We’ve had a request to reorder the way a topic’s page displays, such that the original topic post would be at top, but then the subsequent replies would be below that post in newest->oldest order.

I’ve seen snippets that filter bbp_has_replies_query() and change the ‘order’ parameter, and this works nicely for getting the order to newest->oldest. However, it ALSO throws the original topic at the very bottom of the order. We want the topic post first.

Any ideas?

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 5 months, 1 week ago]

So close… Indeed you use bbp_has_replies to reverse order the replies

`function custom_bbp_has_replies() {
$args['order'] = ‘DESC’; // ‘ASC’ (Ascending, Default), ‘DESC’ (Descending)

return $args;
}

add_filter(‘bbp_before_has_replies_parse_args’, ‘custom_bbp_has_replies’ );`

And use bbp_show_lead_topic to always show the ‘lead topic’ (More details here.

`function custom_bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead ) {
$show_lead[] = ‘true’;
return $show_lead;
}

add_filter(‘bbp_show_lead_topic’, ‘custom_bbp_show_lead_topic’ );`

[grex22Participant @grex22 5 months, 1 week ago]

Perfect — this worked like a charm. Thanks so much for your help!

[undsatcaParticipant @undsatca 2 days, 13 hours ago]

I am currently trying do the same thing, set newest to oldest with the original topic post remaining on the top.
I am a novice with code and CSS, and was curious where the code you provided for grex22 went. I am familiar with the .php location of bbpress, but can not find the information you posted.

Thank you