Searching the forums will bring up lots of discussion on this topic.
Do you have a separate theme to access your forums directly, or are non group members able to access those forums/topics from within BuddyPress?
Rich – I trashed all my topics and replies and started over, yes. If your posts are important for some reason and you have to save them, adding a postmeta key/value for each topic and reply of ‘_bbp_topic_last_active’ and ‘_bbp_reply_last_active’. The time should be in ‘mysql’ format in the DB.
Just pushed an update through that is a solid first pass at forum and topic freshness. Some testing would be awesome.
Things @todo on this front: sub-forum tree topic/reply walking, better hierarchical reply support (topic walker), and go get a burrito (dinner)
You can use the recount tool found in your bb-admin directory under “Tools”
You can use the recount tool found in your bb-admin directory under “Tools”
Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.
Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.
It is not currently in the plugin but is a must-have before beta.
Depending on your level of experience with writing importers and exporters, it might be a good idea to get started now and prepare for some minor changes in data storage that might happen along the way.
The plugin isn’t really meant to completely replace the stand-alone version in my eyes, since they are two totally different approaches to a similar need. So without being vague to the point if unhelpful, it really comes down to how urgently you need to make the switch and how much work you’re willing to put into getting there.
If it were me, I’d concentrate efforts towards the plugin since it could use the most eyes on the code right now, and is more likely to see advancements and enhancements in the future.
Just pushed an update through that will fix the topic freshness order when creating new topics and replying to existing ones. This fix changes the way topics are pulled from the DB, and as a result is not backwards compatible with previous versions of the plugin. (Oh the dangers of beta testing.)
This is however the way it will work going forward, so you won’t need to worry about going through this again.
Forum counts and freshness links are coming next.
All of the theme ideas are things that can be possible, but as a first pass to get something usable it has a child theme of twentyten. It will have it’s own theme that can be used as a parent, and I love the shortcode idea but it will be rather difficult to customize in the long run, since try would be hard coded inside the plugin and not part of a customizable theme.
@gswaim – In short, yes it is possible, although it may require an additional plugin file to help bridge the two together, or at least some customized theme files to handle the display of forums and topics within your custom setup.
Technically anything will be possible, but image support won’t be enabled or an option from the start; so a plugin would want to open that functionality up and handle it.
Technically anything will be possible, but image support won’t be enabled or an option from the start; so a plugin would want to open that functionality up and handle it.
@DeysonOrtiz – Hard to tell what’s wrong on your end, but it does definitely work.
@DeysonOrtiz – Sounds like you’re missing some files or something didn’t get moved/downloaded completely.
I’d say give it another shot and try again.
Loosely yes, but that’s more of an issue on the BuddyPress side of things.
Loosely yes, but that’s more of an issue on the BuddyPress side of things.
For people running into issues on Windows local installs, svn up and test the most recent trunk. The solution isn’t very pretty but appears to work on all server configs.
That’s in the plans but feel free to open a trac ticket. I’d like to work within the existing WordPress roles and caps if possible, but also understand it might be nice to have dedicated forum admins and moderators.
My immediate thought would be to enable WordPress multisite and use a dedicated site with dedicated ‘staff’ for the forums, but I also understand that’s only one particular use-case and isn’t optimal for everyone.
That will happen eventually. This way just provided a head start.
Beta by the end of the year.
Beta by the end of the year.
Form offset should be fixed.
@DKB – Sounds like you’re missing a file somewhere, or your svn up didn’t finish.
