This is my first attempt at a plugin, so be gentle! 
This plugin allows you to display custom ads/messages anywhere on your site, including the front page, profile pages, forum pages, and even between posts.
The plugin randomly selects a file from a pre-determined directory, or you can specify a specific file to display. File types include .php, .html, .htm, or you can add custom file types as needed.
The files themselves can include links, images, PHP functions, and CSS stylization. You can customize the ads/messages however you want.
You can get the 0.1 version here:
http://blog.wittmania.com/bb-ads
PLEASE feel free to let me know if you find any bugs. I’m also extremely open to suggestions for future revisions, as my PHP skills are only slightly better than my bow hunting skills, which are pretty pathetic.
Enjoy!
What kind of features will bbpress have say in a year’s time? Considering it does not want to go down the path of a ‘bloated forum’, are there any useful features which will become standard in a future release?
Moodle, the open source Course Management System (http://www.moodle.org) has put together a package that contains all components needed for a Windows localhost installation (including Apache, MySQL and PHP). The only problem is that it is semi-manual. It would be nice if they would develop an installer that uses, for example, InstallShield, and makes the process automatic. I believe it would be very welcome and helpful for most users if WordPress would do the same for WP and bb and include both packages in the installer with checkboxes to select to install one or the other or both (under a Custom Install option).
BTW will anyone at WordPress see this?
I just recently installed bbpress integrating it into my wordpress website, and I noticed that, being the key master, I never appear as Last poster in a topic I just added a message too, nor my posts are counted in the totals of the main forums summary page.
Is this intended? And if so, any way to change this behaviour?
Thanks all :>
I use a plugin on my WP site called WP-Ads, which allows me to rotate custom built ads in various places throughout my site. It is very easy to use, but also very robust in what it allows you to do.
Does anyone know of anything similar for bbp? I know how to ad Adsense or something similar, but I need to serve up my own custom built ads for people/companies who have sponsored the site.
Any ideas?
Instead of oldest to newest, can we have a button that shows the messages from newest to oldest? That way people who have been keeping up on a topic can see the latest messages first.
Anyone?
http://rbl.babbage-tech.com/forums/
We are setup as a support site, with lots of help from Trent, we have our template tweaked to just how we want it.
Plugins used:
Support Forums
Admin Add User
Quicktags-4-bbpress
bb-memberlist
onlinelist (Slightly modified)
http://rbl.babbage-tech.com/forums/
I want to have a link to profile in name of user instead of link to his homepage. how to do that?
where can i change this forms? how can i add panels, like on the wordpress.org forums (Allowed markup: a blockquote br etc, but in buttons)?
this is my current forum.. it will be revamped soon.
http://www.adityanaik.com/forums/
and once i move to the new forum i will release the theme for this one!
