[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Same happens to me – when I enter the forums, I just hover over the anonymous, then select log in and log in again. It then tells me that I’m already logged in, but then lets me post.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Same happens to me – I just hover over the anonymous, then select log in and log in again. It then tells me that I’m already logged in, but then lets me post.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Great method Schmoo!

You can also create a page called “forums”, put your text there, and then add the shortcode

[bbp-forum-indexx]

but with only one x – sorry but even with code ticks the forum interprets this code, so cannot put it in exactly!

by the way the page doesn’t appear as an edit option in the toolbar, so you have to edit it via the dashboard, but that is how I achieved it.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

I find most of this is straight forward ONCE you know the answer, but like you I can spend hours trying to get something to work !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Have had a bit of a play.

Answer turns out to be very easy !

In line 799 just change

'type' => 'both'
to

'type' => 'avatar'

Then just the avatar displays.

By the by change it to

'type' => 'name' and guess what, just the name displays!

As said earlier make a note of what you have changed, as later upgrades will change this back.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Sorry was being thick and quoted the code for the login display.

Having had a look at the widget, there is an option in the recent topics widget itself to hide author ie when you add the widget to a sidebar, you get options for no. posts to show, show author, show date etc. – does that not work?

That links to line 798 in the widgets php, so there would be you next step.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/include-mention-in-bbp_get_reply_author_link-function-args/

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

This post may or may not help you

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Think you just need to comment out line 143 of widgets.php
<h4><?php bbp_user_profile_link( bbp_get_current_user_id() ); ?></h4>

Then the avatar will show but not the name.

Line 142 has the avatar code, so you can just use that where you need to put the avatar.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Many helpers on the forums only look for questions with no replies – they presume that ones with replies have been answered. I don’t know the answer to this one, but if you don’t get a response in a day or so, I’d re-post it afresh, and Chengdu just hold off adding to it !

Hope you get help

Robin

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years ago]

Yes

Just set up the new area, and add the bbpress plugin

Then export (dashboard>tools>export) from the old area – you’ll want post and forums as minimum, but you can take everything if you want.

Then import into the new area. You will need to install the wordpress importer, but that is part of the process, so just say yes when prompted.

Part of the import process will ask you who to assign imported posts to, and you can decide to allocate them to admin, an existing user in the new site or (if you exported everything) to the imported users.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Kate t

Thanks for posting this, saved me hours of trying to work out which file I needed to change, and how to code it.

For those that want to add fields to their users, as well as Kate’s Meta pro, the following link shows how to add and use custom field, and the combination of these two made it quick and simple

Adding and using custom user profile fields

I also added the ability within BBpress for the user to change their location within the built in profile amend by changing Form-user-edit.php (located in web/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

The following was added after line 125
<?php bbp_edit_user_display_name(); ?>
BBpress version 2.3.1

<div>
			<label for="town"><?php _e( 'Town', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
			<input type="text" name="town" id="town" value="<?php echo esc_attr( bbp_get_displayed_user_field( 'town' ) ); ?>" class="regular-text" tabindex="<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>" />
		</div>

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

I used “Bbpress wp-tweaks” it creates a bbpress sidebar that is used on the forum pages.
You could also use “Widget logic” – allows conditional statements on widgets to produce page or category specific sidebar content. Using the logic “is_bbpress()” allows sidebar specific content. “!is_bbpress()” excludes widgets from forum pages.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

From the sticky on the upgrade put the following into your CSS

`.bbp-search-form {
display:none !important;
}`

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

where it says

‘Amend Profile/Change password above it should say

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

`<a href="edit” >Amend Profile/Change password`

ok think i worked it out

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

ok so how do you post code in this forum? it keeps swallowing it !

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

sorry lost the text through the forum interpreting it – try again

a href=”edit” >Amend Profile/Change password
Just wrap this in the usual <a and /a's

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

I have also added it in a page by creating a shortcode
In functions.php in my child theme I added

//edit profile
function profileedit() {
return ‘Amend Profile/Change password‘ ;
}
add_shortcode(‘profileedit’, ‘profileedit’);

Then in any page type [profileedit] and up comes the href with the current user correctly filed in.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Not sure which bit of your site you plan to put this in, but the following php code will put up some text which they can click

<a href="edit” >Amend Profile/Change password

without the “edit”, it’ll take them to their profile page.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Lynq,

Thnaks for your unput. I played with several ideas, but in the end just added a libe to bbpress’s widgets.php on line 140 as follows :

<a href="edit” >Amend Profile/Change password

That did the trick.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Can you point me to the newer example, and i’ll code that for snitz so that it looks consistent and has help prompts in it, then I’ll ticket it to you.

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

PS the example.php that downloads with the bbpress plugin doesn’t have a bit to bring the message accross, so initially I had a great forum with no topic content!

I nicked the following from another converter and it seemed to work

// Topic content.
// Note: We join the posts table because topics do not have content.
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘FORUM_TOPICS’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘T_MESSAGE’,
‘join_tablename’ => ‘thread’,
‘join_type’ => ‘INNER’,
‘join_expression’ => ‘USING (threadid) WHERE post.parentid = 0′,
‘to_type’ => ‘topic’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘post_content’,
‘callback_method’ => ‘callback_html’

[@robin-w Moderator 12 years, 1 month ago]

Stephen,

Thanks, that got me going in the right direction and I have achieved it.

I’ll try and post the full method for future users – I found your custom stuff useful https://codex.bbpress.org/import-forums/custom-import/

Working out the mapping and date formats took a bit of effort, but once there the rest is easy !

Thanks again