‘new topic’ shortcode for a specific forum

[Sadr]

Original discussion here:
​http://devpress.com/forums/topics/better-discussion-for-theme-pages/#post-4033

Simply put, there should be a shortcode like [bbp-reply-form id=$forum_id] to point a reply form to a specific forum ID. Useful for accompanying individual forums embedded in pages, and for instance feedback widgets for users to post to your support forum from anywhere on your website.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Replies aren't for forums, they are for topics. Do you mean the topic form?

[Sadr]

Oh, right you are sir. Yep, topic form.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Punting to Future Release to trim down scope for a sooner 2.1.

Should be a pretty easy patch if anyone wants to help out with it.

[Sadr]

Would love for this to be reconsidered for 2.2

[netweb]

My first shot at this.... 1649.1.diff

Shortcode: [bbp-topic-in-forum id=$forum_id] eg. [bbp-topic-in-forum id=32]

The gaping hole in this patch is that the 'select forum' dropdown is still shown, I think I have the rest of whats needed for the shortcode though.

Just needs work on parsing $forum_id to form-topic.php template part and to not show bbp_dropdown.

This equates to NOT addressing the specific issue of this ticket, yet, I'll take another stab at this soon.

[netweb]

If I call the form-topic.php template for the shorcode

bbp_get_template_part( 'form', 'topic' );

We still get the forum dropdown (the goal of this shortcode is to parse it with $atrr ID) becasue of

if ( !bbp_is_single_forum() ) ​form-topic.php#120

If I call the content-single-forum.php template for the shorcode

bbp_get_template_part( 'content', 'single-forum' );

We also get the forums loop of sub forums and topics and the forum dropdown

Next steps??? ... A new template part based on content-single-forum.php for this shortcode and some more if/else logic in ​form-topic.php#120... Not sure... Need to think about this some more :P

[Sadr]

Not for 2.3 then I guess? Might as well mention that a "post with specific tag" shortcode like [bbp-reply-form id=$tag_id] would also be mighty useful.

Thanks a lot for giving it some attention!

[gautamgupta]

A bit hacky (but doesn't have any side effects) and implements forum_id attribute within the existing function

[gautamgupta]

Attached another patch which makes use of query names to tell bbPress not to display the dropdown. It is also implemented within the bbp-topic-form shortcode and a particular forum can be triggered by forum_id=xx attribute.

Can go into 2.4 or even 2.3.

[netweb]

Patch works for me

[johnjamesjacoby]

Would rather not rush a new feature into 2.3 when already in beta. Moving to 2.4.

[alex-ye]

Uploaded simple patches of how I think this should work. What's your opinion ?

[alex-ye]

I am not sure about the purpose of this any-more, I mean bbPress need an API to deal with pre-defined form values.. It's something take time and need a disscussion, I am not talking about the topic-from only but about how all bbPress forms work..

It will be nice feature but I think it need something better than a temp hack !

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 5012:

Allow topic form shortcode to accept a forum_id attribute. Props netweb, GautamGupta. Fixes #1649.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 5020:

Attributes are optional in the display_topic_form() shortcode. Suppresses debug notice when no attribute is passed, introduced in r5012. See #1649.