[iambob]

Ahh, so close … Thank you Stephen! The appearance of data in the columns now absent.

Next trick that yet evades my efforts and understanding is to have any long (> 55 characters) Forum or Topic titles (and/or any description of either), extend the full width across the defined space these columns (still) occupy, rather than wrap ‘half-way’ across. Is this a simple ‘width’ change within bbpress.css (and/or other files)?

With this change, the appearance (of forums & titles) would better fill the real estate, as Replies do, especially on a smartphone.

Much obliged,
Bob

[nzguyyy]

I am new to CSS and trying to change the formatting of my post-content div. My forum home page, and topic pages look okay but the margin in my post content page isn’t quite right. I can fix it by inspecting element and performing the change below, but then it reverts to being broke again.

I change it to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 0px !important;
display: block;
}

but then it reverts to this:

#bbpress-forums .post-content p {
margin: 0px 0px 20px;
display: block;
}

Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Forum is here:

http://www.planitnz.com/new-zealand-travel-forum/

[Stephen Edgar]

1. The legend of bbp-form gives no indication of the difference between a reply to topic versus a reply to a reply. I have to look at the URL displayed by the browser to tell the difference.

Will take care of this in the ticket you created 🙂
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2509#comment:5

2. When I go to the link of a post given by the RSS feed, it displays starting below the post’s toolbar. Now I know there is a toolbar above the post and can scroll up to click the REPLY link, then go reply. BUT – I really, really don’t want to have to educate every one of my moderators and users about this. From some Google searching about this, it seems that having the post’s reply link above the post is a more recent feature. I don’t think it is very intuitive, especially when a post link ending in “…/#post-416″ gets me to post 416 with the toolbar for that post invisible until you scroll up to see it (if you knew to do that).

I get where you are coming from on this and this is pretty hard to implement in bbPress as we don’t know what toolbars, headers etc your theme uses and there are soooo many.

I’m far from a CSS guru but is there some CSS trick that will allow some margin padding to fix this?

3. Some of my moderators have pointed out to me examples of the “Freshness” column in the Forum index pages being just plain wrong. To be more specific, the “Freshness” entries in question say a particular category is several days old (even after an F5 browser refresh), when by going down to a topic in that category you can see that it should have been 30 minutes old.

This does happen from time to time, hopefully with the patch in #1925 this will also be resolved. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

I get the same ordering issues with only some of the Topic threads.

Is there/ Have you seen anything that determines if the issue occurs?

Are the topics that work as expected before Threaded Replies were enabled for example?

I also have a particular thread where a reply to a reply does not show any thread indentation and ends up after all comments on the topic, just as if it had been a reply to topic.

Probably need to take a closer look at that entire topics topic, replies and replies to looking at the post id’s and relevant data.

The ‘Threaded Replies’ issues I am tracking in ticket #2397 if you come across anything that may help diagnose these issues further that would be great.
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2397

[wiste]

@netweb, I get that and that’s where the CSS files are, but when I try to change any php files that are located in the subfolder which is also names “bbpress” it simply doesn’t see them. My understanding from the WordPress documentation is that if you put the file in a child theme in the exact same heirarchal location as it is in the parent theme it should pick it up, but that’s not how it’s working.

I made a custom loop-forums.php. The structure of the default folder is that this file is inside a folder already called bbpress. When I copy over all the files form default in my parent theme to bbpress in my child theme I end up with a bbpress folder containing all of the php files inside of the bbpress folder that I created for the child them. Then upload my custom loop-fourm.php to the folder where it normally resides, it doesn’t pick up the change. When I put it at the root it does pick it up. However, changes to the CSS files in bbpress/CSS get picked up.

I’m having this same problem with other files in the child theme where I can’t figure out where to place php files to have them be recognized in the child theme, so it might be something wrong with the way the theme handles child themes, but I have no way to know this.

[WPDragon]

Hi..I assume this is a CSS thing, but can someone please help with.

I’m trying to get my Forum to look as close as possible as the current popular Forums today…one thing I wanna add is the Stats at the bottom of the page..for example:

WHO IS ONLINE?
In total there are 115 users online :: 35 registered, 0 hidden and 80 guests (based on users active over the past 5 minutes)

If someone can assist with what line of code I need to use to make the STATS Horizontal across the bottom, rather than Vertical – I would appreciate it!

Thank you!

[WPDragon]

Hi @robin-w, Thank you for that tip!…Yes, that brings me one step closer to what i am trying to do…I did not realize the “Category” option helped section the sub-forums…so, thank you for that…I assume the look & feel of how the forum is divided to look like the examples above is all CSS type stuff….which is another challenge for me. lol.

[MT]

I’ve been trying different variations of things and I assume that’s probably what you mean by “Try just leaving the page with the default template”. To make it work I had to name the copied “Full Width Page” file “forum.php” (to get rid of sidebar widgets) and to extend bbp over the entire page I added this width to css…

#bbpress-forums {
	width: 900px;
	background: transparent;
	clear: both;
	margin-bottom: 20px;
	overflow: hidden;
	font-size: 12px;
}

I do also have a bbpress.php file but it doesn’t work alone and haven’t wanted to delete it, just in case, now that the forum.php has resolved things. But again I assume that it’s not needed–the bbp.php file, in my case.

So now that that is done, the “Replies” button in Admin will not open “All Replies”, only the “New Replies”. I started a new topic as this may be unrelated.

Thank you much.

[jernatety1]

Hello,

I recently installed bbpress, (this morning). I’ve gotten everything setup but I’m having a problem with the forum titles. Instead of one forum on one line titles seem to be wrapping to the next line beneath.

Is this something I can fix in CSS as in number of characters per title?

hockeyfights-video.com/forums/

Thank you

[jilliannec]

Hi All,

I am having the exact same issue. When a topic is started the new post content is not being displayed so what my users are doing is posting a ‘reply’ with the same content and then it appears. Although – what is really happening is they are posting twice!

So – a new topic is being created, along with the link to the topic in the forum but when a user clicks on it there is not content.

I have tried the css fixes to no avail and am not using the WP-WishList plugin as indicated in some other similar bbPress.org forum posts. Any ideas would be helpful!

Jillianne

Mod: I moved this to it’s own topic as it was not the same issue as the original topic.

[piccart]

Hello!

I have a client who wants to display the bbpress sidebar in the forum pages in a different way.
He want to make it narrow and with smaller fonts.

the problem is that the bbpress sidebar is registered with no particular wrapper id, so if I edit the css, all the sidebars in the website will be changed and not only the forum one.

I am looking to find the file where the sidebar is registered, in order to alter the code and add a specific id (like #bbpress-sidebar) to the sidebar, so I’ll be able to make a custom css for the sidebar sub-classes only for the children of that id.

I’ve looked into millions of files but I haven’t found it, can someone please help me?
Thanx!
Andrea

[Stephen Edgar]

This should do the trick 🙂 Then just add some styling via CSS or the HTML markup in the function below and add it to your themes functions.php file.

function ntwb_forum_link() {
	?>
    <a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>
    <?php
}

add_action( 'bbp_template_after_replies_loop', 'ntwb_forum_link' );

Update: Or just download the gist here and install it as a plugin 😉
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/8295783

[Shawn74]

Hello,
thanks for the tip, it’s working perfectly…now i have a picture before the Forum Title…excatly what i need…

Anyway i need to know how to edit it’s CSS style…

I’m using Firebug and i was able to edit the CSS style for the topic’s thumbnails to get identical as the buddypress one…with a circle box as border…
You should see here hxxp://www.thepanicroom.it/forum/forum/panics-room-forum/

Unfortunately when i analyze the picture your code added, i have no idea on how to find a CSS line to modify…i get only html div span body etc etc

I tried to change the class name to ‘Thumbnail’ and i got a perfect thumbnail…. i changed it to Avatar but no result…i also declred it exactly like the Buddypress do…but nothing to do, the picture come back to the default one…

Please sorry for my really wild and bad english 🙂

Thank you so much…

[artkahlich]

The short answer is: no difference.

I think I get what you are asking… I did the following:

cd wp-content/themes/copyOf2014
sudo cp page.php bbpress.php

That did not affect behavior on my desktop browser, which continues to render properly. Neither did it change anything on my Android Chrome browser, which still shows a mostly blank page with only the single word “Forums” when I go to “http://mysite.com/forums/”.

I have – as recommended – copied the twentyfourteen theme so that I could make font and margin adjustments, as well as changing the top and side bars from black to very light gray with black text. That “copyOf2014” also contains – again I believe as recommended – a copied “bbpress” sub-directory with a lot of php files and a copied “css” sub-directory with “bbpress.css” among other .css files.

[Matoca]

I decided not to try to change the name of the forum midstream so I started from scratch, removing any forum from the new site. Again, the 2 forums imported ok. The topics imported ok, up to a point. This has been a real disaster.

The replies imported but none of them are assigned to the proper forum, that box says “no parent”. I am having to go through over 500 replies in the dashboard and assign each one by hand to the forum it belongs to. That involves referring to the old forum continually to make sure that I am getting it correct.

But it gets worse. Other values for some of the replies are also messed up, such that I have to search the original forum to find these replies and fix the forum assignment, the topic number value, and if there is a reply to a reply, I have to find the reply number value that the reply is responding to. But I have a process and it is getting done.

My question, and what I need help with, is how to fix how the “replies to replies” are displayed. In the old forum that I exported these from, these replies to replies were offset to the right and colored a med gray so they stood out as different. The CSS is correctly set for the new forum to color them gray. But the color is not there and these replies to replies are not offset to the right.

So the end result is that these replies to replies are placed in between the wrong replies and are not near the correct reply. The content flow makes no sense. I do have the correct “reply to” number values set in the dashboard so it should know which reply it is associated with.

What controls how these replies to replies are colored and moved to the right under their parent replies? How did that get lost in the export/import? What can I do now to fix this?
Thank you,
Matoca

[netfux]

Thank’s Thank’s Thank’s! You did it… I put the following code in custom theme css:

#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-709 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}
#bbp-forum-1085 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-1085 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-1085 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}

#bbp-forum-700 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-700 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-700 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}
#bbp-forum-702 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-702 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-702 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}
#bbp-forum-1032 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-1032 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-1032 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}
#bbp-forum-1045 .bbp-forum-topic-count,
#bbp-forum-1045 .bbp-forum-reply-count,
#bbp-forum-1045 p.bbp-topic-meta {
display: none;
}
———

I guess there is a cleaner way to put it, but now it’s working. I also needed the thumbnail and info above dissapear so I found the p.bbp-topic-meta code was it…

The only thing that I need now is to know how can I center those forum titles at the center of the page, also center the height between lines…

Thank’s

[mauryg]

@Stephen

Thanks for the reply.
You’re correct. The first two points were covered except that I need to test if I can eliminate the ‘All Members’ public group and just use a sitewide forum.
In the meantime I had successfully upgraded to bbPress 2.5.1 and I have now gone to 2.5.2.
I’ll check the theme compatibility article although I am using a child theme of Suffusion and I have installed the Suffusion bbPress pack.
The threaded reply setting was enabled to a depth of ‘2’. The first reply was at the same level as the original posting and the reply to that was indented one level. When I increased the depth to ‘4’ and added more replies to replies, the threading worked. I guess I can live with the first reply being at the same level or I can muck around with the CSS if need be. 😉

Happy New Year

Maury

[Stephen Edgar]

Add some custom CSS to your theme:

Eg. For the ‘Notícias’ forum

#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-topic-count, 
#bbp-forum-709 .bbp-forum-reply-count {
display: none;
}

Yes, that was spam, now deleted

[RyanSSealey]

Site: http://dubiousdata.net/forums/forum/news
WP Version: 3.8
bbPress Version: 2.5.2

I would like to modify the new post form that displays below the current topics in a forum. I was trying to do it with only CSS, but I have run into a problem.

I want to remove the “Topic Tags” field below the body area. I initially tried with the following CSS:

label[for=bbp_topic_tags],
input[id=bbp_topic_tags] {
display: none;
}

This removed the form and label themselves, but there is a <p> </p> tag around these with no Class or other identifier, leaving a noticeable space.

What is the best way to accomplish this or modify the form?

[netfux]

Hi mate, I put that in bbforums.css with no result on centering the Main page titles…

Any answer out there? Pleaseeeeee

[WPDragon]

Hi @netweb – I am trying to do exactly the same thing with adding a small image icon next the Forum name.

I tried to follow your CSS example, but im abit confused….Can you please help with how to get it working properly.

Your Example:

.bbp-forum-34 i:before {
  content: "\e112"; /* glyphicons_ */
}

So – .bbp-forum-34 <— this I change to the name of my forum id.
– content: "\e112"; <— what is this & goes here?
/* glyphicons_ */ <—- what is this & goes here?

Any type of response would be appreciated! Thanks!

[fabiankainz]

Hey, I’m no expert in using bbpress and buddypress and so I’m facing some problems with integrating bbpress to my buddypress.
I already have a css for my buddypress group forums. Now my Question:
Is it possible to use this stylesheet for my bbpress forum? or are there other solutions?
I want my group forums to be displayed on ONE site but still separated. So each group should have its own “directory”.
Any Ideas?

[netfux]

Hi mate, I put that in bbforums.css with no result on centering the Main page titles…

[almightyeonni]

Hello!
I’m currently setting up a bbPress forum on my WordPress website and I have one problem.
The “Submit” button is not recognizeable as “Submit” button because the colours are not strong enough.
Here is what it looks like:

If there is some sun shining on the computer screen, the “Submit” button can’t be seen at all. 🙁
So can someone please help me? I want to change the main colour of the button to slightly darker gray while the text in it saying “Submit” should be black.
How can I change the button colours?

(Please keep explanations easy. I don’t really know much about CSS and such.)

WordPress version: 3.8
bbPress version: 2.5.1

[Owen Bick]

Hi, everyone!
I need a theme for my bbPress forum. I only want to change the theme for the forum, not the site. The site should look the same. I don’t know much CSS so I can’t change the style of the forum. I want the forum to look like http://forum.arvixe.com/smf/

Here’s my site: http://www.covalty.com

Thanks 😀

[koendb]

Hi, I want to disable the default bbpress .css file. I searched through the forums and found several solutions, but none seem to work.

I used to deregister bbp-default-bbpress with the code below, but that doesn’t work anymore after the WP 3.8 upgrade.

add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'deregister_bbpress_styles', 15 );
function deregister_bbpress_styles() {
 wp_deregister_style( 'bbp-default-bbpress' );
}

WP 3.8
bbpress 2.5.1

Thanks!