BBpress and this plugin

  • Resolved juventino199

    (@juventino199)


    4 years ago

    Hi there,

    I am thinking of buying this plugin I have a few questions before I do which I hope you can answer. Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask!

    1) I have downloaded the free version and the upvoting features are quite large on my BBpress forum topic replies, is there a way to decrease this on the ‘pro’ version?

    2) Is there an option to customize the icon of the upvotes?

    3) I have the replies coded to be posted above the one before it and I am hoping this plugin can re-order the replies to ‘most upvoted’ too and provide a drop down menu that users can select if they want the ‘most recent’ replies posted first (from my code) or if they want the ‘most upvoted’ replies first. Would this plugin still work? So if it set to most upvoted comment then it would ignore my code and show the most upvoted at the top? And also does this have that drop-down menu?

    4) Carrying on from the question above, when ‘most upvoted’ is selected, if the user then posts a comment, where does this go on the page? At the top with no upvotes and then when the page is refreshed it goes to the bottom?

    5) I don’t require the other features of the ‘pro’ version such as the accept button so are these easily disabled? I only require the weighting of the comments and the ability to sort the comments based on said weighting.

    Let me know if you do not understand/need a bit more info!
    Thank you

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  • Plugin Author natekinkead

    (@natekinkead)

    Hi! Thanks for your interest in my plugin. I hope you find the Pro version will work well for you. Let me address your questions…

    1) You tweak the size and style of everything with a little bit of CSS. If you inspect the voting area with your browser’s dev tools, you will see that all my HTML tags have descriptive class names for easy CSS targeting.

    2) Same as above.

    3) Yes, that’s exactly the feature that I offer in my Pro plugin. The dropdown has 2 options, “Best” and “Default”. “Best” sorts by most upvoted (but can use a weighted algorithm for more accurate sorting). “Default” leaves the sorting to whatever your bbPress was configured to do without this plugin.

    4) With out-of-the-box bbPress, leaving a new reply refreshes the page. So, you must be using a plugin/theme to offer some extra UI functionality. So, I’m not sure. But, the free version has the sorting by voting score feature (just not weighted, and no dropdown), so you can test it out on your site right now.

    5) Yes, any of the features can easily be disabled in the settings. You can see what those pro settings will be since I show them disabled in the free version.

    Thread Starter juventino199

    (@juventino199)

    Thank you for your reply,

    I have a Javascript/AJAX code that ‘refreshes’ the page automatically to load in the replies from users without the need to actually refresh the whole page – the javascript makes an AJAX call the backend to check for new replies, if there are new replies, these are returned to the frontend. With it being quite different from the out-of-box BBpress I was just wondering if the functionality of this plugin would work before I buy it.

    But with that being said, I will take a look now using the free version and hopefully, I will be purchasing it soon.

    Thank you

    Plugin Author natekinkead

    (@natekinkead)

    Cool. Yeah, the free version has sorting by voting, so you can see if it works well for your site.

    Let me know if there are any other questions I can answer. Thanks!

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