[Jimi Wikman]

It’s because you still have the sidebar column in the code.
You can try to chase it down or just hide it with CSS. @aussiestar14 you can fix your forum by doing this:

add a class to .content-wrap and set the width to 100% (I think if you do it directly on .content-wrap it will mess upp other pages?). Then create a class named .bbpress #sidebar-subsidiary and set display:none in it.

That way you hide the sidebar column and make the content stretch 100%

Hope that helps.

[Jimi Wikman]

I don’t know why, but for some reason I decided to punish myself on my latest project (ekatana.se if anyone wan to look) and I went ahead and installed BBPress along with Buddypress. Now I have done this a few times before in the last 3-4 years and it has always been a very painful experience.

This time was not so bad and I actually got most things working pretty much instantly with just som minor CSS changes. BBPress however is not really a forum in my opinion yet and I had to go through a ton of posts and articles with half baked solutions and snippets just to get anywhere near what I think a forum should look like and behave.

Now I admit that I am biased, having worked for many, many years with IPB which is the best forum out there and I have been working with forum software since 1996…

However, BBPress have really taken a leap forward in the last few years and I look forward to see it go even further, in fact i hope to be able to lend som assistance in the UX and design department should it be needed. Since I am a systemtester as well, I hope to be able to break stuff on a regular basis as well 🙂

I really look forward to the forum grouping I see is already pretty much done and which is working just fine on my forum as far as I can tell. When time permit I will give more input into what features I see as necessary, both in the frontend and the backend and util then I just want to say that I am far from impressed, but I see hope for BBPress.

Keep up the good work!

[Robkk]

I will say there is a bit of a gap now, between the forum, and the title of site/description, would you know how to make that smaller?

try this, but if you see some weird looking css throughout the rest of your site in that area remove it, Or try to find an alternative.

.content {
padding-top: 5px !important;
}

search forum and topic icons in bbpress search then go from there

[Robkk]

they use , the bbpress shortcode for the new topic form.

[bbp-topic-form] – Display the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

more shortcodes https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

create a page , lets say “new topic”

add that shortcode, and save

place an html link in loop-forums.php

the link should look like

<a href="http://sitename.com/new-topic/">New Topic</a>

style it with css with

a.bbp-new-topic-button {
background:#009375;
color:#fff;
}

[Robkk]

Hi Robin, so you don’t like feedback here? I seemed to have hit a sensitive nerve with you! I did try to make some positives as well as what I thought were honest concerns. I looked on the support forum and there were also other older threads with no replies, not just mine, If you can’t take feedback about what you do then I’m sorry to say you will never learn or grow. As for it been free, well I’m not going to go into a debate about that. But I believe there would be ways to make money out of this like here: http://www.packtpub.com/bbpress-complete-comprehensive-guide/book

bbpress is open source , i dont think the community is going to try to make money off of something thats open source, thats probably why there is no ads on this site too.

that book was just written by some guy thats not really affiliated with bbpress. Its like if i myself made a book of all that i know from reading all the documentation. (i dont work for bbpress, i am a volunteer )

topics with no replies, people are busy , there is like only 2 official people that check out this forum occasionly , robin and stephen

jjj might check out the forums though but he also works on wordpress core i think i am not sure.

Other than that the others are volunteers like myself , which i am helping out people because robin helped out me , idk i feel i got to repay them somehow haha

Your own layout looks promising, I hope it goes well.

im on the fence if i should put it on github or not, i feel like i dont want people jacking my forums style sometimes

As for examples

Just any thing that looks like a forum:

bbpress looks like a forum ,its just a really simple one.

which is great because not all people need extravagant features, but if they want they can add wordpress plugins, and also custom functions that you may find on this forum.

if we compare features in bbpress compared to other forum software there is not much of a difference.

All i can see that is different is shortcodes on bottom, which i showed a user how to do in a topic before. using bbpress forum statistics shortcode, and the do shortcode function.

forum icons, which is possible there is a function somewhere if you search this forum.

category and hierarchy layout , if you search the bbpress trac people have shared how to do this if users want that specific layout.

ip boards topic sorting you can create something similar using bbpress views in simple html links.

and the rest is just styling with css, in the documentation it explains… go to this https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[Robkk]

but not too simple actually

css is actually the easiest in my opinion

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

[eddie01001]

I solve the problem
I find in my child css
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
margin-left: 20px; // here what you need change it was 130
padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
text-align: left;
}

[peter-hamilton]

OK, the way I see it is like this.

There are two avatars cause the forum/topic list has two elements that use an avatar.

1. the avatar from the poster of the topic, this avatar is there with the topic title.
2. there is in the freshness an avatar displayed for the reply poster.

In between the topic title and topic freshness there is an element that handles reply, post and/or voice count.

This makes three elements inside this forum list, two with an avatar, hence two avatars.

The list itself is situated in an UL (unordered list in a bbpress php file called loop-single-reply.php).

This ul has three LI (list) elements inside it, the first topic-title, second topic-count, and third topic-freshness.

btw, you have a cache plugin that prevents s to check your CSS in chrome etc.

This line of code will put the avatars where they need to be, you just add this to your themes CSS file, and remove the display:none from your .avatar CSS.

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.topic {
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 8px;
float: left;
width: 100%;
}

Here is how it looked for me after adding this.

good luck
Peter Hamilton

[andys27]

I’ve just started using bbpress and I like the simplicity of it. I’ve been trying to customize it to my need for the past 2 weeks (yeah, I am slow). This is something that I came up with that I’d like to share with the community since I’ve learned so much from over here. And I am really proud of myself for coming up with this since I usually suck at php and css.

If you want a new topic, or new reply button on top of your topics list ore replies list.
You can just add this code to your functions.php and you are good to go. This way, it will only show a “new topic” link if the user is logged in. If they are not, then it’ll show a text saying “to post a new topic register or login”. Of course, you can change the code to whatever you want. And make sure you change the links to your login and register pages. And you can add class to customize the text with css.

//function to add new topic thread
function bbp_login_thread_link() {
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

<a href="#new-post">Create a new thread</a>

<?php }

else { ?>

<p> To create a new thread <a href="http://yourwebsite.com/login">login</a> or <a href="http://yourwebsite.com/register">register</a></p>

<?php }

}

add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'bbp_login_thread_link' );

//function to add new reply thread
function bbp_post_reply_link() {
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

<a href="#new-post">Post a Reply</a>

<?php }

else { ?>

<p> To post a reply <a href="http://yourwebsite/login">login</a> or <a href="http://yourwebsite/register">register</a></p>

<?php }

}

add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_topic' , 'bbp_post_reply_link' );

I am hoping you guys can add this to this article which has examples of layout and functionality. That article helped me immensely and I will feel honoured to have contributed to it.

[Robkk]

@gogitossj34 this code is what your problem is, it changes the size of all avatars in your site.

.avatar {
width: 60px;
height: 60px;
margin: 0 0 1.5rem;
border: 1px solid;
border-radius: 50%;
}

the distorted avatar image is because there is a function in your templates that is used to call the user avatar , and in the function it is proportioned to be at 14px X 14px. your css code stretches this out 14px avatar to be 60px X 60px causing a distorted avatar image.

to remove the distorted image just add this to custom css

.avatar-14 { display: none !important; }

it should work

i dont know what exactly is causing your double avatars though , i would guess that it is the “started by” avatar like how these forums have.

But i am not for sure.

If you want to keep the avatar next to freshness only tell me

I’m not a programmer or such so I cannot understand what you’re saying

im no programmer i had practice with trial and error, and all this is basically common sense

[peter-hamilton]

Site was offline due to problems at host servers, back online now and made few CSS adjustements.

BBFacelook

[Robkk]

3. My main beef with bbPress is the way categories and forums are shown. Forums are placed under categories like sub-forums which looks un-forum like to me.

bbpress has worked on this , https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958

since you commented on my layout topic too, ill tell you which one i used , which is

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline?from=2014-03-04T09%3A51%3A07Z&precision=second

i copied all of his files from pastebin and used it as my own. then i style with css

But another way to the have the layout lets say like phpbb , is download Lynqs starter theme.

https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs

3. can you give an example of how you would like it to look? doesn’t need to be a bbpress site

heres an example of what he is talkingn about robin

http://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/

http://teamoverpowered.com/forums/

[Herophantom]

Thank you.

I would also like to update, so after reading some more last night, I found the documentation on the short codes. I tried making a dedicated page and using the short codes to load the main forum index. Now this works in almost every way, including using the proper sidebar that I want, however, the search option at the top is now off set, with the button below the bar instead of next to it. I have been fiddling with the CSS for awhile to see if I can get it to align properly, but so far no luck. And now, even the page provided by the bbpress plugin is doing the same thing. So maybe I messed something up, or maybe I’m just missing something, but if I can get this solved, I will have a perfect solution.

[Robkk]

Any idea how this forum I sent you a link to has them with these icons,etc?

you can use any icon fonts and css to style these with :before or :after

[Pavle123]

Haha I am not that confused 😀

Joking, I would be totally lost without you man, thanks for everything.

I just had to add !important; thingy to the css of my child theme.

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats li {
    margin: 0;
    display: inline-block <strong>!important;</strong>
    padding: 5px;
}

Now my stats look neat. Any idea how this forum I sent you a link to has them with these icons,etc?

Even now my stats look neat. Will try to move on to the “new thread button” now, and post what I did 🙂

[Robkk]

@pavle123 damn your confused haha

read everything carefully

Look at the code i tell you to put in templates carefully , it is just a snippet of the template with each new code in it. So you have to copy the original template to your child theme. find where the new code on here is placed, compare it to the original and place the new code in your copy of the templates in your child theme.

nothing goes into your child theme functions.php

How to make similar bbpress forum to QuicSprout one?

you copy bbpress templates into your child theme so its okay when bbpress updates, i explain exactly what template to copy and also i show you a snippet of where to put the code by the original code.

you put custom css into anything that can handle custom css

in bbpress.css in your child theme(you copy the original in your child theme)
in your child themes css stylesheet
the jetpack plugin module custom css
a standalone custom css plugin

if your still confused read https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum-part-2/

[Pavle123]

Oh crap, do you mean I should copy the whole folder content-archive-topic.php inside my theme? Well that makes sense 🙂

Here is what I did :

1) Uploaded content-archive-forum.php to my child theme folder.
2) Added this piece of code at the bottom

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

</div>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-stats]"); ?>

3) Added this CSS in my style.css of child theme (CSS is not working unfortunately, not sure why?)

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats {
    list-style-type: none;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 0px;
    float: none;
}

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats li {
    margin: 0;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px;
}

So, now stats are shown at the bottom, but CSS is not targeting the stats.

Okay about “new thread button” I was unable to make it work. Here is what I did.
1) I added content-archive-topic.php folder from my bbPress plugin content-archive-topic.php into my child theme folder.

2)Added this code

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

<a class="bbp-new-topic-button" href="#new-post">New Thead</a>

At ABOVE the content-archive-topic.php

<?php

/**
 * Archive Forum Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php bbp_forum_subscription_link(); ?>

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

	<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',     'forums'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

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

</div>

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

</div>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-stats]"); ?>

But its not working for me.

Any ideas?

[Pavle123]

Hm, okay I did not know where elswehere to put it.

<?php

/**
 * Archive Topic Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

?>

<div id="bbpress-forums">

	<?php if ( bbp_allow_search() ) : ?>

		<div class="bbp-search-form">

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'search' ); ?>

		</div>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>

	<?php if ( bbp_is_topic_tag() ) bbp_topic_tag_description(); ?>

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

	<?php if ( bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

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

</div>

So this obviously does not go into css, so do you know where inside my child theme should I put the content-archive-topic.php code?

[gogitossj34]

Hey guys, I’ve been looking everywhere for this
I installed bbpress and made a forum ( just testing ).
I want my forum to be full width and without the side bar. Tried the “1 column full width” layout and some custom css.
The best I’ve got is a no-full-width forum WITHOUT side bar in the /forum/ page.
But further than that like /forum/topic/… the side bar reappear.
My site is http://mmo4teens.netai.net/ and my theme is Stargazer Colloquium.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[ubicray]

Hi all, I think name of the topic can explain the situation I am in. Everything is updated to its latest.
For those who want to see the an example topic that’s affected(Also comments have this):
http://forum.gamesap.az/forums/topic/csgo-yeni-baslayanlar-ucun-qisa-m%C9%99lumat/

I am not a magician with CSS, but when I view the source of page, I see that in that area, I can’t seem to see the beginning og </p> paragraph (closing tag is there)
So I guess the problem is, bbpress is not giving the paragraph a proper starting point.
Have no idea how to fix this, Would be grateful for any help

[Robin W]

Ok, the code works (just retested it on my site), but the link you supplied is not using it.

are you sure you put

/* =Revisions
————————————————————– */

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
 #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
 #bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
 Display : none !important ;
 }

in

wp-content/themes/divi/style.css

Do you have caching software running?

[kimberlyywp]

I just changed the code and put that in the style.css and I’m still seeing the edits: http://livessoonforgotten.com/members-3/user-groups/in-memorandum/forum/topic/test-memorial/

[Robin W]

try this in your style.css

`/* =Revisions
————————————————————– */

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
Display : none !important ;
}

[Robin W]

yes, you have a choice

1. You could put it in your style.css – that is a file called style.css that you will find in your theme

wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/stle.css

where %yourthemename% is the name of your theme

Just drop it at the end.

This will then override the code in bbpress.css, and is the easiest way

2. Otherwise you can create a directory called css in your theme

/wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/css

and copy the existing bbpress.css across to get

/wp-content/themes/%yourthemename%/css/bbpress.css

but here’s the thing, you then need to find and edit the existing display lines, just adding code will give two sets, and your maybe won’t take preference

the lines you are looking start at line 904 and say

/* =Revisions
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
	border-top: 1px dotted #ddd;
	width: 100%;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 8px 0 0 0;
	font-size: 11px;
	color: #aaa;
}

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log li,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log li,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log li {
	list-style-type: none;
}

you just need to edit that to

`/* =Revisions
————————————————————– */

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-topic-revision-log,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content ul.bbp-reply-revision-log {
Display : none ;
}

come back if we can help further

[Robkk]

Thanks so much. I am not an expert in this, so I will wait until Sunday.

haha im no expert , im just some guy helping out people on here the best i can

-Login/Register buttons above the forum

quicksprout has ajax login and its also in a popup window

so if you want that install wp-modal-login

after that copy your content-archive-forum.php to your child theme

and make sure that is has this code inside of it , heres a snippet

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

	<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>
	
	<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {

} else { ?>

<div class="bbp-modal-login"> 

 <?php add_modal_login_button( $login_text = 'Login', $logout_text = 'Logout', $logout_url = 'http://sitename', $show_admin = true ); ?>
 
 </div>
 
   <?php
};
?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',     'forums'    ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>

	<?php endif; ?>

style the link to whatever you want with custom css
here is a template

.bbp-modal-login a.login.wpml-btn.login-window {
float: left;
padding:5px;
color:#fff;
background:#333; 
text-decoration:none;
text-transform:uppercase;  
}

and like i said you could also do the shortcode version too

nice round images of members

i saw your site , and see you already have this

images for read/unread posts

if you want the images here

the whole functionality of the unread posts on their forums is like 2 unread posts plugins from the wordpress plugin respository mixed together

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-mark-as-read/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/

i cant really help on this

statistics at the bottom

this should be the bottom of your content-archive-forum.php

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

</div>

<?php echo do_shortcode("[bbp-stats]"); ?>

to style the bbpress statistics shortcode put content-statistics.php into your child theme

this should be your entire content-statistics.php

<?php

/**
 * Statistics Content Part
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * @subpackage Theme
 */

// Get the statistics
$stats = bbp_get_statistics(); ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_before_statistics' ); ?>
	
	<div class="bbp-stats">
	
	<ul class="bbp_stats">

	<li> <?php _e( 'Users', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['user_count'] ); ?></strong></li> 

	<li> <?php _e( 'Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>
		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['topic_count'] ); ?></strong></li> 

	<li> <?php _e( 'Replies', 'bbpress' ); ?></dt>

		<strong><?php echo esc_html( $stats['reply_count'] ); ?></strong></li> 
		
		 </ul>
		 
		 </div>
		
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_after_statistics' ); ?>

</dl>

<?php unset( $stats );

add this for custom css

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats {
    list-style-type: none;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
    margin-left: 0px;
    float: none;
}

.bbp-stats .bbp_stats li {
    margin: 0;
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 5px;
}

“New Thread button”

this is just a drop link , example of a drop link would be to put #new-post at the end of the url of this topic and you will see that you will end up at the new topic/reply form

copy content-archive-topic.php into your child theme right now then

ILL tell you the rest when im done , because right now im having some trouble