The topic title in bbpress rss feeds is “(author) on (title)” which is really bad, because I can’t sort on title anymore. This is sort by author, because the author is the first string in the title.

And it is redundant, because there is a author field which I can see in my feed reader.

Maybe you can change this to “(title) – (author)” (or similar) …

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there. So if this is changed in the latest version, just tell me!

Thanks in Advance!

Kind regards

Torsten / zodiac1978

(Moderator German support forums WP.com)

[@pos2012 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

I have installed the latest 2.0 WP plugin, and there the feed shows a little different.

I found this code in the bbp-topic-functions.php:

(line 2994)

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-functions.php

<title><?php bloginfo_rss( ‘name’ ); ?> » <?php _e( ‘All Topics’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></title>

If you alter that you could probably get the RSS title to say whatever you’d like.

I also found this:

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php

line 1372

<title><?php bloginfo_rss(‘name’); echo $title; ?></title>

I have ony 2 days of experience with bbPress, but this might help you…?

[@zodiac1978 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

“If you alter that you could probably get the RSS title to say whatever you’d like.”

I can’t alter any files, because I am requesting this change for an existing WP.com support forum, for which I am the moderator ( but not admin!). And after requesting it elsewhere, they told me to come here in this forum and put my request in this forum …

BTW, I think you found just the title for the HTML page and not the rss feed.

[@pos2012 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Ok, I have no idea about the bbPress.org and wp.com relationshop.

However I believe that is the correct place to alter the RSS feed

Here is the code in syntax:

// Display the feed

header( 'Content-Type: text/xml; charset=' . get_option( 'blog_charset' ), true );

header( 'Status: 200 OK' );

echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="' . get_option( 'blog_charset' ) . '"?' . '>'; ?>



<rss version="2.0"

xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"

xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"

xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"

xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"



<?php do_action( 'bbp_feed' ); ?>

>



<channel>



<title><?php bloginfo_rss( 'name' ); ?> » <?php _e( 'All Topics', 'bbpress' ); ?></title>

<atom:link href="<?php self_link(); ?>" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />

<link><?php self_link(); ?></link>

<description><?php //?></description>

<pubDate><?php echo mysql2date( 'D, d M Y H:i:s O', '', false ); ?></pubDate>

<generator>https://bbpress.org/?v=<?php bbp_version(); ?></generator>

<language><?php echo get_option( 'rss_language' ); ?></language>



<?php do_action( 'bbp_feed_head' ); ?>

[@zodiac1978 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Oh, sorry! You are absolutely right. Without the context I thought this is not the right line, but with the context it is quite obvious that you are correct! Sorry again.

[@pos2012 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

No problem

But again, YOUR question was regarding the http://de.forums.wordpress.com

I am a fresh user of bbPress, but as far as I can see that forum us the “old” stand alone version of the bbPress. At least the code says so in the RSS generator:

<!-- generator="bbPress/1.1-alpha-2539" -->`

In that case I am not the one that can help. I don’t even know who is leading the bbPress project

Hope you get the help you need from others here!

[@zodiac1978 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Yes, I know. I wrote this is in my first post:

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there.

Thank you for hoping with me …

[@zodiac1978 Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

Just filed a bug ticket:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1816