PBTech is a tech-themed style for phpBB 3.3, inspired by the Blizzard Battle.net forums of 2015: a dark header, a light content area, and blue accent colours throughout.
The style is built as a child of prosilver. It keeps phpBB's standard markup, template events and responsive layout, and it picks up prosilver fixes automatically.
- Version: 3.0.28 (27-09-2026)
- Authors: PayBas (2015) and @Sajaki (since 2016)
- Design reference: the Battle.net forums as they were in 2014
- phpBB 3.3.18 or higher
- prosilver (parent style)
- Dark-to-light gradient design with a tech-inspired header and logo.
- A complete custom icon set for forum, topic, sticky and announcement states.
- Online users marked by a glowing green dot before their name, shown consistently in posts and on the full profile.
- Collapsible forum categories. Each visitor's browser remembers which are open or closed.
- The last poster shown in the forum list.
- Styled breadcrumb tooltips.
- Restyled polls, quotes and code boxes.
- Font Awesome icons throughout, using phpBB's built-in Font Awesome.
- Styling for the Recent Topics extension, and compatibility with pbwowExt.
- Responsive layout for tablets and phones, plus a print view.
- Right-to-left (RTL) language support.
- Copy the
pbtechfolder into your forum'sstylesfolder. - In the Administration Control Panel (ACP), go to Customise → Styles → Install Styles and install PBTech.
- Replace the
pbtechfolder with the new version. - Purge the board cache in the ACP.
The contrib folder contains a Photoshop PSD with an alternative icon set.
See contrib/CHANGELOG.md for the full version history.
- Original author: PayBas (2015)
- Contributions: Galixte, nfsmaniac
- Maintainer: @Sajaki (avathar.be)
© PayBas, 2015
Battle.net is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. PBTech is a fan-made style and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blizzard Entertainment.