I would like the textarea (in which I am typing this message tight now…) to be shown on top of the page. Before all the older entries… Since I am new to bbpress I don´t know where to start looking.

WP v 4.1
bbpress v 2.5.4

[@mogge Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

I don´t want my members to have to scroll through older entries to post a new one… Is there anyone who could point me in the right direction?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

you could put a link into the page so that they click to get to it

load my plugin

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbp-style-pack

and go into

Dsahboard>settings>bbp style pack>d. forum display and click no. 5

You could put the form first, but it will hide your forums, but if you really want to do that come back.

[@mogge Participant 10 years, 9 months ago]

I have only one forum so I link directly to it…

Please check this image: http://postimg.org/image/lc63c9crt/
It explains what I wan´t to do.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 9 months ago]

ok,

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/%your-theme-name%/bbpress
find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/content-single-forum.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/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original

then change lines

<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

to

<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>
			
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop',       'topics'    ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'pagination', 'topics'    ); ?>

<?php elseif ( !bbp_is_forum_category() ) : ?>

			
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'form',       'topic'     ); ?>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'feedback',   'no-topics' ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

and save

that should do it