I haven’t been able to find a simple solution for building a topic/reply excerpt. I’ve checked for plugins and widgets, but can’t seem to find anything out there. I’m also using Advanced Post List plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-post-list/) for building excerpts for other (non-bbpress) post types, and it does not seem to know how to to query the database correctly for the forum, topic and reply post types.

What I’m trying to do is build a list of the most recent N posts to the forums (any/all), and list the member name, ideally their avatar, the topic name, and a ~100-200 word excerpt of the post.

Certainly someone has done this before, and I’m just looking in all the wrong places. 🙂

Any ideas on how to do this? Many thanks in advance.

Michael

[@mostafaghanbari Participant 12 years, 2 months ago]

Hi Michael
if i understood your question you simply want a list of topics in your forum like bbpress.org/forum! am i right?

[@michaelhpdx Participant 12 years, 2 months ago]

Hi mostafaghanbari — not exactly like that, the home page of this forum just shows the topics, an not the text in the topics and replies.

I want to display an excerpt of the most recent N topics and replies across all forums/topics. Think of it as just displaying the first 100-200 characters of member posts. This will go on the home page of my site in a small box, and in a sidebar on various pages on the site.

Does that make sense?

Michael

[Michael]

Here’s an example of what I’m trying to generate. This requires access to: Topic name, most recent Topic post/reply, name of the member posting, and his avatar.

http://www.dalluva.com/temp/example-excerpt-block.JPG

In this example (which I mocked up in PowerPoint), it is showing the 3 most recent bbPress posts across 3 different Forums/Topic areas.

I hope that makes it clearer as to what I’m trying to accomplish.

Thanks.
Michael

• This reply was modified 12 years, 2 months ago by Michael.

[@michaelhpdx Participant 12 years, 2 months ago]

Okay, I’ve made some progress with this, though it’s not quite where I want it to be. I’ve been playing around with the function calls in bbp-topic-template.php, and been able to create a block of code that creates excerpts of topics (though not replies to topics…yet).

Here’s the resulting output: http://www.dalluva.com/temp/example-excerpt-block-getting-there.JPG

And here’s the code block (so far):

$max_shown = 3;
$parent_forum = 'any';
$excerpt_length = 200;
$avatar_size = 60;

$topics_query = array(
    'author'         => 0,
    'post_type'      => bbp_get_topic_post_type(),
    'post_parent'    => $parent_forum,
    'posts_per_page' => $max_shown,
    'post_status'    => join( ',', array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ) ),
    'show_stickes'   => false,
    'meta_key'       => '_bbp_last_active_time',
    'orderby'        => 'meta_value',
    'order'          => 'DESC',
    'meta_query'     => array( bbp_exclude_forum_ids( 'meta_query' ) )
    );

$topic_query = new WP_Query( $topics_query );
if ( $topic_query->have_posts() ) :
    $first_time = 1;
    ?>

        have_posts() ) :
            if ( $first_time == 1 ) : $first_time = 0;
            else : echo "" ;
            endif;
            $topic_query->the_post();
            $topic_id = bbp_get_topic_id( $topic_query->post->ID ); ?>


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     <?php
endif;

I'm going to keep working this and I'll post my final results in the coming days. Any comments/input are appreciated. Cheers. Michael

[@michaelhpdx Participant 12 years, 2 months ago]

It looks like the editor munged my code, so here’s a pointer to the code (in a .txt file): http://www.dalluva.com/temp/topic-excerpt.txt

Cheers.
Michael

[@mostafaghanbari Participant 12 years, 2 months ago]

well done michael! it looks like you did it! but i think there is a more simple way to do so(lets say another way instead of an easy way because your way is not difficult also!). when you install bbpress you can go to yoursite/topics and see list of all topics. in this page you can see similarities with items that you really need:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/65583116/topics1.JPG

the only thing you need to do is find out what file in bbpress do this job. the file is:

loop-single-topic.php

and here is the codes related to what we want:enter link description here

and finally the last thing is having a summary of topic content. that’s i dont know it yet! 😀

[@naaatasha Participant 10 years, 2 months ago]

Where can I insert this long code? I’m beginner in bbpress 🙁

[@nolimit966 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

none of the links provided work. Can anyone re-supply the excerpt information for loop-single-topic please?

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 9 months ago]

@nolimit966 i think you can use <?php bbp_topic_excerpt(); ?> place this in loop-single-topic.php and you should see it.

[@nolimit966 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks for the reply Robkk, i just tried using that but its not displaying anything at all.

I wanted to show an excerpt from the forum post on the topic page.

<?php bbp_topic_excerpt ?> just doesnt output anything. Its completely blank

[@nolimit966 Participant 9 years, 9 months ago]

Ah, i used echo bbp_get_topic_excerpt( $topic_id, $length ); and it works fine.

Thank you 🙂

[@jijonline Participant 8 years, 7 months ago]

this does work like this: <?php bbp_topic_excerpt(); ?>