[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Awesome, you are a life saver Robin. So glad I could put the template file back to the original.

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry for the delay, was out yesterday evening.

I altered the template.php file and put the following at line 2266

Original:

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';

Modified:

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';
$crumbs[] = '<a href="/forums/">Forums</a>';
}

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Hey Robin, yes, I altered the core for now until another solution was provided. Any help you could provide would be very much welcomed! 🙂

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

So earlier, someone suggested doing the following:

// Add the breadcrumb
// $crumbs[] = '<a href="' . esc_url( $root_url ) . '">' . $r['root_text'] . '</a>';
$crumbs[] = '<a href="/forum/">Forum</a>';

Can I make a duplicate of the template.php to drop into my theme somewhere to make a similar change? This works, but I don’t like the idea of altering the main bbpress files.

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

To clarify: I just need to know how I can change the Forums breadcrumb link to go to the /forums page and not /forums-root without changing it through Settings>Forums>Forum Root Slug.

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

This page is currently written as just a simple WordPress page with several shortcodes as listed below:

General Discussions

[bbp-single-forum id=3926]

Guild Discussions

[bbp-single-forum id=3924]

Group Forums

[bbp-single-forum id=10169]

When changing the Settings to have /forums as the forum root page, it changes all of the above listed shortcodes visually to look like it was just duplicated over and over from the current /forums-root page. It loses all of the current forum IDs and they all turn into a general forum-index.

This is why I can’t just swap it in the Setting menu for the forums, and the reason I want the current Forum breadcrumb to direct to /forums and not /forums-root.

If you would like, take a look at the way it looks now, and I’ll switch it after so you can see what it is doing.

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

If I change the page as you mentioned, all shortcodes for the http://forgebreaker.net/forums/ page are overwritten, and you end up with several copies of the forum-index shortcode instead.

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Robin
Here the the actual forum page that I want as the main page. If you hover over any of the breadcrumbs, you’ll see they read /forums-root/. I would like to replace that with /forums/

I hide the breadcrumbs by css on this page usually, but I’m showing them now so you can see it all on one page.

http://forgebreaker.net/forums/

[@se7en1216 Participant 9 years, 11 months ago]

Robin, your link is very helpful, but doesn’t explain how to change the breadcrumb forum root link.

For instance, I want to leave the breadcrumb in place, but change the link from the root page to the new forum layout page.

Forum Root Page: /forum-root
New Forum Layout Page: /forums

Can this be done using the theme’s functions.php page?