Hi all,

This may be a basic question but I haven’t found an answer in the search.

If I create a group category and forums underneath that, you cannot assign a category to a buddypress group.

However I can make the parent category a forum instead. This will then allow you to assign this to a group and see the categories underneath. It looks messy though because when you click on the parent forum it says “this forum is empty.” Though it does let you see the categories below this message.

Is there a way to just remove the “this forum is empty message? I don’t want it to say this underneath every parent forum.

Thanks much,
Chris

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 11 months ago]

do you know how to add something to your childtheme functions file ?

[@chrtravels Participant 6 years, 11 months ago]

Hi Robin,

In functions.php? I do know how to enter code there, via ftp or cPanel. I just don’t know what code to enter to solve for this. 🙂

Chris

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 11 months ago]

great

than add this

//This function changes the text wherever it is quoted
function rew_change_translate_text( $translated_text ) {
	if ( $translated_text == 'This forum is empty.' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated_text;
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_change_translate_text', 20 );

Instead of ‘This forum is empty.’ you will get ‘new text’, so just change new text to what you want

eg change the line

$translated_text = 'new text';

to

$translated_text = 'Categories listed below';

– if you want it blank then have that line say

$translated_text = '';

[@chrtravels Participant 6 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks much. that worked. 🙂

Is there no way to remove that element all together? Or at least if I knew which
CSS file this is formatted in, I could play around with the spacing. That text takes
up quite a bit of space at the top of the forum and pushes everything down further than
I would like.

I am pretty good as user the inspector to identify areas to change but I have a heack of a time determine which css file is involved.

Thanks again for your help!

Chris

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 11 months ago]

if you have a child theme, and are happy with ftp, I can give you a revised template

[@chrtravels Participant 6 years, 11 months ago]

sure that would be great. Thanks 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 11 months ago]

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

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/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so change line 26 from

<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

to

<?php if (bbp_get_single_forum_description != 'This forum is empty.') bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>

[@chrtravels Participant 6 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks, I’ll give this a try and let you know how it goes.

[@gkldh Participant 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

hello how can i add link on text ??

if ( $translated_text == 'This forum is empty.' ) {
	$translated_text = 'new text';
}

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 2 weeks ago]

add_filter( 'gettext', 'rew_translations', 20 , 3 );

function rew_translations( $translated, $text, $domain ) {
	if ($domain != 'bbpress' return $translated;
	if ( $translated == 'This forum is empty.' ) {
		$translated = 'new text';
	}
	return $translated;
}

[@terefoster777 Participant 1 day, 5 hours ago]

I am trying to do the same change. I want to get rid of the box that says, “THIS FORUM IS EMPTY.” Why does it need to be there? It’s so uninviting.

I am using the forum as a category, which is an option, so why does it insert “THIS FORUM IS EMPTY” when I choose “CATEGORY”? That message should automatically change or disappear when a forum is used as a category. That would be a permanent and logical fix on the developer’s end.

My problem is that I don’t know where to insert the code that you suggested above. Is it on the site dashboard or in the site hosting? Please start the instructions farther back.

[@robin-w Moderator 1 day, 4 hours ago]

To do this without code install

bbp style pack

once activated go to

dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>Forums Index Styling item 16

or with the code above use

Code Snippets

[@terefoster777 Participant 1 day, 4 hours ago]

WoW!!

BBp style pack has everything.

Thanks!