Important Siteground template does not allow sufficient width for Kunena

hi!
the problem could be seen in this thread
www.funhelps.com/joomla/index.php?option...it=6&limitstart=6#22

the problem is that im attaching some documentals in a forum and are bigger than the space allowed for this templaate, so when i write don't appear first and last words of each line, any recommendation please? apart from specify a new height and width for the attached videos? :side:

I have changed the subject to give it more relevance to your topic. The problem lies with the Siteground template. As you will see, from any search of the word Siteground in these forums, Siteground templates cause problems with Kunena. We do not recommend them and, as far as I have been able to find out, no-one has had any success with them. I suggest you use a different Joomla template.

thanks for your fast reply...
Is a pity because I like that template and was free... :ohmy:
but could I set a different template just for the forum?
I think a way could be create a diferent joomla with a diferent template with the forum and link it, but without doing that is possible to say: i want to use this template for this pages and another for those others? :blush:

djlucky69 wrote:

But could I set a different template just for the forum?

Yes, you can do that. It's a standard feature of Joomla 1.5.

Hello,

I am actually working for SiteGround. You may have stumbled upon some of my posts in the Joomla official forums or not. Since we make those templates to support the Joomla community and not per particular design request certain extensions (as Kunena in this case) can behave different than expected due to the additional design and modifications they require.

After reading the posts above that our templates "cause problems" with the Kunena forum I have installed a test Joomla application, the template djlucky69 is using and the Kunena forum extension. In addition, I have enabled the right column to make the experiment as close to the real site as possible.

As you can see on the link below the template is displaying the forum flawlessly:

seo-united.net/kunena/

The "template" problem in the case above is the youtube video embedded in the article. It has hardcoded width settings and is making the entire block element surrounding it to expand and go out of its normal size.

This of course is not a template issue and will happen with every template breaking the design in different ways. You simply cannot fit in a 500px box into a 300px box. I would recommend you instead of using different theme, to move the modules in your "right" position to the "left" position for the forum page. This will give you the additional pixels you need to make the forum page more usable.

If there are any users complaining about incompatibility between the forum and our templates I will be glad to help, give direct recommendations or change our templates if this is necessary. In this case, however, it is a matter of design decisions.

Thank you very much for your involvement in the Kunena project, pandjarov.

The big problem for developers of Joomla extensions is that any CSS rules that they deploy with their products are ultimately overridden by the CSS of whatever Joomla template people have installed (irrespective of the developers of Joomla templates) unless there is some way to change the sequence of the CSS via some plugin, for instance. Joomla template CSS is always applied last, after all the other content has been generated.

We have discussed the idea of developing such a plugin that may overcome many of the complaints and problems faced by Kunena users. Even so, a search of our forums provides the evidence of the many problems that Kunena users have had with Siteground templates.

Let us hope that we will be able to work through these issues together.