Forum Description background color

[treed226]

First – great plugin. This has already saved me a ton of time trying to sort through the bbpress codex in search of methods to format my forums exactly how I want them.

Everything works as expected, but I do have one request/suggestion. Is it or would it be possible to add functionality to change the forum description background color? I want to set my forums up to match the rest of my website, which has a dark theme, but the background color of the forum description remains white.

I don’t have a lot of php experience, but I do have a general understanding of it. I may be able to add the functionality in myself, but if I could be pointed in the right direction regarding exactly which files will need to be modified, that would help immensely.

Thank You for your effort on this plugin. It really has been a huge help and has already saved me several hours if not days of scouring the bbpress files to do exactly what your plugin allows me to do.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Robin W]

yes, I’m looking for what I haven’t coded for

Can you post a url to an example on your site – that will make it much quicker for me to see what I need to change

[treed226]

Thank You for your quick reply.

A sample of what I am referring to can be seen on THIS page where the descriptions of the individual forum topics appear with a white background.

[Robin W]

Ok, I’ve had a look

Your raindrops theme’s style.css is setting the background on line 3623 – the property is ‘bbp-forum-content’ and it is set to
‘background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #fff;’

the #fff being the colour – white !

Since I don’t know if you’ve added that, or if it comes with the raindrops theme, then I’m a bit against altering it. Themes would generally not style bbpress and if they do should leave this property as ‘transparent’ allowing it sit on whatever color the background is.

For you, you could add

#bbpress-forums .bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums .bsp-forum-content

 {
Background-color : transparent !important ;
 }

to the end of that theme’s style.css, and if the theme is either a theme or a child theme that you have created, just keep a note of what you added, so that if the file is updated by the theme author, you can simply add these lines back in.

If you don’t know how to do that – come back !

[treed226]

Awesome! That did the trick. Thank you so much!

[Robin W]

no problem – glad you’re fixed !