Hi, I pimp my bbPress forum on my directory themes site at http://howtotheme.info/
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Basically its just a clients support forum and located at http://howtotheme.info/forums with just basic bbPress installation and some css customization to serve support for my clients.
Great forum software and thanks bbPress.
I am integrating BBPress 2.0.2 into WordPress and Buddypress to create a forum/social experience.
I have everything functioning correctly, but while trying to style the forum I cannot seem to change the height of the forums categories. Currently they are about 300px in height, which is ridiculous! I have done everything I know to do in CSS and I cannot change this.
Am I doing something wrong?
when you add a forum, type in whatever you want to be the description in the content area (where you normally type your post content).
If you want it bold, then simply add some custom css to your theme to make it bold.
Neolo7, try setting your permalinks to something other than default. You should at least have %postname%.
To add /forums/ to your menu, use the custom links option. Or create a page and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, then add that page to the menu.
There is a glitch that is not bbpress related, but rather it’s custom post types related. If you theme relies on the class “current_page_parent” to highlight the current page, WordPress things any post type should keep your blog page highlighted, if you have one. Here’s a piece of code you can drop in functions.php to help:
// fix menus
function support_menu_item($menu){
global $post;
if (get_post_type($post->ID) == 'forum' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'topic' || get_post_type($post_id) == 'reply')
{
$menu = str_replace( 'current_page_parent', '', $menu ); // remove all current_page_parent classes
$menu = str_replace( 'menu-item-169', 'menu-item-169 current_page_parent', $menu ); // add the current_page_parent class to the page you want
}
return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'support_menu_item', 0 );
Be sure to change “169” to the id of your menu item.
Testing this now, not having any weird compatability issues. I use a child theme of twentyeleven I made. I did notice however that I lost alot of css customizations on the forum. Did you go go with a tableless layout or something?
I only mention it because I was using forum Icons on the main forum page, and it’s kinda hard to position them now. Not a big deal or anything.
Hi David, I just sent you email and just maybe we can get your forum run smoothly asap.
Thanks so much for your help, Shawn.
At least now the forums have some framework and don’t look like a blank page 
I added a description to the Relationships forum and it’s weird how the subforum titles show first and then the main forum description – I guess that’s some CSS stuff at play again.
Yeah, it’s a great looking theme indeed.
There truly is no way to build a plugin like bbPress that would integrate with any theme on the market and take on the themes characteristics perfectly.
Because of that what bbPress has done is to build a very basic structure that is not to difficult to extend to fit your own theme. Yes, it does take a lot of work, but in the end it is very easy and run to work with.
Most of what you are asking for could be accomplished with just a bit of css work. It would take a ton of work to make it look exactly like your forums, but making bbPress look decent in the theme wouldn’t be that hard. Mostly just time is all.
It looks like you didn’t add descriptions to
health, mind, and relationships. If you add descriptions for those ‘categories’ then the descriptions will show up.
The theme by default does not show descriptions of sub-forums on the homepage, though it could be modified to show them.
First time I’ve seen that theme. It’s very nice looking
**I sent you a contact form on your website with a bunch of css you can apply to make bbPress look better on your site
Yes, It’s not possible to resolve your errors without seeing your site.
Thanks Anointed. I am using nightly.
Forum looking good now. Just need to edit css abit.
Forum: http://beta.jav-mediafire.com/forum/
Screenshot1: http://imgur.com/4R5QT
Screenshot1: http://imgur.com/oVh1i
Excuse me but I’ve not found any mail to my address 
I still have same problem
Hi Guys,
I’m having css trouble for bbpress forum on delicate theme.
I try few method but I cant get them fixed. Anyone here can guide me?
Thanks in advance.
Forum: http://beta.jav-mediafire.com/forum/
Theme: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/delicate
Screenshot 1: http://imgur.com/JA7fe
Screenshot 2: http://imgur.com/rJ8Pc
I sent you an email early yesterday
Where??? I’ve showed all forums and I’ve not found any your reply/solution to my problem!
Thanks for read me
Can you help me to resolve this problem??
Thanks
I have a wordpress site ( soviettruck.com ), and would like like to add the bbpress forum plugin. The theme I have (Adventure Photography WordPress Theme 2.0) does not have the necessary template/CCS file for bbpress. This means the forums do not display properly. This needs fixing. Also soviettruck.com/forums gives a ‘Not Found’.. maybe needs some additional config?
Offering $40 by paypal if someone can fix this ASAP, should be pretty quick. Send me an email at davidzweig at hotmail dot com, and I’ll send you the SSH/FTP/Wordpress passwords. Site is hosted by Webfaction.
Once the CSS/template file is fixed, I’ll then use shortcodes to integrate the forum into the rest of the site.
Can you kindly write me at dandiDOTboxATgmailDOTcom??
So I can show you template style
Thanks
Thanks for your reply … but what is it my problem??
How can correctly show forum styles?
Thanks
Ouch, no offense but I would find another theme. First of all, you can’t actually do what you are asking with that theme.
I went over to themeforest and checked it out so that I could get a better idea of what it is doing.
For something like that, I’d ask the designer to see if he can come up with a solution.
try this http://www.fatando.com/forums
I’d like to manage forums showing text in right style
Hi! I’m trying to use bbpress in WP with Contrast theme
I’ve seen that when I go at http://www.domain.com/forums
I show forum texts without styles and CSS… simple text without any style applied
How Can I show bbpress forum with right style?
Thanks
main nav highlight, category, parent and posts highlight, sidebars,multiple blog
I have the following queries when using the wordpress to create my website
1) while I open my website deepakraj.in, the About Main nav button should highlight to blue. I tried to change the CSS as said in some of the forums but it does not work
But, when I click on About main nav button it highlights(blue color) because I have set the css for the
.current-menu-item {background-color:#4f94cd;}
2) When I click on the Recent blogs in the about page, it should re-direct to blog(main nav) page and highlight in
blue. Or even if i click on the blogs present in the blog.php, the blog main nav button should enable to blue.
3) Same with the category and posts. While click on the category and posts the specific category should highlight.
4) i like to create different sidebars for all the pages. how do I do it?
5) Can i have multiple blogs? I like to have blog, photos and drawings, videos pages in blog format. is it possible.
Pretty much impossible to help you without links to the site having problems.
Hi! I’ve installed new theme on WordPress (Contrast), my problem is that when I show list of forums It seems that there isn’t any CSS applyed. Simple text without any format.
What Can I do for apply specific layout to forum?
Thanks
