Question How to display Kunena within Joomla template

I understand what he was asking and I have enabled Kunena in the Menu. My Forum doesn't look as this one does, even though I may have a different color scheme. It looks blah...can you tell me why?

The site is: Coaching . I've used Kunena for a couple of years and know how it should work but for some reason, it looks plain at the top/header part. Any idea why?

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Jhazzi

@ stress - Kunena uses the Joomla loginmodule, login to ones gives acces to both. I don't use CB, Jfusion of any other community modules. None of them has convinced me in telling me what they do, why and what the advantages are for my community.

@ Jhazzi - The template you use makes the look and feel of your forum. Only an other template can give your forum another look. (or perhaps change the one you are using now).

John, thanks again - I'm sure I would have noticed once I had the board set up. I didn't expect it to do this because I didn't read anything about that functionality on the joomla extensions website.

Once more, thank you.

-Stress.

John, thanks. It was my issue not Kunena's. I figured as much. I had it set to use Joomla css and not the default for Kunena. I will make the necessary CSS changes to make it look compatible with my site.

I appreciate the response.

Kindest regards,
Jhazzi

Stress wrote:

Is there a way to make it so that when people log into my website that they also are logged into Kunena?

I've read terms like "Joomla! user integration" and read about other extensions such as Community Builder and JFusion - but I really have no idea what is best or if I really need it.

John's short answer is quite correct. The beauty of Kunena is that was developed as a native Joomla extension. Kunena slots seamlessly into your Joomla website: no bridging software; no tweaks; no "legacy mode" or retrofitting. Whatever means your users register with your website, whichever way they login, your users can use Kunena just like they are able to use anything else you've provided for them. This is the number one reason that people look for forum software like Kunena. There are alternatives around, too, if you care to investigate them and everyone has their own likes or dislikes.

The second biggest attraction (for me, anyway) is the interest that people have in making Kunena better through their involvement in this discussion forum. If you have a problem, if you want to improve the way your forum looks or tailor it more to your specific website's theme, this is where you're likely to get assistance. But, perhaps the third major feature about Kunena - and I'm not trying to do a sales job here :lol: - is that Kunena works (in 99% of the time, anyway) immediately, out-of-the-box, without needing to do anything!.

As for the other community management extensions mentioned, like John said, they are nonessential unless you desire something else they offer (e.g. "bullet-proofing" the registration process):

• Community Builder: core component is free to download and integrates moderately well with Kunena
• JFusion Universal User Integration: also free to download, claims to "integrate almost any software into Joomla and allow your users single logins" and although I see no specific reason why it should not work with Kunena I can't see any reason why this would be needed, either. This product seems more suitable for non-native Jooma software, like phpBB or SMF
• JomSocial: must be purchased, enjoys a mixed degree of success with Kunena, and is used here at www.kunena.com

Another minor issue.

Avatars. When I go into "My Profile" -> "My Avatar" the default gallery does show up and I can see the images. However, once I select an image and "Confirm Choice", I get the dreaded red "X" (as in image not found) as my avatar.

I thought to right click on the images and check the paths. Forgive me, but I'm editing out my actual domain.

The pictures I can see:

forevernursing.com/media/kunena/attachme...allery/butterfly.gif

What it is when I can't:

forevernursing.com/media/kunena/attachme...allery/butterfly.gif

I can't find out where the crazy "%7B" is coming from.

Any thoughts?