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JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
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How do I make my forum responsive?

I read somewhere that the “unified” theme is responsive… but I can’t work out where I’m supposed to get that from.

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

You can download Unified from our downloads page – follow the links to member themes.

There are nores here in the codex on what to do next: 
https://simple-press.com/documentation/codex/themes/theme-basics/using-themes/

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

Thanks – I’ve installed, but I’m still not getting a “responsive” theme. I’ve enabled mobile theme support and everything like that… but nothing.

Is there any good reason for this?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Are you using a decent responsive WordPress theme and have you given the forum a full width page template to use? It can only be ‘responsive’ within the limitations of the WP theme.

We use Unified for this site when you view it on a mobile so you can see how it operates when coupled with a proper responsive Wp theme and is shown full page.

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

 Yes and yes.

Basically what’s happening is the theme itself becomes responsive… but simple press doesn’t. The result is that simple press gets cut in half, if that makes sense. I’ve attached screenshots.

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

Hmm… I attached them, but it doesn’t seem to have worked.

Here:

http://doingenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/simplepress.png

http://doingenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/simplepress2.png

http://doingenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/simplepress3.png

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

There are no attachments stored against your account so my guess is they were perhaps too big and you missed the message explaining that.

so – let’s recap. What device were these screenshots from and can I have a link to your forum page so I can take a look?

Actually – looking at those images again – they just look like the desktop resized down. And if that is the case then your WordPress theme is clearly not properly ‘responsive’. But if you give me a link I can  test that.

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

Sorry to take so long to get back to you on this.

Device: Chrome/ Windows 8

Here’s a link to the forum:

http://doingenglish.com/plus/forum/

You’ll need to log in:

Username: test

Password: !**test**!

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

This said – I’ve just tested a different theme, and the forum seems to be fine. So I guess it is a problem with the theme I’m using (although it is a “responsive” theme).

In this case I’m guessing there is nothing which can be done from the Simple Press side of things?

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Looking at your site I wonder if it has something to do with the page template that you are using for the forum page. I notice it is a lot wider than other pages (like ‘About’ and ‘Contact’) so I wonder if the theme is not properly fixed up to be respi nsive on that wider template? Possible?

JK Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Julian Paul Francis Kitagawa
Member

Thank you – that’s exactly the problem. I set up a custom template to widen the forum (and stop it getting squashed up).

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it. Thank you again.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

ah, glad its solved… thanks for the update…