[Robin W]

ok, I’ve done a very basic version in my style pack plugin, which would let you use a shortcode in say a widget.

bbp style pack

once installed go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>shortcodes and see the last one

In our case, we have only 5 forums and we were thinking it would be nice to show the same information available in the “Forums” section in the backend of WordPress where it displays a column of the number of subscribers for each forum.

Pascals tollkit will show the number of sucsbribers in the backend as a column

bbP Toolkit

I need to do much more to do what you want for the rest.

[brent0r]

I’m not sure if this is displayed correctly or not. Appears the li code is dropping outside of the post. It also breaks the template.

[Robin W]

Possible? – not without a load of bespoke code – I’m afraid

[Robin W]

ok, just posting for anyone searching in future

THIS IS A WORKING VERSION

This code allows a standard gravity form lets it be saved as a gravity forum, but on saving also creates a new topic form for a specific forum

add_action( 'gform_after_submission', 'set_post_content', 10, 2 );

function set_post_content( $entry, $form ) {
	//set the forum ID that the topic will be saved to
	$forum_ID = '31086' ;
	
	if (!function_exists('bbp_insert_topic')) {
            require_once '/includes/topics/functions.php';
        }
		
		//getting post
		$post_form = get_post($entry['post_id']) ;
		$title = $post_form->post_title;
		$content = $post_form->post_content;

        // The topic data.
        $topic_data = array(
        'post_parent'       => $forum_ID, // forum ID of Projects  hard coded
        'post_status'       => bbp_get_public_status_id(),   // Subscribed users can see this
        'post_content'      => $content,
        'post_title'        => $title,
        'comment_status'    => 'open',
        'menu_order'        => 0
        );

        // The topic meta.
        $topic_meta = array(
        'forum_id'    =>  $forum_ID,
        'reply_count' => 0
		);

        $post_id = bbp_insert_topic($topic_data, $topic_meta);
           
}

[Robin W]

@jkw217 if you can confirm my post above – ie

can you confirm that

“5 random reply posts that arent working:
– all have ‘0’ for post_parent.
– all have a postmeta _bbp_topic_id #

I need to know that you

a) have EXACTLY the same problem and
b) have the postmeta as above

then I can give you some code

[Robin W]

can you confirm that

5 random reply posts that arent working:
– all have ‘0’ for post_parent.
– all have a postmeta _bbp_topic_id #

and I can give you some code

[carriercarrier]

Hi again
I tried the forum-class, but it only added “text” to my forum see http://prntscr.com/i9yywx.
I have added the abpve CSS code to my theme.

Its this tag-cloud widget http://prntscr.com/i9z0m6 that I would like to show above the “forum title, if possible.

Is there something Im missing here?

[Robin W]

or you could link to the ‘forum’ class as it is just before the title

eg

.forum::before { 
     content: "Read this: ";
} 

[Robin W]

As it’s above the title, then it’s before bbpress kicks in.

you could try

if (is_bbpress) {
echo 'hello' ;
}

but may not work

Or try to add something to your theme page.php or equivalent before the title
Something like (this won’t work it’s just to start you off!)

$array = (2925, 3567,4567) ;
if (in_array ($page_id, $array)) {
echo 'hello' ;
}

where 2925 etc are forum ID’s

[Robin W]

try this

a.bbp-reply-permalink {
display : none !important;
}

[keshabee]

sorry but the style code did not work.
what i want to hide is those things post numbers like #456, #4654

hope to hear from you soon, Thank you

[Robin W]

put this in your custom css area

.bbp-reply-permalink {
display : none ;
}

[Robin W]

when they first log on they are allocated the default role that you set in dashboard>settings>forums.

you can use the bbpress logon widget in a sidebar, use the shortcode [bbp-login] on a page or post, use any wordpress logion plugin or technique, or add a login to your menu using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Robin W]

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so change line 26 from

<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

to

<?php if (bbp_get_single_forum_description != 'This forum is empty.') bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

[Robin W]

This is not as easy as I thought.

As a widget it can be shortcoded, but the version I currently have does need to do the calculation each time, which on a site with lots of forums and users could make the site slow.

Whereabouts on the site were you thinking of – eg in sidebar, at top of each forum, within the forum list etc.

[Robin W]

hmm…

not sure what to suggest next.

I could code a quick ‘close topic’ shortcode, but that would be beyond free – contact me via my website if interested

http://www.rewweb.co.uk

[Robin W]

bis bold
I is italic
B-quote puts a wordpress block around the text – exactly what is set by your theme
Del – is delete quotes
img is an image
ul is an unordered list
ol is an ordered list
li is a list item
code is code – stops the display from executing, just displays it
close tags – closes all open tags

[Robin W]

that should work, but the code is not showing up in the browser, so it is not getting loaded.

[Robin W]

where are you putting this code ?

[Robin W]

don’t know what is happening

I’ve just looked at the core close topic code, and it just changes post_status to closed, although it goes via a whole bunch of code in a topic hander function which I haven’t been through line by line.

Suggest you try just changing the status directly in the db, and see if that fixes. You can always change it back !

[Robin W]

try

input[type=”text”] {
width: 50% !important;
}
.bbp-login-form .bbp-password input {
width: 50% !important;
}

[Robin W]

having a button at the top which goes to the form at the bottom can be achieved by

bbp style pack

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>buttons

Having the from hidden is quite possible, but I don’t know of any already written code to do that

[urphy73]

Hello everybody

How can I delete or hide the “Create a new topic” form and replace it by a button ?

The button will open or dropdown the “new topic for”m

Do you know a plugin or a bit of code to do that properly ?

Thanks in advance

[Robin W]

great

than add this

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

Instead of ‘This forum is empty.’ you will get ‘new text’, so just change new text to what you want

eg change the line

$translated_text = 'new text';

to

$translated_text = 'Categories listed below';

– if you want it blank then have that line say

$translated_text = '';

[chrtravels]

Hi Robin,

In functions.php? I do know how to enter code there, via ftp or cPanel. I just don’t know what code to enter to solve for this. 🙂

Chris