update: I’ve now included this functionality in the topics-per-page plugin so use that instead which is maintained and not this mini-plugin which will not work properly with 1.0a

Here’s something I had made a mental note of quite awhile ago but forgot to do, add pagination to the front-page for the latest discussions. You can see a demo near the bottom of http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(the following two functions are included in the 0.0.4 version of topics-page-page plugin, so don’t use them if you have that)

add_filter('get_latest_topics_limit','front_page_pagination',999);

function front_page_pagination($limit="") {

global $page;

if (is_front() && $page>1) {$limit.=" OFFSET ".($page-1)*bb_get_option('page_topics');}

return $limit;

}

function front_page_pages() {

global $page, $bbdb;

echo get_page_number_links( $page, $bbdb->get_var("SELECT SUM(topics) FROM $bbdb->forums"));

}

1. add to your front-page.php template

<div class="nav"><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div>

AFTER

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

</table>

2. If you use rewrite slugs you MUST add the following rule to your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/?page=$1 [L,QSA]

anywhere before </IfModule>

where /forums/ is the path to your bbpress install.

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Also, if you’d like to dynamically add some text to the left (or even the right) of the page links without hacking all your templates, you can use this trick:

// add "pages:" to page links

function text_topic_pages( $text ) { if ($text) {$text="pages: ".$text;} return $text; }

add_filter('topic_pages', 'text_topic_pages');

add_filter('forum_pages', 'text_topic_pages');

This way the word “pages:” appears before the page number links only if there actually are any pages for the results.

[@trisham Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Excellent tip on adding the text “Pages” – this is a great plugin and works perfectly.

[@trisham Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

Hmmm found a problem but not sure if it’s related to this pagination or not….

When I am on my Front Page and click on any of the other pages numbers (2, 3, Next>>, etc) I get this error:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /[myURL]/Forum/bb-includes/template-functions.php on line 925

Any ideas?

[@trisham Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

By the way, this only happens on my front-page.php. When I use the pagination on my forum pages I don’t get the error……

Started new topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topics-per-page-plugin-new-problem