[John James Jacoby]

@binhdo – Viewing topics and replies of hidden and private forums was a difficult trick to pull off, and hiding them in the admin should be possible to do now. Because of the complex nature of user permissions vs hierarchical forums/topics/replies, cascading the permissions down the branch is only partially achieved at the moment. It is something on the radar though.

[binhdo]

I would once again like to raise the issue on permissions in bbpress:

In my setup, I would require certain forums to be completely private in a way that would allow me to determine the accessibility and visibility of certain user groups (i.e. editors) or even better, individual users.

Of course permission options are currently not implemented into the plugin, but I found that regardless of the forum’s visibility setting (private or hidden), any user logged in (including subscribers) can at least view the topics and replies in the dashboard. Anyway, the ‘view’ links in the dashboard result in a ‘page not found’ error in that case.

I know, WP’s user management is not that distinctive, but I guess there are a number of plugins that allow setting a minimum required user level.

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – I don’t understand the question. It sounds like an elaborate way of asking “How do I mark topics as sticky?” If what you’re asking is how to highlight a specific post in a different way other than sticky, the only way in core is by the specific ID of that topic or reply, without writing your own code to put something else in there.

@christopher-jon – Anonymous posts are still working for me? Edit lock time fixed here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3134/

[tooltrainer]

CORRECTION to my previous post – it may have been a problem of type. My coder did this to solve:

$forum_ids = array_merge( (array)$private, (array)$hidden );

Also regarding my question about styling stickies, got this question from my designer:

“bbP Team –

With regards to adding the .sticky classes to important posts, (‘They are .sticky and .super-sticky respectively’), how would one then go about isolating a specific post? I am currently going through the loop-forums and loop-topics.php files, and while I see where the tables are being generated, the topics themselves are being generated seemingly dynmically through PHP.. so how would I go about selecting/isolating a specific topic/<tr> that I would like to apply the .sticky class to??”

Any light you can shed on this JJJ or anyone else?

Thanks!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.

[John James Jacoby]

This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.

[christopher jon]

Bugs, YAY!

I’m not sure if this had been brought up but the permalinks are wonky.

When the custom structures option is not checked the forum index page uses archive.php and not page-front-forums.php

As far as I could tell, all of the other pages are still working as they should be and using the correct custom page templates.

– And –

Lock post after editing doesn’t appear to be working. With my non-admin dummy users I’m still able to edit posts after the lock time has expired.

– And –

Allow Anonymous Posting doesn’t appear to be working either.

[tooltrainer]

It appears that if either $private or $hidden come back empty, then the errors I was experiencing occur. We’re just going to check if they are empty to fix it.

Jonathan

[miruru]

Is there any way to display the “Freshness” as a date format without having to change it in any of the core files? Maybe something to add into the theme functions to override the current settings?

I’m using Trunk 3132 at the moment and so far it’s working fantastically.

[tooltrainer]

OK here’s a weird one for you… trunk 3127, I’m getting an error that is displaying where one of my sidebar widgets would normally appear, but ONLY if not logged in:

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /home/vanclute/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-functions.php on line 799

Trying to see if it’s something on my end but so far I don’t think it is…

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

@JJJ

Awesome, passing that on to my designer now. Thanks so much, you rock

Jonathan

P.S.

Updating to latest trunk now, and so far my “can’t post new topics” problem appears to have gone away.

[sarahrbx]

I would like to move from Drupal 6 also. Maybe I have to start to learn all new things for this new CMS.

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – There are. They are .sticky and .super-sticky respectively. You can do something like tr.type-topic.super-sticky { stuff } too, depending on the strength of the override you’re trying to achieve.

[tooltrainer]

Hey real quick, can anyone tell me if there’s a CSS class associated with stickies & super-stickies? I’d like to color them differently so they stand out. Anyone know?

Thanks!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

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’

[John James Jacoby]

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’

[John James Jacoby]

@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.

[padams]

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.

[padams]

hmmm.

As all bbPress entities are custom posts then these urls work great out of the box:

// feed of forums

http://domain.com/?feed=rss2&post_type=forum

// feed of topics

http://domain.com/?feed=rss2&post_type=topic

// feed of replies

http://domain.com/?feed=rss2&post_type=reply

// combined feed

http://domain.com/?feed=rss2&post_type%5B%5D=topic&post_type%5B%5D=reply

All based on this ticket in core:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12943

[studioleland]

@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?

[John James Jacoby]

@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.

[padams]

Too bad you can’t piggyback on the category feeds. Maybe assign a category to a forum?

[John James Jacoby]

@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.

[Gautam Gupta]

padams: I think JJJ is thinking of getting them into the alpha or the first major release of the plugin.

[padams]

@gautam: soon as in for 1.0? or a future release. thanks.