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New plugin request: reorder stickies

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    I tested Vanilla for a while, and liked its simplicity, as do one group I've set up a forum for. One neat thing Vanilla has is a Sticky Order plugin. It allows you to drag-move sticky topics in Admin, so that important ones stay where you want them. I can't find anything like this for bbPress. Is anyone up to creating it? (Hey, _ck_!)

    Vanilla's plugin modifies the sticky db field from 0/1 to 0-9, then uses the value in outputting sticky topics. I'm not up to coding it, but I'm sure many would find it very useful.

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    This would be a very good beginners plugin to write, it's very simple (other than the admin interface).

    bbPress fetches stickies via a separate query (which I have always found to be a waste, except for this case) and you could manipulate the results before the final template is loaded.

    For example on the front-page if you looks at index.php
    you'll see that
    $super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

    and then there is

    do_action( 'bb_index.php', '' );

    so you hook the action bb_index.php

    and then you do a global on $super_stickies
    and then you manipulate the order of the array as desired.

    for forum pages it's

    $stickies = get_sticky_topics( $forum_id, $page );
    and
    do_action( 'bb_forum.php', $forum_id );

    same concept

    That part would take less than an hour to write.
    and you'd store the order in the topicmeta
    But the part that will take much more time is the admin interface.
    Instead you could simply add an extra field on the post edit page that only admin would see and let them chose the topic stickiness priority.

    (this is not a plugin I will be writing)

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Not sure I grasp all that, but I'll have a shot at it and see where it goes, so thanks for the advice. Hacking around in the files is as good a start as any. Not sure what you mean by 'do a global' though... (Never done any php programming, and am new to bbPress too).

    A related question (for anyone); is there any simple documentation for how to hook things into bbPress via plugins, etc., that is, the correct way?

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    If you have never done php programming the admin menu is going to be far too much for you to do.

    But someone else might take up the project eventually.

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