all bbpress pages need to follow the design of an index forum page

artline_projects · November 2014

Hellow, Betheme Team! We need help with the following. With the help of page options we have created a custom style for our forum pages. It is different from the one we use on other pages. We created a page called Forums and placed a bbpress shortcode for forums index there. And applied our custom style for the root forums page to look we want it to look. Everything is ok with this page but when we try to go to a single forum page the design and layout of a page change to that we have on nonforum pages (general style and layout we have set). As you may understand this is not a kind of a behavior we would expect. We would like all of our forum pages to follow a special custom layout.

Albert · November 2014

Hi,

please give us url to website where this happen and we'll check it.

artline_projects · November 2014

The site is under construction and is not directly accessible. It's future url will be: nailsplace.ru. But for now a present version is displayed at this address. But you can try to view the new version adding the following strings to your hosts file:
192.145.239.17 nailsplace.ru
192.145.239.17 www.nailsplace.ru
Please, inform of any difficulties in accessing the site or reading its pages. We will send screenshots with comments if needed.

Albert · November 2014

We think that we found this problem because we have checked other website today where similar thing happened. This will be fixed with next update but if you want to fix it now, then in bbpress.php file please replace below code:

<div class="sections_group">
    <?php 
        while ( have_posts() ){
            the_post();                            // Post Loop    
            mfn_builder_print( get_the_ID() );    // Content Builder & WordPress Editor Content
        }
    ?>
</div>

with:

<div class="sections_group">
    <div class="section the_content">            
        <div class="section_wrapper">
            <div class="the_content_wrapper">
                <?php 
                    while ( have_posts() ){
                        the_post();        // Post Loop    
                        the_content();    // WordPress Editor Content
                    }
                ?>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Hope this is what you need

artline_projects · November 2014

It solves one problem, thank you.
But this does not help with our question, sorry. Our question is about styling. We want our custom page styling for all bbpress pages. For now we have only managed to apply it to forums main (index) page.
Is there a way we can send you screenshots to clarify the issue?

Albert · November 2014

Of course you can paste those screenshots here. For that you can use http://snag.gy/ for example or other similar tool.

artline_projects · November 2014

We have tried to paste them in a comment box but it says that maximum length is exceeded.

Albert · November 2014

Please use service that we provided above or try other like http://pasteboard.co/

artline_projects · November 2014

here is our default page style: http://snag.gy/1eXXC.jpg
here is what bbpress pages should look and how bbpress index page looks (custom page layout): http://snag.gy/s5I6J.jpg
and now the single forum page that switches to default layout from custom layout although we want it to stay custom: http://snag.gy/3Tq4d.jpg

Albert · November 2014

Sorry but we don't understand what is wrong on those images. All pages that you sent above are the same style and we do not see any differences between them.

artline_projects · November 2014

Strange to read that. Default layout features a wide layout, no background image and a fixed left-side menu style. BBpress pages should have a boxed layout, a background image and a creative menu. That is exactly what is shown on screenshot 2 (index forums page).

Albert · November 2014

Ok we missed that boxed version on the images. Sorry! We're going to explain why it is like that.

Custom layouts works only for pages and single portfolio items. It is not possible to setup own layouts for plugins and other stuff. In this case you should setup boxed layout as default but setup custom for the rest pages. And this is the only way to do what you need.

Thanks for understanding!

artline_projects · November 2014

Does that mean that if we still want it to be our way we have to use WP multisite feature with sub domains so that we can apply different theme options to different sub domains?

Albert · November 2014

We did not tested it this way but probably you're right.

artline_projects · November 2014

Thanks for cooperation.

Albert · November 2014

You're welcome!

all bbpress pages need to follow the design of an index forum page

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