Is there a way to sort the content (threads) in individual private messages? Some of my members are complaining about having to scroll to the bottom of a page to see the latest thread within a long message.

If I display newest thread first, they wont have to scroll down. I’ll also have to move the reply box to the top, but I think I can figure that out.

[@colabsadmin Participant 11 years ago]

I was able to do this by editing

plugins/bp-messages/bp-messages/bp-messages-classes.php LINE 83

date_sent” . $order,

to

date_sent DESC”,

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I tried copying the file to my child theme so it wont break when I update BP. It didn’t work. Is it even possible to do this with that file?

[@shanebp Moderator 11 years ago]

You can’t override core files.

Undo the changes you made to /bp-messages-classes.php

Copy
bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\messages\single.php
to your child theme so that the dir structure looks like this:
your-theme\buddypress\members\single\messages\single.php

Then in single.php, change
if ( bp_thread_has_messages() ) :
to

<?php  
	$args = array(
	   'order'     => 'DESC'
	);
if ( bp_thread_has_messages( $args ) ) : ?>

[@colabsadmin Participant 11 years ago]

Thank you! Works great.

The only issue I’ve noticed is now in my message list, the subject field shows a “Re:” for every time its been replied to. Before this change, it only showed one.

[@colabsadmin Participant 11 years ago]

So, I suppose what’s going on is that its also sorting the threads for each message for the inbox too and using the subject from the last thread. How can I isolate this so it only sorts it DESC when you’re view the message and not in your inbox?