[blackjak231]

Hello!

I’m trying to display a dropdown menu with all the forums on all templates of bbPress. I was able to easily to it on the “content-archive-forum.php” template with this code :

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums() ) : ?>
	<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>
		<li><a id="textdropdown" class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

The problem i’m having is on all other pages. I know that it’s passing the wrong forum_id to the bbp_has_forums function but i’m unable to modify the parameters or make a custom function to display a list (with links) of the MAIN forums (the one displayed on the “content-archive-forum.php”).

Basically, it displays the message “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” on all other pages.

Can anyone help me or tell me how to do this ?

Thanks in advance!

[selenii]

Please anyone help us, I need the same function…

[Robin W]

The problem i’m having is on all other pages

so you altered code in “content-archive-forum.php”

how or what are you doing for the other ‘pages’?

[Robkk]

@blackjak231 i think you should make a widget, the forum list widget does list all the forums in links all you would have to do is alter how it is displayed.

And also since it is a widget it should work on all pages in your site.

[blackjak231]

Thanks for the tip but i actually ended up adding the following at the top of the pages i needed it on :

$args = array(
	'post_parent' => 0,
);

Not very DRY as it is repeated (i could have done a function though…) but it does the job perfectly.
HOWEVER, since every loop resets the $args array, i think it only works for me because my dropdown menu with the forums is before any other loop on the page.

Here is the code i added in the pages i needed to show the dropdown (bootstrap):

<?php if ( bbp_has_forums($args) ) : ?>
	<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>
		<li><a id="textdropdown" class="bbp-forum-title" href="<?php bbp_forum_permalink(); ?>"><?php bbp_forum_title(); ?></a></li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' ); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I hope this helps you @selenii and anybody else who was trying to do this. I would however recommend Robkk’s way as it uses clean code from bbPress. Haven’t tried it though.

Good luck and thank you!

[selenii]

can you show and tell me how you make your menu, please?

[prokops]

Here is a functions / snippet code version for anyone else looking:
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function my_forums_dropdown_shortcode() {
    // Start buffering output
    ob_start();

    // Dropdown container
    echo '<select id="forums-dropdown" onchange="location = this.value;">';
    
    // Forum loop
    if ( bbp_has_forums() ) :
        while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum();
            $forum_permalink = bbp_get_forum_permalink();
            $forum_title = bbp_get_forum_title();
            echo "<option value='{$forum_permalink}'>{$forum_title}</option>";
        endwhile;
    else :
        // No forums found
        bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback', 'no-forums' );
    endif;

    // Close the dropdown
    echo '</select>';

    // Return the buffer contents
    return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode('forums_dropdown', 'my_forums_dropdown_shortcode');

Just paste in [forums_dropdown] where you want output.