[_ck_]

Testing working in the latest 912 trunk.

[_ck_]

Yeah I don’t have the default template running anywhere to configure it, lol!

Working right now but will build a test account and do a trunk install tonight so I will be able to change it.

If you have better css, please post.

[howtogeek]

Testing it now…

[_ck_]

Make sure you are using v0.11 and then post a new test topic.

The default setting is polls can be added to topics no more than three hours old (adjustable).

You must be logged in as a moderator or higher to see the poll options or poll results for the beta. This is to prevent other members from seeing your testing & configuring.

[Null]

Some questions:

Vote, more then 1 option possible option? (max setting like classic (just 1 option possible) 2 options, 3 etc

If a topic is deleted, does it clean-up the poll as well? (since a real deletion isn’t happening in bbPress, this wouldn’t be a problem for now)

What happends if a poll is deleted? (but topic still excists)

Who can vote? All? Members?

If a topic is closed, automaticly close voting aswell?

Results are in horizontal bars? Perhaps option to show them like a pie (or even vertical bars) Even better if a user can choose this when seeing the results:

Option result 1: ===============

Option result 2: =====

Option result 3: =========

Show as bars | Show as pie

Would like to see a demo, cause can’t test this at work

Greetz

[_ck_]

I am pleased to announce a new bbPress Polls plugin.

Your members can now add polls to their topics, or optionally you can allow *anyone* to add a poll to *any* topic, within a specified time period (hours) since the topic was started.

bb-Polls allows single answer or multiple answer polls.

No template edits of any kind.

There are no additional db tables added, it uses bbpress topicmeta only. Only one entry is created per poll, regardless of size or options (this allow very easy cleanup if desired for some reason).

This is a *very* early beta, however should be functional except for:

1. missing admin menu (coming soon – edit plugin directly)

2. missing administrative editing of existing polls.

3. missing some visual tweaks (plural case, etc.)

4. missing some more deluxe options (poll ending time, etc.)

5. missing multi-language support (coming soon)

If you can live with these limits and would like to help test and give me some useful, constructive feedback, please download:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v010

(rename .txt to .php, install, activate, start a new test topic)

The beta is set so only moderators and above can create/see the polls. This will allow you to test without disturbing visitors.

Please note the visual styles may be WAY off for the default template or your own template. Unfortunately I am using a very customised template. You’ll probably have to edit the built in css which is kept clearly at the top. (the default styles will be fixed soon when I get a chance to do a trunk install this week)

Upcoming features include the ability to display all polls and the ability to display a poll anywhere within bbpress templates.

ps. I need to know if this works as in in the trunk version – I don’t see why it wouldn’t but you never know…

[_ck_]

Just out of concerned curiosity, what other plugins have you found that don’t support the trunk?

I suppose I am going to have to break down and setup a testing account with the trunk this weekend or so.

We need a developer plugin that injects a bunch of fake new users and fake messages for testing.

[skipdaddyo]

Also in bb-includes/functions.php

function get_latest_topics – added $now and tweaked $where

$now = bb_current_time('mysql');

$where = "WHERE topic_status = 0 AND topic_start_time <= '$now'";

[Null]

I know that, this is just for testing purposes…

[LMD]

Arrrrggghhh! Not again! Sorry, this happened with the last update and I don’t know what the problem is. The files are there in the SVN, so something is going wrong with the automatic ZIP downloader. I’m going to fire off an email to the bbDev list.

Also, I posted the announcement a little prematurely. Version 0.8.1 hasn’t appeared in the Plugin browser yet, it’s still showing version 0.8, so you might want to wait a while (at least half-an-hour to an hour) for the system to “catch up”. Again, the SVN itself has the latest version in the trunk.

[stylistka]

[neoen]

Hello, my WP 2.2.1 installation has utf-8 encoding –

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

But when I try to integrate WP and BBpress with the help of plugins (bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp.0.9 and display-name.0.7.2) there are encoding problems.

When I save a post with word “Administrátor” in WP 2.2 – to MySQL it is saved “Administrátor”, which is right. But when I save a topic with word “Administrátor” in BBpress – to MySQL it is saved like “Administr�tor” (or something else – but always wrong), but on forum it can be seen right like “Administrátor”. So, I think there are problems that WP 2.2 and BBpress uses different DB CHARSET (in WP 2.2 it is utf-8, but in BBpress it is something else – I think cp1250). Is it possible to change this somewhere in source files to work properly? Thank you very much for your help…

[_ck_]

Oh I didn’t realize xcache is just an opcode cache. I already use eaccelerator which seems to have zero quirks compared to other solutions. But yeah, any opcode cache for wordpress/bbpress is a must for any active site.

I already create the sidebar statically across my sites, saves a lot of work and repetition on the db.

the wp-cache “plugin” has flaws in it’s logic. I noticed that unregistered visitors were getting edit links on posts, not good, even if they couldn’t actually edit. Then it has an exclude feature to keep certain parts dynamic, but you can’t have wordpress calls in those dynamic parts because wordpress isn’t actually loaded, which is the whole point. so it won’t work and gives error (#1 confusion to most people trying to use it)

In the end, I hacked wp-cache to only cache the RSS feeds which were causing the most requests, yet the most static of all the content. Caching rss feeds on bbpress should be an easy, useful thing too, but then on a forum I highly doubt the use of rss feeds on anything but the latest discussions.

What really worries me about the 0.84 release is the xml-rpc pingbacks. bbpress is going to become known as the spammers forum of choice with a bad rep, until novices are given an easy option to turn it off, or better yet it’s off by default. I cannot disagree more highly with the entire feature idea. It defeats the entire purpose of a forum. What they are trying to do is have a universal way to cross post across forums but the whole point of a forum is *community* and getting people to actually visit, not stay away.

What they really should do instead of pingbacks if they want easy cross communication, is have a universal login based on a database at wordpress.com – Basically anyone with a wordpress account could visit your wordpress or bbpress site and instantly post if they wanted as “wp.membername” without having to register again and again. Sure there are security issues to be tackled but it’s better than anonymous spam heaven on pingbacks. Akismet won’t protect pingbacks, I see spam in my wordpress.com account every week.

[Sam Bauers]

Downloadable ZIP of latest trunk is via a link at the bottom of that page.

The trunk is pretty stable actually, and is more bug free than the latest release usually.

You are better off setting up a subversion client and “checking out” a copy of the code. You can then keep up-to-date on changes in the core with the click of a button.

Search the forum for info on using SVN to checkout a copy.

A lot has changed, the best thing to do is to trawl through the changelog on the Trac site. Only a couple of things have changed dramatically, how views works is one.

BB_Query is in the latest trunk in bb-includes/classes.php

[riddle]

Thanks, Sam.

I’m not sure whether to even touch your last suggestion, about using the latest trunk rather than the latest release. I see the trunk code browser at https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk but I don’t know where to find it as one downloadable archive. And surely the trunk has new bugs and unfinished features, which is why it hasn’t been turned into a new release, right?

Can you give us any hints about what has changed that plugin writers need to know about?

P.S. Where do I find BB_Query?

[MaryJane]

I applied that fix to my Wp and bbpress from your intergration method so1o and it works great! I put a member cp in my sidebar section for bbpress with the latest comments from wp expecting to cringe from the errors and i never got one. Plus i also have some tags in my footer calling from my wp and that works as well. Im loving this!

The only part i didnt apply on your tutorial was the template intergration where you said to pull the header and footer in. Since the themes i use are the same as my wp themes i didnt see the point in doing that. Glad to say it worked even without using that method though. Keep up the excellent work!

[Sam Bauers]

There are lots of built-in functions for querying the topic meta, they are all in the same place in the code, so searching in the code for the functions I mentioned above will reveal them all.

Joining tables to create one query is better than using two queries to retrieve the same data. The new BB_Query class could easily handle the query you wrote up there.

By the way, I suggest you build your plugin against the latest trunk rather than the latest release.

[howtogeek]

There’s the Add User plugin that will let you add users directly… I’ve used it a number of times for test accounts.

[Null]

Testing this tomorrow after work…. nah after diner after work

Thx for the help mate!

_Null

ps. how to open a .diff?? (windows machine)

[Null]

Testing this tomorrow after work…. nah after diner after work

Thx for the help mate!

_Null

[fel64]

Turn the time-string into a timestamp to be turned into a time-string.

<?php echo date( 'g:i A', strtotime( $latestpost->post_time ) ); ?>

There’s a template function that gives you the link to the latest post in the topic. I believe it’s called get_topic_last_post_link() but I’m not sure.

[outchy]

how does one filter the output for time in this example?

<?php echo $latestpost->post_time; ?>

i’d like it to be in the format of ( 'g:i A' )

ps, my good, good people

how would i turn this link into a link to the latest reply itself instead of just the topic:

<a href="<?php echo get_topic_link($latestpost->topic_id); ?>"><?php echo get_topic_title($latestpost->topic_id); ?></a>

[_ck_]

Here we go!

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/new-plugin-bbpress-signatures/

updated to v0.11 – now with admin menu!

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/07/bb-signatures.txt

(rename .txt to .php)

If you have plugins for smilies and/or allow images in post text, it will obey them, this is probably a good thing and desired.

You can set the minimum user level needed to show signatures and also the ability not to repeat a user’s signature more than once per page.

Instructions: install, activate, tinker with settings in admin menu

If you would like the optional toggle on new/edit posts to disable signatures you must edit the edit-form.php & post-form.php templates and place at or near the bottom:

<? bb_signatures_checkbox(); ?>

(you can wrap it in a DIV and float it to the left, right style anyway you’d like

sorry but there’s no way to do this directly through a plugin)

Here’s a fancier version that I use:

<div style=”float:left” ><? if (function_exists(‘bb_signatures_checkbox’)) {bb_signatures_checkbox();} ?></div>

Version History:

0.05 :slashes & autop fixed, replaced input with textarea, max_lines now supported in post-processing, max_length checked in realtime (as well as post processing)

0.06 :internal testing/bugfix

0.07 :per-post signature toggle

0.08 :toggle for allow html and allow images should now work

0.10 :basic functioning admin menu

0.11 :more intelligent admin menu

[so1o]

Here is my latest redesign of my site.. the site has wordpress and bbpress completely integrated..

there is no bbpress frontpage it shares the wordpress frontpage. the plugins are shared by both bbpress and wordpress.

I have integrated the search also.. try the ajax live search. type and wait.

Here is the link – http://www.adityanaik.com

I will be releasing the last theme ‘sunnyside’ in a few days

let me hear your thoughts.

[_ck_]

Whoops, I bet there were some situations I didn’t test for.

Will investigate… (and she‘ll fix ’em asap)