Download from WordPress Plugin Repo: BuddyPress Group Forum Extras

A collection of bbPress plugins to bring a little more forum feel to the group forums.

• Signatures (html tags are still limited to: a strong i )
• BBCode Lite (or option for Shortcode if internal only bbpress)
• Ajaxed Quote (requires theme edit on topic.php)

I’m also looking to add the following:

• Report Post to Mod (use notification/messaging system to group mods)
• Support Forums (run nongroup forums)
• Best Answer or bb-reputation (Karma)
• Signatures administration to include defines set of html tag or bbcode

Theme Edit is Required to use Ajax Quote

groups/single/forum/topic.php

Before the link:

<a href="#post-<?php bp_the_topic_post_id() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Permanent link to this post', 'buddypress' ) ?>">#</a>

Please add this action:

<?php do_action( 'bp_forum_extras_topic_links' ) ?>

If you run an external bbPress – the bbcode subplugin will convert bbcode to html whereas the shortcode subplugin is for internal bbpress as it just hooks the wordpress shortcode filter on the post content. Also – the signature subplugin will use the same bb_get_option name as _ck_’s original bbpress plugin.

Please let me know about any issues and any bbpress plugin requests to convert

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

Re: bbPress favorites. Sounds cool!

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

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

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.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 14 years, 9 months ago]

I kind of figured that, but it sounds like you’ve got a handle on it!

I guess my next question is would it be possible to add a subnav item to “My Favorites” for bbPress topics? This is just to avoid another nav item.

[@enzyad Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

If the plugin is activated, then the registration to buddypress is not possible. 404 error on registration activation page.

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

If the plugin is activated, then the registration to buddypress is not possible. 404 error on registration activation page.

i’m unable to duplicate that… this slug => /register/ works for me with various subplugins activated. anymore details to help out?

(also the /activate/ page works fine too)

[@gregfielding Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Rich, @etiviti

this plugin kills new blog creation.

I’m on MU 2.9.2 and buddypress 1.2.1.

When a user goes to “create new” in the admin bar, they can fill out the url and title, but then it goes to some sort of weird screen with just a ‘blog directory” button and no admin bar.

[@3sixty Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

yeeks! @gregfielding is right. It kills the new blog creation – I just had a user report this 30 minutes ago. @etiviti I need to break for a while but will check back in later and try to figure out if it’s a sub-plugin that’s causing it.

I was able to create a blog successfully, despite it hanging on the “blog creation successful” page. My user was able to create a blog, but it got misconfigured, and attempting to reach the blog caused a misconfiguration error to be thrown. I don’t know that this info necessarily helps troubleshoot but I thought I’d throw that out there.

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

OK, sounds like a MU thing. I’ll download and and check it out now

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

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

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

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() )

[@3sixty Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

works like a charm now. thanks!

[@enzyad Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

New version? )

Error msg:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/bp-forum-extras-signatures.php on line 32

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

what page did that occur on?

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

ok got it… bp_is_blog_page() returns true even if in the wpmu-admin area. i’ll push up a fix later today, i want to see about adding some other stuff

[@enzyad Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

what page did that occur on?

wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-forums-extras-settings-signatures

“i’ll push up a fix later today, “

Thank you very much!!

[@victor_moura Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Hi Etiviti!

Thanks a lot for this – when I’m able to add the BBcode and buttons, it will be great!

I still have not managed to do it so your guidance is much appreciated.

Since I’m a newbie, let me explain step by step what I did:

1. After uploading the zip file and extracting on my /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-content/plugins BuddyPress directory, I activated the plugins.

2. After activation, I clicked On BuddyPress -> Forum Extras and followed the instructions to edit the theme on /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-content/themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum and add the ” <?php do_action( ‘bp_forum_extras_topic_links’ ) ?> ” code as instructed.

3. This gives me the successful message:

QUOTE

BBCode enabled.

This plugin will convert bbcode to html prior to database updates and is recommend for external bbPress installs.

You may enable _ck_’s bbcode buttons via the BBCode Settings page but this might conflict with other textarea editors installed (tinymce, markitup) on the forum textareas.

UNQUOTE

4. When I click on the bullet item just below, “BBCode”, I get the following:

QUOTE

Group Forums BBCode

BBcode Buttons

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/bp-forum-extras-bbcode-admin.php on line 29

UNQUOTE

Any idea of what may be wrong? Thanks!

p.s. Just a (hopefully) constructive feedback: as a newbie, it took me some time to figure out that the groups/single/forum was located in the address I pointed out in step 2. Maybe other users like me have a similar experience. In that case, it would be good to have one simple phrase like “you have now to find where the theme is installed, generally it is a themes/bp-default/ folder under your BuddyPress installation”

[@victor_moura Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Oh, and here is the code of line 29:

QUOTE

<td><input type=”checkbox” name=”bbcodebuttons” id=”bbcodebuttons” value=”1″<?php if ( bb_get_option( ‘bp_bbcode_buttons’) ) { ?> checked=”checked”<?php } ?> /></td>

UNQUOTE

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I just fixed that error on the sig admin page – i’ll update it later today

[@victor_moura Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Thanks, etiviti! I will be checking this page for updates. It is good to hear that this is not related to a bad installation or something I did not configure right on my side.

When you have a new version, should I disable and then delete the plugin and install the new version?

I have a similar problem on the sig admin page (I’m using version 0.1.4):

QUOTE

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home1/fromvict/public_html/comunidade/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/bp-forum-extras-signatures.php on line 32

UNQUOTE

[@thecorkboard Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

bug report

environment:

bp 1.2.1

wp 3.0a

plugin 0.1.4

bp forum extras enabled

bp forum extras- signatures enabled

what caused it:

went to dashboard>buddypress>forum extras>signatures

error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home/.jona/wp4lib/ltr/dev.wordpressforlibraries.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/bp-forum-extras-signatures.php on line 32

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

tagging the fix now

I also enabled the ability restrict the sig html tags – strip_tags syntax <i><em><a><strong> and bbcode. only caveat is using bbcode converts to em, so make sure <em> is in the list of allowed tags.

[@anointed Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I am using bp 1.2.1, hope to test and upgrade to 1.2.2 later today.

I installed and activated forum extras 1.5, and then turned on signatures. Went into bp admin and clicked enter for signatures so that the info was in the db.

The problem I have is then any bp related page is blank. What is really weird is there are no errors being reported on the server logs like normally happens with a white screen. I have checked all the server logs, php, general, etc…

This has been going on since forum extras 1.3. I had a white screen back then and did not try to upgrade or run forum extras again until just now.

I can provide server login info if needed for troubleshooting, although with no errors in the logs, not sure how much that would help.

It’s no emergency or anything as I was not really planning on utilizing the current forum extra tools, but was more waiting for your ‘multi’ forum plugin add on coming later.

[@nuprn1 Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

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

[@victor_moura Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

How can I know if I’m on wpmu or single?

I installed BuddyPress using Simple Scripts. not sure if this helps…

[@anointed Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I am not sure how to enable display_errors, reporting.

I am running wpmu 2.9.1.1

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.