Hello,

I’m currently running Robin’s plugin to display total posts by user. However, below each avatar I now have “Post Count:” and “Total Posts:”

I’ve messed around in the loop-single-forums file, but don’t want to break the plugin as I believe this is the file that Robin’s plugin calls to work correctly.

I’m sure it’s simple, but I just can’t figure it out / don’t want to mess something up.
My forums can be viewed at http://flyfisherscorner.com/forums

Also, as a follow up: maybe a newbie question, but how can I make sure that the eventual changes won’t be lost on updates? Just put the altered file into a bbPress folder in my child theme, or do I need to create all the folders to give it the same “path” as the file has in the main wp-content folder?

In other words, if I put the edited file into my child theme, can I just stick it directly into a bbPress folder, or do I need to create folders in there to mimic the directory path (e.g. bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php)?

Thanks a million!!

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

ok, on issue 1

Not sure what you are asking? You decide what to show in dashboard>settings>bbp topic count.

If that doesn’t answer, come back with a url to a specific page and exactly what you want removed.

on issue 2.

You just create a directory in your child theme called bbpress and any files you change in there

eg

wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-single-forum.php

where
%your-theme-name%

is the actual name of your theme !

[@flyfisherscorner Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks for the reply!

The duplicate text I’m talking about that I want to remove is the bbpress default post count text (which counts posts in a specific topic). I only want it to show the text from bbp topic count.

An example can be seen at: http://flyfisherscorner.com/topic/lets-get-the-conversation-going-where-are-you-from/

I want to remove the “Post Count: 1” generated by default and keep the “Total Posts: #”

Thanks again!

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

dashboard>settings>bbp topic count and remove the display check from ‘add this item to the display’ !

[@flyfisherscorner Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

It’s not coming from the bbp topic count plugin. It was there before I added it.

The only thing coming from the plugin is the thing I want to keep.

Just to be perfectly clear: on the link I gave, under each user’s avatar in each post, there are two post counts listed. I want the one from bbp topic count (the bottom one, “Total Posts” which counts all of a user’s posts) to stay. I want to remove the top one (“Post Count), the one which only counts the posts in a particular topic.

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

As far as I can guess, it looks like that is coming from

bbps-user-ranking plugin

do you have that installed?

[@flyfisherscorner Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

:-/

Don’t have that one installed. I also tried disabling several other plugins that I thought could possibly be causing this and wasn’t able to find any that made a difference (clearing caches and such all along the way as well). My initial suspicion was one called “Ultimate Posts Widget” that I had been using with a previous theme to control how my blog page displayed, but alas, no dice.

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

its showing with a class of bbps-post-count

<div class=”bbps-post-count”>Post count: 1</div>

Could be your theme adding ?

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

you could put the following at the bottom of your style.css

.bbps-post-count {
display: none !important;
}

That should hide it.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

[@flyfisherscorner Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

I’ve looked all through the theme and been unable to find it, but they do advertise it as being bb Press ready, so it may be something on the back end I can’t see.

The CSS is brilliant though! I don’t know why I didn’t think to try that! (Though I suppose I wouldn’t have known what the function causing it to display is without you identifying it).

I’ve already got custom CSS to get the forums to inherit my background color, so 3 little lines of code added there took care of my issue!

Thanks so much for the help and for bearing with me!

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

no problem, – glad you’re fixed !