New Plugin: BT-Active Discussions
Over the weekend, I just created my first WordPress plugin, called BT Active Discussions. It is a recent comments plugin that displays customizable number of blog posts with recently updated comment. The output is very similar to phpBB’s View Active Topics and vBulletin’s Today’s Posts functions.
You can see a demo at Moolanomy Personal Finance Blog.
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- May 10, 2008: New Discussion Page | The Urban Fly Fisher
It’s on my to-do list.
I’m pretty excited about that…hoping it’ll foster even more discussion.
This is AWESOME! Is there a way for it to display the most involved (i.e. most commented-on) posts at the top? Is there a variable I can change to have it do that? I’d love to have the most popular discussions at the top instead of the most recent.
Perhaps that will be the next plugin you’ll design?
Thanks for this. I love it! Check it out: http://www.antishay.com/?page_id=162
Wow, Pinyo! This is good work!
I like Shanti’s idea, but the READER should be able to sort the output, unless that’s asking too much?
If I had more than 12 readers on my blog, I would definitely use this
Cheers,
Mitch
Mrs. Micah - Thank you. That’s my hope as well.
@Shanti - Thank you! I’ll see if I can create something — either as a feature of this plugin, or a separate plugin.
By the way, that’s an awesome recent discussion page. Very slick.
@Michell - Thank you. Your blog will grow big one day. My blog was at 12 readers at one point too.
Hey Pinyo,
Nice looking plugin. I have a question though. Where exactly do you put the %%bt-active-discussion%% . I have tried it in the post and had no luck. Does it need to be in a template page?
Lucian
@Lucian - You have to set it on a “page” — not “post”. It doesn’t have to be in a template.
Pinyo,
Thanks for the hint… and thanks for the great plugin. Works great now.
Lucian
Hi there, looks like a great plugin although I just cannot get it to work. It seems simple enough - I create a page and using the html editor just paste the code - is that correct or am I missing out something fundamental ?
All I get is a page with the code on it - what am I doing wrong?
(I am prepared for something simple)
@Lucian - No problem
@Alistair - Wow, that’s a mean looking mosquito! Make sure you:
1. activate the plugin,
2. create a page (Write –> Page),
3. enter the code %%bt-active-discussion%%
That should work. If not, send me the page you’re testing it on so I can see. It might be a good idea to disable caching plugin while you are setting up also (just to be sure).
Hey thanks for replying Pinyo,
Yup, that is exactly what I did……here is the page
http://urbanflyfisher.com/discussion/
The fly does not bite thankfully - its sole purpose in life is to have sex
@Alistair - I am sorry, I am not sure why it’s not working.
Hiya, these things happen - I have done some more investigations - I thought it might be my theme that is not letting it work so downloaded another couple - one of them def works with the plugin however the same problem occured. Very strange…
Right, so lets get this totally straight…..I create a new page, open the HTML editor NOT the visual and without putting in any other tags whatsoever jut paste the code?
Right, I have now installed wordpress on a sub domain and found it still does not work…
http://test.urbanflyfisher.com/?page_id=4
weird?
It’s not working for me either.
http://www.breakingmurphyslaw.com/18/
@Alistair - I found the problem.
%%bt-active-discussions%%
NOT
%%bt-active-discussion%%
You forgot the “s”
Pinyo - you forgot the “s” first
I copied and pasted the code from the read me file…
1. Add %%bt-active-discussion%% to any page you’d like to show the discussion table
I just KNEW it was something simple
ps. Lee - you are doing exactly the same as me the correct code is
%%bt-active-discussions%%
Oops. I will update the read me file.
Wow, looks like you have an active community on your blog.
Thanks, that did it. It’s working fine now.
Yea, it has turned into a bit of a local resource
Working like a champ for me, I woudl like to tweak the output a bit (maybe alternating lines highlighted and such, and it looks like the included CSS file is being ignored on my template, but this plugin really serves a need and I want to thank you for it!