[Robkk]

For the line-breaks missing it might be some CSS from your theme maybe causing the issue, but link to a post that should have line breaks so I can check and make sure.

ALso fix the oversized avatars using this CSS.

default size bbPress 14px avatar.

#bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-reply-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topic-revision-log img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-template-notice img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_topics img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums .widget_display_replies img.avatar {
   margin-bottom: 0px;
   vertical-align: middle;
   border: 1px single #ddd;
   width: 14px;
}

default size profile image

#buddypress div#item-header img.avatar {
    width: 150px;
}

[Beck888]

After install I created a test post and all went well until I went to view the forums.

The new post in hiding under the admin bar at the top of the screen.

https://vapefriendly.biz/forums/forum/vape-lounge/

All the other aspects of the plugin seem to be displaying correctly, even clicking on the floating topics brings you to the post where it is in the middle of the page like it should be,

I’m guessing a css issue,

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you

[Robkk]

@mei-ling

Did you copy and edit the bbPress templates in your child theme heavily?? Removing the hook @kachan64 pointed out, can make the code not work.

Also does the picture save correctly in the WordPress backend?? If you could link to a forum that should has a topic with a featured image, I can check to see if there is a CSS problem.

[Robkk]

This custom CSS would help with your line-height issue.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
    line-height: 2em;
}

[Robkk]

@acs-yt

Try this custom CSS to see if it would help make your forums full width.

@media and (min-width: 992px) {
 .bbpress .col-md-8 {
    width: 100%;
 }
}

Use this to completely remove the sidebar with CSS.

@media and (min-width: 992px) {
.bbpress .col-md-4 {
     width: 0;
     display: none;
 }
}

[Pascal Casier]

I moved it to the right hand side completely using this CSS into my theme:

/* bbpress move ‘(un)Subscribe’ to the right corner */
#bbpress-forums .subscription-toggle {
float: right;
}

Pascal.

[Robkk]

1. Not entirely sure what the topic frame is, but I like how the title looks good on your site already.

2.

div.bbp-reply-header {
    clear: none;
}

If you need help styling your forums you may need to use the bbp style pack plugin. There are a lot of CSS styles on your site that I can see causing some minor issues with other areas on bbPress, like the Forum Header labels that say Topic and Freshness. You may also need to use a darker image/background for your single forum pages.

[ptichka]

Hi.

I am trying to improve the look and feel of my forum but without success 🙁
Here’s what my topics currently look like:
http://www.authentic-jerusalem-tours.com/forums/topic/good-places-eat-saturday-jerusaelm/

What i want to achieve is:

1. Have the title displayed within the topic frame (not just in the page title bar)
2. Align the topic text with the author box on the left so it appears next to it rather than bellow it.

I’m not great at CSS/PHP so precise instructions would be very appreciated.

Thanks

[Robkk]

Customize this CSS from bbPress.

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
	background-color: #fff;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
	background-color: #fbfbfb;
}

[Robkk]

I think this custom CSS on your site is causing the issue. Try to find an alternative to what you are trying to do before.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-body div.bbp-reply-content {
    clear: both;
    margin: 10px;
    padding: 0;
}

[Robkk]

This is because your font color of your site is white for the content, and bbPress forums are white and gray by default making your font invisible.

You can copy the bbpress.css from the bbPress plugin into your child theme into a folder called bbpress and customize the styles of your site.

Theme Compatibility

Or you can install a plugin like this, and put transparent for any background colors.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[someinsun]

View of the forum is not normal.

Blue bubbles are li of ul in my theme. But why they fly so strange in different positions?
And table of forum is not normal…

How can I fix this? How I can switch off withdrawal css of my theme?

WP 4.1.1
bbPress 2.5.6
site http://kurpyakov.ru/forum/
test
_G7ZwvYV

[davidnsfw]

Ok, I found on this forum that I have to add this code to the css editor:
.bbp-topic-voice-count {
visibility: hidden;
width: 20%;
}

I have done it, it works but how I can extend the topic title and freshness widths to make it look better?

http://bit.ly/1NQj9fO NSFW

[davidnsfw]

I have added this code to my css editor:

.bbpress .post-section {
	margin: 0 2% 20px;
	width: 96%;
}

.bbpress #content-main {
	width: 100%;
	margin-right: 0;
}

But the left sidebar still shows up below the forum.

http://bit.ly/1NQj9fO NSFW

[Robkk]

Copy the form-reply.php file into your child theme and remove this code for topic tags input on the reply form.

<?php if ( bbp_allow_topic_tags() && current_user_can( 'assign_topic_tags' ) ) : ?>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_form_tags' ); ?>

	<p>
	<label for="bbp_topic_tags"><?php esc_html_e( 'Tags:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
	<input type="text" value="<?php bbp_form_topic_tags(); ?>" size="40" name="bbp_topic_tags" id="bbp_topic_tags" <?php disabled( bbp_is_topic_spam() ); ?> />
	</p>

<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_form_tags' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

You can customize the content of the form using this CSS.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper textarea.bbp-the-content {
    margin-top: 0;
    height: 210px;
}

The font is inherited from your theme.

[sbskamey]

Thanks for the CSS.

I have addded it in, but as you can now see, it’s a little wider that the rest of the form?

http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/topic/drink/

Also if you make it responsive, you will see that it doesn’t go smaller.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[sbskamey]

Hi,

I would like to make the Topic Title and Topic Tags Input box, the same width as the rest of the form.

http://sincebeingsingle.com/forums/forum/forum1/

As you can see, the input boxes are at 100%, but are slightly wider than the rest of the form.

Is this a simple css change?

Thanks,
Kam

[Robkk]

This custom CSS might help.

#bbpress-forums #bbp-user-wrapper ul.bbp-replies {
    clear: both !important;
}

Off topic but I really like the color scheme you have going with your site.

[Robkk]

See ya almost got it!! I think you are missing some divs or span to better structure it out from the menu. Maybe there is CSS in your theme that is specified just for pages, so that might require additional CSS just for your forum pages.

[tomnikkola]

Hello

We have two different membership groups using our website. The first group should only see certain forum topics and replies. The other group can see all. When the members use the actual forums, this works great, but if any of the members use their activity feed, they see content from forums they should not see.

As a short-term solution, I want to hide ALL topics and replies from the activity feed, but not hide the “mentions.”

I put this in my CSS editor:

.bbpress.activity-item {
display: none;
}

and while it it does remove the forum topics and replies from all activity feeds, it also removes the list of mentions.

I’ve looked throughout the BuddyPress and bbPress forums and can’t find an answer. I’d much appreciate any assistance.

[Robkk]

Add all this CSS, it fixes the issue you have created this topic for and whatever else I could find on your site.

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
    padding: 0;
    display: inline-block !important;
    text-align: inherit!important;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
    background-color: transparent !important;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-topic-voice-count, 
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-topic-reply-count {
    color: inherit;
}

#bbpress-forums #content p{
    text-align: inherit;
}

[Robkk]

And see if they have time for some plugin.

What plugins exactly need help?? There are some alternatives to some old plugins that might be better, and there are solid plugins that are fine how they are now.

I have some ideas of making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF. It would open many possibilities. Some of them could be, polls, attachments (very regulated and narrowed), SVG icons, reply title (it is just text input field), avatars, etc..

Most of these have some kind of plugin and could be accomplished.

Polls -> Pollka Polls
Attachments -> GD bbPress Attachments or BuddyPress with Forum editor plugin
SVG Icons -> Easy to add with CSS skills
Reply title -> bbPress Reply Titles
Avatars -> Basic user avatars or BuddyPress or bbp Avatar
And some of the github plugins on the feature plugin tracking page have alternatives.

—
Making bbPress more acceptable to Pods or ACF -> This might just be a separate compatibility plugin.

There is a lot of plugins for bbPress v1 that give me an idea where in some circumstances might be useful to carry over their functionality into a bundle if it is achievable in WordPress and bbPress v2.

Do you have anything unique to mention that is very important that it needs its own plugin??

Ugly as hell when installed, takes lot of time.

I want to talk about design so much, don’t be afraid to speak on any issues about it. I have some ideas that would be great for theme compatibility but not really fancy layout. A really fancy layout could be achieved with some nice themes, and hopefully later when I get the docs done for that theme developers would have no problem designing for bbPress.

[Robkk]

Yeah you do not have to use the plugin in that codex page, its not like it is recommended or anything it is just a user submitted guide. That codex page will likely show an example using CSS or a lightbox when I am done with it. But yeah there are tons of plugins that add a modal popup login.

In this reply to a topic, I list a bunch of alternatives.

Modal login – can't find plugin ‘wp modal login’ mentioned?

[Stagger Lee]

You see, I am not saying bbPress is bad or cannot do this and that.
Just that third party plugins community is a bit backward and not well. One can find plenty of explanation for this, I have mine. Dont necessary mean mine are right.

Some short explanations of mine opinions:

– I am not telling about design, despite this too is hard for Users beginners to tweak.

– Yes, you could “sell” bbPress better if you made an outstonishing design here on forum, and showed most of the functions. But it is OK for me, I dont have any problem with this forum. Telling this from “selling” bbPress standpoint. It is only CSS, page load is the same, no harm done if you make modern and elegant design.

– Github should never be primary source of plugins. Additional OK, but only and one never.
I know there is a plugin that makes updates from Github possible, but demands some lines added by author in plugin self.

– Something like Jetpack for bbPress would be a killer, perfect. But I do understand when you say there are not many developers of bbPress. Wish just you start discussion about it and report back to us how it went. Jetpack probably started with few developers, and with years come to number of 46. It doesnt have to start great, developers are attracted later to all good staff by itself.
Do you know what all those names behind Jetpack say to me ? Not in the first hand anything about code quality, but about security. I know it will flow huge amount of years before this plugin is abandoned. And with all new WP versions they adapt code before new version get out.

I dont say you should work hard as they do on Jetpack. It is here just for comparation, and for bbPress something like this would demand much less of time.

I dont know. I would go live with bbPress all the time before I go with some other forum platform.
Used and tweaked SMF forum for many years, phpbb for short time.

But first associations about bbPress as newcomer and beginner would be: hard to setup, bad design, third party plugins not so live community.

OK now, dont want to expand discussion to all possible. Let us stick to the plugins.

[Robkk]

Use this Custom CSS

#bbpress-forums ul li {
  margin-left: 0;
  text-indent: 0;
  list-style: none;
}