Forums

Join
bbPress Support Forums › Plugins › bbBlog 2.0 (plugin)

Info

bbBlog 2.0 (plugin)

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    I've finally finished bbBlog 2.0. This plugin adds a blog page to you bbPress forum, using posts from a forum category, specified by you. (For those wanting to do some simple blogging without the WordPress installation hassle...)

    You can download it here:
    http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bb-blog2.0.zip

    Demo:
    http://www.bbportal.org/mssp/view.php?view=blog

    Features:
    - Total rewrite of the bbBlog plugin (1.0 compatible)
    - Now a link to the blog is created under the "Views list" at the front-page (forum index)
    - The blog items are now correctly filtering bold text, hyperlinks, smilies, etc (thanks _ck_)
    - Comments() link now goes to the first comment made (thanks _ck_)
    - You can now prevent members and guests to start blog posts (they can still reply)
    - Now also showing topic tags
    - Added sticky support: Topics marked as sticky now show on top on the blog page
    - Admin display redesigned to match bbPress 1.0 admin area
    - Blog post date uses the same Date Format as set in: Admin -> Settings -> General -> Date Format
    - Now shows blog main category no subforums yet)
    - Now pre-loads the selected (blog) forum in the dropdownlistbox in the admin area (thanks Ben L.)

    To do:
    - Set as start page, can be done by htcacces, how does WP do this?
    - Generate a nicer error message when there are no topics in the blog like: "No blog started yet"
    - Show some confirmation when settings are saved (this is broken in 1.0)
    - Add pagination
    - A "Read more" functionality. Show a Read more link after an amount of words set in the admin
    - Add: You are not allowed to create new topics (like when locked topics)
    - Sub category support (admin option?)
    - Separate tags with commas

    Enjoy!

    ps: I am NO programmer, so don't expect much support. Code suggestions and help (esp. with Read more and pagination) are welcome.

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    This is so awesome. Way to go Maurice.

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    Great idea, thumbs up!!!

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    This ia a great plugin! Thank you very much!

    I did have to make quite a lot of edits to get it to display correctly, but I'm sure most will - depending on the theme they're using.

    I've been looking for this for a long time. :) Kudos!

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    The theme you're using is a very hard one, so you could expect problems :P]

    And thanks to you for releasing this plugin, make sure to get in the directory!

    http://bbpress.org/plugins/forum/requests

    • Posted 8 months ago #

    Very nice plugin and idea ;)

    Thanks a lot!

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Great work! I needed to display last messages at frong page and you plugin makes this!

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Thanks for the great replies.

    At the moment, I am kinda in doubt if I should continue developing this plugin or not. Since bbPress is going to be a WordPress plugin, it would make this plugin kinda useless? Or not?

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    @Maurice:

    lol, have been pondering the same thing. The decision to require WordPress to run bbPress is also making me rethink my various bbPress project ideas...

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    @Maurice i checked your plugin, I like the idea, but I didn't see what was making the use of this plugin beneficial.

    I do really wish bbPress will become a plugin soon, in that case, 1 billion WP plugins will be available to our use instantly.

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    bbPress, the WP plugin, is coming... not soon, but it's coming.

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    When the "bbPress plugin for wordpress" arrives, I will have the choice to keep using bbpress as standalone product or I will be forced to migrate to wordpress + bbpress??

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    You will always have the code you have right now, which is standalone. The old version will always be available. (I know nothing is forever, but if you want a copy of the standalone version, grab it now to ensure you have it.) It might not keep up with developments, but you'd at least have a version to use. Barring any security problems, I don't see why you couldn't just keep using that.

  14. You must log in to post.