I would like to limit the forums being included in the latest discussions section. More accurately, I wish to specifically exclude a forum. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this in the template?

[@fel64 Member 17 years, 8 months ago]

Yup! Find this (or similar) codeblock in your theme’s front-page.php.

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

Around it put

<?php if( $topic->forum_id != 666 ) { ?>

... that code block ...

<?php } ?>

You will probably want to change 666 to whatever forum id you actually want to exclude. You can put any conditional logic you like inside those if( … ) brackets, so for example to filter for two forums you would put if( $topic->forum_id != 666 && $topic->forum_id != 999 ). Hope that helps.

[@atomastro Member 17 years, 8 months ago]

works perfectly.

[@chandersbs Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

This still works! I’m using 1.0.1

This is how my code looks like:

<?php if( $topic->forum_id != 29 ) { ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> “><?php topic_title(); ?><?php topic_page_links(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<!– <td class=”num”><?php bb_topic_voices(); ?></td> –>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”>“><?php topic_time(); ?></td>

</tr><?php }?>

Thanks

[@tomdebruin Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

you can do this with a plugin if you like.

function filter_front_page_topics($where){

$exclude_forums=array ("3"); // enable this to manually specify specific forums by id #

if ( is_front() ) {foreach($exclude_forums as $forum) { $where.=" AND forum_id != ".$forum." "; }}

return $where;

}

add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');

add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');

If you have front page paging (1,2,3,4 etc) then the paging count will be wrong. You need to edit the bb-includes/function.bb-template.php file

function bb_latest_topics_pages() {

global $page;

static $bb_latest_topics_count;

if (!$bb_latest_topics_count) {

global $bbdb;

$bb_latest_topics_count = $bbdb->get_var('SELECT COUNT(<code>topic_id</code>) FROM <code>' . $bbdb->topics . '</code> WHERE <code>topic_open</code> = 1 AND <code>topic_status</code> = 0 AND <code>topic_sticky</code> != 2 AND <code>forum_id</code> != 3;');

}

echo apply_filters( 'bb_latest_topics_pages', get_page_number_links( $page, $bb_latest_topics_count ), $bb_latest_topics_count );

}

Note the addition of AND "forum_id" != 3 to the query.

EDIT: just noticed that use of backticks in the code has been turned into <code>, so amend as necessary.

[@tomdebruin Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

In fact, it’s important to do it the way I mention, because just checking for forum id when outputting will still count the topics, therefore the number of topics appearing on the page will be inconsistent.

e.g. If you have 5 topics in the forum you are not showing, and output the latest 50 on the front-page (Reading Settings > Items per page). You’ll actually get 45 listed.

[@anandasama Member 15 years, 5 months ago]

Somehow both of your codes doesnt work.

[@tomdebruin Participant 15 years, 5 months ago]

I find that very odd. As it’s working perfectly well for me. Did you put function filter_front_page_topics($where) in a plugin and activate it?

[@anandasama Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Yeah ! It works by doing that. Thanks!

But Is there a way to add to the query ? If there is a Forum Parent (ie, if the post lies in a subforum) I dont want to display it.

[@tomdebruin Participant 15 years, 4 months ago]

Not sure about that since I don’t have any sub forums.

Have you tried adding to $exclude_forums? Like this $exclude_forums=array ("3", "4","6");?

[@anandasama Member 15 years, 4 months ago]

Ah but I use Buddypress and when users create groups in bp, automatical Subforums are created (Under the Parent forum id 1) in BbPress. But if I hide forum 1 (The parent), the other forum topics will still show in the latest discussions.

And Its too painful to go and edit this afterwards. It must be automatic.

I got some if Statement working with the forum loop. I excluded some subforums showing by using:

`<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : global $forum; if ($forum->forum_parent != 0) continue; ?>

<!– insert forum stuff to be looped –>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>`

but I cant get it working with topics.

[@r-a-y Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I just wrote a writeup on the BuddyPress forums detailing how to hide BuddyPress group forums on an external bbPress install:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-hide-bbpress-forums-from-users-while-allowing-forums-in-buddypress-groups#post-33582

This addresses anandasama’s problem.