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Change forum display

RI Riccardo
Riccardo
Member

I don’t know if it’s possible but I would change the forums display when a user goes to my forum page. For example, if I go to your forum page https://simple-press.com/support-forum there are groups and forums of each groups. What I need is show just groups and then the user decide wich group open and then He chooses the forum. I need this because I have lots of forums for each groups and in this way the page it’s too long. Thank you a lot !

 

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

I am afraid that is not possible.

Alternative suggestions would be (1) consider using sub-forums which really are ideal for when there are a lot of forums defined. Or (2) consider having the Group row display with the forum listing closed by default – which is just a small edit to the group view template.

RI Riccardo
Riccardo
Member

Could you explain me the second solution???? Thank you a lot !smile

YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
Member

Open the ‘front’ page ‘Group View’ of this forum and click on any of the group names. Or – use the small dark triangle under the Group RSS button (not too distinct in our theme at the moment).

You can force the page to load with all the groups ‘closed’ by a small edit to the spGrouipView template (in the /templates folder of the SP theme you are using. Fiund the function:

sp_GroupOpenClose()

not too far down and you will see an argument default=open. Simply change that to default=closed.

As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/)