent Adams]

Customization is really not bad once you get the hang of it. All the template files are in /bb-templates/ and the main ones you will most likely want to change will be:

header.php

footer.php

front-page.php

style.css

There are other ones, but with header.php you can put in your links to other parts of your site or anything else you want displayed on every page. This can include your images. Footer.php is where you will put in more information on closing your style tags you opened in header.php and your footer information. Front-page.php is where the meat of your forum is, whether you want to move around the hot tags or just want to add in a link to a plugin off the main page.

The real meat and potatoes of customization is done through CSS in style.css. That is where you can tweak where you want things placed and what colors you use. If someone knows CSS, you will find it not so bad!

Once you change a file, what you want to do is create a folder called /my-templates/ and add the edited files there. That way, if you make a mistake, you can delete the file off the server to fix it and bbPress will go back to using the one in /bb-templates/ until you upload to /my-templates/ again.

The future will have a system much like WordPress, a kind of drop and drag themes approach, but we have this for now!

The starting point would be to read:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/customization/

Trent

That should get you going. Once you understand changing around the stylesheet in style.php, it doesn’t seem so bad!

[Trent Adams]

I had to borrow a function from the great Alex King and his mobile edition for WP, but I have created a plugin that will allow mobile phones and other common mobile devices to access a page designed for them.

Download: BB-Mobile

All the directions are in the readme.txt file in the download file, so it should be quite self explanatory. It has 2 files and you need to edit your header.php file in your templates, but has no core changes.

NOTE: I don’t think the mobile CSS will validate and I need people to test this out to find any bugs and corrections, but it seems to work well enough for me.

If you need a demo, you can view my forum with a mobile:

http://forum.trentadams.ca

Trent

[weirdtherapy]

the easiest way would be a link to a zip to download it I think

I just tried to piece it together with the information from the sourcecode … and I think it might be done, but for me it looked easier to build it new.

The CSS file as jonlandrum metioned would be a start for it, but it’s still a bit of work to do because it doesn’t use all the same id’s (like rap instead of wrapper).

[Jonathan Landrum]

Well, I’m not using bbpress just yet, but as far as the look goes you can just snag the CSS file, assuming Matt doesn’t care. Also, weirdtherapy has a good point in that pasting the CSS file in your directory won’t necessarily work; you’ll have to put in the hooks and whatnot that they use here.

[ardentfrost]

New release of my Avatar Plugin (version .73a). Core files no longer have to be adjusted! Just drop the file into your plugins directory, adjust your css file (as shown in the readme) and you’re good to go.

Get the new release here: http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_avatar/

View use of the Avatar Plugin here: http://www.rayd.org/forums/

[chrishajer]

I fixed this inadvertently but I am trying to figure out how. On the front page of my forum, I have “Hot Tags” across the top and the “Latest Discussions” beneath, and both are the same width (760px I think.) The CSS is div #wrapper div #main div #hottags p .frontpageheatmap.

screenshot http://www.riversideinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/hottags.png

I could have sworn when I first installed bbPress the tags were on the left in a 150px wide div #hottags.

Are the hot tags supposed to be on the left in a 150px wide div, or above the latest discussions? Are the hot tags and heatmap supposed to be different things on different pages?

The reason I bring this up is that mine displays fine in IE and FF with the frontpageheatmap all the way across, but maybe I am missing the hottags? If I can figure out what is different about mine, maybe that will help clear the div issue on topiQ’s site. In IE, that hottags div is pushing everything else down the page.

[weirdtherapy]

My first bbPress Template:

http://www.borderline-hacks.at/borderline-hacks-forum/

The image of it:

http://www.weirdtherapy.com/images/borderline-green-01-shot.jpg

If you want to download it to (change and) use it, you can do so here:

http://www.weirdtherapy.com/zip/borderline-green-ads-01.zip

There is (commented) space where you may place ads, I added the psd file for the logo, and the text in the header is random (to be truth I only added it because I couldn’t think of anythink else and I wanted it to be finished ) and easy editable(… i think / hope). There is also a seperate ie.css for the internet explorer.

Two of the ads would be shown on every page because they are in the header – I only ad this information cause I think I read somethink in the forum here that there might occur problems with google .. well something like that – so keep that in mind pls.

grretings

[talgalili]

Hi Trent.

The URL is:

http://www.biostatistics.co.il/forums

I translated mostly everything that was in the po file.

But the CSS I have is for left-to-right language (and I need right-to-left CSS structure)

I tried “fixing” the CSS, but it gotten all scrambled.

Please let me know what you think.

Tal.

[ear1grey]

<li<?php

if ( is_front())

{

echo " id="current">";

?>

BTW the list item would be better described as being something like class="current" then add an appropriate .current {} to your css.

See also: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/250

[Trent Adams]

You should be able to change your style.css to reflect how you want your blockquote to work. I changed mine and see no problems with it. Take a look at:

http://forum.trentadams.ca/topic.php?id=313&replies=1#post-483

Used:

blockquote {

border-left: 1px solid #c00;

border-right: 1px solid #c00;

border-top: 1px solid #c00;

border-bottom: 1px solid #c00;

background: #fff;

width: 300px;

margin-left: 1.5em;

padding: 5 5 5 5px;

}

Is that what you mean or could you give an example?

Trent

[spencerp]

Was wondering if someone wouldn’t mind making up a plugin for Forum Catagory (blocks)..? Like phpBB has..

Example:

General (forum cat block 1) >

–Latest news (forum under general cat)

–General Discussions (forum under general cat)

–Site Feedback (forum under general cat)

Website Design (forum cat block 2) >

–HTML Basics (forum under website design cat)

–PHP Coding (forum under website design cat)

–CSS (forum under website design cat)

Is anyone up for doing this maybe? I think it would be nice to have this option though, rather then having ALL the forums listed under ONE Section only..

spencerp

[Tarek Anandan]

It appears to be an IE6 / CSS issue. The class works properly in Firefox, but as the original post notes, IE picks up the deleted.alt class as the alternate background color for listed forums, topics, and posts.

I don’t believe IE6 recognizes hover attributes for anything but <a> elements. Someone with good CSS skills probably knows a hack.

[Null]

Hi,

I am running bbpress and created 2 pages using the header, footer and css from bbpress. The pages are called:

Blog.php

Downloads.php

Now I want a menu in my header just like the one on this site (see top of this page). How do I create one like this??

Pref I want the menu in the header aligned right, just below the bbpress logo image in this order:

Blog | Forums | Downloads.

I had no luck trying myself…

Thx

[Jakey]

I believe he’s referring to themes as in separate forums within the forum. Not template or CSS themes like wordpress themes. Kind of a silly naming convention if you ask me.

[joebarone]

so here’s my first attempt at tweaking bbPress for my own purposes:

http://www.joebaronedesign.com/forum

wondering if I should keep hacking away at the hard code to change the layout and overall appearance, or if i should just wait to upgrade when the new version of bbPress is released… because I have no idea what I’m doing in CSS and PHP…drrrr

[Null]

Hi,

Well at the main page of the forum you have: Latest Discussions and underneeth it: Forums. My question is about this last part. The main themes are all in each row underneeth each other like:

Forum 1 – bla bla

Forum 2 – bla bla

Farum 3 – bla bla

Is it possible to let these appear in 2 columns like in a news paper? Like:

Forum 1 – bla bla Forum 2 – bla bla

Forum 3 – bla bla

And this goes automaticly ofcourse… I know they work on this with css 3 but it will take years when thats is finished. So how to get this done now?

Thx

[ardentfrost]

Sorry about having to make a change in functions.php, I just don’t know how else to do it.

You can see it in action at http://www.rayd.org/forums2/

You can download the file at http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_avatar/ (link goes to readme which has link to file).

Don’t forget to change your css file in the described fashion. By default (which, I like this) anything that goes beyond the bounds of the author box is hidden.

[yottabite]

I’ve played around with the default theme a bit, and came up with something that keeps the general feel, but adds a prominent link to the RSS page (using CSS), and made the “tag” heading link to the tags page for a bit of added spice. Oh, and I’ve added snazzy stripes to the tag background ala hoodwinkd as a nod in their general direction.

Here’s the URL to the forum posting (also give you a preview of the theme):

http://forum.blandname.com/topic/6

[Nola1974]

Atsutane, you are THE MAN. Mine still looks like garbage, but It’s coming along. Thanks! This really should be included in the package.

Basically, to clarify the process even more…

/// open ‘/bbpress/conf.php’ and at the top, after the opening ‘<?php’ put the following:

‘”require_once(‘/path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);”‘

Then, in your ‘my-templates’ directory, create the following files:

header.php

‘<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

<div class=”post” id=”post-forum”>

<div class=”entry”>’

footer.php

‘</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>’

You will still have to tweak the code, but that’s all it took for me.

You’ll need to add the styles from the non-header/footer portions of the bbpress css files to your WP style sheet.

Check my test-forum out… http://nolageek.com/forums

One thing I can’t figure out though… when you’re viewing a topic, the “reply” form is WAAAAYYYY too long. I’ve edited this in every form I can see, but this isn’t changing..

Why are there so many edit forms? Where is this one?

[talkaboutdesign]

Ok so everyone is aware of the login form and when someone logins it gives them a message that they are logged in and view their profile and so on. http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/forum/

im tryin to integrate just the message part, after someone logs in. Tried doing it but not successful. I would also like to fix the css problem with internet explorer 6, where the alt tags dont show up correctly. background colors are screwed up in ie6. but work everywhere.

[n22]

yes its different in IE and FireFox

copy the : ../forums/bb-templates/style.css to ../forums/my-templates/style.css (just in case)

edit : my-template/style.css

how?: the 25 line 354 and 357 line.

[talkaboutdesign]

Ok so someone pointed out to me that when they view my site in ie 6 every 2nd line shows in dark grey. I checked it and indeed found this to be ie problem. I tried everything even removing alt tags from css file , tried changing color and nothing works. Any ideas.

http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/forum

[talkaboutdesign]

It doesn’t generate thumbnails, its just setting the width of the image thats linked to be something i set. I will be publishing all this stuff on my forum soon. Im just running more test.

Btw. check it out http://www.talkaboutdesign.com/forum/

i did more updates, and added a css tab menu on top. Keep checking for more updates. In the near future ill also have a dl theme.