Hi,

I’ve just launched a new site bbpressraw.com. The site provides a set of lean & mean bbPress themes that are designed to enable you to quickly develop your own custom bbPress themes. They should save you a great deal of time if you are trying to create your own theme from scratch.

The themes are compatible with and have been tested with bbPress 0.8.3.

A number of layout variations have been provided, including:

• 1col_fixed: bbPress blank 1-column theme with fixed width
• 1col_fluid: bbPress blank 1-column theme with fluid width
• 2col_fixed_left: bbPress blank 2-column theme with left sidebar and fixed width
• 2col_fixed_right: bbPress blank 2-column theme with right sidebar and fixed width
• 2col_fluid_left: bbPress blank 2-column theme with left sidebar and fluid width
• 2col_fluid_right: bbPress blank 2-column theme with right sidebar and fluid width

For now the themes have been made available. During the next week I’ll be posting some tips to get you up and running quickly!

Enjoy!

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

I haven’t looked at any of these yet, but the idea is awesome. Thanks very much for doing this.

[@agentmaximus Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks for your kind feedback! I hope you find them useful!

[@neyoung Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

You should think about using ck’s bbpress showcase plugin so your visitors can see live demo’s of each of the themes. You can see it in action at http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ there is a combo box at the bottom right of the page that allows you to change themes on the fly.

[@agentmaximus Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks for the suggestion. I was planning to put up some screenshots but this is simpler / quicker. I’m aiming to make some time to install that later today.

[@agentmaximus Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

I’ve now installed the theme switcher plugin on bbpressraw.com forums. Use the drop-down list at the bottom of the page to view each of the available raw / blank bbpress forum themes.

[@jolaedana Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

Excellent idea! You’re bookmarked. Thanks.

[@agentmaximus Member 17 years, 2 months ago]

I’ve just posted some updates. See this post on my site.

I will tidy up the downloads page so you can still get to old versions. For now you can only access links to the latest themes.