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Getting Started with bbPress
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Taking Your First Steps with bbPress
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User Management in bbPress
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Extending bbPress Using Plugins
- Extending bbPress Using Plugins
- Spam protection
- GD bbPress Tools
- Attachments – GD bbPress attachments
- Improved e-mail notifications – bbPress Email Notifications
- Viewing unread topics – bbPress unread posts
- View users online – WP-UserOnline
- Plugin checks – what to look for when installing plugins?
- Actions and filters – developing your own bbPress plugins!
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Adding bbPress to Your WordPress Theme
- Adding bbPress to Your WordPress Theme
- Adding bbPress widgets to WordPress
- Available bbPress widgets
- Adding more widgets with GD bbPress widgets
- Editing individual elements of bbPress
- Individual bbPress elements and their functions
- Integrating bbPress functionality into WordPress with shortcodes
- Adding your forum to navigation areas using custom menus
- Creating a forum-only widget sidebar
- Adding the custom sidebar template to your forum template
- Summary
About this book
Even with the rise of social media, forums remain a popular part of the Internet. bbPress allows you to increase interactivity with your WordPress website or blog by creating discussion forums within its confines.
bbPress Complete will show you how to create and manage a forum effectively. You will learn how to manage users, expand your forum with plugins, and integrate your forum into the rest of your site, whether it is a local community forum or a large website with thousands of visitors.
You will start off by learning the basics of bbPress and gradually acquire all the skills needed to run a successful bbPress community. You will learn how to integrate your forum effectively with the rest of your site, as well as how to manage the different kinds of users and much more. With clear, concise instructions detailing every aspect of the software, you will gain the knowledge required to extend bbPress using plugins and add bbPress to your WordPress theme. Furthermore, the real-world examples and clear instructions will give you all the tools you need to turn your blog into a successful community hub.
- Publication date:
- July 2013
- Publisher
- Packt
- Pages
- 122
- ISBN
- 9781782167242