Hello bbpress gurus,

First, thanks a lot for this wonderful plugin

Now please forgive my French looking English…

I’m using bbpress on a site where I’d like to show up on some template page a list of recent posts in the forum. get_posts is my friend and that’s ok.

But I’d also like to show a nice picture of the categories in which those recent posts where posted. Well, “regular” posts on WP now can have a “Featured Image”. And I looked to add this to my forums as well.

And I think I made it

But not sure ^^

Anyway

I added this line in bbp-admin/bbp-forums.php :

add_meta_box(‘postimagediv’, __(‘Featured Image’), ‘post_thumbnail_meta_box’, $this->post_type, ‘side’, ‘low’);

in function attributes_metabox() (~ l.190)

And it seems to be working.

But as far as I can tell, there’s maybe 50% luck this code not doing some very bad things in the same time ^^

PLease advice, if there is a better way to achieve this…

[@pazzaglia1 Participant 9 years ago]

OK, started my own topic as I was, obviously, not clear enough for my question. I thought it would have been a simple tweak (for someone who know what they’re doing) of this code but, apparently not.

How to set single default thumbnail for all “topic” content types?

Ciao,

L

[@munkitkat Participant 9 years ago]

I have tested your code. Well I can select in the admin panel “edit topic” or “new topic” “featured image”, I select the picture…when I turn back to the topic, no picture. It doesn’t remain selected.
I use the latest WordPress: 4.30.

[@jon-fergus Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

Ok, so I’ve added the ability to include a featured image for forums and topics. BUT…. the featured image for forums isn’t being recognized as the og:image when I run it through the facebook debugger. Any ideas why that would be?

Here’s the forum I’m using as the test: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/art-of-living-study-group/forum/

This is the image I set as the featured image: http://nexus.universaltheosophy.com/wp-content/uploads/nexus.jpg

But facebook seems to be picking up the first image it finds within the forum.

Also…. I’d like to add a featured image that works as the og:image for groups. Any idea how to do that?

[@netweb Keymaster 8 years, 9 months ago]

@jon-fergus I think the reason could be that the forum is within a BuddyPress group

Also BuddyPress now has “group avatars”, will that do what you’re after?

[@poisonkatrin Participant 4 years, 10 months ago]

Hello everyone @casiepa,
I have installed the plugin you suggested but I don’t know to show the featured image, can you help me? thank you in advance

[@joshgrisdale Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

Thank you @sxalexander!

[@bahceankara Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

this is working for me, thx.