[Robin W]

it’s caused by

#bbpress-forums .reply {
  margin-left: 0 !important;
  width: auto !important;
}

which says it is inline code.

The width: auto !important needs to be width :100% !important.

Auto makes it only as wide as it needs to be, so for short sentences it truncates.

But I’m also getting an error saying that your “sydney-child-theme/style.css could not be loaded”

[Audiomonk]

I’ve looked in here, I’ve looked on the net. I tried all suggestions for CSS, and the threading is disabled in the settings. Yet the replies on the forum are indented.

Link vs. Add

It looks horrible, please how do I turn it off. I use the Sydney theme.

[posemotion]

I finally figured it out. No need to use the “Full Page Width” option or any other techniques found about the web. If you installed a bbPress forum and everything is set to its defaults. Just use the following…

Select “Customize”
Select “Additional CSS”
Add/Paste the following…

.bbpress #content-sidebar {      
display: none;
}

#bbpress-forums {
  margin-left: auto !important;
  margin-right: auto !important;
  width: 170% !important;
}

Forum link in first post is incorrect now. A redirect is being setup though as that is my old link to another forum I use to use. New forum link is, http://www.posemotion.com/forums

[ytwebdesigns]

Hi

I am using bbpress on hebrew website.
Using Poedit to translate
I have managed to translate most strings but I have the string “on” in english on which appears on line 1186 in widgets.php
i also tried editing the php code on this row and replacing “on” with a hebrew string and uploading to wp-content/child/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php but this didnt work
also in po file tried translating string and replacing “on” with “test” this didnt work either.

I cant seem to apply any css on this either
https://forumbaaleytshuva.co.il/category/%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%93%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%91/

screenshot below

View post on imgur.com

thanks

[Robin W]

hmm, not suer why your bbpress.css file is in wp-content/plugins/templates rather than wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates – have you altered this?

In essence you want to set

.bbp-reply-author width :100% ;
.bbp-reply-content margin : 0px;

This will force the content to the next line, and move it to the start of that line.

I’d also add

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
position: relative;
}

so you’d end up with (untested)

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px) {

.bbp-reply-author  {
width :100% ;
}
.bbp-reply-content {
margin : 0px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
	position: relative;
	}

}

[peter-hamilton]

Hi all, I have been playing on and off with WordPress, BBPress and Buddypress, mostly to build my own company website.

I have almost completed my quest to make BBpress as functional and user friendly as any other major, paid for, forum software offers, and I think I have even improved to my own preference and proven that BBpress is capable to be better then any commercial package.

Please review my website, I have a demo account as you need to be logged in for all the plugins and hacks to be visible.

I have added quite a few plugins and function snippets, I do not know how to code php or javascript, just basic html and css for the rest I cut and paste until it works, although I do understand what I am looking at with php after 4 years of cut-and-paste…lol

http://www.seedism.nl

username: demo
passowrd: demo2017

Just to let you know, I breed hybrid strains of medicinal Cannabis so you will find this content on my website!!

[nickmesquiti]

I am trying to create the Forum like it is here on bbpress; however I am not having success. I have copied out the themes and css and pasted them inot the “wp-content/themes/memberhsip/bbrpress/themes” and “wp-content/themes/memberhsip/css” directories. Now how do I get it to look like bbpress’s forfum with color and the like …

[xfallseane]

Hello !

I have a problem with responsive theme in mobile..

I want the author zone with profil image in the top of reply content.. the forum is not very beautiful and reading is difficult

I have test more css fix but not working ..

I use bpp style pack

[leeproc]

Hello all,

I somehow broke the page layout of my topic index and topic pages. The sidebar should be on the right, but it looks like WordPress is drawing the gray line separator on the left of the page, and pushing all the sidebar content to the bottom. Example: https://www.parentifact.org/forums/forum/questions/

I thought this was due to some code I put in the style.css and functions.php to style my archive pages, but I removed that code and it’s still messed up. Has anyone experienced this before, or could someone more knowledgeable look at the source and developer tools to figure out what’s going wrong here?

Thanks!

[Dimono]

Thank you for your quick response.

I researched al bit further and I noticed my question may be wrong.

bp-parent-forum-### is not the right one, I need the most parent one.

I want to add custom CSS to all subforums / topics and posts of the upper parent forum. Preferably to the <body> element because then I can then edit the whole page. The class could have the id of the most parent forum or a custom custom added class (maybe with a custom field?) that is not added to other upper parent forums.

What I’m trying to resolve is the following. My client wants forums in multiple languages, one of them is in Arabic. Text needs to be aligned to the right, but only for all forums and posts belonging that part.

[Robin W]

your theme is doing extensive bbpress changes.

It has a file at

https://enviroforum.net/website/wp-content/themes/enviroforum/lib/css/bbpress.css?ver=456a73969e36e761f6215426bf37ff30

which is turning off and on all sorts of things.

Sorry, but I can only suggest you contact the theme author to see if he can help

[Dimono]

Hi there,

I need to make changes in css that only happen inside all posts en forums of a parent forum.

This is easy to do on all subtopics and posts because the bbp-parent-forum-###class is added to the div classes of the posts.

These classes are not added to the reply forms or a parent div. How can I add the generated bp-parent-forum-### class to the reply forms as well?

Thanks in advance!

Dennis.

[aravoth]

So, I can style an .odd and .even forum differently, in this case to give forums on the the forums front page alternating colors, This also works for topics in the same way. And it carries over into replies, were the lead reply will have background-color: #fff;, and the next reply will have background-color: #000;, for example. What I am trying to do now is change the color of the blockqoute within the forum reply, to be the opposite of what the reply background is.

so if….

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #000 !important;

}

then I would want something like…

#bbpress-forums div.odd, #bbpress-forums ul.odd, blockquote {
background-color: #fff !important;

}

For some reason I can not get the blockqoute background to change, at least the way I want it too. For some reason it changes the blockquote background globally. I feel like I am missing a CSS class here somewhere. Can anyone give me a hint at what I’m missing?

[wilcoxc]

Hi all,

I’d really appreciate some guidance on a couple of plugins that may or may not exist to help with styling of my forums. (My site: http://www.plymouthoctopus.org)

I’m hoping to achieve something like this: https://seventhqueen.com/support/forums/forum/kleo/bugs-issues – note the wide reply incorporating the avatar, and also randomly assigned avatars. I thought this might be custom CSS but I have seen very similar designs on other sites (plex.tv) and have concluded, perhaps wrongly, that this is a plugin doing the styling.

I’ve searched all through the plugin suggestions on this forum, installed loads (thought that bbp Style Pack was what I’d been looking for) but to no avail. Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated!

Many thanks in advance.
Chris.

[mithrandir]

Not sure why its not working, seems to work on my end.

I believe the cause of the issue is the wordpress theme your website is using.
The best solution would be to contact the authors of the theme WPZOOM, and im sure they can find a quick solution.

If not, you could try adding the CSS once more, the following should work:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content p a, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content p a{
	background: none;
	color: black !important;
        position:relative !important;
 	display:inline-block !important;
        visibility: visible !important;
}

In truth it is difficult to address any styling issues without being able to see the website, if you can not get in touch with the authors of the theme I could try my best to find a solution.

[mithrandir]

Yes that would be the best solution, depending on their support for theme customization. I have extracted(just for testing purposes) the CSS from there live demo site for ‘discoverypro’, and can confirm it is the cause of the bbPress styling issues.

Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens

fix:

.bbp-body .bbp-topic-meta .bbp-author-name{
	display:block;
}

when reading posts and replies within topics, all the users profile pics squash themselves all together at the top left hand-side of the screen.

*I cannot recreate this issue as it is specific to your website, however if you could provide a link to your forums/website it would be possible to fix the issue.

[Kristian Yngve]

I’ve noticed there are some issues when the forums are displayed on handsets.

Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens, and worse still, when reading posts and replies within topics, all the users profile pics squash themselves all together at the top left hand-side of the screen.

** Note that if I rotate my handset to the landscape side, it all works great and no issues at all with the profile pictures going back to the normal places…

Everything else works great, just this little incompatibility. Any of you guys can suggest anything like a CSS rule that only targets this issue with the BBPress plugin to fix this?

Many many thanks all.

[Kristian Yngve]

I’ve noticed there are some issues when the forums are displayed on handsets.

Users names from under their profile pictures trail off the right side of the screens, and worse still, when reading posts and replies within topics, all the users profile pics squash themselves all together at the top left hand-side of the screen.

** Note that if I rotate my handset to the landscape side, it all works great and no issues at all with the profile pictures going back to the normal places…

Everything else works great, just this little incompatibility. Any of you guys can suggest anything like a CSS rule that only targets this issue with the BBPress plugin to fix this?

Many many thanks all.

[mithrandir]

To find the location of the template files navigate to:
‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bppress/’

You will find all the template parts in this folder. It is recommended to not modify the files directly, instead create a folder named bbPress in the ‘generatepress’ theme root folder. ie. ‘wp-content/themes/generatepress/bbpress/’ copy any files you wish to modify into this folder. This way updates to bbPress wont overwrite any files you have modified and your changes wont be lost.

Test this by copying the content-archive-forum.php to the newly created bbpress folder and begin to modify the file.

a simple php echo command will confirm it is working by printing a message at the top of the content-forum-archive template.

<?php echo "Hello world!"; ?>

The Example provided in the previous reply can be pasted on top, or wherever you would like to display the topics. Some formatting is required, by adding appropriate div classes and styling with css as necessary. Would be happy to help with any of the html, php or wordpress functions if there is any difficulty.

*my apologies if this a duplicate reply, previous reply did not get submitted properly,spam protection may have blocked it, since it included links to screenshots on imgur.

[lauradimitra]

Hi Mithrandir,

thank you for your reply.

I’m using the GeneratePress theme and I figured out that I don’t have (or cannot find) the template “content-archive-forum.php”. I’ve looked for it in my theme (GeneratePress) and the plugins bbPress and BuddyPress. Can you tell me where I can find it?

I’m starting a forum for an open source product. One of our users prefers to see the unanswered questions immediately because he wants to help all user with an answer, so that’s the reason I’m asking it. My HTML and CSS skills are good,and now I’m using wordpress already for some months. My PHP knowledge is very basic and passive, but I’m used to it in WordPress.

Kind regards,
Laura

[loiruca]

HI, I found many articles on how to remove the sidebar from bbpress pages but nothing I do works for me. I’ve already checked my theme and sidebar is enabled. I’ve tried commenting out the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> under all bbpress templates files. I’ve tried hiding it with CSS.

The index forum pages and topics don’t show sidebar, but when I go to other pages like a user account or a tag, etc then the sidebar is there. Please, anyone, help me. I’m not sure what to do anymore.

[Robin W]

if you are savvy at working puzzles, then building a version of my template using your theme authors css classes should be quite doable.

If you care to send me the loop-forums.php from the theme I might be able to give you some clues, but I don’t have time to work a solution out in free time.

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[Robin W]

So I am trying your bbp style pack, it looks like I have a lot of options I’d like to use. Is there some particular short code I’m supposed to use? I tried:
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘46,50,52,54,56,59’]
And in the bbp style pack settings -> Forum Templates, I changed it to “Alternative Forum Template 1” but I dont see any changes. Am I using the wrong shortcode?

style pack will work against the standard forum code, so if you have a forum(s) displaying without style pack being activated, then it should work against that url with the changes

ok, that is my plugin, and I’ll try to get to a resolution

It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

If that doesn’t work…

Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

My plugin uses two different techniques to make changes.

For some I change how bbpress sends information by changing or overwriting bbpress code, for some I change what is called css, which your browser uses to display information.

Therefore some changes may take effect, whilst others don’t seem to.

Additionally you may have :

1. ‘caching’ software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin
Do you know if you are using caching software?
2. Site permissions issues – you site might (quite validly for it) not allow my plugin to write code to certain areas
Try
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>css location
check the activate box and set the location to
wp-content/uploads/
and save these changes

For the template, are you able to look at the site files to see if your theme has a directory called bbpress ?

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

[riggie11]

I have WordPress ver. 4.8.2–en_GB and bbpress ver. Version 2.6-rc-3.The forum I created can be seen here:
https://freyer.com/forums/topic/this-is-a-very-long-topic-as-i-have-loads-to-discuss-2/?csshero_action=edit_page&rand=272

After setting up bbpress I have this search issue that when I search the forum, the results are messy as you can see above.
Any idea where I can make changes, so the page displays properly?

thanks,
Riggie

[nanpress1]

WP 4.8.2
Site is not yet live to public
Paid theme

Hi- I’m trying to create a bbpress sidebar template on the forum page. The sidebar works on the default page but it’s not optimal to have a bbpress sidebar on every page of the site. Therefore, I’d like a template just for bbpress.

I’ve searched the forums and have consulted used the bbpress documentation.
Here’s what I’ve done. Any input is appreciated.

I’ve created a bbpress specific sidebar using css and php in my child theme (using bbpress instructions)

I’ve populated the sidebar with widgets and saved it. However, when I go to page>templates there is no bbpress sidebar template to choose from.

To fix this, I went to the theme root page templates and copied ‘template-sidebar-left.php.’

Per the bbpress instructions, I renamed it bbpress.php and moved it the file to the theme folder. Now it’s wp-content/themes/%mytheme%/bbpress.php

This didn’t add a bbpress sidebar template. So I went into bbpress.php and changed
<div id=”primary” class=”container”>
to
<div id=”primary2″ class=”container2″>

No luck.

Also, I checked and there are no inactive sidebar widgets.

Still no luck. What am I doing wrong? What else can I try to get a bbpress template sidebar to appear?

Again, any insight is appreciated.
Thanks