Published on November 21st, 2012 by sambedingfield
As a YouTube partner I started to look for a fresh approach to involving my subscribers. I’ve been both an illustrator and web developer in the past, so it made sense to play to my strengths and use these as key factors. 8 months later of working solo on this project and RatsClan.com is now a fully featured community site with a built in unique Playing Card system. Members can unlock achievements, go up ranks, grow their card collection, battle against one another, earn medals and much more.
The site is built upon the latest WordPress, with the bbPress forum plugin installed. The simple and tactile user interface is consistent throughout each aspect, with large (seasonal changing) illustrations when playing cards. This is all brought to life with animated elements and sound effects.
Games are created as custom posts, and become published when another user has accepting to challenge them. This allows users to share their experiences or look for opponents through social networks. Experience points and currency is also stored as custom meta, which is all cached to help load time.
The feedback from our members has been phenomenal, and I’m excited to see how far I can push the boundaries of browser based gaming.
Please feel free to browse the site: http://www.ratsclan.com/
Also, here’s a replay of one of my recent games: http://www.ratsclan.com/game/ba6b6a4e/
This is also my first ever work on a WordPress or bbPress site, so any feedback is much appreciated!
Can you please add:
apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, $title );
to the bbPress widget titles? I’m pretty sure this should be standard implementation within widgets.
I installed buddpress, and now the main forum page is empty. I removed buddypress again, but the issue did not go away.
See http://uncovery.me/forums/
What can I do to fix that?
Hello,
Is there any way to keep the bbpress-ar.mo file safe ?
Is it possible to keep the language file inside wp-content/languages ?
Thanks
Hi All
After installing and activating the plugin I have the following message, any ideas on how to get rid of this?
Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_can() in /homepages/**/*****/htdocs/**/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/topics/capabilities.php on line 226
I do not know the wordpress version as I cannot access the information, the bb plugin was downloaded today. I believe the theme installed was Atahulpa
I’m trying to create a custom forum index page which should look exactly like the default forum index page with forum names, number of topics, number of posts, last active topic etc. but sorted alphabetically based on forum names.
I’m looking at at bbp_has_forums, bbp_forums and bbp_list_forums inside /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php.
However, I’m puzzled which function to use and
What arguments/ parameters I should pass?
the comments in bbp-forum-template.php itself says the same parameters as WP_Query() but would it make sense at all to have something like “post_type” => “forum”
I’m sure one can be clearer/ more explicit about the parameters here in some form of documentation
I gave it wild tries as follows
1) The following gives me fatal error:
$args = array(
'orderby' => 'title',
'order' => 'ASC',
);
while (bbp_forums($args)){
bbp_the_forum();
echo bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' );
}
The error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in C:\www\forums.local\wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-includes\bbp-forum-template.php on line 109 Call Stack: 0.0004 333592 1. {main}() C:\www\forums.local\index.php:0 0.0006 337280 2. require(‘C:\www\forums.local\wp-blog-header.php’) C:\www\forums.local\index.php:17 0.3864 38499368 3. require_once(‘C:\www\forums.local\wp-includes\template-loader.php’) C:\www\forums.local\wp-blog-header.php:16 0.3920 38515824 4. include(‘C:\www\forums.local\wp-content\themes\bp-tap\custom-index.php’) C:\www\forums.local\wp-includes\template-loader.php:43 0.4732 38674368 5. bbp_forums() C:\www\forums.local\wp-content\themes\bp-tap\custom-index.php:42
2) While the following just takes forever to load:
$args = array(
'orderby' => 'title',
'order' => 'ASC',
);
while (bbp_has_forums($args)){
bbp_the_forum();
echo bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'archive-forum' );
}
I’m using WordPress 3.4.2 and bbPress 2.1.2.
I’ve copied all files and directories from /wp-content/plugins/bbPress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/ to my theme directory.
I finally started playing with bbPress. There are lot to learn because I want to display topics totally differently what is the default output.
First I want to display latest topics by latest activity like usual. I’ve created archive-topic.php in my theme so I can decide output.
After that I can filter topic post type so that topics are ordered by latest activity.
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_filter_topic' );
function my_filter_topic( $query ) {
if( $query->is_main_query() && is_post_type_archive( 'topic' ) ) {
$query->set( 'meta_key', '_bbp_last_active_id' );
$query->set( 'orderby', 'meta_value_num' );
$query->set( 'order', 'DESC' );
}
}
But this doesn’t display sticky posts first. They are more like last. Does someone have an idea how I get sticky posts to show first?
Let’s say I get 1000 people signed up as members on my site, where exactly is all their basic contact and profile info stored?
I’m building a community database of farmers and want to be able to reference each member at anytime and without fear of loosing all that information. So where exactly is all that content stored and is it secure?
Thanks for any light shed on this for me.
Hello,
I am a first time WordPress user and have been designing my site for a recreational group and have stumbled upon a problem.
My bbPress is displaying all Categories and most forums, but for some reason after I created a topic in one of the forums under a category all the forums under that category dissapeared. Now the topic I posted is displaying to the right of the category as the most recent topic, but yet there is no forums showing under the category.
WordPress version: 3.4.2
bbPress version: 2.1.3
My site: http://www.c3eu.com
Hi – I had a pretty rough time the last time I tried to install and configure bbPress. I have since upgraded to PageLines (they have a compatibility plugin, which I’ve installed but not yet activated.) and I’d like to try again. My site is generating lots of gab but only on a couple of posts – I’d like a nice playroom for them all.
Last time I tried this I saw a decent install/configure video, but can’t find it now – maybe it was for BuddyPress?). Any decent step-by-step configure how-to’s for a miserable, slightly gun-shy newbie?
