Revolution Finally Meets bbPress
I am very happy to announce that Revolution is finally being developed for bbPress. For those of you who don’t know, bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean. But don’t let its simplicity deceive you; underneath the gleam, it’s got some powerful features and is highly customizable. You can read more about bbPress or download the software.
The first theme that I am working on is the Revolution Magazine bbPress theme. Currently the theme is in 0.1 beta version, so please feel free to provide feedback if you want to take it for a test drive. Since I have never personally used bbPress other than the WordPress support forum, I don’t have a lot of experience, thus the beta testing version.
Feel free to download the theme and take it for a test drive!
Once I have some people test it, and I can work out the bugs, the entire line of Revolution themes will have matching bbPress themes. This is something I am very happy about, and look forward to being able to say that all Revolution themes will have matching phpBB3 and bbPress themes.
Let me know what you think, and how it looks!
Brian - Ooh! I’ve been looking for an excuse to try bbpress and your theme really improves the otherwise drab look of the forum software. Great job.
That’s funny.. I just saw your tweet and like 10 minutes ago I was thinking that you somehow would release the bbPress theme
Go figure!
Brian,
The #bottom container with the bbpress theme isn’t aligned correctly in Firefox.
Try these CSS updates to correct it for Firefox:
#bottom - remove overflow:hidden
#footerright - change padding from 7px to 5px to remove the gap between the footer and content containers.
Keep up the good work!
Gio
Ed
Glad I gave you something to do today!
Remkus
There are more to come, once the wrinkles get ironed out.
Gio
I’m guessing you are viewing FF on a Mac?
Nice, thanks Brian!
Apologies for banging on the same old drum but it would be marvelous to see a vBulletin theme.
I understand the advantage of bbPress being free and, emotionally, I love that it comes from Automattic but it is important to remember that it omits many of the features that make forums successful - this is not a question of “small and light” vs “bloat”, it is about usability and having features that will encourage participation and allow forums to gain momentum.
The fact that bbPress is used on WordPress.org almost sounds like a good thing until you remember how awkward it is finding anything in that mess. Bear in mind, too, that bbPress is alpha software and, while Automattic have access to the skills necessary to keep it up and running, many individual site owners won’t.
Also, bbPress is so early in its development that it is a moving target, keeping your theme compatible with each change to their templating system will chew up a lot of your dev time, whereas vBulletin has an established, stable and well though out framework.
So, once again, I would like to suggest that WordPress + Revolution + vBulletin would be a knock-out combo, with vBulletin customers representing a perfect cross-over market for paid themes.
Brian,
A piece of art !
Thank you
Brygida
Donnacha
As always thanks for your feedback - to be honest, I have every intention on hitting up vBulletin. The bbPress development of the Magazine theme was relatively easy, and once I know there aren’t any major bugs, it will be pretty simple to go through and code all of the themes for Revolution.
Having said that, getting my hands into vBulletin won’t be as far off as you think, and my hope (although don’t nail me to this) is to have vBulletin themes available in the near future.
That’s great news - if and when you do get the chance, I will be the first to sing Revolution’s praises on the vB forums as the ideal visual bridge between WP and vB.
As ever, thank you for your continuing efforts on our behalves.
Brian, thanks for the theme. I installed it on a 0.9.0.2 bbPress installation. Take a look at these two screenshots for the way the subforums are displayed.
Stock theme
Revolution theme
Thanks for the excellent work.
Donnacha
Thought you might like to know I just purchased a VB license. The plot thickens.
Chris
Are your referring to the nesting (or lacktherof) on the Magazine subForums?
Yes - the lack of nesting, and also, they do not appear in hierarchical order. The stock theme displays them with child subforums directly beneath the parent.
If it’s intentional in the Revolution theme, I must say I don’t like it. You can’t see the hierarchy.
Chris
Not intentional, trust me - just didn’t think to setup subforums on the demo, I’ll do that soon and work through the nesting. Thankfully, this is the beta version, which was intended to catch things I may have missed! Thanks for looking into it!
Wow, you certainly zoom ahead with your plans!
You might find it useful to know that there are two main vB forums:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/ - official support and discussion of the main product line.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/index.php - official site hacks, mods, themes and add-ons, this is the place where you find all the neat optional stuff, like buttons for thanking people, polls etc.
Like WP, there’s a big, lively community around vB, it just feels different. I hope you’ll find it interesting.
Yes, I’m viewing the bbpress template on FF with a Mac. Is it not showing the footer mis-alignment?
Gio
Donnacha
Thanks for the links, I’ll be getting my hands dirty soon!
Gio
Thanks, figured you were - when I view FF on a PC, I don’t see the issue, but I know that there are rendering difference when viewing FF on a mac then on a PC.
You use a PC?
Wow, I don’t why, but that really surprises me - I guess it must be all your talk of Starbucks; I somehow imagined you beavering away behind a Macbook and a Grande Latte
Hi Brian.
This is GREAT news! Though, I’m still waiting for my VBulletin skin. I have a site using your Blue City theme and it has a VBulletin forums attached to it with the ugly default skin
Keep up the good work!
Chris
How’s it looking now? I think I fixed the nesting issue.
Gio
Now, when looking on a Mac with Firefox, how’s the bottom footer section?
Kyle
Thanks man, I’m working the vBulletin thing as much as I can now!
Hi Brian,
I downloaded again from http://www.revolutiontheme.com/magazine/bbpress/download.zip and it appears the same to me. Is there something in the theme files I can check or diff to be sure I have the latest version? It looks the same to me right now.
Thanks,
Chris
Donnacha
In case you’re wondering, this is where I’ll be getting my hands dirty. People can see the progress as I make it - not sure when I’ll begin, but that is where it will take place.
Hi Brian:
Glad to hear about integration of bbpress. Would your Music theme include bbpress too? I know there is a forum in there already? Is there a chance for a switch?
I would love to see that happen.
Thanks so much for it all.
Cheers;
Vida
Brian,
Boy oh Boy.. if you go and do Vbulletin!! Yowza..
Also I sent you a email yesterday about the other theme I wanted since I bought Music… Let me know if you didn’t recieve it.
Thanks!
Darrell
Brian,
I sent it again.. Just about 45 mins ago per your email.. Hmmmmmm Hope you got this one..
Darrell
Hi Brian,
I am looking so long for really good looking and functional WP-Themes. I founded at Revolutiontheme.com. Great!
I will purchase the Revolution pro Business for my Bizz of course and the the free one Dropshadow for my personal Blog.
Brian thanks for that. Your Themes are the best ones.
Greetings from Germany
Marco
Hi Brian.
It appears there is no edit link for a user’s profile. Normally, in the backend, you can click Users and then the user name, and there are 3 tabs there (when you’re in the backend anyway):
Profile profile.php?id=3
Edit profile.php?id=3&tab=edit
Favorites profile.php?id=3&tab=favorites
Using this theme, you get redirected from a backend page to a front end (Revolution-style) profile page, and I can’t seem to find the edit or profile links there. Am I just not seeing the links?
If you access the URL directly by appending the tab= part, it works and is still a Revolution-styled page, and it has the correct functionality. It appears that the links are just missing from the page.
Thanks
Typo in the first part there: can’t see the Edit or Favorites (I wrote “edit or profile” above) links on the profile page when using this theme.
Hi. Can I use revolution-magazine for bbpress for free or it’s only for “premium” users? I mean, people that purchased a magazine theme?
I can’t do it in that moment but i think in a future i’ll buy revolution-magazine (the argentinian peso/dollar relationship does not benefit me
)
Thanks and Sorry for my poor english :S
yes it is very fantastic and suitable for my mobile
Hi Brian,
Glad to hear you’ll be integrating vB. Your Revolution theme is perfect for my business/blog. I’m a big fan!
Exclusive themes are nice..cool idea! Good luck with it.
Hi Brian,
Just download http://www.revolutiontheme.com/magazine/bbpress/download.zip so I can integrate it into my Rev Mag site but the footer is not rendering properly in FF on my iMac.
I noticed you’ve made some fixes, is the link above the latest version?
Thanks. Love your work.
James