Some things I’d like to see

Disappointing that after donating, I don’t even get a reply.

@steel-rat – first of all apologies that I didn’t reply and many thanks for your kind donation. Whilst it is no excuse, I am just a guy sat in his kitchen writing code when I can, I have 2 day jobs and try and help where I can, but I don’t always succeed. Sometimes things get missed and your post was one of them.

I would say that I am not a bbpress author, I just started using bbpress and got interested in improving how it looks and works.

On stickies, I’ll take a look if I get a moment.

On topic avatar – yes I agree, but that size is an item in the bbpress template so a custom template is needed to fix.

If you’d care to paste the css you used to get the author background to look better, I’ll see if I can help on that

on the author, this will change the block, but keep the header and footer as is

li.bbp-header div.bbp-reply-author, li.bbp-footer div.bbp-reply-author {
background : transparent ;
} 

.bbp-reply-author {
background : green;
}

Understood about your time. Sorry, I just got a little frustrated.

This is what I used for the author block in the Additional CSS section of Appearance>Customize:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
    float: left;
    text-align: center;
    width: 115px;
    background-color: #eaeaea;
}

When I applied your custom CSS after removing mine, it didn’t have any effect, the author block bg was the same color as the reply text area.

I had done some other fiddling around and had another CSS snippet which corrected the header and footer problem. So I eventually figured out what I needed to do there.

So right now, the Sticky and Super Sticky options are bugging me. If I could change the font colors along with the background colors, it would work better. I haven’t been able to figure out the CSS to control the font color.

Thanks for your time and effort.

I see now, again. There is a topic author and a reply author. Yours was only for the reply author. So mine works for both. ??

For clarity, here is what I’m using to solve the author (topic and reply) block issue.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
    float: left;
    text-align: center;
    width: 115px;
    background-color: #eaeaea;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer, #bbpress-forums li.bbp-header {
    background: #eaeaea;
    border-top: 1px solid #eee;
    font-weight: 700;
    padding: 8px;
    text-align: center;
}

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Steel Rat.

on sticky topics try

.sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink , .super-sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink {
color : green ;
}

That didn’t seem to do anything. What should it have done?

that should have turned the text on stick and super sticky to green

It didn’t have any effect.

When I inspect the page, I can see that CSS when I drill down. But the color property has a strikethrough, so isn’t active for some reason. Probably being overridden by something else?

ok, try

.sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink , .super-sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink {
color : green  !important ;
}

Thanks again for the help.

That last snippet only covered the topic name, all the other text included in the sticky background color needs to change along with it. But with your lead, I was able to get most of them to change. The only one that doesn’t is the freshness, since that’s a link inside a list item, and the link has no CSS class attached to it.

Here’s what have:

.sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink , .super-sticky a.bbp-topic-permalink, .bbp-topic-started-by, li.bbp-forum-reply-count, li.bbp-forum-topic-count, li.bbp-topic-reply-count, li.bbp-topic-voice-count, a.bbp-author-link, li.bbp-topic-freshness {
color : green  !important ;
}

That will probably need to be a custom template change, which I’m not sure how to do.

Anyway, I don’t want to take up any more of your time. Thanks again!!