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Hi,
Is this a Bootstrap 3 based theme, and if not, is it planning to be?
Many thanks,
Hi, It’s 2.3.2. It will be updated to Bootstrap 3 soon for sure. I’m waiting for a bit more stability for the 3.x. version.
Great to hear. Been on the lookout for a good phpbb3 Bootstrap theme, but as the rest of my site is v3 the forum ought to be too. I’ll keep an eye on your project and look forward to seeing the update.
I’ll let you know when it’s out. Cheers!
Another quick question. Does this use standard Bootstrap markup with a customised CSS file? For instance, if I use my own customised Boostrap CSS will it just work, or have you created a complete new set of classes?
Bootstrap classes 
Some custom CSS for the visual part… So yeah you can use your own CSS. When you buy it send me an email via profile page and I’ll send you an update.
Cheers!
Dave
First of all, it’s a really beautiful theme.
I’m trying to change de style of my board. We talk about pizza. We need to restyle everything to ‘pizza’ theme. We also need to put sidebars to organize the information and boxes for forums menus everywhere.
We need to boxes on sidebars to advertisement and partners.
How hard is to customise this theme? Can we put sidebars on every viewtopic page easily like recent posts, similar topics and other mods? (we have the mods and the codes. is it easy to customize on this theme?)
bboots and other themeforest theme are on my mind and I don’t know what is the best for now.
thanks.
Hi quasepoeta,
BBOOTS is built upon Twitter BootStrap Framework, therefore you can achieve endless customization styles. You can create your own forum layout and look. take a look at the examples here: BBOOTS Elements and also the Bootstrap documentation regarding the layout and all the built in components. It takes literally few seconds to add a sidebar and/or multiple blocks. Another quick example of sideblocks can be found here: SideBar. If you have your own mods even better! It will be really unique. If you need help i do work on a freelance basis as well. Contact me via the profile page here and we’ll go from there. Cheers!
Dave
I was almost buying, but on w3c http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http://sitesplat.com/demo/phpBB3/ there was lots of mistakes. Is that right?
Hi they are not really relevant in this case as they are from the Twitter Bootstrap Framework. the CSS validation fails because the framework uses hacks and vendor prefixes.
W3C tend to not account for a lot of modern code. Naturally, it’s difficult for them to not only advance standards, but also make sure the tools they offer are accountable to new and inventive code.
This is from the Bootstrap Developer: https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/6398Generally speaking, we don’t worry about W3C validation. Practically speaking, it honestly doesn’t make much sense to strive for it in most production environments if industry accepted practices are viewed as errors. All the CSS we use is valid, and while some lines are hacks (* for IE7, \9 for IE7-9, etc), it all renders as expected. I’m sure much of this will be cleaned up as we drop legacy browser support (I see lots of hiccups for the IE hacks).
I hope it helps.
Dave
Hi,
your style is very nice and with bootstrap as base the perfect one for me. I’m owner of a big board community so i would like to use it within an existing board. My Questin is, if i run th bboots-core-edit with automod, so i think all other styles wouldn’t work fine after this run, ist this right? I think so because the bboots-core-edit take some changes on base .php files from phpbb. Is this correct?
Normaly i put a new style online to my board (not as primary theme) take some changes until i’m happy with it and than i change it to primary. If i change some core files with bboots-core-edit so it is not possible to do this on this way, or?
thanks for reply and regards, pare
Hi Pare,
Thanks for purchasing BBOOTS! 
If you use multiple styles for your users then the core edits will be causing some conflict for the pagination view. However, the core edits can be uninstalled so that the phpbb3 core returns to its normal state.
I suggest you to create new a test board and play around with the theme until you are ready to go live
It might be that in the future I will support multiple styles and the phpbb direct core will not be edited.
Cheers!
I bought this theme but im stuck with header and footer customisation…my site is http://zimtalk.com. Can someone please let me know how to contact support.
Hi , I got your email. We’ll continue from there
Just purchased and like all the others here, this is fantastic! Can you make a black theme and a charcoal theme? I’d like to try both and pick which one I like. Also, is there any way to have a page like the elements page come up first before the forum and then edit the navbar to reflect those changes?
Hi,
I’m glad you like it too! yep it is possible Send me an email from the profile page here so we can go from there.
Cheers!
Perfect theme exactly features I was looking for and use of new web technology!!! Looking forward to use it already on my forum.
Cheers!
I recently bought this theme, and I’m very excited about trying it out. I have threads, and post I don’t want to lose so what is the best way to go about installing it?
Hi Taylor,
(From the documentation)
In order to integrate the twitter Boostrap framework with phpBB3 there are few core edits that are necessary for proper functionality. I packaged the core edits in modx format so that you might use AutoMod to install it automatically without the need to manually edit each file. The core edit file is inside this documentation folder.
How to:- Log in to your phpBB3 Admin Control Panel(ACP).
- Click the AutoMod tab in the top navigation bar. (If you have not yet installed the phpBB AutoMOD tool, you will need to download and install it from the phpBB website.)
- Scroll down to the “Upload MOD” section and upload the “bboots-core-edit.zip” file from the documentation folder.
- You may see a message confirming that the plugin has been uploaded. If so, click “Continue to AutoMOD.”
- Click the “Install” link to complete the installation.
- Now, upload the BBOOTS theme folder into your styles folder within the phpbb3 root folder.
- Go to your Administration Control Panel (ACP) and within the style tab install BBOOTS
- Select BBOOTS as a default style
- Done! Enjoy the style
Hi, thanks for the quick response and directions, but it did not work for me. I uploaded the zip file in AutoMod, ran the installation prompts, and uploaded the “MAIN-THEME” folder into my styles folder. I then went to my style tab, and did not see it available for me to install, etc.
Hi, don’t worry about it. I think I’ll go with a quick install. I read it comes with extras, and probably is more stable, and will work instantly.
Hi, sorry I forgot to specify that is not the “main theme” folder but the “BBOOTS” folder within the “MAIN THEME” folder instead. The “MAIN THEME” folder contains 20 -pre-set colors.
-Open the main theme folder and pick your color. -Upload the folder” BBOOTS” in the root/styles directory -ACP, styles tab, BBOOTS, install, make default.
Let me know.
Best PHPBB3 template ever.
Documentation very clear even for a newbie like us.
definitely one of the best around here.
Keep up the vero good work!
Excellent support and feedback
100% trustable.
Hi – I’ve got a couple of issues with the Forum 1) I’ve uploaded a new logo but it isn’t showing. 2) I didn’t heed your previous advice and used Dreamweaver to upload the overall_header.html and now the page is not looking like it should – I know you mnentioned last time that the links in the file were wrong – can you tell me how they should be so I can correct them? 3) I can’t get rid of the brackets around the logo – could you tell me how to do that please?
Many thanks.
Like I mentioned, it’s because Dreamweaver changes the default paths. Open the overall_header.html and remove everything before the code:
{T_THEME_PATH}/ {T_THEME_PATH}/images/revisedlogosmaller.pngDave
I would really appreciate it if you’d take a look – have sent you an email with log in details to info@ – many thanks.
Fixed it.
Simply the best! I get comments about how good my forum looks with this theme. The developer is also friendly and happy to assist with any problems. Recommended +1
Hi guys,
Really love the theme although I’ve run into some issues that I posted on your support forum, although it’s apparently waiting for moderation?
Many thanks.
Hi, I’ll be in the office later on today. I’ll follow up with your post from the support forum.
Fixed it. Thanks
Hi – have emailed you at your info@ address – having problems with my installation – I’m new to PHPbb3 and am a bit lost! I need to customise header/footer/menus but am struggling to find the files required and now my admin page seems to have disappeared! Bit desperate as need to get it set up by tomorrow! Installation is at http://www.ukmadetrading.co.uk/forum
Thanks.
Hi there,
I didn’t get any emails. Please send an email at:
sitesplat@mail.cominfo@sitesplat.comCheers!
Thank you so much for your brilliant support and patience – couldn’t have done it without you! An excellent Theme and I’m so glad I chose your Theme as my first introduction to working with PHPbb3 – thanks again.
My Pleasure. Enjoy
thanks for great update..!
Thank-you so much for your kind words. It’s very much appreciated it. You clearly know where this is coming from. So many months went into this project and it was all worth it. The original Phpbb3 style hasn’t been updated in ages and I was surprised to see that such a powerful forum wasn’t getting any attention for the front-end side. Even the alpha phpBB 3.1 doesn’t use any modern frame-work. Hopefully I will bridge that gap as well. Stay tuned and thanks again!
I would like to say “Thank You” I absolutely love this theme. It’s clean, fresh, and loads faster then any theme I have ever worked with. Your attention to detail on this theme is outstanding. I appreciate the blood, sweat, and tears that went into the creation of this amazingly stunning phpbb theme.
Aloha, JBHawaii
Thank-you so much for your kind words. It’s very much appreciated it. You clearly know where this is coming from. So many months went into this project and it was all worth it. The original Phpbb3 style hasn’t been updated in ages and I was surprised to see that such a powerful forum wasn’t getting any attention for the front-end side. Even the alpha phpBB 3.1 doesn’t use any modern frame-work. Hopefully I will bridge that gap as well. Stay tuned and thanks again!
Hi.Before i’ll purchase your theme i have a couple of questions: 1. I saw on your demo site that we can change the color just clicking on the color from that palette.Can i change the colors in the same way after purchase or i will need the change it in the normal way by css ,based on my needs? 2. The recent topics thing from the bottom of your demo page is not working.How can i enable that?
Waiting for orange color or option to set color manually… and portal page with the sidebar…
Hi The Sidebar is already Available and there are some code samples here:
Global Color change and a lot of other features are coming possibly in the next couple of weeks. If you would like to get BBOOTS, I can set up the colors for you before the next release.
Cheers!
Dave
Hi… Thank you for your reply..! I would like replace blue color by #DF7401 … one question… how it will be with updates..? If I will set up my theme and you will release update, is possible just update it with my theme and all my settings will stay..? I will buy it right now and will play with that…
Great! Please send me an email from my profile page here so that I can help you further.
Great theme and great support..!
pleasure to work and fast response.
thanks
Thanks Kay It was great working for you and to customize BBOOTS to your needs.
Hi,
This theme is great! I love it. After the installation i found out that the sorting is no longer working, i have check and found out there’s some warning in chrome developer with this.
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘progressbar’
I try to remove this progress bard in the js itself, but sorting still not working. May i know what happen? And how can i fix this? TQVM
Hi I’m glad you like it
I need more info about this so that I can replicate it. Please sen me an email from my profile page here on ThemeForest so we can go from there.
Thanks!
I think i will email the info to sitesplat@mail.com TQVM
User Review (customised template http://www.eorzeaendgame.com/):
Dave has been an absolute pleasure to work with! First of all his communication through email has been incredibly good and he makes sure everything you want is done to the way you want it. What impressed me the most is that with just being given the basic idea of what I wanted for my custom theme he offered several ideas of his own which were far better than what was originally presented. Not only that, he offered to install everything himself rather than just email the files over, as I wasn’t too confident with the way this theme works.
The theme itself is amazing, even without any custom mods. If you’re hesitating, just don’t .
Thanks again!
