Can’t change color of topic title, author and admin links

  • Resolved locutus1

    (@locutus1)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi. I use Windows 7 SP1 and the latest version of Google Chrome. I’m using WordPress for the first time to create my first site which is pretty cool :). I went through all the tabs on the top row in Settings…bbp style pack and ended up with some issues. I’m using the plugin bbpress to make forums.

    Some stuff worked fine. I added thumbnails before forum names and changed the home breadcrumb. So I don’t understand why some stuff just doesn’t work. These are all forum issues but the settings are all in bbp Style Pack. I put the more important ones first.

    1) On the “Topic / Reply Styling” tab I tried to change the color of admin links (section 11) in forum posts. I checked the box, picked a color, and clicked “Save changes”. I tested it and the color is the same hard-to-read grey color.

    2) In a forum, how do I change the color of the topic title link, “started by” and the author after a post is closed? When a post is open the topic title and author are blue and “started by” is black. It’s very readable. If I close the post, the title, author and “started by” all turn a hard-to-read grey color. It’s ugly. The “Topics Index Styling” tab deals with colors for these things (sections 3 and 8) but I could not get them to work (which is fine for open posts) and there is no mention of posts being open or closed.

    3) In forums, I can’t get Subscribe to move to the right side. It’s in Section 3 of the Forums Display tab. I checked the box and clicked Save changes. I tested it and it’s in the same place.

    4) In forums, I can’t make rounded corners. It’s section 8 of Forums Display.

    So 2 things work and the rest don’t. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by locutus1.
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  • Plugin Author Robin W

    (@robin-w)

    thanks for your post.

    Some of the settings use code to change, and some use ‘css’ to make styling changes.

    From your useful post, I suspect that the code changes are working, but css changes are not.

    This is usually either

    • that you need to close and restart your browser or
    • a permissions issue on your server, or
    • that you have web-caching software running on your site.

    Start by shutting down and restarting your browser, that will force it to re-load the css.
    If that doesn’t work, then go to
    Dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>CSS location and in ‘Enter bspstyle.css location’ put in

    wp-content/uploads/

    and then activate

    then go into the Topic / Reply Styling, check the settings and click save

    If that works- let me know, if it doesn’t then …let me know !!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Robin W.
    Thread Starter locutus1

    (@locutus1)

    Weirder and weirder. On the Topics Index Styling tab, in addition to what I said in my first post, I had also set the background color for stickys and super stickys (section 9) to orange. None of it worked so I did what you said. Restarting the browser didn’t help so I entered the CSS code you gave me in the CSS location tab and clicked the Activate checkbox. Now the background color of the stickys is what I set it to (orange) and admin links is what I set it to (red). So it works now.

    So I set the background color of the stickys to something else because orange turned out to be ugly. I also set admin links to blue. I clicked Save and checked my site and it was still using orange as the background color for stickys and red for admin links. I unchecked the Activate box and everything went back to the defaults. I closed the browser, deleted web cache, restarted the browser, re-checked the Activate box and it’s the same: orange as background for stickys and red for admin links. I went back several times to make sure I had set them to different colors and I had. I can’t get rid of orange for background and red for admin links.
    Subscribe does move to the right and corners are rounded so those 2 work now with the CSS code entered.
    I can’t find a setting that gives you the option to change colors for title, author and “started by” after the post is closed. These are fine when the post is open. It’s only when a normal or sticky post is closed that everything becomes grey.
    Thanks for your help.

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by locutus1.
    Thread Starter locutus1

    (@locutus1)

    So no help here? I uninstalled / reinstalled the plugin and it’s the same. Background color for stickys is orange and admin links are red even though no colors are set for those 2 things and I just reinstalled the plugin. This must mean that when you uninstall a plugin the settings are not deleted (it’s certainly true for this plugin). They’re left behind. Then, if you reinstall the plugin, the old settings are re-enabled. There must be a way to delete that info so when I reinstall the plugin it will be like I’m installing it for the first time.

    Plugin Author Robin W

    (@robin-w)

    yes, plenty of help here, but help is free, and comes I’m afraid second to paid work – you are getting free support for a free product that has taken me many hours to write !

    There must be a way to delete that info so when I reinstall the plugin it will be like I’m installing it for the first time.

    yes there is

    dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>reset settings !!!!!

    Thread Starter locutus1

    (@locutus1)

    I tried “Reset Settings” the same day you gave me your “solution”. I found it on my own. Guess what? It didn’t work! After resetting the settings on the “Topic / Reply Styling” and “Topics Index Styling” tabs, the forum was unchanged. Sticky posts still had an orange background and admin links were still red even though no colors were set for either of those things. I uninstalled / reinstalled the plugin. It’s exactly the same!

    If you had no intention of troubleshooting it further, why did you tell me to keep you updated? Think about that while I refresh your memory. You ended your first post with “If that works- let me know, if it doesn’t then …let me know !!” I tried what you said and then told you the results. So, I did what you said!! 5 days went by and you didn’t respond. I thought I had waited long enough so I submitted another post and then you bite my head off. If you had no intention of troubleshooting it further then why did you tell me to keep you updated? I took the time to write that second post because you told me to keep you updated. I did exactly what you said and you bite my head off. What a waste of time! You wasted my time!

    Without resolving this issue, you asked for money when I asked how to rewrite “Create new topic”. You really expect someone to pay money when another issue isn’t resolved and you just stop responding?

    It’s clear to me that this plugin is very buggy. That’s why I’m having this problem.

    It’s also clear to me that you don’t know how to fix it even though you wrote it!!! LOL

    Since you’re not smart enough to fix your own buggy plugin, I have to use it with the activate checkbox on the CSS location tab unchecked. I’ll use it like this while I look for a plugin to replace yours.

    Spend some time debugging your plugin!!

    In the future if you don’t intend to troubleshoot something, don’t tell people to keep you updated!!!!!!

    Plugin Author Robin W

    (@robin-w)

    the problem is and remains with your site and is almost certainly one of the 3 original issues I stated, this plugin has over 4,000 installations and is certainly not ‘buggy’ but I’m not here to take abuse, so I’ll just leave it there.

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