[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;
}

[folgerj]

I’m using weaver extreme, current WP install and current Buddy press install and BPress install.
Over all the site is working http://www.autumnadvice.com/ and I think looks good. But I have a question about two components that I apparently have ignored.
I can click repair and register and activate are labeled as none. I created a login/registration page and put the login shortcode on it and put it in my menu.
When I link register to this page, and save, the page disappears from the menu and from the list of pages. I don’t see anything in the documentation about how to call or link to these functions but I feel I’m missing something that I should be doing.

I don’t see anything on Activate at all??? what is the purpose of it?

Also If anyone wants to give feed back on how I’m implementing so far I would love it.. I don’t see a listing but I think if the owner/moderators created a list of what they see as best practice forums, it would help us to get ours off the ground. If you had under pimp your press a separate topic where folks can say what they are using as plugins and CSS and so forth… might be there already but searching for it is not clear… Maybe I’m lazy.. 🙂 Thanks

[Robkk]

Its some CSS in your theme something is hiding the .reply class probably in your WordPress comments and it is affecting bbPress replies.

Adding this CSS should fix it.

#bbpress-forums .reply {
  display: block
}

[Robkk]

I made the forums page using the permalink method and it works great. The problem is that underneath the list of available forums there is a gray circle with a white head and the word By, as if there should be an author shown. But this is the page of all of the forums by various authors. I can’t seem to get it to go away.

@caseylifec

sounds like post meta that is being shown because of your theme and the template that bbPress is using from that theme to show the forums.

You can hide that data with CSS or remove it completely by creating a template specifically for bbpress and remove the code that is rendering the data. Link to your site so I could help you remove the data with CSS.

If you want to try removing the code you can also try following this guide too.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

[Robkk]

Thanks for pointing me to the topic.

I see that bbPress is inheriting a lot of styles from your theme

bbPress is using lists instead of a table layout so that is why you see some of the bubbles there.

I see you removed the list styles from your forum.

But you might need this additional CSS to fix some other layout issues.

#bbpress-forums .art-postcontent ul>li, 
#bbpress-forums .art-post ul>li, 
#bbpress-forums .art-textblock ul>li {
  padding-left: 0px;
  overflow-x: hidden;
  overflow-y: hidden;
}

There is some other styles being inherited from the theme, but they are just for styling text and they are quite difficult to fix the same way as above.

Oh and you can delete the account you created for testing. I don’t think I have to login to see the issues you have, unless you have gotten issues around something I would have to see while logged in only.

[Uncle Jimmy]

@robkk

Here’s how it’s looking so far; http://christianitees.infinigrafix.com/forum/

I still haven’t figured out how to place the post count into an icon font. I did it with css for now. Know any good tutorials for that?

Sorry about that last Reply, the option to Edit it again wasn’t available.. ? I would like to clean it up, I didn’t realize certain tags wouldn’t work.

[Robkk]

Your theme is causing the issue , especially its styles for WordPress comments.

Try this custom CSS

#bbpress-forums .reply a {
  font-size: inherit;
  line-height: inherit;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  float: none;
  color: #c1052c;
}

#bbpress-forums .reply a:hover {
  color: #42a202;
}

Also in your CSS your links do not really have a defined color to them. There is this CSS, but it should be something like this #c1052c

p a, a {
  color: c1052c;
}

[Uncle Jimmy]

@Robkk

First off, thank you! for pointing me to files Rob, that’s always my first battle. And thanks for giving me the clues to the solutions.

I got notified right when you replied, on Sunday no less! And was SO excited! Thanks for responding on your personal time.

Now I’m just trying to sort out your recommendations..lol! Seeing what files to work on helps me focus my learning curve.

The avatar on the left (in the Edited View of above image) is going to hook back to the authors Buddypress Profile. Seeing that the file is structured in an unordered list helps me understand what’s happening with the php a little better.

I have too much to learn! lol!, I wish there was a forum where services could be traded. :o)

Here is how I sorted it out;

First
This article provided a snippet example that showed me the correct statement to put into a <li></li> right above the top li in loop-single-topic.php, I only had to add the class="bbp-topic-author-link" to the li, and then tell it to float-left/padding-0,10 in the child-theme/bbPress/css and voila! Wooohoooooo!!! Sorry, I get excited when things go right! lol!

Second
I commented out the Forum Titles – Voices/Freshness in loop-topics.php like this

<!-- 			<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count"><?php _e( 'Voices', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
			<li class="bbp-topic-reply-count"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'Posts', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>
 -->

..and then move the reply count over & under Freshness, (again, with css)

Third
I’ll be back, I like to keep a record in my Topics here, cause I know!, I’ll forget! lol!

[Uncle Jimmy]

Hello everyone!

I wasn’t sure where to post, or what exactly to ask..lol! Is it possible to make the changes in the image with CSS? Or does it have to be done within the php files?

I’ve looked all over the internet for specific tutorials to accomplish this and can’t find anything definitive enough.

Wordpress/Buddypress/bbPress.. That’s the combination I want to stick with but wrapping my mind around it is very difficult, even with all the great documentation! Ha!

Any suggestions are welcome and thanks. Jim :o)