Hi Everyone

bbPress is great. I love it and I appreciate every bit of effort put into it.

I am setting a new site which has only one, single forum in it.

My goal is to have the main/home page show the same view as if I would select a specific forum from a multiple-forums website (stickies on top, marked in color….)

My first idea was to replace front-page.php with forum.php (copy & rename), and add the following code:

<?php $forum_id=”1″; ?> right after <?php bb_get_header(); ?>.

This does create the appearance of a single forum, but in a different presentation. for example, sticky topics are sorted with all other topics by date, and are not forced to the first lines in the topics table.

I would really really really appreciate any help or directions I can get.

Thanks a lot !

Moshe.

[circuitMember @circuit 3 years, 6 months ago]

it took me a while to achieve this but it wasn’t too tough. see here:

http://www.copsandrobbers.net/messageboard/

i stripped most of the content out of front-page.php and put in an immediate redirect to forum.php

try it – it works fine for me, no complaints from users either.

[moshe100Member @moshe100 3 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Circuit

Thank you so much for your reply.

May I ask for some coding directions?

What does your front-page.php look like now?

Will you be willing to email it to me (moshe100s at gmail dot com) or to post it in reply?

Thanks again !

Moshe

[moshe100Member @moshe100 3 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Again

Can someone kindly provide an example how to immediately redirect to a specific forum from the front page?

I would really appreciate any help here !!!

Thanks,

Moshe

[yayslothsMember @yaysloths 3 years, 5 months ago]

I, too, would find an example of that page code phenomenally helpful…

[chrishajerParticipant @chrishajer 3 years, 5 months ago]

You could just replace the contents of your template’s front-page.php with this code to redirect the visitor:

<?php

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug&quot  ;

exit;

?>

Just change http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug to the URL where you want people to end up.

[yayslothsMember @yaysloths 3 years, 5 months ago]

Holy crap! It’s like magic! That is fantastic. Thanks!