[Robin W]

I’m playing with some code, give me a while to work it out !!

[bobdobbs]

I’ve installed bbpress and created a set of forums.

On the forums page of my website, a linked list of forums shows… which is great.

However, I now want to alter the order in which the forums are listed.

Usually for post types, the admin screen allows a re-ordering of posts via the ‘quick edit’ link.
However, in the bbpress forums admin screens, forums don’t have the ‘quick edit’ listing.

I’ve installed and configured a couple of plugins that allow admins to re-order post types. These don’t seem to touch bbpress forums.

At a last resort I’m sure I could find a code snippet online. But I’d like to work within the CMS admin as much as I can.

Is there a way to alter the order of the bbpress forums list display without falling back to code?

[vincenzon617]

I am thinking about editing what the shortcode [bbp-single-view id=’popular’] displays. What I would like to change it to is to display the most popular topics per day. For example, a topic that has 10 replies one day and so classed as ‘popular’ has 1 the next day and so it is no longer on the list.

I have made a function that returns the number of replies in the current day by using the topicID but I am unsure where to go from here, to link it to this feature.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[jason4locations]

When I use the bbPress forum search form, it adds it to the search form that was already there, so now there are two. I’d prefer to only have one, the bbPress one. I thought removing the one that was already there would be a WordPress problem (not a bbPress problem) because, to remove it, I could use the Disable Search plugin or the code at

https://www.wpbeginner.com/awp-tutorials/how-to-disable-the-search-feature-in-wordpress/

with Code Snippets. But, neither of those two methods worked. I couldn’t find the form that was already there at the widgets page. I also couldn’t remove it by customizing a header. I know that this might seem like more of a WordPress or theme problem, but because bbPress has the option of adding its forum search form, I thought a lot of people who use bbPress might wind up with too many forms (and bring it up at this forum). But, I couldn’t find anyone who has the same problem as me, at this forum. My site is at dancing4locations.org. There, you can see the bbPress form that I want to keep below the login form, and the form that I want to remove (which is to the left of the login form).

Thank you.

[vincenzon617]

Thanks for your reply. This is what I thought originally but I checked it and I have already turned this off so I am unsure. I could remove the code <?php bbp_reply_admin_links(); ?> from my ‘loop-single-reply.php’ file but this means I cannot moderate the comments which isn’t ideal.

[jason4locations]

I got back in, but then I got messages that said “There has been a critical error on your website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions” whenever I clicked on Dashboard and a lot of the other things, even while using ?snippets-safe-mode=true (which I can tell you about if you’re interested). So, maybe I’m not in. I don’t know if the problem was only because of how I used the Code Snippets plugin, or if it was because of how I used it with bbPress.

[jason4locations]

I got back in, but I had to use what is called safe mode, which means that I am still trying to get that code to work.

[Back to Front]

Hi sorry its been a while! Been busy with other projects.

@robin-w @webmasterfreya this is what I’ve done to reverse the reply order on certain topics. And now I’ve come back to it after a month, I can’t reproduce the issue of it breaking the pagination. It seems to work as expected, without adding another function to mess with the pagination.

Install

bbPress – Sort topic replies

Remove the parts that sort the forum’s topic order, as they are causing errors, and they aren’t desired for this purpose (sorting the reply order)

// Adds meta box to the side bar of the Forums edit pages
add_action( 'add_meta_boxes', 'bbPress_meta_box_add' );
function bbPress_meta_box_add(){
	add_meta_box( 'bbPress_meta_box_sort_desc', 'Sort Replies', 'bbPress_forum_meta_box', 'forum', 'side', 'high' );
}

and

	// Save sort settings for forum
		if( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies'] == "desc" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'desc');
		}elseif( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies'] == "asc" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'asc');
		}else{
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_sort_desc', 'dft');
		}

and

	// Save show lead settings for the forum
		if( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies-show-lead-topic-forum'] == "yes" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'yes');
		}elseif( $_POST['str-bbpress-sort-replies-show-lead-topic-forum'] == "no" ){
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'no');
		}else{
			update_post_meta($post_id, '_bbp_topic_sort_show_lead_topic_forum', 'dft');
		}

I can send the whole file if thats more useful.

Sorry I hope i’m not missing something that we noticed before? Actually my site is using threaded replies. So unfortunately it’s not using pagination, its unfortunate it can’t have both. But I turned it off to test this and it it worked.

Regarding the buddypress activity stream…
Here is an example of a member page with buddypress activity stream.
https://houseonfire.backtofrontdesign.co/members/forum_2tbmmm/
I think it also works as expected showing forum replies in the reverse chronological order.

[jason4locations]

I’m going to try the Code Snippets plugin. Please let me know if I am on the right track.

[Back to Front]

Heres a get started guide!

Customizing

or tldr; copy the files from
plugins/bbpress
to
your-child-theme/bbpress
and edit them there!

[shahdoost.ali]

I think the code belong to ‘Contact Form 7’ plugin. You should install the plugin and then design the contact form again and then replace this code (or only the ID part) with the code for your new contact form

[jason4locations]

I’m new at this, so this might not be a good question. Can I use

Dashboard: Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS

to make “No Topics” go away? If not, is there an “easy” way to do it, that just involves pasting code somewhere?

I was able to make my site look nice using < li >, except for the fact that “No Topics” showed up scattered all over the page. I used < li > in one category or forum, and it effected all the others, which was good. So, now I’m trying to make “No Topics” go away.

My site is at dancing4locations.org. If you go to my site now, it doesn’t look as good as it did before, when I was using parents (with < li >). I’m using version 5.5.5 of WordPress, and version 2.6.6 of bbPress.

I’m sorry that my last post was marked as spam. It think it had to do with the fact that I didn’t put spaces between <, li, and >, and I kept on trying to edit it.

Thank you.

[pandex]

I want to make changes to the forum without using plugins, I want to mess with the code, but I don’t know where I get it and where to start

[Robin W]

ok, cab I just ask what you mean by ‘ I created a loop-topic-list with a layout that is quite different to the other forums. ‘

Is this code, and if so what files have you amended or what have you done so far to achieve this?
If not code, can you explain further

[Robin W]

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

item 6 describes what you want to know, but in essence just set the forums to ‘private’

If you need a more complicated setup, then use

Private groups

For users, if you are setting up manually, then you just need to create them in wordpress (bbpress just uses wordpress users and login), just make sure you’ve turned off auto registration in

dashboard>settings>general>membership is unticked

and that in

dashboard>settings>forums>Roles is ticked and users assigned the participant role

[Robin W]

you would create a page and use a shortcode block to add thw following shortcode

[bbp-topic-form] – which displays the ‘New Topic’ form where you can choose from a drop down menu the forum that this topic is to be associated with.

then on you home page, insert a ‘button’ block which links to this page

[Robin W]

bbPress User Roles and Capabilities

relevant ones are:

publish_topics
edit_topics
publish_replies
edit_replies

[salar2]

Hi,
Is this right?

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-author img.avatar, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-author img.avatar, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-author img.avatar {
  float: right !important;
  }

[Robin W]

well you could learn php, some javascript and a little css, work through the security issues of letting users post via email (not sure how you do that), create a receiving handler, and then after many hundreds of hours release the code for free and then support it whilst people bitch about how stupid your plugin is….

[biznisoka]

Hi,

Have two bbpress forums on a webpage, a public one, for “usual” registered users, and private one, for “special” registered users.
Used bbp private groups plug-in to create both groups.
Would like to hide private forum menu item from the general registered users (not redirect to some custome page on something).
Asked the question on plugin’s support page, but got no answer.
Is there any code snippet or something I could use to hide the menu item which opens private forum? Now i get 404 error.

[Robin W]

This should do it

add_filter( 'bbp_current_author_ip', '__return_false' ) ;

if it doesn’t then

add_filter( 'bbp_current_author_ip', 'rew_remove_ip' );

function rew_remove_ip () {
$retval = 0 ;
return $retval ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

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

or use

Code Snippets

[dredarsenic]

Hi there, my issue is similar to this, but maybe you can enlighten me.

I’m using bbPress for the forum on my site.

On the front end, users should be able to submit a topic on a forum, when they try, they get a “A name is required for this term.” error, I have already reset the forum, but still has the same thing.
Also the despite that message, the topic will appear in the WP admin dashboard under Topics, but will never show in the forum on the front end, I would like the topic created by users on the front end to appear immediately in the front end as well, any idea of code I can add to the functions.php of the theme or anything I can do ?

[Chuckie]

Thanks for your code. It has been so long now when I asked this that i am reluctant to start fiddling with my setup.

I prefer to continue to wait until such a time and bbPress is updated rather than add bits of code to my functions file.

At the moment what I have works for me due to the bsp settings that were added some time back.

Thank you for the code though.

[Marcus (aka @msykes)]

Hi All, I posted this on the trac ticket too, in case others are interested:

I’ve taken a slightly different approach to Robin, for me I only have logged in users on my forums, and I want to show the pending reply with a warning so the user knows it’s pending but exists. The below will show pending replies to the author who wrote them and a warning to the author that the reply is pending, as well as adding a warning specific to moderators so they clearly know to moderate it.

Hope it helps someone!

/**
 * Modifies the SQL query for reply loops so that reply authors can view their own replies that are still pending
 * @param $where string
 * @param $wp_query WP_Query
 * @return string
 */
function bbp_allow_members_pending_view( $where, $wp_query ){
	global $wpdb;
	$type = $wp_query->query_vars['post_type'];
	if( $type == bbp_get_reply_post_type() && !current_user_can('moderate') && is_user_logged_in() ){
		// check reply here
		$user_id = get_current_user_id();
		$find = "{$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_author = $user_id AND {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_status = 'private'";
		$replace = $find . $wpdb->prepare(" OR {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_author = %d AND {$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_status = %s", $user_id, bbp_get_pending_status_id());
		$where = str_replace( $find, $replace, $where );
	}
	return $where;
}
add_action('posts_where', 'bbp_allow_members_pending_view', 10, 2);

/**
 * Shows a warning above pending replies, different warning for mods and the author.
 */
function my_bbp_allow_members_pending_view_warning(){
	if( bbp_get_reply_status() == bbp_get_pending_status_id() ){
		if( current_user_can('moderate') ){
			$warning = 'This reply is pending moderation, approve so others can see it or trash it!';
		}elseif( bbp_get_reply_author_id() == get_current_user_id() ){
			$warning = 'This reply is pending moderation, others will see it once a moderator approves it.';
		}
		if( !empty($warning) ){
			echo '<div class="bbp-template-notice notice"><ul><li>'.$warning.'</li></ul></div>';
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'bbp_theme_before_reply_content', 'my_bbp_allow_members_pending_view_warning');

[Leoart]

It’s because avatar image has position: absolute. You have to override or modify this rule. There are a few ways how to handle it depending on where you want to show avatar. You need to play with CSS a bit.