Topic: Search bar not showing in forums & the random “by”

Search bar not showing in forums & the random “by”

@oise73

Participant

8 years, 1 month ago

Hi there,

1. We have a parent forum with a bunch of child forums. I did check the “Allow forum wide search” box. On the main forum page, which is a regular WP page using the forum shortcode, the search bar is there. Screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/Rv4EB6POOG But on all of the actual forums, including the parent forum, the search bar is not there. Screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/byZD2Ua8h How do I make them show up?

I did deactivate all plugins but bbpress, but the issue was the same.

2. In each topic, there is the word “by”. Screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/XVRBrBIiz
How do I make that go away? I am hesitant to do a display:none; in the CSS, because other parts of the site need that .entry-meta tag.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks!

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@oise73

Participant

8 years, 1 month ago

*bump*

Anyone?

@robin-w

Moderator

8 years, 1 month ago

if you give us a link to your site, I might be able to help

@oise73

Participant

8 years, 1 month ago

Thanks! It’s https://debsvillage.com/ but you have to be logged in to see the forums. Is there a way to private message with that info?

@robin-w

Moderator

8 years ago

contact me via my website

http://www.rewweb.co.uk, but only enough access to see, spectator should do

@zebronics

Participant

8 years ago

This happens to me lot of time. Just try to cut the content and past it in a word document and then past it back in your site your problem will be solved

@casiepa

Moderator

8 years ago

Not sure if this is fixed, but for the search, you might need https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#23-show%c2%a0the-bbpress-forum-search-everywhere

Pascal.

@casiepa

Moderator

8 years ago

Hi @oise73,
If you are still looking for that search on top of forums and topic, I have included it in my bbP Toolkit plugin that I will update later today.

@oise73

Participant

8 years ago

Pascal, thank you for that link! I now have the search bar in all the forums.

My remaining puzzle is the lonely “by” Screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/MNtdBoWS8

I am not sure what I am missing; it should show the name of the user posting the topic. Any ideas would be welcome.

Robin, I did send you an email with a username & password about a week ago.

Thank you!

@robin-w

Moderator

8 years ago

hmm – can’t trace receiving – could you send again please

@jamiehennings

Participant

8 years ago

Hello,

I face the same issue as you explain and I resolve it by using .class{display: none;}, but you may avoid it because using this CSS also affects your site.

@oise73

Participant

8 years ago

Hi Jamie, yes I thought of that, but we have a blog section to the site and we need that CSS rule to show the authors there. It is more of a question of why the name of the author of the forum post doesn’t show.

Robin, I am re-sending that email now. Thank you for your help!
@robin-w

Moderator

8 years ago
This in your css should take it away
```
.topic .entry-meta {
  display: none;
}
```
Please confirm or come back
@oise73

Participant

8 years ago

That did it. Thank you Robin!