[katmmad]

Hi — I’m trying to add BBPress to my WordPress blog. I’m currently running Genesis, Prose theme (although that may change soon). My BBPress version is 2.21+, and I’m also trying to use Genesis Extend (I think successfully) and, at the author’s suggestion, I am trying to use the bbPress Custom CSS File. The immediate thing that I’m trying to do is to rearrange and remove some of the forum column headings. The default is:

Topic / Voices / Posts / Freshness

I’d like to change that to

Topic / Posts / Author

And include information in the Topic column about what category it’s in, as well as include Freshness data in the Author column.

Is there an easy way to do this, or is this all CSS Styling? (Or should I try to find a bbPress theme I like?)

The NEXT question then becomes, um… does anyone know where the bbPress Custom CSS File is? I poked around a bit in FTP and couldn’t find it. Do I have to generate it myself and upload it? Do I stick the file in the Prose theme folder, the Genesis theme folder, or the bbPress folder? Or the bbPress Custom CSS File plugin folder?

Many thanks in advance!

[guy2131]

Hi Guys,

I need help resolving small issue that I have with my installation and I am ready to pay for the time of whoever knows (or can find out) the answer.

To see the problem go: http://www.ibikiniwax.com/forum/topic/jannet and scroll to the bottom of page.

<b>The replies show at below the reply box.</b>

I run bbpress plugin 2.0.2 on one of Template Monster premium themes. WordPress 3.3.2.

I did not do any modifications to bbpress themes (To be honest, I don’t quite understand it) I just installed the plugin, activated it, setup and voila – everything works but this one issue. I suppose it uses the themes css – I like the simplicity of it and I’d rather keep it this way.

So there you go. Please help. Let me know your price before hand. If you feel more comfortable, we can do it through freelancer of elance.

Thanks

[neutrinoseo]

You need to use Firebug or Chrome inspector to check out the CSS.

I’ve looked at things and it’s all simple conflicts that are happening due to the CSS that’s in place with you theme.

For example .hentry is being floated left which is screwing up the forum index.

You will want to put some tweaks in place (in your theme’s style.css). For example:

.bbp-forums .hentry {

float:none;

}

MAII – Stratford University

[Jared Atchison]

FYI a better way instal of hacking core or using CSS is placing this in your functions.php

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' ) );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' ) );

function ja_return_blank() {

ja_return '';

}

[Jared Atchison]

What version of bbPress?

The best way to do it would be to make tweaks in your theme’s style.css that override the styles bbPress is using.

I’d recommend using Firebug (or similar) to track down the CSS.

[freie-bildung]

Hello

I have just received a response in German bbpress forum where you can change the date when an update does not always need to manually (except changing the class name or the bbpress WP Theme gets an update) …

In the wp-theme style.css add the following:

div.bbp-template-notice.info {display: none !important;}

This causes the system tray is no longer displayed in the forums and in the individual posts.

I hope this will help any other peoples

But I’m still on the search, the number of posts and the number of topics to delete (numbers in parentheses after the forum) – because you know a solution?

Thank you very much

[Sniper Kitten]

In /bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php

Remove the following lines:

// Topic has no replies

} else {

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This topic has %1$s, contains %2$s.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $voice_count, $reply_count );

}

And these lines:

// Topic has replies

if ( $last_reply = bbp_get_topic_last_active_id( $topic_id ) ) {

$last_updated_by = bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => $last_reply, ‘size’ => $size ) );

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This topic has %1$s, contains %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s ago.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $voice_count, $reply_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

And also these lines:

‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-template-notice info”><p class=”bbp-topic-description”>’,

You didn’t need to remove anything in bbpress.css, as the style it’s using is also used by the others.

This should do the job.

[Sniper Kitten]

You can find it in /bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php (I’m using bbPress 2.02)

Remove the following lines:

// Forum

else

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This forum contains %1$s and %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s ago.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $topic_count, $reply_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

and these lines:

// Forum

else

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This forum contains %1$s and %2$s.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $topic_count, $reply_count );

and also these lines:

‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-template-notice info”><p class=”bbp-forum-description”>’,

You’ll need to remove those lines in bbpress.css (Assume I’m using bbp-twentyten, so the location is /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css):

div.bbp-template-notice.info {

border: #cee1ef 1px solid;

background-color: #f0f8ff;

}

This should remove the “this forum contains … topics… replies … ” while you still can see the “this topic contains … voices … replies… ” in each topic (Do you want to remove that too?)

Keep in mind that this is not a recommended way of changing the bbPress, as you’ll lose the setting when you perform an update (so you have to keep changing after each update), although there’s nobody to make such plugin to do that.

[Omi]

Hello Sir This plugin is very useful but I only have one issue regarding the css, I have thesis theme installed and the buttons are dis aligned you can see it here http://www.simplestepstowellness.com/forums/forum/dexters-forum-about-wordpress/ the submit button and notify checkbox are dis aligned I don’t know where to edit such css for this or which file does it located. Please help, would be so much appreciated.

Thanks and God Bless,

Dex

[Arion]

Sure.

I have the Black Label wordpress theme on my site and as such it comes with a fullscreen background image option on every post and page. I bought this theme for this very reason. Now, when I plugged in bbpress, I had to use the shortcodes on the main forum page which was no problem but when I click on the forum or the topic links, I get sent to a page that instead of saying “edit page” in the admin bar, it says “Edit forum” or “Edit topic” and doesn’t allow me to set the background image.

Now I looked into creating a default background image by changing some .css but this sets that image for ALL the pages, (page.php) and though it is overridden by the set background image in the theme, it isn’t pleasing to my eye to have one background image when you open and a second or two later have another one pop up on top of it. So I trashed this option.

Did some research on how I can resolve this problem and found a previous thread here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

Needless to say that it interested me that I could create my own wrapper and have the forums and topics open up in a special page and have a set background for that page alone that won’t affect my other pages.

Well, this is the skinny of my situation. I hope I gave you enough info this time, sorry for not doing it from the get go. Can I do this? Where do I change the default wrapper to my new one? I’m imagining it’s in the function sets. Or perhaps there is an even better solution to my situation. What do yo suggest Brandon?

Oh, and thanks for your time

[pimarts]

As for the original post in this topic. You can simply hide them with CSS. Something like this should work:

.bbPress #bbp_topic_tags, .bbPress label[for="bbp_topic_tags"], .bbPress .bbp-topic-tags, .bbPress label[for="bbp_forum_id"] {

display:none !important;

}

[baldg0at]

Here’s a real basic rundown of what I did.

Add this to your theme’s functions.php file

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Create a Child theme for your current theme — https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Copy the files from plugins>bbpress>bbp-themes>bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder.

Go to your WP Admin and activate your child theme

Edit the child theme as needed to match your site. You may be able to get by with just editing yourchildtheme>css>bbpress.css, but you can change any of the theme files to make the forums look however you want.

[RVH]

Can someone please walk me through the process to adapt a theme to bbpress? I have been able to use the TwentyTen bbpress them successfully and I love it. But, I’ve tried just installing the plugin with other themes to no avail because the page templates do not show when creating a new forum page.

I know it involves copying the files from TwentyTen/bbpress but I am not sure where and what other steps are involved.

I am a newbie, but, I can modify css if needed.

Many thanks.

Bob

[PaulieP]

Hi everyone. I’ve seen this come up a lot after having googled these issues but didnt find a consistent answer (e.g. some were from like 2009-2010 dealing with older versions.

I’ve tried numerous things and I still get the common messages at the bottom of this post when going to Appearance/Themes from WP admin.

1. This was a clean bbPress plugin install, latest version, done just a few days ago.

2. Immediately after install, I saw the messages below when clicking the Themes link. I had not moved/changed anything. Seems this comes up, strange that the default bbpress plugin install creates these two error messages by default?

3. I’ve tried copying the files/subfolders from the bbp-twentyten theme to the root directory of my custom theme and adding **add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );** (minus asterisks) to the functions.php of my custom theme. That got rid of the first error message, but the forum appearance was screwed up and definitely not correct, and the second error message about a Broken Theme was still there.

4. I did not overwrite the style.css in my custom WP theme folder when I copied the bbp-twentyten files over. I assume I DO need to copy that stylesheet somehow, but how do I do it without overwriting my WP theme’s stylesheet?

5. I do have key master and file/directory permissions are fine.

6. Copying bbp-twentyten to the my-templates subfolder within the bbpress plugin directory (and of course bbp-twentyten was 755 I checked) still yielded nothing, the two messages at the end of the post still appeared.

Sorry if this is are common issues. I’ve tried some of the suggestions I saw in past posts and they are not working. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

ERROR MESSAGES BELOW:

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

“Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

Name Description

bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.”

[lusitanoflickan]

I would like to change things like size and color for my forum titles, but I just cannot seem to figure out where in the CSS to change this. I have been looking in my WordPress style.css and in bbpress.css, but I cannot find it. I tried to add h1.entry-title { color: #900 } to bbpress.css, but nothing happened. I have found how to control this at the rest of the homepage, but not for the forum part…

Here is the site: http://rodrigo-matos.com

Could somebody please help me with this? I’m going crazy!

[Silversurfing]

I am having the same issue with Oxygen. You can see it here:

http://englishintirol.com/ESiT/full-width-test/

Tried the ‘.bbp-forums .hentry . . . ‘ as suggested above, tried playing with a variety of table settings, with no result. I’ve looked in Safari Web Inspector which suggests it could be in bbpress.css, tried playing around with bbpress.css as a result, also with no joy. Any help would be appreciated.

[harnold007]

The modifications in step 3 and 5 depend on your theme/layout.

In step 3 I made css modifications to “theme” the forum colors mostly. These modifications are unique to each site. I just use firefox to inspect elements then locate that element in the bbpress.css file and change it to how I want it to look.

In step 5 I modified page.php to remove the sidebar. Again this is specific to your site however this is how my page.php looks

Code:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<!– BEGIN MAIN WRAPPER –>
<div id=”main-wrapper”>

<!– BEGIN MAIN –>
<div id=”main3″>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<!– BEGIN POST –>
<div id=”post”>

<h3 class=”section-title”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

<div class=”post-entry”>

<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages(‘before=<span class=”page-links”>Pages: &after=</span>’); ?>

</div>

</div>
<!– END POST –>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div>
<!– END MAIN –>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Lynq]

There must be some other CSS which is taking over control of it then.

If you add the fixed width and then add css rules to the headings of the table to control the width of them aswell, then you can get the exact look that you want.

[lmoon]

I put in the table width as auto and then tried 535px on firebug and it works right in front of my eyes, but it’s still not changing it in safari.

When I put the width as auto, the cells fit the text nicely, which is what I want. Setting a fixed width makes the cells divide equally.

I have added

table.bbp-topic tbody tr td, table.bbp-replies tbody tr td {

background-color:#FFFFFF;

width:535px !important;

}

to my style.css

[Negdog]

I am trying to put a bb forum on my website and have gottem as far as downloading the file but now I have no clue how to do these steps

1.Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.

2.Activate bbPress.

3.Visit ‘Settings Forums’ and adjust your configuration.

4.Create some forums.

5.View your site.

6.Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.

1. Where do I find the folder & how do I place into the ‘/wp directory?

[lmoon]

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

I did remove the table width from the css, as it spread the table across the width of the page, making each column really wide.

This meant that the columns with the numbers (voices & posts) were too big for their content and the Topic and Freshness columns were too small for their content causing those to wrap.

Any other ideas?

[Lynq]

Try adding this css rule…

table { width: 100%; }

Your forum table tag has no width on it at the moment.

[mmraeder]

Hi,

being less than a novice with code, I’ve relied on setting up my WP / bbPress site by using plugins. I’ve some experience with css styles, so I’ve tweaked some of the layout to my liking. My problem is that I can’t seem to find how to style the sub-forums list.

My forum has a hierarchy with 3 levels of forums, and I’d like to only see one level at a time when viewing the main forum page, and the sub-forum pages. Alternatively, the forum overview should be more like it looks from the back-end.

I’d really wish the plugin-interface would let us tweak some this functionality. Like when creating an index page for the forums using [bbp-forum-index], one could use something like [bbp-forum-index subforums=hide]

Or have readily assigned css-classes for the sub-forums list to tweak – I haven’t been able to find them, at least

I would really like to avoid going into the php-code as I unfortunately have no understanding of this. I’ve set up the forums using the 2.1 beta as it almost worked 100% for me, except for this little trick…

Thanks for any advice and help!

[SK]

Thanks guys!

@martin_style: Not quite sure what you mean by “once time load slow, but not loading multiple times”

@jaredatch: How do I nuke the sidebar?

I lied. I am not using

.bbp-forum #primary {

display: none;

}

I am using a plugin that replaces primary sidebar with a bbpress specific sidebar.

But I have 2 sidebars, and I am hiding the 2nd sidebar with CSS

.bbp-forum #secondary {

display: none;

}

So this is the one that I need to remove.

I am guessing that instead of fiddling with the Theme, it might be easier to patch the plugin. Here’s what it does at the moment:

function vp_sidebars_widgets($data)

{

// if bbpress enabled and main sidebar requested

if ($this->is_bbp && $this->is_main_sidebar)

{

// switch sidebar if bbrepss sidebar has some widgets in it

if (!empty($data[$this->sidebar_id]))

{

if (isset($data['sidebar-1']))

{

// uses sidebar-1 as main sidebar in most themes

// set forum sidebar as main sidebar

$main_sidebar_key = 'sidebar-1';

}

else

{

// get first sidebar which should be main in most themes

foreach ($data as $k => $v)

{

if (strpos($k,'inactive')===false)

{

$main_sidebar_key = $k;

break;

}

}

}



// replace main sidebar with bbpress sidebar

if (isset($main_sidebar_key))

{

$data[$main_sidebar_key] = $data[$this->sidebar_id];

}

}



// reset main sidebar request

$this->is_main_sidebar = false;

}



// return modified widgets array

return $data;

}

[Jared Atchison]

I don’t see the issue. The CSS is there.

ul.bbp-has-subforums ul.bbp-forums-list

You’re not going to be able to do what is on the ubi form without a custom theme, because of how it’s setup.