I am looking for a plugin with a city/country display facility.

What I mean is the city/country display would be visible to the ALL viewers reading the forum – the display of the city/country would appear beside the posters post – possibly under his/her gravatar or under the post text he/she has just posted.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Do you want to the City/Country fields to be pulldowns? Or just a text field that anyone can fill in with whatever they want…

[@ariolander Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

If he is doing city then likely a text field. If it is country a pulldown might be possible… and little flags to boot!

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

The poster would have to set the city and country, or would that be automatic based on their location? When would the poster set that, if they do: once in their profile or on every topic they start or something?

[@jimgozieo Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

I would want the country display to be automatic i.e the poster would not have to fill in anything – the system would just “automatically know” where the poster is posting from. Is that what you call a “pulldown”? That would be my preferred option. Flags would be a very welcome bonus too.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Ah… so like an IP detection plugin which displays the country automatically!

I haven’t seen that on bbPress. Does it exist on WordPress? If so, it can probably be ported!

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Notice the flags at the bottom of this forum:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

I thought it was part of _ck_’s mini track plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-track/

I’m not saying this will do everything you want straight away, but the idea exist and maybe you can extend from there.

[@jimgozieo Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Yes, I noticed the flags at http://bbshowcase.org/forums/ but they only appear on the front page of the forum – I want mine to appear underneath the poster’s avatar everytime he/she posts something.

It defeinitely exists on wordpress because I use it on my wordpress site. It is called the Comment Info Detector plugin by someone called Hieudt. I don’t know how to port plugins from wordpress to bbPress – is that something very difficult or very easy to do?

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

That site is _ck_’s developer showcase… I believe she did those flags with mini-track:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-track/

She no longer officially supports that plugin though – much of the functionality has been moved into the excellent mini-stats:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-track/page/3/#post-2436

But the flag functionality isn’t part of mini-stats, alas.

If you know how to edit or develop WordPress plugins, you shouldn’t have a problem working with bbPress plugins! If not, then maybe you could hire a developer to help with the port…

[@jimgozieo Member 15 years, 1 month ago]

Ok thanks, I have got a developer working on my site and I will ask her, many thanks.