Forum posts per topic page

[Detective]

Currently, there's no way to set a fixed "posts per topic page" number.

Having a fixed value (that can be changed on the buddypress forum component setup) would allow to link each topic freshness, and also implement some plugins like quoting between topic pages.

I already have a plugin for quoting in bbPress: ​http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/ajaxed-quote/ and I could port it easily if the posts per topic page was fixed (last time I checked it relied on a GET var).

[boonebgorges]

It would be nice, in theory, to set the per_page parameter for bp_has_forum_topic_posts() (and all the other bp_has_x() loops) with a $_GET parameter, but that can have weird consequences with theming and the Load More javascript built into certain components. I'm not against it, but I would like to see what some of the other core devs have to say.

[boonebgorges]

Oops, I made a mistake with the above comments.

You actually CAN pass a GET parameter to change per_page stuff. ?topic_page=2&num=10 will give you page 2 of a thread with 10 per page (ie 11-20).

[johnjamesjacoby]

Moving closed ticket out of Awaiting Review.