Single Forum Widget Ignoring Subforums

[timmoser1234]

Ahoy,
thank you for this fantastic plugin. Not really capable of coding I could have never set up a decent looking forum without it.

I am currently trying to use the Single Forum Information Widget and I am facing the issue that it ignores subforums or rather it displays the right number of topics for the subforum but it says they are in the parent forum.

I am probably just doing something wrong, but maybe not?

To give an example:

ParentForum-#5 (of 10)
-Subforum-A (in PF 5)
-Subforum-B (in PF 5)
-Subforum-C (in PF 5)
–Topic 1 (in SF-C; contains 10 replies)
–Topic 2 (in SF-C; contains 10 replies)
–Topic 3 (in SF-C; contains 10 replies)
–Topic 4 (in SF-C; contains 10 replies)

So while inside Subforum-C the widget in the sidebar says:

In Forum:Parentforum-#5
4 Topics
40 Replies
Last Reply:Name
Last Activity:Date

But it I would want it to say

In Forum:Subforum-C
4 Topics
40 Replies
Last Reply:Name
Last Activity:Date

Again, the number of Topics is correct. It is just that the “In Forum” line is displaying the parent forum rather than the current single forum.

Any solutions welcome.
Thank you ans stay safe.

Tim

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[Robin W]

can you give me a link to a live example on your site please

[timmoser1234]

Ahoy,
thank for the quick reply.
Here you go.

https://bomb.bio/forums/forum/protocols/covid-19-rna-extraction/

As this looks kinda weird ill remove the widget as soon as you tell me you had a look. Or, we found a solution.

Cheers
Tim

[Robin W]

ok, I see

Topic Information
In:Protocols
6 Topics
28 Replies
Last Reply:Kylie Drake
Last Activity:April 9, 2020 at 11:03 am

which matches the strip at the top

what am I missing?

[timmoser1234]

To me (and my three flatmates) the way it is shown it suggests that in the forum Protocols there are 6 Topics with 28 Replies.

The forum is called Covid-19 and not Protocols. Maybe it is working as intended but that would mean the In:Forum is just like a weird misleading breadcrumb?

[Robin W]

ok, got it now – I’ll take a look

[Robin W]

it is a widget that I copied from the bbpress support site.

I’d never looked at that bit of code, and yes it does look weird.

For single topics (the single topic widget), when you display a single topic, the code shows which forum it belongs to, so that is good logic.

For forums, it shows nothing is the forum is a top level, but it is trying to show what parent forum the forum belongs to. I think the ‘In:’ is just confusing.

I was initially tempted to take it out, but I don’t know how many of the 8k users of this plugin that might affect.

So two suggestions – change the wording or hide the line

1. change the wording – in dashboard>appearance>widgets> and select the widget in the sidebar and edit
then change the ‘In’ to say ‘Parent forum’ or whatever you want to make it clearer
2. hide the line – put this in dashboard>settings>bbp style pack>custom css

ul.bsp-sf-info-list li.topic-parent {
display : none ;
}

[timmoser1234]

Ahoy,

thanks for this!
Again, awesome Plugin overall, I think I will skip on this particular widget but still 10 out of 5 stars.

Cheers
Tim

[Robin W]

thanks for the great feedback !!