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Some requests I have not seen discussed yet...I included a few that I believe were discussed but unsure. Overall, the forum is already great...these seem like basic evolution ideas for added control and user friendly navigation.
- The ability to sticky posts within a topic
- The ability to keep posts stickied at the top and have a newest to oldest sequence of posts under it.
- The ability to prune old topics with the ability to avoid pruning stickied topics that fall into the old dates.
- IP Ban...but I think this was already brought up elsewhere
- IP Suspension
- Cache included...I think this was already brought up elsewhere
- HTML quick code buttons ( [IMG] Brackets for example)
- Favorites List for Users....to follow when new users post
- Ability to implement ad code into posts....easier ways to monetize will obviously help increase donations
- Ability to have users create a topic and be the moderator of their own topic (settings would need to be included for that in the forum....AKA "A User Forum." They can moderate their own thread and link it as if its a mini-website to them.
- Forum Title Search (or sub-forum) and Tag Search even when only a few letters are matched
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MK said:
- The ability to sticky posts within a topic
In SP now
- The ability to keep posts stickied at the top and have a newest to oldest sequence of posts under it.
In SP now
- The ability to prune old topics with the ability to avoid pruning stickied topics that fall into the old dates.
Reasonable notion to add to the current 'topic pruning' tool
- IP Ban...but I think this was already brought up elsewhere
There is no foolproof way of doing this. Dumping users you wish to ban into a 'banned' SP user group with no permissions is jjst as good
- IP Suspension
Same answer as above
- Cache included...I think this was already brought up elsewhere
We started to introduce certain cached items in V4 and this will be an ongoing primary development item.
- HTML quick code buttons ( [IMG] Brackets for example)
have you looked at the HTML editor?
- Favorites List for Users....to follow when new users post
The 'Watched Topics' really does this job
- Ability to implement ad code into posts....easier ways to monetize will obviously help increase donations
See our wiki - Plugin API section - Program Hooks
- Ability to have users create a topic and be the moderator of their own topic (settings would need to be included for that in the forum....AKA "A User Forum." They can moderate their own thread and link it as if its a mini-website to them.
Interesting notion although I suspect a biggish development that may appeal to a very small number of users
- Forum Title Search (or sub-forum) and Tag Search even when only a few letters are matched
Forum title search is doubtful. Improvements to the Tag search IS already planned.
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I should have prefaced I'm still toying around and learning everything. Thanks for the info
STICKY POSTS
One reason I did not know about the sticky posts was because when I would create a topic (which is technically post #1), it would only allow me the ability to pin the topic under the bottom left options section. After posting, I had to click the wrench to access the ability to pin the post...hence my confusion. Thanks for clearing that up.
IP BAN
For the IP Ban and using a Ban Group...wouldn't they simply be able to create multiple email addresses and register with new names. Then continue to log-in under unknown names where I would never even know I had banned them before?
HTML EDITOR
HTML editor...Yes, I've used it but it confuses some of the other users. Having various individuals testing things out and they keep asking me how to simply post pictures without the upload button. It seems most are accustomed to clicking an easy tag button of to place their picture link in quickly.
Speaking of code, I am attempting to use the "special forum message" to post a script/widget that would appear above the topics under that subforum. Here is the code for one of them:
<script src="http://widgets.macroaxis.com/widgets/url.jsp?t=24&s=GOOG"></script>
Can that be done in the special forum message or even the regular forum posts? I'm likely missing an outer tag to make it work...if it can.
HOOKS FOR AD CODE
Yea, I checked the wiki and the first time i read it, it went over my head. I modified some code above the forum with adsense instead. I'd have to reread the hooks info to understand exactly how to do that.
USER MODERATED THREADS
Agreed, it is unlikely worth the work as its likely only unique to my forum situation...was hoping it could be done simply on your end. My workaround (untested, haven't gotten this far yet) is to have the user submit the request for a thread to me and I will create a user group (moderator permissions) of only that 1 person for that specific sub-forum...as my admin rights allow me to overrule anything going on there. More than likely, that would still be too much work for me and too much load on the server as well to be worth it.
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IP ban.. with most ISPs, the IP is ever changing for users... banning by IP is not a good method... besides if you want to do that, there are numerous wp plugins which try to do it... it will carry over to SP since they wont be able to regsiter...
no, js script is not allowed there... html is okay...
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But don't some numbers stay the same which they tend to focus on? I know sites that only allow one registration per IP address...they will auto delete if a username comes up under the same IP address. Actually, the site/forum I am attempting to mimic does that.
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Many, many people out there are on a shared IP address and many, many people are on a dynamic IP address which can change with each session... sometimes each page load.
It is a far from foolproof way. I don't believe there actually IS a foolproof way.
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and if a site is only allowing one registration per ID, they are not doing it with stock wp - just not part of core...
As I said, grab one of the IP ban plugins for wp... it will still work with sp and they wont be able to register or log in...
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much appreciated for all the info. My build-up is coming along nicely and hoping to deploy it to the public in about 2 weeks. Just concerned that all the sub-forums I need to create to mimic the site I am doing will not catch up to me and severely slow down the page load down the road.
You wouldn't happen to have a master list of what plugins work well with simplepress that were discussed before? Having a list like that would probably prevent some questions being asked in the forums...I'm sure many are redundant so apologies for that. I tried searching for some of my questions with little luck.
One plugin I am looking for is the ability for the Admin (me) to change a users name if they screwed up the log-in. Had a member mess up his log-in and after you create it, it can't be changed. Since it was new, I simply deleted him and let him re-register but a process of changing the name would be beneficial.
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I don't have a list I am afraid.
As you have found WP doesn't like the login name to be changed. However, I believe if it is just changed directly in the database it doesn't appear to cause any problem (although I have not done extensive testing on this) and I am aware of no reason why it should not be safe. There may well be a plugin out there that wraps a UI around this.
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I decided its just easier to make them create another one and than transfer over the posts before deletion….or just simply delete entirely and make them re-register. That's good enough for me.
Let me double check on something else though. Is their any workaround to using this code at the link below into the special forum message? Anything I can do to make this work? I can't find any regular html that can provide the entire set of data I am looking for…it either has JS or is PHP.
http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/.......sidebar/
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