[Tanya]

For those of you familiar with phpbb forums, a very liked feature is the ability to show your unread posts, and also to skip to the last unread reply in that thread.

I have spoken to Pippin, from http://pippinsplugins.com, who estimates that to create a plugin to include these features on bbpress will cost between $350 and $600.

Now my website, which will have a forum migrated to it soon, will require these features, however it is only a hobby website 🙁

So I’m asking bbpress forum owners out there, do you want this plugin? And if yes, would you be willing to contribute to the cost?

Tanya 🙂

[jeeni]

Hm, I want to unsubscribe to this thread but I have to write a comment. So here it is. Sorry for this comment, I would have unsubscribed without commenting if I could.

(I no longer help run a forum, so I don’t need to see more on this topic. Thanks!)

[dtbaker]

Here is my quick solution for displaying a list of unread posts.

Code: https://gist.github.com/dtbaker/5906404
Example: http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/unread-forum-posts/ (have to be logged in)
Discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17416593/wordpress-query-post-compare-between-postmeta-values-using-meta-query-argument

[aaclayton]

@dtbaker perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but you are adding a postmeta key=>value for every user that visits your forum? That seems fairly suicidal.

The other problem I see, is that if you are pulling posts for which:
bbpress_unread_posts_last_visit_X < _bbp_last_active_time

You will be omitting topics that were created after _bbp_last_active_time, which are quite clearly also unread by the particular user.

[dtbaker]

@aaclayton – currently using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-unread-posts/

yes this plugin does add a meta key to each post for tracking unread status. Do you know of a better plugin that does this in a more elegant fashion?

[broach-india]

Yes, that is certainly what I am aiming for with this plugin. Would you be willing to contribute to the cost? And any other forum owners out there who would like to chip in too?

[Tanya]

Have you tried this?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-go-to-first-unread-post/