[Don Spark]

Hi all,

Just started my first bbpress forum at

http://ohlonecenter.org/forum

I created a directory inside that directory called

my-templates

and uploaded three themes from

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes

guangzhou-bbpress

onvertigo

the-hybrid

The css does not kick in when I make the switch in the dashboard to another theme. I just see all my forum content stripped of css.

In the dashboard theme selector, I do not see the pic for the themes I uploaded, just the text and a space for the pic.

thanks,

Don

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m translating and modifying the theme, you can see it in my forum: http://ayudawordpress.com/foro/

I’ve made some changes to adecuate it to bbPress 1.x (core code adaptations to new functions). I’ve changed some css too, reordered the front page, added the description to the style.css and a screenshot and a lot more. When it is finished I’ll publish it.

[chandersbs]

You can change how your forum looks like by editing its CSS file.

[Chris2]

Hi.

I have added a bbpress to a wordpress. Everything works fine, but now I would like to change how the appearance is in the forum list on the front page. Right now I am not fully happy with that. I can see that the class is

either: <tr class=”alt”> or only <tr> which affects how each row is presented. But I can not find this in the style.css file. It drives me nuts…

Also where forums is presented I get the <bb-precedes-sibling bb-follows-sibling bb-root> and alt at the end. But where is it controlled how they look like?

Regards,

Chris

[chandersbs]

Which area exactly is not “wrapping”, this can easily be solved via CSS.

[phaniraj01]

Dear Team,

I installed bbpress forum theme in local host >> it’s working fine.

same is installed in forum in the dreamhost >> no css is appearing.

thanks,

phani

[phaniraj01]

I installed your theme on my forum,

In local host it’s working fine. in the web it’s not working. No css is applied.

[citizenkeith]

ck’s last version doesn’t work for me… I’m running 0.9.0.6. All links posted in the forum aren’t actually anchored to anything… though CSS styling works fine.

[Marius-]

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/52/pimpedforumbbpress.jpg

Spent quite a few days on this, sitting up from morning till late night. It’s a forum for my website about the late Michael Jackson. You could call it the official fanclub for Norway. I do, since I have a kickass domain.

Main color is golden (yellow-orange) links are darkred.

Using CSS3 from the future, all boxes, buttons, posts, inputs have rounded corners.

I removed all borders from the original Kakumei, since I thought that looked too messed up. I also made “Add new” button much more visible. Since this very button is the key to a growing forum. What do you all think?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Hi, do you notice the little -moz thing in front of the CSS property? That is an internal Firefox only CSS property. IE does not support rounded borders at all (and maybe will not soon). Safari on the other hand and all other webkit based browsers (Chrome, Konqueror) do support it via their own special CSS properties.

So for Safari(and Chrome) the code will be:

-webkit-border-radius: 6px;

for Konqueror (not very widespread but anyway):

-khtml-border-radius: 6px;

and since rounded borders are a property from the upcoming CSS3, here you have the standard definition (which you should also include for the bright moment in the future when all browsers will natively support it):

border-radius: 6px;

Of course using these properties will render your CSS invalid in the W3C validator.

Extended info on CSS3 border-radius:

http://www.css3.info/preview/rounded-border/

Cheers

Pssst! But hey – is that a bbPress issue? And why post in “Installation” subforum?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I was hoping someone could do it for me.

Well there’s your problem right there

Making a theme is easy AND it won’t break the source code or become beyond repair. A theme is all HTML and CSS, with a little PHP tossed in, and not the coding kind of PHP where you have to make SQL calls. Unless you want to, of course.

Go to https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/ for the basics. You’ll need this under your belt if you ever hope to maintain a forum without going nuts.

[nickf1195]

Hi.

I am in the process of integrating bbPress with only my WordPress theme, not login or cookies. I have placed this in bb-config.php:

<br />

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {<br />

include_once( '../wp-config.php' );<br />

}<br />

and this in bbpressbb-templateskakumeiheader.php:

<br />

get_header();<br />

echo_css(); // function from WP theme's functions.php<br />

The WordPress header loads, but some of the CSS isn’t present from the WordPress theme when I don’t have echo_css(); in the code. The CSS is produced by the WordPress theme’s functions.php, which doesn’t appear to be loading. I can call functions from functions.php inside bbPress, including the one that outputs the CSS, but it is placed at the wrong point in the code (inside the body tag instead of head,) even though I run it immediately after get_header();. I would also like it to be flexible in the event I change the theme.

So my question is: Is there a function inside WordPress to process the functions.php? Should I be in the WordPress forum?

Thanks a lot for your time and help!

Nick

[OKTeaRoom]

Same problem!

WordPress 2.8.x

BBpress 1.0.2

Just did a completely clean install. No plugins even, yet…and the theme thumbnails aren’t available and when i activate any of them i just get a generic page with no css or layout of any kind.

What gives?

http://www.oktearoom.com/forum

[Archie Webmaker]

I follow the http://labs.b5media.com/ and I leaved the buddybar portion.

I successfully install and place the wordpress header and footer in bbpress theme. Than I copy rename bbpress theme style.css to forum.css and place it on wordpress theme directory and put an import function in wordpress style.css. The forum frontpage looks fine but not the others pages/post.

How do you guys do it to look exactly like the wordpress theme eg buddypress site?

I want to place the buddypress nav bars in bbpress forum theme. How do I do it?

[Marius-]

Thats too complicated for me. I’m not an expert coder at all.

I barely manage to change colors and sizes in the CSS. Just moving the search-bar is a several hour project for me lol.

I was hoping there was an easy way out, just to make the forum load in the normal page-window, like a normal post would have. Give it the value of a post or something. But recreating a brand new template, and all that stuff, is way too hard for me.

[buddha-trance]

When I edited the Kakumei files, I recreated a sidebar to match the look of the blog with the forum tags and other stuff (blog latest posts, etc.), but without the widgets. The look still matches the blog, though the content of the sidebar is different. Whatever you have as text widgets in the blog you can always hard code in the forum sidebar.

The “sidebar” is in front-page.php, under

<div id=”hottags” role=”main”>

hard code any sidebar content there, then match the css in the stylesheet. You can even float the div to the right, rather than the left, depending on your blog’s theme.

[buddha-trance]

@ Marius – If you create a wordpress page with the same name of the directory where the forum is, it will automatically take you there, because the directory overrides the page.

If the forum is in a directory called “forums”, just create a page called “forums” and publish. The tab will appear in the blog menu as a new page and when you click on it, it will take you straight to the forums. I have done it this way too.

Theme the forums like your wordpress template, like Ipstenu and gerikg have suggested and it will look perfectly integrated. To do this, you can use the Kakumei default theme, edit the header and footer files to look like the blog header and footer (background image, etc.), and match the css in the stylesheet where needed.

Hope this helps.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Read this: https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/

See how in step 1 it says to make sure you have a my-templates folder?

You’ll be putting style.css in /public_html/forum/my-templates/NEWTEMPLATE/

With a header in style.css like this:

/*

Theme Name: The name of your cool new theme.

Theme URI: Your theme's url. Maybe it's the blog post you wrote about it.

Description: Describe your theme here. You can be nice and say something like "Blues and Greens in a two-column format" or enigmatic and say "The river here is only waist deep".

Version: Always number your releases. Please only use numbers and decimal points (yes, we broke our own rule).

Author: Author of the original theme,

Author URI: and his or her url.

Ported By: Name of the person who ported the theme to bbPress (if applicable),

Porter URI: and his or her url.

*/

Under that you’ll put your custom CSS like

topic-tags { display: none; }



post-form-tags-container  { display: none; }

[1onely]

ok i create style.css in /public_html/forum

and what ?

please help

[chrishajer]

So you can’t rescue a spam post?

When there are legitimate posts here that are marked as spam, and they’re marked ‘not spam’ they are then visible in the forums. So, I think it works normally. I wonder why it doesn’t on your installation.

What theme are you using? Could it be a CSS problem?

[johnhiler]

Do you have a link to your forum? It’s tough to troubleshoot css without the actual code.

[Stunt]

Okay, so I’ve integrated bbPress with my WordPress DB and theme. I’ve customized it quite a bit but I’m still having one very annoying problem.

http://scrawlfx.com/forum/topic/welcome-to-the-forums

See that huge space on every response? Why does that happen? How do I remove it? I’ve looked in the CSS but have found nothing. Please help me out.

[anandasama]

R-a-y: Thank you! The theme is a heavily modified version of Scoun.

Although I am soon to write a new template because of the css/html isnt that great on it.

Just my way of learning the ropes.

About the RSS feeds: I use feedwordpress plugin to feed it into my wordpress. In wordpress then, I put in some arguments to filter out the RSS feed so it won’t show up there. Somehow it still shows up in my WordPress RSS so I need to find a way to filter it out from the RSS too.

The RSS syndication plugin can hold a number of RSS feeds with alot of options and automatically post articles.

Then I use BBpress WordPress Synchronization plugin and when bbpress finds a new post in WordPress it automatically syncs and creates a post in one of my bbpress subforums.

Somehow i dont want all my stuff to go into BbPress so when I write some new article in WordPress I can choose manually wether to sync this to BbPress or not.

One thing I have an issue with is the first page; I want to make an own “Latest Discussions” loop with all forums EXCEPT RSS. And then an own “latest discussions” With only RSS forum.

Problem is When i used this inside the loop

//Show latest discussions with all forums except id 17

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<?php if( $topic->forum_id != 17 ) { ?>

codeblock

<?php } endif;?>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>



//Show latest discussions but only forum 17

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<?php if( $topic->forum_id == 17 ) { ?>

codeblock

<?php } endif;?>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

The pagination gets an error (Shows me fewer posts than the actual limit), and I cant use the same loop (With different conditions) twice.. Then I get a blank page. :S

So how should I do? Have any Idea? Im not so used to the bbpress loop yet..

[_ck_]

I’m sorry to keep asking but are you 1000% sure you don’t have a typo in the directory name?

Because this one works:

http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

and I don’t see why this wouldn’t, unless it’s a typo on your ftp:

http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css

Is style.css spelled correctly in the filename in the ftp?

Then again the embedded url is generated from the directory it’s in, so in theory, even with a typo it would still work. So we are back to looking at htaccess since I am out of other ideas.

[_ck_]

That file is not there like you think it is:

http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css

It’s a 404.

But it might be wordpress interfering with the forums directory since WP is in your webroot.

Strange that it would happen with a static file though.

Triple check that you have

/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css

via FTP, make absolutely sure it’s there.

If it is indeed there, download your .htaccess file in your top directory (where WP is) and post it here.