[Michael]

Nice

[tobefound]

@pinpin_lelapin:

Did you get things working? Me too interested in getting a simple and clean forum working with an existing login system on codeigniter.

/T

[Michael]

Great – thanks Gautam. Looking forward to it. (Are you maybe calling it bbMentions? )

[kevinjohngallagher]

BBprogress had two versions of this one mate, they should still be kicking around somewhere. The first one used Ajax to convert the links (it pinged a search page for @username).

That said… My issue with it at the time is my issue with what you’re trying to achieve as well. 9/10 when someone is typing “@Michael R” they are replying to a post above. To that end, the “@Michael R” should link to that post, not to the person’s profile page. What you effectively need is a “reply to” button as well as a “quote” button that pre populates the “@Michael R” information.

Writing that functionality isn’t a problem (check out the quote plugin), but rather that there is no hook in BBpress that doesn’t hardcode output from the core to the bottom of each post. Not only would you need a plugin, but you’d also need a theme with additional hooks/function calls.

Its definitely doable though, once yu have defined exactly what it is you’re after/the need is for it

[Michael]

Right, I have looked at the Easy Twitter Links plugin, but I’m not sure how to alter it to run through the post. I’d probably have some idea if I managed to find the code BuddyPress uses. I wish I could grep the folder, but I don’t have Linux…

[Michael]

@OKTeaRoom – I will have a look at that – though I’d also need to find out how to check for member existance.

@etiviti – Thanks, I’ll download it and run through the code. I’m sure it’ll be easy to make the plugin.

[rohanduggan]

Sounds cool, thanks for the info. Sorry for the redundant post in that case… I thought somebody had just not updated the message assuming (and we know what they say about assumptions:)) that if the plug in was searchable via WP backend with an install button that it might be installable. My enthusiasm (desperation) for a decent BB for WP got the better of me

[rich! @ etiviti]

if you look at the buddypress code for activity-notifications (can’t remember the filename) but they have a simple function that filters the content, checks for @<username> string, then validates against the usertable and rewrites the content with a link.

[Michael]

Have been working on my forum recently, and I have though tof something I’d like to add to it.

Now, I’m no plugin developer, or PHP junkie, but I’d like to know what steps would be needed to turn @ links (mentions, like those found on Twitter) into links that take the user to a members profile page/or maybe even the member’s website (if any).

Example:

‘@matt’ would become ‘@matt‘

It would obviously have to scan through the post, check for any mentions, check if the user exists, and if it does, then apply the link. Now, I have no idea how this would be implemented – I hope to learn more soon.

This may not be a very great idea to have for a bbPress forum, but I think it would be nice. Could anyone help me with this?

Peace, Michael

[Michael]

@gerikg – it’s more of a ‘like’ plugin.

[gerikg]

1. Shut off your caching plugin first.

2. You didn’t follow #8 correctly. “define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );” should be after ?php

if it doesn’t work email me (on my profile)

[Michael]

Sounds great Paul – love the way you go beyond with plugins. Thank you for that.

That wouldn’t be a problem; I’m always tweaking my theme files to make it all just look better.

[Sabuntu]

actually he was cooperative and tried to explain as simple as he could but i’m not that clever to catch him up

[Damien]

Instantly knocked 3 queries from my mainpage, thanks

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

TextWrangler for Mac.

[Dailytalker]

Did you follow the steps decribed in this topic?

Did you install the plugin?

Did you change the permalinks to “name” before activating the plugin?

Did you change the codes in your htaccess?

Did you write as rewrite base /?

Thats what I have in the htaccess of my wp-frontpage:

RewriteBase /

So it really must work. I am pretty sure.

[Dailytalker]

What you can do is what I have….

http://www.dailytalk.ch/forum

1st step

Download the plugin, you find on the link bellow and follow the instructions on that site:

http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-37

2nd step

If the name of your forum is “forums” you need to name the RewriteBase /forums/

RewriteBase /forums/

If the name of your forum is “community” your RewriteBase is /community/

RewriteBase /community/

etc.

3rd step

After you have followed the steps of that site you will find some bugs. To solve them do the following:

To solve the major bugs you need to do this:

I found a solution for the admin-backend link!

Just ad the following code

RewriteRule ^bb-admin/$ – [L]

before this code

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ topic.php?id=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

and it works!!! Cool.

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I found another mistake. The “topics-RSS” where missing because you deleted one rewrite mod too much. To repair this you need to put the following code just after the mod rewrites for “view”

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

original code:

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

Than also the rss-feed for the topics should work.

[pengerik]

Please share if/when available! Been looking for this some time…

[Gautam]

I had actually created this sort of plugin once for a forum, but didn’t release it publicly. When I get time, I might extract out that part and release it.

Edit – If Paul doesn’t do it first

[Michael]

@paulhawke – sounds great, can’t wait to see it. Now, are you going to be making it a “like” this post, or a “thank you” for this post plugin?

[chandersbs]

Thanks Chris and everyone, I will test Kevin’s code tonight and see how it works.

Keep you guys posted

[paulhawke]

I think there are a number of big architectural hurdles to get over. In WP I bind a given slug to a page on a 1-to-1 basis, and that’s what is used to resolve a given URL. If I have a forum I would want “virtual page slugs” where anything starting with (say) “/forum” is passed to my plugin for resolution of the rest. The URL processing in WP is messy (to say the least) and is a perfect example of the opposite of the “Open/Closed” OO design principle – “Closed to modification but Open for extension” – I imagine that a rewrite of that code would go a long way to improving WP itself.

If bbPress were hosted on a single page using a WP shortcode, then the entire GUI needs to be re-coded to run fully AJAX as the user will need to remain on that particular page.

[paulhawke]

Or, like me, you can grep the bbPress source for “do_action” and “apply_filter” to see what the code does. In any case, the code itself is the best documentation.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Original topic on BuddyPress: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-create-forums-in-bbpress-within-buddypress

Windhamdavid’s awesome solution link: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-access-to-bbpress-admin-from-buddypress

[chrishajer]

Glad I posted a completely incorrect suggestion to get the conversation going