Can’t change Forum Template

[paladinbrewer]

Hello,

So I just installed your bbp pack, and one of the things I really wanted it for was to change the template. I went to Settings -> Forum Templates, and I changed it to Alternate Forum template 1, and I saved. Nothing happened.

Just to test I went to Forums Indexing Style and I changed a background (just for testing purposes) and nothing happened.

I went to Forum Display and I did “Hide Counts” for Hide sub-forum counts and that DID work, so I know it’s communicating.

Is it the shortcode I’m using, or the template? I wasn’t sure what the default shortcode was to display all categories/forums, so I did:
[bsp-display-forum-index forum= ‘46,50,52,54,56,59,61’]

Am I doing this wrong or is the template interfering? Thanks.

The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

[Robin W]

I’ll repeat what I put in the bbpress forums for completeness, but then see my second post

style pack will work against the standard forum code, so if you have a forum(s) displaying without style pack being activated, then it should work against that url with the changes

ok, that is my plugin, and I’ll try to get to a resolution

It may be as simple as closing and restarting your browser, so try this first !!

If that doesn’t work…

Style pack works with many/most sites, but it can fail due to a myriad of reasons, including (but no means limited to) site permissions, other plugins and most often site themes where the theme author has altered bbpress files.

My plugin uses two different techniques to make changes.

For some I change how bbpress sends information by changing or overwriting bbpress code, for some I change what is called css, which your browser uses to display information.

Therefore some changes may take effect, whilst others don’t seem to.

Additionally you may have :

1. ‘caching’ software that speeds up the download of your site, but may not recognise and immediately make changes from my plugin
Do you know if you are using caching software?
2. Site permissions issues – you site might (quite validly for it) not allow my plugin to write code to certain areas
Try
Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>css location
check the activate box and set the location to
wp-content/uploads/
and save these changes

For the template, are you able to look at the site files to see if your theme has a directory called bbpress ?

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

[Robin W]

from a quick look at the link you provided, I’d guess that you do have bbpress files in your theme.

I can see that the css isn’t loading, which no. 2 in the post above may well fix

[Robin W]

fixed with the help of the theme author