bbp Style Pack is a huge styling plugin for bbPress and more besides. Using bbp Style Pack you can change the look and feel of just about any element of your bbPress forums, for example you can control the colours and font sizes of all elements of your forums listing page, you can do the same with each individual forum topics list page and you can control the same elements for the individual topic and reply page.
It should be noted that this plugin have features for both BuddyPress and Standalone bbPress installations and therefore some features may not be so relevant to BuddyPress installs.
Once you install and activate the plugin you will be able to access the bbp Style Pack settings via the Dashboard>>Settings>>bbp Style Pack page. Once there you will find twenty different tabs of forum settings and information.
bbp Style Pack does more than just styling; it comes with it’s own Recent Replies widget and also allows you to insert custom CSS into your forum pages, it allows you to change the forum breadcrumb settings plus a whole lot more.
Feature Review
The following explains broadly the contents of the Dashboard>>Settings>>bbp Style Pack page.
Forums Index Styling
This tab holds all the options for styling the Forums Index Page
Forum Templates
This holds pre-built templates that you could apply to your forums.
Forum Display
This section have several forum display options.
Freshness Display
This provides options to add a topic freshness display to topic lists.
Breadcrumbs
This section controls the display of breadcrumbs in the forum pages
Buttons
This tab add “Create Topic”, “Subscribe” and “Profile” buttons to the forum index page.
Login
This page adds additional locations for displaying the login button.
Forum Roles
This tab controls how roles are displayed in the forums
Topic Order
Changes the order that topics are loaded in the topics list.
Topics Index Styling
This tab has the options for styling the Topics Index page
Topic/Reply Styling
This tab shows the options for styling the topic/reply to topic area.
Topic/Reply Form
This section has the settings for the topic reply form.
Profile
This section allows bbPress specific profiles to be turned off etc.
Shortcodes
Details of how to use the shortcodes bundled with the plugin.
Widgets
Details of the Widgets bundled with the plugin
Latest Activity Widget Styling
Styling options for the Latest Activity widget.
Custom CSS
A place to enter custom CSS
CSS Location
The location of the custom CSS file.
I discovered bbp Style Pack a while back and after playing with it once this has become a must have companion to any bbPress install I manage, it is highly recommended – 11 out of 10. A truly Awesome plugin!
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