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- Started 6 months ago by Justin Tadlock
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A forum that runs off WordPress
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You win the prize for all time funniest dummy text. :)
I love this concept and was actually playing around with something similar. Would Forum Members add and edit their topics through the WordPress Dashboard? I'd prefer front end posting and editing of forum topics.
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I don't really look for much in forums. The ability to post code that looks decent, and mark items as resolved is good. Also, a way to view all threads I've been a part of (subscribing to them might be useful as well, although I don't do this very much).
Also, I'm with you on booting Jim Bob from the forums - he's ruining them for everyone.
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How about a child theme called "Jim Bob"? It could incorporate everything wrong about a WordPress theme into one delicious mess. Tables, inline CSS, green and orange….lots of green and orange. Actually, I could just release my first child theme.
As far as forums go I would love a simple WordPress based forum that works with the members plug-in. What you have so far looks like a winner. While we are at it cut loose with that Kirby Junior theme as well.
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This seems like what I've always wanted out of bbPress. But that raises the question: How will these two be in regard to each other?
I like the thought of the forum having its own post type. And if I could port php-fusion into it easily I would be ready to use it today :-)
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Great Idea - especialy for simple forums ...
how is i t performance wise ?
Aöongside with extendned Profiles this could be intresting for a project .... -
If this idea is still relevant, I think it should be possible to see unread forum posts since last visit (by bold type for instance).
I would also like to see how the posting and replying would look. Because it would (as Jan Egbert states above) be necessary to post from the front-end.
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This would work wonderfully well with the new 3.0 built in multi-site, wouldn't it? I mean, you've already got the one blog, and now, without any extra work save a plugin and MAYBE a theme tweak, you have a forum.
I like this a lot. If you need testers, let me know.
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I think I'm going to go ahead with this project.
Fantastic, I also think the good momentum at bbPress that started a couple of months ago has fizzled.
The only thing I really see as a huge problem is that paged comments (i.e., forum topic posts) aren't working correctly. I'm hoping this gets fixed in 3.0 because we need pagination.
I kind of thought that the forum topic posts would be an equivalent to the post (custom of course).
Here's a new topic form as it would look on the individual forum page:
http://justintadlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/individual-forum.pngLooks good, but doesn't it miss the ability to choose which forum it should be in? Or have you learned from all the topics that you have had to more from the Bliss part of ThemeHybrid :-)
Other than that, I'm super psyched about this, and maybe this could be the start to the canonical plugin, that has been discussed a couple of times. Anyways, I'm up for testing as well.
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Ahh yes, got ya :-)
Looking forward for the big bang.
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I am very interested in this project. I saw your tweet a couple months ago with the screenshot, and thought "Yes, this would be awesome!". I actually have a large site I'm building in 3.0-multisite that this would fit right in with. We were discussing using bbPress, but I'd much rather be able to use WordPress for all of it.
You covered unread posts issue, but there are a couple others:
1. How would you moderate the forum, i.e., move/edit/delete posts, moderate users (suspend/ban)? Would also need a "report post" link to flag an inappropriate post or reply for moderators.
2. What about a profile template so that users aren't mucking around in the WordPress backend to edit their profiles?
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great idea, this would solve the facebook connect problem also. Care to share a taste of it on a subpage/domain of this site?
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Could some of the comment handling be taken care of using Intense Debate? I've never used the plugin, but it seems as if it could fit this sort of application. It might ruin the 'simple' part too...
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