Removing author in forum index freshness also removes reply title in forums

[ibnat]

Hi,

I am trying to stop the authors name to show in the freshness of the main forum index page. I just need the “Reply to “title of post” to show. So, I have checked the box to remove author in the tab for freshness in bbp style pack and this works great in the main forum index.

However when I click through to a specific forum the freshness has no entry at all not even the title, the column is blank? (see the link)

Am I missing a box to be checked somewhere else in order to show that a topic has a reply?

Thanks in advance

The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

[codejp3]

I was able to replicate this on my test site. I’m digging in now to figure out why and will have a fix for this in the near future.

[codejp3]

OK… I know what’s going on. Just not sure the best way to resolve it.

It’s not a bug, and nothing is broken.

The problem is, based on your settings, the ONLY THING being displayed in the freshness column is the topic title.

The link you provided is a single forum topic index page.

There are no sub forums with multiple topics where it makes sense to show the last active topic title. It’s literally a list of topics, and the topic title is already shown in the first “Topic” column.

When viewing the main forum index, a category index, or a forum index with sub-forums, that’s fine and displays properly as expected. That’s because there’s multiple topics underneath each of those levels of the forum index display.

The page you sent the link to is literally the last level possible in the forum display, only displays a list of topics, with no chance of there being multiple topics within a topic.

Hope that makes sense.

If you don’t want that topic index page to look empty for the “Last Post” column, I would suggest enabling at least a date/time, or something relevant to the last activity for each topic.

If you don’t want to enable some kind of data for the “Freshness Display” settings tab in Style Pack, then what would you like to see there instead?

Do you want to duplicate the topic title in the “Last Post” column? Doesn’t make much sense.

Perhaps, just hide the whole “Last Post” column altogether for topic indexes? That can be done with CSS.

[codejp3]

Just thinking about this more.

I think it may make sense to allow the Freshness Display settings in Style Pack to be set independently for Forum/Category index pages (where there are multiple topics within each forum/category) and Topic index pages (where there is only single topics listed). Perhaps even adding a new option to “hide the freshness column”, independently settable as well.

You’re the first person I can think of to bring this up in a support topic, but if you’re running into issues due to the difference between Forum/Category index pages and Topic index pages, it’s a matter of time until someone else does.

This may be coming in a future release of Style Pack.

With that said, your current two options are listed above:

1.) Enable SOMETHING in the Freshness column so that it doesn’t look empty on topic index pages.

2.) Hide the Freshness column altogether for topic index pages with CSS.

If you need help with either of those, feel free to ask.

[ibnat]

Thanks for your indepth response which all makes total sense.

For now I have added the date of the last post in the fresness column. This makes sense as it links to that last post in the topic.

If we remove that third column and hide with CSS then the link in the first column will go to the first post in the forum which is a pain if the topic runs into many replies so that doesn’t make any sense either.

Could we make two links appear in the third column like “Most recent reply” and “Read first post”

I am looking at all this as I am converting my BBPress forum to a mobile app and its the layout thats getting complicated for me when I am used to a full size computer screen. Mobile gets a bit squashed no? ??

I so much appreciate your help thanks!

[codejp3]

Could we make two links appear in the third column like “Most recent reply” and “Read first post”

@ibnat

Yes, this is possible. I’ll try to include this in the next big update that I’m working on. I have limited time for coding these days. I’m currently packing and moving at the end of the month and only have like a few hours here or there to for coding. It shouldn’t be too hard to add. It’s just finding the time to do it!

[ibnat]

Thankyou! Look forward to the update when you get time.

Have a great move and don’t get too stressed. (Next to a wedding and Christmas with the inlaws I hear that moving is one of the most stressfull life events! ) ??