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Styling bbpress visual editor
5 replies · Started by Simon Wagemyr on May 3, 2021
Hi!
Using Generatepress with bbpress and the general styling is straight forward and rather simple to work with, as it is as simple as adding css to simple css. However, I've hit a wall when it comes to the visual editor of bbpress and can't seem to find a working solution. Nothing I try seems to change the look of the visual editor (tinymce). I've messed around with wp-include/js/tinymce and a lot of other things.
This might be out of scope for this support forum, but if you have any insight into how styling the reply box can be achieved in a decent way (maybe code snippet or something), then I'm all ears.
Hi there,
I recommend ditching the classic editor for the newer Block editor.
There's a reason why WordPress made classic editor obsolete, and the wall you're encountering is one of it.
Here's what I'd do:
I'll remove the classic editor completely and attempt to convert the contents to blocks.
WordPress block editor lets users do this but it's not smooth. But even then, I'll go ahead with this and adjust the things that didn't work to my preference.
I understand that this is tedious work. But that's the price we pay for making things easier for us in the future. :)
Thank you for the reply!
For the homepage pages and such I'm using the block editor, this question was specifically aimed at the bbpress reply form.
Gutenberg block editor works great with your theme for the rest of the page, but tinymce (the ux, so to speak) is well suited for making forum replies.
Can you specify which issue have you encountered?
Perhaps provide a screenshot so we can understand better? While the classic editor is outside of our scope of support, (it's old, even WordPress itself deprecated it), maybe we can come up with something.
It's a sandbox homepage at the time, you can log in and have a check if you have the time.
It's specifically the forum reply section which I'm unable to find a way to style.
Thanks for your willingness to check it out!
Did you mean the reply text area?
I don't think you can style that by normal means. It's an embedded <iframe> added by bbpress.
https://share.getcloudapp.com/mXupQgxR
For this particular one, I suggest contacting bbpress support for best practice. The theme's styling can't control things inside iframes.
