Hi

Unlike other forums, bbpress doesnt give the creation date of a topic, or did i miss something ?

in the topics list, there should be the date :

Started by : Nicolas July 8, 2020

like this forum for instance : https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/499-feature-suggestions/

the creation date is a major information how can i do that ?

thank you !

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_started_by' , 'rew_add_date' ); 

function rew_add_date () {
	echo ' on ' ;
	bbp_topic_post_date() ;
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

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

or use

Code Snippets

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Great Robin it works ! thanks 🙂

i will need to manually change html on the topics listings (forum) template, which file should i edit then ? (i want to rename “started by”, change the way freshness avatar is showing with html (not possible with css) etc

and therefore is there a way to manually add this date directly on that file ?

Thanks 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 9 months ago]

loop-single-topic.php

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Robin

I have your function that you gave me above :

// FORUM ADD DATE OF TOPIC CREATION
add_action( 'bbp_theme_after_topic_started_by' , 'rew_add_date' ); 

function rew_add_date () {
	echo ' on ' ;
	bbp_topic_post_date() ;
}

I would like to show only the date and remove the time ie :

August 4 2012 instead of August 4 2012 at 2:37 pm

how can i get that ?

thanks !

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 8 months ago]

untested, but this should work

add_filter( 'bbp_get_topic_post_date', 'rew_date_only' , 20, 6) ;

function rew_date_only ($result, $topic_id, $humanize, $gmt, $date, $time ){
		$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_id );

		// 4 days, 4 hours ago
		if ( ! empty( $humanize ) ) {
			$gmt_s  = ! empty( $gmt ) ? 'G' : 'U';
			$date   = get_post_time( $gmt_s, $gmt, $topic_id );
			$time   = false; // For filter below
			$result = bbp_get_time_since( $date );

		// August 4, 2012 at 2:37 pm
		} else {
			$date   = get_post_time( get_option( 'date_format' ), $gmt, $topic_id, true );
			$result = $date;
		}

		// Filter & return
		return apply_filters( 'rew_date_only', $result, $topic_id, $humanize, $gmt, $date, $time );
	}
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

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

or use

Code Snippets

[@deepblue5 Participant 2 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks

it works like a charm 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 8 months ago]

🙂