Introduction

The idea is from WordPress Extend Ideas . I wish I can use this to collect ideas, then make them real. This is also an example of customization of different forums and/or topics pages. “Ideas” is just an application.

Features

• Using same template functions – You don’t need to have new templates functions for Ideas. An idea category is a forum and an idea is a topic.
• Easily assigning a forum to be new top idea category in option page, or canceling assignment.
• Having /ideas/ or /ideas.php as part of permalinks, neither /forum/ nor /forum.php

Demonstration

It is on my forum . Scroll down to the bottom.

Installation

1. Copy sample template folder /ideas to /bb-templates/ideas
2. Copy Ideas plugin folder /IdeasPlugin to /my-plugins/IdeasPlugin
3. Copy two bbPress root PHP files /bbPressRoot/*.php to / (root of bbPress folder)
4. Activate plugin
5. Go to Site Management/Ideas page
6. Set a forum as top idea forum
7. Switch template to Ideas

Testing

Go to your front page, you should see the forum you set become a new section. Try to play with this section.

Merging into you own theme

You can read the source of sample template. It is derived from Kakumei (in bbPress 0.8.3). The modified files are

• post-form.php,
• front-page.php,
• style.css; and new files
• idea.php
• ideas.php