Anonymous posting is in the bbPress plugin, but not the moderation ability like you need. That would need to be built, and could be done pretty easily by intercepting new replies and switching the status to ‘pending’
Anonymous posting is in the bbPress plugin, but not the moderation ability like you need. That would need to be built, and could be done pretty easily by intercepting new replies and switching the status to ‘pending’
@padams – That gives us a feed of all topics, and all replies, but not for both topics and replies together, and not for individual forums and individual topics, like bbPress currently provides. I’ll probably end up including a custom RSS xml template with custom loop parameters in it as a quick fix.
looks like the url of the combined feed got mangled (it striped the open and close bracket characters after each post_type param). see the core ticket for the proper syntax for the combined feed.
@JJJ
How will existing bbpress standalone forum plugins work with the new bbpress plugin? This is very important for my forum needs as there are obviously many helpful bbpress plugins currently available.
Ideas?
@padams – Originally had talked about doing exactly that, but the problem will be keeping them in alignment with each other when one is trashed, deleted, private, etc…
Ultimately we went with custom post types as forums because of a lack of meta tables to allow for customization of them, keeping accurate topic/reply counts for hierarchical forums, and other odds and ends that taxonomies aren’t equipped to handle.
Too bad you can’t piggyback on the category feeds. Maybe assign a category to a forum?
@padams – Feeds a must, but since we hijack the normal flow of custom post type archives, they aren’t as straight-forward easy as I wish they were. They most likely will not make it into the first round of beta testing, but will make it into the 2.0 release.
padams: I think JJJ is thinking of getting them into the alpha or the first major release of the plugin.
@gautam: soon as in for 1.0? or a future release. thanks.
padams: No, forums are made using custom post types. bbPress will soon introduce its own feeds. 
Do forums map to WP categories? I’m trying to generate an RSS feed for a single forum and another for all forums. RSS feed for a forum would contain the topics. Just adding feed=rss2 to the url doesn’t seem to work.
Is there any other way to “subscribe” to a forum so that you get notified of new topics created?
thanks all.
I am moving my forum over from a Drupal 6 install to a WordPress 3 install.
Taking a look at this thread, it seems as if the bbpress plug-in is still being tested? Would you recommend this plug-in for a production site yet?
What you should do is get a meta box working with pages and posts, there are a bunch of tutorials online to get you started.
Once you have that working it’s just a matter of changing the post type so it’ll show up on the bbpress admin pages.
What you should do is get a meta box working with pages and posts, there are a bunch of tutorials online to get you started.
Once you have that working it’s just a matter of changing the post type so it’ll show up on the bbpress admin pages.
@JJJ – that’s okay. The shortcode was to be used so that I could create a list of new forum topics that displays the following:
[Topic Title] Posted in [name of forum] on [topic date] by [topic author]
unless the bbPress topics/replies list can be modified to display the above info. I’m currently using the Query Posts plugins to do this as it allows me to display the page the topic is on etc, and when i used [entry-author], it displays the wordpress user (author/name), not the bbpress user (user/name).
Thanks. The error I get is call to undefined function add_meta_box() in bbpress.php, so was wondering if it was supposed to be differently.
Sorry about noobish questions! I am learning most of it.
Thanks. The error I get is call to undefined function add_meta_box() in bbpress.php, so was wondering if it was supposed to be differently.
Sorry about noobish questions! I am learning most of it.
@miruru – Thanks for the kind words. Right now shortcodes are pretty limited to major template functions, like complete single forums, single topics, etc… I’m open to more shortcodes, but we should assemble and break them into template parts or functions as needed (to make overriding and customizing them easier.)
The plugin is looking fantastic and so far no issues.
Is there a shortcode to display the author name of the topic. I have tried everything but cannot display the name. Ive managed to display the WordPress username (author/name) but not the bbPress username (user/name) as they both display two different pages.
Thank you for all the hard work to everything working on this plugin.
@tooltrainer – Looks like it’s working okay to me. Tested on 3 different installations, incuding over at testbp.org.
I did put quite a few changes through in the past 10 hours, so it’s not completely impossible that something changed and is causing this. Can you try the latest revision of the plugin and see if that fixes it?
OK this is weird, users can’t create topics in my forums anymore. When they try, the page refreshes and they’re just shown their same topic creation form with their content still in it, but nothing is ever created.
Also, I can’t create a topic that contains apostrophes or quotes in the title or body. They come back escaped, and when I try to save again, it escapes again, ad infinitum! Is there something crazy going on with a sanitization routine or something?
Not sure if these two issues are related but if anyone can steer me in the right direction on either of them, I’d sure appreciate it. I thought I was ready to go live but wouldn’t you know it… 11th hour troubles!
Jonathan
P.S.
This is only referring to creating topics via the normal front-end of the site. I can create them in the admin backend just fine.
P.P.S.
Replies work just fine, it’s only creating topics that users are unable to do.
“I know it is still not finished, but I was just playing around with a local installation and had bbpress up and working, but when I activated Buddypress it completely stopped bbPress, pages would just redirect to the blog’s front page.”
@Christopher Jon
Thanks for the quick fix!!!
