[Corsari]

@ Ashfame: I thank you, but in the mean time I suppose your answer is directed to all the readers, ’cause obviously that one is the first site I’ve found while searching for bbPress themes.

The issue is that none of the two themes bundled with bbPress and none of the themes you can find out there is structured and logical as the one that any new potential bbpress user finds on the bbpress.org forum.

Two columns https://bbpress.org/forums/

on the left forums like a navigation menu

in the middle, recent topics

on the left bottom the rest

At least, for non-gurus, the staff should provide the instructions on how to customize the position of those “areas” (if they don’t want to share their theme – and I warn them that this is against any product-spreading-logic)

The best is to provide a really similar layout maybe with other colors and fonts.

To give you an idea, if you goto phpbb community forum, “what you see is what you get” and this is the correct approach… meant as prevent yourself hurting who will try out your product.

I hope you understand this is a kind suggestion to bbPress staff.

And again @ kevinjohngallagher, you should consider that those who may spread your product, most of the time, are not coders nor html-css-php experts. So, no layouts available and no easy customization instructions means no spreading, that as obvious consequence, could lead to no success of bbpress.

Robert

[Corsari]

@ Ashfame: I thank you, but in the mean time I suppose your answer is directed to all the readers, ’cause obviously that one is the first site I’ve found while searching for bbPress themes.

The issue is that none of the two themes bundled with bbPress and none of the themes you can find out there is structured and logical as the one that any new potential bbpress user finds on the bbpress.org forum.

Two columns https://bbpress.org/forums/

on the left forums like a navigation menu

in the middle, recent topics

on the left bottom the rest

At least, for non-gurus, the staff should provide the instructions on how to customize the position of those “areas” (if they don’t want to share their theme – and I warn them that this is against any product-spreading-logic)

The best is to provide a really similar layout maybe with other colors and fonts.

To give you an idea, if you goto phpbb community forum, “what you see is what you get” and this is the correct approach… meant as prevent yourself hurting who will try out your product.

I hope you understand this is a kind suggestion to bbPress staff.

And again @ kevinjohngallagher, you should consider that those who may spread your product, most of the time, are not coders nor html-css-php experts. So, no layouts available and no easy customization instructions means no spreading, that as obvious consequence, could lead to no success of bbpress.

Robert

[Corsari]

@ kevinjohngallagher and @ the rest of the bbpress staff.

I landed on bbpress searching for a nice forum, and i’ve found it because I do use wordpress.

Well, as any other person, I’m impressed by the apperiance and because I found it really attractive, I decide to download and mess myself up to install it and get it working (not much hard to be true).

When at the end I find that the look and mainly the page setup is totally different… you should understand @TheNet (who started this topic).

Anyway, I think that bbPress staff, should at least release such kind of three columns layout for the main page.

This for the simple reason that there is a number of new bbpress users that would start using this forum because they like as they see it and also because it is more logic and readable such kind of layout.

The same % of people, and I suppose they are not the minimum part, is choosing wordpress and would choose bbpress, because they are simple and effective without being an html-css-php-GURU

This may potentially lead to have them to try bbPress out, see that this kind ot theme layout is missing, see that is not easy to find bbPress themes out there and f**k-bbPress-off .

Not realy a good idea in terms of bbPress spreading.

Hope bbPress staff will think about this.

[Corsari]

@ kevinjohngallagher and @ the rest of the bbpress staff.

I landed on bbpress searching for a nice forum, and i’ve found it because I do use wordpress.

Well, as any other person, I’m impressed by the apperiance and because I found it really attractive, I decide to download and mess myself up to install it and get it working (not much hard to be true).

When at the end I find that the look and mainly the page setup is totally different… you should understand @TheNet (who started this topic).

Anyway, I think that bbPress staff, should at least release such kind of three columns layout for the main page.

This for the simple reason that there is a number of new bbpress users that would start using this forum because they like as they see it and also because it is more logic and readable such kind of layout.

The same % of people, and I suppose they are not the minimum part, is choosing wordpress and would choose bbpress, because they are simple and effective without being an html-css-php-GURU

This may potentially lead to have them to try bbPress out, see that this kind ot theme layout is missing, see that is not easy to find bbPress themes out there and f**k-bbPress-off .

Not realy a good idea in terms of bbPress spreading.

Hope bbPress staff will think about this.

[LPH2005]

@rich-pedley

Didn’t realize that the movement of theme files was no longer necessary.

Update:

Site #1

I see that the forum theme files are present in the plugin directory. The site is using the bbp-twentyten them on that site.

Site #2

Copied files to the child theme for buddypress to work properly. Modified as described above so that the theme understood the css properly.

PS. Why is my previous post about css marked as spam? I can remove the link to the site but otherwise, thought the information was helpful.

[LPH2005]

Did a little install on a “new” site. WP 3.0.1, BP 1.2.6, child theme with nothing but the style sheet pointing to the default so I could add the styles from the bbpress. Copied the bbpress template files into the child theme.

Now, things worked except they looked awful. Looking at the template code for all the files that started with page (page-bbp_front.php, page-bbp_topics.php, and page-bbp_form.php)

<div id="container">

<div id="content" role="main">

This causes a problem because container is also used by bp-default, therefore any child theme would fail to look good.

Changed html code to:

<div id="bbp-forum-container">

<div id="bbp-forum-content" role="main">

Then added css styles for the new ids within the styles.css for the child theme:

Looks OK. But needs work:

http://www.tuxreports.com/discussions/

Hope this helps.

[Rich Pedley]

Couple of things:

sub forums currently don’t list on the main forum page – intentional?

currently the default order position for forums is 0, unless you are going to add in a better method for organising these, could I suggest a default order value slightly higher – or is this better served by a plugin.

style.css

would it be better to have an additional forum.css imported into this to keep the style for the forum separate, and making it slightly easier for people to copy the whole thing (minus style.css) to an existing theme?

Normally I’d also suggest importing the standard style.css from twentyten, but that may be difficult.

[VirtualityStudio]

ah! thank you! I was able to figure out where that little stinker was hiding.. I had changed it in the bbpress css file, but for some reason it was reading off the wordpress one for that little piece.

Messed up my blog a bit, would be nice if those two were separate… but at least the forum isn’t hanging off the end anymore.

thanks!!!!!!!!

[ortixia]

All right, i think it is the theme, peacemaker.

my theory…

see:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/peacemaker-bbpress-theme-is-incomplete#post-66135

and:

why Regisration disabled. This is a demo site.?

i think the original theme must have been posted onto the theme site before it was fully ready, therefore some of the files needed to be updated..

hmmm..

and the guy is no longer building the themes.

any suggestions of what i can do, in lieu of these files.. i really like this theme for a base to work upon, css wise.

[ortixia]

All right, i think it is the theme, peacemaker.

my theory…

see:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/peacemaker-bbpress-theme-is-incomplete#post-66135

and:

why Regisration disabled. This is a demo site.?

i think the original theme must have been posted onto the theme site before it was fully ready, therefore some of the files needed to be updated..

hmmm..

and the guy is no longer building the themes.

any suggestions of what i can do, in lieu of these files.. i really like this theme for a base to work upon, css wise.

[Edhead]

Well I’ve been trying to customize a theme and I ran into a little snag…

I’m currently trying to customize the posts, but the only problem is they are auto generated and each post has a unique id…

How could I go about applying css to the posts?

The site I’m working on is here:

http://cowtooncomic.com/forum/topic.php?id=1

[protofuse]

hello,

just did the bbpress integration in my wordpress designthemedia.com

when I check http://designthemedia.com all is ok!

when I check http://designthemedia.com/forum … even the basic css of my wordpress is killed.

I copied the style.css of the bbpress theme into the root of my wordpress and I made an @import from the css of my wordpress.

any ideas for me ?

all the best,

julien

[flightpath59]

I have exactly the same problem as egonen did.

I uploaded a theme to my-templates, went to Appearance->Themes and sure enough there was the theme but with the alt text instead of the screenshot image.

On loading the forum, the css is not loading even though the href for the stylesheet is “http://mysite.com/bbpress/my-templates/my-theme/style.css”

I changed the my-template permissions to 755 as suggested, but still no styles.

Anyone got any more clues about this?

cheers,

RP

[decas]

Hello guys, I think this question was answered in this forum but sorry I can’t find it. So my problem:

I want to make bbpress use wp theme. Just open wp site, press forum and you are still in website (I want to make it look like a page). How to do that? I used themepress but theres no images and css when I install it…

Sorry for my english.

[maxumimike]

Varjik.

There are plugins for both private messaging and a WYSIWYG editor.

BBPress does work well with WordPress, better than any other forum software. What people like you fail to understand is that whilst, relatively, integrating BBPress with WordPress is easy, it is not something a basic WordPress user who does not have any knowledge of PHP should really do, unless you are prepared for the challenge and prepared that you mgiht not be able to do it.

Regarding themes, you need to edit the BBPress theme you are using. You need to add the Get_Header and Get_Footer tags of your WordPress theme to your BBPress theme files. If you wish to use a sidebar you will need to reference the sidebar too.

You then need your Forum to fit in the Wrapper of your WordPress theme, you do this by referencing the wordpress themes CSS wrapper in the BBPress themes files, using div tags.

You also need to then make sure a copy of your BBPress CSS is in the same directory as your wordpress CSS, you then need to reference the BBPress CSS in your wordpress header.

If you know what you’re doing with web design then those steps should be fairly easy to follow. At the end of the day, a certain level of expertise is required to integrate BBPress with WordPress.

I have managed it, you can see the result at:

Discussions

As you can see, both the WP site and the BBPress forum use the same theme.

Personally, I think if you are already looking to phpNuke then WordPress is probably not for you. I personally think phpNuke is the poor mans WordPress, it’s gimmicky and performs poorly, but if that’s what you find easiest then it’s whatever you think is best

[Eric]

If someone could help me out on an issue that I have been trying to resolve. I am trying to integrate bbpress into wordpress as many others have in the past. I have successfully kept the header and footer of wordpress as well as kept all css information from wordpress. However, I have lost all formatting of BBpress and well you just have to take a look at it.

http://igneusterra.dyndns.org

click on the forums tab in the header and you will see. Any ideas of how I can get the formatting back or at least columns and the forum feel would be greatly appreciated.

[kikko088]

http://www.endurodoc.net/forum/

new topic title

kikko088

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Looks like you got it done. Post a link to your forums. You need a little bit of CSS to fix that.

[chrishajer]

Thanks for the screenshots, those are perfect. There doesn’t seem to be anything weird with the .htaccess or permalinks settings, and it looks like you are accessing the proper directory.

As the other thread mentioned, there were public HTML files in two locations on the server, and that poster had installed into a directory that was not being served, making it look like the files were not there.

One thing that is probably unrelated – the forum files have loose permissions. The directories have 775 and they should be 755, and the files (php, css, js, images) should have 644, but they have [edit] 664. Should not matter, but some hosts won’t serve content when the permissions are too permissive.

Please do a test. Put a html file in the WordPress root (where the forum directory is located) and see if you can access it at http://klinewedding.com/test.html. If that comes up, put another file in the forum directory, and see if you can access that at http://klinewedding.com/forum/test-2.html. That will ensure we are looking at the correct directories. The file can be as simple as this:

<html><head><title>WordPress test</title></head><body><p>Test WordPress</p></body></html>

Save that as test.html in the WordPress root. See if you can access it by URL. Then try the same in the forum directory.

[chrishajer]

You *do* need to set the height, at least, to create the vertical scrollbar. So what size do you want to constrain it to? Can you show an example of a page where the tag list is too long that you want to add the scrollbar to?

Maybe this page?

http://www.pastorbob.co.uk/forum/bible-study/are-we-invincible

Add this to the topic-tags CSS right where you added the overflow: auto

height: 110px;

That will make it about as tall as the information to the left (at least on this page, with the amount of information there.)

[RAAB]

Thank You ashfame. I have been reading alot on bbpress trying to get answer’s and it seems that there is not much information that has been volunteered on solving some of these minor problems. I use google in trying to find much of my information and I keep getting 2 main website’s. This one (bbpress.org) and bb showcase.org.

I was reading on one thread were it stated not to upload any themes in the bbpress template file that I had downloaded and to make my own file path (my-templates). Well when I decided after a couple of days of problems to go ahead and upload file’s in the bbpress templates location the themes started working.

I had also changed the css on the Kakumei to Kakumei-blue because I was trying to get a certain look, but them disturbed the css which then altered the template. Also I can not find a download link to either of the default template’s for some reason? If someone could help me this is the look I would like to have http://www.seanbluestone.com/forums/

I love the simple and easy flow of this forum and that is not what either one of my default template’s looked like when I received them.

Also on another note: Can anyone help me out with my forum logging me out of wordpress when I’m logging into bbpress? I have checked all of the wordpress Integration, cookies, and blog url’s and I even changed all of them in my default template and then in my bbpress default template as it was suggested on another site that had a tutorial.

Hope this is not too much and it makes since.

Thank You for the help.

[RAAB]

I have the kakumei Theme and the kakumei-blue theme but can’t get it to look like the screen shot that was sent with it. Also I changed the style.css but now the header is missing and also I have a scroll bar at the top of the left side of my header near the bb logo that I cant get out. Can someone send some suggestion my way?

http://rockabyebrittany.com/forum/

[chrishajer]

Actually, the header and hot tags are aligned properly. The only problem I can see is the #forumlist table is too wide in the front page template. So, did you change the width of the table or the containing div in either the CSS or the template file?

[lurkerofthepier]

This is my forum: http://thepier.bridgeatthedock.com/

As you can see, the hot tags, topics, etc. start too far to the left in relation to the header. How can I fix this in the css code? I edited the Kakumei theme on notepad and can’t find what I did to create this problem.

[korti]

@pagal Thanks, I will certainly try out the plug ins.

@kevinjohngallagher I’m not going to argue with you, not enough time unless I turn on my dragon… akismet works spectacular on wordpress and needs some love on bbpress. If I was a programmer i would be on it. I only need this to work on one site.

yes, for real I have a lot of sites (stopped counting at 70) and you will always find me here at my pc. I have made a living on the internet since 1997. Friends at Google, seo professional and just learning the css stuff loving wordpress.

I love bbpress and do not use any captcha for anything but my email forms, and the people who are not using it are are not getting a lot of traffic. if I didnt have captcha on my sites for email forms it would be game over. I get maybe 1-2 human spams a week if that. And my sales are going up up and up.

BBpress was hard enough to learn how to install it and then get all the spam.

and ya know I may have something goofed up in one of my files causing askimet to not work. I have two forums going and one gets only 3 spams a day the other gets 20. Then again the one that gets 20 I think was just indexed and has a lot of content.

the other was just a test site. I will reinstall and see what happens.

I just wont be able to handle it with one site that it is in the top 5 for many major keywords and we get 50 questions(emails) a day. I know the forum would be a smash instantly as they are using the feed back comments like mad.

I will try a few thing s and see what works. This site makes me way to much money to have it not work. I am still debating on moving it over to wordpress.

Lots of pros and cons to everything these days! Anyways, I have been dong this a long long time, so far my system is definitely working for me. I just have one small hurdle. If I did only have one or two sites it would be a piece of cake. As a SEO professional, I’m like a kid in a candy store. And every day I find an easier way and that is what is all about. That and to learn from one another.

meanwhile imagine bbpress with no forum… and they just got emails all day asking how to do this or how to do that…. that is where I am at.

so all in all i guess it depends on what you are doing on the net and how you are making your money..

captcha has never slowed me down but I type extremely fast to. I forget about the two finger typers.

I can say this, one time I forgot to put a captcha code on one website and wow what a mess 500 spams a day! I have also used every site builder under the sun and they all recommend it. To me it is like a seat belt law, you hate to put it on, but you know it is for the smart thing to do.

Thanks again sorry for typos, sleepy! 240 am here in Texas.