Out of the box, bbpress shows topics from a particular forum when you are on that forum’s archive page. Makes sense. If that forum has a sub-forum, it will link to those sub-forums, but it won’t show the actual topics from that sub-forum.

I’m trying to modify the default bbpress loop on a forum page (loop-topics.php) to include the sub-forum topics.

Here’s an explanation:

Forum A
Sub-forum A1
Sub-forum A2
Forum B
Sub-forum B1
Sub-forum B2
So when viewing Forum A’s archive page, I’d like to show topics from Forum A, sub-forum A1 and sub-forum A2.

The code needs to be dynamic in order to work with whatever parent forum archive a user is on.

You can pass wp_query args into bb_has_topics(), but I can only only come up with code that shows topics from one forum – not multiple forums.

To better explain what I’m working with, here’s an example of a loop that grabs topics from the parent forum:

<?php

$parents = get_post_ancestors( $post->ID );

$id = ($parents) ? $parents[count($parents)-1]: $post->ID;

$parent = get_page( $id );

?>

<?php $bbp_loop_args = array('post_parent' => $parent->ID, 'post_type' => 'topic'); ?>

<?php if ( bbp_has_topics($bbp_loop_args) ) : ?>

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

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

    <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif;?>

Any ideas on how this can be achieved?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

‘You can pass wp_query args into bb_has_topics(), but I can only only come up with code that shows topics from one forum – not multiple forums.’

I’m afraid I don’t have time at the moment to do lots of coding for others, but take a look at this plugin

bbp Private Groups

Look at includes/topics.php for how I did this for private groups – called pg_has_topics, it may give you some help – I used ‘post__in’ to create a list of topics to display

So you could do a coupe of loops to create this list and the pass that to the bbp_has_topics function.

‘post__in’ is realy, useful sometimes

see

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query

[@dryan1144 Participant 10 years, 7 months ago]

Thanks Robin I will have a look at your code.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 7 months ago]

great – if you fix it, please post the solution here to help others !

[@lemolee88 Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

please help! it’s important for me! i have the same problem!

[@lemolee88 Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

@robin-w it’s not work

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 4 months ago]

I’m afraid I don’t have time at the moment to do lots of coding for others

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 4 months ago]

With the existing code in the original topic and along with this snippet I had else where you should be fine to put it all together:

To get the child/sub forums from the current forum page use bbp_forum_get_subforums() and then pass those ID’s to post_parent__in (Note the double underscore). You can also go the other way to get ‘parents’ of the current forum with bbp_get_forum_ancestors().

e.g. To include forum ID’s 2, 5, 12 and 14 add the post_parent__in

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'post_parent__in' => array( 3, 5, 12, 14 ) ) ) ) {

e.g. To exclude forum ID’s 7, 11, 19 and 21add the post_parent__not_in

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'orderby' => 'rand', 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'post_parent__not_in' => array( 7, 9, 11, 19 ) ) ) ) {

[@lemolee88 Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

@netweb sorry i am not good at php and english, can you give me The complete code?

Very sorry to have wasted your time. But it is really important to me.In addition to you, I do not know who can help me!

[@lemolee88 Participant 10 years, 4 months ago]

@netweb Waiting…

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 4 months ago]

I am sorry, I am not writing custom plugins for people for free, let alone your assumption that that is what you expect, not going to happen.

If you need some custom code written post an advert on http://jobs.wordpress.net