[Kunal17]

I have bbpress/buddypress integrated and group forums working. I do not have a link to the full bbpress forums from the buddypress pages as I want users to use the forums through the groups.

However, I have noticed that new/updated topics in the group forums do not show up in the activity feed. This is probably best however, my users are asking if there could be some way a new forum topic can be displayed on the buddypress home page so that it can get more exposure.

A way to do this might be to have a widget that shows the last 5 created forum topics. Does anyone know if something like this exists already or how hard it would be to create one?

[Burt Adsit]

It doesn’ t look like Andy has documented this yet but there is a group forum loop just like other parts of bp have a loop. Look at bp_has_topics() in bp-forums-templatetags.php. It looks like I’d use that if I were you.

[Burt Adsit]

See: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/ for examples using other bp_has_[something]() loops.

[Burt Adsit]

There is also Sam’s bbPress Live widget which you could use: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/

Hmmm. Well maybe that wouldn’t work. That widget is what bp uses to communicate with bbpress for group forums. Interesting.

[Kunal17]

Thanks Burt,

Ill try the plugin first since I don’t code that well. The bbpress_live_get_forums() function might be used in bpress but Ill see if the other one can be used to show latest topics.

[Burt Adsit]

Nope. Can’t activate it. Well, maybe you can just register it and then use it. Hmmm. You might try that. Or just use bp’s :

function bp_forums_get_topics( $forum_id = 0, $number = 0, $page = 1 ) from bp-forums.php

It’s getting kinda fuzzy here. I gotta get some sleep.

[Kunal17]

Thanks again Burt. Just wondering, how I would get the forum id for all the group forums.

[Windhamdavid]

i’ve tried working with it using them as functions.. no luck.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2893#post-15791

[Kunal17]

Windhamdavid, it does not seem to be working for me either. Do let me know if you find a solution.