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if you’ve copied/pasted it from your code, then you have a space after ‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query and before the closing ‘ bracket

ie

‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query '

when it should be

‘my_custom_display_topic_index_query' 

sorry, but I don’t understand exactly what you are trying to do, or whether my previous response helped or not.

Can you come back please with further detail.

ok, thanks – now I think I understand

so within a specific forum, you want these topics to appear in that order – can you let me know if there are other topics which also need to appear below – eg these are the first 5 and then all others appear in date order, or are these the only 5 topics?

so are these forums within a forum list, or topics within a forum?

hmm.. The only way I can immediately think of is to modify loop-topics

so

create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress

where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme

find
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-topics.php
Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that you created above, so you end up with
wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/loop-topics.php
bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
and you can amend this

so in that file you will see

<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

you would need to check with forum the user is in and then custom display

so something like – you’d need to write the code – this is just words !

<?php 
	if (forum == the one you want to change) {
		then make an array of the ID, and then cycle through them
		foreach ($topics as $topic) {
		bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' );
		}
	}
	else { ?>
		<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

			<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php } ?>