Title: Custom Post Type – Forums, Topics, Replies
Last modified: November 19, 2016

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# Custom Post Type – Forums, Topics, Replies

 *  Resolved [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/)
 * Thanks for revamping this plugin. In my BuddyPress trial setup under custom post
   types I see that forums are listed however selecting these options do not cause
   the widget to be displayed o the forums pages. Is that supposed to work?

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 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8457633)
 * Not sure if this makes a difference but I was viewing a group forum
 *  Plugin Author [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8458319)
 * I’ve not used the BuddyPress plugin before, so unfamiliar with BuddyPress coding.
 * After some localhost (test setup) testing, it looks like the default Groups forum
   is a standard Static Page (loaded under `example.com/groups/`). It can be edited
   under Dashboard “Pages” menu link (so it’s a Static Page the BuddyPress plugin
   automatically creates). The Groups Static Page has no content (when edited under
   Pages), so it’s some sort of holder page for the BuddyPress plugin to add the
   content using custom features: they have their own BuddyPress database table (
   wp_bp_groups) for the Groups content.
 * When editing a Widget the Groups Static Page is available under “Static Pages
   +/-” and works as expected for the main Groups page. So looks like the main Group
   pages can have widgets shown/hidden on them.
 * After creating a few test Group posts (loaded under `example.com/groups/test-
   post-name/`) those forum posts are not available under the Widgets Display Options
   and the Posts aren’t available to edit under the Pages and Posts menus. Looks
   like there’s a Custom Post Type Archive called Groups which hold the Groups Posts,
   but think they are set to not public.
 * The Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin is set to only show Custom Posts which have
   a Custom Post Type Archive AND are set to Public. The BuddyPress Plugin also 
   has custom posts for the email notifications, these are also not public (for 
   obvious reasons).
 * In my tests the BuddyPress Custom Posts aren’t listed in the “Custom Post Types
   +/-” form (because BuddyPress sets them to not public). You might be seeing them
   because you just installed the Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin and you are seeing
   cached (transient) data: the cache is cleared when a Post is saved or when the
   transient data expires, so those custom posts might disappear within a week. 
   I had the same cache issue with categories (had to disable the cache), I’ll see
   if there’s a fix for this in the next update.
 * Although the Custom Posts are available to select (because they are cached), 
   there’s other parts of the plugin which says don’t use them because they aren’t
   set to public, so ticking them won’t do anything.
 * I’m updating another plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/stallion-wordpress-seo-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/stallion-wordpress-seo-plugin/),
   was just about to release version 3.0.0, but noted an issue with the output when
   using BuddyPress. The canonical URLs the SEO plugin outputs are broken on the
   BuddyPress Plugin output. Will be looking into why the Stallion SEO Plugin v3.0.0
   is having issues, fix it, then look into getting the Display Widgets SEO Plus
   Plugin working with BuddyPress.
 * Thanks for mentioning it was on a Group Forum, helped a lot tracking down the
   most likely cause quickly.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8458416)
 * Thanks for the response, it would be so good to add BuddyPress support in here.
 *  Plugin Author [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8463711)
 * Figured out how to add support for various BuddyPress sections, adding them under
   the “Content Types +/-” section now.
 * Just have to decide which ones to include.
 * BuddyPress has a LOT of built in conditional functions with the format `bp_is_#####()`,
   there’s dozens of them.
 * These are the ones added so far.
 * ALL BuddyPress Pages – `!bp_is_blog_page()`
    BuddyPress Members Directory – `
   bp_is_members_directory()` BuddyPress User Pages – `bp_is_user()` BuddyPress 
   Activity Streams Directory – `bp_is_activity_directory()` BuddyPress Activity
   Streams Item – `bp_is_single_activity()` BuddyPress Groups Directory – `bp_is_groups_directory()`
   BuddyPress Group – `bp_is_group()`
 * I’m not a BuddyPress user so if you think I’ve missed something important, let
   me know.
 * I noticed something about legacy forums which I think is related to `bp_is_group_forum()`.
   Just started looking into it, do BuddyPress users also install BBPress for forums?
 * Have to say BuddyPress have done a really good job with the conditional support,
   so many options and named well.
 * Could have gone into really specific conditions. For example `bp_is_user_profile()`
   is the Profile page for each user: for the Admin user it’s under the URL `example.
   com/members/admin/profile/`. Adding the `bp_is_user_profile()` conditional would
   show/hide widgets on just the Profile pages.
 * Where the Profile link is there’s also these sections:
 * Activity
    Notifications Messages Friends Groups Settings
 * And these break up further, for example Activity has
 * Personal
    Mentions Favourites Friends Groups
 * If each one has it’s own `bp_is_#####()` conditional function (I assume they 
   do), they could each have different widgets. However that’s a LOT of options 
   and probably not that useful to have that level of widget support, so all the
   above are covered under `bp_is_user()`.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8463782)
 * Thanks Dave this sounds really promising.
 * Yes I think there is a danger here or creating too much complexity.
 * I think it the first instance I would like to display different widgets on the
   following pages:
 * Group directory page
    Activity Page Members directory page The same widget on
   all Profile Pages (so regardless of which profile page is selected – profile,
   activity, notifications etc. there should be one setting that selects all of 
   them. All Group Pages – so this setting would display the widget on all individual
   group pages.
 * Future options
    Individual group – the ability to display a widget on a specific
   groups pages, I’e allow we to at a sidebar image that only displays in the Ferrari
   Appreciation Group for example.
 * Splitting down the Profile pages into a setting for each individual page type–
   I’m not sure this is required, I could see it could be useful for some – i.e.
   ability to add help text in a widget that only displays on the Profile Message
   Compose page could be an option but I’m concerned about the overall level of 
   complexity that this would create and if there would actually be that much demand
   for this.
 * Hope that helps
 *  Plugin Author [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8464210)
 * The above is coded and working other than the Future Options which would be the
   next level (harder to code the logic, so future update if it’s possible).
 * Going through the bbPress plugin conditional logic to work alongside the BuddyPress
   conditional logic.
 * Shouldn’t take too long to finish.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8464352)
 * There is one page that needs something, the Forums directory page, sorry I forgot
   to mention that one.
 * I think there’s also a decision to be made about how you handle forums when they
   are in groups. You could actually make this a plugin option in some way – when
   viewing a group forum, do you show the forums widgets or the groups widgets? 
   I can see for some sites you would want the group forum to inherit the group 
   widgets and it other cases the forum widgets
 *  Plugin Author [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8484746)
 * Just pushed out the v1.1.0 update which includes BuddyPress/bbPress widget logic
   support and a few bug fixes. Took longer than expected to update, found a bug
   in the plugin (related to transients) and was stumped for a while on the cause/
   fix!
 * BTW found your site via [http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-display-widgets-seo-plus](http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-display-widgets-seo-plus)
   tried to comment (just to post it’s updated) and not sure it went through: listed
   as a SPAM comment.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8485458)
 * Thanks, seems to work like a dream! I’m going to update my review soon as I’m
   able. I’ve also got an article about sidebars and I’m going to update that with
   mention of this plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [David Cameron Law](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seo-dave/)
 * (@seo-dave)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8485608)
 * Glad it’s working, the BuddyPress/bbPress developers have made life easy for 
   developers by including a LOT of conditional functions similar to the core ones.
 * Think I’ve covered everything important, there’s plenty more BuddyPress/bbPress
   specific conditional options which could be added, so if I’ve missed one should
   be easy to add in a future update.
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [Venutius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/venutius/)
 * (@venutius)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-type-forums-topics-replies/#post-8485621)
 * Yep I’ll be doing more testing next week and will give you any feedback.

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