[quix8]

Hello, does nobody have an idea or tip for me?
I thought this should be a common use case to link back to the back where the forums shortcode was added.

[Palagrin]

the topic and reply forms are at the bottom of the forum and topic pages, so there is no need to visit a separate page.

Well, yes, but it would be neat to have the option.

I already link to the bottom of the page form via the html anchor – I’ve coded that into my theme – but I’m trying to have these forms on separate pages entirely, to make the whole thing a bit neater.

[Palagrin]

That’s exactly what I want – I WANT it to use the template files!

Whilst I can use the short code bbp-new-reply for example, it needs a topic ID to work. I simply don’t understand why BBP core doesn’t generate these pages programmatically – it makes absolutely no sense to me. You would think that would be basic functionality for a forum plugin!

[vincenzon617]

Hi, how do I access the sidebar of the topics page – where is the file that I can add my code to so it shows up on the sidebar? What I would like to do is get the current number of replies to a topic and then depending on that, execute some shortcode.

The code I have so far is:

	
	<?php $replycount = bbp_get_topic_reply_count( $r['topic_id'], true ); ?>
	
	<?php if($replycount > 0) : ?>
		<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
		<?php if($replycount > 9) : ?>
			<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
			<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<?php if($replycount > 14) : ?>
			<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
			<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
			<?php echo do_shortcode('[adace-ad id="4420"]'); ?>
		<?php endif; ?>
	<?php endif; ?>

My PHP skills aren’t great so I’m not sure if this even works but I would just like to know where abouts the place this code, so it shows up on the sidebar, and so I can test it.

Thanks!

[Palagrin]

But that’s using the shortcodes and creating dedicated pages in WP right?

I want BBP to automatically generate these pages, eg. https://mywebsite.blog/forums/login

Pages required would be:
– login
– register
– password reset
– new topic
– new reply

My understanding of the shortcode is that if I wanted a new topic page, I would either have to have a generic one for the whole board or I would have to create individual ones for each forum based on the forum ID.

The solution I’m looking for is for BBP to dynamically generate them as required. Is that possible?

It seems odd to me that BBP doesn’t already do this.

EDIT: would something along these lines work? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32314278/how-to-create-a-new-wordpress-page-programmatically

[Robin W]

ok, so your topic and reply forms will have pages with urls, so you just need to put the buttons where you want

<input type="button" value="button name" onclick="window.open('http://www.website.com/page')" />

[heather74]

Hi, Robin,

I’ve seen a number of posts about this but can’t find a specific solution. I’d like my login to call out to the page I created with the bbpress shortcode: https://museum-hub.org/forum-login/ vs. the generic WP login page. Within your style pack, I’ve gone to the Login tab and added that page where it says “Login Page: You should create a wordpress page with a login shortcode such as [bbp-login] and put the full url in here e.g. http://www.mysite.com/loginpage. If left blank the default wordpress login page will be used.” I’ve saved it, of course. I’ve done the same thing with the “Register” field, sending people here: https://museum-hub.org/register/. Any thoughts on to bypass the WP default login? I’m trying to keep folks from seeing any WP dashboards, etc.

THANK YOU!

[Palagrin]

Basically, instead of having the create topic / topic reply form on the same page as the thread I want to create a button that links to a secondary page. I know this is possible with shortcodes, but is there a way of doing this without shortcodes? So that BBP auto-generates the page itself?

[Palagrin]

I know you can use shortcodes to add forms (such as new topic, login, new reply etc) to dedicated pages, but is there a fucntion or hook I can use to simply get BBP to automatically generate a new form page?

[Robin W]

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 5

[Robin W]

oops semi colon missing from $image = line

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[vincenzon617]

Dont worry I have just found the solution myself!

Here it is for anyone who has the same issue:

div.bbp-forum-header, div.bbp-reply-header, div.bbp-topic-header {
    padding: 0px; 
}

[vincenzon617]

Hi I would like to change this CSS code:

.bbp-forum-header, .bbp-reply-header, .bbp-topic-header {
    clear: both;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 8px 10px 8px 130px;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    border-width: 1px 0 0;
    border-color: #e6e6e6;
    border-color: var(--g1-border-color);
}

to have its padding set to 0px.

I have tried adding this to my style.css file in my child theme but it didn’t work:

.bbp-forum-header, .bbp-reply-header, .bbp-topic-header {
    padding: 0px;
}

I am new to CSS so I’m not sure if that code above should overwrite the default styling? I assume not as it isn’t working!

Many thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, so we are making progress.

I don’t expect this to work, just to return the next stage

so amend that to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$image_id = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
$image = get_post_meta ($image_id, _wp_attached_file, true)
echo '<li>herestart'.$image.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[Robin W]

ok, can you change the other one to

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>herestart'.$avatar.'hereend</li>' ;
?>

[Robin W]

try

<?php 
$neighborhood = get_user_meta (bbp_get_reply_author_id(),  'user-subdivision' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$neighborhood.'</li>' ;
?>

come back if that doesn’t work

[Robin W]

for the avatar, I need to know what is stored in the usermeta, so can you try adding this after line 44

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>

to get

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'show_role' => true ) ); ?>
<?php 
$avatar = get_user_meta (get_current_user_id(),  'profile-picture' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$avatar.'</li>' ;
?>

I need to see if this produces a url or link to media item etc.

[Robin W]

ok replace the

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

with

<?php 
$neighborhood = get_user_meta (get_current_user_id(),  'user-subdivision' , true) ;
echo '<li>'.$neighborhood.'</li>' ;
?>

and let’s see if that does that one first

[Robin W]

so we need to work out which theme template is rendering the forum pages

looking at the page you gave me, I see that the template has a div of

<div id="content-area" class="clearfix">

This is probably a common div to several files, but we can use it’s presence to track down the file

so you need to look in your theme (wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%) for likely files

If you have notepad++ (or another text editor that will do this) you can download your theme to your computer and do a search across all the files.

otherwise you might have files called page.php, single.php, content.php, content-page.php etc.

in each file where you find the <div id="content-area" then add a further class, but call each one something different

eg

<div id="content-area myclass1" class="clearfix">
<div id="content-area myclass2" class="clearfix">
etc.

then use the browser inspector and hopefully you’ll find the class repeated in there which will tell you what template it is using

then come back

[Robin W]

great, so now I need to know the names of the fields you want in the database

so I need to construct a bit of code that looks like

$neighborhood = get_user_meta ($user_id, ‘%what_the_field_is_called%’ , true) ;

so I need %what_the_field_is_called% for both field 🙂

[b0nkers2021]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I used to mod forums and CMS’s before WP existed and have not done much since… so I ‘get it’ but don’t know enough to just whip up a bunch of code. haven’t touched PHP but can get through HTML. Would editing the file not also change the layout etc of other pages within the theme or is the forum using something dedicated to it and it only? Essentially, I need to make the forum look like an existing site and change the header at minimum.

[Robin W]

bbpress will render pages using a .php file – this can be one of many in your theme.

It is this file that you will need to edit and put in a child theme to get what you want.

so how familiar with files, FTP and code are you ?

[Robin W]

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

transfer this to your pc and edit

before line 56 which says

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

add the following

<?php echo 'hello' ; ?>

and save

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

You should now see ‘hello’ where you want the neighborhood field

If you get this far, then come back

[Robin W]

ok, try this

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_text', 20, 3 );

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function rew_change_text( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
	if ( $text == 'Subscribe' ) {
	$translated_text = 'Watch';
	}
	if ( $text == 'Unsubscribe' ) {
	$translated_text = 'Unwatch';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}

[vincenzon617]

Thanks, the code works however only when loading onto the page. When I click to either ‘Watch’ or ‘Unwatch’ the text reverts back to ‘Unsubscribe’ or ‘Subscribe’ until I refresh the page again.