[berkelmudez]

Hi people,

I basically can’t get to show any topics on a custom theme that I’ve been making.
I think it has nothing to do plugins, in my custom theme when I call ‘bbp_has_topics()’ it returns the boolean false. But when I switch to the wordpress theme twenty fifteen, I get returned the boolean true and it basically shows the topic correctly, with all plugins turned on.

However my forums list get displayed correctly, and the topic detail page will only display the topic when I turn off the ‘bbp_show_lead_topic()’ as it by default only shows when that function return true which in my custom theme it doesn’t.

the function ‘bbp_has_topics()’ basically get influenced or something as soon as I switch to my custom theme. To be honest honest I have no clue what causes this action to influence that those bbp function, I was hoping someone here did.

Does anyone have any suggestions or have encountered this problem and knows what could possibly cause this problem?

[Robin W]

so where in your theme do you call bbp_has_topics?

[berkelmudez]

Hi, to test what boolean came out I tested bbp_has_topics() in: custom_theme/bbpress/loop-topics.php.
In my custom theme it returns false and in wp twenty fifteen theme it returns true. Maybe using buddypress has something to do with it?

[Robin W]

ok, so you have the same loop-topics.pho loaded into both themes?

[berkelmudez]

Yup I have literally copied all the code from ‘loop-topics.php’ in custom theme to the wordpress theme twenty fifteen, where it correctly does return true and topics are shown correctly.
I must have done something wrong in my custom theme, I just have no idea what the possible causes could be tho.

It just came to my mind that it might be template php file that bbpress uses, I’ll go check that now.
I use bbpress in combination with buddypress maybe it can be something with that also.

[berkelmudez]

I finally found what was causing the problem after going through my functions.php.
Apparantly it was this function that was causing my bbp_topic functions to not function:

function SearchFilter($query) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
      $query->set('post_type', 'post');
    }
    return $query;
  }
  add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

After commenting this out everything seems to work perfectly fine now with all topic functions working and displaying correctly now.
I still don’t know exactly what it is but I probably am not using the $query stuff properly in here. Anyway the problem got much more clear now at least and can be dealt with much better now.

[Robin W]

ah… I know why it does that, explained here

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix2/
and

http://www.rewweb.co.uk/bbpress-wp4-fix/

[berkelmudez]

Wow very nice! The bbpress-fix actually did it! I guess it’s solved it now, thanks!!

[Robin W]

So I can help others – what version of wordpress are you running?

[berkelmudez]

I am running WordPress 4.4.2

[Robin W]

Thanks for that – much appreciated !