Changing individual forum icons to always unread in ipsfocus themes.

I search the internet for a couple of weeks to find the solution to this.

No luck from google so I did some digging and tinkering and found the solution myself.

First step: add to your custom.css of the theme you are editing, this step must be done in order for it to work, and

enter this code       .ipsItemStatus.ipsItemStatus_read {    
                                opacity: 1;
                             }

                                                             ----------------

Next step: Find the section that reads   Forum Icons     and change all the lines that read  ".ipsItemStatus_read" to ".ipsItemStatus_unread"

                                                             -----------------

examples 

Before:

.ipsItemStatus.ipsItemStatus_large.ipsItemStatus_read{    <-- only change the green lines
        background-image: url('{theme="focus_ficon_image_read"}');   <-- do not change these lines 
        opacity: 1;
        filter: none;
    }

After:

.ipsItemStatus.ipsItemStatus_large.ipsItemStatus_unread{
        background-image: url('{theme="focus_ficon_image_read"}');
        opacity: 1;
        filter: none;
    }

I hope this helps others out because it was quite frustrating for me and there is NOTHING on the web about this issue.