That doesn’t seem to be possible in 2012, which forces a sidebar if you want a search facility, and which consumes a lot of vertical space with the identity of the contributor, including a large avatar.
Good job we’re in 2014 then 🙂
If you switch on the search facility
dashboard>settings>forums and look for search allow forum wide search, you’ll get a search bar at the top of the forums page
for the avatar size use the following code in your functions file
function my_bbp_change_avatar_size($author_avatar, $topic_id, $size) {
$author_avatar = '';
if ($size == 14) {
$size = 24;
}
if ($size == 80) {
$size = 110;
}
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );
if ( !empty( $topic_id ) ) {
if ( !bbp_is_topic_anonymous( $topic_id ) ) {
$author_avatar = get_avatar( bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id ), $size );
} else {
$author_avatar = get_avatar( get_post_meta( $topic_id, '_bbp_anonymous_email', true ), $size );
}
}
return $author_avatar;
}
/* Add priority (default=10) and number of arguments */
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_current_user_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
The example increase the size, just change to to what you want
see https://codex.bbpress.org/functions-files-and-child-themes-explained/ for how to do that
you can also remove things like keymaster – just come back with what you want – and we’ll try to help you
Thank you, that’s very encouraging. I’m on the brink of setting off for France for some serious work on other things, so there may be a break.
But just for now, “allow forum wide search” was selected and I don’t see a search. Is there something else I have to do to switch it back on, having previously removed it from the sidebar?
And I don’t suppose it’s possible to get rid of the avatar altogether, is it? We’re a very small community, we know who we are!
to get rid of avatar
//get rid of the avatar
function my_bbp_change_avatar_size($author_avatar, $topic_id, $size) {
$author_avatar = '';
return $author_avatar;
}
/* Add priority (default=10) and number of arguments */
add_filter('bbp_get_topic_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_reply_author_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
add_filter('bbp_get_current_user_avatar', 'my_bbp_change_avatar_size', 20, 3);
can you give us your url so we can see the lack of search !
