Sticky Posts
There is no option to make a post sticky when you add it. However, once you have added a topic, click to view it. Then browse right down. You will see a link ‘Stick Topic (to front)’
If your click STICK TOPIC, this topic will become a sticky in its respective forum. However, if you click TO FRONT, it will stick to the front page Latest Discussions list. One downside of this being, the topic is no longer shown in its respective forum. It is still counted there but no longer viewable from within the forum.
What purpose can this serve? Well for one you can use this to add General Forum Rules that you might not want appearing in any of the forums but visible on the front page. Any announcements can also be added here.
Favorites
How this works is you can add a post to your favorites. There is the option of subscribing to your favorites RSS feed so you can receive the latest posting in your favorite topics.
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After going thru many bbPress plugins here are some that work with bbPress 0.9.2 and provide added functionality to your forum.
- bbPress Latest Discussion
This is actually a Wordpress plugin which displays up to the last 10 discussions going on at the forum. Let your blog visitors know what is going on at your forum.
- bbPress Signatures
Let registered users add a signature to their posts. You can also add the option to individially toggle this option on or off per post.
- bbRatings
Add the option of post ratings. Let registered users voice vote on the posdt on a star rating of 1 to 5.
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Censor
Want to filter posts for bad words? This is the plugin. There is just one issue at the moment … its settings page doesn’t show up in the bbPress admin. A slight tweak will do the trick.
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Amazing Breakthrough In 3-D ECover Actions
If You're An Information Marketer Who Yearns To Transform Your Ecover Graphics From Ho-Hum To HOLY SMOKES, Then You've Got To Read This Story...
When I first started installing bbPress for a client, here are some issues that I faced. I’m giving you the solutions so you don’t have to go thru the entire process of searching for an answer.
- What is the link to the theme directory?
In Wordpress if you need to link to the theme directory you just use the tag:
bloginfo(template_directory)
For the moment there is no such option in bbPress. The basic documentation does not provide this very essential piece of information. After much research this is what I found:
< ?php bb_option('uri'); ?>my-templates/your-template-directory-name
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bbPress is what you can call a sister script of Wordpress. It is a lightweight forum script which is just as flexible and adaptable as Wordpress. There are lots of plugins available that add to its functionality with new ones being added every day.
The downside to this script is that there is no official documentation available. And that can have you going around in circles for quite a while especially if you are new to bbPress.
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Amazing Breakthrough In 3-D ECover Actions
If You're An Information Marketer Who Yearns To Transform Your Ecover Graphics From Ho-Hum To HOLY SMOKES, Then You've Got To Read This Story...
The problem with being a web designer is that when you get tired of your blog design and want to change it, you can. And I seriously need to stop doing that considering I just re-designed less than a month back.
I just wasn’t too happy with that design, though. It was just too different from my business site DotsnDashes. This one isn’t exactly a replica either but it has similarities and uses some of the basic design features from that website.
I’m thinking I’ll stick to this design for a bit.
So what do you think?
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A while back my cousin asked me to read Twilight by Stephanie Meyer.
She asked me to make sure not to read any reviews nor see the trailer for the upcoming movie or it will just spoil the book for me. She had loved the book and was totally obsessed with it. Her words were: I am having a mid life crisis – being so obsessed with this book. I had no idea what she meant.
So I finally went ahead and read the book.
The beginning was alright and it got interesting by the second, third chapter. Halfway through the book, I thought it was good enuff to keep me engrossed and to keep reading but I still had no idea why my cousin was so crazy about it.
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Updated List of Important and Useful Wordpress Plugins (WP 2.5.1)
It is time for an updated list of useful Wordpress Plugins that work with the 2.5.1 version.
I’m not going over 2.6 as it is still in its early stages and not all plugin authors have successfully updated to this version. But I will get to this soon.
Some of these are going to overlap with my previous list as they have been upgraded to work with this version and some I have already discussed in detail in several other posts.
This lets you add Wordpress functions in a tabbed interface. Not only does this look pretty neat but it also saves space. A must have for any blog!
Both plugins offer your visitors the chance to bookmark your posts and pages. Instead of adding several icons under your post and making them look cluttered, the whole menu pops up AJAX style on mouseover.
This is a classic and should not need any introduction. It lets you add adsense or YPN ads to your posts at the click of a button. Manage the codes on the plugin settings page.
An alternate which lets you add either adsense or YPN is the All in One Adsense and YPN. However, I haven’t tested this one yet.
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