bn technical support forum Tag: HeatMap

"New bbPress theme/template"

dirt — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:45:38 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you. I'm trying to make my own theme for bbPress.

"New bbPress theme/template"

virtual — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:49:47 +0000

After working a few hours hacking the bbPress code, I have been able to include a few refinements that make me a bit more confident in rolling out bbPress to other sites.
They are as follows:

Prominent RSS feed link with recognizable button
Better heatmap with snazzy striped background
Included Google Adsense in the theme
Included Google Analytics in the theme
Included dynamic footer that changes from blog to blog

There will be more features to come - the theme is not final, just a sort of compendium for all the changes made to the site today.
You can download the blandname bbPress theme by clicking on this link.
Installation is the same as any other bbPress theme or template - it will install to the my-templates folder, and bbPress will use it instead of the default template.
Oh, you'll want to edit the header file to include your adsense number, and edit the footer while you're at it to insert your analytics code.
(I'll be making that dynamic soon, I promise)

"Better bbPress HeatMaps"

virtual — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:20:13 +0000

In order to get a nice heatmap going in in bbPress, you'll need to edit one whole line of PHP code in either the bb-templates folder, or my-templates if you are using a custom theme.
The file in question is front-page.php, and we'll be editing around line 6 if you are using either the blandname theme or the default that comes with bbPress.

Here's what you would normally see:
<p class="frontpageheatmap"><?php tag_heat_map(); ?>

We're going to change that to:
<p class="frontpageheatmap"><?php tag_heat_map( 20, 100, '%', 40); ?>
In order the variables are:
20 - the smallest value for the tags
100 - the highest value for the tags
'%' - the unit we will use when displaying the tags
40 - the number of tags to display