[piedpiper21]

Okay, I’ve triple checked everything.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css” />

It’s linking to the desired file. And that file exists in the required directory. Still no results. Am I missing something here?

And _ck_ thank you for all your help today. I admire your dedication.

[Paul]

I did essentially add in the bbpress custom css to my wp theme’s css, too, so that they would really mesh up better, as well.

[vlovers]

How to add a link to reset or recover password at my homepage of forum where there are input fields for username and password lies. MY site: http://vlovers.com/forum .. I want to add a link to recover password at the login form positioned at the top of content on front page by template-editing… I just want to know the php link command for reset password option..

Also I want to fix the width of posts to a lower limit i.e. width of the posts is adjusted according to the length of the posts but if the post contains just a few words, width of the post is one-lined which makes the look n structure unpleasing and distorting.. So what sort of css edits are required to fix the minimum width of posts ???

[Göran]

I use the Kakumei theme in bbPress 1.0.1. The forum is linked to a web site and I want to use the same colors, light green #ccff99 and dark green #003300 for the forum. I managed to change most but cannot change the header. As can be seen at http://www.32astolf.se/forum/. What part of style.css that direct the color of the header I do not understand. Please help!

I tried to use the Webe Developer add on for Firefox and when I chose CSS-> Edit CSS there I saw a version of the page as I want it but I cannot understand how to get there!

If some bbPress guru would take an hour and write down and share with us all I am sure more beginners than myself would be very grateful for a list of where in style.css you change to get the colors you want.

I looked at the Kakumei Blue but did not understand how to make a correspondent file for green or brown or other colors. I suspect this would be easy to write if you know how to. Please do if you can!

[John James Jacoby]

So I was able to take hybrid bits and pieces of what you posted above, and the .htaccess for 1.0.1, and get the forums working, but still no .css and no .js, and no access to the admin panel or any directory either. Seems if I navigate to the physical URL domain.com/forums/bb-admin/ I can get in, but forums.domain.com/bb-admin/ gives an internal server error and a 500.

Still troubleshooting.

[kickerman360]

Hey thanks _ck_

I found this snippet of code

<?php global $user_identity;

get_currentuserinfo();

if ($user_identity == ”) {

echo(‘Welcome Guest’);

} else {

echo(‘<img src=”/forum/avatars/’ . strtolower($user_identity) . ‘” alt=”avatar” />’);

}

?>

Which doesn’t cause an error but doesn’t display an image. I don’t think a file type is being declared which results in a 404 and then the alt text is displayed.

I did however come up with this, which is a modded version (to be used on a homepage)

<?php echo(‘<img src=”/forums/avatars/’ . $current_user->user_login . ‘.jpg” />’); ?>

<?php echo(‘<img src=”/forums/avatars/’ . $current_user->user_login . ‘.png” />’); ?>

<?php echo(‘<img src=”/forums/avatars/’ . $current_user->user_login . ‘.gif” />’); ?>

<?php echo(‘<img src=”/forums/avatars/’ . $current_user->user_login . ‘.jpeg” />’); ?>

I’m not sure how to find out the file extension via php so I just created 3 extra lines of code for the 4 types of files the form should accept.

If anyone wants to clean up my code I’d greatly appreciate it, I’m only just learning php (noob ) after playing with CSS and (x)HTML for a while. I know, the code will not be valid.

Thanks again, _ck_ ( I didn’t realize there was 2 help forums for that plugin)

[John James Jacoby]

Thought I had it going and it was time to celebrate, but maybe not…

The .htaccess method worked awesomely on the install, but dies for me on the forum itself. Can’t get to anything but the index.php. No styles load, and I can’t access things like the CSS files directly either.

Suggestions? I tried removing the rewriting rules all together because I haven’t setup my permalinks yet, and still nothing there either.

Hmmm…

[lifestrikes]

I installed 1.0.1. Forum works as usual, but admin CSS is not working.

DO I have to do any additional changes to files to get CSS fixed?

[lamentira]

I have discovered that there is a very easy way to integrate a BBPress forum inside of a WordPress blog. I havent found anyone in the forums doing it in this way so I will explain it here.

1. Asumed that you have instaled wordpress and bbpress, and you have integrated bbpress with wordpress following the steps showed in bbpress installation process.

2. You have to go to the administration pannel in your wordpress (wp-admin)

3. Create a page named Forum. Chose HTML and include the following code:

<iframe id=”forum” name=”forum” src=”http://your_url/bbpress_folder&#8221; frameborder=”0″ framespacing=”0″ scrolling=”auto” border=”0″ style=”width:925px; height:1000px; ” >

Sorry, your browser doens’t support iframe. Please upgrade your browsers.

</iframe>

replace the bold characters for the apropiate values in your web. The number in bold is the with of your blog. In that case (I use primepress theme) it is 925

4. Now we only have to add the widget to show the page, or like in my case, the theme shows all the pages in the blog as options in the header. We only have to remove the header and the footer of the forum.

5. In your bbpress directory go to bbtemplates and make a copy of kakumei directory. You could call it noheader directory and open it.

6. Open header.php and replace this

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div class=”search” align=”right”>

<?php search_form(); ?>

</div>

<?php if ( bb_is_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

with this

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”main”>

<div class=”search” align=”right”>

<?php search_form(); ?>

</div>

<?php if ( bb_is_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

7. Open footer.php and delete this section

<div id=”footer” role=”contentinfo”>

<p><?php printf(__(‘%1$s is proudly powered by bbPress.’), bb_option(‘name’), “http://bbpress.org&#8221;) ?></p>

<!– If you like showing off the fact that your server rocks –>

<!– <p class=”showoff”>

<?php

global $bbdb;

printf(

__( ‘This page generated in %s seconds, using %d queries.’ ),

bb_number_format_i18n( bb_timer_stop(), 2 ),

bb_number_format_i18n( $bbdb->num_queries )

);

?>

</p> –>

</div>

<?php do_action(‘bb_foot’); ?>

8. Open style.css and delete this

#wrapper {

background: #fff url(‘images/page_header_tile.png’) repeat-x 0px -15px;

}

9. You can add the reference a bbpress.org in the wordpress footer.

Hope this help

You can see the result here http://www.lamentiraestaahifuera.com

This is the forum page:

http://www.lamentiraestaahifuera.com/?page_id=45

[grassrootspa]

@andywilliams244 Try this for a nifty nav bar that shows at the very top of your site (maybe use this at the very top of both your WordPress and bbPress site?):

1) Check this link out: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic55647.html

2) What you want to do is make a really simple PHP file, lets call it “andybar.php” (if you have trouble making one copy one of your .php bbpress files and rename it)

3) Copy the code from that page into the php file. (you probably want to open with Notepad or Wordpad)

4) Fill in the links how you want them to be, like:

<li><a href="http://www.andywebsite.com">ANDY_WEBSITE</a></li>

5) Save the php file and upload it into the folder of your theme.

6) Put this in the header where you want the bar to display:

<?php bb_head(); ?>

<?php include('andybar.php');?>

<br>

</head>

7) The bar should appear at the very top of your bbPress site. You can easily change the colors with the CSS inside that one php file.

You might need to play with the bbPress CSS if there is a spacing issue above or below the bar. Hope this helps!

[kipperman]

Well knock me down with a feather!

There was certainly a brief eeeeeek! moment when uploaded the config file and refreshed but all seem well.

Thank you for your help.

Just one last question really, how do I colour the forum to suit my site. I haven’t found any theme downloads like WP, only plug ins – are into CSS land? Im not over fussy just what a blue header for now.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Now that DIV you need to find out yourself.

Install Firebug (Firefox Add-on).

Open your forum and press F12.

Now find the respective DIV.

You are new to CSS. So go by Hit n Trial method

[maramac]

I hope this is the right place to ask but I don’t know where else to go about it.

I’ve recently added bbpress to my site, and I’ve been trying to carry over the theme I use for WordPress. I’m not all that great with CSS, and there’s some weird problem with the positioning of the forum. I’m not quite sure I got all the div tags, as I’m still not 100% sure of the internal structure.

Here’s the forum link: http://www.nyahalcyon.net/forum

And here’s the website, as a reference: http://www.nyahalcyon.net

As you can see: the whole of the forum should be in the center, aligned with the background, and right now it’s very much on the left side no matter what I try. I’m obviously missing something somewhere, or I didn’t get the CSS right…

I’d really appreciate any hints or advice about this.

(I’m going to have to sort out the other pages, like the topic, forums, etc…. but for now I’d just like to get the front page working 100%.)

[tiptaptip]

I integrated my site the other day. Here’s a few things that helped me when developing my bbPress theme.

1. Point its CSS to the corresponding WP themes CSS so that there’s a common stylesheet between them. For example: http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css

2. Do the same thing with images. For example in your bbPress theme use http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/image/image.jpg

3. As mentioned above you will need to duplicate content from WP theme. I find that if I cram everything before the forum content into header.php and everything after into footer.php it clears up the rest of the bbPress templates for me to modify as I wish.

Hope this helps.

You can see what I did for my site here: http://tiptaptip.com and http://tiptaptip.com/forum

[punktoronto]

Has this been solved? I’ve been trying to figure it out as well. Everything I’ve found is for wordpress-mu and I’m not sure what needs to be changed to use it with regular wordpress.

I found this http://insecure.no/2009/01/wordpress-and-bbpress-nice-url-rewrite-for-nginx/ it sort of works. pretty permalinks work but any attached files such as the css sheet or jquery.js returns a 404 not found error. Any Ideas?

# SEO friendly URLs for bbPress

#

location /forums/ {

root /path/to/YOURDIRECTORY/public_html/forums;

index index.php;

if (!-e $request_filename) {

rewrite ^/forums/topic/(.*)$ /forums/topic.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/forum/(.*)$ /forums/forum.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/profile/(.*)$ /forums/profile.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/view/(.*)$ /forums/view.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/tags/(.*)$ /forums/tags.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/rss/(.*)$ /forums/rss.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/bb-admin/ /forums/bb-admin/index.php last;

rewrite ^/forums/ /forums/index.php last;

break;

}

}

[michael3185]

Hi Marco. I’m no expert at this (one or two will be along shortly…) but I’ve found that in playing around with PHP and CSS I’ve been able to do a lot more than I thought I would.

The code you’ve posted would display not just the forum names, but most of your front-page info. I’m wondering if putting the forum names in a < div > with a class name you’ve defined in the stylesheet to format the fornt, placing, width, etc., would do it. This is a rough ide from my front-page;

<div id="my_side_bar">

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<table id="forumlist">

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><br />

</td></tr>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</table>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

The table definition could probably be removed too, and it should(?) give a list of links with just forum names. Blind leading the blind here, but it might give you some ideas.

[michael3185]

I’ve just added the Allow-Images plugin to a forum to bring a little life to some topics. There’s a post you can see at http://mbforum.letsdoo.org/topic/visitors-who-arent-registered#post-17.

I’m trying to figure out a way to put a 1 pixel grey border around images, like the avatar image on the left has. The avatar has its own CSS formatter, but I’m not so hot with CSS and can’t work out how to do it for the image in a post. I’ve used the usual bbcode [ img ] xyz [ /img ], but putting a CSS format tag in the [ img ] part stops the image from being displayed.

I guess I could hard code it into the plugin, but any better ideas..?

Edit:

Duh. I answered my own question. I just changed the stylesheet

img.avatar { display: block; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }

to

img, img.avatar { display: block; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }

[chrishajer]

Heh, Sam. It’s been like that since the 0.7 series I think. I’ve only ever had one forum, but it always showed the dropdown I used to fix it but them maintaining the changes across updates became a hassle.

Also, the width of the dropdown was never wide enough, in FF3 (and FF2) at least. Never really tested it. I can’t recall if it was fixable with CSS or if that width was in the template. I think in the template with a width=”xx” value.

Was going to take a screenshot just now, but I realized I took the select out in my installation, so people don’t have to choose, and hardcoded the value into the form. BUT, there is still a dropdown with just one value (if you have just one forum) when you’re logged in as keymaster and you have the option to move the topic to another forum. Probably shouldn’t even show the option to move it to another forum if there’s only one.

Weird that this is just coming up now. I always just thought it was normal.

[michael3185]

I don’t know about image sizing, but there might be a plugin. Go to the Extend tab and do a search.

You should be able to move your layout around by changing the theme’s style.css file. I learned to create my theme by drastically changing one css setting at a time so it was obvious what the setting did, then getting it how I wanted. Learning what your theme’s stylesheet does is essential if you’re going to modify it in future.

Personally, I think there’s nothing wrong with white space on a forum. It can give a much cleaner look.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

CSS doesn’t control everything. Yet. Actually, it can control that, but not reliably or consistently, due to browser independence.

chris’s idea is probably best in the long run.

[michael3185]

Thanks for the link Ipstenu. I guess I wasn’t thinking along the right lines, as it needs to be done in the browser, not on the bbPress PHP side. I’m not sure how to implement that JavaScript and HTML code, but I’ll give it a go sometime soon. It’d be nice if the CSS TextArea had a setting for that, wouldn’t it?

[mrhtn]

Well, there were lots of steps. Mostly it was changes to the CSS so the first step would be to take a look at my CSS. I didn’t change any non-theme related files. The plugins I’m using are BBcode buttons toolbar, BBcode lite, bb topics view, and post Count plus. Probably the main thing I do different is that regular users shouldn’t see the admin pages of BBpress. Instead they get redirected to the wordpress admin pages.

Sambauers put a great video together on how to get wordpress and bbpress working together:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

[infected]

@chrishajer: Thank you, that works fine!

@johnhiler: You´re right. If i set the value to -1 i´m always able to edit the posts. But this is something i doesn´t really need.

Okay, then there´s only one point left, the edit thing… I will have a look at the plugin and will see how it works.

Although… I got one more point to figure out. It´s a css thing. At the moment this is my testforum: http://www.test.be-infected.de/forum/topic/test-der-bbcode-buttons

If you take a look at the 2 post with the smilies in it, you can see that there´s a lot of space in this postings. I tried several things to strip this, but can´t find a solution. I think it´s the css class .threadpost that i have to edit. I know it sounds strange, but in this free space the bbsignatures plugin was showing the users signatures before. Could this relate to it?

Any help is welcome

[michael3185]

A very big Thank You to everyone working on bbPress and in this forum.

Sam “The Man” Bauers (it has a ring to it, I think), any other coders behind the scenes, all of you who write such cool plugins to add great features, and those who respond to questions in this forum so promptly and in great detail. Many thanks indeed for your time, thoughts, and hard work.

I was just adding a note to a forum of mine, and realised that after a lot of hours getting it the way I want it, well, it just works. It does everything it’s supposed to, and I’ve learned tons about CSS and PHP into the bargain. This one helps new mums who’ve come to live in the UK, so in a roundabout way everyone who’s helped me has helped a mum and her baby too. Ahhh – all soft and fluffy feeling.

[michael3185]

Don’t know if it’s of any help, but bbPress is very extensible. I tried most other forum packages, and spent day after day struggling to make things work, sometimes getting help, others not, but never managing to do what I needed to. I finally found bbPress.

As a PHP noob I struggled with some things at first, but with help from forum members and a couple of easy online PHP tutorials I’ve got a nice theme and forums working as I want. As well as the theme CSS, I’ve edited PHP files to make things work as I wish, changed layouts and menus, etc. Nothing mind-blowingly flash, but then I go for cool and simple, which is what my users need.

If you’re looking for small, fast, and easy to modify, bbPress is (as Douglas Admas said) the wasp’s nipples.