Hi!
Dropbox’s forum is quite nice, I am also trying to make a look-alike forum.
You have to play with the css 
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.
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
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.
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?
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!
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!
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?
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!
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)
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?
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… 
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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 '';
}
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.
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
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.
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.
