[PeterVk2]

Setting up a forum for a university discussion course and can’t seem to find where to set up custom registration fields. For instance, I’d much rather have students’ student number and course number than their website and location. Where is the template file to change this? Or do I have to go into the core files? (I have a limited amount of experience with WordPress and none with bbPress.)

Cheers.

[Senteevs]

Well, couldn’t you just go ahead and change the names of the fields in the translation file and then copy the result to my-languages.

Agreed, it may no be the best way to do this, but it’ll do the trick.

[Olaf Lederer]

There are several topic about custom fields, try a search and check this one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-allow-additional-or-custom-profile-fields

[PeterVk2]

Thanks for the advice.

@Olaf: I searched the forums here and couldn’t find out how to set up the custom fields. I tried the plugin you linked to, but that didn’t work either.

@Senteevs: Where can I find the translations file and my-languages? It sounds like a good idea, but I’m not sure how to implement it.

[Senteevs]

Get this file: http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/1.0.2/bbpress.pot

Open it with PoEdit: http://www.poedit.net/download.php

Find the strings you need to change, for example, “Location” and translate them to what you need. Save the changes as a .po file (it will also create a .mo file). Copy both files to your bbpress directory into a folder called “my-languages”. If you don’t have such a folder, create it.

Change your bb-config.php file and you’re done.

[PeterVk2]

@Senteevs: Excellent. Thanks so much for you time.

I also found a workable solution here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-custom-profile-fields#post-1839 I couldn’t find anything in the forums until I used Google to search the forums. Google surfaced what I needed as the first hit.

Thanks again.