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• Started 3 years ago by Tom(dB)
• Latest reply from guly
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How do I exclude a forum category from latest discussions?

1. • 
   • Tom(dB)
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I managed to do it with

   if ($topic->forum_id != 3)

   but then it's still counting them as part of the loop therefore it ends up with 'Number of Discussions to display - Number of discussions in that forum'.

   How can I do it so it just leaves them out but leaves the latest discussion length intact?
2. • 
   • Tom(dB)
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   come on, someone must know how to do this.

   I can limit it to one forum with this:
   <?php $topics = get_latest_topics( 1 ); ?>

   but I want $topics to get forums 1 and 2 (but not 3).
3. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   Did you try any of the WordPress-style tricks?

   <?php $topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3' ); ?>
   <?php $topics = get_latest_topics( -3 ); ?>
4. • 
   • Tom(dB)
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   of course! why didn't I think of that?

   Anyway, thank you very much. You deserve an award. Both those options work.
5. • 
   • nomad1
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks chrishajer. Option two works in my case. I wonder if it is possible to modify the RSS-output as well, so that posts from the selected category will be excluded in the RSS-feed?
6. • 
   • nomad1
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I took a look at some of the rss-related files but could not find any ways to do this, but I suppose it must be possible in some way?
7. • 
   • Tom(dB)
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   the latest bleeding edge release (from subversion) adds paging to the 'Latest Discussions'. But if any of the arguments are used in 'get_latest_topics' the paging doesn't work.

   from functions.bb-topics.php
   

   function get_latest_topics( $args = null ) {
   	$defaults = array( 'forum' => false, 'page' => 1, 'exclude' => false, 'number' => false );

   so I've tried it with
   $topics = get_latest_topics('forum=-3');
   and
   $topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3');
   both have same results but no paging.
8. • 
   • merlin214365
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry im still confused where did you insert
   $topics = get_latest_topics('forum=-3');
   in functions.bb-topics.php
   or front-page.php
9. • 
   • merlin214365
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   For those that are interested I found this.
   Just edit it to exclude whatever forum numbers you want and add it to the plug-ins folder.

   <?php
   /*
   Plugin Name: exclude
   */
   function filter_front_page_topics($where){
   $exclude_forums=array ("13","19"); // enable this to manually specify specific forums by id #
   // $forums = get_forums(); foreach ($forums as $forum) {if ($forum->forum_parent) {$exclude_forums[]=$forum->forum_id;}} // exclude ALL sub-forums
   if ( is_front() ) {foreach($exclude_forums as $forum) { $where.=" AND forum_id != ".$forum." "; }}
   return $where;
   }
   add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');
   add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');
   ?>
10. • 
    • Tom(dB)
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Excellent, thanks for posting this. Just tried it on latest 'bleeding edge' release and it keeps the paging intact.
11. • 
    • Tom(dB)
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    ...it does keep the paging intact but counts for all the forums (fora?), even the excluded one(s).

    To get round this requires amending the function bb_latest_topics_pages() in functions.bb-template.php.

    $bb_latest_topics_count = $bbdb->get_var('SELECT COUNT('topic_id') FROM '' . $bbdb->topics . '' WHERE 'topic_open' = 1 AND 'topic_status' = 0 AND 'topic_sticky' != 2 AND 'forum_id' != 3;');
    //  AND 'forum_id' != 3 - filters out forum 3 on front page paging count.
12. • 
    • _ck_
    • Moderator

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Merlin that code looks vaguely familiar ;-)
13. • 
    • guly
    • Member

    • Posted 1 year ago #

    I found that to exclude multiple forums, it has to be a negative value in exclude:

    get_latest_topics('exclude=-3,-16,-28')

    according to the wordpress codex, the numbers are supposed to be in ascending order, so I assume order is important in bbpress too.

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