I’ve been using bbpress plugin to set up forums for my website’s users. Originally there is no function when it comes to ‘counting views’ of each post. So I added some codes according to this website’s advice.

It works fine with general(sitewide) forums but when I made a group(buddypress function) and tried to integrate it with bbpress forum, the view count php code does not work in group forums. (Still, it works perfectly fine at sitewide forums)

this is my code right now (wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.php)

<li class="bbp-topic-voice-count">
    <?php 

if( !function_exists('get_wpbbp_post_view') ) :
// get bbpress topic view counter
function get_wpbbp_post_view($postID){
$count_key = 'post_views_count';
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
if($count==''){
    delete_post_meta($postID, $count_key);
    add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '0');
    return "0";
}
return $count;
}
function set_wpbbp_post_view($postID) {
$count_key = 'post_views_count';
$count = get_post_meta($postID, $count_key, true);
if( $count == '' ){
    add_post_meta($postID, $count_key, '1');
} else {
    $new_count = $count + 1;
    update_post_meta($postID, $count_key, $new_count);
}
}
endif;

if( !function_exists('add_wpbbp_topic_counter') ) :
// init the view counter in bbpress single topic
function add_wpbbp_topic_counter() {
global $wp_query;
$bbp = bbpress();
$active_topic = $bbp->current_topic_id;
set_wpbbp_post_view( $active_topic );
}
add_action('bbp_template_after_single_topic', 'add_wpbbp_topic_counter');
endif;

echo get_wpbbp_post_view( bbp_get_topic_id() ); ?>
</li>

[@qbow-admin Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

what do u mean, ok..?

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

@qbow-admin

its a spammer ignore it.

as for your topic, I haven’t dabbled deep with BuddyPress and maybe later today I will play with it and see what I can come up with.

[@qbow-admin Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

@Robkk
oh, i see.
Thanks! I’m gonna be waiting for your brilliant solution 🙂

[@qbow-admin Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

anybody????

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

@qbow-admin

Yeah I don’t know what to tell you it just doesn’t work.

I tried that way that you had views , and some other views plugins that didn’t work also.

[@qbow-admin Participant 9 years, 7 months ago]

@Robkk

I see. thanks for trying, tho.
I just don’t understand why it doesn’t work only in ‘group forums’ 🙁

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 7 months ago]

@qbow-admin

yeah it’s weird, I couldn’t figure it out.

[@imagecrisis Participant 8 years, 9 months ago]

Try changing:

$active_topic = $bbp->current_topic_id;

…to:

$active_topic_id = $bbp->topic_query->post->ID;