[Robin W]

SORRY – just read you post again, and now I think I understand

on one site you want the code as above

on another site you just want a single post, but with title and date, but no link on the date – yes ?

if so then untested but this should be it

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'rew_freshness_no_date_link' , 100, 6) ; 
	
function rew_freshness_no_date_link($anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id ) {
	if (!empty ($active_id)) {
	?>
	<a href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink($active_id); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title(active_id) ?></a> (<?php bbp_topic_last_active_time(active_id); ?>)
	<?php
	}
	else echo 'No topics' ;
}

[Robin W]

you’ve lost me now 🙂

The key line that does the reference is

<a href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink($topic); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title($topic) ?> (<?php bbp_topic_last_active_time($topic); ?>)</a>

This translates as

<a href="[topic link]">[topic title] ([date])</a>

which makes both the topic title and the date a single clickable link and the code shows 3 of these.

I’m not really sure what you are trying to achieve – I had thought you wanted 3 clickable links on both title and date, which is what the above does.

If you don’t want the date clickable, then do

<a href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink($topic); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title($topic) ?></a> (<?php bbp_topic_last_active_time($topic); ?>)

[Steve]

Thanks for the link. I will check out your plugin. It may be what I need. Though still wondering about access control.

I am mostly confused by the “FORUM ACCESS” that is described here,
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/#5-%c2%a0forum-visibility-and-access

It talks about viewing and posting permissions but doesn’t say WHERE it is. It is very frustrating.

Anybody know if these settings really exist and WHERE they are. Thanks.

[brent0r]

When I use your code above, I get the 3 last posts without a link on the date/time.

When I am not using your 3 last posts code (different site) from above, bbpress naturally links the last post.
How would I best go about removing just the link from a single last post in that example?

I’ve figured that I could use your code as above but change to ($count == 1). I’m obviously not experienced with writing code but to me it seems an excessive way to go about it.

[Robin W]

The topic ID is a changeable box, so lets you change the id number. Lots of code would be needed to get it to work for titles, but this code will show the topic name in the box at the bottom

add_action( 'bbp_reply_metabox', 'rew_topic_title' );

function rew_topic_title ($post_id ) {
	$reply_topic_id = bbp_get_reply_topic_id( $post_id );
	?>
	<p>
			<strong class="label"><?php esc_html_e( 'Topic Title:', 'bbpress' ); ?></strong>
			<label class="screen-reader-text" for="bbp_author_id"><?php esc_html_e( 'Topic Title:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label>
			<?php bbp_topic_title ($reply_topic_id) ; ?>
		</p>
	<?php
}

Put this in your child theme function file

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[Robin W]

in place of your code put back the original

	<?php bbp_forum_freshness_link(); ?>

and then add this to your functions file

add_filter( 'bbp_get_forum_freshness_link', 'rew_freshness_last_three' , 100, 6) ; 
	
function rew_freshness_last_three ($anchor, $forum_id, $time_since, $link_url, $title, $active_id ) {
	//set up and run a query to get a list of all topics in this forum that this user can see
	// Setup possible post__not_in array
	$post_stati[] = bbp_get_public_status_id();

	// Super admin get whitelisted post statuses
	if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		$post_stati = array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_private_status_id(), bbp_get_hidden_status_id() );

	// Not a keymaster, so check caps
	} else {

		// Check if user can read private forums
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_private_forums' ) ) {
			$post_stati[] = bbp_get_private_status_id();
		}

		// Check if user can read hidden forums
		if ( current_user_can( 'read_hidden_forums' ) ) {
			$post_stati[] = bbp_get_hidden_status_id();
		}
	}
	// Parse arguments against default values
	$r = array(
		'post_parent'         => $forum_id,
		'post_type'           => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
		'post_status'         => implode( ',', $post_stati ),
		'ignore_sticky_posts' => true,
		'posts_per_page' => -1
		);
	

	// Create a new query for the topic list
	$get_posts = new WP_Query();

	$topics = $get_posts->query( $r ) ;
	
	//var_dump ($topics) ;
	
	//now run through this list and get the last active date of each topic
	foreach ($topics as $topic) {
		$id = $topic->ID ;
		$last_active = get_post_meta( $id, '_bbp_last_active_time', true );
		$curdate = strtotime($last_active);
		$show[$curdate] = $id ;
		}
	if (!empty ($show)) {
		//so now we have a list of dates with topic ids, so we need to find the latest 3
		arsort($show);
		$count=0 ;
		foreach ($show as $topic) {
			$count++ ;
			?>
			<a href="<?php bbp_topic_permalink($topic); ?>"><?php bbp_topic_title($topic) ?> (<?php bbp_topic_last_active_time($topic); ?>)</a>
		<?php
			if ($count == 3) break ;
		}
	}
	else echo 'No topics' ;

	
}

It has to sort through all topics for all forums to work this out, so it may slow your forums index display and get worse as your forum content grows.

[Robin W]

the page is a virtual page

you can make it an actual wordpress page by following

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – Part 1

Item 3 method 2

[brent0r]

I’ve managed to find a solution, I will add styling later to both topic title and date.
<a href="<?php bbp_forum_last_reply_url(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_last_topic_title() && bbp_forum_last_topic_title(); ?> (<?php bbp_forum_last_active_time(); ?>)</a>

I’d still love to find a way to display 3 last posts rather than just one.

[brent0r]

Is it possible to post your final, working code used?

[Robin W]

not quite sure what you last sentence means, but in essence if

dashboard>settings>forums>forum root slug>forum root equals ‘forums’, then create a page with the permalink of ‘forums’ and put

[bbp-forum-index]

in it. You can then do your seo on that page

If you are using yoast seo, you may want to add this plugin as well – I haven’t yet looked at it, but seems to do some seo stuff on topics etc.

BBpress Addon For Yoast SEO

[Robin W]

user will get forum access as per

dashboard>settings>forums>auto role – you can change this to blocked if you don’t want automatic access.

The rest of your request would require some bespoke code, which is well beyond any free help I’m afraid.

[brent0r]

On the forums index under Last Post I have:

“Title Of the Thread That Was Updated Most Recently”
“17 hours, 11 minutes ago”

I am wanting to put the two on a single line.
eg. “Title of the Thread (7 hours, 11 minutes ago)”

The area of the loop-single-forum file is as follows:

<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’ve tried editing this quite a bit but all attempts have failed. Any tips or feedback on how I can display the Thread Title (time posted) on a single line would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[tylertervooren]

Thanks, Robin. I think I’m using a few of your plugins as well. 🙂

The way I approached this plugin is that it’s only use is to print the url of the user profile. As you can see, no surrounding a tag and no anchor text. That means you can put it anywhere inside of your own links, which is probably even easier than trying to specify that with a shortcode attribute.

So, if the logged in/logged out part were added, it would still break, just in a different way. 🙂

The idea is that, if you need to check for logged in/logged out status, you probably need to do it for multiple elements of your site. In that case, a separate plugin that does that is more useful and will work in harmony with this one.

Anyway, that was my thought process. Happy to hear other thoughts.

[Robin W]

I started with something very simple, so know the amount of work to publish a plugin and understand all the processes to that point – congratulations !!

you can fix the broken part by only executing if the user is logged in eg

change

function bbp_profile_link_shortcode() {
	
		$link = bbp_get_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ) ;
	
	return $link;	
}

to

function bbp_profile_link_shortcode() {
	if (!is_user_logged_in())  return ;
		$link = bbp_get_user_profile_url( bbp_get_current_user_id() ) ;
	
	return $link;	
}

This makes the function not display if the user isn’t logged in

[Robin W]

use this in your functions file and change the address to what you want

add_filter('bbp_get_do_not_reply_address','my_bbp_no_reply_email');
function no_reply_email(){
    $email = 'noreply@yourdomain.com'; // any email you want
    return $email;
}

you can change that default to email address as well with :

add_filter('bbp_subscription_to_email','my_bbp_subscription_to_email');
function my_bbp_subscription_to_email(){
    $email = 'noreply@yourdomain.com'; // any email you want
    return $email;
}

[Robin W]

just loaded that plugin to my test site, and with auto-embed on it works fine.

This

<p>https://photos.app.goo.gl/pOeSirvJb5oC7kFC2</p>

displays the embed just fine.

So all we now need to do is work out the difference between my test site and your staging site !!

When you’ve come back on the Q’s above, I’ll do some more digging.

[Robin W]

untested by this should work

//change topic order
add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', 'rew_topic_order_by_meta');

function rew_topic_order_by_meta ($args) {
	$args['meta_key'] = 'put_meta_key_here' ;
	$args['orderby']    = 'meta_value' ;
	$args['order']     = 'DESC' ;  //or ASC if needed
	return $args ;
}

just put your meta_key where it says

[peter-hamilton]

Hi @brent0r
I made the following adjustment in my child-theme´s loop-single-forum.php and styled with CSS.
This code will place all elements in the right order to have simple CSS adjustments make it all work as expected.

<?php

/**
 * Forums Loop - Single Forum
 *
 * @package bbPress
 * Theme OrganicSquare
 * Child-theme of TwentySixteen
 */

?>

<ul id="bbp-forum-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?>" <?php bbp_forum_class(); ?>>

<li class="bbp-forum-info">
	<div class="forumtitle">
		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_title' ); ?>

		<a class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php bbp_forum_title(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a>

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

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

		<div class="bbp-forum-content"><?php bbp_forum_content(); ?></div>
		<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_sub_forums' ); ?>

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

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

		<?php bbp_forum_row_actions(); ?></div>
	</li>

<li class="bbp-forum-topic-count">
		<div class="topic-reply-counts">Topics: <span class="ismcounter"><?php bbp_forum_topic_count(); ?></span></div>
		<div class="topic-reply-counts">Posts: <span class="ismcounter"><?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_forum_reply_count() : bbp_forum_post_count(); ?></span></div>
	</li>

<li class="bbp-topic-freshness mob-hide-link-forum">
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_before_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>

	<div class="freshness-author"><span class="fresh-avatar"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'avatar', 'size' => '40' ) ); ?></span>

	<div class="fresh"><h2><a href=" <?php bbp_forum_last_reply_url(); ?>" class="forumpostlink"><?php bbp_forum_last_reply_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<span class="forumlist-name"><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?></span>
	<span class="widgetlistdate"><?php bbp_forum_freshness_link(); ?></span></div>
	<?php do_action( 'bbp_theme_after_forum_freshness_link' ); ?>
	</div>
</li>

</ul><!-- #bbp-forum-<?php bbp_forum_id(); ?> -->

[Robin W]

you have total height constrained by

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum {
	border-top: 0;
	height: 90px;
}

so

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum {
	height: auto !important;
}

[Robin W]

Line 4255 of your theme Pixiehuge has

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum li {
	height: 100%;
	display: flex;
	display: -webkit-flex;
	flex-direction: column;
	-webkit-flex-direction: column;
	justify-content: center;
	-webkit-justify-content: center;
}

The height : 100% is the issue

You need to put

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum li {
	height: auto;
}

or

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-body ul.forum li {
	height: auto !important;
}

(Try without the !important first)

into your theme’s custom css, or the custom css part of my bbp style pack plugin

[Robin W]

you can simply filter this in your theme’s function file.

not tested but

add_filter( 'bbp_number_format', 'rew_number_format', 10 , 5) ;

function rew_number_format ($number_format, $number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep) {
	$thousands_sep = '' ;
return apply_filters( 'rew_number_format', number_format( $number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep ), $number, $decimals, $dec_point, $thousands_sep );
}

[Robin W]

I’ve fixed that in the style pack plugin with version 3.7.2

for anyone using the function above it should read

function rew_forum_order_by_freshness ($args) {
	$args['meta_key'] = '_bbp_last_active_time' ;
	$args['orderby']    = 'meta_value' ;
	$args['order']     = 'DESC' ;
	return $args ;
}

add_filter('bbp_before_has_forums_parse_args', 'rew_forum_order_by_freshness');

which just changes the order, rather than the previous function which overwrites all the parameters submitted by subscriptions

[Robin W]

it’s caused by

#bbpress-forums .reply {
  margin-left: 0 !important;
  width: auto !important;
}

which says it is inline code.

The width: auto !important needs to be width :100% !important.

Auto makes it only as wide as it needs to be, so for short sentences it truncates.

But I’m also getting an error saying that your “sydney-child-theme/style.css could not be loaded”

[posemotion]

I was able to edit the style.css to get what I was looking for. Line 207. Compare and change.

code,
kbd,
tt,
var,
samp,
pre {
	font-family: monospace, serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	-webkit-hyphens: none;
	-moz-hyphens:    none;
	-ms-hyphens:     none;
	hyphens:         none;
	line-height: 1.6;
}

code,
pre {
	border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
	-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
	-moz-box-sizing:    border-box;
	box-sizing:         border-box;
	margin-bottom: 24px;
	max-width: 100%;
	overflow: auto;
	padding: 12px;
	white-space: pre;
	white-space: pre-wrap;
	word-wrap: break-word;
}

[dobosalina]

This is the code

function bp_redirect($user)
  $redirect_url = "";

if (defined('ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE')) {
    switch (ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE) {
		
        case 'fr':
            $redirect_url = "https://volunteerteacher.org/fr/enregistrement-avec-succes/";
          break;

		  default:
              $redirect_url = 'https://volunteerteacher.org/registration-successful/"';
          break;
		  
		  
    }
	bp_core_redirect($redirect_url);
}
return $redirect_url;
}
add_action('bp_core_signup_user', 'bp_redirect', 100, 1);