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Can a topic be assigned to multiple forums or categories ?


  • gplana
    Participant

    @gplana

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi !

    I wonder if a topic can be assigned not just to a single forum, but to a multiple forum, just like WordPress posts can be assigned to multiple categories.

    Imagine I have a question related to computers and medecine. Can I create a single topic under both forum categories computers and medecine ?

    Thank you.

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  • John James Jacoby
    Keymaster

    @johnjamesjacoby

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Forums and categories are designed and architected to be the construct that groups topics and replies together into a familiar relationship.

    What you want to do *could* be possible, but I think you’ll have more success creating your own taxonomy structure to group topics together with, and using the core Forum/Category structure as the canonical place where that topic ultimately lives.

    Research creating custom WordPress taxonomies. It should help you achieve what you’re trying to do pretty easily.


    gplana
    Participant

    @gplana

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your answer, John.

    I agree, I think I will use forums (and forums categories) for canonical place, and I will try the WordPress categories taxonomy to do what I need. However, I have two questions:

    1. Should I modify the core of bbPress for archieving this ? If I should, I don’t really like it because if a new version of bbPress is published then I won’t be able to upgrade easyly.

    2. Does it already exist a plugin or something similar where this (using WordPress categories) is already implemented ?

    Many thanks.


    gplana
    Participant

    @gplana

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hi again, John.

    I’m answering myself :)

    I followed your clue and found this link: https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies which explains very well what to do for creating a ‘forum_categories’ taxonomy.

    Then I think I can just call bb_has_topics from my template with this parameter:

    array(‘forum_categories’ =>

    array(‘searched_category1’, ‘searched_category2, ….)

    )

    I will try and let you know.

    Thanks a lot !!


    gplana
    Participant

    @gplana

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I have tried and it works very well. Just following the steps on the link above and also using this to make the filter:

    $args = array(

    ‘tax_query’ => array(

    array(

    ‘taxonomy’ => ‘your_taxonomy_name_here’,

    ‘field’ => ‘id’,

    ‘terms’ => $id_of_your_taxonomy_term

    )

    )

    );

    $query = new WP_Query( $args );

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