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@Paul –
Good point about Super Stickies, and I may actually go the route of a WP page instead. I just figure if a feature is in a piece of software, it should actually work.
Otherwise just take it out and not confuse folks!Anyway, I still love the seamless integration of bbP and quite frankly I have it working pretty well in an absurdly complex arrangement, and it’s behaving admirably!
bbPress plugin running http://www.profitstheme.com as my theme
with a ton of other plugins including, free, custom, and commercial:
CDNVault
WP-eMember
WP-Affiliate
WP-eStore
Avia Feedback Box
User Messages (for private messaging)
Shortcode Exec PHP
Capability Manager
and a whole lot more!
So far bbP has been among the smaller of my problems to deal with.
Keep up the great work JJJ and crew!
Jonathan
@JJJ – I greatly appreciate you fixing my “Close Topic” bug! Unfortunately it appears to break super sticky posts.
The particular topic I want to close, is a super stick with some “forum guidelines” that should be visible everywhere. When I close it now, it’s visible in the original forum it was created in, but nowhere else.
So we have half the problem solved, at least the topic IS visible to other users.
Looking forward to a full fix on this one!
As for favorites and subscriptions, the problem is that the buttons for choosing them in the first place, aren’t available. They exist in the code, but are not present visually to the user, to be able to press them. What’s the best way to actually enable these features?
Also for anyone else this may help – here is how I updated painlessly (and will do so going forward)
1) Download latest branch and edit bbpress.php, changing the plugin name to add the specific branch number
2) Rename new plugin folder name to “bbpress xxxx” where “xxxx” is the version number”
3) Upload folder to plugins folder of my WP install
4) Deactivate old bbPress plugin
5) Activate new “bbpress xxxx” plugin
6) Move theme from old bbP to new bbP
7) Enable theme in the new bbP
Profit!This worked great for me, no conflicts, no worries of overwriting files, etc. Very smooth and easy to degrade back again if I need to.
Jonathan
Hey John, welcome back.
Re: unread posts, I actually had it created as a plugin and the basics work very nicely, just writing to wp_usermeta to keep track of what posts each user has read. Don’t know if that’s the best approach but it’s what myself and Pippin over at http://www.pippinspages.com came up with. He did the heavy lifting and gave me quite an education on WP plugin development!
On to another question however… I see that bbP has options for “Allow users to mark topics as favorites?” as well as “Allow users to subscribe to topics” but they don’t appear to do anything. I hard-edited loop-topics.php to force those options to display and sure enouogh there are buttons for those things, but they never show up. Why is that? I’ve currently got two different plugins to try to achieve this functionality and it would be WAY better if it’s already built in, as it seems to be! Any insight on how to enable them?
Thanks for what is definitely an awesome forum platform!
Jonathan
On thinking this through I don’t think it’s possible to know if a post has been read or not, it doesn’t look like the plugin even keeps track of that at all, does it? Since every forum topic is really just a post internally, I don’t think it’s even *possible* to track read/unread in the current state. Would require some sort of lookup table to match each user to the read state of each forum topic… bleh.
I’ve put so much work into integrating the bbP plugin into my site, I really don’t want to switch gears now. If anyone has any suggestions on the best way to tackle this, please speak up!
Thanks…
Jonathan
Well… maybe not the “proper” answer but by hacking together the bits of single-reply that check to see if you’re logged in, with single-topic.php, I was able to get it to do a login check on the actual topics themselves too. So everything appears to be fine. If anyone knows of any nasty surprises I could encounter by this approach, please do let me know.
Jonathan
LOL I beat you to it.
Decided to try one file at a time and see what would happen.. and waddya know it started working! Then I just dropped EVERY file from the bbp 2010 theme, that didn’t already exist in Profits Theme, into the PT theme folder and voila – my forum is back & working beautifully.I am absolutely shocked it was this easy!
Thanks for the insanely fast response, and keep up the great work… I’m a huge fan of the bbP plugin already and will definitely help spread the word about it however I can!
Jonathan
Hi all… I hope this is the right place for this and that there are some resources you can share.
I’ve just discovered bbP, and ever better the bbP plugin, and am absolutely thrilled with how well it works. Seriously, AWESOME job to all involved!!
My issue now is that I’m building my site around a sophisticated theme called Profits Theme (http://profitstheme.com/demo/ for a bare-bones live demo of it). Of course this theme doesn’t know about bbP at all.
I dropped a copy of the theme into the bbP themes directory and lo & behold, it does in fact see it! But of course the various hooks are missing to actually make bbP appear inside the theme.
So in short (too late
I’m looking for information on how to incorporate bbP inside an existing theme. I’m considering doing a diff on stock twenty-ten vs. bbp-twenty-ten to try and figure it out on my own but I’m hoping there are some good resources on what’s needed to make bbP work in a theme. Googling hasn’t turned up a whole lot, mostly just stuff about standalone bbP and I’m not sure how well that applies to bbP the plugin.Thanks all!
Jonathan
