Search in specific forum id

[bjarvis]

I have two forums for 2 separate groups. I would like to use AJAX Search Light to search only on the specific forum for each group instead of searching both forums. Is there a way to do this with the AJAX Search Lite Plugin?

[wpdreams]

Hi!

It might be possible to construct a small custom code snippet to check the results against the groups, but for that I need to know what plugin/solution do you use for forums.

Let me know, and I will look up ther API, if exists.

Best regards,
Ernest M.

[bjarvis]

I’m using bbpress … thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by bjarvis.

[bjarvis]

Hi Ernest,

Just wondering if there is anything that will work for a single forum search here. If not, I completely understand and I’ll keep looking. But if there is something please let me know as I need to find a solution.

Thanks so much for any help on this.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by bjarvis.

[wpdreams]

Hi,

Try adding this custom code to the functions.php in your theme/child theme directory (copy from line 3 only!). Before editing, please make sure to have a full site back-up just in case!

add_filter('asl_results', 'asl_restrict_by_forum_id', 10, 4);
function asl_restrict_by_forum_id($results, $id, $is_ajax, $args) {
  $forum_id = 1;
  
  foreach ($results as $k=>&$r) {
    $id = get_post_meta($r->id, '_bbp_forum_id', true);
    if ( $id != $forum_id ) 
      unset($results[$k]);
  }
  return $results;
}

Change the $forum_id variable to the forum ID in which you want to allow the search for content & replies.
Hopefully it will do the trick.

Best regards,
Ernest M.

[bjarvis]

Thank you.