Hello, I am looking for a way to have the search function the way it does normally by searching for particular keywords through the forum, topics and replies but I would like to display the results in topic format only. For example a list of topics in which the keywords entered are located. What files do I need to edit to achieve this and how would I go about doing this please? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 3 months ago]

4 files of interest to you

all found in templates/default/bbpress

loop-search.php
loop-search-topic.php
loop-search-reply.php
loop-search-forum.php

copy them to your theme

so if you wanted to amend loop-search-topic you would do the following

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-search-topic.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-search-topic.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

[@rogerlridge Participant 7 years, 3 months ago]

Thank you for your reply, the problem however is that when something is searched on bbpress it searches topics, forums and replies but the forum displays different information as does the replies which if i set the loop-search-topic as the template for everything, it’s displayed all messed up when the search results are forums and replies and not topics, the topics are displayed normally but the other stuff is a mess. How would I get it to display the forum and reply results in the same manner as the topic results? Because that’s where my problem actually is. Thank you once again.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 3 months ago]

then you’d alter loop-search-reply.php to look like how you want it

[@rogerlridge Participant 7 years, 3 months ago]

but I don’t know how to edit it to look like the loop-topic, I don’t know what information to remove and what information to add, I’m a newbie developer you see lol so i need all the help i can get please.