[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 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, 8 months ago]

🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 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, 8 months ago]

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

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago]

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

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 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, 8 months ago]

oops sorry, I’ll correct that

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 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, 8 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.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

ok replace the

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

with

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

and let’s see if that does that one first

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

but yes the answer is just a case of filling in the form, in the same sense as completing a crossword is just a case of writing the answers in the squares 🙂 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

no idea how asgaros stores the data in the database – is it separate tables or in posts/postmeta?
and different tables for forums vs topics vs replies ?
and does it use wordpress user ID’s?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

@scifikriss I see you have asked this many months ago.

The problem is that developing a script is a long tedious process requiring running the process many times, and having to reset databases in between. When I first started with bbpress in 2013 I imported a snitz database and it took 24 attempts over 2 weeks to succeed. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/documented-import-from-snitz-access-database/

If you’d like me to look at what might be involved as a paid piece of work, contact me via

Contact me

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

you can amend the topic and reply form templates and put those as hidden fields

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

either

Reply Subscribed

or

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Form item 6

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

so we need to work out which theme template is rendering the forum pages

looking at the page you gave me, I see that the template has a div of

<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">

This is probably a common div to several files, but we can use it’s presence to track down the file

so you need to look in your theme (wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%) for likely files

If you have notepad++ (or another text editor that will do this) you can download your theme to your computer and do a search across all the files.

otherwise you might have files called page.php, single.php, content.php, content-page.php etc.

in each file where you find the <div id="content-area" then add a further class, but call each one something different

eg

<div id="content-area myclass1" class="clearfix">
<div id="content-area myclass2" class="clearfix">
etc.

then use the browser inspector and hopefully you’ll find the class repeated in there which will tell you what template it is using

then come back