Hi

I’ve recently installed bbPress. It works fine but it’s had an unwanted side-effect on the Category pages on the rest of my site. I’d set these to show short excerpts only, but after installing bbPress they now show full posts, which I really don’t want. Is there a way I can tweak bbPress to stop this effect. Can anyone help, please?

Best, Kit

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

I’d set these to show short excerpts only

is this an option in your themes settings??

but im going to assume your theme thinks bbPress is a blog post , adn that you should create a bbpress.php file and remove any unwanted code.

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/getting-started-in-modifying-the-main-bbpress-template/

this plugin will help you find the right file to copy to create a bbpress.php file.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/what-the-file/

[@kitfreeman Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

Hi Thanks for your reply. Yes, there’s a theme option to show extracts only, but it only works when the bbPress plugin is deactivated. Does the advice you’ve given still apply? Thanks again.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

sorry for the late reply.

The advice i gave you should help.

but if it doesn’t what is your theme name so i could check it out?? hopefully its not a premium theme.

[@kitfreeman Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks. The theme is atahualpa 3.7.23. It’s a popular theme, I think. The theme has an option to show excerpts rather than full posts on category pages (under Atahualpa Theme Options > Configure Excerpts), but activating the bbPress plugin overrides it. I’ve played around with the plugin settings, but it makes no difference.

I’ve tried to follow your advice about creating a .php file, but to be honest I’m not really sure what I’m doing. If you have any more specific suggestions, I’d be very grateful. 🙂

Thanks again

[@kitfreeman Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

I hope people won’t mind if I bump this. I’ve still not been able to solve the problem and would be very grateful for help.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

ok thanks for reminding me …again.

i have been losing track on these topics lately.

What i found is that this bug is because of your theme and not really bbPress. So i recommend contacting your theme developers about this especially since they want to support bbPress.

in the bfa_post_parts.php file in your functions folder, under the bfa_post_bodycopy function you will see

OR function_exists('is_bbpress')

This is what is causing your issue.

the way i figured out to fix it is to remove this and create my own bbpress.php off of the index.php file from your theme.

this is all the code i used to create the file. So you can copy and paste this into your theme into a bbpress.php file and all should work …hopefully.

I also left the widget areas there if you want them still there user theme/replace them or just remove them.

<?php 
list($bfa_ata, $cols, $left_col, $left_col2, $right_col, $right_col2, $bfa_ata['h_blogtitle'], $bfa_ata['h_posttitle']) = bfa_get_options();
get_header(); 
extract($bfa_ata); 
global $bfa_ata_postcount;
?>

<?php /* If there are any posts: */
if (have_posts()) : /* Postcount needed for option "XX first posts full posts, rest excerpts" */ ?>

    <?php  if ($bfa_ata['widget_center_top'] <> '') { 
          echo bfa_parse_widget_areas($bfa_ata['widget_center_top']); 
	} ?>

	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
	
		<?php /* Post Container starts here */
		if ( function_exists('post_class') ) { ?>
		<div <?php if ( is_page() ) { post_class('post'); } else { post_class(); } ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
		<?php } else { ?>
		<div class="<?php echo ( is_page() ? 'page ' : '' ) . 'post" id="post-'; the_ID(); ?>">
		<?php } ?>
		<?php bfa_post_headline('<div class="post-headline">','</div>'); ?>
		<div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
		</div><!-- / Post -->	
						
	<?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php if ($bfa_ata['widget_center_bottom'] <> '') { 
          echo bfa_parse_widget_areas($bfa_ata['widget_center_bottom']); 
    } ?>

<?php endif; /* END of: If there are no posts */ ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[@kitfreeman Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

Thank you very much for diagnosing this problem. May I repost your reply on the Atahualpa forum, please, so the developers can modify the theme, if they wish?

Thanks again.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

yeah go ahead

and no problem

[@juggledad Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

@robkk: Just to clarify something, the OR function_exists('is_bbpress') was added (with some other code, to get around a bug that bbpress doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge or fix. see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723

[@gena2222 Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

What i found is that this bug is because of your theme and not really bbPress.and no problem.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

@juggledad

@robkk: Just to clarify something, the OR function_exists(‘is_bbpress’) was added (with some other code, to get around a bug that bbpress doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge or fix. see https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2723

Thanks for pointing that out, i did not know about that bug.

Okay with this bug in bbPress you cannot use the WP conditional is_single() to affect all of the bbPress pages, since for some reason there is a bug for single user pages.Thanks for creating the trac ticket, I tested out and see that yes it does not work on user pages. Over the next few days/week i will check it out and see I can come up with a fix.

But this bug is easily avoidable by creating a bbpress.php for your theme and just using the_content() instead of bfa_post_bodycopy() and removing OR function_exists('is_bbpress') from the bfa_post_bodycopy() function. The bbpress.php file also helps remove other post meta that might not be useful for bbPress forums instead of using CSS to hide them.

The OR function_exists('is_bbpress') you can keep in bfa_get_options.php though as i do not see any problems with that.

If there is something you can find on your end to fix the issue with your theme and bbPress then please drop an answer on this topic, because i haven’t looked and learned your theme 100% yet. Removing the function exists and creating a bbpress.php is the quickest solution to the problem that I could find.

@kitfreeman

This excerpt issue that you are seeing affects all of these areas

category pages
tag pages
author pages
archive pages
search result pages
and the home page

which is where all the excerpt theme settings modify.

[@sharongraylac Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

Hello Robkk!

I may be having a similar issue. Should I start a new thread? Or explain more here? Just don’t want to step on toes…

Thanks!
Sharon
bellynsoul.com

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 6 months ago]

@sharongraylac

create a new topic

[@sharongraylac Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

Thought so. 🙂