[master5o1]

How do I exclude a category from the recent topics front page?

What I want is to have a ‘controversial’ category that users can post to but doesn’t show up on the front page listings of recent topics.

Consider it like a trash category.

[zaerl]

With the word “category” you mean a parent forum?

[master5o1]

Yes, I mean parent forum, not a forum that has been check-boxed into being a ‘category.”

[zaerl]

So you must manually change the loop the you will find in the template file front-page.php.

[master5o1]

Still not sure how

[master5o1]

on index.php get_latest_topics(‘exclude=id_of_the_controversial_forum’);

Ok, so I changed the line to be this:

if ( $topics = get_latest_topics(‘exclude=8’, $page) ) {

How do I make it exclude more than one forum?

Say, don’t want forum game threads showing up, so I’d block 7 also…

[zaerl]

Try:

if ( $topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=8,7', $page) )

but I’m not sure that this will function.

[gerikg]

I found this: http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/ is that helpful in finding an answer?

[master5o1]

That doesn’t work. (to making it exclude=7,

[master5o1]

get_latest_topics (line 61)

void get_latest_topics ([ $args = null])

$args

So…what is $args?

[Xevo]

Arguments, stuff you want to do with the function. It’s used all over wordpress/bbpress.

Looked it up in a PHPXref and found that ‘exclude=7,8’ should work, try removing the $page and see what happens.

[master5o1]

Nahp.

Whenever I do exclude=7,8 it just does it as

exclude=7

and then

8

It results as only showing from 8 (except for stickies).

[Xevo]

Perhaps trying ‘exclude=-7,-8’?

[master5o1]

That seems illogical, but I will try.

[master5o1]

Strangely, it works. I suppose I can mark this resolved

[Xevo]

The minus tells the script to remove the categories from the loop, without it, it tells the loop to focus on only those. It is logical when you think about it.

[master5o1]

Yeah, I agree with that. But does that mean it isn’t necessary for ‘exclude=’

[gerikg]

Start a ticket with that…