[trentguillory]

I’m working on an app that allows users to post new topics to my website forum. What POST request can I use to do this/is there some postTopic method I can call? What would be the best way to go about it because all I’ve seen so far looks very complex.

[TKServer]

There are a couple of queries I’ve found are necessary for posts. First is the standard query which posts to the wp_posts and the second posts to wp_postmeta. They’re very dependent on other functions within bbpress. It’s a bit of a can of worms in my experience. You could create a set of custom queries to do both of these, or try to use all of bbpress’s queries and functionality. Either way, it is not simple.

[trentguillory]

Hey TK, thanks for the reply. That’s a helpful for me to get started.

Where’s a good place to look into the bbpress functions that are tied in with these wp functions?

Also, are the posts in bbpress a custom post type like any other or is there more to it than that?

Thanks again!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
posts are just custom post types (topic, reply) and have metadata attached. bbPress is following standard WordPress rules in the database.

For bbPress functions and filters, I normally end up on http://hookr.io/plugins/bbpress/2.5.6/functions/

Pascal.

[TKServer]

You can look at the functions.php files inside of topics and replies. They’ll give you some idea.

I’ve just made live my beta page of a threaded view with new posts and new replies able to be posted outside of bbpress here: http://www.utehub.com/forum-threads/

It’s beta, so lots to work on.

[trentguillory]

TK, I’ve already extended an existing plugin of mine to post regular wordpress posts to the website using the wp_insert_post function. Is that the same function I need be using to post to bbpress, just with additional metadata?

[Pascal Casier]

Hi Trent,

For bbPress: both a topic and a reply are inserted in the ‘posts’ table. The thing that mainly changes is the ‘post_type’. Then the meta data (dates, parents, …) go into the ‘post_meta’ table. So the global idea is exactely like posts, yes.

Pascal.

[trentguillory]

Thanks for the clarification. At this point I feel pretty lost though, as I’ve never actually had to add functionality to WordPress.

Do you know of any working examples or tutorials that show how to post a topic from an external app or client?

[TKServer]

I just finished all this. Total pain. I had to reverse engineer the DB posts, then look at the bbpress functions to see what ones I could use, or simply which queries etc I could utilize.

[TKServer]

Look in includes/topics/functions.php and includes/replies/functions.php for most of what you will need.