Pierre said:
I'm getting used to it too, but I do wish Steven got the "new posts" thing right. Threads with new posts are highlighted in the individual forum pages, but the "latest" posts" list no longer displays a highlight, nor does the forum list (on the home page).
huh?
I realize that the "New" icon in the Latest Discussions list isn't there but the New Icon for the Forums List on the main page is working just fine - http://screencast.com/t/Nzg3YmMxO
The problem is that the plugin is ideally meant for a pre 1.0.2 version of bbPress and the author had a falling out with with the team behind bbPress (which btw is a Wordpress owned project) and isn't updating her plugins. It doesn't help that she was also one of the most prolific of the plugin authors (as well as the best).
The plugin as it stands has limited options for customization and in the case of the main page display it seems it is an either or situation.
Now from what I understand by lurking in the bbPress IRC channel and the developer chat meetings that are going on there will be hooks added into the core code of bbPress to enable this information to be more accessible to 'theme' creators.
It also doesn't help that in my effort to try and make this version match up as close as possible to what a old-style forums looks like I have completely customized the layout which you can see when compared against the default bbPress layout - http://bbpress.org/forums/
I haven't stopped trying to improve what I have put together here but my major problem is a lack of knowledge about PHP (and to lesser degree bbPress code)- I know a little enough - just enough to make me very dangerous
Steven Hodson
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