wow. quite a list!

will keep it handy, especially with plugin api coming in 5.0…  a lot would be easy to add as plugin and not bloat the core…

# 3 too bad, works on androids!

Another one I've thought about a few times – probably good for a plugin – Member Birthdays – ability for people to put their birth date in their profile and then each day on the forums display somewhere who's birthday it is tocday and coming up in the next 7 days

That you can already do with custom profile fields and program hooks…  of course, some php required in the hook…

not all of us have the skill level for that…

understand – hence the smiley 😉

Just rubbing it in then eh?

nah… wouldnt do that…

do need to find an extra hand or two to help out around here though…

Wish I could help.. coding isn't really my thing though – I'm  not so bad with layout and good at coming up with ideas LOL

Tal said:

1. Add users to a group via their profile.
2. One step banning – a special pre-defined group for banned members that
   gives them no access without having to add them to a group and be sure
   to remove them from other groups.
3. Option to ban by IP address.
4. List user posts from profile instead of threads they've posted in. Basically
   a list of posts with just the first sentence (or x characters) from
   each of the user's posts with a link to take you to that post and/or
   thread a lot of other forums do this and it would be very very useful.
5. Get rid of whatever inserts linebreaks after you post when you copy/paste text… that's really annoying!
6. Get rid of whatever inserts linebreaks after you post when you copy/paste text… that's really annoying!
7. Get rid of whatever inserts linebreaks after you post when you copy/paste text… that's really annoying!  Please?

Also:

-Ability to set a “second thoughts timer” so that edits to a post within that period of time don't cause it to read “Edited by xxxxx at x:xx PM”  vBulletin has this, and it's usually set to a couple minutes, so when you inevitably see a typo after you post you can correct it.

-Ability for admins to edit posts without causing them to read “Edited by xxxxx at x:xx PM”

My two cents

I actually quite like some of these suggestions and if they are not raised on a list of requests somewhere I will make sure most of them are.

However, items 5,6 and 7 are a mystery as I really don't have a clue what you are referring to. it depends on which editor you are using but mostly depends on the source of the pasted content. So you'll need to go into more step by step detail than you have above.

I think the linebreak issue has to do with the fact that pasted text is sometimes put in a DIV container whose name I don't immediately recall.  Sometimes it works fine (I can't reproduce it right now), and sometimes the pasted text ends up in a DIV and contains strange line breaks.

Edit: I'm an idiot.

I do have a few questions about using SPF in blog linking mode, where all comments are moved to forum posts and then deleted:

1. When a forum post is created from a WP comment, the information about the user's IP, email, and website is lost: even though SPF has fields for that, when I click on the wrench and look at them, those fields come up blank.  Is that a defect in my setup?  If not, is that something that is or will be fixed?

2. Related to that, the links for Delete and Spam go nowhere because they're still pointing to the original WP comment (which has been deleted).  The link to Edit, however, does work.  Is there any way to get the Delete link back?

3. Is there a way to flush out WP comments?  Every once in a while the blog linking doesn't work perfectly, and some comments get 'stuck' as WP comments.  I don't know how to get SPF to import and delete them.

Thanks!

spork – you CAN edit posts! Look on the post for a tool symbol –
click on it and you have a whole bunch of options including editing –
don't 'go editing in the database! that could get you in a mess.

spork said:

I think the linebreak issue has to do with the fact that pasted text is sometimes put in a DIV container whose name I don't immediately recall.  Sometimes it works fine (I can't reproduce it right now), and sometimes the pasted text ends up in a DIV and contains strange line breaks

We worked with Tal on the line-break issue and resolved it for 4.4.0…. or was that 4.3.5… juggling too many versions at the moment.

I do have a few questions about using SPF in blog linking mode, where all comments are moved to forum posts and then deleted:

1. When a forum post is created from a WP comment, the information about the user's IP, email, and website is lost: even though SPF has fields for that, when I click on the wrench and look at them, those fields come up blank.  Is that a defect in my setup?  If not, is that something that is or will be fixed?

Not something that has been reported before so I was unaware of this. I will open a ticket and investigate it.

2. Related to that, the links for Delete and Spam go nowhere because they're still pointing to the original WP comment (which has been deleted).  The link to Edit, however, does work.  Is there any way to get the Delete link back?

What links to Delete and Spam? Where are these links?

3. Is there a way to flush out WP comments?  Every once in a while the blog linking doesn't work perfectly, and some comments get 'stuck' as WP comments.  I don't know how to get SPF to import and delete them.

Really? Again – not something that has been reported before. I can again look into it but I doubt I can replicate this.

YS:

Permit me to describe the situation in case it helps.

1- My forum is set to “you must create an account to post”.  Guests have read access but cannot post.  However, WordPress is set to “anyone can post a comment”, so with blog linking, those posts get turned into guest forum posts and then deleted from the WordPress comments.

I get a confirmation email with each comment showing the email, website (if any), and IP of the user.  However, that doesn't get propagated to the SPF post: only the name shows up, and all the other fields (normally shown when I click on the wrench) are blank.

2- When looking at the comments from the post in WordPress (as opposed to from the forum), and when I'm logged in as an admin, there are three links next to the avatar: Edit, Delete, and Spam.  Edit works fine: it kicks me to the forum page, editing the comment in question.  However, clicking Delete brings me to a WordPress error page saying “No such comment” (probably because it's been deleted and only exists in the forum), and clicking “Spam” produces the same result.

3- I doubt you could replicate it and I wouldn't expect you to: it seems to happen that every once in a while, when a post is first published, the blog linking doesn't get turned on for that article.  So people start leaving comments, which (of course) are regular WordPress comments.  

Then if I re-publish the article and blog linking turns back on, it catches any new comments and turns them into forum posts, but the previous comments are “stuck” as WordPress comments and don't show up in the forums (and aren't counted by sf_comments_number()).

So it would be nice to have a way to “sweep” the article for WordPress comments when this happens.  As is, I have a few comments 'stuck' in WordPress and no way to get them out.

Does that help any?