[K-Path]

This is the HiddenCity website that I want to rebuild completely in WordPress/bbPress.
http://ecopsi.org/

This is plain a vanilla copy of Twenty Ten theme modified with the bbPress forum plugin.
http://ecopsi.org/journal/

I started out with html/css/javascript to skin the domain it’s loaded on. With WordPress added on a few years later and the bbPress added last year. To say the least I am not happy with the result. My work is conceptually flawed and poorly executed. The only good thing is that I learned a lot about WordPress and bbPress.

With the 2015 presentation of a rebuilt HiddenCity website I intend to adopt the style of Montezuma theme while keeping the data and livery (colors and logo). The following link is an example of how I want the prototype bbPress forums on my personal site to look except with the Montezuma theme. After I’ve got it worked out on my personal site I’ll use what I’ve learned to upgrade the HiddenCity site.
http://cultivators-forum.com/forum/growers-forums/

This is the only part that I’m not sure is possible. I want to make the following modifications.

• forum topic to be the posts
• categories to be forums
• comments are replace by replies to the post

In this case the the beginning of the last three or four replies showing with the topic again which appears as a post. The unregistered User can only see a static page and a forum for newcomers. I shouldn’t have to do anything to the Montezuma theme aside from the mods needed to make WordPress/bbPress execute the list above and tweak its colors to match the corporate livery of The HiddenCity Foundation.

Thank you.

PS — I don’t mind compensating someone for their time and attention in order to get this done.

[kvns09]

Hi, How do I make my forum fill the entire page? Right now it only covers around 50%. I have used widget logic to hide all the widgets and I have also done some research on this and tried editing the bbpress.css file but nothing works. Any help is much appreciated.

Heres a link to the page with the problem

WordPress 3.9.2
bbPress 2.5.4

[Robkk]

1. Is it possible to disable the Text editor, hopefully with CSS?

yeah , heres a way

I dont know for sure if the visual editor is displayed by default when you see the reply form.

post it anywhere where you can put custom css

in your child themes css stylesheet
the jetpack plugin module custom css
a standalone custom css plugin

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper div.quicktags-toolbar {
    display: none;
}

#bbpress-forums .wp-editor-tabs {
  display:none;
}

[Yolle]

Hi!

I finally managed to do it.
I added this code so the avatar is at the top of the text

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
	float: none;
	text-align: center;
	}

Then when the text was below the avatar I inserted this code to the mobile part of the css:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
		margin-left: 20px;
		padding: 0 0 0 0;
		text-align: left;
}

Thanks for getting me on the right track.
It concerns a closed forum and I was already preparing an access for you but then I managed by myself.
Thanks again!

[Robkk]

ya didnt need to bump your topic after 20 minutes.

try that, it just changes it to black and white. change the colors to whatever you want

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-the-content-wrapper input {
font-size: 12px;
padding: 5px;
margin: 0 2px 0 0;
line-height: 1em;
background: #222;
color: #fff;
}

put it anywhere you can put custom css in

[hitkid]

Thank you @robin-w for the great and speedy reply.

I was just trying to remove the breadcrumb in the content-archive-topics.php template to test if that’s the file I’m suppose to edit. Really I want to rearrange and do a whole lot of different things. Like what it says in the Amending bbpress templates codex entry.

Note* All the forum templates work great! Unlike the topic templates, any change I make to these files appears in the forum index as they should: archive-forums.php>content-archive-forums.php>loop-forums.php>loop-single-forums.php

That’s a great entry in the codex.

7. How can I remove all the breadcrumbs from the templates and set them at the top of the page?

Moving around the breadcrum is more of what I want to do, but I can’t find the template file for the topics to add the <div class=”truebreadcrumbs”> to the bbp_breadcrumb(); to be able to use css to move it around. If that makes sense.

Sorry if I’m being confusing and I thank you very much for your help 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

All I can suggest is you look to find someone who can help you out with some custom CSS and the like, we try to make bbPress work ‘out of the box’ with the thousands of themes available and if you need it to look different you need to makes these changes yourself or find someone who can or pay someone.

We can give a few tips when we can see the forums but as we can’t even see them we can’t offer even anything basic for you sorry.

[tmc5005]

I have been able to link in my past comments but now the box that lists the forums and topics does not fit properly and looks awful and the colors look bad. I went and the bbpress website for a description and how to change this and although I am college educated with a masters degree these explanations are incredibly complicated Is there an easier way to make these changes hopefully without css
I temporary disabled bbpress because it looks so bad.
Thank you for your help

[cybarmitzvah]

On this page, and every other sub-forum page,

http://www.astronomertalk.com/forums/forum/welcome-to-astronomertalk-com/

in the top left, it says “admin,” then a timestamp next to it. How can I delete this, because the link goes to a page that does not exist.

Maybe just add some code to my custom CSS.

Best,
JB

[Jimi Wikman]

@robkk no one want a bloated software.

It’s important to separate function from form in these discussions. A function like forum grouping with drag and drop has no impact on loading time in the front end yet it is a very powerful function that make it possible to expand BBP to a forum without having to sacrifice the Bulletin board feeling. If you want things just the way things are you just place all forums in one category.

Same thing with moderation or usergroups. It does not impact anything in the frontend, yet it will make a world of difference for managing the forum. If you don’t want to use it you just ignore it. No bloating, but a world of difference.

Then when we come to form we should put things like group icons and topic ratings as plugins. these are hardly used by all and as such they should be optional for those that want/need them.

I however see an issue with plugins the way both WordPress and BBPress plugins are setup a lot now and that is that each plugin have their own set of CSS and JS. If I add 20+ plugins that usually mean that I will have 20+ CSS and JS files clogging up the browser stack. the total sum of the files are usually very small, but the sheer number will slow the site down considerably.

If you have worked with WordPress installations with a lot of plugins you know that it’s a serious pain in the butt to try to get minification and combining JS/CSS to work properly. It’s either that the order of things are wrong or the minification mess something up in one or more files and you get stuck spending hours trying to find what is causing the mess. And even chained and minified the number of items in the browser stack still cause delays in the DOM rendering.

This is why I think as much as possible should be added into as few plugins as possible and that is why I think that Buddypress and BBPress should merge and some basic functionality should be included in the core. I know that this is not what the bulletin board users may want to hear, but if BBPress are to reach a wider audience and become a forum plugin that will appeal the great userbase of WordPress, then I say this is something that need to be done.

With around 70 million installations of WordPress we can assume that 1% at least have need of a good forum. Thats 700.000 BBPress installations that should be out there right now and I am not sure if that is the case or not? In my opinion BBPress should have at least 2.5 million installations by now as I know that the demand for forums are very high and people are searching high and low for any forum that will merge with WordPress.

I know that alot of people here want a watered down and minimalistic bulletin board and I would say you are in majority since that is what BBPress is today. However I have a feeling that sooner or later someone will realize that the majority of users out there don’t want that and they will fork BBPress and go towards a more forum oriented software. When that happens I fear that that fork will boom in a major way and that will eventually reduce BBPress as developers will go where the userbase is and there is just so much you can optimize (of course you can ALWAYS optimize and refactor things, but it might now be very fun or productive for the users) in a minimalistic bulletin board.

I think that BBPress is at a good place right now and before the end of the year with forum grouping in place and perhaps a little better organization of this website we should see more users starting to enjoy BBPress and not just bulletin board lovers 😉

[Jimi Wikman]

@pfswss are looking for something like http://ekatana.se/forums/ ?
If so I plan on making a blogpost on the steps needed to make that happen. Perhaps that will help you get closer to the layout that you want from BBPress?

Also, I have Buddypress on there as well and while I am not very happy about the additional css and JS that it add I think it’s worth it if you want a community and not just a bulletin board.

[gogitossj34]

Ok, just edited some thing and it worked. Now, I need some help with css to fix the posted topic and freshnes, etc,..
http://mmo4teen.webuda.com/forum-2/

[defcon1186]

Ok, now seems that something changed… forum pages are now builded correctly (of course it still need css adjustment).

I’ve disabled BuddyPress for the moment… and anyway I can’t still access profile pages 🙁

http://www.elite-force.it/test/forums/users/goose/

Search too, doesn’t work yet

[gogitossj34]

Oh, that’s not what I mean.
By table, I mean that every forum in a category has its own table. Even using the default bbpress ( without the Stargazer Colloquium theme ), I get this:
table top
Category
-forum
-forum
table bottom

table top
category
….
table bottom

I’m getting the han of css but not really understand bbpress div ( or is it class, still confuse, I mean like bbp-something) A
and checking on w3 and google doesn’t help much. Do you now any documentation that will help ? Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Edgar]

All of bbPress will sit within the ID id="bbpress-forums" which makes CSS styling even easier and is far from new, I think it has been there since bbPress became a plugin 🙂

A quick look at the “Track’ theme, it looks like if you copy archive.php to bbpress.php that will resolve most of your issues. (Source: archive.php)

Edit: Do the above but remove the following line from your bbpress.php copy:
get_template_part('content');

[Peyman Moghaddam]

It’s ok I found the answer here:

Thanks! In case anyone is wondering, I amended the bbpress.css file

[cybarmitzvah]

Hi all,

I am looking to move the search from on top of the forum to the right of my menu items. No matter if I add more or delete them. I recently hid it by adding a quick line to my css, but deleated it.

Where I want it vvvv

I would also like to know what to add to my child theme custom css to edit the look of it.

I am new to WordPress so I am still pretty new.

I have a number of other topics open too, click my name to see them, would love the help.

BEST,
JB

[gogitossj34]

So, my forum is at http://mmo4teen.com/forums/
and I wan it to look similar to a vbulletin forum, table like, especially the inside post and topic. Like avatar and info on the left with post on the right ( currently, it’s one on top of another ).
I tried a lot of css but it did’t work very well.
Anyone have some experience with this >

[Bertbig]

Hi there,

I have been wandering around for a few days on the internet, spending most of the time as a guest on this bbPress forum.

I am trying to find out a way to expand the very small column containing the bbPress forum in the middle of my website http://2islands.nl/forums/forum/forum-2islands/. To be honest I am a little frustrated to find out kinds of different ways with small pieces of code added here and there in .css and .php files that don’t work for me.

Viewing from what I find in this and other fora, I am not the only one having this problem.

I am not a html programmer, but I can copy and paste very well. 🙂

Can anyone help me get my bbPress on full with (keeping my left sidebar) in a neat way, for instance by editing a bbpress.php file of something like that.

Believe me; i tried at least twenty of the tricks found in this and other fora. Nothing works. Let’s get this over with once and for all :-).

THANKS for any help!

[Sam Rohn]

you would need to edit bbpress template files to add a unique css class to each bbpress role as well as add custom css, see this article for details –

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/roles-under-username-bb-author-role/

sam

[defcon1186]

Hi guys, I’m pretty new(bie) on WordPress, hope some1 could help me.

I’ve created a little test site here: http://www.elite-force.it/test

Then, I’ve installed bbpress and I’ve created menu entries with those magical-fantastic short codes.

Everything seems going fine, of course it will need some CSS adjustment but I don’t panic on that… else way I panic because I can’t reach profile page…

My forum is: http://www.elite-force.it/test/forum/
And profile for my user should be: http://www.elite-force.it/test/forums/user/goose/

When I go to my profile page, something strange happen… It seems that bbpress use my homepage php to build the page.. of course result in a home-similar, with a “THESE POSTS ARE BY: ” on top and any other infos…

I read that bbpress look for page.php if there is no bbpress.php on theme root folder, but if I also create a copy of my page.php or post.php doesn’t fix the problem.

Is because that template uses dynamic pages? there is no solution? I mean, There is no way to override bbpress page settings and make a different view for the profile page?

Please… help those noob

[cybarmitzvah]

Sorry, I am sure this has been answered but I cannot find an answer to it through google etc.

I want to give my forum roles a bit of a better look, like a little box around them that has a different fill color.

I cant really find a great example, but when I look at rc groups, in the bottom corner it says their status, like admin/moderator etc.

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2198097

anyways, I am pretty new to wordpress but I have a child theme and custom style.css

Thank You,
JB

[gogitossj34]

So, this is my forum http://mmo4teen.com/forum/topic/still-another-testing/
and as you can see. The quote color is not very good. Does anyone know any css code I can use to make it look better, like normal grey in other forum ?

[xplusboy]

its for css conflict.
use this code in your theme style.css file to fixing that :

#main-content #bbpress-forums ul ul li, #main-content #bbpress-forums ul li  {
    margin: 0px;
    list-style: none outside none;
}

[Dilyar]

Hi all, not sure why but my forum index is in bullet points. My theme maker said it was 100% compatible with bbpres…. Can someone help?

http://www.yengidewr.net/forum/