Hi everyone,
I’m using the bbp_register_view_popular for the homepage of my offline website.

Works pretty well to sort_by my meta_value.

What I’m trying to do is to return a custom field as the main title.
I’m already doing this on custom pages and it works like a charm, here is my code :

$output .= '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), 'bbp_extra_field1', true) . '</a></li>';

How can I return the same thing in my custom_view for my homepage without actually changing permanently the_title from WordPress? the_title is absolutly needed and bbp_extra_field1 works a subtitle.

Many thanks to anyone who could put me on the right way 🙂

[@specstanza Participant 3 years, 4 months ago]

To anyone who would come accross the same project, I added an action to the bbp_theme_before_topic_title hook.

For now, it does not displays as I would like but some CSS will do the trick.

add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'show_true_title');
function show_true_title() { 
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $true_title = '<li><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bbp_extra_field1', true); '</a>';
echo $true_title ;

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

thanks for posting your solution.

you could do

add_action('bbp_theme_before_topic_title', 'show_true_title');
function show_true_title() { 
$topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id();
  $true_title = '<li class="specstanza-title"><a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . get_post_meta( $topic_id, 'bbp_extra_field1', true); '</a></li>';
echo $true_title ;

and then in css do

li.specstanza-title {
color: blue;
}

or

.specstanza-title {
color: blue;
}

or

.specstanza-title li {
color: blue;
}

one of those should let you style the title

[@specstanza Participant 3 years, 4 months ago]

Thank you @robin-w !
My first idea was to display:none the_title but I’m definitely going to keep it.

I found the solution by installing a plugin called Hookr. It gave me some informations I needed after hours reading Bbpress’ files.

The ouput is a bit strange though…

As if the voice-count moved somewhere. The author is also displayed twice – I don’t remember it was like that before. Changing the shortcode used doesn’t improve this.

I’m going to figure out what happened here and keep this thread updated if it’s usefull for someone. 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 4 months ago]

do keep this updated – so many threads have the problem but authors don’t post their final solution – you are a star!!