[strangelife]

Hi Everyone!

For my main forum homepage or the archive i want to display different forums into sections rather than having a list of forums that is the bbpress default.

So this is the code used to display all the forums,

<?php while ( bbp_forums() ) : bbp_the_forum(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-forum' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

So how would i add some arguments to this to display certain forums from there ID’s?

Also on the main page i want to show 5 recent topics, i believe the loop code is this,

<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>

	<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'loop', 'single-topic' ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

If anyone has managed to use a custom loop using the above code to display 5 recent topics or a custom WP_Query, i’ll be very grateful if you could show some example code.

Kind Regards
~ Matt

[inspirationally]

Did you find out already? I wanted to do the same.

[Biswadip]

I too am looking for examples for displaying the latest replies, topics etc. from specific forums.

I am resorting to trying to get the information from the database with mysql queries but because a reply has a parent of topic which has a parent of forum_id I am not sure how to get the forum_id of a reply.

[inspirationally]

Found out –
you can simply use Widgets inside your template.

I also installed the tehnik-bbpress-permissions plugin to not show the hidden forums topics and put this into my template:

<?php the_widget( 'Tehnik_BBP_Replies_Widget', $instance, $args ); ?> 

This should work with the default BBP Replies Widget, too (just need to find out the name of it)

Will try a bit more customization today with an eye on https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget

Another possibility is manually:

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_before_topics_index' ); ?>

        <?php if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) ) : ?>
                <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'recent-topics' ); ?>
        <?php else : ?>
                <?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/feedback', 'no-topics' ); ?>
        <?php endif; ?>

	<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_topics_index' ); ?>

[Bard]

Is there a way doing this by using shortcode?

[optimizepress]

just implemented 🙂

[Robin W]

@dreamwork

I have a plugin that does xx topics

bbp additional shortcodes

if that is what you are after

[Bard]

@robin-w
oops!! YOU SHOULD JUST PRICE IT!!(I am sorry, I just downloaded it)

[Robin W]

not sure what you mean?

[Bard]

lot of people seeking this, for the use of their clients. we may have this by using php code, but unfamiliar for our clients. Especially when using something “visual composer”!

[Robin W]

🙂

[Robin W]

just updated this to do a particular forum as well !

bbp additional shortcodes