I started working on bbpress 2.5.14 last night and used the shortcode [bbp-topic-index] on my front page, and it rendered as expected.
Today I switched development to 2.6 Release Candidate 5, and now it is displaying without styles. For example, the all of the lists are showing up completely unstyled with bullets, etc.
However, when I switch to twentyfifteen and use the shortcode on a page, it looked fine.
Any ideas?
Sorry the site is only on my local server as of now, but I could upload later if necessary.
I also notice that my lists are really messed up when i go to my profile page, look at Topics Started, etc. (and both look fine on twenty fifteen).
So I think both of these are using the base styles from twenty fifteen for their list, whereas the lists on Forum and Topic pages are using their own CSS. This seems…not ideal and they should share similar markup, no?
I will upload after lunch to share what’s going on. But I feel like all lists in bbpress should be based off of the same styles as the Forum and Topic lists.
Hi Robin W. – just want to say that thank you so much for all the responses and help you give to this community. Super inspiring.
I ended up just uploading the theme and putting up a little dummy content.
The two areas of note I mention, on the front page, http://jockjams.com, you can see below the blog post that what the shortcode out put on my page isn’t styled.
That is a good example. The list is THERE, you can see it when you inspect the page. Somehow the styling (or lack of) just pushed it way off to the side.
Both of these looked right in twenty fifteen, and I know for sure the shortcode worked on bbPress 2.5.14 from wordpress plugin repository, but not on bbPress 2.6 Release Candidate 5 that I downloaded from this form.
I guess those are all of the details. I would love to know why the styling worked on twenty fifteen, yet it doesn’t work on my theme, while the other two examples above are styled correctly along with my theme and are being properly targetted by bbpress css as well for the list styling.
Thoughts?
Sorry if this is beyond the scope of this forum. I use JointsWP.com btw as my starter theme.
your theme (or maybe other plugin) is only loading bbpress.css on what it thinks are bbpress pages, and it is not treating the front page and profile as bbpress.
I don’t think bbpress 2.6 is doing that, but a quick flip to twentyfifteen would confirm, although I think you are saying you have already tested that above?
Do you have a plugin that is trying to minimise css loading or is your theme being too clever ?
@robin-w, thank you for the response. Nothing too clever going on! There is a 999 priority to enqueue the site’s css after plugin css, to over-ride things like some woocommerce styles, but that seems like pretty normal practice. I don’t think that’s it. The plugin styles still load, in this case, just first.
Besides, the shortcode worked when i originally used bbPress 2.5.14, and the when i switched to bbPress 2.6 Release Candidate 5, the styles stopped loading.
Hmmm….
They were both (local and server) clean installations, and only contain bbpress plugins right now. I didn’t copy the databases over.
I just hit save there with the shortcode on 2.5.14
At 20:05 if the video doesn’t load at the right time. Thanks again! You made me remember that I actually documented this so I don’t have to fire up a new wordpress instance to retest. I recorded every thing I’ve done so far on this bbpress installation.
And here is right after I install 2.6, babble about cryptocurrency for a bit, and then hit refresh. The forum page looked normal, then I look at the front page and notice the CSS isn’t formatting the shortcode.
(no need to watch that, but just for the sake of documenting the issue. time stamp for when i look at it at 5 minutes 2 seconds. Also sorry about curses! Don’t watch if offended by bad language. My apologies.).
@robin-w, I owe you big time! Thank you. I will check to see if that causes any other issues on the site, but for now, it seems to have fixed it on my local site.
I guess for now I will rely on sidebar widgets for bringing the forum to the front page. Do you think I should attempt my own loop there instead of using the shortcode, or just wait a bit until the 2.6 officially comes out?
Thank you soooo much for looking into this for me.
I’m not a bbpress author, so have no direct influence on code.
However I have 6 plugins that are sub-plugins to bbpress most of which have shortcodes that won’t display correctly under 2.6rc5.
I have asked the authors to reconsider restricting bbpress – the min file is only 32kb, so won’t affect load times to go on all pages – it is just downloaded once when the site is accessed.
If they decide to go as is, I will need to duplicate part or all of the bbpress.css file in my plugins, which means that someone using 3 of my plugins will get the same css downloaded 4 times – 3 by me and one by bbpress which is not good 🙂
So watch this space.
if you are deep into coding, you could just enqueue a copy of bbpress.css in your theme, or probably much easier just dump the contents of bbpress.css into your theme’s css – that will fix it.
