My theme (kakumei blue) uses this in the style.css:
tr.bb-category td {
background-color: #ddd;
}
forum: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/r-forum/
blog: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl
New forum on R-Project and statistics in general, based on BBPress 1.0 alpha-2I didn’t change much to the original code (other than some minor tinkering on the CSS).
Plugins:
- Support Forum
- Unread Posts
- Post notification
- Moderator post notification
- Google adsense
- Akismet
Also use BBpress Live to mirror on my blog what’s going on at the forums. Finally, the forum is accessible through a ‘page’ on my blog: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl.
In the future, I plan to use BBpress Live to send a selection of my blog-posts to a subforum.
Its my first time using bbPress and first time theming it. I must say, the easiest forum to theme I’ve ever come across.
I mimic WordPress (.com and .org) forums layout structure and color palette. Still working to iron out some css issue.
I wanted to update jquery to the current latest but it broke a few things. So I’m currently writing a plug-in that will hopefully update the jQuery and fixes the few broken items.
BBCode Lite,
BBCode Button
Allow Image
BB Smilies (maybe I should change this to something better)
BB Video
Askimet
TOS (Terms of Service)
Demo: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/
Sorry. I didn’t want to hijack the guy’s thread… I’ll keep it focused from now. Thanks.
I really wish people would just post in the extend area for each plugin directly. All these fractions of questions and answers all over the forum makes it impossible for the next person to find it .
The span technique should be fine, I just didn’t do it that way because it’s just about as much code to put an image in the foreground that way than the background.
Um, hold on. I can’t seem to replicate this… strange.
Plugin: _ck_’s Hidden Forum v.0.0.4*
I did this:
//$hidden_forums['label']="[H] ";
$hidden_forums['label']="<span id='shield'> </span>";
so that I could use a background image. The ugly thing with this is that you see span blah blah as the browser title…
Is there a better way to do this?
Works for me.
bbPress 1.0a2 and plugin v.0.0.4*
Didn’t bother me before (just deleted double H’s) but this is progress!
Um, _ck_, while you’re looking at that file…peek at another minor thing 
I’ll download and push the filebase again, just for laughs…
haha, sigh. It helps if I push the right version! Ok, it’s still 1.0 alpha 2 and it’s still refusing to add the forum. The CSS is ‘messed up’ for the form but that shouldn’t stop it, right? Naaah.
Oh look, another straw…
Just to be clear, guys: I’m working on a WP2.6.2 site, not the WPMu version…
@eagano: I hear you man. I did as you suggested and I made sure /wp-admin/options.php matched as well.
I’m using FF3 and the error console shows only warnings generated by the theme’s CSS (doesn’t like the asterisk in declarations: Kakumei 0.01 theta-beta by Bryan Veloso)
I’m not using Google Gears to cache anything.
@Ipstenu: I linked to the cookiefix in the first post. Now that you both pointed out that it’s a WPMu-specific fix I have removed it from the WP code. Did you mean a link to the test site?
I appreciate you looking into this.
Is there some sort of trace I can place on the submit button? A setting I can toggle to make it/something verbose?
Cheers.
Yes, please keep your modifications restricted to files in the template folder. If you think you need to modify something outside that folder, it’s probably already possible with a plugin. If it’s not possible with a plugin, you’re getting into modifying the bbPress core, which is a very bad idea for keeping up with new releases.
I recommend copying all the stock theme files over to a new theme and then modify those files. That way, you can always refer back to the original if you break something, or you can even revert to the stock theme if you really break something.
https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/
Or this more recent explanation:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/deleting-allowed-markup-info-below-posting-field#post-19960
I recommend the web developer toolbar add on for Firefox. It will let you change font sizes and colors on the fly temporarily, then, when you’re done, you can make those changes permanent in your style.css.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Regarding the display of items on your forum, either to add to them or remove from them, I usually search through the files in my template folder for a specific piece of text that’s being displayed. Normally, that shows you right where the template is generating that, and you can either remove it or add to it there. That’s a start.
No.
Kakumei is a theme (WordPress terminology) or a template (bbPress terminology) and controls the display of the content on your site. Any modifications you make to your site should be done in these template files, never in the core. Changing core files makes it hard to upgrade to newer releases: you lose your changes with every upgrade. So, if you make the changes in a template file, you can maintain them between releases.
Also, by default, the stock kakumei theme is used and it’s in the bb-templates directory. I recommend creating a new directory called my-templates (if it’s not there already) at the same level as bb-templates. So, in a directory listing, they’d be at the same level. Then, inside there, create a directory called mytheme or some other name that is descriptive for your forum. This directory name does not matter. (The my-templates one DOES matter.)
Now that you have a my-templates directory, and inside that a new directory with a name you choose, copy everything from inside the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory to this new directory you created. Then, open up style.css and change the header to give this new template a unique name on line two. You will see this there:
Theme Name: Kakumei
Change that to “Theme Name: My Cool New Theme” or whatever you want. Then refresh your admin panel, and you will see a new theme. You can change the rest of the lines in that header as well, to things that are meaningful to you. Be sure not to modify the text before the colon, just change the text after, to your values.
Now, modify the php and css files in this directory to change the look of your forum. You can switch back and forth between themes here. If you break something, just choose the default theme until you fix the one you were working on.
Well I’ve finally done it, Intergrated my WP blog theme with bbPress. It’s not as hard as you think once you look around. Anyway check out my intergration here:
http://www.james-blogs.com (blog)
http://www.james-blogs.com/forum (forum)
(There are still 1 or two minor CSS errors but the intergration of WordPress functions has been done successfully.
It’s taken me a few days to figure it all out, but I’ve finally done it. Although it does sound like im bragging alot. I also want to share a website that could also help you do theme intergration:
http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/
This site provides blank themes that are literally the bare minimum of CSS, but even better they provide blank themes in type so for example my blog layout is a 2 Column design. I would also find this layout on bbpressraw.com and then begin editing it.
Being able to get a pre-coded layout with the bare minimum needed within it, certainly helped me alot. And I was able to understand and modify to intergrate my blog theme into it.
I hope this website can help you to in intergrating your bbPress installation
Hi.
I recently installed bbPress on my WordPress site here at http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/.
I’ve built a theme based on 1col_fixed 1.1 (I believe it’s kakumei with most of the CSS stripped out). In any case, when I go to my forums I can see my Gravatars and default avatars in kakumei, but when I switch on my theme they disappear.
Is there a php file I’m missing or a block of code somewhere I need to copy over from the kakumei theme to get these to work? If so, where should I put the code?
Thanks!
I’m attempting to create a side nav of all the forums on my site. When a user is viewing a certain forum, I want that “tab” to be highlighted using CSS.
All I need is to assign a class=”on” attribute to the forum [li] [/li] tag if it is the current forum being viewed. Anyone know how I can check the current forum against the forum id?
Here’s the code for my menu creation:
<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>
<h3><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<li <?php if ( is_front() ) : ?>class="on"<?php endif; ?>><a>">Overview</a>
<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>
<li><a>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</ul>
<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>
$hidden_forums=array(10); // hide these forums, list by comma seperated number
$hidden_forums=array(‘keymaster’,’administrator’,’moderator’); // these roles can always see ALL forums regardless
$hidden_forums[500]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’); // exact formal role name, *not* ability
$hidden_forums[501]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’); // exact formal role name, *not* ability
$hidden_forums=array(1); // these users can always see ALL forums regardless
$hidden_forums[500]=array(5432,7654); // list of users by number
$hidden_forums[501]=array(5432,7654); // list of users by number
$hidden_forums=””; // text, html, css or image to indicate hidden forums/topics, make it =””; if you don’t want any label at all
Hello Chris
yes I noticed, but I use the free version revolution blog that is slightly different (I don’t like the classical forum look of the revolution BBpress theme, I love Kakumei discussion look) and I try to keep Kakumei look with just my blog specific header and footer
No
Integration means your users can log in to either bbPress or WordPress and be logged in in the other application. That’s all the built in integration accomplishes.
If you want the cross-posting between bbPress and WordPress, you want bbSync.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/bbsync
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync-broken-plugin-like-it-bb-10#post-18577
Also, integration has nothing to do with the visual look and feel of bbPress. If you want to make bbPress look like your WordPress installation, you need to modify a theme to look like it (CSS and XHTML work.)
Pretty thorough discussion of what works and how to do it:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101
It’s finished! I finally completed my layout for the bbPress that’s attached to my personal blog.
The layouts are synced – and when you’re in the forum the design is the same; thus making you feel like you’re still on the site. I’ve integrated forum search with the layout, a JavaScript “switch” button for hot tags and stats – and a few other fun little features.
Overall I’m very happy with the product – and thank you for all your time. I still have a few more forum tweaks, css issues, etc….but it’s progressing quickly.
I’m always open to constructive criticism, so let me know how I can improve!
Forum: http://smartboydesigns.com/forums/
Main Site: http://smartboydesigns.com/
Yeah, that seems to be the way its working. Forums that you check “Forum is Category” for become container forums with no topics and special CSS classes. I think that’s a fine way to do it once you understand what’s going on. It just seemed a bit weird at first because in the backend there isn’t really any differentiation between category forums and regular forums.
Nice first try, I’ve put it here so you can see some of the issues:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=bb-modmat
One problem I noticed is your hard coded the feed icon image on several of the templates to point to your site – you’ll want to change that to the local image (calculate it based on the bb_get_option('uri') or use a CSS background image instead )
Are you looking to make the content area at least as tall as the avatar, assuming the poster did not write a lot of text?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/avatar-upload-plugin-and-css
You can also add
overflow: hidden;
to the .threadauthor section of your CSS. That just hides any portion of their username that is wider than the space in your template. This forum template is like that.
