I’ve finally finished bbBlog 2.0. This plugin adds a blog page to you bbPress forum, using posts from a forum category, specified by you. (For those wanting to do some simple blogging without the WordPress installation hassle…)
You can download it here:
http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bb-blog2.0.zip
Demo:
http://www.bbportal.org/mssp/view.php?view=blog
Features:
– Total rewrite of the bbBlog plugin (1.0 compatible)
– Now a link to the blog is created under the “Views list” at the front-page (forum index)
– The blog items are now correctly filtering bold text, hyperlinks, smilies, etc (thanks _ck_)
– Comments() link now goes to the first comment made (thanks _ck_)
– You can now prevent members and guests to start blog posts (they can still reply)
– Now also showing topic tags
– Added sticky support: Topics marked as sticky now show on top on the blog page
– Admin display redesigned to match bbPress 1.0 admin area
– Blog post date uses the same Date Format as set in: Admin -> Settings -> General -> Date Format
– Now shows blog main category no subforums yet)
– Now pre-loads the selected (blog) forum in the dropdownlistbox in the admin area (thanks Ben L.)
To do:
– Set as start page, can be done by htcacces, how does WP do this?
– Generate a nicer error message when there are no topics in the blog like: “No blog started yet”
– Show some confirmation when settings are saved (this is broken in 1.0)
– Add pagination
– A “Read more” functionality. Show a Read more link after an amount of words set in the admin
– Add: You are not allowed to create new topics (like when locked topics)
– Sub category support (admin option?)
– Separate tags with commas
Enjoy!
ps: I am NO programmer, so don’t expect much support. Code suggestions and help (esp. with Read more and pagination) are welcome.
We’ve got a set of new site editors here on bbPress.org, and so I wanted to start a thread for everybody to track anything they think could be improved in the copy and documentation of bbpress.org.
I see options for displaying post freshness and last poster. I need this information for the forums themselves. It’s a nice ability to see when the forum was last updated…
Looking forward, is there a way I can indicate “Forums that have new posts since you last logged in”?
Thanks,
David
Hi!
I am new to bbpress/buddypress
we are planning to migrate phpbb3 to bbpress,
so, we plan to have wpmu/bbpress/buddypress
what confuses me and my whole concept, is buddypress forums..
as it is, we plan to move php forums to bbpress
but where do buddypress forums stand?
sure, each group can have a forum – that’s all I know – so I guess they wont replace bbpress forums
Has anyone set up bbpress/buddypress forums? could I have a look at your site and how you are using forums?
Kind regards
Kris
Hi all 
I’m embarking on a little change in appearance on my forum. I have got most of it sorted, though there is a little something I’d like to add.
In my forum, a member pointed out that a new forum should not have too much on it – well at least too much with lots of zero’s at the end. I have a lot of sub-forums, and half of them have not been utilized yet.
So I changed the front page code to only display categories, instead of a huge list. I also had hidden some irrelevant forums, for the time being.
What I need to do now is add columns that will list the total posts and topics for all the forums in that category and the last person who posted in that forum, in the same format as I have for my ‘Recent Converstations’, and an extra line in the row that would display the sub-forums that have posts in them.
For example, this is what a row’s format would look like (Category | Posts | Topics | Last Post):
Category Name – Category Description | 92 | 24 | 3 minutes ago by Michael
Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2, Sub Forum 3
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Even a little bit of help here would be great.
Michael
When you go into the BBPress admin and try to edit a user’s profile, instead of loading an admin-panel page (like it should) it loads from the theme, which not only can break the edit process, it can make it extremely difficult to fix if you don’t know what you’re doing.
When you’re in the admin, navigating and doing admin things, you should remain IN the admin. The theme should be completely removed from the admin. Period.
1.1 Feature Poll
Matt has made a feature poll on what is most important for you to see in bbpress 1.1, so get on there and vote. If you want to tell why you voted that, feel free to tell here!
Is there any possibility’s because i just want to make a board integrated in a wordpress page, or is there any other way?
Looking for a plugin to put Adsense Code in between forum posts. Is the Adsense for BBpress plugin working?
I understand that she is annoyed that she didn’t get much support financially in developing all of these plugins but is it professional to not recommend people continue on with BBpress. Can people now use these plugins created and improve upon them so that they are now available in the latest version of BBpress?
