Hey, everyone. I am looking for a solution to this and not sure if it exists. My search skills are coming up short so I apologize if it’s out there already.

I would like to have a link/button on each of my posts in WordPress that would allow the user to generate a new topic in a particular bbPress forum. Essentially, it would auto-fill the title of the topic with the title of the post and quote the contents of the post (perhaps to a certain limit). The user would then be able to add any additional comments before submitting the new topic to the forum.

Now, of course you are going to ask WHY I want to do this. Essentially, the site I’m building consists of two parts. One, a discussion forum, and two, an rss aggregator that creates a new post for each article brought in from the feed. I would like the user to have the option of bouncing any article/post they think is worthy of discussion to the forum. (I’m not looking to have a discussion on every single post, and I don’t want to use comments under the post, keeping it all to the bbPress forums.)

I’d appreciate any help that would point me in the right direction. Thanks.

[@elhardoum Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Hello, here are the steps for you:

1. Create a ‘new topic’ page at example.com/new-topic/ and add [bbp-topic-form] shortcode as content.
2. Add this code to your child theme’s functions file:

add_filter('the_content', function($content) {

	global $post;

	if( 'post' == $post->post_type && is_user_logged_in() ) {
		$content .= '<p><a href="' . home_url('new-topic/?se_pid=' . $post->ID) . '">Generate a topic</a></p>';
	}

	return $content;

});

add_action('init', function() {

	$content = null;

	if( isset( $_GET['se_pid'] ) ) {
		$pid = (int) $_GET['se_pid'];
		$content = get_post( $pid );
	}

	$GLOBALS['se_post'] = $content;

});

add_filter('bbp_get_form_topic_title', function( $title ) {

	global $se_post;

	if( $se_post ) {
		return $se_post->post_title;
	}

	return $title;

});

add_filter('bbp_get_form_topic_content', function( $body ) {

	global $se_post;

	if( $se_post ) {
		return $se_post->post_content;
	}

	return $body;

});

Test it out, go to your posts and scroll down to the bottom, click the “generate ..” link and see if it worked.

I am here for any further customization or if you encounter issues with implementing this.

Regars,
Samuel

[@blooble Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Thank you for your response, Samuel! I will let you know how it goes as soon as I can test it out. Didn’t want to think I was ignoring you.

[@blooble Participant 8 years, 8 months ago]

Samuel! This is great, works better than I had even envisioned. I may have a few questions about a few tweaks down the road, but what I’m trying to accomplish may just be solved by adjusting how my rss data is formatted on import. Thanks again!

[@wasanajones Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

thank you @elhardoum

is there a way to only use the post Excerpt for the forum topic content?

[@helennguyen3687 Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

This helps me a lot, thank you, Samuel Elh

[@elhardoum Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

You’re welcome all. Happy to be able to help 🙂

@wasanajones You can use get_the_excerpt( $se_post ) or just post_excerpt property of the WP_Post object:

Edit the last callback from previous code to go as this:

add_filter('bbp_get_form_topic_content', function( $body ) {
	global $se_post;
	if( $se_post ) {
		return $se_post->post_excerpt;
	}
	return $body;
});

I did not test this but I am sure it should work.

Best,
Samuel

[@anonymized-15184782 Inactive 8 years, 1 month ago]

Hi @blooble, you can add a new topic from the editor of default post cliking on “New > Topic”.
Let me know.

-Andrea

[@wasanajones Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

thanks that is great

[@anonymized-15184782 Inactive 8 years, 1 month ago]

There’s that 😀

[@ytwebdesigns Participant 7 years ago]

@elhardoum
Hi thanks your code works well..

Only the second part of code you added for returning exerpt isnt working for me.
I was using the bbpress topics for posts plugin only it is quuite old now and causes conflicts.

I would like to return in the new topics the post exerpt + a link back to the original post like this [See the full post at: post-title]
Would appreciate your help.

(:

[@specstanza Participant 3 years, 4 months ago]

4 years after your reply, I had to loggin to thank you properly @elhardoum.
Works amazingly for my CPT. Thank you so much!

[@mguillaume Participant 11 months ago]

@Ismail
Still working 7 years later…
Fabulous ! Génial ! Merci so much ! 🙂