[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

1. Download the plugin from this url :

Fix forum

Then upload to your site and activate

3. Create a page called anything and put this shortcode in it
[fix-topics]
and publish

4. Go to this page and you will see a drop down, use the drop down to select ‘run’ and click submit

That should do it

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

Great – I do have a plugin that will do that, but if you are happy to do that manually then fine.

Are replies all ok ?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

not that I can see easily

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, so final test, and then I’ll be happy I know what needs doing (one we did earlier)

go into
dashboard>topics> and select one topic to edit, and just hit update.
DON’T set the forum.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

I’d suggest you just add redirect to htaccess

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

can you answer this question

Then go back to
dashboard>topics and see if the forums show in the main list

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

so did you reset forums as in

dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

and what do you want it to return ?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

you can only enqueue a style name once, so suggest you rename the second child one eg

wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme-css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/style.css' , array('parent-style'));
  wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme-bbpress-css', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/css/bbpress.css', array());

that might be the problem, if not, it certainly isn’t helping

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

Haven’t tested but googled and found this

add_filter( 'admin_bar_menu', 'replace_wordpress_howdy', 25 );
function replace_wordpress_howdy( $wp_admin_bar ) {
$my_account = $wp_admin_bar->get_node('my-account');
$newtext = str_replace( 'Howdy,', 'Welcome,', $my_account->title );
$wp_admin_bar->add_node( array(
'id' => 'my-account',
'title' => $newtext,
) );
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, I think from previous threads that you need to import in an order

so I’d suggest that (as long as you don’t have any other topics in the forum) you reset the forums (ie get rid of all the current forums, topics and replies)

dashboard>tools>forums>reset forums

Then import in the following order

forums
topics
replies

Then go back to

dashboard>topics and see if the forums show in the main list

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

home button is in breadcrumbs tab

create new topic button is in buttons tab (and not there by default)

don’t know what you mean by ‘box they type in’

html tags is in topic/reply form tab

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

if that second part is all you are after, then add it to the custom css bit of your theme, or use

Simple Custom CSS

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

the bbpress theme that this site uses is here

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

the following file holds the code

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base/header-subnav.php

but you will also need to pull through some css from the theme, and JavaScript to do the drop downs

then tie all this back to the right place in your theme.

It’s quite doable, but well beyond free help

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

so is this the search at the top of this page, or a search on a forums page?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, so if you

go into
dashboard>topics> and select one topic to edit, and just hit update.

DON’T set the forum.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

meta boxes are used in the backend, but you are most of the way there.

so to add the dropdown you can use

add_action(‘bbp_theme_before_reply_content’, ‘so_additional_content’);

(there is a bbp_theme_after_reply_content action as well)

and then in the function put the drop down stuff – I’ve not checked your code, so you’ll need to tidy and correct the following if it doesn’t work

so

function so_additional_content () {
?>
<label>Choose the size of the element : </label>
<select name=”custom_element_grid_class” id=”custom_element_grid_class”>
<option value=”normal” <?php selected( $meta_element_class, ‘normal’ ); ?>>normal</option>
<option value=”square” <?php selected( $meta_element_class, ‘square’ ); ?>>square</option>
<option value=”wide” <?php selected( $meta_element_class, ‘wide’ ); ?>>wide</option>
<option value=”tall” <?php selected( $meta_element_class, ‘tall’ ); ?>>tall</option>
</select>
<?php 
}

Then when the user presses submit a function in bbpress called ‘new reply handler’ takes over.

that has a hook

do_action( ‘bbp_new_reply_post_extras’, $reply_id );

which you can link to, to do the save.

so you would have

add_action ( 'bbp_new_reply_post_extras' , 'so_save' ) ;

function so-save ($reply_id) {
$meta_element_class = $_POST[‘custom_element_grid_class’];
update_post_meta($reply_id, ‘custom_element_grid_class_meta_box’, $meta_element_class);
}

again your code is not checked.

you will need to add functionality if you want users to edit their replies and change the dropdown selection

I’ll let you play with the above, and do come back with a first version if you need extra help.

If you fix it, then PLEASE post your solution here to help others

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, sorry to keep asking, but it is important

in

dashboard>topics>all topics you get a list of topics, and there is a column that says forum. Does each topic have a forum listed in that main list, or is that column blank?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, can only suggest you deactivate that and see if the problem persists.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, you’ll need to work out why/when this occurs (appreciate that is not easy), but without a ‘this happens and then that happens), we can’t really get any further.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

so in

dashboard>topics doe then forum show in the main list ?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

This plugin will let you style it to match your theme, and do much else besides

bbp style pack

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, can you go into

dashboard>topics> and select one topic to edit, and just hit update.

let me know if that topic now shows

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

ok, thanks for update and hope all ok now 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 1 month ago]

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'old text' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'change_translate_text', 20 );

and change the old text and new text to suit.