Plugin / bbPress Admin Bar Addition

Description

Quick Access to bbPress Forums Resources – Time Saver!

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your toolbar / admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to your ‘Forums’, ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page or even plugin extensions etc.

General Features

• The plugin is primarily intended towards forum admins and webmasters.
• Support for all native bbPress 2.x plugin settings plus a huge list of supported plugins & themes out of the box (see below for full listing).
• A massive list of resource & community links is included: support forums, videos/tutorials, code snippets, translations etc.
• A special – fully conditional – “Manage Groups” group where plugins like hook in.
• The added menu items added via my plugin follow the same user cabalities as their original links – in other words: if a link to a settings page is not displayed without my plugin for a certain user role/capability it won’t be when my plugin is active!
• 5 action hooks included for hooking custom menu items in — for all main sections plus the resource group section (see FAQ section here for more info on that).
• 10 additional icon colors included 🙂 (changeable via filters)
• 7 filters included to change wording/tooltip and icon of the main item – for more info see FAQ section here
• For custom “branding” or special needs a few sections like “Extensions” and “Resource links group” could be hidden from displaying via your active theme/child theme – for more info see FAQ section here
• Fully internationalized! Real-life tested and developed with international users in mind! Also supports update-secure custom language file (if you need special wording…)
• Fully Multisite compatible, you can also network-enable it – full support of Multisite specific stuff!
• Fully WPML compatible!
• Tested with WordPress versions 3.2-branch, 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.4-beta releases – also in debug mode (no stuff there, ok? 🙂

Special Features

• Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites, ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem 🙂
• Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
• Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
• NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress capability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable capability.)

Plugin Support

At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific plugins:

• Plugin: “GD bbPress Attachments” (free, by Dev4Press)
• Plugin: “GD bbPress Tools” (free, by Dev4Press)
• Plugin: “GD bbPress Widgets” (free, by Dev4Press)
• Plugin: “GD bbPress Toolbox Pro” (premium, by Dev4Press)
• Plugin: “bbPress Post Toolbar” (free, by Jason Schwarzenberger)
• Plugin: “bbPress Antispam” (free, by Daniel Huesken)
• Plugin: “bbPress reCaptcha” (free, by Pippin Williamson)
• Plugin: “bbPress Moderation” (free, by Ian Haycox)
• Plugin: “bbPress2 BBCode” (free, by Anton Channing + bOingball + Viper007Bond)
• Plugin: “bbPress2 Shortcode Whitelist” (free, by Anton Channing)
• Plugin: “bbPress WP Tweaks” (free, by veppa)
• Plugin: “Custom Post Type Privacy” (free, by Kev Price)
• Plugin: “bbConverter” (free, by anointed + AWJunkies)
• Plugin: “WangGuard” (free, by WangGuard Team)
• Plugin: “Members” (free, by Justin Tadlock)
• Plugin: “WP SyntaxHighlighter” (free, by redcocker)
• Plugin: “s2Member” (free version, by WebSharks, Inc.)
• Your free or premium bbPress specific plugin? – Just contact me with specific data

Theme/Framework Support

At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress specific/supporting themes or frameworks:

• Theme Framework with child themes: “Genesis Framework” (premium, by StudioPress) via “bbPress Genesis Extend” plugin (free, by Jared Atchison)
• Theme: “Skeleton” (free, by Simple Themes)
• Theme: “Elbee Elgee” (free, by Doug Stewart)
• Themes: “Fanwood” (free, by DevPress)
• Theme Framework with child themes: “Infinity (Anti-) Framework” via “BP Template Pack” plugin (free/beta, by PressCrew)
• Themes: “Gratitude” and “Buddies” (both premium, by Chris Paul/ZenThemes)
• Theme: “WP Sharp” (premium, by PrimaThemes at ThemeForest)
• Themes: “Propulsion”, “Angular”, “Choices” (all premium, by Kriesi at ThemeForest)
• Your free or premium bbPress specific theme/framework? – Just contact me with specific data

Localization

• English (default) – always included
• German (de_DE) – always included
• .pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included 🙂
• Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “bbPress Admin Bar Addition”…
• Your translation? – Just send it in

Credit where credit is due: This plugin here is inspired and based on the work of Remkus de Vries @defries and his awesome “WooThemes Admin Bar Addition” plugin.

A plugin from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes

Feedback

• I am open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of my plugins!
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More

• Also see my other plugins or see my WordPress.org profile page
• Tip: GenesisFinder – Find then create. Your Genesis Framework Search Engine.

Plugin Links

• Translations (GlotPress)
• User support forums
• Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist
• Plugin tip: My bbPress Search Widget plugin — search functionality for bbPress 2.x, independent from regular WordPress search 🙂

Donate

Enjoy using bbPress Admin Bar Addition? Please consider making a small donation to support the project’s continued development.

Translations

• English – default, always included
• German (de_DE): Deutsch – immer dabei! Download auch via deckerweb.de
• For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to /wp-content/languages/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that, just use a language file like bbpaba-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that (for creating one see the following tools).

Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “bbPress Admin Bar Addition”…

Note: All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”, which works fine on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Additional Info

Idea Behind / Philosophy: Just a little leightweight plugin for all the bbPress Forum managers out there to make their daily forum admin life a bit easier. I’ll try to add more plugin/theme support if it makes some sense. So stay tuned :).

Credits

• Thanx to Dominik Schilling @ocean90 for great help with the CSS for the first level icon in WordPress 3.3!