Hello,

I would like to display on the front-end (over forum list on bbpress root page) the forum’s description (see here: http://i.imgur.com/o3c5iA1.png … to see what i’m speaking about).

I know there is a hook to put some content in this area “bbp_template_before_forums_index” but is there a function or a shortcode to get the forum’s description (http://i.imgur.com/o3c5iA1.png) ?

Thx

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

The forums list display comes under the template

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

There are many hooks in this

Line 44 does the sub forum display

[@vauvarin Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

I found this solution :

add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'xxxx_bbp_display_forum_description' );

function xxxx_bbp_display_forum_description() {
    echo '<div>';
    bbp_forum_content();
    echo '</div>';
}

[@vauvarin Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Maybe better like this :

add_action( 'bbp_template_before_single_forum' , 'xxxx_bbp_display_forum_description' );

function xxxx_bbp_display_forum_description() {

    $display_forum_description = bbp_get_forum_content();

    if ( bbp_is_single_forum() && ! empty( $display_forum_description ) ) {
    
        echo '<div class="bbp-display-forum-description">';
        echo $display_forum_description;
        echo '</div>';

    }

}

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

looks good, have you tried it and does it work,

If so I’ll add it to the codex

[@vauvarin Participant 10 years, 10 months ago]

Yep, works perfectly 🙂

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

Thanks, I’ve slightly amended it to get it to display on all pages and added it to the documentation

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Thanks again for posting your solution !

[@zeineddine Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Gilles, can’t thank you enough. Just what I was looking for. Works beautifully.

Rob