[solcjoye]

Hello,

New to bbPress and really am limited on html/css (but can usually find my way through things…)

I am trying to figure out how to change the title headings for the forums, so instead of it saying “Forum, Topic, Posts, etc.” I could change those labels to work more for my purposes of having the forum. I am using bbPress to create a file repository / community for teachers to upload curriculum/lessons plans etc. and then comment, discuss, critique, rate them etc.

Thanks for any help!

SJ

[John James Jacoby]

Switch which theme you’re using for compatibility, or see what CSS is no longer getting loaded. Some things did change from 2.0 to 2.1 in this regard, but nothing should have broken.

[Lynq]

Grab a standard bbPress theme like twentyten and then drop the CSS at the end of your style sheet, see what happens, you might have to make some changes.

If you stick it at the end of your style sheet as well you can always just delete the section that you copied in.

Good luck!

[LabSecrets]

To make your forums full width, please add this to css:

.right_sidebar #main { width: 100%;}

.right_sidebar #main_inner {margin-right: 0;}

.right_sidebar #content {padding:10px;}

The bigger issue, unfortunately, is that you don’t have the proper body class (the way you setup bbPress on this theme) to allow you to limit these css modifications to only bbPress pages. So these mods will apply on ALL pages of your site. This is the ideal way to ensure your mods won’t effect other template pages.

To get around this small issue, you should add some logic to your header.php to generate the proper class which you can then prefix on to your css above. For example, when done properly, you would have css of:

body.bbPress .right_sidebar #main { width: 100%;}

body.bbPress .right_sidebar #main_inner {margin-right: 0;}

body.bbPress .right_sidebar #content {padding:10px;}

and this would limit all your styling to only bbPress pages. I don’t see any other body class tags that are limited to bbPress pages which we could use ;-(

Since I cannot see your header.php or functions.php, my guess is that you have some logic in there now which is generating the body classes, but filtering out the native .bbPress class (I can’t tell from outside how you setup your bbPress installation)

See: https://img.skitch.com/20120703-8m1xdyam239qxprwrfenry4qtk.jpg

Cheers!

Spence

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[LabSecrets]

First suggestion:

I would add this css to give your topic title some breathing room:

th.bbp-forum-info {width:50%;}

Cheers!

Spence

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[Zephyr]

I really hate bumping this topic and apologize ahead of time…

I have read everything I can find regarding getting bbPress’s theme to match my current WP theme. Nothing works…no matter what I do the forum/topic table rows stay white, only the font colors change when I tweak the WP theme’s settings.

Again, all I’m after is the cosmetics…going with dark table and topic row backgrounds, etc.

Do I just edit the bbPress CSS to achieve this?

Thanks Again,

~ Alisa

[Zephyr]

Thank you for the response…I’m about to show you how clueless I am, but I’m learning…

To clarify, when I use the customize theme settings using the tool provided with this theme, it should also change for the bbPress forums. However, when I adjust this theme to its dark color option, the bbPress forum tables do not change – they keep white backgrounds, etc., although the font colors do change.

To fix this, since it’s all cosmetic/CSS, I’d copy bbPress’s CSS to my theme’s directory?

There, told ya I was clueless…

~ Alisa

[expertpixels.com]

Hi there everyone,

I am new to bbpress and am currently developing my latest project (a premium forum skin / themes project).. I have a few questions and would really appreciate any feedback / thoughts.

(1) – Is it possible to display certain forums / categories to certain user-groups ? I would like to hide / make private forums for customers so only they can see their threads / staff replies.

(2) – How and where do i start editing css to blend the forums to match my website / can i create a custom bbpress style (if so how ??) Really in need of some help here.

A huge thanks in advanced for any help here, i am really looking at implementing this asap, currently weighting up using bbpress or a 3rd party script like Xenforo or something similar however the more scripts i need to bridge the messier / more long term work will be required (updates etc).

Regards, Darren

[richardpd]

OK-I figured this out and have fixed it-all sorted.

It is a little confusing but I will try and explain how I think this now works for me.

I have some confusion between BuddyPress forums and bbPress forums on my blog (the blog is enabled for both bbPress and BuddyPress but I have not been able yet to run both BP & bbP forums together? Is that even possible?.

Anyway for now I only want to run bbPress forum and I have disabled BuddyPress discussion forums).

So the bbPress archive slug I originally had was ‘forums’ & that was adding to the whole BuddyPress / bbPress confusion! So I deleted that forum (trashed it) and changed the bbPress archive slug to forums_bbp and have now made a new forum page and topic and now the links are fine and the content displays!

I hope now I am getting to grips more with bbPress forums and I can start to use them more on my blog. After I get more experience with them I may try my hand with BuddyPress forums & possibly later try running both forums on my blog?! I will see (maybe it is not possible-but the docs say can run group & sitewide forums together?).

Best wishes to all bbPress users (& BuddyPress users)

[richardpd]

Hi

On my bbPress (& buddypress) enabled blog I have a forum page that is blank (no sourcecode-html or css)-why/how is this?

The page link on my blog is http://richard-dickinson.com/forums/

(theme is a bbPress child theme)-grateful for helpful advice/replies-thanks

[Pixeldrum]

Have successfully integrated bbpress 2.0.3 into twentytwelve responsive theme that was updated with WP 3.4. (Had to start again, as WP 3.4 broke another theme.) I am using it with WPMU Membership plugin and that works too. The membership is private, access to the forums shows up in the menu when a user has logged in, members are added manually.

The one thing I have not been able to do is to format (CSS) the bbpress user profile/account page. And if I enter a full path to a user account into a new browser that has no users logged in their information shows up and can be edited!!! (example: http://mysite.ca/forums/neighbours/test-user/)

This is a cross post with WPMUDEV, as their membership plugin is involved, but I am asking if there is something I can do with bbpress files to make the profile pages more secure and properly styled. Can I somehow forward the user profile to a page I can format better? Please advise. The security issue troubles me most.

[katmmad]

Whoops — turned out I took it out when I was trying to stylize the CSS. This was the div, if anyone else has this problem:

/*removes Topics footer*/

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer {

display: none;

}

[John James Jacoby]

Easiest way is to use the shortcode, and use CSS to hide the bits you don’t want.

If this isn’t satisfactory, you’ll need to make custom template parts to override the output.

[richardpd]

Nice-thanks for sharing.

For myself I have had major issues trying to run BuddyPress/bbPress on my blog and yet still I want to try bbPress forum plugin on another WordPress site of mine. Viewing yours is a help-I may have to look at your css styling & I certainly will want to look at what plugins will help run bbPress forum.

Thanks & best wishes (enjoy your minecrafting!!it’ll never beat chess lol!)

[zeaks]

I’m new to bbpress, but I’ve read alot of posts on how to make my theme compatible with it. After reading this post http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/active-theme-does-not-include-bbpress-template-files I thought that this message would go away with the 2.03 version, but I guess they are referring to 2.1

In my theme I have a bbpress.php file and about 100 lines of CSS and my forums look fine.

I don’t want to add a bunch of template files in my theme just to remove a warning message for a plugin, when adding the one file I have and some CSS make it look the way I want.

I released a child theme and included the bbpress.php with it and I’m getting emails everyday asking what’s up with the warning message. It’s nice to have bbpress match my theme, but it’s getting to the point that it’s not worth the hassle.

How can I remove or hide this message without adding so many extra template files?

[alienelliz]

agree with TSCADFX,

just hide using css

.bbp-reply-revision-log {

display: none;

}

[Todd – WireFlare]

This is true and I should have mentioned that when I posted the code just as a precautionary measure but for me it’s not about looks it’s about database efficiency. Therefore, removing any and all revisions is good once you know that it’s safe to do so.

Unfortunately BBPress stores it’s revisions without anything different from that of a post. Here’s a revised version of the code should you only want to delete one forum topic revision as that’s really the only other way beside hiding the code.

And for those that just want to hide the code edit your theme css and use this:

.bbp-reply-revision-log {

display: none !important;

}

If you’d like to just remove revisions from a single forum topic use this in the same manner as my previous post and modify {post title} to reflect your topic title exactly how it’s shown, with spaces.

<?php

require_once('wp-load.php');

$posts = get_posts('post_type=revision&post_status=any&post_title={post title}&numberposts=-1');

foreach($posts as $post)

{

echo "{$post->post_title}n";

wp_delete_post($post->ID,true);

}

?>

Hope this helps clarify and remember to always make a backup as the script does modify your database.

[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).