Using "excerpt" AND bbpress create unexpected behaviors (search result page)

[jimmyjames]

Here are some interesting quirks I've been finding with Genesis + BBpress

• Creating a "page" + using bbpress shortcode for forums. Genesis ignores the page and uses the archive template
• If (in genesis settings) you set archive pages to show "excepts", bbpress archive turns into a weird sort of search result page and makes me sad

My goal is to have bbpress archives and topics show as they should AND to use excerpts for my blog posts (not show the whole post on blog archive pages)

Do I need to create a second "archive.php" or something that the genesis setting ignores, and bbpress hooks into?

Is there a solution by using the "more tag" or something?

Here's my testing site

https://sandbox.lijitimit.com

[Victor Font]

I am not seeing what you describe. Please provide specific examples.

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[jimmyjames]

Sorry, I actually still had it set to "entry content" in genesis settings.
So...
This displays forums normally BUT blog post archives show full post. Genesis --> settings

This setting makes blog posts show excerpt, but bbpress now is pulling an excerpt instead of showing the forum archive:

This is what it looks like now:

And a tag archive page:

I have found this consistently with several genesis themes, where the forum and blog "archives" are connecting somehow in the settings.

single forum and single topic behave as expected.
Here's the forum page

[Victor Font]

I'm not that familiar with BBPress, but if you want to return BBPress to display full content and leave Genesis displaying one of the truncated content displays, you have to create a conditional in your functions.php. BBPress has built-in conditional functions to help with this task. Here's some code that might work. I don't have BBPress installed anywhere, so this is untested, but it should get you started down the right path:

if ( bbp_is_forum_archive() ) {
    remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
    remove_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
    remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'bbpress_do_post_content' );
    remove_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'bbpress_do_post_content' );
}

function bbpress_do_post_content() {

	if ( is_singular() ) {
		the_content();

		if ( is_single() && 'open' === get_option( 'default_ping_status' ) && post_type_supports( get_post_type(), 'trackbacks' ) ) {
			echo '<!--';
			trackback_rdf();
			echo '-->' . "\n";
		}

		if ( is_page() && apply_filters( 'genesis_edit_post_link', true ) ) {
			edit_post_link( __( '(Edit)', 'genesis' ), '', '' );
		}
	} else {
        the_content( genesis_a11y_more_link( __( '[Read more...]', 'genesis' ) ) );
	}
}

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[jimmyjames]

Thanks for having a look, unfortunately the code did nothing as far as I could see. There's a decent plugin (hasn't been updated in over 2 years though) that works for this, bbpress-genesis-extend I was just trying to accomplish without adding more plugins, and to figure out what was going on.

I THINK it has to do with this:
BBpress calls your themes templates, and you can customize them: https://codex.bbpress.org/themes/theme-compatibility/

The problem is (I think), for "forum archives", is that genesis handles them a little differently than other themes. So, if I create a page (eg community-forums) and paste the bb short code [bbp-forum-index], look ma, it works! I navigate to mysite.com/community-forums and I see a page with the bbpress archives.

IF I then (in bb settings) use community-forums as my base slug, genesis and bbpress ignore that I created a page. They think, "hey, this is an archive page! Genesis has page_archive.php, let's use that!" however bbpress relies heavily on the_content so it's trying to work it's magic within an excert.

So, out of the box, I can:
A) In genesis setting >> archives "show full content" ...it works!
B) Use a page I've created and choose a different forum root (however now slugs and bread crumb trail leads me back to the "broken" archive)
C) Use the magical plugin mentioned above

Due to time smashing my head against the computer on this, I will probably stick with the plugin, but I must say this has been BUGGING ME 🙂

If you have any other ideas, I'd be happy to try them, otherwise I thank you kindly for your time and I'll mark it resolved.

[Victor Font]

The Genesis page_archive.php displays a sitemap, not a list of posts.

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[jimmyjames]

What I meant was it's calling the list of posts not the page content nor displaying the bbpress content. Thank you for correcting me.

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