Duh. Too tired to be let loose near a PC. 
@Ipstenu: I’ve clicked links all over to try and see what you mean, but the only things going to profiles are the links under poster’s names. Am I missing something obvious?
@ghengisyan: “I have been messing with the php files (mostly guessing)” – that’s my methodology too! Seems to be working though, as I’ve managed to do some more than I thought I would, with the help of online PHP tutorials.
An Extra Profile Fields plugin would be pretty neat. When I was testing Vanilla 1.8, that was one of the things I liked about it. At the bottom of the profile page is an empty ‘name’ field and a matching ‘content’ field. You add what you want, then click a link to add another, etc. It means users can customise the extra information they enter, and I think it feels more personal to them as they get to name the content field. Feeling that it’s more personal is bound to make people stick around I think.
@johnbillion: I found the filter at line 2201 of functions.php in 0.9.0.5, but have no idea how to use it. If you have a few minutes spare sometime, could you perhaps give us some hints, and a brief snatch of code?
Hey, that’s very nice indeed!
You’ll find tons of useful information if you search through these forums. I’m happy to share my own experience of installing and modifying bbPress if you like. Mind you, my bbPress hasn’t so much as made eyes at WordPress, so I know nothing about integration. My email is my username at gmail.com if stand-alone is all you need.
_ck_’s site at http://bbshowcase.org has a lot of themes to preview. (There’s a Theme Switcher drop-down at the bottom of the page). Bear in mind that the site is very busy, so you won’t see a theme ‘clean and empty’. Great showcase though.
@massbase, I like the look of your theme too, though I’m not sure what you mean by mine being ‘cluttered’? Did you look at the preview on _ck_’s site? If so, there’s a lot more going on there than my plain forums. See http://mbforum.letsdoo.org
@Ipstenu, you’ve lost me! Could you give me some more details please?
Glad I noticed this post, as I’d just finished updating parts of the theme and related plugins. There are new files at http://getfiles.letsdoo.org
Something I don’t see mentioned yet (unless I’ve missed it) is what will happen to custom themes if I upgrade to RC2? By which I mean, have the files been changed in the default template? Will I have to re-write them, or will my custom theme from 0.9.0.5 work fine?
I’d like to test out RC2 on a non-live forum, but don’t want to spend ages modifying template files all over again.
Yay – genius! Many thanks. Hope the topic is of use to another as well.
No worries. It was talkspirit.letsdoo.org but I didn’t like it much, so it’s now http://talkzen.letsdoo.org
I’ve checked the sub-domain, which is pointing to talkzen, and the old talkspirit one is deleted via cPanel. That was all done perhaps 4 or 5 hours ago, so shouldn’t be a server filter-through issue.
Thanks for taking the time.
Just tried that, but it jumps to http://abc.dom.com and shows a cPanel page with;
Great Success !
Apache is working on your cPanel® and WHM™ Server
???
Aha! Thanks guys. I’m using Chrome, and all I need to do is clear the cache. Duh.
Thanks dragunoff, I’ll give that a try too.
Hi timskii. The pages with tags aren’t having the tags put into the meta, for some reason. No matter what page I go to, the only meta info is what I typed in via the Admin section. Mind you, even that’s very useful!
Yay – got it! I removed the ‘fix nofollow & _blank’ code, and discovered how to add the _blank in by experimenting. bbPress wraps the URL in double quotes, so I used this;
Click here to get it.
Works fine. Just got to add the nofollow bit back in, though that affects forum spidering from what one of those other posts says. Well, at least I can open external links in a new window (or tab in Chrome). Thanks for the help!
I just re-added _ck_’s code to bb-tweaks;
add_filter(‘post_text’, ‘bb_rel_nofollow’);
but it isn’t adding the rel=”nofollow”. No worries though, this is fine;
Click here to get it.
Thanks, just installed that plugin, but it’s stripping out the URL. I posted;
Click here to get it.
and the other bb-tweak code I mentioned turned it into;
<ablah rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Click here</ablah> to get it.
Just realised I’d only checked the front page, but topic/post pages are the same – no extra words added.
It puts this in the head section of http://mbforum.letsdoo.org;
<META name=”keywords” content=”mum, mother, baby, babies, maternity, pregnancy, childbirth, child birth, child, children, family, NHS”>
but those are all keywords I added via Admin – no other words are added from tags or site-wide words, as timskii suggests.
I’ve had a read through some of that (brain’s worn out!) but I don’t want to force all links to open new windows, just some to external sites. Users can go external, have a read, then close that window to return to my forum. So something like;
Click here
As none of the members know bbcode it’ll only be me doing it. Well, if I could get it working. Hmm… Sam’s code on one of those threads does it pre-post, so I guess that would work, unless I linked to another post, which I don’t want in a new window.
Ok, so… I added the following code from another post to my bb-tweaks.php;
// add nofollow to externa links only
function target_nofollow_external_only( $text ) {
$domain="travel-writers-exchange.com"; // domain to exclude from target and nofollow
// Strip ALL nofollow
$text = preg_replace('|<a>|iU','</a><a>', $text);
// Add back in when needed
$text = preg_replace('|</a><a>]+http
//))(?!([^>]+'.$domain.'))(.+)>|iU', '</a><a rel="nofollow">', $text);
return $text;
}
add_filter('post_text', 'target_nofollow_external_only',999);
It stops my links from working somehow. They highlight, but don’t do anything when clicked. (Try http://mbforum.letsdoo.org/topic/if-your-web-browser-drives-you-mad).
Timskii, I set this up as a plugin, and added some keywords in Admin, but it only adds those words in the head section, nothing else. I’m on 0.9.0.5
Cheers tinskii – I’ll try that right away. Atsutane’s idea worked great, but to have it automatically updated is really neat.
I’ve read in a lot of places that the Meta HTML tags are ignored by Google and others, but it’s got to be useful if some search engines still use them. Many thanks. I’ll even hack around with the code and see if I can learn anything. Though I think there’s something wrong with bbPress. Whenever I modify anything, it stops working (hehe).
Ah, I think I’ll have to look at this idea again after some months of learning Javascript, bbPress and more CSS. Thanks for the help though!
Still can’t find the site I saw which did this in a neat way, so tried my own noobydoo version. I copied forum.php to forum-post.php, then replaced the php call which shows the Create New Topic area with; <blah href=”forum-post.php”>Create New Topic</blah>
I thought that would then load the full (original but renamed) form and show the input area, but it just jumps back to the front page. Do I need to use a bbPress function to load the copied forum-post.php? Stumped!
Thanks _ck_, I’ll have a look sometime soon. I’m unlikely to produce anything very useful in the foreseeable future, but would like to start getting to grips with things and understand more as I go.
