I’ve set up some FAQs as topics in a closed forum and would like to re-order them. I came across this code:

//* Change sort order of Topics within a specified bbpress forum
function my_custom_display_topic_index_query ($args) {
  $thisforumid = bbp_get_forum_id();

  if($thisforumid == 43135) {
    $args['orderby'] = 'date';
    $args['order']   = 'ASC';
  }

  return $args;
}
add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', 'my_custom_display_topic_index_query '     );

… but when I added it to my functions.php file it hid all the topics (even though at forum archive level it displayed the correct number of topics in the topic count column). Removing it returned my topics.

Any pointers?

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

did it hide the topics in that forums or in all forums?

[@demonboy Participant 5 years, 2 months ago]

Ha, good question. I tested again and it did it for all forums.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

syntax error

line

add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', 'my_custom_display_topic_index_query ' );

should read

add_filter('bbp_before_has_topics_parse_args', 'my_custom_display_topic_index_query' );

is essence you have a space after the word query before the ‘ in 'my_custom_display_topic_index_query '

[@demonboy Participant 5 years, 2 months ago]

Brilliant! There’s no way I would have spotted that, at least not for a while. Thanks, Robin.

[@robin-w Moderator 5 years, 2 months ago]

no problem