[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

you can then apply the same technique to the reply form

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

ok, so create a new topic form template

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/form-topic.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

change around line 199

<?php if ( ! bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

to

<?php if (isset($_REQUEST['bbp_forum_id'])) : ?>
<input type="hidden" name="bbp_forum_id" value="<?php echo $_REQUEST['bbp_forum_id']; ?>" />
<?php elseif ( ! bbp_is_single_forum() ) : ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/form-topic.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then put this in your child theme functions file

add_action ( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum', 'reww_new_topic_button' ) ;

function reww_new_topic_button () {
	$url = $url = get_home_url(); 
	$forum_id = bbp_get_forum_id() ;
	$url.='/topic-form/?bbp_forum_id='.$forum_id ;
	$text = 'create new topicc' ;
	echo '<a class="hello" href ="'.$url.'">'.$text.'</a>' ;
}

where ‘/topic-form/’ is the page you have the topic form on

that sends a query string to the topic form page, which is then picked up by the amended template above

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

Probably not with that plugin, but probably another plugin and/or your theme

Themes

As a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwenty, and see if this fixes.

Plugins

If that doesn’t work, also deactivate all plugins apart from bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

If you cannot do this to your site (say because it is live) then use the ‘troubleshooting’ features of this plugin to let you test without affecting other users

Health Check & Troubleshooting

Then come back

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

you can also check out this plugin which does user ranking

bbp user ranking

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

I’d suggest you crack open this plugin which does topic and reply counts

bbp topic count

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

suspect dashboard>settings>forums>subscriptions

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

great – glad you are fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

the topic and reply forms are at the bottom of the forum and topic pages, so there is no need to visit a separate page.

I agree that this is far from obvious.

my style pack plugin adds a button which takes you there

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Buttons

I’m looking at creating a pop-up topic and reply form at the moment, but this is very much work in progress. If I succeed I’ll try and remember to post back here

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

sorry, I’m confused on what the issue is – when I click on the login link above, I get taken to the expected login.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

dashboard>appearance>widgets and choose the sidebar and add a custom html widget

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

anything can be done if you can find someone with the technical skills and time and are willing to pay the money for them to do the work !!

The plugin does not generate WordPress ‘pages’ as such, it uses a theme’s template and renders data within that.

I’m just a bbpress user who helps out on this forum, but if we ignore login, register and password reset which users may or may not want as pages (many use sidebar widgets and a multitude of membership plugins and methods to handle registration etc.) then I’m not clear what you want to happen with topic and reply forms – what is missing that you want that needs multiple forms?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

The solution I’m looking for is for BBP to dynamically generate them as required. Is that possible?

not within the current product.

I’m not quite sure what you have against creating 5 pages yourself 🙂 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

ok, so your topic and reply forms will have pages with urls, so you just need to put the buttons where you want

<input type="button" value="button name" onclick="window.open('http://www.website.com/page')" />

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

not sure what that means – render a screen with the form? or create a worpdress page ?

perhaps you could describe what you want to achieve from what and to what.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

suspect it might have been another plugin that was dependant on it, but anyway glad you are fixed.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

oops semi colon missing from $image = line

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

ok, so we are making progress.

I don’t expect this to work, just to return the next stage

so amend that to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true)
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

that’s fine, I wanted to see what was in the database ie in this case 1345, I suspect it is a reference to a media image

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

ok, can you change the other one to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$avatar.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

try

<?php 
$neighborhood = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'user-subdivision' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$neighborhood.'</li>' ;
?>

come back if that doesn’t work

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

oops sorry, I’ll correct that

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

hmm…just loaded Asgaros to my test site, and it has it’s own tables

wp_forum_forums
wp_forum_topics
wp_forum_posts

as well as several others dealing with subscriptions, polls and ads.

the issue with importing would be hooking forum_topics which holds header stuff with forum posts which holds the content, but also the replies.

What size is your current Asgaros forum – eg forums, topics replies?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 7 months ago]

for the avatar, I need to know what is stored in the usermeta, so can you try adding this after line 44

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

to get

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (get_current_user_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$avatar.'</li>' ;
?>

I need to see if this produces a url or link to media item etc.