We would like to have our forum looking like https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/communities/public/questions.

That is:

A link to view All Topics at the top of page for each Forum followed by
Links to Newest, Recommended and Following topics.

Can anyone tell me how to do this.

Wordpress version is 4.1.1 and bbPress is version 2.5.6

Thanking you in advance.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

you can use the bbPress views widget.

which would link to optional ways to view the topics.

Recommended im not sure though?? maybe as an alternative you can use most replied too??

to add more custom views

you can plop this code into your child themes functions.php file or add it into a functionality plugin.

/**
 * Register these bbPress views:
 *  - Popular Topics
 *  - Unpopular Topics
 *  - Random Topic
 *  - Recently Closed
 *  - Tagged Test
 *  - All Topics
 *  - Open (Not Closed)
 *  - Random Single Topic
 *
 * @uses bbp_register_view() To register the view
 */
function ntwb_register_custom_views() {
	bbp_register_view( 'popular-topics', __( 'Popular Topics' ), array( 'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'unpopular-topics', __( 'Unpopular Topics' ), array( 'meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'asc' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'random-topic', __( 'Random Topic' ), array( 'orderby' => 'rand' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'closed', __( 'Recently Closed' ), array( 'post_status' => 'closed' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'taggedtest', __( 'Tagged Test' ), array( 'topic-tag' => 'test' ) );
	bbp_register_view( 'all-topics', __( 'All Topics' ), array( 'order' => 'DESC' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'open', __( 'Open (Not Closed)' ), array( 'post_status' => 'publish' ), false );
	bbp_register_view( 'random-single-topic', __( 'Random Single-Topic' ), array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => '1', 'max_num_pages' => '1' ), false );

}
add_action( 'bbp_register_views', 'ntwb_register_custom_views' );

[@sharlene_c Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you Robkk .. This is a little intimidating for me as I don’t know php nor do I have experience with child themes but I’ll see if my theme allows for that and try to create one.
Thank you for giving me the code.

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

maybe this guide will help you with understanding.

Functions files and child themes – explained !

but you can also put any PHP code snippets in a functionality plugin like this one

https://wordpress.org/plugins/functionality/

[@sharlene_c Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

ahh thank you. I did actually find that plugin to try and will read the information about child themes thank you.

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