[kodacollider]

Hello. I’ve noticed throughout all of my bbpress pages there are a lot of <br> and <p> tags inserted, such as those by wpautop, but in places where they should not be.

I’ve gone and changed a lot of elements manually to get rid of as many of these as possible, but I’m kind of stumped on pagination. Each of the anchors in my bbpress pagination has a <br> between them, placing the pages in a vertical line rather than a horizontal one.

Any idea on this — is there anything I can do to get rid of these extra <br> tags?

[Pascal Casier]

I think a link to the site showing it would be easier for us to help.
Pascal.

[kodacollider]

I’m not able to link to the site directly right now, unfortunately, but this is what the source looks like for the pagination area:

<div class="bbp-pagination-links">
<p>	<span class="page-numbers current">1</span><br>
<a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.com/topic/test-1/page/2/">2</a><br>
<a class="next page-numbers" href="https://www.com/topic/test-1/page/2/">→</a>
</p></div>

[Pascal Casier]

This is the pagination for a list of topics, right ? (and not for the search).

EDIT: and you did NOT copy a bbPress template into your own (child) theme but use the standard php files ?

[Pascal Casier]

If you could confirm the above ?
And then, if you put the below in your functions.php, what do you get ?

function casiepa_custom_pagination( $args ) {
	$args['type'] = 'list'; // try also 'plain'
	$args['after_page_number'] = ' ';

	return $args;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_topic_pagination', 'casiepa_custom_pagination' );

[kodacollider]

This is not from the search, though I wouldn’t be surprised if it does the same thing there as well. It does it for the pagination for a list of topics, yes, but also for the list of replies when viewing a topic (and when listing pages of a topic beneath the topic title when viewing a forum).

I am using child theme files. However, I see the pagination functions defined in:

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/template.php
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/replies/template.php

etc… and those files, of course, are not among my child theme files.

I tried your function, and it did add a space after each page number (though inside the anchor tag, not after it). It didn’t, however, removed the <br> tags. I tried plain as well as list, as commented.

Thanks for your help so far.

[kodacollider]

Any other ideas, by chance?

[Pascal Casier]

Unfortunately not.
Do you have the possibility to switch to a standard wordpress theme ?
Or deactivate all plugins except bbPress ? Then reactivate one by one
Pascal.

[Pascal Casier]

I just had something with exactly the same issue. Are you using the flatsome theme ?

Pascal.

[kodacollider]

I’m not, I am using a child theme of Twenty Twelve that I’ve been creating.

I actually got this figured out, on a whim I decided to try your $args[‘type’] = ‘list’; again and for whatever reason this time it worked. I don’t know if I may have just overlooked it the first time, or what.

My function:

function bbp_custom_pagination_links( $args ) {
    $args['type'] = 'list';
    return $args;
}
add_filter ('bbp_topic_pagination','bbp_custom_pagination_links');

I will still have to go through and do the same thing for other instances of pagination within bbPress, but that has worked for the topic list. It’s just a matter of styling the list elements with CSS at that point to get them aligned horizontally.

Thanks for all of your help, I really do appreciate it.

[Pascal Casier]

Great, glad to hear!

[kodacollider]

I got the pagination for topics and for replies above/below each respective loop working, but I can’t seem to find out how to hook into this one to apply the same effect:

That’s the pagination for topic replies listed right beneath the topic’s title when viewing a single forum.

Any ideas?

[Pascal Casier]

Not really… sorry