My website (www.seeanimalswild.com) is a blog giving news on the natural world and environment.

I am creating a short form forum with bbpress, to allow readers to add brief news summaries that might have been missed by the main blog.

What i am looking for, is the ability to link a readers brief news summery in bbpress, to an article on the subject, whether this is on the main blog, or on another long form forum on the website. Is this possible?

It seems simple, but it does require me to be able to add a link (or connect a link) to a post not made by me? Thank you for any help. I’ve included my website address, but the forum in question does not yet exist. It would also be useful, if someone writing a long form post on a forum, could link it to the brief summery themselves, but this may be to complex.

Thank you for your time and any help

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 1 week ago]

If you are admin, you can edit a users topic and add the link yourself

[@seeanimalswild Participant 1 month, 1 week ago]

Will that connect with the post itself? If so, that should work, thank you

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month, 1 week ago]

if you add it as a link

ie using the link button you see above the new topic/reply content, then yes

[@seeanimalswild Participant 1 month, 1 week ago]

Well, that was surprisingly simple. I’ll try to make it work tomorrow, and come back if it fails.

[@seeanimalswild Participant 1 month ago]

Is this something that the poster can do? There is obviously an issue as the site grows if app links need to be made by me?

The idea, is bbpress forum one is similar to twitter in length – people can quickly add news or information they have discovery, then on bbpress forum 2 a user can link to some news or information from blog 1, and write a more detailed article on the ‘tweet length’ post.

I hope that makes sense – I’m very thankful for the above help, and it will help, but what I’m wanting is to give blog 2 the ability to automatically link to the post they are writing about in blog 1 – this would avoid the need for an administrator to go in later (if this becomes a popular feature, it could rapidly become a lot of work).

I hope this is something that is doable – i don’t yet have any i can go have a look at.

If it can do this (posters link, internally) then bbpress is more powerful than I realize

[@robin-w Moderator 1 month ago]

your posters should be seeing the same as you see in the options above a post on this forum, so yes.

I can only suggest you set yourself up another username with participant level access and see what you get.

[@seeanimalswild Participant 1 month ago]

Fantastic, yes, i will. Thanks