I currently am using wordpress for news and mybb for forums, but the forum theme is a lot different from wordpress and I am not good at themes, so I was thinking of just usings the Mybb portal for news like most gaming forums use in vbulletin.
Anyone have any suggestions on what I should do? Only, thing I have against the portal is that it does look a little bland.
Also, making pages on wordpress is easy with the built in editor, does Mybb have something similar for pages?
Thanks
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(2011-03-21, 02:58 AM)gamer413 Wrote: [ -> ]...Only, thing I have against the portal is that it does look a little bland.
Yes, the default portal is way "too boxy" & straight out of the year 2002.
...but the forum theme is a lot different from wordpress
If you have time and like a challenge:
1) Go to your MyBB forum in any browser
2) Save page as html
3) Find a tutorial like this...
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/cr...l-template
...and create a Wordpress theme from your MyBB theme.*
*Individual results may vary, your CSS file is found both through the ACP, and in the /cache/themes directory.
Well another reason I want it as well is because people need to login to wordpress and mybb, and if they want to comment the articles are separate from each other. I may just end up getting VBulletin publishing suite or test out some Portal plugins and see how it looks.
I just want my portal page to look similar to something like
this or
this
(2011-03-21, 03:31 AM)seeker Wrote: [ -> ] (2011-03-21, 02:58 AM)gamer413 Wrote: [ -> ]...Only, thing I have against the portal is that it does look a little bland.
Yes, the default portal is way "too boxy" & straight out of the year 2002.
...but the forum theme is a lot different from wordpress
If you have time and like a challenge:
1) Go to your MyBB forum in any browser
2) Save page as html
3) Find a tutorial like this...
http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/cr...l-template
...and create a Wordpress theme from your MyBB theme.*
*Individual results may vary, your CSS file is found both through the ACP, and in the /cache/themes directory.
thank you for sharing the tutorial
(2011-03-21, 05:38 AM)morean51 Wrote: [ -> ]thank you for sharing the tutorial
(2011-03-21, 04:30 AM)gamer413 Wrote: [ -> ]...I just want my portal page to look similar to something like this or this
Easy As 1-2-3:
1) Choose or create your great, modern template.
2) Add the CSS to your MyBB global CSS (rename any areas with naming conflicts, or simply add a prefix to all the new sections)
3a) Replace your default portal template w/ the html for your
great, modern template.
3b)
Decide if you want the standard {$headerinclude} in your new portal + Remember to update all the sections you renamed in the CSS.
3c) Add these type of template variables (ie. {$welcome}
{$pms}
{$search}
{$stats}
{$whosonline}
{$latestthreads}) anywhere you want them to be.
- Now you have a custom portal you can be proud of.*
*This does take some time-however-at the end of the day, it really is pretty easy.
Dear Seeker, stop being so awesome please
I found that very useful aswell, thanks for the link.