StormD

I sure will ??

Well hi there. Yes, sure. What I mean is like if I have some topics and posts about dogs and some topics and posts about cats….a shortcode possibly could group them like:

[discussion_topics topic=”dogs”]
and
[discussion_topics topic=”cats(or ID or whatever”]

for example

Of course, I have no idea how you would set that up. Thank you so much for the response. I really was super excited for a minute. But I do need to group topics.

Best regards,
Storm

I would think that possibly if a forum is closed, then it is closed to user topic creation. But I could be wrong. I would think, admin would still have that ability. Presuming all of that is the case, it seems that it could have potential close to the way that [bbp-topic-form forum_id=$forum_id] works. Again, just person logic, not coder logic.

The endgame objective here being to add code and/or shortcode to a widget on any given page that will return something like a comment. To a topic specified by admin. And to remove the user topic creation line.

All to avoid the use of comments. The reasoning there is that comments return said comment to the initiating page. At least one. Regardless of where else they are directed. Apparently, this can not change. I do not know why.

Given the miles of code involved in any little thing, it seems anything should be possible. Maybe just a few more miles. but I don’t know.

This was attempted with topics for posts. Apparently, it worked. It does not work now. At least with a page builder.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by StormD.

I had wanted a reply to post to a specific topic

Thank you, Joy.

I think I should give up. It’s apparently a stumper. About the time I resign myself to some plugin solution, WP will give us a checkbox ??

My best to you

Thank you again, Joy

Again. I’m trying but I am not a programmer and I don’t understand code. I understand theory. But not detail. So, I looked at that list and I looked at comments.php and found the code that seemed to be about display (comments_link). is this possibly it?

<?php if ( get_comment_pages_count() > 1 && get_option( ‘page_comments’ ) ) : ?>
<nav id=”comment-nav-above” class=”navigation comment-navigation” aria-label=”<?php esc_html_e( ‘Comments Navigation’, ‘astra’ ); ?>”>
<h3 class=”screen-reader-text”><?php echo esc_html( astra_default_strings( ‘string-comment-navigation-next’, false ) ); ?></h3>
<div class=”nav-links”>

<div class=”nav-previous”><?php previous_comments_link( astra_default_strings( ‘string-comment-navigation-previous’, false ) ); ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php next_comments_link( astra_default_strings( ‘string-comment-navigation-next’, false ) ); ?></div>

</div><!– .nav-links –>

I tried something…I don’t really remember bc my brain hurts..but it broke the whole thing. So lol i’m asking first. I have the child. Some documentation will say things like add this to functions and add that to page/style/whatever. That is about my scope of understanding. Or maybe is display not the word I should be looking for?

Thank you so much for responding. I want to display them elsewhere bc that is what I want to do. I won’t have that many comments. I don’t really need a blog. So all of these big text boxes and author boxes clutter everything. I want it all in one place. The trouble is that I don’t know how to amend my child theme to make that happen. If you know how to help, that would be fabulous.

Thanks again.