This is one of the forums I admin and is the main playground for my plugins.

http://www.brigata.it/forum/ (warning, it’s in italian)

is a modified version of 1.0.2 paired with the blog at /blog/ (no deep integration.) Plugins used:

Ajaxed quote – customized

Akismet

bbPM – the amazing plugin of Ben. Customized in many ways

bbPress signatures

Bozo

Post Count Plus – wonderful work

zeal Avatar – modified version of the wonderful (I talk like Steve Jobs) bavatars

zaerl Easter – a plugin that hide some easter eggs on posts’ text

zaerl Editor – unreleased version with support to custom tags and emoticons. Obviously you can’t see it in action if you aren’t logged in

zaerl Emoticons – with code stolen from WordPress

zaerl GA – yet another Google Analytics plugin. But this is paired with zaerl Visibility and output the google js code only on those pages that a guest (search engine are guests) can see

zaerl Members Online – a modified version of _ck_ Members Online

zaerl Post Permalink – permalink in the form post/number

zaerl Random Description – random desc under main title

zaerl Spoiler – add the spoiler tag

zaerl Tags Administration – new tags and blah blah

zaerl URL Preview – unreleased new version that print server names after links, add target=”_blank”, auto-embed youtube videos, vimeo videos and Anobii book covers. No fancy bbcode or stuff like that. If a link is a youtube/vimeo/anobii link than it is transformed.

Finally what you see on the left is the output of my plugin zaerl Sidebar. It is my personal (and totally useless right now) attempt to bring WordPress-like widgets to bbPress. The “Membri online” is a widget registered by Post Count Plus and “Tag in evidenza” instead is a widget bundled with the plugin. Right now I have implemented these widgets: stats, most popular posts, text-only, hot-tags, views list, members online (Post Count Plus), Spam caught (Akismet), RSS and search.

If you are curious you can see transformations and tags in this topic: http://www.brigata.it/forum/topic/aiuto-forum

The theme is Kakumei with some CSS changes.

[@_ck_ Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Very nice!

Could use some topic-icons but that’s just me

There is some kind of weird delay (I don’t mean just the overseas hop) from the USA to that server though, adds over a second. Probably not a problem if it’s just for locals. I think it has to do with the cogentco.com ISP.

Also there is no compression on the pages.

Maybe try my bb-gzip plugin, might make it faster.

[@zaerl Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Hi _ck_ thanks. We are using a shared hosting solution right now that is the worst choice ever but we are have no money our host works well on Italy but very bad from the outside.

Do you like the solution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=the_id -> embedded video? I’ve seen a lot of approaches:

[youtube]the_id[/youtube]

[youtube]the_entire_youtube_link[/youtube]

[youtube=the_id]

But I don’t like the idea of BBCode. The spoiler tag is <spoiler>don't read me</spoiler> which is changed on post_text in a <button> + jquery call followed by an hidden div.

I forgot the gzip (ops), thanks for the hint and thanks for all your work.

[@_ck_ Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Yeah I’ve seen other sites auto-embed videos.

I hope to offer something like free hosting someday for plugin authors.

[@otto42 Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Hmm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYC8fTv2jp4

[@chrishajer Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

What change did you make to allow oEmbed (or something) here? When you first posted, just a URL was displayed. Now we have our first ever video embedded.

[@chrishajer Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Another youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iblDnI0nG4

[@zaerl Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

It’s auto-embed or some fancy bbcode-like syntax?

[@chrishajer Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

It looks like oEmbed. In that post from otto42, there is just the YouTube URL. Nothing more. When it was first posted, it showed as a link. Then someone did some magic somewhere, and now it’s auto embedded.

[@otto42 Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

Not oEmbed, it only works with YouTube.

Matt asked me to add it… and well, I had to test, didn’t I?

To use, just paste a youtube “watch” link on a line by itself.

[@zaerl Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

Trying:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=2THV4GXppZE

ops no $_GET vars swap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THV4GXppZE&feature=related

void video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THV4GXppZE

ok better.

[@chrishajer Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

How did you add it Otto? What revision was the code checked in to? How did the code get updated here so quickly?

Thanks

[@kevinjohngallagher Member 14 years, 4 months ago]

While it pains me that this is the best use of both Matt and Otto’s time, it would be really nice if this code was shared, or at least explained

Thanks in advance.

[@zaerl Participant 14 years, 4 months ago]

While it pains me that this is the best use of both Matt and Otto’s time, it would be really nice if this code was shared, or at least exmplained

Thanks in advance.

This is how I parse the text: http://pastebin.com/zQunD0Kv

The a href regexp is a little naive. make_clickable doesn’t expose a filter.

[@otto42 Keymaster 14 years, 4 months ago]

It wasn’t all that complicated. Only took maybe 20 minutes. I just wrote a plugin to do the work and put it on the forums here.

Here’s the bbPress plugin if you want to see it:

http://pastebin.com/0StjFxzM