[talbotp]

Hi,

Is anyone aware if it is possible to constrain a search to one forum.

For example, we currently use [bbp-search], but we want to use something like [bbp-search forum_id=123] etc.

I’ve seen this https://sevenspark.com/tutorials/how-to-search-a-single-forum-with-bbpress, but it seems outdated, and i’ve seen other forums say that it no longer works.

Thanks for the help!

[Robin W]

from a very quick look, that code looks like it should work, and not seen anything else that does this, so try it, and if it doesn’t work, come back

[talbotp]

Hey Robin, Thanks for the reply, really appreciate it. I added this to my themes functions.php (from the article above), but hardcoded in a forum_id, just to test it out, and it doesn’t seem to work.

function my_bbp_filter_search_results( $r ){
    $forum_id = 1715;

    if( $forum_id && is_numeric( $forum_id ) ){
 
        $r['meta_query'] = array(
            array(
                'key' => '_bbp_forum_id',
                'value' => $forum_id,    // 1715 x , 11 , 1717 , 
                'compare' => '=',
            )
        );
         
    }

    error_log('Dedicated forum = ' . $forum_id);
 
    return $r;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_after_has_search_results_parse_args' , 'my_bbp_filter_search_results' );

the error log is coming through when the page is loaded, but i’m still getting discussions from other forums in the search results.

[Robin W]

ok, try this

add_filter( 'bbp_before_has_search_results_parse_args' , 'my_bbp_filter_search_results' );

function my_bbp_filter_search_results( $args ){
    $forum_id = 1715;

    if( $forum_id && is_numeric( $forum_id ) ){
 
       $args['post_parent'] = $forum_id ;
    }

    error_log('Dedicated forum = ' . $forum_id);
 
    return $args;
}

[talbotp]

Hey Robin, thanks for the feedback, this doesn’t seem to be working either though 🙁

[Robin W]

just tried that code on my test site and it works fine.

where are you putting it ?