How do I make the forum icon not black and white? the photo below is the actual color of the icon

That's normal. It means that there's no new content in that forum. Your users will see the full-colour versions usually unless they've already read everything.

Do you still want to overwrite that functionality now that you know what it's for? If so, adding the following to your custom.css should work:

.ipsItemStatus.ipsItemStatus_read {
    opacity: 1;
}

 

Edited March 19, 20205 yr by Meddysong

didn't work

 

This would be an issue with your custom theme. Without seeing the site I can't give you exact directions but it will be something to do with this:

.ipsItemStatus.ipsItemStatus_read

It's probably also adding a greyscale to it when its read instead of its standard opacity.