[donalyza]

I was trying to follow the step by step guide to bbpress forum – part 3

I copied the the function below and add it on line 9 of loop-single-forum.php file.

function remove_counts() {
$args['show_topic_count'] = false;
$args['show_reply_count'] = false;
$args['count_sep'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'remove_counts' );

Then I ran my forum site and got this error.. I’m doing this locally to test.

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare remove_counts() (previously declared in C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve-child\bbpress\loop-single-forum.php:9) in C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve-child\bbpress\loop-single-forum.php on line 14“

[Stephen Edgar]

All function names need to be unique:

See the WordPress Plugin Handbook for more details:

Sanity Practices

You can achieve this simple by prefixing the function names with your name: 🙂

function donalyza_remove_counts() {
$args['show_topic_count'] = false;
$args['show_reply_count'] = false;
$args['count_sep'] = '';
return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_list_forums_parse_args', 'donalyza_remove_counts' );

Our codex articles will need to be updated to include prefixes so there are none of these conflict, suggestion might be bbp_codex_ so that way a hint is also given where the custom function may have originated from 😉

[donalyza]

Thanks Stephen @netweb for looking on to this.

I really wish I could say it fixed the issue apparently I’m still getting the same error. 🙁

( ! ) Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bbp_codex_remove_counts() (previously declared in C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve-child\bbpress\loop-single-forum.php:9) in C:\wamp\www\wp\wp-content\themes\twentytwelve-child\bbpress\loop-single-forum.php on line 14

[donalyza]

Nevermind. I fixed it.

I placed the code on my child theme functions.php file rather stated on the guide on loop-single-forum.php.

Cheers! 🙂