Will you develop one of these buddypress.org enhancements?
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The buddypress.org bug and enhancement list at http://123.writeboard.com/7555930eb348e12b5 (password cake; scroll down to the middle of the page to see the list) has undergone some very helpful reorganization and refinement over the last week or two. Now it’s time to start tackling the list.
I’m working closely with Andy to figure out the exact logistical details of applying fixes. The short story is this: I will be merging fixes into the buddypress.org codebase, and Andy will be reviewing and deploying it. Andy and I are hoping that a workflow will be in place in a matter of days.
There are certain items on the bug list that are specific to the environment in which buddypress.org is hosted. I will be primarily responsible for these fixes.
However, many items can be developed independently of the buddypress.org theme and hosting environment. Below, I have listed a number of those items that can be developed independently. If you are a BP developer and would like to volunteer to code one of these enhancements, please state your interest below. I’ll edit the list to reflect people’s preferences.
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Support for `backticked` code in forums - 2) “
Topics started/replied to” page, in the vein of the old buddypress.org design – halfway done (thanks @r-a-y) - 3) Moving threads from one group to another – (should be doable with this but needs to be modified to move activity items too)
- 4) Quote filter/button for forums
- 5) “support” topic, for marking threads as Resolved/Unresolved/Not a support topic. I think this bbPress plugin does it: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-icons/#post-5080
6) link directly to most recent reply on a topic thread– done (thanks @nuprn1)
Ideally, these enhancements should be written in a modular way. Use BP hooks, so that your code can run from a plugin or from a functions.php file. (Bonus: that way you can put your code in the WP plugin repo!)
For those who love BuddyPress and can code a bit, this is a great and easy way to help out the community! Think of it as a mini 3.org project
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@r-a-y – Wow, such enthusiasm
I am on the fence about Syntax Highlighter. It’s pretty, and I use it on my own site, but it does add an extra step for the target audience of posted code – namely, they need to hit the button to get the plain-text popup before copying and pasting. Could cause more confusion than it’s worth.
why not both backticks and 1 syntax highlighting?
I can help out with the quote stuff (which requires a theme edit for the post reply textarea on each page – simple)
- also if I could code an anchor permalink to the last topic reply
FWIW – forum topic mover does not update activity stream records (the group_id) so that would need to be fixed
@boonebgorges – in group forum extras plugin as well…
all sorts of little goodies in there.
@r-a-y – have to calc in the page numberfunction bp_forum_extras_topic_last_post_link( $per_page = 15 ) {
global $forum_template;$page = bp_forum_extras_get_page_number($forum_template->topic->topic_posts, $per_page);
$page = (1 < $page) ? '?topic_page='. $page .'&num='. $per_page : '';return bp_get_the_topic_permalink() . $page ."#post-". $forum_template->topic->topic_last_post_id;
}function bp_forum_extras_get_page_number( $item, $per_page = 15 ) {
if ( !$per_page )
return false;return intval( ceil( $item / $per_page ) ); // page 1 is the first page
}
Ahh yes, you’re right
Use Rich’s code!Also, Rich, are you volunteering to modify the move topic plugin so that it fixes activity items
?degrade to non-functional. though a solution would be adding a “reply to topic page” which loads quoted post in the textarea (how other forums tend to operate) but that might be outside the scope what is needed here.
Heck, I might add that to the plugin anyways
since the bp-default theme does not include a reply textarea on each page w/o editing.re: #5 – support forum – I coded something last night and have a *preliminary* working version. I basically wrote it from scratch since the bbPress one has too much code and I didn’t want to bother with porting it over
Boone, I’ll send you what I have right now, but I’m still looking at optimizing the plugin since
I’m currently using bbPress’ topic meta to set and grab the support status, which might be overkill if you’re on a forum directory page as it will hit the DB for every topic. But, it functions well*Edit – No longer uses topic meta in the topic loop! Close to public release.
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