Hello,

How to change the date for freshness? I now have this:

7 hours, 6 minutes ago
1 day, 5 hours ago
2 days, 22 hours ago
1 week, 1 day ago
2 weeks, 1 day ago
2 weeks, 3 days ago
1 month, 1 week ago
2 months, 1 week ago

I want to change that showed this:

7 hours ago
1 day ago
2 days ago
1 week ago
2 weeks ago
2 weeks ago
1 month ago
2 months ago

How to do it please help?

Sorry for my bad english

[@virusek89 Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Is there anyone able to help me?

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

Yes, it’s doable, but I’ve not yet delved into how to do it !

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 10 years, 10 months ago]

You’ll want to filter the output of bbp_get_time_since; it’s the function responsible for humanizing timestamps. You’ll probably want to perform a string replacement starting at the comma, and append your own ‘ago’ at the end.

[@virusek89 Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

bbp_get_time_since

I found it in these files

bbpress\includes\topics\template-tags.php
bbpress\includes\replies\template-tags.php
bbpress\includes\forums\template-tags.php
bbpress\includes\common\widgets.php
bbpress\includes\common\functions.php

Now what I need to edit to remove the rest of the decimal?

I want to ask because I am a beginner in php

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

Give me a day or two, and I’ll come back with a more detailed response.

[@virusek89 Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Ok I’ll wait

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 10 months ago]

Don’t forget to search the site here 😉

https://bbpress.org/forums/search/bbp_get_time_since/

I want bbPress to look like every other forum on the planet

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

so the answer is

function short_freshness_time( $output) {
$output = preg_replace( '/, .*[^ago]/', ' ', $output );
return $output;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_time_since', 'short_freshness_time' );
add_filter('bp_core_time_since', 'short_freshness_time');

Drop this into your functions file

[@virusek89 Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

@Robin and @Stephen Thank you for your help. Everything works perfectly 🙂

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

Great, glad to hear you’re fixed, and have just added the code to one of my forums. One of those moments when you see something and think “that looks better”!.

[@matthias70 Participant 4 years ago]

The above code in functions.php works for me, except for “weeks” in german “Wochen”
Perhaps the regex is wrong, but after Wochen I have an “ag”

It’s not there in my german language file?
https://gtauscht.de/forums/
Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks
Matthias

[@matthias70 Participant 4 years ago]

Just found a solution.
Don’t know why but a space at the end of Wochen did it.
Strange that Jahre and Tage don’t need the additional space at the end…?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years ago]

I could dig into it, but as it is working I won’t 🙂 But thanks for posting the answer, if others find the same issue, I’ll look to update.

Glad you are fixed !!

[@neon67 Participant 4 years ago]

Life-hack for non-English speaking users. There is no need to change anything in the functions.php.
Just enough to change the translation file, for example, in Loco-translate.
You translate the hours into your language as it should, and instead the minutes make empty field. Save.

Its works.