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.

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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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. bbRatings

   Add the option of post ratings. Let registered users voice vote on the posdt on a star rating of 1 to 5.

4. 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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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.

1. 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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