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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.

Download the plugin here.

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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

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Get it here or by searching for “forum attachments” on WP’s Add New Plugin page.

Bug reports (and especially patches!) are welcome.

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1. Download the plugin bb-attachments.php.zip
2. Unzip and upload to your WPMU plugin directory. Activate it.
3. You’ll have to make a few changes/additions to your theme files to make it work. In your BP theme directory, go to groups/single/forum/topic.php. On line 9, after the ‘template_notices’ hook, add

   <?php do_action( 'topic_page_load' ) ?>

   Next: After line 61, which reads

   <?php bp_the_topic_post_content() ?>

   insert the following line

   <?php do_action( 'bp_after_post_content' ); ?>

   Next: On line 26, replace

   <form action="<?php bp_forum_topic_action() ?>" method="post" id="forum-topic-form" class="standard-form">

   with

   <form action="<?php bp_forum_topic_action() ?>" method="post" id="forum-topic-form" class="standard-form" enctype="multipart/form-data">

4. In the same theme directory, open edit.php and index.php. Find the <form> tags, as described in the last part of the previous step, and replace them with the alternative <form> tag (with the enctype specified)
5. Follow steps 1 and 2 from here. Step 5 on that page (the “optional settings”) you can do as well, and those settings might take some tweaking for certain filetypes to be allowed.
6. Start uploading!

A few caveats:

• I have not tested any of the AWS abilities. It’s possible that they will still work, as the AWS functionality is more or less abstracted from the specific bbPress hooks.
• Inline images are not yet supported. I’m working on it.
• Things look a little bit ugly with the default BP 1.1 theme. I haven’t done much to make it pretty. I’m happy to take aesthetic suggestions, if you have any.

Thanks in advance for your help. Please leave any comments here in this post’s thread.

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