[Anonymous User 13302461]

I can’t believe there isn’t more info on this.

I want to have maybe 5 topics listed at the top of my home page that have no replies. [bbp-single-view id="no-replies"]

Maybe under that I would like to have the 5 most popular topics, then the 5 most recent.

Why is there no way to control this with shortcodes and nobody has found a solution 🙁

[Robin W]

so you’ve put

<?php if ($countr !=0) bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ‘<br />’, ‘show_role’ => true ) ); ?>

on the loop single reply – yes?

Try adding a line before that

<?php echo ‘countr is ‘ . $countr ; ?>

that should then show what the value is somewhere on the page (bottom left of each topic/reply would be my bet), so you can see what’s happening !

If it’s not coming through you might need to declare it before using it in replies

eg new line before line 45 saying

<?php global $countr ; ?>

[Evan Herman]

Unfortunately I missed the survey.

I would love to see attachments and resolved/unresolved tagging. I heavily use bbpress for support forums with a few of my plugins, and have to install 2 or even 3 plugins to get it where I need it to be for a support forum.

I would love to see a module of sorts added to bbpress code that enables support forum features.

[Jerry]

Hi Robin, thanks for your help so far. I had already made the theme folder and have been working with that for some time now, so I had no trouble following your suggestion.

Unfortunately this is not quite working, but I think you have me on the right path. First, I had to move the global $countr; at the beginning of the file to prevent a parse error. Now, this code removes the topic author, which is great. But…, it also removes the reply authors.
I want to keep the reply authors. Any suggestions?

Here is my code in loop-replies.php:

	<li class="bbp-body">
      
		<?php if ( bbp_thread_replies() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_list_replies(); ?>

		<?php else : ?>
    <?php 
      $countr=0; ?>

			<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); $countr ++;   ?>

				<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); ?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

		<?php endif; ?>

	</li><!-- .bbp-body -->

[Robin W]

Try this link and come back if that doesn’t solve it for you

https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[Anonymous User 13302461]

In wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/widgets.php

At around line 807 I added some code from the recent replies widget:

// Verify the reply ID - TESTING
$reply_id   = bbp_get_reply_id( $widget_query->post->ID );
$reply_link = '<a class="bbp-reply-topic-title" href="' . esc_url( bbp_get_reply_url( $reply_id ) ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( bbp_get_reply_excerpt( $reply_id, 50 ) ) . '"> TEST</a>';
// END TESTING	

Then near line 830 I changed

<div><?php bbp_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id ); ?></div>

to include the code to print the “recent reply” link after the date/time.

<div><?php bbp_topic_last_active_time( $topic_id ); 
//print latest reply link
printf( _x( '%1$s',              'widgets', 'bbpress' ), $reply_link);
?></div>

[Anonymous User 13302461]

It’s OK I have nearly got this working. I will post the code soon for anybody who would like it.

[Stephen Edgar]

I have just started updating the layout and structure of the codex http://codex.bbpress.org/

This has been on the ‘ToDo’ list for a while, there is much to do and if you would like to give a helping hand that would be great, subscribing to this topic would be a good start 😉

In the coming days I will update this post and outline further some of the plans.

You can see the new planned layout home page here: http://codex.bbpress.org/

The ‘Participate & Contribute’ page here: http://codex.bbpress.org/participate-and-contribute/

No pages or changes to permalinks have been made yet, though I do plan on this in the coming days.

[Robin W]

ok, quick and messy way (based on some code I did elsewhere)

create a directory in your theme root called bbpress

wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

copy

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress

loop-replies.php
and
loop-single-reply.php

into this directory

bbpress will now use these files instead

in loop-replies change from line 40 to

<li class="bbp-body">

		<?php if ( bbp_thread_replies() ) : ?>

			<?php bbp_list_replies(); ?>
			
			
		<?php else : ?>
			<?php global $countr ;
			$countr=0 ; ?>
		
			<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>
			
			<?php 
			$countr ++ ; 
			
			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' ); ?>

			<?php endwhile; ?>

This is basically just putting a count into this, so that we can see that the topic is count 0

then in loop-single-reply change line 45 to read

<?php if ($countr !=0) bbp_reply_author_link( array( ‘sep’ => ‘<br />’, ‘show_role’ => true ) ); ?>

I’ve not tested this, but you should be able to get it to work.

[Jerry]

If anyone is able to give me a hand on this, one note. I’ve tried modifying content-single-topic-lead.php as per the codex. That did not work. My next route is to try modifying something within buddypress, which I have installed. Perhaps something in there is preventing these changes within bbpress? Grasping at straws at this point.

[Jerry]

@robin-w, here is my code for the custom fields. You will see where arguments and names match the variables being passed from javascript. This code was placed in a separate file as an additional plugin:

add_action ( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_form_content', 'bbp_extra_fields');
function bbp_extra_fields() {

  //This is where the cover will go, from google book search
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookCover', true);
   echo '<label for="bookCover">Book Cover URL</label><br>';
   echo "<p><textarea style='width: 250px; height: 50px'  name='bookCover' value='".$value."'></textarea></p>";
  //Input field for the Author
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookAuthor', true);
   echo '<label for="bookAuthor">Author</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookAuthor' value='".$value."'></p>";

   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookPublished', true);
   echo '<label for="bookPublished">Published</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookPublished' value='".$value."'></p>";

  //Input field for the number of pages in print
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookPages', true);
   echo '<label for="bookPages">Pages</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookPages' value='".$value."'></p>";
  //Input field for the Publisher that corresponds to the Published data
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookPublisher', true);
   echo '<label for="bookPublisher">Publisher</label><br>';
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookPublisher' value='".$value."'></p>";
  //Input field for the ISBN
   $value = get_post_meta( bbp_get_topic_id(), 'bookISBN', true);
   echo '<label for="bookISBN">ISBN</label><br>';
//   echo "<p><input type='number' name='bookISBN' value='".$value."'></p>";
   echo "<p><input type='text' name='bookISBN' value='".$value."'></p>";
   }

add_action ( 'bbp_new_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
add_action ( 'bbp_edit_topic', 'bbp_save_extra_fields', 10, 1 );
 
function bbp_save_extra_fields($topic_id=0) {
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookCover']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', $_POST['bookCover'] );
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookAuthor']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookAuthor', $_POST['bookAuthor'] );
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookPublished']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPublished', $_POST['bookPublished'] );
//  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookDescription']!='')
//    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookDescription', $_POST['bookDescription'] );
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookPages']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPages', $_POST['bookPages'] );
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookPublisher']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPublisher', $_POST['bookPublisher'] );
  if (isset($_POST) && $_POST['bookISBN']!='')
    update_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookISBN', $_POST['bookISBN'] );
  }

add_action('bbp_template_before_replies_loop', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
//add_action('bbp_template_before_main_content', 'bbp_show_extra_fields');
function bbp_show_extra_fields() {
  $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $valuec = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookCover', true);
  $value1 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookAuthor', true);
  $value2 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPublished', true);
//  $value3 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookDescription', true);
  $value4 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPages', true);
  $value5 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookPublisher', true);
  $value6 = get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bookISBN', true);

//Below is the table format for displaying a book. Might consider changing this
//to a form??? html header???
?>

  <table style="width:900px">
  <col width="100">
    <col width="265">
    <col width="535">   
		  <tr>
      <td style="vertical-align:top">
      <img src=<?php printf(rawurldecode($valuec))?> />
      </td>
      
      <td style="vertical-align:top">
			 <strong><p style="font-size: 14px";>Author: </strong><?php printf( $value1); ?> </p>
			 <strong><p style="font-size: 14px";>Published: </strong><?php printf( $value2); ?></p>					     
       <strong><p style="font-size: 14px";>Page(s): </strong><?php printf( $value4); ?></p>
			 <strong><p style="font-size: 14px";>Publisher: </strong><?php printf( $value5); ?></p>
       <strong><p style="font-size: 14px";>ISBN: </strong><?php printf( $value6); ?></p><br>
       <strong><div style="font-size: 14px";>Description </strong></div>
      </td>
      </tr>
  </table>

<?php
}

It would probably also be instructive for me to include the review-meta.php file that is called by javascript, so here is that code as well:

     if ( isset( $_POST['cover'] )) {
        $cover = $_POST['cover'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['coverSmall'] )) {
        $coverSmall = $_POST['coverSmall'];
      }      
     if ( isset( $_POST['title'] )) {
        $title = $_POST['title'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['author'] )) {
        $author = $_POST['author'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['published'] )) {
        $published = $_POST['published'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['description'] )) {
        $description = $_POST['description'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['pages'] )) {
        $pages = $_POST['pages'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['publisher'] )) {
        $publisher = $_POST['publisher'];
      }
     if ( isset( $_POST['ISBN'] )) {
        $ISBN = $_POST['ISBN'];
      }
      $r=array("cover"=>$cover,"coverSmall"=>$coverSmall,"title"=>$title,"author"=>$author,"published"=>$published,
      "description"=>$description,"pages"=>$pages,"publisher"=>$publisher,"ISBN"=>$ISBN);
      print(json_encode($r));

[Anonymous User 13302461]

As somebody who can bodge/program (quite) basic php code, do you think I could modify this and add a link or might it be difficult? You could potentially save me wasting hours or days of my life trying in futility!

Thank you.

[Robin W]

‘make less of an assumption about the degree of tech literacy us ordinary users have?’

I had assumed because you were able to look at wp-tables, you were techy !

I try hard to match responses to authors, but it’s difficult sometimes to judge the degree of technicality, and I’m just a humble volunteer on this site who does this for nothing and has a day job and family, so please don’t shoot those that are trying (if badly sometimes :-)) to help !

Are you techy enough to edit and ftp .php files, or add code to your functions file? If so then come back and I’ll try to help further

[Robin W]

I haven’t taken a detailed look at your problem but you could try adding this to you functions file

//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'      => ' (',
		'count_after'       => ')',
		'count_sep'         => ', ',
		'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
			if ( !empty( $r['show_reply_count'] ) && !bbp_is_forum_category( $sub_forum->ID ) ) {
				$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' );

[Robin W]

Do you want me to include the bbpress custom fields code?

yes please !

[Jerry]

No problem. I found out that I did not need to create that extra function after all. All I had to do was place ‘bbp_topic_content’ in the ajax function. Here is the javascript. I put more code below this.

<script>
      $(function() {
      $( "#dialog" ).dialog({height: 550, width: 450});
        $( ".submit" ).click(function(){
        $.ajax({
         type: "POST",
         url: 'review-meta.php',
         async:true,
         dataType: 'json',
         //assign values to the variables to be passed to the server via data, according to their B position
         //within the foreach array. See script within loop for jquery window to see how B is derived.
         data: { B : B, cover : b_cover[B], coverSmall : b_cover_small[B], title : b_title[B], author : b_author[B], published : b_published[B],
         ISBN : b_ISBN[B], description : b_description[B], pages : b_pages[B], publisher : b_publisher[B]},
         success: function(data)
             {
             //identify the variables for unique handing on the server side, this is
             //how the book data gets to the input fields for bbpress forums
             $("textarea[name='bookCover']").val(data.cover);
             $("input[name='bookCoverSmall']").val(data.coverSmall);
             $("input[name='bbp_topic_title']").val(data.title);
             $("input[name='bookAuthor']").val(data.author);
             $("input[name='bookPublished']").val(data.published);
             //$("textarea[name='bookDescription']").val(data.description);
             $("input[name='bookPages']").val(data.pages);
             $("input[name='bookPublisher']").val(data.publisher);
             $("input[name='bookISBN']").val(data.ISBN);
             $("textarea[name='bbp_topic_content']").val(data.description);
             //alert(B);
             },
             //error: function(errorThrown){
             //alert('error');
             //},
             });
      $( "#dialog" ).dialog( "close" );
      });  });
</script> 

Here’s how I did variable assignment in a different script, located within the loop where I am generating results. I did not include all the variable as this is long. Also, I am wondering if I could have done some type of auto-indexing instead of having to list each result. Luckily there are only 10, otherwise this would have been crazy.

$( ".submit" ).click(function(){
            //get the id number of the button the user selects, which is indexed for each result
            //the variable B is then decremented 1 from id because javascript arrays begin with [0]
            if(this.id.indexOf('select')>-1) {var id = (this.id.split(" "))[1]; console.log(id);}
            B = id - 1;   });
            //create an array for all 10 results. There is probably a cleaner way to do this
            var b_cover = [<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[1]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[2]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[3]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[4]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_cover[5]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[6]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[7]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[8]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_cover[9]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_cover[10]); ?>];
            //this is the javascript foreach that stores the array values 0 to 9
            b_cover.forEach(function(entry){console.log(entry);});
            
            var b_title = [<?php echo json_encode($b_title[1]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[2]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[3]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_title[4]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[5]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[6]); ?>,
            <?php echo json_encode($b_title[7]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[8]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[9]); ?>,<?php echo json_encode($b_title[10]); ?>];
            b_title.forEach(function(entry){console.log(entry);});

Do you want me to include the bbpress custom fields code?

[Jerry]

I am using themes and modifying bbpress.css. I figured out how to remove the roles of people making posts. I want to remove the topic authors only, but keep all authors of replies. Here are the changes I made to bbpress.css, which was to put “dislay: none;” under the forum and topic authors, but that has not worked.

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author {
  display: none;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author {
	float: left;
	text-align: center;
	width: 115px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author img.avatar,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author img.avatar {
  display: none;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
	border: none;
	max-width: 80px;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 12px auto 0 auto;
	float: none;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author a.bbp-author-name,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name {
  display: none;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name {
	margin: 0 12px;
	word-break: break-word;
	display: inline-block;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author a.bbp-author-name {
  display: none;
}
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author a.bbp-author-name {
	clear: left;
	display: block;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author .bbp-author-role,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author .bbp-author-role {
  display: none;
//	font-size: 11px;
//	font-style: italic;
}

#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-search-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer .bbp-search-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-forum-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer .bbp-forum-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-header .bbp-topic-author,
#bbpress-forums li.bbp-footer .bbp-topic-author {
  display: none;
}

The only way I have found to remove the topic author is to insert “display: none;” under the topic-reply authors, but that removes the topic-reply authors as well, which I don’t want to do. Perhaps I need to get into a php file to do this? If so, can someone direct me to the correct file? Thanks.

[jamesict]

Hi,

I am using the [bbp-topic-tags] shortcode on a page and would like to add some kind of separator between each tag [maybe a pipe | if possible].

Does anyone know how this can be done?

Thank you for any advice you can offer.

[yoosuke]

I really appreciate your response!
bbPress support is great!

I’ve worked for about 3years as a Web designer.
So, I can understand HTML and CSS3,
and how to edit and ftp files as well.

For php, I learned the just basics before.
So, I can read basic php codes,
but I can’t write php codes by my own.

Thanks for telling URL “Shorten freshness wording”.
The codes should be helpful for me.
However, I have no idea to customize the codes to get to my Two goals…

[devonc01]

Just wanted to confirm that this worked for me, I had found an older solution that also was meant to be applied to the theme’s functions.php file that, in-turn, broke some things in buddyPress – namely, was presenting the profile name as an HTML-a-href link presented as text – using this code, which is presented as an example in the WordPress Codex worked without any further breakings (that I am currently aware of). Thank you, Stephen

[Robin W]

I’m sorry but I know nothing of buddypress, but I thought you wanted your page to look like the bbp profilepage, and that simply uses code to create the urls hence why I quoted them !!

If you just type these urls in, they work, they don’t need any code.

so what happens if you just rename the form-user-edit.php to settings.php and drop it in the right directory?

[Robin W]

Now you’ve got it full width, you may decide that actually you want a sidebar, but one for your forum that includes logon, register etc.

see

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

[Robin W]

yes,

add this to your functions file

//This function adds the words sticky before the title
function bbp_sticky_display () {
		if(bbp_is_topic_sticky()) {
		echo '<span class="sticky-display">' ;
		echo 'Sticky Topic' ; 
		echo '</span>' ;
		}
	}
		
add_action ('bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'bbp_sticky_display') ;

and this to your style.css

#bbpress-forums .sticky-display{
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #5BB75B;
color: #FFFFFF;
display: in-line;
padding: 5px;
}

you can change the words and styling to suit !

[elaborate]

is this what you are describing as the template file? and which file is that and is it a php file?

Let’s start with this. The file is a BuddyPress template file called settings.php. It’s wiped clear of any code though. You can find it in buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single if you have downloaded BuddyPress.

This template file controls the BuddyPress user Settings page and I am trying to turn it into a working copy of the bbPress user Edit page.

ok, so if I understand you correctly, you are trying to have the links that are … and place them on a buddypress page?

I can’t figure out why you’re listing the URLs you mentioned in above quote again. I’m really sorry if I’m missing something, but I feel like I need to reaffirm that this is not what I’m doing.

[elaborate]

Thanks for the reply.

I can’t actually access the BuddyPress Settings page in the backend. Are you suggesting I use the shortcode inside the template file?

I’m making a theme, so I would really prefer not to rely on plugins. Besides, I would love to know how the form-user-edit.php actually works. 🙂

Can you say what I need to edit or add to the content of form-user-edit.php get to get it to work somewhere else?

I’m not sure what you mean by calling each by their url. Can you elaborate?