[Robin W]

thanks for posting your solution.

you could do

add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'show_true_title');
function show_true_title() { 
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $true_title = '<li class="specstanza-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bbp_extra_field1', true); '</a></li>';
echo $true_title ;

and then in css do

li.specstanza-title {
color: blue;
}

or

.specstanza-title {
color: blue;
}

or

.specstanza-title li {
color: blue;
}

one of those should let you style the title

[specstanza]

To anyone who would come accross the same project, I added an action to the bbp_theme_before_topic_title hook.

For now, it does not displays as I would like but some CSS will do the trick.

add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'show_true_title');
function show_true_title() { 
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $true_title = '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bbp_extra_field1', true); '</a>';
echo $true_title ;

[Robin W]

The problems with this are multiple. Emails to site go into a mailbox – emails and web are separate – eg you can host you email with a totally different supplier, so in essence there is no ‘web software’ to catch an incoming email. So firstly the mailbox would need to exist on a mail server somewhere.

Next you’d need software on the email to look at all incoming, read the mail, work out if this is a reply, and to what message, check the sender’s mailbox to work out which user it is, and then get this software to send to another programme within the website, which can then create the reply.

The ability for spam and people pretending to be a user are numerous.

Github is created by very clever people, who have I presume done all this, but there would be a lot of code in many languages to achieve.

If it is an issue, then I’d suggest you amend your sending email to omit the actual content – so something like – ‘a new reply has been received, click here to read’ so that people have to click the link and are on the site to see content to reply to.

[divepen]

I tried using a string of codes someone posted here, but I couldn’t follow through.
So, can anyone direct me on how to remove that form at the end of forums and topics?

Take this BBPress website for example. The create New Topic takes us to the new page. But it’s not hanging below.

[specstanza]

Hi everyone,
I’m using the bbp_register_view_popular for the homepage of my offline website.

Works pretty well to sort_by my meta_value.

What I’m trying to do is to return a custom field as the main title.
I’m already doing this on custom pages and it works like a charm, here is my code :

$output .= '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'bbp_extra_field1', true) . '</a></li>';

How can I return the same thing in my custom_view for my homepage without actually changing permanently the_title from WordPress? the_title is absolutly needed and bbp_extra_field1 works a subtitle.

Many thanks to anyone who could put me on the right way 🙂

[egemenerd]

I know this is an old topic but if anyone is interested in, we made a plugin for this; https://codecanyon.net/item/tmusers-bbpress-forum-member-directory-for-elementor/33463523

[jappan]

The profile above is from the login-widget, and the profile below is from my php code.
However, it doesn’t not have a link to the user’s profile.

I would like to add a link to the profile screen in the image and username like above one!!!

please teach me…
i’m sorry for the inconvenience

[jappan]

Thank you Mr.Robin!!!
I tried using PHP code to put this button in place.
↓Here is the code↓

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="ja">
<head>
<div class="login-box">
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
    <?php bp_loggedin_user_avatar( 'type=thumb&width=40&height=40' ); ?>
<?php global $user_identity; echo $user_identity; ?>
	<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( bp_get_root_domain() ) ?>">ログアウト</a>
<?php else : ?>
	<a href="https://tokyolyric.com/wp-login-php">ログイン</a>
<?php endif; ?>
</a>
</div>
</head>

but I can’t go to “user’s profile page” from “the user’s image” and “user name”.

please let me know if there is any description to add to the code!!!

This is my website URL

[Jan]

sorry for making you wait.

The better term is probably “search result page”. The header of my bbp forum comes with a search bar which allows users to enter keywords (i.e. “browser”) and then takes then to the respective search result page (example: https://webgefaehrte.de/videoassistent/suchen/browser/).

I’d like to add a tag cloud into the existing side bar (right hand side).

Meanwhile I found this suggestion which, however, I can’t get to work 😉

The threats regarding #1 und #2 is this one:
– https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problem-with-shortcode-tag-cloud-in-sidebar-widget/
– https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-font-size-range-for-tag-cloud/

Any advise is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jan

[Robin W]

ok you could also use a PHP variable rather than a wordpress function

so

$current_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

should give you the displayed URL in all cases.

you can then do an ‘if’ test to see if you are in forums using say

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/qaforums/') == true ) …then you are in the forums

[pawanahluwalia]

I am just trying to understand how the plugin works and why the php code is not giving the correct url that matches what is visible in the browser. I have tried your suggestions but I still can’t determine why the urls being generated by either get_page_link() or get_permalink() are different to the ones being displayed in the browser address line.

[Robin W]

sorry, I have given you some code which addresses, which does not seem to satisfy you.

I am not quite sure why you think the plugin authors would want to make their plugin work for your exact circumstances, but if you want to post a defect then go here

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[Robin W]

would you like to post your current code?

[pawanahluwalia]

The only trouble with this solution is, it is not permanent. You would need to the change the code each time a new forum is added.

[Robin W]

if get_page link returns :

mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/

then you could just test for this eg

if (get_page_link() == 'mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/')  {
get_permalink etc.
}
else {
get_page_link()
}

[pawanahluwalia]

Thanks!

However, is_bbpress() only seems to be true if you are on the root forum page.

How can I test for any forum page?

I tried

echo get_permalink();

on a forum page, but it does not display anything. It does display it on the root forum page, but it does not match the root forum page permalink. It again shows the highest Forum ID permalink instead.

Presumably the page is being created in code and is overwriting the content of the current forum page.

Any further suggestions?

[Robin W]

I’d suspect that because each forum is not an real individual wordpress page (ie not in dashboard>pages) , then retrieving the page_link might well return a ‘virtual’ ID, and this might be the top forum – not proven, just a hunch.

My initial suggestions would be that you try get_permalink instead of get_page_link() – this retrieves the full url of the current displayed page, and should in theory get you what you want.

If you need the existing get_page_link() for your other pages, you could try wrapping it in an if… eg:

if (is_bbpress()) {
get_permalink etc.
}
else {
get_page_link()
}

Let us know if that helps

[packzap]

My server is showing this error repeatedly:
“PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘new’ (T_NEW) in /home/…/bb-settings.php on line 188”

When I look at line 186 thru 190 of bb-settings.php, it shows this statement:

// Setup the global database connection
$bbdb_class = BB_DATABASE_CLASS;
$bbdb =& new $bbdb_class( array(
	'name' => BBDB_NAME,
	'user' => BBDB_USER,

I am trying to troubleshoot what it is about that line with the “new” statement that causes this parse/syntax error repeatedly by the server. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thank-you.

[specstanza]

Thank you so much @robin-w – changed the subscription to fav with bbp_get_topic_favoriters 🙂

add_action('bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'show_bbp_sub');
function show_bbp_sub() { 
	$subscriptions = bbp_get_topic_favoriters(bbp_get_topic_id()) ;
	$count = count($subscriptions) ;
	echo 'number of users subscribed: '.$count;
}

Now I only have to look for a way to display my topics and sorted them by numbers of favs! Thanks to you I know there was some major changes with the 2.6 version.

[Robin W]

I’ve just taken a look – the whole way subscriptions works was changed in 2.6

this code works on my test site

add_action('bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'show_bbp_sub');
function show_bbp_sub() { 
	$subscriptions = bbp_get_subscribers(bbp_get_topic_id()) ;
	$count = count($subscriptions) ;
	echo 'number of users subscribed: '.$count;
}

[specstanza]

Hi @robin-w – thanks for your answer.
Here it is – as I’m still learning PHP, I apologize if I did a terrible coding mistake.
I tried some modifications here and there (return, echoing other stuff) but nothing did the trick.

/* tried to hook the code in my template */
add_action('bbp_template_before_single_topic', 'show_bbp_sub');
function show_bbp_sub() { 
/* end of it */ 

 /* Original lines from @babblebey */
$topic = bbp_get_topic_id();
$users = get_users() ;
$countsub = 0; /* I guess it's echoing only this line */
foreach ($users as $user) {
    $topicsub_listarray = get_usermeta ($user->id, 'wp__bbp_subscriptions', true) ;
    $topicsub_list = explode (',' , $topicsub_listarray) ;
    if (in_array ($topic , $topicsub_list))  $countsub++ ;
}
echo $countsub;
}

Thank you for your help and your patience.

[Robin W]

can you post the complete code

[r-a-y]

Documentation is lacking. Your best bet is to dive into the code.

bbp_insert_forum() to create a forum:
https://github.com/bbpress/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/forums/functions.php#L24

bbp_insert_topic() to create a topic: https://github.com/bbpress/bbPress/blob/master/src/includes/topics/functions.php#L24

For BuddyPress, look at the wp_bp_activity DB table with the component column set to groups. You could use BP_Activity_Activity::get() (https://github.com/buddypress/buddypress/blob/master/src/bp-activity/classes/class-bp-activity-activity.php#L380) to fetch activity items, but probably querying the DB is faster.

The rest is up to you.

[specstanza]

Hi @babblebey & @robin-w , thank you both for your work on this matter.

I’m trying to do the same on my Bbpress install (not online yet) in order to sort topic by number of “fav mentions”.

I tried your last two codes but it returns “0” (I hooked them on bbp_template_before_single_topic and putted them in two separated functions).

Does it still works for you? Did I get it all wrong?

Thank you for your answer. 🙂

[r-a-y]

Is it correct to say that if the BuddyPress group exists with some posts, and I set up a new bbPress forum in the backend, the existing posts will appear in the bbPress forum?

Depends what you mean by “some posts”. If the BuddyPress group was originally set up with bbPress integration as mentioned here: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ (The B and C options only). And forum posts were created in those groups, then yes. You just need to disable BuddyPress and those forum posts should still be viewable.

Otherwise, no. You are probably thinking of the BuddyPress group activity stream that uses Twitter-style status updates, which is not a forum.