[rameesareno]

Nice suggestion Amunds! I have to ftp the files and edit the bbpress/compat css file.

its all good now. http://www.sarenosolutions.com/forums please check 🙂 leave a good tip for us then. thanks guys!

[kpolkson]

Hi all,

thanks for making such an easy forum solution, I’ve been quite pleased with how much functionality comes right out of the box.

Though I am getting confused when it comes to best practices for making some typical theme customizations so that I can keep a custom look with future updates of bbpress.

At this time, I am really only trying to change font styles and sizes and some of the coloring and minor layout items with how the forum renders to match my custom wordpress theme (built off of HTML5 boilerplate).

I’ve reviewed:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-2-0-theme-compatibility/ &

http://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

but, I don’t feel like it helped and am not sure if things have already changed since those have been written. either that or i am just lost in the number of files that seem to control the theme in bbpress with the added bbp-theme-compat files.

For instance, i am told to copy over everything from bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/bbpress directory, yet none of those files include the bbp-theme-compat/css files. which is what I will probably doing the most modification of (right?)

Then it says to copy over the bbpress/extras directory (optionally), but all I can find is the bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/extras directory, is this what was meant?

Again, really just want to make minor style changes that universally affect the bbpress fonts and colors, yet still want to specifically target those bbpress items.

Might increase the complexity of the customization, but right now just want to start small and use bbpress best practices so that I don’t lose my customization when upgrading anything.

thanks

[aaclayton]

Have you taken over control of bbpress templates using theme compatibility? If so you can modify yourtheme/bbpress/loop-forums.php and remove the list item:

li class=”bbp-forum-freshness”

Next from yourtheme/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php remove the same section and its contents:

li class=”bbp-forum-freshness

Finally you’ll have to adjust the CSS of your forums to compensate the width of the remaining forum columns for the missing freshness. Hope this helps.

EDIT: sorry, I tried to post the exact code blocks to remove, but the forum here isn’t letting me embed the code 🙁

[aaclayton]

Adam,

This is definitely be possible. There’s a fair bit of work involved, but I re-wrote most of the bbpress templates from the ground up for my new site using the bbpress functions included in the plugin as well as a few custom ones I wrote myself.

Just install bbpress, set it to theme compatibility settings, then take over the css and template files in your theme directory.

CSS goes in yourtheme/css

Base bbpress page types go in yourtheme directory (archive-forum, archive-topic, single-forum, single-topic, single-topic-edit, single-reply-edit, and single-user are the most important ones)

All the sub-templates (content, loops, forms, and pagination) goes in yourtheme/bbpress

Using this as a general guide you can rebuild bbpress from the ground up to suit your needs. Check out my bbpress enabled theme at http://tamrielfoundry.com

[Adam]

think of it this way: WordPress comes with two themes when you install it. 2010 and 2011. you can go out and get new ones or modify this one. what if you want your own. You write it from the ground up.

This is what I wan’t to do with bbpress – a “theme” so to speak. So that when you install bppress you can “use as default” or “click to enable this look” (which in my case would be on by default) how would I achieve this? pure css?

what if I wanted to create a new “display forums” template or a new “login” template? is there documentation on “themeing bbpress?” and making that theme the default? Hope that makes better sense….

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[kbunt]

Same happens for /forums/users/admin/ where the main content is repeated in the sidebar and the footer widget areas. I can’t seem to isolate the issue. This theme uses WooSidebar Manager to create custom sidebars which I have done for the Forums custom post type.

I’ve also update the CSS so you can see both affected areas.

[Adam]

I see you have functions and what not and already specified ways of calling the forum data from the database into specified ways of displaying the topic and the replies or the forum and its topics. The question is, is there enough api in the core bbpress for me to say, instead of laying out the forums this way I am going to re-write them from the ground up and display them my way.

or would you recommend just using css to make my changes?

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[kbunt]

Having the same issue in a footer widget as well as the sidebar. BBPress is overriding the footer 1 and primary widgets on the /forum/. I’ve made the page forum full width via a custom CSS file to make it disappear in the sidebar as a short term solution, but can’t seem to find the issue in the code.

See, http://www.divorcingmatters.com/forums/

[Ronileco]

Sure thing.

The boxes are CSS and our own design but you can use the Vote It Up plugin for votes, although it hasn’t been updated in ages.

You’ll need to customise and theme it. BTW, we are using BBPress 2.0.2 and not the latest but it should work.

Good Luck…

[MTPrower]

Been 24 hours again. Bump

I see that a lot of people have an issue with this in some form or another, but I’ve only seen one fix– a non-explained hard-coding. It’s unfair to everyone.

I want to be able to change loop-forums.php to look exactly like loop-single-forum.php. That means a new table for every category, a Freshness (author name and avatar, as well as latest post time) for every parent forum inside a category, and the displaying of “content” below the forum title, if we have content on the forum edit page (people usually use that for a description of that particular forum).

Changing the CSS to make each forum have its own line is easy. The REST of the things you have to do to make the forums root, or forums index, look like a single-forum page, is hard.

This is a much-needed tweak. Pretty much everyone would benefit from it. I will keep bumping this as long as I need.

I do want to say that I love bbPress though. I’m not giving up on it in the foreseeable future.

[mluther]

Dear Netweb and all other helpful folks,

I looked in my Child theme’s folder and I have three files in there.

1. footer.php
2. sidebar.php
3. style.css

When I temporarily renamed my Child’s sidebar.php to sidebar.phpTEMPCHANGE, I was able to see the bbpress sidebar.

I remember now why I created a Child sidebar.php file, and it is because I did not want any sidebar to show up when a website visitor uses the search feature. See https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archives-and-meta-widgets-show-up-on-search-results-pages for my post and people’s suggestions.

My child’s sidebar.php contains this:

    &lt;!-- https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/1383cda0f1903ca0                     'monthly' ) ); ?&gt;                                                                                                                --&gt;    <!-- #secondary .widget-area -->

What can I do to both:

A. Keep the “Login” and “Meta” from showing up in the nonforum pages

AND

B. Make the bbpress sidebar appear?

Thank you!enter code here

[trigger242]

.I been in the bbpress.css editor and I am unable to find what color to have to remove that grey. My website has black forums and backgrounds. When your trying to post a topic or reply in HTML format it has white text. If you switch to use the visual to post it has grey text with is hard to read on a black background….. Anyone know what line I need to correct in bbpress.css to change the text of the visual for posting comments and messages???? I have been at this for days

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[trigger242]

I am having this same issue.I been in the bbpress.css editor and I am unable to find what color to have to remove that grey. My website has black forums and backgrounds. When your trying to post a topic or reply in HTML format it has white text. If you switch to use the visual to post it has grey text with is hard to read on a black background….. Anyone know what line I need to correct in bbpress.css to change the text of the visual for posting comments and messages????

I have been at this for days

[DNBrawler]

The simplest way would be to edit css your sidebar classes. For mine it would be .sidewrap {display:none;}and then you’d have to increase the mid section to fulfill the full-width look you want which is..midwrap {width:;}

Aesthetically this will remove the sidebars but the offside to doing this simple method is that the widgets and the sidebar will take up loading time.

[anotherblogger1]

Hi there,

I am totally new to wordpress and so far bumbling along happily using plugins. I have figured out how to get in via ftp access but haven’t a clue what I am doing there, so talk of editing css/ files/ .php’s etc is way over my head.

I have installed bbpress and am trying to set up the forum so that it runs full width/ no sidebars/ no wordpress widgets. But I cannot get it to do that. I have gone into the easel theme options and turned off sidebars to no avail, it still squishes the forum up in the middle of the page with all the bbpress widgets and options shoved underneath and almost impossible to see.

Can someone please give me an idiot’s guide (VERY simple explanation) of how to get a full width forum on my site please?

[Starejosel]

You don’t need to know very much–I know almost nothing. Look at the layout tab–it shows you the spacing. You can type in the fields and change the numbers and see what that does. Then you go to the style tab and see what CSS it generated, and then add it to the custom CSS for your theme. I had a problem trying to expand the content pane on my pages; I got all kinds of expert suggestions, but none of them worked. Then I used firebug–magic!

[mattjblanchard]

Basically a website I am working on needs to have a white font when you write a forum post, at the moment it is grey and does not show up on my page.

If you look at the following you can see what I mean.

http://www.thirtysecondstomarsarmy.com/forums/forum/thirty-seconds-to-mars-army/

I can edit CSS but not sure where I’m looking here. If someone could help that would be great.
Cheers
Matt

[nchiari]

Hi everyone! I’m using the fancy “new” TinyMCE box to post comments in the forums, but I have a site with black background, so the box where you write the comment is black too, but the letters are grey (WordPress default). If I try to change the CSS style, It changes the default TinyMCE box, so if I make the text white, I will have white text in WordPress’s “Write a new article” box too.

Is there any way to change the letters colors of the TinyMCE ONLY to use it in bbPress comments box? I would appreciate a detailed explaination ’cause I’m a little noob with WP and BBP.

[petrik123]

Hello,

1) I have a small trouble — I do not know how to increase the width of the forum block of the website: http://intellfor.com/forum/topic/som-menej-seriozne-forum/ (I do not like the blank space on the right.)
I looked into the css of the WP theme, but could not find anything.

2) How can I make my forum the homepage?

3) Also an offtopic question — some time ago there used to be a bbpress which was not a WP plugin, but a software that could be installed without WP. Now I am not able to find it though… What has happened to it?

Thanks for your help.

[Starejosel]

Have you tried firebug? It’s a debugging plugin for firefox, and I was able to fix some spacing problems with a custom CSS stylesheet though I know nothing about CSS–firebug is brilliant.

[mpriola]

That’s somewhat helpful. It appears that the basic style sheet is running, but there’s another style sheet (bp.print.css) that is not. Even though it’s imported into the style sheet that IS running.

I can’t tell whether bbpress is leaving the styles out entirely or simply not seeing the stylesheet.

[mpriola]

Yes–except it’s worse with the other theme package. All of the CSS from the site disappears. Everything in a row, as if there were no CSS at all except for the stuff that controls the forums themselves.

[cianw1]

The font size used to be fine in my forums until i updated bbpress, and now its tiny compared to the rest of the sites font! Im pretty sure the only way to change the font size is to edit the CSS, so could someone please tell me where in my ftp client can i find the file i need to edit, and also what part fo that file i need to change? Any help would be greatly appreciated i created this site as part of work experience, but i want to keep it as a hobby.

[erobertwald]

I am pulling my hair out on this. I have tried getting bbPress to work with a WordPress site using a custom theme and evidently I’m missing something because it just isn’t happening. Here’s what I’ve done based on what I could find for instructions so far:

• I installed and activated the plugin through the wordpress admin.
• I created a test forum and a test topic through the wordpress admin.
• I created a child theme folder, named the same as the primary theme appended with ‘-child’.
• I copied the contents of the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-twentyten into the child theme folder.
• I updated the style.css file ‘Template:’ line to refer to the parent theme.
• I added ‘add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );’ to the main theme’s functions.php.

When I go to the forum via http://www.carolina-business.org/forums/, I get a page that spits out a section titled with the most recent post title and a huge amount of blank space with the forum list at the bottom of the section. This is followed by a section for every other post on the site, each of these containing the forum list.

When I go to the forum via http://www.carolina-business.org/forums/forum/test-forum-1, I get another page that shows all of the posts in the site. I get the same result via http://www.carolina-business.org/forums/topic/test-topic-1/.

What I’m trying to achieve is for the forum to appear in the content area of the site, within one of the content frames (the white box with the green header and gray border.)

Can anyone tell me what I am doing incorrectly/not doing? Thanks!

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[ataribot]

Here’s the site:

http://apeinvaders.com/forums/

Everything else fits into the site, just the reply editor. Not sure what other info I have to give. Again, I’m a novice, so how would I change the CSS to make it fit?