Hi,

Installing/customizing bbpress today, and I would love to make it look like it does here.

A post at the top with its own appearance showing that it is the main post.

Then:

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And then the replies which are obvious replies.

I’m sure this has been covered on here (or other places) before, I just don’t know exactly what to search.

Thank you for any help / ideas.

Bobby

[@thebeeobee Participant 7 years ago]

Hello,

Just bumping this up. Would love any guidance no how to approach this.

Thanks for any help and direction.

Bobby

[@thebeeobee Participant 7 years ago]

Ok, found this… still digging…

bbp_show_lead_topic

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

the bbpress theme is here

https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base

[@mrenkema Participant 7 years ago]

Same question here. I am not a WordPress engineer. Will discuss this info with my friend, who is.

Thanks, Marten

[@thebeeobee Participant 7 years ago]

Thank you @robin-w! So the function I linked to activated the feature, and then I was able to copy the content-single-topic-lead.php into a bbpress folder in my theme, and edit it a bit like in your link. Feeling good about it.

I do have a question though, if anyone can help me figure this out (i’m new to php and am not familiar with the syntax). In the file https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sites/trunk/buddypress.org/public_html/wp-content/themes/bb-base/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php , on line 73, what this mean:

`<?php bbp_show_lead_topic() ? bbp_topic_reply_count() : bbp_topic_post_count(); ?>’

That’s one of the few places I see the function called at all in the templates they edited. Still digging and learning. Thanks for any help or ideas.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years ago]

this is a conditional statement

basically it has 3 parts

test
?
true
:
false

each in this case is a function

so the test is bbp_show_lead_topic() – This will return false by default, but if you set it using a filter, then it would be true

if this returns true then the ‘?’ function is executed which will show the reply count (just the number of replies)

if false then the ‘:’ statement is executed which shows then post count (the count of topic + replies ie replies +1)