I want to change the default look of my forums.

1. I like the way this forum and the index looks. The Index has a summary of the forums and the forum threads page has a summary of forum stats. In both cases these are in a left sidebar. How can I achieve this?
2. Currently the first item in the forum is justified left. The first reply under it is also justified left, rather than indented. Subsequent replies are then indented as I would expect. How can I get the first reply indented…. a CSS change?

Thank you……….liz

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

Ok, on your first :

This is to do with your theme and it’s page templates, not bbPress directly.

what you will need to do is create a bbpress.php file and into that put the page layout

see

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

for creating a bbpress page to use

Then see

http://brookswebdesign.net/how-to-create-a-wordpress-template-with-left-sidebar/

for creating a left hand sidebar.

On your second, this is either

related to your theme and how it is displaying content. Switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve for a moment and see it is it then displaying – in default all with not be indented.

or

maybe because you are using threading on dashboard>settings>forums>reply threading

Let me know which, and I’ll take a lokk to see how to get all to ident

[@lizat Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Robin,

About the indenting: I do have threading ticked because I want that. So I want it to look like this

….1 First item
……..1.1 Reply to first Item
……..1.2 Second reply to 1st Item
…………1.2.1 Reply to 1.2
……..1.3 third Reply to 1st item
….2 Second Item

My problem is that I get this:
….1 First item
….1.1 Reply to first Item
….1.2 Second reply to 1st Item
……..1.2.1 Reply to 1.2
….1.3 third Reply to 1st item
….2 Second Item

Which don’t make any visual sense at all. So I imagined it is a CSS setting that I can change but what is it?

liz

[@lizat Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

Oh, forgot to say tried alternate theme and behave the same way if threading is on.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

Can you give me a link to the page in question, and I’ll take a look

[@lizat Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Robin,

Take a look at this: http://www.archipelacom.com/forums/topic/test-topic-1/

liz