[bobruffolo]

I just started my new bbpress forum on my site, http://nyyankeesrumors.com, installed it, integrated it, and its up and running. But i’m having trouble extending it to get the plugins that i want to use.

My goals are this:

1. To have the recent topics appear on my homepage

2. Have a post count for users

3. Have an easy way to upload avatars

4. Have an easy way for users to include pictures in their forum posts

5. Allow links in forum posts

6. Show how many people viewed a forum

If you can help with this, please email me at bob [at] nyyankeesrumors [dot] com.

[chrishajer]

1. To explain how to do this, we need to know what versions you installed.

2. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/

3. Depends on your version, I think. For the 0.9.0.4 version there are avatar plugins:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/tags/avatar

https://bbpress.org/plugins/tags/avatars

For the alpha version, I think avatars are built in.

4. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/allow-images/ or https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/ if you want to store the images for the member as well.

5. Links are allowed by default. They’re auto-linked as well. Just type in http://www.example.com and it becomes a link (should work here.)

6. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-views/

You can find all the answers you need by searching or browsing the forums here or the plugin repository. https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[bobruffolo]

chrishajer, Thanks for the response.

I am using 0.9.0.4, at least that’s what it says on the bottom of my admin screen. Is this the right version for me?

I tried post-count-plus. It said it installed correctly, but had no real effect on my page. Maybe I should try it again.

The auto links appear to to be working. I bit in an address like http://en.example.com and it never turned to a link. weird. See it here: http://nyyankeesrumors.com/forum/topic/avatars

I will try the rest of the plugins and let you know if they worked.

[bobruffolo]

I’m having a lot of trouble with the avatar upload plugin.

[bobruffolo]

This is what I still need help with:

1. To have the recent topics appear on my homepage (Version 0.9.0.4)

2. Have an easy way to upload avatars

[chrishajer]

How about taking the latest topic RSS feed and using an RSS widget or plugin in WordPress to display those topics?

I think I saw another topic about the avatars so I will look for that rather than address this here.

0.9.0.4 is recommended for live sites.