Topic: bbPress and custom fields

bbPress and custom fields

pandreas
Participant

@pandreas

9 years, 5 months ago

Is there an easy way to add custom fields to the front-end of bbpress?

I am using some custom fields (file, image attachments) with the help of this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/ so I add them to support bbpress forums and topics as well.

But these custom fields are available only to back-end of topics and forums and not to the front-end.

How can this change?

Thank you in advanced!

Andreas

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Robkk

Moderator

@robkk

9 years, 5 months ago

Does this help??

https://github.com/stormuk/bbPress-ACF-field

PinkishHue

Participant

@pinkishhue

9 years, 5 months ago

I was able to do this by adding this to my functions.php / custom plugin:


// Add custom fields to bbpress topics on front end
add_action ( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_content', 'bbp_extra_fields');
function bbp_extra_fields() {
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'YOUR-FIELD-NAME', true);
   echo '<label for="bbp_extra_field">My Extra Field:</label><br>';
   echo "<input type='text' name='YOUR-FIELD-NAME' value='".$value."'>";
}

//Save and update the values from the front end
add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );

function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id=0) {
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['YOUR-FIELD-NAME']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'YOUR-FIELD-NAME', $_POST['YOUR-FIELD-NAME'] );
    
}

I think that’s correct but am in a bit of a code-haze at the moment! Hopefully it puts you on the right track at least. (And I can’t remember where I got the original code so apologies for not crediting original author)