Title: [Plugin: bbPress] Help me!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: bbPress] Help me!

 *  Resolved [mann1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mann1/)
 * (@mann1)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/)
 * Hello,
    I’ve running a standalone version of bbpress integrated with my wordpress
   site. I didn’t integrate the bbpress plugin because the main forum page of the
   plugin looked very ugly and on creating sub-forums, the names of the sub-forums
   appear horizontally.
 * Something like
    Development(25,12), Support(34,43), Testing(34,21)
 * Because of this ,the forum looked very primitive as the main forum page looked
   very small and empty. I wanted a normal usual looking forum which users have 
   generally seen and I thought that going for bbpress standalone would be a better
   idea but maintaining the standalone version has been a nightmare-users can’t 
   post sometimes, plugins don’t work properly etc and am thinking about using bbpress
   plugin.
 * Can somebody please advice how to make those sub-forums appear vertically as 
   it is on the wordpress homepage like this. I’m very depressed with this whole
   nightmarish experience.
 * > [Support Forums](https://wordpress.org/support/)

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 *  [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514626)
 * You can use css to make forum list appear “vertically” in the plugin.
 * display:block; should do it.
 *  Thread Starter [mann1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mann1/)
 * (@mann1)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514639)
 * Can you please elaborate what exactly to do ? I’d be really really thankful to
   you for this as I’m in a mess
 *  [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514652)
 * Try putting
    `.bbp-forum-info .bbp-forums li {display:block;}` in your theme’s
   CSS
 *  Thread Starter [mann1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mann1/)
 * (@mann1)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514665)
 * Thank you very much. That was really helpful! 🙂
 *  [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514686)
 * Glad to be of help.
 * If this solved your issue, please mark this thread as “resolved”. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [mann1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mann1/)
 * (@mann1)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514715)
 * Thanks, have marked that now.
 *  [JenniferNM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennifernm/)
 * (@jennifernm)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514872)
 * Hi,
 * Can you tell us where we would put this?
 * There’s nothing for forums that we can see in the CSS file for our theme. But
   under the bbpress files, we tried mucking around with inserting the above code
   and don’t know where it goes “Forums (Index) Page Template.”
 * Thanks,
    Jennifer
 * 
    <?php
 * /**
    * Template Name: bbPress – Forums (Index) * * [@package](https://wordpress.org/support/users/package/)
   bbPress * @subpackage Theme */
 * ?>
 * <?php get_header(); ?>
 *  <div id=”container”>
    <div id=”content” role=”main”>
 *  <?php do_action( ‘bbp_template_notices’ ); ?>
 *  <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
 *  <div id=”forum-front” class=”bbp-forum-front”>
    <h1 class=”entry-title”><?php
   the_title(); ?></h1> <div class=”entry-content”>
 *  <?php the_content(); ?>
 *  <?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/content’, ‘archive-forum’ ); ?>
 *  </div>
    </div><!– #forum-front –>
 *  <?php endwhile; ?>
 *  </div><!– #content –>
    </div><!– #container –>
 * <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    <?php get_footer(); ?> `
 *  [JenniferNM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jennifernm/)
 * (@jennifernm)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514873)
 * Sorry, the code I pasted above is from the file I named!
 *  [Nicola](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoleuk/)
 * (@nicoleuk)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514877)
 * Thanks! I have added that code and it worked fine, however I’m wanting to add
   a space/gap between the forum now that they’re listed vertically. How do I do
   this?
 *  [chibichiii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chibichiii/)
 * (@chibichiii)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-help-me/#post-2514896)
 * Nicoleeuk To add spacing between the items of your listing you need to add padding
   or margin
 * .bbp-forum-info .bbp-forums li {
    display:block; padding-right: 2px; }
 * Will add a 2 px space between the first item and the item to the right of it.
 * You can fully customize the looks of the items of how far apart they should be
   from each other with padding.

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