Is there a way to change the text ‘Viewing X topics…’ that appears under the list of topics? I can’t see any customisation options.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

what would you like it to say ?

[@dv1961 Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks for getting back to me. Maybe ‘Viewing X messages..’ it’s the word ‘topics’ I’d like to change

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

Put this in your child theme’s function file – or use

Code Snippets

add_filter(  'ngettext',  'rew_bbpress_translate' , 20 , 5 );

function rew_bbpress_translate( $translation, $single, $plural, $number, $domain ) {
	if ($domain == 'bbpress') {
    if ($translation == 'Viewing %1$s topic') $translation = 'Viewing %1$s messages' ;
	if ($translation == 'Viewing %1$s topics') $translation = 'Viewing %1$s messages' ;
	if ($translation == 'Viewing topic %2$s (of %4$s total)') $translation = 'Viewing message %2$s (of %4$s total)' ;
	if ($translation == 'Viewing %1$s topics - %2$s through %3$s (of %4$s total)') $translation = 'Viewing %1$s messages - %2$s through %3$s (of %4$s total)' ;
	}
return apply_filters ('rew_bbpress_translate', $translation, $single, $plural, $number, $domain ) ;
}

[@dv1961 Participant 4 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks Robin, that works. Do you know of any plugins that do this sort of thing? I’d be happy to pay for something that just gave my a panel with lots of options like this. I guess you can’t recommend paid plugins on this forum…

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 8 months ago]

it can be complicated and can require some digging to find the original phrase, but my style pack plugin has a translation section which works for quite a few

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>translations