[Clicknathan]

Does anyone know of a way I could add a CSS class to items that a user has already viewed.

I have some custom code (taken from the bbpress Recent Replies widget) that essentially shows my recent replies on my forum’s home page. This:

         $post_types,
            'post_status'    => join( ',', array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ) ),
            'posts_per_page' => $max_shown,
            'meta_query'     => array( bbp_exclude_forum_ids( 'meta_query' ) )
        ) );

        // Get replies and display them
        if ( $widget_query->have_posts() ) :

            echo $before_widget;
            echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>



                have_posts() ) : $widget_query->the_post(); ?>

                    <li >
                    post->ID );
                          $author_link = bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( 'post_id' => $reply_id, 'type' => 'both', 'size' => 100 ) );
                          echo $author_link. ' on';
                          echo '<a href="' . esc_url( bbp_get_reply_url( $reply_id ) ) . '" title="' . bbp_get_reply_excerpt( $reply_id, 50 ) . '">' . bbp_get_reply_topic_title( $reply_id ) . '</a>';
                          echo ''. bbp_get_reply_excerpt( $reply_id, 150 ) . '';
                          echo '' . get_the_date(), get_the_time().'';

                        ?&gt;







            &lt;?php echo $after_widget;

        endif;

is_mb there is just a custom function I wrote to determine whether the page being viewed is the homepage or not. Anyway, I'd love to add a class to the opening LI tag if a user has already viewed that. Any ideas?

[Flight777]

Hey,

The theme compat works 😛 but it uses the CSS of my WordPress theme which totally screws the lay-out of the forum 😛 That is why I start working with Twentyten. Is there no possibility to make it two column?

Rob

[Garindan]

Ok simple question… What file/s do I need to add code to so it affects every bbpress page?

style type = ‘text/css’>#breadcrumbs { display: none !important; }/style>

Sorry, couldn’t work out how to display code without it hiding style tags

• This reply was modified 13 years, 11 months ago by Garindan.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 11 months ago by Garindan.

[renai42]

hey mate,

this is precisely the kind of overly simplistic response which turns people off using bbPress. Your suggestion is pretty much contained in the bbPress documentation already and is less than useful.

Sure, you need to copy bbpress.css to the right directory and edit it. But what you fail to mention, and what is mentioned nowhere in the bbPress documentation, is that many of the font specifications are not actually listed in that CSS file — you need to puzzle out the CSS entry yourself and add a new CSS entry, not edit an old one, to change the font size.

I spent three hours working this out last night. The correct entry is:

bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,

bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {

    font-size: 12px;

}

I have seen this same response from the moderators on the bbPress forum dozens of times as I searched it last night. This same arrogance — ‘just copy the CSS file and edit it’. Technically you’re right, but without any detail or documentation around bbPress, this suggestion comes across as the contempt of an experienced web developer for someone who is, in their eyes, a ‘n00b’.

I operate a major WordPress site and edit its CSS files daily. And yet, the CSS for bbPress is hideously complex and hard to understand. I suggest that you guys modify your attitude and start looking for actual solutions to people’s problems … especially around making default themes easier to customise. Otherwise, bbPress, which is an awesome solution to a long-held problem for WordPress site owners, will remain the little-used forum software that it is.

Cheers,

Renai LeMay
Publisher, Delimiter.com.au

[johnny676767]

Hi Jared, no its version 2.1.2

[Jared Atchison]

Are you running bbPress 2.1.1?

[Garindan]

Hi all, I want to hide my theme’s breadcrumbs for all the bbpress forum pages, since bbpress breadcrumbs are used for those. I know I simply need the css ‘#breadcrumbs { display: none !important; }’, but what file can i add it to so all forum pages use it? I’m using the bbpress compatibility theme. Many thanks!

Edit: I tried adding it to bbpress.css hoping that it would only affect bbpress post types but it hid them across the whole site.

• This topic was modified 13 years, 11 months ago by Garindan.

[johnny676767]

http://europeband.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/trouble.tiff
Here is an image of the problem.

I have tried the twentyten BBPRESS theme and there is no issues, and there is no issues with 3 other WordPress themes I tried.

Anyone please help

[johnny676767]

I am running Custom Community Pro theme with bbpress Compact theme.
Please some one help.

[renai42]

hey everyone,

installed a base install of bbPress today on a test site:

http://topstory.com.au/forums/

Basically all I want to do is modify the font size down, from 12px to 11px. Can someone tell me where I can do this? I’ve done a lot of frakking around with CSS files with WordPress, but can’t find the right setting in bbPress.

Cheers,

Renai

[jetfalcon]

Hi,

This may be very basic, so apologise to the wizards in here. I have installed bbpress and would like to keep the original CSS for the bbpress. Right now it automatically adjusts to the theme, and as I have some yellow text in the theme (black bg), it just doesn’t look nice in the forum. I have installed the CSS plugin for bbpress, so I can adjust the CSS directly in the editor, but I assume it must be possible to get the original CSS for the plugin displayed directly?

Thanks!

[johnny676767]

Hey
I have got an issue with the bbpress forum, for some reason if im either acting as the admin or subscribing user and i cant edit my forum post properly.
Basically i click on Edit and it goes into the revision screen and for some particular reason the form is being cut off.
I am assuming this is a CSS problem but i just cant figure this one out.

Europeband.eu is my site.

any help is much appreciative

[smokeradiosocialmedia]

Jeffvand: There are a few plugins that allow you to pull in and show custom Sidebars. Two Examples:

These work with Custom Types Ie it recognises the Forums and You can select for them to have their own sidebar:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/
But I prefer
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/

Hope this helps.

I too want to remove the sidebar completly. What part of the CSS would I need to remove. Could you send some more detailed instructions of what code and in what CSS files I need to remove. It is only on Forum pages I want to remvoe sidebars.
Thanks

[on3advertising]

I want to customize a topic that is closed. It was easy to find the css class for a topic that was closed, but I cannot for for the life of me find what php file is executing that class. I want to add an extra column with the string “[Resolved]” next to the name of the topic to make it more intuitive for my users. The website with an example of a closed topic is: http://www.compusoftdevelopment.com/forum/forums/forum/submitted-features/

I am running Wp v3.4.2 and bbPress v2.1.2

[judy1950]

I have a WordPress site (3.4.2) which uses a premium theme that I want to keep. I just activated the BBPress plugin (ver 2.1.2) and created a forum and topic etc. The forum and topic pages appear and look ok, but I would like to customize the template and css that is being used in this. I am finding BBP documentation on this somewhat confusing.

My Plan: I will create my own BBP template based on page.php from my main theme and modify the layout etc.

To implement this new template I create, I am guessing that I can replace $new_template (shown below; code taken from bhp-template-loader.php (wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes) with the name of my new template, such as “bbp-new-page.php”). Is this correct?

// bbPress template file exists
if ( !empty( $new_template ) ) {

    // Override the WordPress template with a bbPress one
    $template = $new_template;

And to modify the css, I can simply hack “bbpress.css” (wp-content/plugins/bbpress/
bbp-theme-compat/css/bbpress.css)?

This approach seems really hacky/inelegant however.

On a slightly separate note, it appears that implementing the steps for theme-compatibility (http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility) are necessary only if you are going to use a single (custom) theme (or child theme?) for both WP and BBP?

Finding it a little confusing to untangle the methods and their purposes in BBP theming.

Thanks to anyone who can help!
Judy Wilson
Nashville TN

[ctekmusic]

Hi Rob

I had a look on your forum and there are no css rules for any link elements which is strange. Try adding this into your css file:

#bbpress-forums .bbp-breadcrumb a { color: #F6AC2C; }

That should make the breadcrumb links go yellow (as an example). If that works you just need to populate the css file with all the link colours manually which you can find by digging around with the code inspector.

If you want to change all link colours quickly and lazily you could just target every link within bbPress like this

#bbpress-forums a { color: #F6AC2C; }

Hope this helps

[AdilAli01]

please help me too, since i am a newbie ! i want forum width to 100% .. How to add custom CSS and how to find page id ?

• This reply was modified 13 years, 12 months ago by AdilAli01.

[jrold76]

The problem is, I’m a CSS novice…I don’t know the first thing about editing my template. Those plugins you suggested, those will work in tandem with the forum plugin I’m already using?

[Flight777]

Hello Chris,

Thanks for your reply. I do know where the CSS is located but I can’t find the exact entry for the links (even with Chrome). When I load the compat theme it does get the proper link colours from the main wordpress theme but the whole lay-out is ***** up then 😛

Here it the link (with the twentyten loaded):

http://www.verantwoordnalaten.com/versie2/forums/forum/verantwoord-nalaten/

Rob

[CraigIW]

Hi,

I have bbpress plugin in a WordPress 3.4.2 MU site, with a single instance in the root and /forums. I have a very basic child theme of TwentyEleven which makes some header and CSS tweaks.

Once I activated BBPress, I found that it is displayed using the sidebar. This crushes the forum to the left, so I wanted to get rid of it for the forum page. I read that by default BBPress will use the page.php from the TwentyEleven theme, and to copy that to my child theme, remove the call to the sidebar and name it bbpress.php would override it. Well, for a start, the TwentyEleven page.php does NOT contain the sidebar. After searching the filesystem I found that sidebar-page.php does, so I copied that to my child theme folder and named it bbpress.php, removed the get_sidebar() call, and also set the template name as Template Name: Forum Template in the bbpress.php file.

It did not work. My forum is still showing a sidebar. It does not seem to be using the bbpress.php file at all.

Is there a guide somewhere on how to get BBPress to display without the sidebar when using MU and a child theme of TwentyEleven?

As I said, my child theme if very simple. It is literally a header.php and styles.css, and I have now added bbpress.php. What do I need to do to get BBPress to use my bbpress.php template?

Can I add that a LOT of the helpful-looking links on here lead to 404 pages, which really hasn’t helped in trying to figure this out. It would be great if those could be fixed up somehow?

Thanks!

[farandhigh12]

Hello, I’m trying to set a wordpress site, where for the forum, people fill a form : reach or propose a travel, place they live, number of seat in their car, and then enter the form that will appear with a css style and people can interact to it …
Any idea of how can I create a form forum like that ?
Thanks in advance,
Oli

[Tanya]

I am trying to get rid of the text: “Add this topic to your favorites” and “This topic is one your favorites”, as I am using a background css image instead.

The icons are working beautifully, bar the fact that the text comes up.

You will also notice that if you click the star to add it to your favorites, another star appears, which is a link to all your favorites. It appears the link to the forum favorites doesn’t have its own css class, which is why both are coming up as stars. I’d like to get rid of that.

Not sure if this will fit in with your plugin bbPress String Swap David, if you see this.

If you want to see this in action on my forum (still being built), log in at http://netballscoop.com/log-in/ with Username: testing and Password: testing. The forums are at http://netballscoop.com/forums and click on a single topic to see the favorites and subscriptions at the top underneath the title.

I am using WordPress 3.4.2 and bbPress 2.1.2.

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• This topic was modified 14 years ago by Tanya.
• This topic was modified 14 years ago by Tanya.

[shaimart]

I’ve searched a bit around the forum, and have tried some of the CSS edits, but unfortunately no luck…

[dpeery]

I added:

bbpress-forums ul,

bbpress-forums li a{

color: #555;

}

to the end of files:
bbpress.css
and
bbpress-rtl.css

I can see black text on a white background now.

[laltoofan]

Hi, totally now to this and having trouble, I need to change the colour of the forum on my site to black background with white text. I can change the text using suffusion options but this changes all text on the site. For some reason I really can not change the forum background colour. I used http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-forum-color/#post-100130 to help me with editing the .css file but nothing seems to have changed!

my forum is at http://antaresscorpions.co.uk/?post_type=forum At the moment we have added a red colour just so the text can be seen on both pages and forums.

Thanks for your help!

Regards