[lstelie]

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

[chrishajer]

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

[hhuskies]

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/

[keppy]

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.

[_ck_]

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 )

[chrishajer]

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

[jifop]

oh btw the site is http://www.hlvdubs.co.uk/forum

[chrishajer]

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.

[RossB]

When my forum is viewed in Firefox, the long email addresses of users who post are encroaching on their post content. Not a big issue, but a bit untidy and annoying. See: http://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8

(user name: tester / password: testing123)

Which CSS in which file would I modify to make the page width of the forum a bit wider and increase the distance between poster email details and their adjacent post content, please?

[chrishajer]

Why is this listed as a stylesheet in the source? It gives a 404 then includes the whole WordPress page as a stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/oldboards/my-templates/bbpress-forum/style2.css?v=8" type="text/css" />

 

I don’t know if that has anything to do with it, but it’s not right.

Also, does the problem you’re describing happen with the stock template as well?

[jifop]

hmm, i’ve thrown it back up and its still dead

checking the source it seems ok

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://www.hlvdubs.co.uk/forum/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css&#8221; type=”text/css”>

[chrishajer]

Looks like you’re working on it? There is nothing at /forum right now.

Usually when you have no theme, it’s due to a path problem in your configuration. If you look at the source of a page that is displayed with no style, check the path to the style.css and see if that URL is actually valid and a stylesheet is actually present there.

If you can’t log in, we need more information. I would start with no permalinks, rather than slugs or true, to be sure that the forum works. Then set up permalinks with your .htaccess file. Start simple and work your way up.

[djp]

Thanks for the feedback Chris. Looks like the footer is inheriting a parent CSS style or something.

It looks fine on my mac in FF & safari, and it looks fine in IE6 & 7 on a pc.

Will look into it & repost the url for you to have a squizz.

Cheers, and thanks again

[841434]

OK, I’m not sure this is the right place for this but here goes.

I’ve already set up my site. My home page is a wordpress blog that is integrated with bbpress. The bulk of the site is plain html pages. I find that when I pull a post out of wp and put it in a streamlined html page google does a better job of picking adds that match the content and I get more clicks on advertising. Now the question/problem. I want to keep the comments at the bottom of each post after I’ve moved it over to html. They are still there in bbpress and I can place a link to the forum, but I would much prefer to have the comments visible at the bottom of each post. If this is going to be too much work for someone literate in html, semi-literate in php and illiterate in css, then is there someone that can and will write a hack for it?

[RossB]

I’m using the Kakumei Blue theme. I can’t understand how this could happen, but without my doing anything, overnight the header on my forum has changed when viewed in IE – it remains as it should when using Firefox.

A navigation button I positioned (by messing with some numbers in some CSS code that Chris kindly provided) has shifted to the right so that it is now too close to the User Name.

But most strangely, the forum name has shifted so that it now overlaps the “Login” box. This was perfect until now, as you’d expect, since it’s part of the original design – I just typed in the name of the blog in the space provided in Admin.

Here’s the link, which will make it clear what I’m saying (open with IE): http://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/

User: tester

Password: testing123

Can anyone offer any explanation for this stuff? More importantly, how do I get the header back to what it was yesterday given that I haven’t actually changed anything in the meantime? I’m afraid that if I start tampering with the CSS again, I’ll end up messing up the header in Firefox as well!

Cheers

[811536]

I’ve been looking for forum software that meets my needs, and it looks like bbPress is going to be it. One small piece I’m not sure of yet: is it possible through a plugin, or CSS, or something, to support threaded comments? The example sites I’ve looked at so far have all comments at the left margin, and I prefer nested indents to keep track of threads.

[Ben L.]

For #1, you can add the following to your style.css file as near to the bottom as possible:

#latest th a, #forumlist th a, #favorites th a {

color: #eee;

}

#latest th a:hover, #forumlist th a:hover, #favorites th a:hover {

color: #eee;

}

For #2, I downloaded sv_SE.mo, and it does not have the words “Register or log in:”, “Log in »”, or “Remember me”. I don’t know how to edit MO files, so you’ll need to wait for someone who does.

[775251]

One other quick note. I just tried to view the default forum stylesheet in my browser, so navigated to:

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

And again was redirected to my blog’s homepage. I’m confused as to why this is happening?

[775251]

@ sambauers: Ok — good to know

So I’ve moved the bbpress files over to

http://mysite.com/forums

And now things seem to look better. I can see the admin page for bbpress.

However, now it seems that a link to the forum stylesheet is broken. When I look at http://mysite.com/forms, I see the forum homepage, but with no CSS styling. Then, when I click on to view a forum topic, like http://mysite.com/forums/topic/test-topic, I seem to get redirected to my blog’s homepage. I’m confused!

Sorry for all the novice questions! Your help is much appreciated.

[chrishajer]

Adding that line only allows you access to WordPress functions from within bbPress, it has nothing to do with making your forum look like your blog. For that, you will need to do some CSS and template work: none of it is automatic.

[Tranny]

Yes, I had the layout of forums customized before upgrade to WP2.5 becasue defaul is very user not friendly. I also had title tag customized because default values are not SEO friendly. Obviously, this clashes with upgraded version causing my forums page to not work. This is what HEAD of my header.php looks like

<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />



<title>

<?php if (is_front()) { ?> Forums and Forum Topic on Bullshit Blog <?php }

elseif (is_forum()) { echo (get_forum_name() . " on Bullshit Blog Forums"); }

elseif (is_topic()) { echo (get_topic_title() . " Forum Thread on Bullshit Blog"); }

else {

?>



<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> &raquo; Blog Archive <?php } ?> &raquo; <?php bb_title() ?>



<?php } //else ?>

</title>

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->



<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

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



<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />

<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />



<style type="text/css" media="screen">



<?php

// Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not

if ( !$withcomments && !is_single() ) {

?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbg-<?php bloginfo('text_direction'); ?>.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

<?php } else { // No sidebar ?>

#page { background: url("<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }

<?php } ?>



</style>



<?php wp_head(); ?>



<?php if ( is_topic() && bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

<script type="text/javascript">

var lastMod = <?php topic_time( 'timestamp' ); ?>;

var page = <?php global $page; echo $page; ?>;

var currentUserId = <?php bb_current_user_info( 'id' ); ?>;

var topicId = <?php topic_id(); ?>;

var uriBase = '<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>';

var tagLinkBase = '<?php bb_tag_link_base(); ?>';

var favoritesLink = '<?php favorites_link(); ?>';

var isFav = <?php if ( false === $is_fav = is_user_favorite( bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) ) echo "'no'"; else echo $is_fav; ?>;

</script>

<?php bb_enqueue_script('topic'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</head>

There’s obviously a lot of dynamic stuff in the head of my theme to make it mor SEO friendly. Is there a way to retain it and have it properly pull required data again?

Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate that

[chrishajer]

Always, always always validate first when you’re troubleshooting layout issues:

HTML

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.undercoverlawyer.com%2Fforum%2F

CSS

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.undercoverlawyer.com%2Fforum%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en

Fix issues that are described there. Some, like missing alt tags, are not going to have an impact on layout. I have found layout problems are almost always due to a div being closed to early or not at all.

[redhousepainter]

Thanks everyone for the discussion and tips – this is my first time using the bbPress forum and I have a good feeling about it!

I’ve been playing around with various suggested techniques to achieve what I want. It seems as though there are quite a few methods bouncing around the forums – unfortunately none have worked for me. Interestingly enough, none of them mention the ‘my-templates’ rule.

I’ve decided to make my life simpler and just hound you guys until I get it done as you seem to know what your doing! So, going with Sam’s suggestion to create my own them I have…

Set-up locally (in a folder called ‘my-templates’ a bare bones theme – consisting of a css file, a header file and a footer file. My only goal is for my WP header and footer to sandwich the forum.

Where do I go from here?

[redhousepainter]

Okay, I have to get this out of my system. But first…

I have three websites with WP. I love it. I love you all. I’m not throwing a tantrum or threatening to run off and elope with Movable Type or Joomla!.

But, here is my issue…

I want to add bbPress to one of my sites and quite possibly another that I just started.

I know there are other forum software out there but really want this to stay in the family.

My problem is that fresh out of the box bbPress looks like a manual for a cold war Soviet submarine.

Getting past that I tried to integrate my WP header into my bbPress installation but the info available on integration is either outdated or above my ability. I integrated the WP header into my gallery software (Zenphoto) with no problem at all, so it doesn’t make sense to me that integration bbPress should be harder.

Also, the forum on WordPress.org looks so good that using it is just rubbing salt in my wounds. It is as though WP is saying ‘here is what you could do with bbPress if you had a team of developers and an unlimited budget, but since you are poor and working alone… you’re out of luck!’.

Okay, I’m done ranting.

Does anyone have experience adding their WP header and footer into bbPress? I would prefer to not integrate the databases. All I really want is for the header and footer to be consistent throughout the site. I can handle the CSS part of it.

Thanks!!!

[Detective]

I edited the header of my forum, trying to match the design of the WordPress theme, and then loaded the same CSS file from it. It’s the best way i think.