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.

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. 

Thanks again

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…

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.  

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.

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…

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.  

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.

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/

I have no idea what you are referring to. That link leads me to a 404

its a 404 because there is an extra space at the end of the url in the link…

you should be able to put html in your special forum message – but not js… have you tried?

Thanks, I just took out the extra space so the link works now. 

I tried html for the basic areas that I could use but, to cover a different section, I can really only find PHP or JS code after extensive searching. 

Option 1

This site covers about half of what I need and the code won't save in the special forum message….it deletes the majority of it upon saving…everything between the iframe if I remember correctly. 

http://widgets.freestockcharts.com/GetInteractive.aspx?guid=da24c066-041e-42f8-a29d-f7fb26771cc7&w=400&h=400

<!– Start FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget –>
<p width=”100%” align=”center”>
<iframe width=”400″ height=”400″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ style=”border:none;” src=”http://widgets.freestockcharts.com/WidgetServer/InteractiveChartWidget.aspx?guid=da24c066-041e-42f8-a29d-f7fb26771cc7&w=400&h=400″></iframe>
</p>
<!– End FreeStockCharts.com Chart Widget –>

 

Option 2:

Covers more than half of what I need but half the code comes up only showing text and the other half actually executes but says flashplayer is not updated to a new enough version….which it is. 

http://www.wikinvest.com/special/Embed_Stock_Chart

<script src=”http://charts.wikinvest.com/wikinvest/wikichart/javascript/scripts.php” type=”text/javascript”></script><div id=”wikichartContainer_B0832439-AA81-DBAC-C670-05952C1F77FD”><div style=”width: 390px; text-align: center; vertical-align: center; margin-top: 22px;”><a href=”http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/”><img src=”http://cdn.wikinvest.com/wikinvest/images/adobe_flash_logo.gif” alt=”Flash” style=”border-width: 0px;”/><br/>Flash Player 9 or higher is required to view the chart<br/><strong>Click here to download Flash Player now</strong></a></div></div><script type=”text/javascript”>if (typeof(embedWikichart) != “undefined”) {embedWikichart(“http://charts.wikinvest.com/WikiChartMini.swf”,”wikichartContainer_B0832439-AA81-DBAC-C670-05952C1F77FD”,”390″,”245″,{“showAnnotations”:”true”,”endDate”:”08-02-2011″,”ticker”:”KOG”,”liveQuote”:”true”,”embedCodeDate”:”2011-2-8″,”startDate”:”08-08-2010″},{});}</script><div style=”font-size:9px;text-align:right;width:390px;font-family:Verdana”><a href=”http://www.wikinvest.com/chart/KOG” style=”text-decoration:underline; color:#0000ee;”>View the full KOG chart</a> at <a href=”http://www.wikinvest.com/”>Wikinvest</a></div>

 

Option 3 which covers most of what I need is what I posted in the previous post and it will not save when updating the special message. 

Even if I wanted to go the route of paying, most all use JS let alone hundreds of dollars a month for something a free substitute is just as good for.  

Any idea's of how I can create a workaround or am I pretty much out of luck if I can't find basic html code?  Much appreciated again.  Everything else seems to be moving along pretty nicely now…just little areas like this of trying to add what the customer wants becoming very time consuming to find/add. 

Well you can't run javascript or php code in this context. Javascript has to be a part of the generated source and be loaded to the browser. Php has to be interpreted on the server. The places you are trying to use these are saved as data to a database. They will get stripped by filters as a security measure against scripting attacks. The same is probably true of the iframe.

it is what the program hooks are for which can utilise any of these methods.

Thanks for the input. 

After reviewing programs hooks, I'm uncertain if that would even work for me. 

1st, I am uncertain which program hook would mimic the “special forum message” area above topics. 

2nd, It is my understanding (and I could very well be wrong, hopefully I am) that program hooks are hard-wired code in the back-end which would mean that same code would be in each “special forum message.”  The problem I see is each subforum I have would have code that has 3-4 key letters constantly changing in the code, depending on which subforum it is on, as the code needs to be unique to the subforum topic. I'm going to have many subforum topics so that means each set of code is slightly different for each. 

So, if I understand it correctly, program hooks would not do the trick.  It would work great if it was one standard code but not a code that needs to be different for each subforum, right?

Sorry for all the questions…this is just a long work in progress for me before I can even launch this publicly and test it out. 

Thanks,

MK