To be precise:

I’ve installed a wp plugin for displaying programming codes with numbering and coloring.

we should write the code inside some tags.

Now I want to use the same tag even in the forum and get the same effect. Is this possible ?

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

please help.. it’s critical form me #please

[@anointed Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

It kind of helps to know what plugin you are talking about.

There are a couple of plugins that might help though:

http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/

http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/shortcode-whitelist/

those allow you to use shortcodes in bbPress, and also choose which ones you allow users to use.

*allowing all shortcodes for users is dangerous, asking for trouble.

**I didn’t write the plugins, and don’t know much about them other than I tried them once and they worked. Just trying to help

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks a lot, but once I install that plugin, my forum goes down

I’m using the plugin version of bbpress.

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I’m using WP-Syntax plugin to display some program codes on my blog.

It uses this syntax:

“Syntax highlighting using GeSHi supporting a wide range of popular languages. Wrap code blocks with <pre lang=”LANGUAGE” line=”1″> and where LANGUAGE is a geshi supported language syntax. The line attribute is optional.”

I want to use the same syntax even on my forum.

[@anointed Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

Yeah, I’m not sure how to get it to work. I just tried it myself, and while I get no errors, I am not able to use shortcodes in my forum topics. Maybe JJ, or someone will jump in and let us know how to properly whitelist shortcodes.

*I know I have my site setup correctly as I can use shortcodes in my other custom post-types. Best guess is that bbPress has some rather strong filtering going on or something. Which btw is not a bad thing, would just help to know what/why it’s happening.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

waiting for JJ to reply..

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

waiting for ‘John James Jacoby’.. please help us. This is a critical thing for me. and most people would need this at some point of time.

[@sean_a Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

I would love an answer to this too.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

help..anyone ??

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 10 months ago]

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 12 years, 10 months ago]

If you can point me to a more specific problem, a plugin, a specific issue, I’m happy to help.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 10 months ago]

I want to allow all my forum members to use this tag <pre name=”code” class=”cpp”> tag.

Now only I (admin) can use it; but I want to allow any registered member to use it.

I have some css + js files to make the code written inside this specific tag display differently.

Hope you got it.

Please help..

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 12 years, 10 months ago]

You’ll need to filter the kses filter on the_content to allow that set of tags. Do a google search for filtering the kses filter, and there should be lots of examples.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 10 months ago]

I know about adding these tags..but not sure where the array() is in bbpress ?

Can you point me to the file name where the empty array is present, where we can add our tags and its attributes.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 9 months ago]

<b>Gautam Gupta</b> tried to help me with this code:

global $allowed_tags;

$allowed_tags=array('name','class','id');

I pasted it inside function.php file; unfortunately its not working.

I’m using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/ plugin. and want my bbpress forum members to make use of pre tag and this plugin highlights the codes they post on the forum.

It uses the following syntax: <pre name="code" class="c">

please help.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

You can filter it using the bbp_get_allowed_tags filter bbPress provides.

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 9 months ago]

I’m not able to find the file, in which this bbp_get_allowed_tags is present..

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 9 months ago]

got something inside bbpressbbp-includesbbp-common-template.php file.

/**

* Output all of the allowed tags in HTML format with attributes.

*

* This is useful for displaying in the post area, which elements and

* attributes are supported. As well as any plugins which want to display it.

*

* @since bbPress (r2780)

*

* @uses bbp_get_allowed_tags()

*/

function bbp_allowed_tags() {

echo bbp_get_allowed_tags();

}

/**

* Display all of the allowed tags in HTML format with attributes.

*

* This is useful for displaying in the post area, which elements and

* attributes are supported. As well as any plugins which want to display it.

*

* @since bbPress (r2780)

*

* @uses allowed_tags() To get the allowed tags

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_allowed_tags' with the tags

* @return string HTML allowed tags entity encoded.

*/

function bbp_get_allowed_tags() {

return apply_filters( 'bbp_get_allowed_tags', allowed_tags() );

}

what should I do with it inorder to make pre tag allowable.

I feel like, editing the core isn’t a good idea.

Is there a way to handle this via my template ?

Can you please give me the code that I must paste inside my function.php file to allow <pre name="code" class="c"> to my forum members.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

No you should not edit core (*ever*), you should use the filter that is available in the code you just posted bbp_get_allowed_tags.

You need to look into filters https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 9 months ago]

ok..

as Guatam suggested, I added the following code to my function.php file

add_action('bbp_init', '_bbp_allow_pre_tag', 10);

function _bbp_allow_pre_tag() {

global $allowedtags;

$allowedtags = array( 'name', 'class', 'id' );

}

but still its not working.

Can you please directly give me the code I need to paste into my function.php file ?

I need to allow pre tag with following attributes to it name=”code” class=”c”

so basically I must allow “pre” tags with “name” and “class” attributes.

[@jaredatch Member 12 years, 9 months ago]

Sorry I do not have time to provide you with the exact code.

However as jjj already said there are tons of examples on Google.

http://ottopress.com/2010/wp-quickie-kses/

[@technotip Participant 12 years, 9 months ago]

thanks for the link. I understand.. will try my best to get it done myself.

I’m not used to bbpress and wordpress coding.. will get used to it.

Thanks a lot for all the help and guidelines.