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Thank you so much for this. The forum extra page works awesome on my setup and I am so happy. You have really outdone yourself on this one.

I do have one question. I made a post in a members only group forum, yet on the forum index page the new post does not show in the list of ‘fresh’ posts on the top. It does add to the counter in the group forum listing below though.

I would have expected the post to show up because I am logged in and a member of the private group, but to have it not visible to the public, or members who are not members of the group.

Is this a setting somewhere?

thanks

Agree with Andrea_r. Note that the oneclick install forum doesn’t have as much community support as far as plugins go as the standalone bbpress does.

At the end for forums I think nobody beats phpbb. So whatever your focus is as a site/communicty/group go with the best extensible available solution. If forums is your core look at forum software that gives you what you need. I would hold back for investing in a swissarmyknife, but fail at the one thing that is important for your audience.

If you want forums, then BuddyPress is not the best tool. Try bbpress, that’s the forum for wordpress.

You’ll have to dig pretty deep into the bbPress code to make this work right. bp_forums_tag_heat_map uses bb_tag_heat_map to create the cloud, and it doesn’t take order or order_by as an argument. bb_tag_heat_map then goes to bb_get_tag_heat_map. If you were going to make the reordering happen (without a lot of funny business) it might best happen at the level of bb_tag_heat_map (or a custom version of that function). The list of tags is created like this (see buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php):

$tags = bb_get_top_tags( array( 'number' => $limit ) );

which returns an array. You could then try using usort to sort by $tags[‘count’] before sending $tags to bb_get_tag_heat_map().

I still is version 0.1.5 with no “Forum Index.”

+1, really need this! BP Contents seem to cover everything suggested in this thread, if not more.

I have a feature suggestion, though I’m unsure which platform (WordPress vs BuddyPress) it actually targets. I would like the ability to make certain categories and tags private, i.e. for moderators and above only. I found a plugin called “private tags”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-tags/

This plugin however hides content, while all I want to do is to hide the option of adding certain tags. For instance if your website pulls official site news from various sub-blogs by checking for the ‘official’ tag, ordinary users should not be allowed to apply this tag.

“I really do like WordPress/Buddypress, I am just unable to structure the forums in buddypress in a true forum layout.”

If you’re just looking for a forum, then look at bbpress or any other forum package. BuddyPress has its focus on the social networking aspects. the forums area are minimized on purpose.

It sounds like you want a just a forum, not BuddyPress.

@nuprn1, what did you modify? I noticed that posts in bbpress don’t show up on the activity notifications, and the public/private/hidden stuff doesn’t seem to work either…

I can’t remember but i had to rewrite a bunch of it – and also hack the bbPress core to play nice with the GMT buddypress timestamps. Then throw in that bpGroups uses xmlrpc – so personally i’m moving to open up bbpress within buddypress instead of running an external bbpress install (with all the hidden/private forums)

OK, getting somewhere now:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_wire_setup_globals() in /home/mysite/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php on line 618

so the bbpress and Buddypress plugins are making contact but they are using (at least one) obsolete function. What is the replacement for bp_wire_setup_globals()?

I’m going to be away from my office computer for several days, so I won’t be able to test, but I’ll followup as soon as I’m able… thanks again for working on it!

I’m having the same problem, the white screen of death.

I disable all plugins changed the theme to default and still can’t run the plugin. I renamed to via the control panel to get wp back up and running.

Help, I’d really like to get this plug in up and running.

Dan

I use a plugin for quoting on a Vanilla forum that I run for about 1000 users (that I’m thinking of moving to Buddypress) that does exactly as I described. You highlight comment text, hit the quote link, and the text you have highlighted (only) is copied to the textbox with the appropriate cite/blockquote tags. Highlight nothing, the whole comment is copied, again with appropriate blockquote and cite tags. If that’s not the intended behaviour here and I’ve found a bug, I’ll see if I can hack it in myself using that as an example.

How would you expect it to know what you have quoted? … It is not like a mail client

I’ll add trying to not be insulting to my request to try not to derail threads. Simply because you don’t see how to do something doesn’t mean a) it’s not possible or b) it hasn’t been done before.

My suggestion would be to enable a BuddyPress social network as a container, so applications developed for other social networks run on BuddyPress social networks too. It will help to drive traffic to the BuddyPress social network, this is essential for its success.

I think the display issues I posted about earlier are caused due to a conflict with the WP-Minify plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/

Well, to do something like only quote the chosen text, you are looking at something much bigger than *just* the plug in.

Yes, I see the same behavior as you.

How would you expect it to know what you have quoted? … It is not like a mail client

At present it is easier to add blogs to phpBB, and build community, than add a discussion forum to BP.

It seems to me that this strikes at the heart and tradition of what WordPress is … as in one way broadcasting (single blogs) … rather than discussion.

I think WordPress is the best blogging platforms but I would argue that real community building happens around discussion, not one way broadcasting.

Imagine the different between

100 people standing in the street all talking aloud to themselves about their thing … and now and then being heckled by a passerby

100 people sitting down at a conference having a managed, or group discussions, about various topics ….

The first example is a WordPress blog farm.

The second is a phpBB discussion forum … and a community.

I am not exactly sure yet where Buddypress fits in or what its roadmap is.

If you want to add an integrated blog, which is picked up by a site search, you can do so to phpBB via a blog MOD. Imagine the above “conference” attendees having somewhere to be able post their conference speech papers.

The real problem is, BBpress was a badly starved project, as a discussion forum, before it was chosen to be integrated into WMPU and Automattic do not, seemingly, have a strong interest in integrating it.

I am wondering if it was a wrong choice and they should have gone with something mature like a bridge to phpBB.

A few folk liked BBpress because it was so slim and minimal … but then a few folk also like playing with 68k Apple Macs and Ataris too.

I hope that helps …

Please try not to derail. I was not complaining about BBpress.

I was asking the plugin author specifically for clarification of specific functionality in his plugin, which extends the default BBpress toolset we’re working with.