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bbPress support forums Tag: postcount http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: postcount en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:30:46 +0000 sambauers on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7715 Tue, 29 May 2007 06:16:00 +0000 sambauers 7715@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The plugin page is up now <a href="http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/50" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/50</a> sambauers on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7628 Thu, 24 May 2007 14:49:19 +0000 sambauers 7628@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here's a plugin for this. <a href="http://www.network.net.au/bbpress/plugins/post-count-titles/post-count-titles.latest.zip" rel="nofollow">http://www.network.net.au/bbpress/plugins/post-count-titles/post-count-titles.latest.zip</a> However, my hosts DNS servers are having some issues so it may timeout on some people. It should be added to the official plugin browser soon. box87 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7551 Sun, 20 May 2007 20:47:16 +0000 box87 7551@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Ah yes, my apologies. I was actually replying to the original comment, but I probably should have indicated that. Anyway, enough of this madness... is someone going to make this plugin? fel64 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7543 Sun, 20 May 2007 17:01:26 +0000 fel64 7543@http://bbpress.org/forums/ There's no issue with usermeta accuracy if you hook onto both new and deleted posts. Fair enough, if you get theme authors to replace the post_author_link with your function. To get the same functionality, of course, you'd also need to add a link to the profile, but query count is the same, that's true. I don't think it's complex either. I just think it's not "just a modification" of the post count plugin, no matter what method you use. It's not irritating for you to say it's not complex, the irritating part is when you completely ignore what I say. box87 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7542 Sun, 20 May 2007 16:02:25 +0000 box87 7542@http://bbpress.org/forums/ An admin page would be handy. That's why I had said "the 'hard' part would be making an admin page." It is necessary for this in my opinion. I think with this it would be better to put the post count in the usermeta, rather than the user title. That way for added and deleted posts all you have to do is add or subtract. The most accurate way, however, would probably be to count all the posts and update the meta every time a post is made. If a topic is deleted, a recount would need to be made too. That's why I liked the "on the fly" method. Fewer errors that way. Also, regarding query count, I believe it's still one query per post, but I could be wrong. I guess the difference would be whether you're pulling the user title from the usermeta or counting the posts on the fly. I'll mess around with this more this afternoon. And sorry to irritate, it's just not that complex IMO. Even your method :) fel64 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7538 Sun, 20 May 2007 10:30:40 +0000 fel64 7538@http://bbpress.org/forums/ About two lines of your plugin are counting posts, and if you didn't write the query into a variable first it would be one. Far more code is taken up with anything else, hence it's not just a modification. In my opinion a neat and efficient solution would be to hook onto the new and delete posts hooks, recalculate title, set in usermeta, and let bb grab that title when it's needed exactly the same as now. This means an additional database query and calculation of the new title only when new posts are made. Your method means that you do that extra work every time a post is fetched. To make this also be neat, you should have the possibility of setting titles and corresponding post count values in bb admin rather than having to change values across several lines to get the desired modifications (changing/adding one line of code would still be acceptableish, I suppose). You should also (in my opinion, yeah) use a far neater method of comparing the post count and setting the title from a code perspective; I dislike a long list of elseifs (at least use cases if you have to do it in this sort of way). I would, off the top of my head, use <pre><code>//$postcount already found foreach( $possibletitles AS $postcountrequired => $title ) { if( $postcount >= $postcountrequired ) { $newtitle = $title; } }</code></pre> because that's like five lines of code and it doesn't matter how many different post count/title combinations are set, it does not increase in complexity. Putting $possibletitles together from the bb admin would not be difficult either. So the three or four things you have to do to make this plugin as I like it are counting posts, bb admin panel set up, comparing postcount and possible titles and setting this in the usermeta. "All this hate" comes from the fact that I thought I'd just explained that you can't just modify the post count plugin to have this functionality - you need way more code than there is in counting posts to do all this - and then you came along and said that all you need to do is just modify the post count plugin. That irritated me. Sam, I don't agree with this approach in all cases either but I prefer the very small amount of extra (unnecessary) data in the database (maximally one new record per member with one post or more) to re-querying and recalculating every time a post is displayed. :) sambauers on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7537 Sun, 20 May 2007 09:31:08 +0000 sambauers 7537@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I think fel64's point is that it would be preferable to store the value in the users meta-data, this would reduce the database load by removing those trivial queries. This is generally the way bbPress handles these sorts of things (e.g. keeping post counts in the tables for forums and topics) - not that I necessarily agree with that approach in all cases. HowToGeek on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7535 Sun, 20 May 2007 07:59:28 +0000 HowToGeek 7535@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @box87: That's exactly what I was talking about... it would be trivial to implement. It would be better to have a table/interface where you could configure the different titles and levels, of course... but in a pinch, that would do just fine. box87 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7533 Sun, 20 May 2007 07:04:16 +0000 box87 7533@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Wow, so much hate... I'm not trying to insult anyone's sense of intelligence by making this appear easier than it is. It's just dead simple. I see no great complexity in it. It's still a "basic MySQL query." Why muck around in the usermeta? That's far too much work if you ask me. Perhaps I'm wrong. <pre><code>function get_user_title( $id ) { global $bbdb; $pc_query = "SELECT COUNT(post_id) FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE poster_id = $id AND post_status = 0"; $post_count = $bbdb->query( $pc_query ); if( $post_count <= 10 ) { $title = "Noob"; } elseif( $post_count <= 20 ) { $title = "Might stick around"; } elseif( $post_count <= 30 ) { $title = "Title for 30"; } elseif( $post_count <= 40 ) { $title = "Over the hill"; . . . } elseif( $post_count <= 90 ) { $title = "Post whore"; } elseif( $post_count > 100 ) { $title = "Regular"; } else { $title = "Error"; } return $title; }</code></pre> This way you don't have to mess around with updating anything... it's generated on the fly. Do take note that I haven't tested the code. I wrote it in about 5 minutes, so I didn't get around to testing. It's the concept I'm talking about though. fel64 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7529 Sat, 19 May 2007 23:41:14 +0000 fel64 7529@http://bbpress.org/forums/ just modify the post count plugin Gah. It might not be hard, but you cannot "just modify" it because it only does a very small part of it. It's almost trivial in what it does; run a very basic MySQL query and output it (not to put it down; that's literally all it does). This plugin would have to do three completely different things. It couldn't be just a modification of the post count plugin. box87 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7523 Sat, 19 May 2007 20:37:16 +0000 box87 7523@http://bbpress.org/forums/ It shouldn't be too hard... just modify the post count plugin. The "hard" part would be making an admin page, and if you look at other plugins that have done that, it's not too rough. bbolman on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7520 Sat, 19 May 2007 19:33:44 +0000 bbolman 7520@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Definitely a cool idea. fel64 on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7514 Sat, 19 May 2007 18:53:11 +0000 fel64 7514@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I don't think it's much of an extension; the post count plugin in itself doesn't do much (just counts posts, really, which is very basic). To do this, you should use a hook when a post is made (and deleted) and change the member's title in usermeta. This doesn't seem that hard, though, and it could be a cool plugin. HowToGeek on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7507 Sat, 19 May 2007 03:34:08 +0000 HowToGeek 7507@http://bbpress.org/forums/ That's a great idea for a plugin. Seems like a logical extension to the posts count plugin. Mr_Cynical on "Post count-based titles" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-count-based-titles#post-7504 Fri, 18 May 2007 20:39:01 +0000 Mr_Cynical 7504@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Is there any plugin available to give users titles based on their post count (as in phpBB or vBulletin) - e.g. 0 posts has a 'noob' title, 10 posts 'fledgling', etc. JimmyVT on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-2995 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:30:26 +0000 JimmyVT 2995@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Just installed this and it works wonderfully. Great job! Nitallica on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-2724 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:25:40 +0000 Nitallica 2724@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Very handy! Thanks! :D Trent on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1799 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:56:49 +0000 Trent 1799@http://bbpress.org/forums/ @topiQ - No problem! @Ardenfrost - That is very impressive! Trent topiQ on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1783 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:44:41 +0000 topiQ 1783@http://bbpress.org/forums/ thanks a lot Trent! btw: great plugin, ardentfrost! ardentfrost on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1772 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:10:28 +0000 ardentfrost 1772@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The change wasn't hard, just added an additional check to the SQL query and I apparently saw your post soon after you made it... Looks impressive though doesn't it? You posted a request and 24 minutes later, I filled it? :D Trent on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1761 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:36:54 +0000 Trent 1761@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I put the plugin code under the username. Compare the following code to your post.php in your templates. Make sure you are editing post.php and placing it in /my-templates/post.php. <code><div class="threadauthor"> <?php post_author_link(); ?> <?php post_author_type(); ?> <?php post_count(); ?> </div> <div class="threadpost"> <div class="post"><?php post_text(); ?></div> <div class="poststuff"><?php _e('Posted:'); ?> <?php bb_post_time(); ?> <a href="<?php post_anchor_link(); ?>">#</a> <?php post_ip_link(); ?> <?php post_edit_link(); ?> <?php post_delete_link(); ?></div> </div></code> This is the entire post.php, but obviously where I have the code is near the top. Trent topiQ on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1758 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:54:40 +0000 topiQ 1758@http://bbpress.org/forums/ how do i display the posts under the usernames on the left side on the forum?! i managed to display them below each post, but that is not nice to see. Trent on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1756 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:23:25 +0000 Trent 1756@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Wow...that was fast! Thanks! Believe it or not that dropped posts in my personal forum from 290 back to 266! Excellent! Trent ardentfrost on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1755 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:19:59 +0000 ardentfrost 1755@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Ok, made the change. Added a part to the query where it only counts posts whose status is 0 (which means it's not deleted or spam). It's updated on the same link from above, new version number .73a Trent on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1754 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:55:54 +0000 Trent 1754@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Just wondering, is it possible to have the plugin count only active threads? I have a count for all threads (even deleted ones) right now. Not that they shouldn't be counted because they were created, but since they are gone forever, maybe an option to count only current posts would be useful? Thoughts? Steven19 on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1462 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:20:47 +0000 Steven19 1462@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Cool THX, maybe its a feature in the next Version :) ardentfrost on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1423 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:49:58 +0000 ardentfrost 1423@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I'm about to post it actually :) However, let me warn you ahead of time, it does require a single change to a core file. Trent on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1420 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:25:56 +0000 Trent 1420@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Very nice! Trying it out now! How did you get the avatars to work? Trent ardentfrost on "My first plugin (post count)" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/my-first-plugin-post-count#post-1419 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:19:56 +0000 ardentfrost 1419@http://bbpress.org/forums/ It's a simple one. It returns the post count of the user. You can see it in action at <a href="http://www.rayd.org/forums2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rayd.org/forums2/</a> (you have to look at an actual topic) You can download it from <a href="http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_postcount/" rel="nofollow">http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_postcount/</a> (link is instructions how to use it, link at bottom instructions) Is this something I can submit to bbpress? Or is me mentioning it here the equivalent of submitting it? :)