[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?

[Robin W]

You nee to get bbpress to use a full width page template

see

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

[Robin W]

There should be no reason they won’t integrate.

However the first thing you should do is create a test site see

https://codex.bbpress.org/creating-a-test-site/

The you can do everything without any pain !

From what you describe, if you really want to go to a separate route, then the simplest route is for you to have two domains the primary and a subdomain. On the subdomain you would install wordpress, and the same theme as your main site and then add bbpress, put the files in there. As you then say, you’d just call this subdomain from your main site.