I’ve been searching for a way to return the titles and links of every topic on my forum. I’m familiar with HTML and CSS, but a PHP novice, which I think is my downfall here.

I found a call to

<?php the_content();?>

which seems to be generating the big grey box with a list of all the topics (image link: https://imgur.com/a/fKamtGH)

However, I just want to return the topic titles and links to each topic, not the entire box. I can’t seem to find / write a PHP method that does this, does anyone have any advice?

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

the screen you show is from a number of templates.

are you looking to replace these with just a list of topics, ie hide all the rest, or do this in addition to this?

[@dalton125 Participant 3 years, 3 months ago]

Replace it with just a list of topics, yes. I have bbPress 2.6.6, and I haven’t changed the theme, so I’m assuming I’m using whatever the default theme is.

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

ok, that’s development rather than support.

so you will need to alter templates and put these in your child theme.

look for

\templates\default\bbpress\loop-topics.php
does topic list headers

calls loop-single-topic
\templates\default\bbpress\loop-single-topic.php
lists each topic in the forum, last post and freshness

lists topic content

so for each find the file

transfer this to your pc and edit

and save

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

Then transfer the file you saved above and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above

bbPress will now use this template instead of the original