Hi,

How can I control the number of latest discussions shown on the frontpage?

I know I can edit the “topics shown on each page” in the config file but I just want a few topics on the frontpage and a different amount for the forums themselves.

TIA

Phillip

UPDATE FROM MODERATOR (Feb 12, 2007):

There is now a plugin for this which allows you to specify the number of topics that show up on many of bbPress’ pages:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

How about this plugin?

function front_page_topics() {

$bb->page_topics = 10;

}

add_action( 'bb_index.php_pre_db', 'front_page_topics' );

[@thomasw98 Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

I am not sure what you mean by that, as I have never created a plug-in before. Anways, I gave it a try as follows:

Created a blank file with the following content:

<?php

function front_page_topics() {

$bb->page_topics = 2;

}

add_action( ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’, ‘front_page_topics’ );

?>

Then saved it as “latest-posts.php” and stored it in my newly created “my-plugins” folder.

But it did not seem to have any effect as the front page of the forum would still display more that 2 latest posts (I selected to limit the topics to 2 so it would be asier to test).

The only other thing I can think of is that this code needs to instead be added to one of the regular scripts, but I have no idea which one.

thanks,

thomas

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Oops, my fault. Do exactly what you did but put

global $bb;

directly under the function line.

<?php

function front_page_topics() {

global $bb;

$bb->page_topics = 2;

}

add_action( ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’, ‘front_page_topics’ );

?>

[@thomasw98 Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

That works perfectly. Thanks!

[@planetphillip Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Works for me too. Thanks to both of you!

NO, wait when I try to open the tags.php I recieve this message:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/username/public_html/forum/my-plugins/latest-topics.php:9) in /home/username/public_html/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1304

TIA

[@mdawaffe Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Make sure there is no whitespace (spaces, extra lines, tabs, etc.) before the <?php in your plugin nor after the ?>

[@planetphillip Member 18 years, 2 months ago]

Thanks, you were right on the money!

[@cadre Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

Would anyone happen to know if this still applies to version 0.8? I have a new forum I’d like to try this in but I thought I’d check to make sure it wouldn’t break anything first. Or is there another method that would work better?

thanks!

[@trent Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

Looking it over, I can’t see any reason why this won’t work. I guess test it out and if you get and error, just delete the plugin and report back here!

Trent

[@mdawaffe Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

That version of the plugin should work fine, but the most recent version (Front Page Topics 0. is a bit more configurable.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3

[@cadre Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

I tried it and everything seems to be running smoothly, thanks again for the quick response!

[@cadre Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

Hey, thanks for the tip, mdawaffe. That was a breeze!

[@ardentfrost Member 17 years, 10 months ago]

mdawaffe’s plugin isn’t as cool as mine

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/21?replies=1

j/k about mine being cooler, but it may work in a way that you like better