Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? - How-to and Troubleshooting https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/ Discussion Board en-US Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:38:50 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52776 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:26:40 +0000 How-to and Troubleshooting meibukan76 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52776 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52775 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:21:24 +0000 @meibukan76,

Have you ever seen your website as not authorized visitor?

I don't think it's a good idea to keep empty space in forum form guest visitors. You should have some public forums for invitation or at least some admin message (add it in Forums > Tools > Misc Tab > Admin Note):

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2021-04-06_15-18-51.png

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting Robert https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52775 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52740 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 22:55:26 +0000 @robert do you think it might be something in my theme that's conflicting? acousticafterparty . com

 

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting meibukan76 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52740 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52731 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:04:15 +0000 @meibukan76,

I'm sorry, but there is no way to do that.

BTW, I don't see why the rows of information under the avatars are so far from each other? They should be compact and the total height will be twice small.

 

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting Robert https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52731 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52725 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 13:42:27 +0000 Hi @robert, I tried all that before posting, but I'm really not looking for replies to be threaded. I'm really just looking to streamline space and I like the layout of posts within the threaded format. If you see in my screenshot below, a short post like this still eats up space with a lot of emptiness because of the way the member information is displayed on the left. Whereas keeping the member info at the top of the post, like it is in these forums and the screenshot in my OP, really cuts down on that. There has to be a way, albeit probably not an easy one, since it's all just PHP, right? 

P.S. This is actually the extended post.php that is nested within the simplified layout folder in my themes folder.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting meibukan76 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52725 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52717 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 06:24:58 +0000 @meibukan76,

There is no way to mix layout designs in topic and posts views. You can replace the whole topic and posts views by other layout, but you cannot mix separate components. Here is an example of having Threaded layout posts in Simplified layout forums:

 

1. Create /wpforo/ folder in your current active WordPress theme

2. Create /layouts/ folder in the /wpforo/, then /4/ folder in the /layouts/ folder

3. Make sure you have this tree of folders /wpforo/layouts/4/ in the active theme folder.

4. Copy forum.php file from wpForo plugin folder: /wp-content/plugins/wpforo/wpf-themes/classic/layouts/2/ and paste in the /wpforo/layouts/4/ folder. So you'll have the Simpified Layout forum template file in the Threaded Layout folder /wpforo/layouts/4/forum.php

5. Change your forum top category layout to Threaded Layout. Just edit the top category and change the layout to the Threaded one:

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/wpForo-change-forum-layout-by-changing-category-layout.png

6. Go to Dashboard > Forums > Dashboard and click the button.

 

That's it!

Here is the wpForo Template file customization documentation I used for this instruction:

https://wpforo.com/docs/root/forum-themes/theme-customization/

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting Robert https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52717 RE: Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52704 Sat, 03 Apr 2021 15:57:04 +0000 To add onto this request, I'd also like the look of the threaded post with the buttons without words, etc.  So, basically, the look of the threaded post style overall without the actual threading of replies and posts. Thanks for any help.

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting meibukan76 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52704 Simplified Posts with Threaded Post Head Layout? https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52689 Fri, 02 Apr 2021 23:49:51 +0000 Okay, I've tried to do it by going through the threaded post.php and copying the format over to the simplified post.php, but I'm just not doing something right. Can I just copy the post.php from folder 4 into folder 2 (in my WP theme files to keep the plugin from breaking)? Or will that also make my posts threaded, which I don't want?

Can someone break it down for me easily? What specific code do I need to replace with what to get my Simplified post head to look like this?:

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting meibukan76 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/simplified-posts-with-threaded-post-head-layout/#post-52689