Situation:

I am writing a post, and want to have a related forum for that post. For this I am using the Posts 2 Posts-plugin by scribu. This is easily and beautifully done by simply typing in the new forum name in a metabox when creating the post. So now I have a connected forum to the post and want display the topics of that forum.

The brilliant plugin is here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

So – I asked Scribu what to do here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-2-posts-connect-post-to-a-forum-and-fetch-the-topics

And he told me to ask you this for more help:

given a forum id, how I can I display a list of recent topics, with links?

Thanks for anything.

Jacob

[@hjertelandetdk Participant 12 years, 8 months ago]

I know I can use a shortcode to fetch topics and replies – but a template tag as in <?php …..?> that automagically fetches the topics and/or replies if there is any is probably what I am looking for.

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Using

bbp_list_forums( array ('forum_id' => '') );

will return a list of the forums, you just need to specify it with a forum ID. Which you might be able to get from your post meta data?

[@hjertelandetdk Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

@Lynq – help me more… (smiling)

How can I check what is in the post meta data ?

And would that be a template tag I put in my post.php-template like:

<? bbp_list_forums( array (‘forum_id’ => ”) );?>

Or ?

Thanks, Jacob.

[@hjertelandetdk Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Oh, just to be clear: Actually I dont need a list of the forums – I need a list of the topics from a forum that i have made a relation to. As if I used a widget Recent topics from X forum.

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

Oh right ok.

You may want to use something like:

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => true, 'order' => 'DESC', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) )

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );