This plugin ives members the ability to upload attachments on their posts.
It’s a port of a plugin originally created for bbPress by _ck_. See the original plugin page here: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/. _ck_ is not supporting this plugin anymore. Insofar as the code works, it is thanks to her; insofar as it does not, it is my fault.
Installation
- Upload to plugin directory and activate
- If you’d like to change the default settings (as described in step 5 here http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/installation/), you may do so by editing forum-attachments-for-buddypress-bp-functions.php
- Create a directory ‘bb-attachments’ one level above your WP root and make sure that it is writeable by the server. So if your WP installation is at /home/html/, create a directory /home/bb-attachments.
- I use a JavaScript trick to make uploads possible. If you are confident that most of your users will have JS enabled, you do not need to do anything else.
- If you want to make uploads possible for users with JS turned off, you will need to alter the <form> tags on your theme’s forum files: groups/single/forum/topic.php and groups/single/forum.php. Change
<form action="" method="post" id="forum-topic-form" class="standard-form">
to
<form action="" method="post" id="forum-topic-form" class="standard-form" enctype="multipart/form-data">
- If you have an unusual setup (in particular, if your WP_PLUGIN_URL is somewhere other than /wp-content/) you may have to play with the path settings in download.php and image.php to make things work correctly.
Read an older comment thread about this plugin.
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Translation credits
- Russian – slaFFik
Version history
- 0.1
- Initial release
- 0.2 – March 19, 2010
- BuddyPress 1.2 compatible
- Removed the need for custom theme hooks
- Enabled inline images
- Improved download process to avoid header conflicts
- 0.2.1 – March 19, 2010
- Corrected redirect after deleting attachments
- Removed header requirements causing errors on some Apache setups
- 0.2.2 – March 22, 2010
- Corrected typo that was causing redirect conflicts with certain forum-related plugins
If you have migrated the site to a new server – don’t forget to edit the database details of the new site in – bbconfig.php.
In the same location as wpconfig.php.
This will fix the issue.