[Robin W]

use

Code Snippets

and enter any code there

[likipadhy]

Okay, so what I want is show the topic creation date in freshness column. I understand that I need to edit the template files but what code ll be going to that column, and how we’ll get the date?
suppose the topic is created on March 24th, 2019 I want to show this date on freshness column.

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

and in particular item 5

[aaron77]

Hi all,

I hope this is the right place to put this but I need some help. A quick backstory I’m working for a startup and before I joined someone made the site for them on WordPress. He left however and I’ve taken over the general running of the site, I have a decent understanding of WordPress because I have messed around with it before but this is the biggest project I’ve been apart of.

On to the problem they want to add a news section with news from the industry (blockchain). So I’m trying to research how to get that done and most of the plugins I’ve found keep talking about entering a snippet of code into your site to do X or Y. The problem is that the person before me built the site using some plugin I have never seen before.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jaykaybee]

I would like to use html in topics that is then reflected in excerpts. There is a plug-in for general WP called Advanced Excerpt that enables this. But I am wondering if it can be done for bbpress excerpts.

Details:

In a forum (https://devgo.jeffbelkora.com/collections/articles/resource-list/) I am using some code from https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/bbpress-topic-excerpts, namely:

function add_topic_excerpt() {
echo “<p>”.bbp_get_topic_excerpt( $topic_id, 200).”</p>”;
}
add_action(‘bbp_theme_after_topic_title’, ‘add_topic_excerpt’ );

Unfortunately, the bbpress excerpt does not show active links (html) from the content as I desire.

Any ideas?

[Robin W]

span.bbp-admin-links a {
	font-size: 24px !important;
}

[Robin W]

put this in your custom css

#bbpress-forums ul.bbp-lead-topic, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-topics, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-forums, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-replies, #bbpress-forums ul.bbp-search-results {
	font-size: 24px !important;
}

[Robin W]

I think this may do it – but I’ve no knowledge of mathml, other than a quick google

This code is untested, but add this to your child theme function file or use the ‘code snippets’ plugin

add_filter( 'bbp_kses_allowed_tags', 'rew_add_mathml') ;

function rew_add_mathml ($allowed) {
	$allowed['math'] = array() ;
	$allowed['mo'] = array() ;
	$allowed['mi'] = array() ;

return $allowed ;
}

you would need to add lines for other tags required.

[Robin W]

change this to

/*
// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums_table’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘the_topic_count’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_topic_count’
);
*/

[licondam]

Hi there!

We’re trying to move our forums from a custom Q&A platform to bbPress… very glad there is now an importer!

So I copied example.php to myimport.php, changed the class name, and updated the tables/columns that apply (the ones that exist in the old database).

And ran the import…

But I keep running into import errors for fields that don’t apply as they don’t exist in the other database, like forums_table.the_reply_count

So for a field that just does not exist in the old database, what’s the proper syntax for “ignore this”? 🙂

For example, this one…

// Forum topic count (Stored in postmeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
‘from_tablename’ => ‘forums_table’,
‘from_fieldname’ => ‘the_topic_count’,
‘to_type’ => ‘forum’,
‘to_fieldname’ => ‘_bbp_topic_count’
);
I looked for this on the importer codex page, but just don’t see it.

Thanks!
LICON

[Hummingbird]

Unfortunately it didn’t work :(. It’s just weird that it’s just this one page and the other topic pages are fine…like you said, the difference seems to be that for the page in question (linked above with the centering issue), it is a short-code pasted on an actual page of my website, whereas the rest are bbpress generated.

Interesting to note, I had to use the ubiquitous twenty seventeen theme for the forum pages (include the one we are trying to fix) because the theme for my website was so incompatible with buddypress. It ran bbpress fine. In fact, this centering thing was not a problem for my theme (but I had to switch since the theme would not allow buddypress). It was only once I set the twenty seventeen theme to this page specifically that this issue appeared! Not sure if that helps with any more solutions…

[Robin W]

so from forums loop remove

<li class="bbp-forum-freshness"><?php _e( 'Freshness', 'bbpress' ); ?></li>

and from loop single forum remove

<li class="bbp-forum-freshness">

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>

		<?php bbp_forum_freshness_link(); ?>

		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>

		<p class="bbp-topic-meta">

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_author' ); ?>

			<span class="bbp-topic-freshness-author"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>

			<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_author' ); ?>

		</p>
	</li>

I’ll let you work out the topics

[Robin W]

try

.archive:not(.page-one-column):not(.has-sidebar) #primary article {
 float : none !important;
 Width : 100% !important ;

}

[Hummingbird]

I pasted in the code you sent as is, and it did not center the page :(. Any other thoughts on how I could approach this issue?

[Hummingbird]

Wordpress version:5.1.1
bbPress version: 2.5.14

Question #1:

Here’s the page I’m looking at: http://www.toledonaturalist.org/forums/

I cannot figure out how to center the forum information on the page. I created this “forums” page and simply pasted in this shortcode: [bbp-forum-index]

At first I thought there was an invisible sidebar. Nope, it does not appear that there are any active sidebars. Perhaps I could fiddle around with the template? Nope, doesn’t seem to impact anything. I could try centering the shortcode with CSS? Nope, this didn’t work either, although I don’t know much about CSS, so I easily could have just typed it in wrong.

The weird thing is that all of the children pages are centered. It’s just this page that is having issues.

Question #2)
Here is the page I am looking at:
http://www.toledonaturalist.org/login/?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledonaturalist.org%2F

This is so bizarre! The login works great, but I don’t even have a login page on my list of “pages.” I want to change the header image and the redirection after login, but I have no idea where bbpress is getting this page. Without knowing where it is, I cannot reset the redirection after login (I want it to go to the very first link in this post) or change the header image.

Let me know what you think!

[jemar707]

Hi Robin! Thanks for the reply.

This is what I am using to reorder replies:

// Reverse forum replies order from newer to older
 
function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
$args['order'] = 'DESC'; // ‘ASC’ (Ascending, Default), 'DESC' (Descending)
 
return $args;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args', 'custom_bbp_has_replies' );
 
function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
$show_lead[] = 'true';
return $show_lead;
}
 
add_filter('bbp_show_lead_topic', 'custom_bbp_show_lead_topic' );

[Techknowledgic]

Hey, I was using BBpress before but now I decided to stop using it because I was getting a lot of spam posts and users and I don’t have the time to keep on tracking the forums.

However, after deleting the bbpress plugin, I see an inflated wp_posts and wp_postmeta databases each one around 700mb and I found out here that bbpress store their data in wp_posts and wp_postmeta

Stored Database Data

So I am wondering, how can I delete the bbpress related databases from the wp_posts and wp_postmeta without affecting my other posts or pages I have created?

I have 3 more websites with even more posts created by me, but without bbpress and the wp_posts and wp_postsmeta is like 20mb or so. That’s why I am sure that the inflated databse are because of bbpress.

So anyone can help me figure out how to delete the bbpress related databases?

[lorcannolan]

I’m having a weird “bug” or just unwanted result from something that usually works perfectly.

(0,0) removed via usual method:

function remove_counts() {
    $args['show_topic_count'] = false;
    $args['show_reply_count'] = false;
    $args['count_sep'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'remove_counts' );

Unfortunately this time it is leaving me with the commas still intact despite the separator being target to be removed (I’m not comfortable with coding like most of you guys but years in WordPress you have to pick up a few things).

Probably easier if you take a look at this point it’s : MCR Biker Community Forum

I am using a plugin called Youzer to style the forum if that has any effect. Switching themes doesn’t fix.

Any suggestions?

[lucju04]

Hi everybody,

I would like to creat a home for my forum who loop some forum in blocs. And in this bloc I would like to list sub forum with topic count, post count and freshness.

I make a mockup to be more precise ^^ You can the here: https://ibb.co/zFD60d1

I already try to make these loop but I can’t retrieve the freshness & counts for each sub forum.

And also I need to design differently each row but bbpress retrieve data in columns…

Do you already make something like this ?

I found this function:

//This function adds descriptions to the sub forums
function custom_list_forums( $args = '' ) {

	// Define used variables
	$output = $sub_forums = $topic_count = $reply_count = $counts = '';
	$i = 0;
	$count = array();

	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = bbp_parse_args( $args, array(
		'before'            => '<ul class="bbp-forums-list">',
		'after'             => '</ul>',
		'link_before'       => '<li class="bbp-forum">',
		'link_after'        => '</li>',
		'count_before'      => ' <span class="counts">[ ',
		'count_after'       => '  réponse(s) ]</span>',
		'count_sep'         => ' sujet(s), ',
		'separator'         => ', ',
		'forum_id'          => '',
		'show_topic_count'  => true,
		'show_reply_count'  => true,
	), 'list_forums' );

	// Loop through forums and create a list
	$sub_forums = bbp_forum_get_subforums( $r['forum_id'] );
	if ( !empty( $sub_forums ) ) {

		// Total count (for separator)
		$total_subs = count( $sub_forums );
		foreach ( $sub_forums as $sub_forum ) {
			$i++; // Separator count

			// Get forum details
			$count     = array();
			$show_sep  = $total_subs > $i ? $r['separator'] : '';
			$permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink( $sub_forum->ID );
			$title     = bbp_get_forum_title( $sub_forum->ID );
			$content = bbp_get_forum_content($sub_forum->ID) ;

			// Show topic count
			if ( !empty( $r['show_topic_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$count['topic'] = bbp_get_forum_topic_count( $sub_forum->ID );
			}

			// Show reply count
				$count['reply'] = bbp_get_forum_reply_count( $sub_forum->ID );

			// Counts to show
			if ( !empty( $count ) ) {
				$counts = $r['count_before'] . implode( $r['count_sep'], $count ) . $r['count_after'];
			}

			// Build this sub forums link
			$output .= $r['before'].$r['link_before'] . '<a href="' . esc_url( $permalink ) . '" class="bbp-forum-link">' . $title . $counts . '</a>' . $show_sep . $r['link_after'].'<div class="bbp-forum-content">'.$content.'</div>'.$r['after'];
		}

		// Output the list
		return $output ;
	}
}

add_filter('bbp_list_forums', 'custom_list_forums' );

I got the description of subforum, it’s a good start..

[tunyafix]

Hi! when we move topic to other forum the subscribed user forum don’t receive the notification.
Because the action only is performed on new topics
add_action( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_notify_forum_subscribers', 11, 4 );

We created on function bbp_move_topic_handler

    $topic_author = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
    $anonymous_data = 0;

    do_action( 'bbp_move_topic', $topic_id, $new_forum_id, $anonymous_data, $topic_author );

and also added

add_action( 'bbp_move_topic',    'bbp_notify_forum_subscribers',           11, 4 );

But we think it should be part of core
Best regards

[chezsheles]

oops – I mean the code in my child theme functions. Just so it’s clear. I’m using a child theme and have added the code to the child theme functions.

[chezsheles]

Hi – The solution offered by robkk creates a white screen (o’ death) on the front end and then this error in the debug_log:

[18-Mar-2019 17:13:21 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<', expecting end of file in .../wp-content/themes/MyStupidTheme/functions.php on line 63

Line 63 in my child functions file is the first line of code:

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

I used php code checker to see whether or not the code was still valid, and it checked out ok.

I even cut and pasted the code from this page to Text Wrangler, to strip it of any errant styling or whatnot before I pasted it into my child theme. Still get the same error and white screen.

What else might I try?

Thanks much for any help!

[badrobot]

Thanks. I have done that. I guess what I am looking for is some bbPress specific code that I can add to the style sheet in the child theme. There are a number of examples that come up in searches but none have worked in this theme. This particular theme allows for an override of the side bar setting on a page by page basis. There must be some bbPress specific code that could be placed in the child theme style sheet to extend that override to bbPress forum pages.

[Robin W]

ok, for the participants trashing topics, install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Topic/Reply Display items 17,18,& 19

On the widgets, install
the ‘widget logic plugin’, and on pages you want the widget, use

is_bbpress()

in the condition

[lucju04]

I think this task will be hard for you. Anybody around you can help you with basic knowloedge of CSS and PHP/WordPress ?

You have a explaination of many custom things you can do with bbpress here : https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/

GOod luck 😉