Hi,
I’m trying to add the forum’s description to be under the forum title on the page-front-forums (index) page. Just like it displays on the single-forum page. Could someone please show me the proper code?

I’ve already changed the css .bbp-forums-list li to “display: block;”

Thank you!
Chuck S.

[@robin-w Moderator 11 years, 6 months ago]

I just added a new page called “forums” and put the text there.
then put the forums index shortcode (bbp-forum-index put in square brackets) after it

or is this not your problem?

[@chuckstr Participant 11 years, 6 months ago]

Hi Robin,
Thanks for the reply. In addition to as you have described, I would like the forum description to appear under each forum title within the index page in block display.
Chuck S.

[@oweniverson Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

i have the same question. it seems there are many topics on this but no resolution.

i have a Page (Forums) where i put the text description for the Index List of Forums (“Here are a bunch of Forums!”) followed by the index [bbp-forum-index]. that works fine.

now, if i click a single forum (“Forum 1”) in the index list, i only get the Forum Title, but not the description i entered into the text field when i created the forum. should i be making a Page for each single forum?

i suspect there’s a conflict with a plugin. i deactivated all but bbPress, cleared my browser cache, and force-refreshed the page and still nothing.

FWIW, my plug-ins are:
bbPress
Custom Meta Widget
jonradio Private Site
NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati
Peter’s Login Redirect
TablePress
The Events Calendar
User Avatar

any know issues with these??

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve just added the code I think you’re after to the documentation viz

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Come back if that’s not what either of you were after !

[@oweniverson Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks Robin! That was exactly what i was looking for. Any thoughts why my Description line might be indented, rather than left justified as your example shows?

[@oweniverson Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

i’m not a developer by any means, but this seems to work (there’s probably a better way 🙂
in my bbpress.css file here “wp-content\plugins\bbpress\templates\default\css”
i just broke out “div.bbp-forum-content” from this:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 130px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

to this:

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content {
	margin-left: 0px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content {
	margin-left: 130px;
	padding: 12px 12px 12px 0;
	text-align: left;
}

and set that left margin to 0 px rather than 130.
let me know if there’s a better or more elegant way!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

elegant – depends !

If you simply alter this file then on any bbpress version update you’ll lose the changes, so make a note of them.

There are alternatives

1. Add the css styling change to the style.css file within your child theme.

If you have a child theme, then this is ideal, as neither plugin nor theme update will affect your change. Simply add the code below to your style.css

/*Styling for forum description */
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content {
clear:both !important;
margin-left: 0px !important;
padding: 0 0 0 0 !important;
	}

2. If you only have a main theme, then consider using a child theme – it’s quick and easy to create one, basically it’s just a theme that you create that says “use this main theme, but then add these bits”. Google child theme video and you’ll get loads of help.

3. Add this to the style.css in your main theme
But you’ll need to keep a note of it for theme upgrades, so this is really no better than changing in the bbPress template, and neater to do it in bbPress than your theme

4. Make a directory called css in your theme (either child or main) and copy the bbpress.css file into it. Then make changes there. this then won’t be overwritten on upgrades, but you will not get the benefit of changes to the default bbpress.css that may be in upgrades.

Overall 1. is by far the best choice, as you keep the code no matter what happens. Otherwise keep a note of your changes (which are fine, and are what I did to test prior to putting the end result in my style.css), so that you can replicate them on upgrades.

[@oweniverson Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

i do have a child theme, but it didn’t even occur to me (only been into this WordPress thing for about a week).

thanks for being so responsive!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

great – no problem !

[@germars Participant 9 years, 10 months ago]

This is a great way to fix the issue of the descriptions in the individual forums (but why offer it if they don’t show up anywhere, bbPress? Could this be on a wish list?).

Does anyone know how to add a qualifier for Safari? It looks fine in IE, Chrome and Mozilla, but not Safari (and of course, my clients use that). It doesn’t line up as nicely.

Thanks!

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years, 10 months ago]

Can you give us a screen shot of IE and one of safari – just saves me loading this code (so I can help others as well as you) , so I can quickly see the difference

[@lisigef Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

I copied the code in https://codex.bbpress.org/layout-and-functionality-examples-you-can-use/#16-adding-description-to-forum-pages but there seems to be a problem with it and I’m just getting a blank page when I try to view the forum (When I comment out the code, the page shows up again, but of course without the description).

I added the code to functions.php – is it supposed to go somewhere else? IS there some update needed to this code, given that it is a year later?

Thanks in advance!

[@robin-w Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

the code should still work.

Try

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

there is a setting in forum display that should do the same function