I am looking to do the exact same thing that has been done in this forum:

subforums and markup

I want to hide the sub-forums from being shown in the homepage because they take up a lot of space, but I simply don’t get it. When it says edit the templates so this looks like this. Which file in the template do I edit. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could explain how to do this.

Thanks,

K

[@nolageek Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

perhaps… front-page.php? Just a hunch (without reading the thread)

[@warmechoco Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

I think more people have this problem?

will somebody please write a clear way to do this?

I don’t get it either…

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

This is quick solution but not perfect. Find <?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?> in front-page.php and replace it with

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : global $forum; if ($forum->forum_parent != 0) continue;?>

It only hides the subforums, so visitors have to click on a top level forum to see if there is any subforum within the top level forum.

[@phayze Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

I have a different, but related problem – I only want to hide the descriptions for the sub forums on the homepage, not the whole table row. What if statement do I wrap around <?php forum_description(); ?> to do that?

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

<?php global $forum; if ($forum->forum_parent == 0) forum_description(); ?>

Quick explanation of the code: When $forum‘s forum_parent is 0, that means $forum is a top-level forum; if not, it is a sub-forum of another forum whose forum_id equals $forum‘s forum_parent.

[@phayze Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

Ahhh… great, thanks. Next question, just about on topic, has anyone modified their front page bb_forum() loop so that sub-forums appear like they do on http://www.avforums.com/forums/index.php – just the title, but in the same row as the parent?

Thanks,

[@livibetter Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

Here is a similar topic: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums?replies=6

[@phayze Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

That’s exactly what I was after – thanks.