Is there any way to bulk-move topics?

I run a Once Upon a Time podcast and forums with bbPress. We have a spoiler section for each episode of the TV show. After that episode has aired, I like to move the spoiler topics into the main discussion for the TV show. This was easy with phpBB, but bbPress doesn’t seem to offer this feature.

When I go to Admin > Topics and filter the list by a forum parent, I have no options for changing that forum parent or moving the topics in any way.

How can I do this easily on a regular basis? Editing each topic individually is not practical.

[@kaliceos Participant 11 years, 2 months ago]

There doesn’t seem to be an easy solution or plugin. But if you have some programming skills you may be able to do what you want : Custom bulk action

[@ailyroot Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

any body have solution for this for these years?

[@sunshineday77 Participant 7 months, 2 weeks ago]

I’m wondering if there’s a way to do this now as well.

[@robin-w Moderator 7 months, 1 week ago]

so move bulk topics from one forum to another – yes?

[@sunshineday77 Participant 7 months, 1 week ago]

yes, exactly

[@robin-w Moderator 7 months, 1 week ago]

thanks, give me a day or 2 and I’ll see if that is easy to do

[@sunshineday77 Participant 7 months, 1 week ago]

Thanks so much!

[@robin-w Moderator 7 months, 1 week ago]

ok, so I’ve added this ability into my style pack plugin

bbp style pack

it is automatically there once you have activated the plugin, so just see SO TO BULK MOVE… below

OTHERWISE IF YOU PREFER TO USE CODE then

add_action( 'bulk_edit_custom_box',  'rew_quick_edit_fields', 10, 2 );

function rew_quick_edit_fields( $column_name, $post_type ) {
	switch( $column_name ) {
		case 'bsp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
		case 'bbp_topic_forum': {
			echo rew_bulk_edit_forums () ;
			break;
		}
	}
}

function rew_bulk_edit_forums () {
	// Start an output buffer
		ob_start();
		
	?>
				<fieldset class="inline-edit-col-left">
					<div class="inline-edit-col">
						<p>
							<label for="bbp_forum_id"><?php esc_html_e( 'Forum:', 'bbpress' ); ?></label><br />
							<?php
                                                                $no_forum_str = 
                                                                        /* translators: &mdash; is encoded long dash (-) */
                                                                        esc_html__( '&mdash; No forum &mdash;', 'bbpress' );
								bbp_dropdown( array(
									'show_none' => $no_forum_str,
									'selected'  => bbp_get_form_topic_forum()
								) );
							?>
						</p>
					</div>
				<?php
			// Output the current buffer
		$output =  ob_get_clean();
	return $output ;
}

add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

function rew_bulk_edit_save( $post_id ){

	// check bulk edit nonce
	if ( ! wp_verify_nonce( $_REQUEST[ '_wpnonce' ], 'bulk-posts' ) ) {
		return;
	}

	// update the forum
	$forum_id = ! empty( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) ? absint( $_REQUEST[ 'bbp_forum_id' ] ) : 0;
	remove_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );

        // update the post, which calls save_post again.
        wp_update_post( array( 'ID' => $post_id, 'post_parent' => $forum_id ) );

        // re-hook this function.
        add_action( 'save_post', 'rew_bulk_edit_save' );
}

Put this in your child theme’s function file –

ie wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/functions.php

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

or use

Code Snippets

SO TO BULK MOVE…

go to dashboard>topics and use the tick boxes to the left of each topic to select the ones you want
then above the topics use the ‘bulk actions’ to select ‘edit’
and click ‘apply’ to the right of that

You will the see a dropdown box labelled ‘forum’ which lets you set which forum to change those topics to,
and click ‘update’

[@sunshineday77 Participant 7 months, 1 week ago]

You *ROCK*, Robin!! Thank you so much. You continue to make using bbPress and bbStylePack easier and in such helpful ways!!

[@robin-w Moderator 7 months, 1 week ago]

great – glad to have helped – it was an interesting challenge !