We were using simple:press but it was so slow and bloated. Our load time on pages throughout the site was 3+ seconds with simple:press installed. With bbpress, it’s 0.5 seconds or less. Thank you bbpress!

Here’s the link:

http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/

[@shagalaga Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

Wow, nice design!

[@swaymedia Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

looks good, which version are you running ?

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

That’s the latest stable version – 0.9.0.4

Thanks for the feedback! I downloaded the “blank themes” from refueled.net and tweaked them here and there. I wanted a clean look.

I’m thinking about taking out the “last poster” column until we get more people posting – what do you think? I think it looks kind of stupid with my name showing up for nearly every post.

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

Here’s the link to the theme we’re using.

http://www.refueled.net/free-bbpress-themes/

I just tweaked the style sheet and the width of columns.

[@shagalaga Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

are polls working fine?

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

The CSS style and placement of the polls bothers me. I’d really like to see the poll at the top of the actual post, not in the sidebar.

But as far as function goes, they seem to be working alright. I inputted my vote and it worked fine.

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

Very nice clean layout, I like it alot.

The poll puts itself by default wherever the topicmeta is, however you can change that. Just a guess, untested, try putting this near the top of your topic.php template:

<?php  remove_action('topicmeta','bb_polls_pre_poll',200); bb_polls_pre_poll(); ?>

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks ck, much appreciated. I’m glad you like it. Thanks for all the great work on bbpress.

It very nearly works The polls show up correctly, but also this error:

Warning: Missing argument 1 for bb_polls_pre_poll(), called in /home/content/b/l/o/blogdave/html/forums/bb-templates/blank2rbbpress/topic.php on line 11 and defined in /home/content/b/l/o/blogdave/html/forums/bb-plugins/bbpress-polls/bb-polls.php on line 47

[@_ck_ Participant 15 years, 9 months ago]

ah it needs the topic id, sorry, try this

<?php  remove_action('topicmeta','bb_polls_pre_poll',200); bb_polls_pre_poll($topic_id); ?>

[@swaymedia Member 15 years, 9 months ago]

Last year I put the gravatar of the latest poster there instead of the poster name, it looked good, but i dont know if it would with your theme, unless you make them really small like a digg.com avatar. just my thoughts. might look good, good luck

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks ck – that did it. Now how do I get the polls out of the sidebar? I only want them to show up in the topic, not the topic and the sidebar. Does that make sense?

Thanks swaymedia, I’ll going to look into that. Thanks for the interest!

Thanks everyone for checking it out!

[@ccsm Member 15 years, 8 months ago]

I figured out how to get rid of the polls in the sidebar. CK might have a more elegant way to do this, but I just deleted this line:

add_action(‘topicmeta’,’bb_polls_pre_poll’,200);

From the bb-polls.php file, then added this line (as CK suggested) to my topic.php template file:

<?php remove_action(‘topicmeta’,’bb_polls_pre_poll’,200); bb_polls_pre_poll($topic_id); ?>

Here’s what it looks like:

http://www.musicianwages.com/forums/topic/whats-the-best-cruise-line-to-work-for/