[oguruma]

I want to use the [bbp-topic-index] shortcode, however I really want to filter by A) Public Forums, and/or B) certain forums.

When you use the topic-index shortcode, it spits out topics regardless of the forum. The problem with this is that I use BuddyPress and there are groups with private forms. I don’t want the topic-index shortcode to display these private forums.

Now, I could use the [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] shortcode. The problem with this, however, is that it will display ALL of the topics for that forum. Now, I COULD hide everything after the first 15 or so topics with CSS, but this is a pretty terrible solution because 1) a boatload of topics are still going to (unnecessarily) be part of the HTML markup and widespread use of display:none is bad for SEO.

Any ideas?

[demonboy]

Hi Robin,

Using your prompt I hacked something that removes the action altogether and just uses the if statement. On the loop-single-forum.php file I started with this:

<?php $forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id(); 
    if (( $forum_id == 40250) ){
?>
     <li class="bbp-forum-info-40250">  
<?php
    }

else {?>
	<li class="bbp-forum-info">
<?php
}?>

where I set the CSS selector ‘bbp-forum-info-40250’ width to 100%. At the end of the template I then added this:

<?php $forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id(); 
    if (( $forum_id == 40250) ){
?>
       
<?php
    }

else {?>	
	<li class="bbp-forum-topic-count"><?php bbp_forum_topic_count(); ?></li>
        rest of the normal template follows
	</li>
<?php
}?>

where nothing appears for forum id 40250 and the rest of the template displays as normal for all other forums. So now my first forum description is 100% width without topic counts/views/freshness, whilst the rest of the forums display as normal.

If interested you can see the result here.

[Chuckie]

My forums have in places white text. As a result, when I close a topic I can no longer read the information.

I am used to closed topics simply meaning they can’t accept replies. Ie, they are locked.

Look here for an example:

General

How can I use CSS to get rid of that highlighting?

[demonboy]

Hi,

Strange request but I would like to hide a forum completely when the user is logged in. This is because I’m using this forum as an info page for new visitors. Once a user is registered and logged in, they don’t need to see the forum, so I’d like to remove the entire < ul >. I’m hoping this is a simple addition to my functions.php file, something along the lines of:

if ( bbp_is_user_logged_in() ) {
   echo "<some css that did ul.bbp-forum-40250 {display:none;}
}

Except I know that’s probably not the best way to achieve this. What would be the best way to hide the forum to logged in users?

Thanks.

[Ms Aberdeen]

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I am using the bbpress [forum] plugin.
I do not want to use it in its default state. I want to have it maintain my site’s design.
According to what I have read [HERE; https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/ ]

to do so requires me to copy both the bbpress and the css directories
from the default folder and paste it or upload
it into the ‘theme’ directory/ folder.

Thing is I am not quite sure if I ought to paste them [ bbpress & css directories] into the wp-config.php folder
& if so where [in the wp-config.php folder] ? Is it Before or after the present info I see there now?

[yaragad]

Ok, done with the css bbp-forum-info class by increasing the %.

Thanks, this is closed then.

Love this plugin.

[yaragad]

Sorry, this works for the columns inside the forum (for threads) but I still see Voices and Replies in the main forums screen.

I included it at the end of my style.css of my WP theme. Is this correct?

[fantomx90]

Hello,

I am using the bbPress forums currently, and whenever we create a topic it is this grayed out color… We did find a custom CSS code to use, and it DOES work for Closed topics, but all others it still stays grayed out. What can we do to fix this?

Also, whenever someone is typing a reply it still displays in this awful gray color. How would I change the default color of the text being used in our forum?

(For reference, here is the code we used for black Closed topics:)
#bbpress-forums .status-closed,
#bbpress-forums .status-closed a {
color: #000 !important;
}

(And yes, we did try just switching closed with open in the coding lol.)

Thank you.

[cosmicnexus]

The header on the bbPress forum list and topics pages has an appropriate black background with white text in Chrome for large screens. However, in Firefox and Edge and also even in Chrome on mobile, the background is light grey with white text and of course text is hard to read.

I’ve tried targeting this with css but none of the selectors I’ve tried have worked. If anyone can supply a selector that will work I’d be mighty grateful!

The forum page is on a dev site I’m working on here:

https://globalhealing3.wpengine.com/ghe-forums/

[Robin W]

you theme seems to be hiding much of this in css eg

.gp-theme .gp-forum-home .bbp-forum-topic-count, .gp-theme .gp-forum-home .bbp-forum-freshness {
	display: none;
}

suggest you contact theme author or switch themes

[Robin W]

add this to the custom css part of your theme settings

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a {
	color: #12526f !important;
}

Close and re-open your browser

Please come back and confirm that this works

[fantomx90]

Hello, I have set up bbPRess forums on my website (albeit very simple ones). As they are currently built they are all just listed in 7 straight topics and it looks very bland and boring.

I would like to be able to add some category headings however, or at the very least break them up into different sections. I am not very technical as far as HTML or CSS coding… but I Figured if there is going to be a way that’s how its going to happen.

To clarify, I kind of want them broken up like a PHPBB bulletin, but I do like the functionality and ease of use of the bbpress forums.

Is there any SIMPLE way to do this, or at least a bbpress expert I could pay that could probably knock this out in an hour (or less)?

Thank you in advance.

[karlwinn1]

Hi, please visit this site. https://www.csshero.org/customize-enhance-bbpress-forum-easily/
I hope it can help you.

[Robin W]

This is because your theme or a plugin is adding the bootstrap library, and also adding the ‘.card’ css class to the forum display, and this has a bad effect.

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Then come back

[mjthehunter]

Hi,

Over the past few weeks I’ve been customizing bbress to my liking using the live css editor in wordpress.
I tried moving it all to a stylesheet within my child theme in a folder called css.
I’ve named the file bbpress.css.

Everything was working fine in the wordpress editor, but after moving it to bbpress.css a lot of things no longer work.
Even when I try !important, a lot of things still don’t to work.

I should note that some of the code does work which is why this confuses me.
Any suggestions?

WordPress 5.2.2
BBPress 2.5.14
https://flippednormals.com/forums

[Robin W]

I can see, the theme renders before the forums.

you basically need to get your theme to render that page not using the .ast-col-md-6 css.

I can only suggest you refer to your theme support on how to do this

[techiebraj]

When I add this CSS code then my website another archive page(Category page) is also affecting, e.g., https://staging.keeptaxisalive.org/category/blogs/

I don’t want to affect all the archive. Only forum page should be auto width only.

Thank you!

[deafmetal]

Forum Index (does same thing when using shortcodes), Child Forum, and Topics:

After upgrading to 2.6 RC 7, and doing forum repairs, I lost the header, categories and formatting for my forum index and child forums. The topics work just fine still.

To troubleshoot, I deactivated all plugins, removed bbPress, activated the default 17 theme, and removed my primary theme. If I re-install/activate bbpress, the index and children headers then show up, albeit without the default styling.

So I reinstalled my theme (which has native bbpress/buddypress support built in), re-activated bbpress, and the headers/categories/formatting disappeared again.

I wanted to think it was a css issue, but I had re-installed everything fresh. So it appears something corrupted my database, tied specifically to my theme. Any recommendations for how to “fix” the repairs and undo the damage?

For the life of me I cannot figure out how to fix this without a wholesale home home directory and sql db restoral. But I’d lose WEEKS of edits and css customization. Ughh

Thank you in advance!!

[BizDev Results]

Hello and thanks in advance for the help. I am new to bbpress.

I have been looking for a way to arrange my bbpress page to look like the https://bbpress.org/forums/

With a short description of each forum on the left hand column and the list of recent topics on the right.

Is this done with shortcodes or css or will it require development? if it is shortcodes, can someone share them with me?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, your theme/caching is now doing this

https://www.myplaystation.nl/wp-content/cache/fvm/1559213822/out/header-de476267.min.css

you might need to clear cache to get style pack to take or put this in custom css

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-forum-topic-count {
	color: #000 !important;
}

[Robin W]

try this in your theme custom css area

li.bbp-forum-topic-count, {
	width: 12% !important;
}

[kjhjkhjk]

In all the post of the forum in general

I mean when someone uploads an image, automatically reduce the size of the youtube video embed content.

For the images, I used this CSS code and works fine

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content img, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content img {
max-width: 500px;
max-height:450px;
height: auto;
}

But for the videos embed I still have the problem

[spellman]

Where do I change the css for the color of the text (or the background)

As is, it’s impossible to see the text you are writing on the input fields.

oathbreakermtg.org/forums

[Helmuts]

Is there a simple solution to force the site to ignore bbpress fonts and sizes?

I want bbpress to respect and use the default font and size of the theme.

Preferably in a form of few lines to be added to custom css of the active theme? I would prefer no to create child-theme (I’m using Neve) and definitely do not want to install additional plugins.

My forum: ibf.lv

I have made my forum as light as possible + made it full width and the 1st thing that can’t be ignored are different sizes and font of the forum 🙁

Thank you 🙂
Helmuts

[Barry]

There are a few ways you might tackle this, but custom CSS is often a nice way to go, both because it’s “safer” than custom PHP and because you can easily tweak it to achieve a better fit. Plus, most themes make this really easy: simply navigate to Appearance ‣ Customize ‣ Additional CSS and add your code 🙂

/* Remove the titlebar area on forum archive pages */
.bbpress.forum-archive #page-titlebar {
  display: none;
}

/* Retain some whitespace for consistency with other pages */
.bbpress.forum-archive #site-content {
  margin-top: 75px;
}

In this case, perhaps some rules like I’ve listed above could be a nice starting point?