Type Historian

WP 3.9.1
bbPress 2.5.3-5249
Suffusion Theme 4.4.7
Custom Post Plug-in 2.5.4

Many thanks for a reliable substitute for the bbPress “recent replies” widget:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/need-some-help-getting-this-right-1?replies=9

I have configured QW to display the latest topic replies as a list labeled “Hottest Topics.”

Checking the magic “Widget Theme Compatibility” option made it work perfectly except for one tiny thing:

How do I remove “reply to:” from the list (it looks kinda dorky)?

I hope the answer is easy for you—it’s hard for me as a code-clueless amateur WordPress user.

Cheers, Anna
https://forums.typeheritage.com

P.S. Until this issue is resolved, “Hottest Topics” is not visible in the navigation menu. It belongs above “Latest Topics” in the sidebar. Thanks again for your help!

Sorry,

https://forums.typeheritage.com/search/

Hoping you can fix it, Anna

Uh-oh…

I just tried a search for the first time since updating to 3.6.1.

Now it forces Sidebar One [far right] into the space reserved for Sidebar Two on the left of it.

I tried replacing lines 17-50 in a new copy of page.php, and it doesn’t help.

Once I do this, the page.php file is reduced to 25 lines:

<?php
/**
 * Default template for a page
 *
 * @package Suffusion
 * @subpackage Templates
 */

get_header();
?>

<div id="main-col">
<?php
suffusion_page_navigation();
suffusion_before_begin_content();
?>
	<<?php $form = get_bsearch_form($s);
	echo $form;	?>
	<header class="page-header">
		<h1 class="page-title"><?php printf( __( 'BS TEMPLATE Search Results for: %s', 'twentyeleven' ), '<span>' . get_search_query() . '</span>' ); ?></h1>
	</header>
<?php echo get_bsearch_results($s,$limit); ?>
<?php echo $form;	?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Any ideas?

Thanks again for your extra-kind attention, Anna

YAY Ajay!

I’m nearly code-clueless, so it took me a week to muster the courage to follow your instructions. In the meantime, I continued hunting and testing some less-scarey-sounding solutions—nothing else even comes close to What I Want to DO and Looking How I Want it to Look.

Then I found the cPanel Code Editor with numbered lines that correspond to the ones you cited. So I held my breath and DID it…

BINGO—it magically works like a charm on the first attempt! Now my lovely theme-customized search widget finds matches in pages AND in forum topics [this site has no “posts”].

Thank you SO much for your above-and-beyond theme research and personal attention,

Anna
https://forums.typeheritage.com/

P.S. Maybe in the next update you could extend the search range to tablepress text too? Funny, the widget I used before DID find tablepress entries [attached to WP pages because they aren’t supported by bbpress]. This feature is not so important for my forums site because most [eventually all] lines in the tables link to topics. Even so, it may be super-important for someone else.

P.P.S. Another idea… The default Suffusion search widget offers the option to highlight “hits.” This is a nice extra even tho browser “find” features have the added muscle to navigate back-and-forth among them.

Good idea–thanks!

Hello Ajay,

I think my problem is like Erica’s, only my theme is Suffusion. My default layout is “single right sidebar,” and my Search Results Page is set to use this layout.

When Better Search is active, it forces the sidebar to the left and below the page content. After reading your advice to her, I copied better-search-template.php into the Themes Folder.

Now it’s worse than before… The widgets in the sidebar are separated into groups along the bottom of the page.

Maybe I need some custom code and a helping hand to add it correctly?
____

Otherwise, it does exactly what I was hoping it would do. The only terms it doesn’t find are in tablepress charts, which the WP search used to find.

Many thanks for your help, Anna
https://forums.typeheritage.com/

I have the same problem, so I followed the advice you gave to scruff:

First I updated to 2.3.5. This didn’t fix it, so
I deactivated and then reactivated it.
Maybe I should have deleted and then reinstalled it?

Now the stats history is gone!

Can you help, please?

Many thanks, Anna
https://forums.typeheritage.com/

Problem solved!

I found another way to widgetize the navigation menu to display on all pages and bbPress posts:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-post-widget/

Now I can assign unique custom sidebars built with your plug-in to specific pages as before:

https://66.147.244.145/~typeheri/forums/

Finally… Back to business as usual!

With continued gratitude, Anna

An update…

Where the iframe code “came from” is an eternal mystery. Of course I believe that you didn’t write it, and I wouldn’t know how to write it. Furthermore, the site concerned is a sub-domain strictly for forums–there are no embedded objects and no plug-ins for managing them in the host directory.

Apparently the Strange, Ugly Thing was accidentally “conjured” as if some “cyber wires” crossed.

On advice of another developer, I managed to “correct” the syntax as he suggested. Believe it or not, the tiny frame then displayed a Microsoft-generated financial graph totally unrelated to my site about 19th-century printing types. I have never used this “cloud” service.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/omg-4?replies=2#post-4255020

Immediately after using the Custom Sidebars plug-in to display the custom navigation sidebar on bbPress pages, the iframe code was “exorcised.”

Now the custom navigation sidebar magically works as you intended on all bbPress pages with or without a second plug-in.

What a relief–the usual menu solution (26 lines for letters A-Z) would be dreadful!

Some things may never make sense, huh?
____

Now I have a related problem…

Besides the perfect custom navigation sidebar now displayed on every page and bbPress post positioned in the outer sidebar widget area, I sometimes need a SECOND custom sidebar with unique text and graphic content positioned in the inner sidebar widget area. For example, the static “home” page:

https://66.147.244.145/~typeheri/forums/

Can you suggest a strategy or a supplementary plug-in? I have tried [and so far failed] with these:

Custom Sidebars <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/custom-sidebars/&gt;
Multiple Sidebars <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/multiple-sidebars/&gt;
Content-Aware Sidebars <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/content-aware-sidebars/&gt;
Sidebar Manager Light <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/sidebar-manager-light/&gt;
Simple Page Sidebars <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-page-sidebars/&gt;
Umnique Page Sidebars <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/unique-page-sidebars/installation/&gt;
Dynamic Widgets <https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/dynamic-widgets/&gt;

A thousand more thanks for a unique plug-in–the only one I know that starts with CONTENT formatted My Way!

Anna

P.S. How can I support your work?

Thanks for the tip—I’ll try it ASAP.

In the meantime, I found a second solution that works for now:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/plugin-reviews/custom-sidebars

Who knows? My site structure is a bit complex with a few more page-vs-forum-post workarounds needed, so I may want to use both methods.

I’ll leave this thread “unresolved” for now and will report back after testing.

Thanks again for a powerful plugin, Anna

Hello again,

Good News!

I found a second plugin that, when used together with yours (for creating lovely formatted sidebar content), works with bbPress posts.

In case others have a similar problem, this is the solution:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/view/plugin-reviews/custom-sidebars

Despite the similar name, it does not address sidebar content. It manages where existing sidebars are displayed, and it does it right.

Thanks again for one of the most important features of my site.

Anna

I have the same problem setting up a new forum with WP 3.5.1 and bbPress 2.3.1.

After activating the plugin, the bbPress sidebar appeared on the widgets page, so I dragged some other widgets into it.

The bad news is that the sidebar does not appear on forum topic pages:

https://66.147.244.145/~typeheri/forums/topic/parisian/

This plugin could be very helpful–can the compatibility issue be fixed?

Many thanks for your help, Anna

Dear [dear!] DJDoubleXL189,

Thanks SO much for your tip! So far, it looks as if restoring the original wp-admin folder did the j-o-b!

You have saved may “bacon,” and I can’t thank you enough for the work you do as a WP trouble-shooting volunteer!!!

Thanks again for your “downgrading” advice, Anna

Hi Seacoast Web Design,

Thanks for your input. I had already discovered [the HARD Way!] that a couple of “hover” plugins so important for the original public site don’t work with WP 3.5.1.

Since they are no longer supported, it looks like a tedious, manual cut ‘n’ paste of the data for existing plugins must be applied to new ones [OUCH!].

This will be Another Chore for Another Day, huh?

Thanks again, Anna

I have the same question!

Many thanks for your help, Anna