This would be a very good beginners plugin to write, it’s very simple (other than the admin interface).
bbPress fetches stickies via a separate query (which I have always found to be a waste, except for this case) and you could manipulate the results before the final template is loaded.
For example on the front-page if you looks at index.php
you’ll see that
$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();
and then there is
do_action( 'bb_index.php', '' );
so you hook the action bb_index.php
and then you do a global on $super_stickies
and then you manipulate the order of the array as desired.
for forum pages it’s
$stickies = get_sticky_topics( $forum_id, $page );
and
do_action( 'bb_forum.php', $forum_id );
same concept
That part would take less than an hour to write.
and you’d store the order in the topicmeta
But the part that will take much more time is the admin interface.
Instead you could simply add an extra field on the post edit page that only admin would see and let them chose the topic stickiness priority.
(this is not a plugin I will be writing)
Not sure I grasp all that, but I’ll have a shot at it and see where it goes, so thanks for the advice. Hacking around in the files is as good a start as any. Not sure what you mean by ‘do a global’ though… (Never done any php programming, and am new to bbPress too).
A related question (for anyone); is there any simple documentation for how to hook things into bbPress via plugins, etc., that is, the correct way?
If you have never done php programming the admin menu is going to be far too much for you to do.
But someone else might take up the project eventually.
