[n22]

change text-area background color ?

what i should write in my style.css? in which line?

http://n22.awardspace.com/forums (actualy its write)

thanks

[Atsutane]

1. U need to load wordpress function inside bbpress.

Put this inside config.php “require_once(‘/path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);”

2. Use wp template tag inside your bbpress template.

For example. Make a clean header.php and put “<?php get_header(); ?>”. Replace it with your bbpress-template header.php.

To make sure bbpress gonna look alike your wp static page. I suggest u try refer single.php or page.php inside your wp theme folder.

Here is my example. Using Kubrick page.php

//Start Header.php

<?php get_header(); ?>

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

<div class=”post” id=”post-forum”>

<div class=”entry”>

//End Header.php

//Example item = front-page.php

//Start Footer.php

</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

//End Footer.php

So everytime u load bbpress index.php you will get the same page like your static wp page.

3. Add some of bbpress css style inside your wp css file.

Im sure u not gonna use all bbpress style maybe only some of it. Maybe you can start copy bbpress style from this point “/* Front Page=================================== */” untill the end.

I dont know if this gonna help you but i try my best to keep it simple hope it gonna do some help.

Side note: to load bbpress as wp static page. Create new page, and set “post slug” = “bbpress folder”

[peiqinglong]

Ok, I’ve been racking my brain on this one. How do I align the text so that it is in the middle of each icon? http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum/

I know people usually do td align, but that isn’t valid for xhtml strict. I can’t figure out what the CSS code for that is…

Thanks!

[tekhawk]

anyone got some good css for code block areas right now all mine is, is a dashed border id like something like you see on most programming help forums

code {

display: block;

width: 400px;

border: 1px dashed lime;

background: #FFFFFF;

}

[peiqinglong]

The page you refer to is one of my sites: http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum and it took a bit of playing to get it “integrated”, but its easy now.

Basically when you go to http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum , you’re not going to a page called forum, you’re actually loading the bbpress directory. I created a folder called “my-templates” and began warping the standard layout to match my layout. It involved some heavy modification of the bbpress layout files. The main files I tweaked with are: headers.php, front-page.php, footer.php, and style.css. I also did some slight tweaking with the login-form.php also.

[n22]

In which line of style.css describ those color????

f.ex: sticky color is on the line 161 of style.css

1) the color of your forums name? (the one on the right-top corner)

2) the background color of forums ?

3) the title of table ?(the gray one on the top: Topic — Add New » Posts Last Poster Freshness …)

4) the original topic color ? (there 2 colors i think)

5) those words color? (Hot tags, Latest Discussions, Forums, View..)

6) the white line under under those title: Hot tags, lastest discussions…?

7) all link words ?( add new, no-reply, untag… the original color is green)

all link words ?(when mose hover)

background color of the bottom section of forums ?(there is : xxxxxxx is proudly powered by bbPress)

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9) Now, when u add a new topic, theres a table which ask u the subjet, the content, the tag and the ection. i want to change the background color of this table, which line it is?

10)Now, when u look at a topic, theres the original post and reply. the background of each one is on which line?

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11)last thing..: i want to also change those word (the word, not the color) : ‘Enter a few words(call tag)separeted by spaces to help someone find your topic’ and ‘ pick a section’

Thank you a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[devils_advocate]

Ok. found a css sheet, a new header and image files from Fernando_Graphicos <http://fernando.dubtribe.com&gt; and got the forum up and running but it won’t let me add a forum, doesn’t recognize me as admin [after initial screen] etc…

??

help?

[bat755]

Hi I’ve installed BBPress and I see no style sheet at all

My blog’s URL is http://phlog.it. BBpress is installed in a subdirectory called forum. I can’t see no style sheet. I’ve copied the stylesheet’s URL seen in the source code of the Forum’s homepage (http://phlog.it/forum/bb-templates/style.css) and it doesn’t work. How can I fix that?

[gnawph]

Some of these additions are either done with a simple plugin or template modifications…

Personally I’d like to see bbPress continue on with it’s development without spending resources to integrate the two programs together. Rather bbPress should stand alone as a forum system and not just a glorified WordPress plugin. It is my opinion that current forum systems offer way too many features and confuse themselves with content managment systems and social networking sites. Huge avatars and signatures take away from actual content and private message systems have been around for ages disguised as email.

The community around bbPress should develope plugins for all of these specific features. Remember that 90% of your users will just read and post on your forum and all those other goodies are just taking up resources that aren’t contributing to the overall “digital discussion” philosophy of a forum. Usenet is still pretty popular and that hasn’t changed much in years.

I’d like to see improvements on security, speed, and ease of use in the next releases rather than glittering goodies and features.

I am working on another ghetto plugin to highlight threads that have been started since your last visit. It’s been painful and frustrating to work on this since it’s been so long since I’ve worked with php but man is it fun. Another thing I’d like to see in the next release is a list or plan of what is going to happen next so I don’t waste time creating a plugin that is going to be in the next release.

Although it is fun.

P.S.

I’m biased on this issue as I’ve been in web stuffs for a number of years now so I can easily integrate a theme. It should be very simple as most of your design should be located inside your wp css file. The only thing you really have to change is some <div> placement. I threw away the default bbpress css theme and just flung bbPress into my WordPress site’s containers and it worked pretty well.

[devils_advocate]

Hi.

I’ve a settled and happy little wordpress (version 2.02) community that I want to add a robust Forum software to.

Seeing as how WordPress.org recommends (and uses) bbPress, I thought I’d give it a go.

I’ve read through the (available) documentation <–that which I understood, and made changes to the “config.php” file as I believed all should be. I know I have something wrong, because I can’t seem to get the Forum to work with the WordPress installation I have.

My problems are less now than the first install (I keep going into the database and deleting all the ‘bb_’ instances before try to run the install each time (6 times now) – but I still have a few issues I can’t seem to put my finger on and would like to pick some brains – or be led down a truer path of enlightenment.

#1 – I am not a php programmer (an illustrator by trade) but pretty sharp so you don’t have to speak to far down to me =0)

#2 – I took the info for the top 3 lines of the “config.php” from my wordpress install. that is I left the ‘BBDB_Name’, ‘added my DB name’ left ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘added MySQL username’ and then the database password

#3 – the bbPress will reside within a “forums” directory inside directory named “cms” which is in the root of the site. I’m a mite confused about the blog and domain paths requested I thought I had them correct but everything lacked the WP template look (no css) and all the links for the “bbpress-integration.php” <-is this really a release plugin?), ahem…all of the links in the window this plug-in generates are two directories higher (on the root) instead of in the same directory as the forum.

(more on this in a bit)

This is what I have here:

// 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://domain.com/cms/forums&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

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

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

respectively – and believe they are wrong – but unsure.

#4 – named the forum ‘forum name’ ; added my email address ‘devils_advocate@mac.com’; left pretty permalinks to false; topics to 30; edit-lock to 60; offset time zone -5; used my actual akismet key # (is that correct?) and then got to the serious stuff – the three items for integration with WordPress.

#5 – set

$bb->wp_table_prefix = true; // ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix.

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

$bb->wp_siteurl = http://domain.com/cms; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

And since this site isn’t loading WordPress with bbPress (being that WordPress is the primary site) I left that alone.

#6 – then I create a folder/directory in the ‘forum’ directory called “my-plugins” and add the “display-name.php” plug-in to it (it gets calls for error on line 15 which is “search”) everytime during config

and

I turn on the plug-in added to WordPress – (/cms/wp-content/templates/plugins) “bbpress-integration.php” (which opens immediately in “raw format” – even before I run the bbPress install.

But these two plugs are recommended for us non-techies – so I go with it.

#7 – run the config.php follow the link to Step 1 [and get the same page shown with the “bbpress-integration.php” plug-in (links wrong) at the top, at the bottom a path error on headers and then the regular “Step 1” information to fill in.

Repeat for step 2

Finally, when it appears to be complete I have a login page that is without css (no template integration); links two levels up toward root than where the forum resides ‘domain.com/link’ instead of domain.com/cms/forums/link’

and not wp integration what-so-ever…none of the users/passwords are recognized (over 200) etc…

what, what, what in gods name am I doing wrong?

=0|

thanks for any insight in advance…..

devils advocate.

[bpartch]

Hello

There is apparently some issue with the install or something as it is not getting your .css file. If you try to visit the .css url you get an internal server error:

http://n22.awardspace.com/forums/bb-templates/style.css

I am not sure what the easiest way is to fix this but I would uninstall and reinstall it again making sure all the stuff in the config.php file is accurate.

Someone else may have a easier solution.

Hope this helps.

[n22]

http://n22.awardspace.com/forums

after i install my bbpress, its like this (all white, just like no CSS) i dont know why~~

[n22]

i remark that my bbpress doesnt likes normaly, its all white:

i did not change anythings yet

http://n22.awardspace.com/forums

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

The red only applies to deleted topics, as the CSS class you found suggests.

[Zambu]

OK, I figured it out finally…you can control the color of these background fields on the front page by changing the color code in the style.css file at these lines:

.deleted.alt {

background: #ff9999;

}

Of course! “deleted.alt”…so obvious of a name for this option in the style sheets…why didn’t I think of this 9 hours ago!

[Zambu]

On the basic downloaded version strater template, the front page lists “latest discussions” and also the “forums”. This listing visually has an line by line alternating background color of very light gray and a pinkish red.

My question is how do I change these background colors? I would have thought this would be in the css style sheet but I can not find it in there anywhere.

thanks, thomas

[mozey]

i am under the impression that there is a default theme with bbpress, mine is not loading, everything else is working. (Well, its installed and ic an add forums etc), but it looks like its not finding a .css file of anysort. any ideas?

[astereo]

I’m in the middle of writing a large guide on customizing bbpress, hopefully I can get it published today if I can get my bbpress fixed anytime soon.

[kyte]

Well I have begun to make changes (I’m not a green and grey person, AND I need new glasses so I need a larger font) but the style.css (in templates subdirectory) changes are not making any difference to the appearance of the forums… are there other alterations needed elsewhere???