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Sorry, I did not realise that BBpress was so limited.

But there were two parts to the question, the second was:

* Why have so many basic default features from BBpress been disabled, will they be reincarnated, and where is the planned roadmap?

No r-a-y …. it is not a BBpress issue. It is a Buddypress issue.

Why have so many of the default features, and admin tools/backend, been removed from the Buddypress installation of BBpress and is there an “official” roadmap for when they might be re-added?

It is a Buddypress issue because it is about what Buddypress will or will not become.

Is it going to mature into a proper social network/discussion forum, with the features average users have come to expect, or are we just guinea pigs for some feature that may or may not one day make it into WordPress.com?

I’ve made the changes mentioned above. so that if you have a bbpress install at a different location, the plugin will work.

I’ve added the ability to hide karma points. it is accessed in the admin.

I also noticed a bug with how the karma rating was showing up on the members page and fixed it.

the new version is 1.2 and should be visible here momentarily: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-rate-forum-posts/

enjoy.

Thanks for the info, r-a-y. I’ll go ahead and read all this…

here is the javascript that updates the textarea, maybe tinymce renames/overwrites it? i’m not sure. i’ll install it and see if it is anything simple

ok, tried it out – it won’t work as tinymce is some iframe whatever stuff.

though, i do have markitup on bbpress with ajax quote – works with no problems

Can you please wrap the signature in a <div> with a special ID or class so that we can style it appropriately?

Right now it just looks like part of the forum reply.

i kept it the same as _ck_’s for external bbpress, so it should be:

<div class="signature">

but the css style is hardcoded into her plugin

i’m all ears for a better way so that anyone can style it.

One thing I did track down is that forum extras is conflicting with

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/

(other than bp probably the most important plugin I use and the best in it’s class) Allows me to easily create my own custom meta boxes on a per post_type basis.

a quick look at the plugin and reveals the problem i had earlier with wpmu and creating new blogs/admin. Seems some plugins call require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/template.php'); outside of WP_ADMIN (in ‘init’ action) which will causes a function conflict with bp-internal-bbPress. I’m not sure if I have a solution for this – might be a wait until bbPress is a plugin (so they can resolve the naming conflicts)

A hacking the core solution would be wrapping the checked and selected functions in /wp-admin/includes/template.php and wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-forums\bbpress\bb-admin\includes\functions.bb-admin.php

if ( !function_exists('checked') ) {

if ( !function_exists('selected') ) {

However the buttons do not appear on Group wire or when sending direct messages of one user to another.

One great improvement for the future could be adding images straight from our computer, instead of using a URL.

That is expected behavior – this only modifies stuff in the group forums

as for uploading – that would be more of an album plugin to handle the process and hosting – this is just basic bbcode

Are you able to edit the signature admin items now?

seems the problems i’m hitting now are conflicts with calling internal bbpress and some functions having the same name on the wp side of thing (or now just wpmu). so i need to know if you are on wpmu or single

also try enabling display_errors and error_reporting and see if that provides any fatal errors

ok, found and i *believe* fixed the problem. just checked it into trunk – will give it one more go around before tagging 0.1.4

(just a naming conflict due to including some bbpress code – so now just excluding loading the plugin on certain pages

if ( bp_is_register_page() || bp_is_activation_page() || bp_is_user_blogs() || bp_is_blog_page() )

ok, found the error…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare checked() (previously declared in \xampplite\htdocs\wpmu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-forums\bbpress\bb-admin\includes\functions.bb-admin.php:1261) in \xampplite\htdocs\wpmu\wp-admin\includes\template.php on line 382

i need to grab a beer and dinner – and i’ll get this fixed tonight, sorry about that issue. I never use MU

Would this hook into the existing BP “Favorites” system?

Not really – since BP Favorites is against the activity stream. At one point I thought about adding in the activity replies/comments on a forum component/type to the related topic but no clean way to pull the info out of the activity table – i’m still looking into it though, would be nice to pull it in

the only hook i can do is on bp_activity_add_user_favorite (and remove), then check the activity component/type for forum, then add it to the bbpress favorites system. – at least in theory.

but to avoid confusion of the two different ‘favorites’ – would rename the internal bbpress favorites to ‘watch topic’ or something like that.

First, where is the “@ mentions” part in the BBCode that @3sixty is referring to?

Technically when Ajaxed Quote is enabled and someone quotes a post in the forums – the activity-update-filter will pick up the @username mention – thus if the user has the notifications turn on – they will get an email about it.

Second, should we be activating both BBCode and Shortcode sub-plugins?

No

Activate the “Forum Extras – BBCode” if you want to parse the bbcode into html prior to database update. (useful if you have external but also ok for internal). I’m a fan of this method as the process happens pre-save but when a user goes back to edit a post – they’ll see html

Or

Activate the “Forum Extras – Shortcode” and then Viper’s Shortcode BBCode wordpress plugin – this will retain the shortcode bbcode markup in the database. All this does does is enable the shortcode filter hook on the bbpress post content. (buddypress already hooks shortcode filter on activity updates) – Downside to this approach if you ever deactivate the shortcode – you’ll see the bbcode markup instead of filtering to the html equivalent but when a user edits a post – they see bbcode instead of html.

Hopefully not too confusing. I’ll update the documentation in the next release (working on getting bbpress favorites enabled)

Thanks Boone,

I havent had much use for extending bbpress till now (and I believe a lot of the popular plugins are being ported over anyway) so I guess its time to switch to internal bbpress.

Regards,

Kunal