Hello. This plugin has given me just about everything I need thus far. However, I want to change the meta title on my forum’s index page to something along the lines of:

YA Book Forum | 7th Page Community

However, right now it only says “Forums”

This only applies to the front page/index page of the forums. The other pages in the forums display the specific forum/topic’s titles and that’s perfect. But how do I change “Forums” to a custom title?

I changed the name of the page that the forums are on to YA Book Forum and while that changed the title on the top, it didn’t change the meta title. I also tried to customize the meta title with my SEO plugin but that didn’t work either. I even went in and edited the template’s header and it still came up as “Forums.”

Anyway to fix this?

My forum is at: http://www.7thpage.com/forums/

Thank you!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

I think I understand

go into dashboard>settings>forums and change the slugs for forum root and single forum root. that will change the url

If you want to change the breadcrumb, then see

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

you can also set

‘home_text’ , ‘root_text’ and ‘current_text’

using this code

If that’s not what you are after – come back !

[@saulmarq Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

Hi, thanks so much for taking the time to help.

I should have been more clear because that’s not what I was looking for. 🙂

Also, I’ve since changed the address of my forum: http://www.7thpage.com/community/

So this is how it’s setup:
Forum Slug is set to Community and I have created a page called Community. After I made the page called Community, I renamed the title to YA Book Forum. So now it’s a page with the permalink http://www.7thpage.com/community/ but titled YA Book Forum. The title YA Book Forum appears as the title at the top of the page–so that’s all good.

However, the title in the browser’s tab/window still says Forums. When you view the page’s source, you’ll see that the title’s tag is: <title>Forums</title>

I want the name YA Book Forum to appear there, not Forums.

I hope that makes more sense? It’s showing up in the browser’s tab. Thanks!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, I can see that – don’t know how you would fix – sorry ! Hopefully someone who can will be along

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

ok, the answer is somewhere in this function

function bbp_title( $title = '', $sep = '»', $seplocation = '' ) {

	// Title array
	$new_title = array();

	/** Archives **************************************************************/

	// Forum Archive
	if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
		$new_title['text'] = bbp_get_forum_archive_title();

	// Topic Archive
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_archive() ) {
		$new_title['text'] = bbp_get_topic_archive_title();

	/** Edit ******************************************************************/

	// Forum edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_forum_edit() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Reply edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Reply Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic tag edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag_edit() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag Edit: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Singles ***************************************************************/

	// Forum page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_forum_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Forum: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Topic page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_topic() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic: %s', 'bbpress' );

	// Replies
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_reply() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_reply_title();

	// Topic tag page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_tag() || get_query_var( 'bbp_topic_tag' ) ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_topic_tag_name();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'Topic Tag: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Users *****************************************************************/

	// Profile page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user() ) {

		// User is viewing their own profile
		if ( bbp_is_user_home() ) {
			$new_title['text'] = esc_attr_x( 'Your', 'User viewing his/her own profile', 'bbpress' );

		// User is viewing someone else's profile (so use their display name)
		} else {
			$new_title['text'] = sprintf( esc_attr_x( "%s's", 'User viewing another users profile', 'bbpress' ), get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name );
		}

		// User topics created
		if ( bbp_is_single_user_topics() ) {
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s Topics",        'bbpress' );

		// User rueplies created
		} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user_replies() ) {
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s Replies",       'bbpress' );

		// User favorites
		} elseif ( bbp_is_favorites() ) {
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s Favorites",     'bbpress' );

		// User subscriptions
		} elseif ( bbp_is_subscriptions() ) {
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s Subscriptions", 'bbpress' );

		// User "home"
		} else {
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "%s Profile",       'bbpress' );
		}

	// Profile edit page
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_user_edit() ) {

		// Current user
		if ( bbp_is_user_home_edit() ) {
			$new_title['text']   = esc_attr__( 'Edit Your Profile', 'bbpress' );

		// Other user
		} else {
			$new_title['text']   = get_userdata( bbp_get_user_id() )->display_name;
			$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( "Edit %s's Profile", 'bbpress' );
		}

	/** Views *****************************************************************/

	// Views
	} elseif ( bbp_is_single_view() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = bbp_get_view_title();
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'View: %s', 'bbpress' );

	/** Search ****************************************************************/

	// Search
	} elseif ( bbp_is_search() ) {
		$new_title['text'] = bbp_get_search_title();
	}

	// This filter is deprecated. Use 'bbp_before_title_parse_args' instead.
	$new_title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title_array', $new_title );

	// Set title array defaults
	$new_title = bbp_parse_args( $new_title, array(
		'text'   => $title,
		'format' => '%s'
	), 'title' );

	// Get the formatted raw title
	$new_title = sprintf( $new_title['format'], $new_title['text'] );

	// Filter the raw title
	$new_title = apply_filters( 'bbp_raw_title', $new_title, $sep, $seplocation );

	// Compare new title with original title
	if ( $new_title === $title )
		return $title;

	// Temporary separator, for accurate flipping, if necessary
	$t_sep  = '%WP_TITILE_SEP%';
	$prefix = '';

	if ( !empty( $new_title ) )
		$prefix = " $sep ";

	// sep on right, so reverse the order
	if ( 'right' === $seplocation ) {
		$new_title_array = array_reverse( explode( $t_sep, $new_title ) );
		$new_title       = implode( " $sep ", $new_title_array ) . $prefix;

	// sep on left, do not reverse
	} else {
		$new_title_array = explode( $t_sep, $new_title );
		$new_title       = $prefix . implode( " $sep ", $new_title_array );
	}

	// Filter and return
	return apply_filters( 'bbp_title', $new_title, $sep, $seplocation );
}

a filter such as

function amend_title () {
	if ( bbp_is_single_forum() ) {
		$new_title['text']   = 'YA book forum' ;
		$new_title['format'] = esc_attr__( 'YA book Forum', 'bbpress' );
		}
 return $new_title;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_title_parse_args', 'amend_title' );

should sort it but doesn’t, and I’m too tired to work out why 🙂

Over to you !

[@tharsheblows Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

@robinw – I just came across this too and thought exactly the same as you, that it needed that filter or something like that. I was trying to change the “Topic tags: ” (or something like that) bit of the tags archive pages.

It was picking up the default taxonomy-topic-tags.php file. This must have been picked up from the plugin default theme, not mine – it’s in /extras in my theme folder but changing it there had no effect, I had to move it out of there to the root of the theme folder. This totally makes sense from a WordPress standpoint but was non-obvious because I was looking in the bbPress folder in my theme.

ANYWAY it’s sorted now but if someone else comes across it, check for some hidden template. I couldn’t get that filter to work for anything. I tried very very hard to make it work. It didn’t.

@saulmarq – what you can do is make a new page and make the permalink your forum root. So my forum root (in settings) is forums and the page is at example.com/forums. Then use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode. The gotcha is that this page will *only* use the bbPress template, I think – you can’t make a custom template for it. I might be misremembering that, but I do know you can’t change the default template. Someone tried to tell me this was a good thing, whatever.

Doing it this way is nice because then you can write an intro like:

Hi! Welcome to our forums. Dive right in. Post a lot, whoo!

[bbp-forum-index]

[@tharsheblows Participant 10 years, 6 months ago]

@saulmarq – I didn’t read your second post and completely misunderstood. I use Yoast SEO and set the page title there.

[@ernstl Participant 10 years, 3 months ago]

Hi Folks,

i came across the same problem. To prevent bbpress adding a prefix ala “Forum: lalala” to the meta title do this:

function my_generate_titles( $new_title ){
        // reset the format to title only
	$new_title['format'] = '%s';
	return $new_title;

}
add_filter( 'bbp_before_title_parse_args', 'my_generate_titles' );

@saulmarq you can query your title data within the function and set the $new_title[‘text’] var with the value you want to display

Rgds from Germany,
ernstl

[@belgen Participant 10 years ago]

in terms of programming (considering it is almost year 2015 and how important SEO is), lacking a proper method of adding/editing title of main forum page is a disaster.

[@bimbrownik Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks ernst – prefix deleted.
Now another problem . To the title of each post is added at the end of the name of the blog. How to delete this part ? To remain only the title of the post without additives.