Robkk

First, WordPress.org makes it difficult to find themes without endlessly going through page after page.

There has been talk to add a bbpress tag for sorting inside of the feature filter in the features area. There is already a BuddyPress one i wonder why there isn’t a bbPress one yet though. Hopefully this will be added to help users find bbPress compatible themes.

Ipage tech support said it was my browser and everything would work great if I used Chrome. My puter is an old D630 Latitude and still runs great on WXP. It is maxed and cooks along quite well, but Chrome would break its little legs.

If you are using Internet Explorer 8 or less expect some sites are expected to not look good since Web Designers are more and more not supporting IE 8 and below. As for your computer you probably need more RAM/Memory to help speed up your computer.

I also do not know what BBPress’ intended purpose is.

Simple and light forum system for WordPress.

Generally, what I remember being unaccommodating as a first time user, is inability to…

Most of what you listed with the asterisk sounds very custom to you, its just minor touches. It probably would be better if you hired a web designer to make something custom/tweak your theme for you instead of looking for a theme to have everything you want. I know that this whole topic is about not wanting to use bbPress unless you were a developer, but what you want tweaked is all in your theme. In design , bbPress just inherits some styles from your theme, the rest of bbPress adds that sweet sweet community functionality.

Maybe that is how it is, and I have BBPress functionality confused with theme features? In any case, it was not definitively clear which was which.

Yeah you kind of did. All that you said with fonts, sidebar positioning , re-sizing header height should be in a theme because all that code that renders what font to use and the header height is usually in the themes anyway and not in bbPress.

As a first time end user, whether it be BBPress or theme related, consistent flexibility is what I am not experiencing.

Hopefully some damn good theme developer makes something fantastic for bbPress.

I don’t know if any of this input helps, or if I joined the majority of unreasonable users who expect too much. Mostly I resent being cornered into using applications that don’t allow individual customization without learning a ton of coding.

It kind of helped, made me realize that there isn’t any guides to help theme developers and what they could do with bbPress. There is some for basic styling and theme compatibility , but not really diving into the code to help them.

Rethinking all of this in writing released a bit of steam. Thank you for asking and listening.

no problem.

no problem 🙂

Make the search form on the forum was on every page of the forum.

I added a PHP code snippet to allow the forum search to be above single topics and single forums.

https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere

in the address bar at this point site.ru/forums/threads/…/
In all other places breadcrumbs display normally. Bread crumbs from “wordpress seo by yoast”.

That is an issue with Yoast’s breadcrumbs , its a very common issue reported for them.

ps .: okay since the imposition, well you though setting colors add to the admin panel, at least to enter the hex for example, and better implement ajax.
Simply another forum engine put in a folder, and so terribly small and ancient ((

I am kind of not sure what you are saying here but i think you are saying you want better forum customization maybe in the customizer area of a theme??

I am sure any good theme developer could add this type of functionality. Hopefully in the future they do.

For now there is this plugin for bbPress customization.

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

Worse is that some of the topics in the forum fail to be linked in its own bbpress search results.

bbPress search could be enhanced with some plugins or custom functionality to search through its taxonomies, but by default its as simple as the default WordPress search.

Styling this plugin well is extremely not easy.

if you have a good understanding of how CSS works its so easy its ridiculous

Plus there is some bbPress plugins that help style your bbPress forums.

If you would’ve made a topic at bbpress.org i would’ve helped you out.

You’d notice that all bbPress forums look almost the same as its own, with only minor touches.

So does any forum software.

bbPress has a default look that requires to either be customized with a plugin to help style your forums, or a WordPress theme to create a custom bbPress layout.

We have been struggling with the extremely limited capabilities of bbPress and rigidity of its structure.

usually when people say capabilities they mean the feature set of the software, but bbPress can use some plugins to add quotes, ratings, drag and drop ordering, signatures , bbcodes, link a forum to a custom link, user suspension, custom avatar , and tons more. There might be other features that are not yet a plugin but could be considered for the plugins core.

When people usually say structure , most of the time they mean the traditional category layout that other forum software have, and we already have a couple of ways to have this type of functionality.

Other than all that, sorry you feel dissatisfied with your experience of the bbPress plugin.

if you need help styling bbPress create a topic at the bbPress support forums.

https://bbpress.org/forums/new-topic/

You found a topic that was unresolved , the bbPress community cant resolve ALL topics that comes through there.

go and create a topic here, and i will pick it up when you post.

https://bbpress.org/forums

make sure to leave a link to your website.

images to help show the issue

and a good description about the issue.