[michael3185]

Thanks for all the excellent advice. I do like hacking around, but as I need to get a couple of forums up and running I’m best with 0.9.0.4 right now. I think that sticking with it until 1.0 has been well tested – and has the plugins or functionality I need – is the best bet too.

I’ve spent around six weeks or more trying everything under the sun, until finally settling on bbPress. Mostly, it just works. I don’t think I want to do much more than learn a little php and more css as I go along. I’m remembering that there are people outside this room, and conversation, and beer… Hacking about in the guts of things is interesting and really very addictive, but there’s life out there! Love all you folks for making it possible though, I have to say.

[johnhiler]

I checked your stylesheet… it appears to not exist?

http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/my-templates/bbpress-forum/style2.css?v=8

[michael3185]

Ouch. I’m pretty savvy at some computer stuff, but not php or css. I’ve been working on two forums for community groups, one of which may grow quite large if it works out as hoped. So, I tested just about every forum package out there. I settled on Vanilla, but had problems with plugins crashing it, and having to hack around for days to try and get something working. Their support is good from a few community members, but there isn’t enough and it often isn’t timely.

I’ve settled with bbPress because I found it very simple to install and set up. My problems were minor, forum members have helped me very quickly indeed, and in a non-geeky manner. I’ve read lots of other posts where people have had WP integration issues, and the help given has been quite extensive. One other thing that I like is the fact that they use it with 100,000 members and 500,000 posts, and it’s still zippy. Also, modifying themes isn’t so bad if you delve into just a few files and play around. I love simplicity as well as my user group, so I created a vanilla clone(ish), which you can get at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-minimalist-theme-available. (Check the posts at the bottom).

If you have some spare time and a nice cup of tea/coffee, click ‘integration’ in the front page tag list and have a good read. I don’t use WP, but I get the impression that many haven’t found it too difficult with a little assistance. There’s an integration plugin too. PS. Read some of your blog; just a body? Nooo…

[AndrewRH]

Thanks. I guess my point was really that the ‘out of the box’ program didn’t format things nicely (as I would have expected it to do, without needing to hack around in CSS). I don’t mind doing that, just that one of the benefits of bbpress is its simplicity (and why I want to switch over from phpBB3 to it).

Thanks again,

~Andrew~

[chrishajer]

In your template file called front-page.php, find the section that outputs the table of forums (#forumlist) and make the cells taller or fixed width and variable height or something. It can all be done in your template files and your style.css.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like you need a shorter description or you need to use some CSS to change the size of the text, hide the overflow or break it onto 2 lines. Maybe you need to make the table cell taller. I don’t see a link to your forum so I can’t suggest exactly what CSS to change to make that happen.

[kevinjohngallagher]

ooops, it might be this link:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-mindset-features-and-where-now-discuss

[kevinjohngallagher]

I raised the issue last October/November:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/parent-childrelationship-in-forum-loop

[adv_user]

Ok, but I also need to include sub-subForum inside the class “subforum”, don’t below.

And I am having trouble doing it…

[eclipsei]

Hello,

I followed this guide http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress/deep-integrating-wordpress-271-and-bbpress-0904 (which is very helpful for a beginner) and now have bbPress integrated with WordPress.

What I want to do now is let users upload their own avatar which will appear with their posts/profiles in the forum but also with any comments/profile on the wordpress side.

There seem to be various standalone avatar plug-ins for wordpress and bbpress but is there anything which is compatible with both systems?

I’d rather not use Gravatars if at all possible so user’s don’t have to rely or register on an external site.

Any help, suggestions or pointers would be appreciated.

[Ben L.]

With that code, the last sub forum already has bb-last-child, and if you change <td colspan="3"> to <td colspan="3" class="subsubforum">, subsubforums have a class.

[adv_user]

Yes. But also make the “sub subforuns” appear inside the div “subforum”. Well that original URL did not use div:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

Thanks!

[Ben L.]

I only partially understand the question. Do you want to add a last class to the last forum on the page?

[adv_user]

It is not possible?

[Clicknathan]

Does anyone know how I might display viewed threads differently from unviewed?

For example, if I’m a user visiting my forum and I view a thread, maybe the link would then be a different color. I can do this with CSS obviously, but it’d be great if the thread was updated (ie, a new reply posted), that then the thread would change back.

Any ideas? I’m just looking for an indicator to show people what they’ve read or what’s new.

[adv_user]

In this url:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

works:

-Forum

-Subforum

Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3

But I need to change the style sheet to show:

<div id="list">

<div class="forum">- Forum</div>

<div class=”subforum”>

– SubForum

Make a loop to show Subsubforum in the div SubForum and not below

<div class=”forum”>Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3</div>

</div>

<div class=”subforum”>

– SubForum

</div>

<div class=”subforum last”>

– SubForum – with LAST class.

<div class=”forum”>Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3</div>

</div>

</div> <!– close id “list” –>

[grasn]

@chrishajer, thanks for the code, this one didn’t work for me, but the one on the page top. You can visit my forum http://deadrising2.de/?page_id=84

If someone wants to know how i made it, I just removed stuff from the bbpress head.php so it looks like this:

<body>

<div id=”main”>

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

and also the first </div> from the footer.php, I also removed the hot tags stuff from frontpage.php. Now I installed embed-iframe plugin for wordpress and modified the iframe.php like this:

<div class="iframe-wrapper">

<iframe src="<?php echo $url ?>" frameborder="0" id="youridnamehere" width=100%>Please upgrade your browser</iframe>

</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

function resizeIframe() {

var height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;

height -= document.getElementById('youridnamehere').offsetTop;



<code></code>// not sure how to get this dynamically

height -= 150; /* whatever you set your body bottom margin/padding to be */



document.getElementById('youridnamehere').style.height = height +"px";



};

document.getElementById('youridnamehere').onload = resizeIframe;

window.onresize = resizeIframe;

</script>

Now I just modified the width of the bbpress style.css for head, main and footer, and also the cols/width of the textarea. I still have a scrollbar if there are more posts on one page, but I can live with.

Thanks for your help!`

[grasn]

Ok i’m using the embed-iframe plugin to integrate the forum, it looks good. I reduced the width of the forum theme in the css file so it fits the page. The only problem i have, in emped-iframe you can assign a width and height for the iframe. 100% doenst work for height, cause if the forumpage has many threads the iframe becomes a scrollbar on the right side. Any solutions to fix this, and let the iframe automaticly get the height of the forumpage height?

[Dave]

The CSS style and placement of the polls bothers me. I’d really like to see the poll at the top of the actual post, not in the sidebar.

But as far as function goes, they seem to be working alright. I inputted my vote and it worked fine.

[simpleanecdote]

Still got them.

I’m not a php newbie.

Not an expert, but in a comfortable place in the middle

I think I’ve pretty much got over all the bugs in the system.

If anyone wants my style of integration – this is what I did:

Installed bbPress in root/forums/

in header.php of forum template put the following before everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/header.php');//Website template ?>

in header.php of your own website:

$forumexplode = explode('/', $_SERVER);

if($forumexplode == "forums")

{

bb_feed_head();

?>

#You can also put in here you own, relative path style sheets from the main website.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php if('rtl' == bb_get_option('text_direction')) : ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri( 'rtl' ); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php endif;

bb_head();

}

else

{

?>

Anything you want to load from normal relative path (if not forums)

<?php

}

?>

</head>

<body id="<?php ($forumexplode == "forums" ? bb_location() : ""); ?>">

in footer.php of forum template put the following after everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/footer.php');//Website template ?>

I also prefixed all the forum template’s XHTML id tags with forum_ so they won’t mess with my website’s structure.

After you’ve done all that, you’re free to style your forum via the css file in the templates directory like you would normally, as well as the structure via the other files.

And your website, via your own stylesheets.

Or you can load everything from either stylesheet as long as you remember to load them from their relative path in the header.

Hope this helps someone ;P

Peace everyone, hope bbPress will release a version soon which will be easier to integrate.

Because my system doesn’t really allow for easy user authentication integration on the rest of the website. Can be circumvented via regular user auth integration but that’s more work.

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) has ssi.php file which you just load into any page and everything is integrated right there and then. Maybe in future versions?

Me.

[guymed]

Hey guys. Guymed here, sheesh I haven’t been here since, like, early 2008. Tell me if I am posting this in the wrong forum, but, Talkpress? I visited Talkpress.com. It was up, not bbqponysomgomg like it was last year. But, I looked for a sign-up button or a certain page or something. NOT THERE! Is it VIPs only like wordpress.com when that first came up?

Um, thanks, I guess.

~Guymed-

http://guymed.org/ (AWESOME CSSs BY ME!)

[toregustafson]

Well on further consideration I looked at the source on this forum and noticed they are placing a random number to the end of the style sheet. Notice what is currently line 5 of the source of this page:

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://bbpress.org/forum-theme/bborg/style.css?v=2047769217&#8243; type=”text/css” />

So, I decided the bbpress.org developers had the same difficulties with FF3.0. I tried the same thing myself and I can now log in perfect now, so I guess that is the fix. I would still love to hear from anyone else if they’ve had this issue as well though.

[wilcosky]

I hate it when something so easy is giving me problems. I have a link to my search page… mysite.com/myforum/search.php… like that. And it works fine, except the font color on the search form itself is a gray or reddish color and it doesn’t go with my dark blue layout… I need the font to be white. With CSS I’ve got the font set to white everywhere else, even the search results are white, but the form itself is not so you can barely read it.

I’ve tried editing the color with CSS, regular html, I’ve been in my search.php in my forum root and my search.php in my template, and I’ve been in my search-form.php file, and no matter what I do… I can only get the font to change in firefox… for some reason in ie6, which should be illegal to use, the font it not white.

I simply added <font color=”white”></font> to the form, and again, it works in firefox, but when I test it with ie6 it doesn’t work. Why?

I even tried adding a new div… I added <div id=”searchcolor”>search form code here</div> then in my CSS file I have #searchcolor {color:white;}, but even that doesn’t work. Nothing seems to change the form font color in ie6.

This is frustrating because it’s something SO simple! Font color!

[djeelo]

Hello all,

Here is my little problem…

I’ve well integrated this plugin in my forum (as a new column).

Everything goes well except the size of the view_count column… It seems to be a not fixed value and it destroy all the front_page structure.

I’m not so good in css but it should exist a value to modify this to a fixed size …

here is my forum : http://soab.beachdays.net

I’m using 9.0.4.

Thanx a lot for answers.

And excuse my not so good english.

Have a nice day !

djeelo

[mac_user]

Sam,

I have to say, this was an incredibly useful tutorial on getting the puppy installed with wp 2.7. One item you forgot to include in you video and leaving it out prevented me from completing the install – users will need to grab the $table_prefix value from the config.php file in order to complete the install. This is the wp_ value.

Other than that, you saved me and countless others valuable time. Thanks again and I look forward to more videos. Now, if there was some way to seamlessly integrate theme into the forums via CSS consistency, that would be great. Hey, maybe there is an easier way than modifying CSS.