WPPA Generator button in BBPRESS topic/reply

Hi Jacob,

Do you think this will be possible to develop ?

Laurence

As I understand: You want a shortcode generator that just creates shrtcode [photo nnn]
Looks doable – when i am back from hollidays. One question:
Should the user be able to select his own photos only?

Hi Jacob,

I think the default option should be that they can only select their own photos. That way the list of photos will be small for them to scroll through.

A nice to have, if technically possible, would be for the user to see an option (within the insert photo routine) to open the list to see all members photos but the list reverts back to just their photos next time they use it)

Thanks

Laurence

I will get into this later. This may take one or two months. Still on hollidays without pc. I can recommend that…

Hi Jacob,

Have you had time to think about this request yet.

I’m being asked constantly by my members to have a function that allows them to add a photo to the forum discussion (using BBPRESS) that stores the photo in their album for future reference/use.

There seems to be a growing feeling of discontent with the way they currently use my site which is to upload a photo to their album and then use the [photo 123] shortcode to added it to the discussion thread.

Members simply want to click a button while in the discussion topic, that allows them to upload a photo direct into the discussion. Without this functionality on my website I’m loosing members and content to other Facebook style discussion websites.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Laurence

This will be my first dev job after the release of 6.7.07 (end of this week)

I have a basic version working. It shows the users photos (max 100), a preview and the Insert Photo button.

You can test it when you install beta version 6.7.08.Beta.002
See: https://wppa.nl/docs-by-subject/development-version/ for instructions

Fixed 6.7.08, released today.

From the changelog:

Added shortcode generator for shortcode [photo]. Including upload new photo. Requires enabling the use of shortcode [photo] in Table IX-L1.

Hi Jacob,

I’ve installed 6.7.08 and have the use of shortcode enabled in Table IX-L1

I can see the camera icon and the functionality in WordPress Posts, which works, but not in the BBPRESS forum page. Is there a setting somewhere I need to set to enable this to work in BBPRESS Forums Topics and Replies ?

Also, wasn’t it possible to have the upload functionality included, so that it could be called a the point a member wants to insert a photo into a discussion Topic or Reply and store it in their gallery for future reference at the same time. Just asking as that would make a massive difference to how members use the site and remove the marjority of complaints/feedback I get from members.

Thanks in advance,

Laurence

I have no experience with bbpress, i will get into this.
The upload functionality is included ( it took me 3 days to get it working ) Try it on the wp edit post screen. There is an ‘Upload new photo’ textlink in the left column.

See: https://wppa.nl/wp-content/wppa-pl/Screenshots/Upload-on-photo-shortcode-generator.PNG

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by Jacob N. Breetvelt.

I spent the entire weekend on this issue.
This are my findings:

1. bbpress has a switch on the settings page: Add toolbar & buttons to textareas to help with HTML formatting This activated the wp_editor() as opposed to a simple text input field. However, the switch to use tynymce is set to false, it should be true to go to the ‘visual’ editing mode that is required for adding buttons to the toolbar.
This is fixable by a patch to …/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php on line 1735.
It reads:

'tinymce'           => false,

it should be:

'tinymce'           => true,

2. When done so, there is an insert photo button that requires an url. To get rid of this button you have to remove one line of code, also in a bbpress file.
3. To add the shortcode generator, a few things must be done in wppa to make it working at the frontend of the site.
4. The proble, is however, that the code that cretes the pop-up dialog, known as thickframe does not want to work at the frontend. Many people have tried this without success.

5. My plan is to see if there is a frontend editing plugin that allows the addition of ‘external’ ‘plugins’ to the tinymce editor, and use their technology. If that fails, i will see if i can get it working using a jQuery popup window.

To be continued…

The line to remove is in …/plugins/bbpress/includes/common/template.php on line 1858:
array_push( $buttons, 'image' );

I got it working. I will still need a few days programming, but i will release it in the next version (6.7.10)

ive been following your updates Jacob with interest.

That’s great news that you’ve got it working ??

Thanks in advance

Laurence

Please read
https://wppa.nl/nl/docs-by-subject/advanced-topics/shortcode-photo/

If you want to try the dev version, see for instructions:
https://wppa.nl/nl/docs-by-subject/development-version/