[deadlyhifi]

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?

[deadlyhifi]

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).

[chrishajer]

Did you try any of the WordPress-style tricks?

<?php $topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3' ); ?>

<?php $topics = get_latest_topics( -3 ); ?>

[deadlyhifi]

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

Anyway, thank you very much. You deserve an award. Both those options work.

[nomad1]

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?

[nomad1]

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?

[deadlyhifi]

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.

[merlin214365]

Sorry im still confused where did you insert

$topics = get_latest_topics(‘forum=-3’);

in functions.bb-topics.php

or front-page.php

[merlin214365]

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’);

?>

[deadlyhifi]

Excellent, thanks for posting this. Just tried it on latest ‘bleeding edge’ release and it keeps the paging intact.

[deadlyhifi]

…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.

[_ck_]

Merlin that code looks vaguely familiar

[guly]

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.

[AdventureRidingNZ]

I know this is a topic dredge but would the same code work for excluding particular forums from search results?