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here's how to add front page pagination (page numbers)

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    update: I've now included this functionality in the topics-per-page plugin so use that instead which is maintained and not this mini-plugin which will not work properly with 1.0a

    Here's something I had made a mental note of quite awhile ago but forgot to do, add pagination to the front-page for the latest discussions. You can see a demo near the bottom of http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

    (the following two functions are included in the 0.0.4 version of topics-page-page plugin, so don't use them if you have that) 

    add_filter('get_latest_topics_limit','front_page_pagination',999);
function front_page_pagination($limit="") {
global $page;
if (is_front() && $page>1) {$limit.=" OFFSET ".($page-1)*bb_get_option('page_topics');}
return $limit;
}
function front_page_pages() {
global $page, $bbdb;
echo get_page_number_links( $page, $bbdb->get_var("SELECT SUM(topics) FROM $bbdb->forums"));
}


    1. add to your front-page.php template
    <div class="nav"><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div>
    AFTER

    <?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>
</table>


    2. If you use rewrite slugs you MUST add the following rule to your .htaccess file

    RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/?page= [L,QSA]

    anywhere before </IfModule>
    where /forums/ is the path to your bbpress install.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Also, if you'd like to dynamically add some text to the left (or even the right) of the page links without hacking all your templates, you can use this trick:

    // add "pages:" to page links
function text_topic_pages( $text ) { if ($text) {$text="pages: ".$text;} return $text; }
add_filter('topic_pages', 'text_topic_pages');
add_filter('forum_pages', 'text_topic_pages');


    This way the word "pages:" appears before the page number links only if there actually are any pages for the results.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Excellent tip on adding the text "Pages" - this is a great plugin and works perfectly.

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    Hmmm found a problem but not sure if it's related to this pagination or not....

    When I am on my Front Page and click on any of the other pages numbers (2, 3, Next>>, etc) I get this error:

    Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /[myURL]/Forum/bb-includes/template-functions.php on line 925

    Any ideas?

    • Posted 3 years ago #

    By the way, this only happens on my front-page.php. When I use the pagination on my forum pages I don't get the error......

    Started new topic:
    http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topics-per-page-plugin-new-problem

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