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Style Settings

The Forum ☛ Options ☛ Style Options administration panel is where you can customize the look and feel of your Forum. From this panel, you can select which skin and icon set to use. The panel will self-discover any custom skins or icon sets that you have uploaded.

Forum Skin


This setting determines the forum skin (CSS and required image files) that will be used to render your forum pages. When first installed it is set to the default skin. Several skins are shipped with the plugin and you can easily create and install more.

Simple:Press ships each skin with a CSS source file and a minimized CSS file. By default, the minimized CSS file is used for performance gains. With the ‘Use Source’ option, you can choose to use the larger, easier to read skin source file instead of the minimized CSS file. This should only be done when testing CSS changes and you want to edit the more user friendly source file.

Adjust Font Size


The base font size used by the forum is set in the forum skin CSS file. If you do not wish to edit the skin bit do wish to adjust the size of text display you can adjust it here. Start with a value of 100 and check the results. Adjust up or down to suit your preference.

To leave the sizes as supplied in the skin – leave this field empty.

Forum Icons


These settings determine the forum icons that will be used to render your forum pages. When first installed they are set to the default icon set, bet several different set are shipped with the plugin.

You can also check the option to update icons to their default settings for your selected Skin if a control template exists. This will ensure that icons with text on them do not duplicate the text label printed next to them. This can also be done manually on the ‘Display Icon Text’ section.

Please note, that if you change Icon set, your custom icon storage location may still point to the old icon set if you’ve never changed it from the default value. If you are using custom icons, you might want to consider relocating the custom icon storage location to the wp-content directory so as not to be tied to an icon set itself.

Forum Float Clear


Normally this option should be left unchecked. If your forum is displaying incorrectly due to theme floats (ie forum displaying below sidebar or other content), checking this option will issue a style of clear:both before the forum display is initiated.

Display Icon Text


There are two styles of icons that can be used with Simple:Press Forum. The first (and this applies to the default set), require a textual label to be displayed beside the icons. Other sets may have the text graphically contained on the icon itself. These settings allow you to select which icon label text should or should not be displayed. Checked labels will display the text alongside the equivalent icon.

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Article written by Luffer on January 29, 2010 and last modified by Luffer on April 26, 2010