[enderandrew]

The layout issue appears to be with the theme. It is adding 275px of padding for the sidebar twice on the forum template pages. Even if I replace page.php in my child theme with a no sidebar template, it is still happening. I think that is a CSS issue I’ll have to fix myself.

However, wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/css/bbpress.css loading in addition to the bbpress.css in my theme appears to be a bug as far as I can tell. I’ll file a ticket in Trac.

[enderandrew]

I’ve copied the contents of wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten into my Suffusion child theme which resides at wp-content/themes/bsig

It is still however pulling the bbpress.css from wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-theme-compat/css

It also doesn’t appear to be using my customized templates. I’ve tried most every step I can find online to try and resolve this, but it hasn’t worked so far.

http://blindscribblings.com/forum – The forums are squished to the right and my sidebar on the bottom and empty space to the right.

If I use a shortcode then the index looks fine, but the sub-forums and threads have the same problem. Here is an example with a shortcode.

http://blindscribblings.com/test/

[enderandrew]

I’m trying to get bbpress 2.1 to play nice with Suffusion myself. The above suggestions haven’t worked for me.

http://blindscribblings.com/discussion/

What do the template files look like in your child theme?

What change did you make in your .css to get the forum to display full width?

[sandeepj]

I am doing a little bit of reverse-engineering to build a custom BLOG/FORUM theme for my site. I cloned the 2010 bbpress code to my own theme and merged in my header/index/footer pages and custom css styles for starters.

I have nearly identical header.php in BOTH the parent & child themes. The only difference is the header.php in my bbpress child theme removes part of the header, so it essentially is a modified parent-theme header.

I noticed, however, that when I made this change now BOTH my blog and bbpress forum pages have the modified header – what gives?!

How can modifying the child-theme impact the parent?

[markthedoc1]

Thanks for the reply Lynq.

You can view the site here:

http://www.caringmattersnow.co.uk/forum-register/

I have hid some elements with CSS, I’ll investigate that.

Any help with this gratefully received.

Thanks

Mark

[DarwinsDream]

k, I switched to twentyeleven theme and disabled all my plugins except bbpress and jwplayer for wordpress. I verified the div of the bbpress content box with firefox inspect element and put extra code in my functions.php to compensate for missed div tag code in the functions.php. here is what i put on top on functions.php as an injected php script within functions.php

<?php

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

?>

<?php

/**

* slidingdoor functions and definitions

blah blah blah php blah blah blah

then also a double attack at the end of fuctions.php is here

}

endif;

add_action( ‘bbp_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘bbp-reply-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

add_action( ‘entry-content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

—funtions.php ends here–

-I see other plugins intereacting fine with short codes ie [video] in my bbpress forum but not [jwplayer] can i attach this in css ?

-Is there a very messy way to go about this and edit every file in my bbpress plugin folder?

-Am i better off installing bbpress as stand alone instead of plugin?

-I’m I going about creating a media based user interactive site the wrong way when choosing wordpress w/ bbpress?

I’ve literally spent 90% of my time just trying to get what I want to work and edit it so its all tight. This issue is a brick wall and everything is stopped until this issue is resolved. So really am i just going nuts trying to reinvent the wheel?

Thanks guys…..

The fix it for payment offer always stands until its fixed. That goes for everyone not you Jared But feel free lol

[redrudolf]

I think you have to copy the bbp-twentyten directory from:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/

to:

/wp-content/themes/%nameyourdir%

then you can activate the new theme from Appearance after this you can edit the style.css at /themes/%yourdir%/style.css

[briggsy326]

Thanks for your response.

At the moment I think I need to create a ‘child theme’ of the bbpress so that any changes will not be affected by a future update – after which, it is time to play with the css. How? I’m not quite sure (yet).

[redrudolf]

Hi!

Dropbox’s forum is quite nice, I am also trying to make a look-alike forum.

You have to play with the css

[Jeaz]

Hey,

In 2.1 bbPress can now parse YouTube links and embed them directly into the posts, which is a great feature.

However, I’ve come across one problem, the width of the videos.

The videos default to 640 width which is too wide for my content. In wordpress media settings I’ve entered that the content shouldn’t be wider than 500px but bbPress do not adhere to that setting.

Also, since the embed add width and height inline, I can’t change it with CSS.

The only workaround right now is to add &w=500 at the end of the YouTube link, but that’s not ideal for many reasons. First, it makes more complicated for my users to add video. And also, it means that if I ever change width of the forum in the future, 500 might not be the ideal width and I’d have to go over and change it all again.

Not sure if I should put this as a bug in the trac. I certainly don’t mind doing that but don’t want to flood it unnecessarily.

[Nicola]

I installed BBpress via Buddypress – site wide forums.

I then set up up the slugs and the forum was working fine. I have a theme that already includes styling in the style.css file so customising colours and such wasn’t a problem. However I wanted to have the ability to add other content to the page which I couldn’t as the forum page didn’t actually exist in my wordpress pages.

I then noticed a message saying “The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Discussion Forums”. After I created the page named forum and associate it with the forums, it stops working in the front end when navigating to my site and redirected to the homepage. So within the created Forum page I added this shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

I was then able to select the new forum page as the forum in buddypress and remove the notice.

The forum is now still located at mysite.com/forum which is great. I prefer this method I want to have the ability to add content to the created forum page as I said above.

But now the forum page seems to have added in the share and twitter plugins and I’ve no idea how to fix this! please help.

http://stylereaction.com/forum

[cruthas]

Well it isn’t perfect and if anyone can/would like to give me any feedback, I would much appreciate it.

I was able to get everything to align (not perfectly) with some tweaking of the css and @media queries in the stylesheet. I haven’t tested it on the Andriod so I don’t know if it works, but on the iPad and iPhone I was able to get it to look presentable, should someone view the forum on a mobile device.

If anyone wants to see my css, I’ll post it. If not, guess the post will just get buried.

[cruthas]

Awesome! Still getting the hang of css, it’s coming along nicely though!

Everything list aligned nicely and looking great in all browsers now, except for on the ipad and iphone. Any idea why it won’t clean on those devices?

[Lynq]

It does depend on the theme of course, but I will try my best. Also please remember that this involves editing the core and is not recommended (but I can’t see another way to achieve this?).

If you set the show_freshness_link to true and then add a freshness before of <td> and freshness_after of </td> this will add an extra td tag inside the template.

You will then need to add an extra <th> to the table heading, or it will break your table and you will have blank spaces inside the forum list.

If you are using a non table layout, then you just need to give it a class and deal with it in css like the reply count and post count data.

Inside loop-single-forum.php I changed my bbp_list_forums arguments to accept the changes inside the core function, for example…

array( 'show_freshness_link' => true, 'freshness_author_before' => '<div class="author-box">', 'freshness_author_after' => '</div>')

You can then change the freshness_author_before and the freshness_author_after values to change the html.

Good luck!

[Lynq]

You might have to do a bit of coding on this one, I am not sure.

When you are on the main url of the forum http://www.rutmonkey.com/moto-forums/ the list item has all of the current_ classes.

After navigation to any other page it loses those classes, so the css is fine, it’s just the fact that the classes are lost.

So you would need to do a bit of coding to find out if the current page is a child of /moto-forums/ and then add the class in if it is.

Good luck!

[tvector]

Hi, I was hoping someone could guide me here. On http://www.rutmonkey.com/moto-forums/

Notice my menu item is highlighted “Dirt Rider Forums”

Now notice when you click on one of the Forums such as “Test Forum” the menu item is no longer highlighted.

I added the menu through WP Custom menus and added the “Forums” page to it and renamed it “Dirt Rider Forums”

Anyone know this fix? I’m guessing some CSS somewhere?

[deathbybear]

hey everyone – i’m a newbie at wordpress, bbpress and php – but pretty decent with general html/css stuff.

i’m working on customizing a bbpress installation with the twentyten bbpress theme and want to set it up so on the main “Forums” page there is a Recent Activity column that displays information about the most recent post –

1. the topic the post was made in

2. the poster

3. the poster’s avatar

4. how long ago the post was mad

i have edited the loop-forums.php file to add the additional “Recent Activity” column to to the list of Forums – now I just need to figure out how to pull those pieces of information into the column.

i have created a placeholder column in loops-single-forum.php file where the information will be pulled, i just don’t know how to get it in there – i imagine there are existing functions i can call to pull this data, i just don’t happen to know what those are or where to find them!

any guidance you could give me would be greatly appreciated. thanks a lot!

[JenniferNM]

2.0.2

I did a search for “list” and “loop” in the child theme files and no luck. Here’s a list of our bbpress files:

Theme Functions

(functions.php)

archive-forum.php

(archive-forum.php)

archive-topic.php

(archive-topic.php)

bbPress – Create Topic Page Template

(page-create-topic.php)

bbPress – Forums (Index) Page Template

(page-front-forums.php)

bbPress – Statistics Page Template

(page-forum-statistics.php)

bbPress – Topic Tags Page Template

(page-topic-tags.php)

bbPress – Topics (Newest) Page Template

(page-front-topics.php)

bbPress – Topics (No Replies) Page Template

(page-topics-no-replies.php)

bbPress – User Login Page Template

(page-user-login.php)

bbPress – User Lost Password Page Template

(page-user-lost-pass.php)

bbPress – User Register Page Template

(page-user-register.php)

single-forum.php

(single-forum.php)

single-reply-edit.php

(single-reply-edit.php)

single-reply.php

(single-reply.php)

single-topic-edit.php

(single-topic-edit.php)

single-topic-merge.php

(single-topic-merge.php)

single-topic-split.php

(single-topic-split.php)

single-topic.php

(single-topic.php)

single-user-edit.php

(single-user-edit.php)

single-user.php

(single-user.php)

single-view.php

(single-view.php)

taxonomy-topic-tag-edit.php

(taxonomy-topic-tag-edit.php)

taxonomy-topic-tag.php

(taxonomy-topic-tag.php)

Styles

RTL Stylesheet

(rtl.css)

Stylesheet

(style.css)

[JenniferNM]

Sorry to sound like an idiot, but when I open different php files or CSS files, I’m doing a search inside the code by using Command F to find it. Is there another way to find the code I need to change?

[JenniferNM]

Thanks for your help, JarretC!

We’re using the Genesis theme with the Serenity child theme.

Which file should this go into, exactly? There are a ton of php files and then two CSS files, which don’t seem to have anything in them.

I looked in Theme Functions and did a search for the first line of code you mentioned, but couldn’t find it.

Also, not sure how I would have my own theme made…

[pimarts]

I don’t know if this is of any help but to get what I did at SWNK (http://www.swnk.org/forums/) I added the following code to my functions.php:

function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {

// if ( bbp_is_forum() ) {

if (is_bbpress()) {

$sidebars_widgets = array(false);

remove_all_actions(‘bp_register_widgets’);

unregister_sidebar( ‘bp_core_widgets’ );

}

return $sidebars_widgets;

}

add_filter(‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘disable_all_widgets’, 1, 1);

Then I added some CSS to put the login widget above the forum.

[alex@hannahtechnologies.com]

Hi everyone,

I have a new site we are working on and I have a CSS related question for you all. I do have a web developer who is much more experienced with CSS, however, I was hoping you all could at least point me in the right direction so I may have something to show him when we start the design process…

On our main bbPress page, which lists out the active forums, we have a column called “freshness” with either “No Topics” if no one has posted or it has the number of days since the last post and the last author. The problem is that it’s pretty visually ugly to see the spacing between “No Topic” and then the spacing between the column which has an actual post with the number of days of freshness and the author.

What I am trying to do is if there is “No Topics” to increase the column size via CSS to make it the same size as the columns who have actual posts with a freshness date and author pic.

I am attaching a screenshot of what I am trying to do. I ran firebug and I see the CSS but I am pulling my hair out trying to figure out how to modify it.

Thanks!

Alex

[Sniper Kitten]

You need to change it in your CSS file or create a custom CSS. You can try to find the required line by using Firebug

What’s your website’s URL?

[katmmad]

Oh — also when working with a bbPress theme (with the Custom CSS File plugin or with a custom theme), everything says to copy things to “your current theme.” Does that mean Prose (my WP theme)? or to the folder named bbpress/bbp-themes in the plugin folder? Thank you again!

(FWIW, I’m trying to copy the instructions for the CSS File plugin you link to above, as well as the instructions for how to create a custom theme from this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility).

TIA!

[Jared Atchison]

I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.

For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/

Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.