[bcrider]

Hello,

I’m using WordPress 4.0 running the Valeni Theme.

In my bbpress forum on the topic pages, usernames longer than 12 characters are being truncated.

See example:

Is there any way to prevent this?

Thanks!

[Robin W]

Sorry, but splitboard.com is 14 characters long and looks complete, and without knowing what it should say, telling us that it is truncated doesn’t really help.

I am struggling to know what your issue is?

[Robkk]

long characters are going to show up like this anyway

splitboard.co
m

you could lower the font-size a little bit more with css to allow maybe 2-3 more characters
but its still going to break the word apart if there is a certain amount of characters anyway

you could add more width to div.reply-author
maybe to about 150px

add this anywhere where you can put custom css

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
width: 150px;
}

you also might have to add some @media query css too if i missed it.

[bcrider]

Thank you both for the help!

I’m sorry it took a few days for me to check back in.

Robin W, you’re correct. Technically long usernames like splitboard.com are not truncated, they’re just not fitting nicely in the author box.

Robk, widening the box could help but since my current theme is non-responsive I don’t want to make the body of the forum posts any narrower.

I think the best option may be to decrease the font size in this box. Can anyone advise how I can accomplish this?

Looking at my current phpbb3 forum, it seems that is how they handle it.
http://splitboard.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16976

I really want to convert my forum of 6,0000 members and 125,000 posts to bbpress. I just need to work a few of these things out..

Thank you!

Chris

[Robkk]

i took this css right from bbpress.org

add this anywhere you can add custom css
if it doesnt work add !important to the end like this 12px!important;

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name, 
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name {
clear: left;
display: block;
font-size: 12px;
}

the default size i think is usually 12px
so either use that or go lower

[bcrider]

Awesome, thanks Robkk!

It gave me the exclamation point error that said “Element (div.bb-reply-author) is overqualified. Just use the .bb-reply-author without element name”

I’m not 100% sure what that means but ultimately it let me lower the font! So that’s great!

Follow up question, is there anyway to bold the author name in that box?

[Robkk]

add to the existing code you are using.

font-weight: bold;

[bcrider]

you rock!

[bcrider]

sorry! How about color?

[Robkk]

huh?? i thought i replied already..

well its font-color: black;

and just using color:black; works too

any other CSS tips checkout the guides on styling bbPress in the docs

Codex

[Robkk]

font-color: black;

or

color: black;

more on styling bbPress

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

bbPress Styling Crib