The Codex is coming…
Will be after 1.0 release though. Probably sometime next wek.
Well im ready to help you guys out. Im intensly theme developing.
Cookies
We should probably have a general writeup of how Cookies work in both WordPress and bbPress, across versions… how the WordPress cookie was changed in versions 2.5 and 2.6, and how the bbPress cookie was changed from 0.9 to 1.0 (and any other changes that you can think of!)
Of particular note would be which versions integrate well with each other (e.g. how bbPress 0.9 doesn’t have native support to integrate with the latest WordPress versions… so for a number of months, the only way to upgrade WordPress was to upgrade to the alpha 1.0).
Also, ck’s bbPress cookie upgrade plugin… and Superann’s WordPress cookie downgrade plugin (to allow 0.9 to talk to the latest WordPress cookies).
Anyone enough of a Cookie guru to draft a general writeup of how cookies work, and the general cookie compatibility issues we’ve seen? I think we can do better than the WordPress Codex, which seems really vague:
https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Cookies
Integration
Might be worth sharing links to people who have integrated bbPress with non *Press user logins:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-integration-2
Maybe also a writeup on “deep” *Press integration versus other more “shallow” forms of integration (shared login)… some useful links on that:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/first-pass-at-a-fix-for-deep-integration-in-trunk
Any other links on deep versus shallow integration?
im having to guess each and every class and function, just by how i might think they’re named…. I really can’t wait for the codex.
Is there one that shows a list of compatible/working plugins for the different versions? WordPress has something like that:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Themes/Theme_Compatibility/2.7
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Plugin_Compatibility/2.7
I’m asking because if it’s not there it might be a good addition.
Ah sure, we could add that! Anyone interested in maintaining the Plugin Compatability part of the Codex?
I hope this codex isnt going to be just a really long forum post.
I hope the codex lists all bbpress functions, like wordpresses so’s we can build our own themes and stuff.
Yah, the codex will be a wiki with lots of information. We’ll list all the functions and try to make it easier for plugin/theme developers to learn the ropes!
Think of this as a reference post we’ll go back to, in order to get information to make a tubularly cool super sexy bbPress Codex magnifique!
Sorry, it’s been a day.
SPAM
It’d probably be useful to have a section on registration and post spam, along with the various techniques to fight it:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/request-to-the-experienced-what-anti-spam-tools
PERMALINKS
Some general stuff on htaccess and pretty permalinks (and how support for different approaches to permalinks vary across hosts):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalink-type-change-gives-me-a-404-error
VERSION DIFFERENCES
It’d also be helpful to have a summary table showing major differences between the different versions, especially for people using plugins and unsure if an upgrade will break their plugins.
For example, version 1.0 uses BackPress plus it uses WordPress’ latest taxonomy stuff. Plus it has a new approach to meta data. So if an 0.9 compatible plugin depends on any of this stuff, it will probably break in 1.0 unless the plugin’s been specifically updated for the latest version.
TAGS
Tag permissions – who can add and remove tags:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/members-can-add-tags
How hot tags work and can be formatted:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hot-tags
Reordering of hot tags:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/alphabetical-ordering-of-hot-tags
Multi-byte characters (this may have been addressed in recent versions):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-add-mutibyte-character-tags
