Creating a completely custom theme for the popular forums software phpBB would be a monster job. Fortunately, to get up and running quickly, we can simply wrap a default installation of phpBB into the skin of an existing site pretty easily. We do just that in this screencast, and work out the kinks that pop up.<\/p>\n
Links from Video:<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating a completely custom theme for the popular forums software phpBB would be a monster job. Fortunately, to get up and running quickly, we can simply wrap a default installation of phpBB into the skin of an existing site pretty easily. We do just that in this screencast, and work out the kinks that pop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1283,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"video-single.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18694,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/lodge\/v10\/132-intro-to-the-forums\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":0},"title":"#132: Intro to The Forums","date":"October 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In this screencast we dive into an all new section of the site: The Forums! This is a huge area of the site. Perhaps not so much in traffic (I've always wished it could grow, traffic wise), but certainly in user activity and UI complexity. The forums use Vanilla Forums\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3974,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/video-screencasts-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":1},"title":"Video Screencasts","date":"September 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"#60: AJAX Refreshing RSS Content Running time: 22:56 In video #55 the end result was the FeedSmusher, which inserted content from external RSS feeds onto a page of our own. In this screencast, we will start there and use AJAX (with help from jQuery) to refresh that content without requiring\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":155749,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/lodge\/learn-jquery\/30-series-wrapup\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":2},"title":"#30: Series Wrapup","date":"November 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You made it! Thanks so much for taking the course. I hope you've learned enough about jQuery and JavaScript that your confidence level in it has risen and you know there is nothing to be afraid of. Remember, the jQuery documentation is decent and, if nothing else, is a good\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 10 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18704,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/lodge\/v10\/137-forums-wrangling-part-4-getting-control\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":3},"title":"#137: Forums Wrangling, Part 4, Getting Control","date":"October 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We jump right into styling the main content area of the homepage of The Forums. Arguably the most important part of the forums, since it's the first thing people see when arriving to The Forums. This gives us the opportunity to override the core file that controls this as we\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18404,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/lodge\/v10\/061-custom-header-for-the-forums-part-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":4},"title":"#061: Custom Header for The Forums, Part 3","date":"September 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The only thing missing now from our customs Forums header is the part that actually says \"Forums\"! Nick illustrated a hand holding a sign that was meant for that area. We remove the text that was there (not a huge fan of Impact) and replace it with something more hand-written\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18702,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/lodge\/v10\/136-understanding-vanilla-forums-theme-overrides\/","url_meta":{"origin":1913,"position":5},"title":"#136: Understanding Vanilla Forums Theme Overrides","date":"October 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We left off trying to decide if we can win the battle for a static login form or not. We probably could, but in more playing around with the forums, we see that it's not just login that by default comes up in a modal. The modal design pattern is\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18115,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1913\/revisions\/18115"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n