This add-on plugin for bbPress will add new links to the top of bbPress topics that let the current user mark topics as either read or unread.
Mark as Read / Unread links will be added to the top of each topic, right next to the Favorite and Subscribe links provided by bbPress core.
You can view a list of all unread topics by going to your bbPress profile page. The unread topics will be shown below your Subscribed Forum Topics.
Note: this plugin is very much in beta. If you have problems with it, please post in the support forum and let me know instead of just leaving a bad rating. It’s very possible that large aspects of this plugin will change as it matures.
If you have suggestions or bugfixes for the plugin, please report them on Github.
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Languages
Mark as Read for bbPress as been translated into the following languages:
- English
- German
- Latvian
Will this work with the forums in BuddyPress?
I have not personally tested it, but I believe so.
seems to work with BuddyPress but since BP hijacks the bbpress profile, I cannot find a place to see read/unread posts.
I take that back: its under: profile => Forums => Subscriptions 🙂
This is awesome! I know it is a work in progress, but I am very happy to see this plugin.
How about a widget where we can have “Unread Topics”? It would surely make it easier for the user.
Thanks again,
Shep
I’ll certainly consider that for a future update.
Is there a way to show a link to unread posts, rather than going into the user profile. I have been searching through your code, but cannot get it to work like that.
Basically I want a link that will show all unread posts since the last visit.
Other than that, the plugin works perfectly. Thank you.
Not out of the box, sorry.
So if I mark a topic as “read” and then a user makes another post to the thread, will the thread then revert back to unread the next time I visit the forum?
No, sorry.
As Kevin said, marking a post as unread once more users have posted makes the most sense. Where you’re storing the read_ids, could you not add a timestamp to that too? So that you could compare it with the topic’s ‘freshness’ timestamp?
I’ve seen this done in another similar plugin called “bbpress-unread-posts” – the issue I have with that one, is that it seems to call the update_post_meta() method every time you read a topic. I think your method of using ajax after a set time has past makes much more sense.
Any chance you might look into adding the timestamp thing?
Bbpress is a very nice addition but for me it is very difficult to set it nicely. It definitely requires a lot of work and learning to work well. And other forums are often already expanded with styles.