[p2ab]

I just set up a test site with WP 3.5.1, then added bbPress 2.2.4 and then added BuddyPress 1.6.4. I’m using site wide forums.

Plugins:
Alismet (not activated)
bbPress
BuddyPress
Custom CSS Manager
Hello Dolly (not activared)
PlugNedit (not activated)

Since this is new I don’t mind removing plugins (including bbPress and BuddyPress) and resinstalling. I don’t care about Custom CSS Manager, so it can go if needed.

I did notice that the directories “forums”, “forums/forum” and “forums/topic” were not created.

Could it have been the order in which I installed bbPress and BuddyPress?

Mormally I’d start from scratch, but after spending the last two weeks upgrading forums, etc software on multiple sites and then doing a server upgrade in order to run WP I’m a bit tired of looking at my computer 🙂

Thanks in advance!

[bodhi_mcgee]

The website has a heading 1 for the page title and breadcrumbs. Both the page heading and the breadcrumbs think that any page within the bbpress forums is within the “blog” section. So the heading 1 says “blog” and the breadcrumbs say home > blog > topic name

Note: the breadcrumbs that come with bbpress work fine.

The site is located here: http://healthmeditating.com/forums/topic/how-do-i-meditate/
Running WordPress 3.5.1.
Running bbpress 2.2.4
Using theme Sterling from themeforest -http://themeforest.net/item/sterling-responsive-wordpress-theme/2320578

One other problem that may be related is that wordpress also triggers the Blog menu item link as the current_menu_item (thus highlighting it in the main menu). I can override this with css so I am not overly worried about it but thought it worth mentioning. I notice that this problem is actually a reported bug in bbpress and is being worked on.

Thanks in advance to anyone who as any ideas,

Bodhi McGee

[h646572]

I’m curious as well — I tried the CSS trick but still a lot of stuff grayed out. Locking a sticky is a common thing for many forums.

[Garindan]

Sorry for the ambiguous title. I have bbpress on a site, using the compatibility theme. The rest of the forums have always worked correctly and apart from a few css tweaks, have always looked good and matched the theme.

I recently noticed however, that the User Profile pages; profile, topics created, favourites etc, seem to ignore all the css and consequently have no layout/structure.

Here is a normal forum page on the site… Forums
The layout is correct, the sidebar is positioned correctly and has a PNG background creating the ‘shadow’. A title bar with page title is displayed below the header and navigation.

Here is an example of a User Profile page… Topics Started
There’s no css structure, the sidebar is at the bottom, there’s no PNG background behind the sidebar, theres no title bar and page title. It’s as if the CSS is being ignored.

As another example, on this page I have added the code below to user-profile.php and the sidebar is correct, but it still has no background PNG, title bar etc… User Profile

Any idea whats going on?

`
#sidebar { float: left; width: 230px !important; }
#main { float: left; width: 730px !important; }
`

[Lynq]

You could just create a topic and write your course/page out in the topic rather than a page. This way you can pick out the course/page with CSS and style it the same as a standard page, then underneath there would be the discussion forum.

Good luck!

[Stephen Edgar]

You could add some media queries to your CSS and use something like:

`
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
width: 20px;
height: auto;
`

[Pantheism]

@ Zilveer,
Thanks for this info. Very concise and direct. I am actually ok with the type of font (Trebuchet MS), but the coloring is bad for me.

Can I change the font colors for just the BBpress forum under the bbpress.css? Or will I need to edit some code in the style.css?

Thanks for the fast response.

Love this community!

[zilveer]

@pantheism: you need to go to your file located at:

http://pantheismnow.org/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css?ver=2.2.4

And after that change the line 28:

background-color: #FBFBFB;

to whatever you want for the background color.

Have you worked with CSS before?

You can change the font family at line 14 located in the file:
http://pantheismnow.org/wp-content/themes/autumn-almanac/style.css

You are using “Trebuchet MS” for the moment.

[Pantheism]

Can anyone advise me on the CSS I would use to remove the sidebars from my BBpress forum. It is pulling the sidebars from my theme, and I would like them removed.

Here is my forum URL…
http://pantheismnow.org/forums/

I wuold also like to make the width 100% too. Any chance I can get that code too?

Thanks everyone.

[Stephen Edgar]

I just deleted your 6 replies hijacking other peoples topics, please don’t do that.

The problem with your site is your theme specifying only 580px width.
http://urbex.cz/wordpress/wp-content/themes/newscast/style.css Line #635

[Mitesh Patel]

A simple solution to this issue can be achieved by css the following way.

On each bbPress related page, bbPress plugin adds a class ‘bbPress’ to the body html element, so adding something like below would solve the problem in a non-obtrusive way.

body.bbPress #nav > li.menu-item-318 > a { formatting for the highlighted menu item class }

Where, menu-item-318 is the id of the page which should have been highlighted by the current_page_parent or current_menu_item class, which are not attached (for which this ticket is for).

Of course, this is just a hack, but it does get the work done.

[Darren1981]

Thanks for that.. I guess i will worry about that later then and worry about the rest of my site design.

Any idea when 2.3 will be released ? just wondering as ive just started messing around with some BBpress templates and CSS so if the next release is near then i might just hold off on adding the forums for now.

Thanks for your help.

Regards, Darren

[pilotindia.arnab]

Hi Lynq!

Thanks for the tip. The problem was with my theme css. Luckily I found a better theme than the last one and it solved my problem. I really appreciate your help.

Regards!!

[Tenant]

Hi guys,

Up until a couple of weeks ago every other post on the main page of my forum had a really nice blue background so as to make the posts stand out and look more separate. It has suddenly stopped doing this and now all the posts have a white background. I have updated all my plugins but this has still not resolved the issue. Can you please help me get the blue backgrounds back. I have been to the css.style page and the coding in relation to the forum is below, should there be something else?

/*————————————-
3. FORUM
————————————-*/

#content table tbody tr.odd td {
background-color:#dldcf9 !important;

}

Thanks,

Jamie

[pilotindia.arnab]

Guys I’m getting an error with the ‘forum’ link. On the top left corner of the forum you get Home>Forum>Fourm1>Topic1 if you are in any topic/forum. When I click at ‘Forum’ I am redirected to a page which has all the forums (Forum1, Forum2, etc..) but it comes unformatted. Plz take a look at http://wingsofindia.com/forum/forum-1/ and click on Forum on the top left for a better explanation of my problem. This prob is specific to my theme. Maybe the prob is with my style.css – not sure. Plz suggest ways..
bbpress 2.2.4

[Stephen Edgar]

Just add the following to your themes CSS or if you are not using a child theme there are a few ‘Custom CSS’ plugins you could use so that you are also safeguarded against theme updates also.

`#bbpress-forums .status-closed, #bbpress-forums .status-closed a {color: #000;}`

[Shashank Shekhar]

Hello, I am using lates bbpress 2.2.4 plugin with wordpress 3.5.1, php 5.4.3 & php 5.3.2.
This plugin is showing me many issues specially for user pages (profile, edit, etc.)
I am using twenty twelve theme, very little customized.

1) I wanted to set a different sidebar for bbpress forum pages than other wordpress pages, so I checked and found the default template used by bbpress is ‘page.php’. I copied it, renamed to ‘forum.php‘ and added a new dynamic sidebar and commented default sidebar. It worked fine and now I can set any widget to this sidebar. I have checked that either I place ‘forum.php’ or ‘forums.php’ both working fine similar. Not sure which one is more correct.

2) On the bbpress users pages the profile content and edit form is not displaying full in widht cutting as its width overridden by sidebar, breaking layout. The content area ‘primary’ div is given a width in theme and having ‘secondary’ as sidebar. All other contents properly adjusted on every bbpress pages, but only this bbpress user profile edit page have the issue. The form should also be adjusted within the content area. Ex. url: http://mysite.com/forums/users/testuser/edit

3) Now, suppose to fix the issue mentioned above in point 3), I want to remove sidebar from users pages and give the primary content area more full width, how I can do it? One way is to forcibly hide the sidebar with css and make primary content wider with !important. But I want a way to change user pages template. Is it possible to have different template for user pages than bbpress other pages? I found that users pages also generating using ‘page.php’, in my case ‘forum.php’ template now. I tried alot by copying and changing ‘page.php’ to ‘user.php’, ‘users.php’, etc. but its not working. Please let me know how can I set user pages to use a different template file and rest bb pages use my forum.php or forums.php whatever.

4) For any user when I click ‘topic started’ or ‘replies created’ link, both show counts properly but the table didn’t appear. I checked in firebug, it present there but hidden somehow. Same issue mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profile-topics-or-replies-posts-not-being-displayed/ , I tried with the same thing, but till now no proper solution there. Please let me know proper way to fix it.

5) If suppose I want to completely hide the user-profile links on all bbpress forum/topic authors, on all bb pages, I mean want to display only author gravatars and usernames but want no link on them, so other people cannot go to their profile pages, how can I do that? A little help given here http://forum.graphene-theme.com/graphene-support/show-the-author-but-hide-its-link, but its not working properly. But I think it can be done with right filters in the same way. Please let me know with sample code.

6) Used the official facebook plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/ , and displayed the like button, like box for my facebook page using it in my site footer, header etc. But I found that on the user pages like edit profile, profile view etc. facebook widgets are completely disabled and not visible. On other bbpress forum pages they are displaying well. I checked with page source and found even facebook sdk is not embeded in page source. Their must be an conflict on bbpress user pages with facebook sdk which stopping it to be enqueued. This need to be checked and fixed.

These all issues mentioned here are serious issues with bbpress specially for user pages and must be solved and have proper solutions.
I dont expect from a single person to answer or fix all of above points, but hope different people will help me for different points (just mentioning points in their replies).

Further I expect from bbpress authors to work on these issues and release a fixed version. May be some of above points just because of lack some documentation, so they can mention some solution in its FAQ itself, so people having same problems can get help without searching or posting here in forum.

—
Thanks
Shashank

[John James Jacoby]

It’s nice to see a few CSS tweaks providing deep integration into an existing WordPress site.

Thanks for sharing!

[Paulo Pires]

Hello good people
This is my very first request for help and I’m a very, very newbie with all this.

I’ve designed a film photography forum using bbpress and Fanwood theme. I’ve managed to customize some CSS but something does not work.

When writing a post or answering to a given post the “text box” allows me to write all I want and it even assume the line breaks, but when I submit the post all the line breaks are gone and the text turns into a single “block”.

Can anyone please help me?
Thank you

[verlaine76]

I know this was a while ago, but in case anyone else stumbles across this topic, here’s how I did it.

In your wordpress install find the folder `/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css`

Open the file `bbpress.css` in a text editor
Within the bbpress.css file, search for the text `#bbpress-forums .status-closed`

When you find this text, below is the entry `color: #ccc;` This is the colour for your text in closed topics. Change it to #000 for black.

[nely]

The problem was solved by adding in the css line “#bbpress-forums div.reply” additional parameter: “width: auto;”

[Lynq]

You can add in a bit of CSS to help put them onto a new line, if you have firefox + firebug you can right click and inspect element. You can then see the list, it just needs to have some display:block added onto the list items.
good luck!

[remaille]

Hi,

On the main forum page, I have all the categories including various forums. All forum name are on the *same” line. It is not very readable. It looks like

Catégorie-name
Forum 1 name (14, 27), Forum 2 name (13, 38), Forum 3 name (11, 10)

How could I have something like :

Catégorie-name
Forum 1 name (14, 27)
Forum 2 name (13, 38)
Forum 3 name (11, 10)

CSS tweaking ? or Plugin for CSS lazy boyz ?
Thanks, 🙂

[mintertweed]

This is a continuation of another thread, but it is a separate problem. I was trying to get bbPress to recognize a CSS document. To check that my current CSS document actually worked, I deactivated bbPress. The document indeed works. So, I went to reactivate bbPress and once I did that I looked at my forums and everything was gone. I go to check Forums > All Forums on my Dashboard and everything is still listed. Why are my forums not showing up? I am still using the original bbpress.css document, so I know that is not the reason why. Thank you in advance!

[mintertweed]

Okay, so I physically replaced bbpress.css located in bbpress/templates/default/css/ with the newly named style-forums.css and the styles are working fine. But I immediately replaced it with the original bbpress.css because my forums are still not appearing properly. So…first problem solved! Yay. Now, how do I make my forums appear once again? Thank you for your help thus far!