Is there a plugin or add-on that would enable voting on user-submitted posts? I was thinking of using Gravity Forms with custom post types to receive the user-submitted posts/ideas, and then publishing the excerpts on the main page. But, I need a voting plugin to allow users to “like” or “vote up” their favorite ideas. Suggestions?

I’ve seen a lot of plugins out there, but I don’t know which ones are compatible with Buddypress.

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 3 years, 5 months ago]

There are a few that support bbPress, just add ‘bbPress’ to your search criteria at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

[dtbakerParticipant @dtbaker 2 years, 6 months ago]

I couldn’t find a working (simple) voting system for bbpress so I rolled my own:

http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/forum/feature-requests/

If it continues to work over the coming weeks I’ll clean up the code and share it.

[Robin WModerator @robin-w 2 years, 6 months ago]

great, would be good to load it to wordpress

[eklopferParticipant @eklopfer 2 years, 6 months ago]

+1 It would be great to have this as a plugin. Looks nice on your site.

[dtbakerParticipant @dtbaker 2 years, 6 months ago]

I added this new Voting feature as part of the old GetShopped Support Forum plugin.

It was the quickest way I could get a support forum (resolved/unresolved) plus topic voting working together.

Here is the comment I made on the WordPress plugin repo site:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-added-bbpress-voting-and-fixed-some-bugs-version-303?replies=1

Code is available on github. It’s not polished enough to be a standalone plugin just yet.

I have added a few new things:
1) topic voting
2) sidebar registration widget
3) copied the ‘resolved’ dropdown to near the submit button, so you can easily mark a topic as resolved while you are replying to it (much quicker!)
4) fixed a couple of potential bugs around permissions (ie: anyone could mark a thread resolved or assign a thread to someone etc..)

You can grab the code (and see the changes) from here: https://github.com/dtbaker/bbPress-Support-Forums

The voting and sidebar registration features can be seen in the demo here: http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/forum/feature-requests/

(I have modified some of the div tags/classes in this plugin to better support bootstrap, so it might look a bit funky on the standard bbPress install)

Cheers,
Dave

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-vip-support-plugin/

[Stephen EdgarModerator @netweb 2 years, 6 months ago]

Awesome, thanks for sharing this 🙂

[LynqParticipant @lynq 2 years, 6 months ago]

Nice plugin really good job! 🙂

[eklopferParticipant @eklopfer 2 years, 6 months ago]

Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful!

I had a couple of comments seeing that this is a work in progress. This may just be my install. But I noticed that non-admins could see the drop down but couldn’t actually successfully change the status of a post. I also think the sorting menus should be conditional on a support forum, not a voting forum.

Again. Thanks for sharing. I hope this feedback is useful.

[dtbakerParticipant @dtbaker 1 year, 10 months ago]

I’ve updated the plugin to include a (very basic) paypal payment feature and the ability to mark topics as “accepted”. You have to manually update the topics when payments come in, I don’t have enough time to make any sort of PayPal IPN integration.

Code has been updated here: https://github.com/dtbaker/bbPress-Support-Forums ( warning, my paypal address is hard coded into includes/bbps-vote-functions.php )

Screenshots:

Main forum page, it sorts topics by “funds” then “accepted” then “votes”.

Admin topic page: you can vote, mark topic as accepted, and manually update payments.

User topic view, can vote (when logged in) and pay:

Live demo here: http://ultimateclientmanager.com/forums/forum/feature-requests/