[wenlujon]

I notice there’s post sequence in every post (at the top right corner, #[ids], and this is a link), which is necessary for a forum.
however, the strange thing is that it’s for the forum wide! how to make the sequence starts from 1 for a specific topic? and every reply the count increases by 1.

[Robin W]

bbpress uses custom post types in wordpress.

Every wordpress post gets a unique number, as do edits and other stuff.

so if you posted a forum topic it might get say id #1000, then a wordpress blog would get the next number #1001, the say a reply to a different forum topic orum topic #1002, then if you create a new page that would get #1003, then the first response the actual forum topic would get #1004

You’d need to write a whole new numbering system to make your request work !

[wenlujon]

where’s the file which displays the number?
I still think there’s way. for example, by remapping.

1. define a meta data for a specific topic (for example, topic_id)
2. remap the topic_id to the real id
3. display the topic_id instead of the real id
4. increase the topic_id by 1 every reply
5. still keep the link to the real id, so when you click the topic_id, it actually points to the real id.

[Robin W]

with code anything is possible !

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

line 27

[Robin W]

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-single-reply.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-single-reply.php

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original, so you can amend this one

[wenlujon]

looks like loop-single-reply.php is a single reply entry, which file invokes it (in a loop way),
if i can find the caller, maybe I can set the meta data in the caller every time it loops:

$index=1
while (replies)
     set meta data (topic_id) to $index 
     load loop-single-reply.php
          get meta data (topic_id) in loop-single-reply.php
     $index++

[wenlujon]

ok, i got it (loop-replies.php):

                        <?php $count=1; while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>
                                <?php
                                         $post_id = get_the_ID();
                                         //save the new count
                                         update_post_meta($post_id, 'bbp_seq_test', $count) ;
                                ?>

                                <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-reply' );
                                     
                                         $count = $count + 1 ;
                                ?>

                        <?php endwhile; ?>

and define a function show_seq()

      $post_id = get_the_ID();
      $count   = get_post_meta( $post_id, 'bbp_seq_test', true );

        echo $count;

and then in loop-single-reply.php
` <a href=”<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>” class=”bbp-reply-permalink”>#<?php show_seq(); ?></a>
`

and it works!

please take a look!

http://bbs.circday.com/forums/topic/%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95%E6%B0%B4%E5%8D%B0

[Robin W]

great – glad you’re fixed !

[Robkk]

@wenlujon

you could also edit loop-single-reply.php in your child theme and just replace

<a href="<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-permalink">#<?php bbp_reply_id(); ?></a>

with

<a href="<?php bbp_reply_url(); ?>" class="bbp-reply-permalink">#<?php bbp_reply_position(); ?></a>

that should work the same way.

[wenlujon]

great, that’s simple enough.