[rorymorris]

Where you input the topic in the back-end, make sure you select the Forum that it should appear in on the top right of the editing page.

[rorymorris]

I just had to work this out for myself too…

I think you can use this wherever you need to in your topics loop or template / whatever..

<? $curTopicStatus = bbp_get_topic_status( $topic_id );

if($curTopicStatus == 'publish'){ ?>



This topic is still open



<? } else { ?>



This topic is now closed



<? } ?>

If you learn to copy function names and do a search for them through your whole bbpress plugin folder, you can pretty much find out how anything works, this is how I worked this out. Think I had to go through a trail of 5 or 6 files until I worked it out