[nickzee]

Dear community.

I have spent the last few (5) hours reading the various posts, trying to get bbpress to integrate with my custom WP theme. Unfortunately, I don’t have the knowledge (or enough) to figure out how to make the two work together.

Info
Wordpress: 3.4.2
Site link: http://www.restorationcoach.com/restoration_coach/forums/
Using this theme: http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/39849.html
bbpress: 2.2

My main issue seams to be css related. I think bbpress is and the theme are sharing css files, causing a funky appearance. Overall forum function seems to be working fine.

So far I’ve done the following.

Completely removed bbpress and installed new 2.2 version.
Read: http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ (this is for customizing the bbpress theme, if you want? And if you don’t, then leave the install as is?)
Watched: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2Oodx2GJw (not sure if this applies with 2.2)
Switched to Twentyeleven: Looks better, side bar is missing, and footer contact form, map and links are over top one another.

I can see in firebug where both style.css and bbpress.css are being used to style the forum. Most specifically #page-content ul li. This, I believe, is causing the issues but not quite sure how to fix it.

Thank you in advance for the assistance.

[John James Jacoby]

The editor here is the basic WordPress editor with some CSS tweaks; something anyone with a spare hour should be able to put together.

[projetRSSMO]

Thank you for the fast reply. However, since i’m really no programmer at all, I have no idea what you mean. English is also a second language for me.

“Try display: block;’ing the main content div, or the wrapper around your content.”

The first part of the sentence does not make sense to me, and I don’t understand what you mean by “wrapper”.

Are you suggesting that I modify a CSS file? If so, you’ll have to tell me exactly where and how!

The other weird display problem that I get is since I activated bbPress, the page of the installed plugins menu (admin dashbord) does not show up when I click on it. I have to mouse over for some elements to show up. I can also reduce the size of my browser, and the parts of the page that are “hidden” suddenly appear once I resize the page to a big size. Weird stuff. Otherwise eveything runs perfectly.

I’d just like to make forum members able to easily edit their posts.

Thank you.

[Anonymous User 5621168]

I’m having trouble changing the font color of the Fancy Editor (tinymce). I want it to be #fff but it is #333 !

I’ve isolated the css with firebug and it points to /wp-includes/js/tinymce/themes/advanced/skins/wp_theme/content.css . However, even if I edit the appropriate line in content.css and change color to #fff it still displays #333.

Here is the URL to the page in question:
http://www.directorated.com/forums/forum/general/

[webar2007]

Hi! I have installed the bbpress forum plugin here: http://buyclassifiedscript.com/forums/ but the forum is aligned to the left and its full width. I managed to change the css to 1000px but its still to the left. Any suggestions how I can center it?

bbpress: 2.1.3 (TwentyTen package)
WP: 3.4.2

[thesnowjunkies]

I ran into the same problem, Alex. Never fixed it, but my workaround was to just put a single topic into each forum.

[dprundle]

I’m having this same issue.

When you say to edit the CSS file on line 84, which exact file are you talking about?

[dprundle]

I’m having this same exact problem with the twenty eleven theme. Widgets are not displayed until the bottom of the forum.

Melindrea – I’m very new to CSS, you state to change the forum CSS from “container” to “primary”. Where would I find that CSS? in the plugins directory?

Thank you

[jezza101]

Not sure what happened but the posting form on my forum has changed. Unfortunately I did a few plugin upgrades – jetpack, bbpress, genesis bbpress plugin – at the same time, and some other updates to the site so not sure what has caused it.

Wondering if anyone has had this too and could help me identify the cause, and hopefully a fix?

For example, have a look here: http://www.nxtab.co.uk/discussion/forum/off-topic/site-news/

The form buttons have changed and now appear to have taken some styling from the site’s theme (ah could there be a clash of CSS classes perhaps?) and switching between HTML and visual no longer works.

Will be experimenting with disabling and enabling plugins to see if there is a clash.

Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

[zeaks]

Using Twenty Tweleve wordpress theme, the default compat theme the html and visual tabs are to the left and if clicked they create and tags, there’s no background behind the toolbar. If I click the link button, the popup shows up but it looks as if all the CSS for it is missing and I see constant loading icons. If I disable the “fancy” toolbar, I don’t see a toolbar or buttons at all. If I switch to Twenty Ten forum theme, then the toolbar shows.

** Update, looks like a conflict with Jetpack, works fine if I disable it.

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[Phill]

I figured it out. I placed the bbp_replies_pagination_count (and topics count) within the headers of both loop-topics.php and loop-replies.php. I also had the change the CSS class for the “Posts” block in the header and reduced the height to make sure everything lined up properly. My theme really did not like bbPress but it’s almost 100% working now. Thanks for your help!

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[zaerl]

Probably the problem here is that your CSS is included the wrong way. Long story short: if a permalink is used and the style is included with a relative path then the browser will try to retrieve the CSS from the apparent folder. Let’s make an example in order to circumvent my horrible english. This page URL is: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-changes-after-modifying-slugs/

If I include a CSS in this way:

[link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’style.css’ type=’text/css’ /]

the browser will try to download:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/style-changes-after-modifying-slugs/style.css

which is obviously wrong. Check your page source and maybe trace an eventual 404 error with Firebug. Or provide me a link to your forum and I will check it for you.

[Stephen Edgar]

Are you using custom templates (copied bbPress templates to your WordPress theme folder) or have you just tweaked the bbpress.css to match your theme?

Also what version of bbPress are you using?

[kristinachilds]

I’ve removed all the breadcrumb calls in every template file but they still show up. I can’t use the filter because I have the call in header.php. Any idea why this isn’t working? For now I just solved it with CSS, but would like to know where the hook is.

#bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb-home, 
# bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb-root,
# bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb-separator,
# bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb-current { display: none; }

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[rolandrnl]

Hello,

I have a dev version of my website so sorry but you have to enter the password and the username: dev/dev1234

My problem is with the profile page, if you check it you can see the header with the AMS name not fits perfectly. So I want to change. If I change it the header is change every post page.

If you check the css classes you can see the following: post-1693 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-vice-city tag-evfordulo tag-focimdal

I don’t know why but the profile page get the latest posts css classes. Why?

The posts url: http://dev.codenamegta.hu/2012/majamihiroz-vice-city-focimdala/

The profile url: http://dev.codenamegta.hu/forumok/tagok/ams/

How can I disable the redirection after the registration? It’s very annoying if the user the a login registration form with different design.

Thank you very much!

[Phill]

I, like most people using BBpress, have had an issue removing the sidebar from my new BBpress forums. I tried editing template files, adding files into my theme’s root, commenting our sidebar commands and whatever else has been recommended on these forums. Not to say those don’t work – I just couldn’t figure them out which is most likely due to my complete lack of php knowledge. I’m posting this for those of you like me, who have no idea how to do those fancy things.

Here’s how I removed my sidebar:

First, I copied over the CSS folder from my BBpress plugin folder /bbp-theme-compat to my theme’s root folder. (From your server root it should be wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/)

Then, I found the CSS class my theme was using to design the main content of my wordpress blog (should be a style.css file in your theme’s folder). Mine happened to be #main_content. Next, I found the the sidebar CSS in my theme’s style.css file which was simply #sidebar.

Note: I found the CSS class by right clicking the main content area of my website (where posts show) and selecting “Inspect Element”.

After finding those I created BBpress specific classes and pasted those into the bbpress.css file now located at {you_theme’s_root}/CSS/bbpress.css.

Here’s what I pasted in:

.bbPress #sidebar { 
width: 0px;
display:none; }

.bbPress #main-content { width: 940px; !important } 

Most likely you won’t need the sidebar’s width attribute but I added it in just in case.

And finally, after hours of trying to figure this out I went to my BBress forums page to discover that the forums fit perfectly into my theme without any sign of a sidebar.

I hope this helps!

[ouyagamingsource]

Hello BBP Forum,

I got nearly everything set up with the BuddyPress and bbPress forum plugins, however there’s a few tweaks I need to finish it off and I’m trying to figure out which files I need to adjust the html settings to match my custom theme of my other pages.

Going from these directions: http://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ I created a child from my Alyeska theme and copied the Default bbPress Theme to the child theme folder. This helped get the forum page a little closer to my custom theme style, but still not there yet; the sidebars are missing, the forum BG is white, amongst a few other issues, but it’s getting closer. I’m just not sure where the CSS master file for this page is, I tried editing the two files in the child_theme/bbp/CSS folder but it didn’t make any change: http://ouyagamingsource.com/forums/, any ideas?

Thanks ahead of time!

–Bryan

[Phill]

I want to start off by saying for the past 8 hours I’ve tried every recommendation I could find in order to remove my forums sidebar. Here’s what I’ve tried:

• Editing the auth-forum.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• Editing the bbpress.php file (Pasted in the BBpress root)
• removing all instances of “get sidebar” from template files
• BBpress WP Tweak Plugin
• Removing the sidebar with CSS
• Creating a child theme
• Checked Stackoverflow for answers
• Checked Reddit for answers

And for the life of me I can’t get rid of that stupid sidebar. What am I missing? This is the only thing keeping me from launching my new BBpress forums after converting from SMF to phpBB.

I’m desperate for help, anything would be much appreciated.

[fuzzybee]

I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2

I follow the guide here.

In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after the above installation

• Created a page called “Forums” with permalink mywebsite.com/forums
• Insert bbPress shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into “Forums” page

My questions are

1) How do I customise page templates for the forum e.g. Forum page, topic page etc.

My current theme is a child theme of twentyeleven and it has the following structure

> themes/bp-twentyeleven/

>

> /activity/

>

> /blogs/

>

> /forums/

>

> index.php

>

> forums-loop.php

>

> /groups/

>

> /members/

>

> /registration/

>

> header.php

>

> sidebar.php

>

> style.css

Notes

• Apparently, bp-twentyevelen/forums/index.php is being ignored.
• The reason for this set up is that I need the site to looks like TwentyEleven and has BuddyPress’ functionality at the same time

2) How do I make sure that bbPress functions will work for my site e.g. do I copy and past all the functions in functions.php of bbPress’ default theme over my theme’s functions.php?

3) How do I ensure that whatever I will get from 1) and 2) (probably from bbPress experts somewhere) will not conflict with BuddyPress’ functionality or my theme?

BuddyPress setting screenshots are here and here.

bbPress settings screenshot is here.

[Stephen Edgar]

The default ‘separator’ for the forum list is a comma (that comma you see on your site).

I see you have tweaked your forum list yourself so that each forum is on a new line.

I can’t see how you did this at the moment as I am using my phone and no CSS inspector.

Take a look at this https://gist.github.com/3797945 and add it to your functions.php of your theme or add it as a standalone plugin. Instead of a ‘comma’ I have a BR element there which if you removed the tweaks you have already made in your CSS for the forum list, this code snippet will give you the result you are looking for.

[mazcar]

I am new to WordPress/BBPress and am coming from PHPBB.

I am creating a bulletin board using the BBPress plug-in for WordPress. I’m not planning on really using WordPress (yet) for my website. It’s just a few static pages, a css file, and, soon, a forum.

My board will be for just fifty people and I would like to create all the accounts myself so that I don’t have to worry about spam posts from bogus accounts.

• In PHPBB, there is a control panel option to disable the ability to create new accounts? I don’t see that option in WP/BBPress. How would I do that?
• I think I read on this forum that I can make my board invisible to non-members, but that is not a control panel option. What’s the prefered way for a newbie to do that?

Also, I read an article on WP security, Top 5 WP Vulnerabilities and How To Fix Them.
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/open-source-security/top-5-wordpress-vulnerabilities-and-how-to-fix-them.html

Vulnerability # 1: SQL Injection & URL Hacking.
Vulnerability # 2: Access to Sensitive Files.
Vulnerability # 3: Default Admin User Account.
Vulnerability # 4: Default Prefix for Database Tables
Vulnerability # 5: Brute-Force Login Attempts

3, 4, and 5 seem pretty obvious to me. However, for help with mitigating the threat of Brute-Force Login Attempts, the author refers to two plug-ins: Limit Login Attempts and Better WP Security. Are these the preferred plug-ins? Although, I really must ask you guys why these two plug-ins aren’t written into the core software in the first place? In fact, shouldn’t the control panel also allow me to limit the creation of new accounts, as well?

I know BBPress, as a plug-in, is new, but WordPress has been around for ten years. Are the features that I list above planned for future releases, or is security not really an issue for the WP community, but rather up to each user?

Before I forget, how do I implement the solutions to the first two vulnerabilities? Do I just copy the code that the author lists into my .htacess file?

I don’t want to sound critical of WP/BBPress, or be the guy who is constantly comparing it to PHPBB. I just want to know the mentality behind it and, really, what I am getting myself into. I had a pretty secure PHPBB board that was easy to set-up and manage, but it was boring and looked like every other PHPBB board out there. I was told that WP/BBPress is customizable (some guy on your board showcases a beautiful board about Stratoliner motorcycles) and more secure than PHPBB. I hope to explore these features without becoming a full-time board developer nor becoming a php guru.

Thanks. I really appreciate this forum. I have been reading all sorts of posts. So if these questions have been answered, please don’t flame me; it’s not for lack of searching.

[Shmoo]

Hi Tom,

Well i don’t know much about Artisteer because WordPress is not like iWeb or RappidWeaver where you can drag&drop to make your lay-out, If you would like to build or customize your lay-out you need some understanding of HTML , CSS and a bit PHP.
I’ve helped lots of people at the Dutch WordPress forums and most of them often had trouble with Artisteer because the software often didn’t supported some simple WordPress Codex.
https://nl.forums.wordpress.org/profile/macpresss

[venntom]

Hi,

Great forum plugin!

I am however experiencing some annoying theme compatibility issues…

My forum page (with [bbp-forum-index] shortcode) was wrongly picking up my theme’s css, instead of the bbpress css.

Resulting in an unusable forum layout.

I have applied the theme compatibility actions by copying the necessary bbp-theme-compat directory/files to my theme root.

By setting the correct bbpress page template via its page attributes, the main forum page (now without shortcode) seems to pick up the bbpress css. But shortcodes are still picking up the wrong css via the default theme page template..

Any suggestions to make shortcodes work with the bbpress css instead of the theme’s css?

Are there any additional css styles available that work with the bbpress theme-compat templates?

I am using wp 3.4.2, bbpress 2.1.2 and my theme is generated with Artisteer 4.

Regard,Tom

[Trilient]

So recently my website has switched from just being a forum to becoming an actual website. We chose wordpress as a CMS because it seemed to fit all of our needs.

I’m no PHP programmer, at most I can do HTML/CSS so I need a little help. There’s a comma in my forums sub-forum list. You can visit this page: http://ludosnet.com/bbpress and see there’s an unneeded comma after every subforum. I’d like to know how to remove that. I’m using the 2010 theme with a few of my own customizations.

We’re in the process of importing all of our forums over to bbpress from xenforo, but it’s a rather complicated task. So any help would be appreciated.

Also concerning bbpress what plugins would you recommend to make the software have a few more features?

[htz77]

I solved this with some CSS. First, in WP-Admin > Appearance > Menus, i added a custom CSS class to my tabs (at least my Forum tab and News tab). If you don’t see the CSS-classes field, toggle it on in the Screen-Options. For my Forums tab, i set a CSS class of “nav1-forum” and my News tab got “nav1-news”.

Then in my CSS file (style.css), i added this to my Active-tab styles
.bbPress #main-menu #menu-main-menu li.nav1-forums a,
which makes the Forum tab highlighted whenever bbPress is “on” (based on the body class “.bbPress”.

And I added this to my Inactive-tab styles:
.bbPress #main-menu #menu-main-menu li.nav1-news a,
which forces my News tab (which is for my normal “posts” post-type, the blog area of my site), to appear as Inactive, even though its element actually does incorrectly have the class “current_page_parent”.

Of course you may need to adjust the IDs in the css, to match your html.