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    Erich199 on November 7, 2015 at 6:09 pm #1426

    Hello community friends!

    I’m re-building my gaming community and so far I have a very nice theme and custom buddypress theme going.

    I’d like to know from some of you about which plugins/codes you use to help improve your community member experience/site usability.

    Do you use a content access plugin to restrict bbpress forums/pages? Which one?

    Thanks for the feedback, looking forward to hearing from you all.

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    Erich199 on November 7, 2015 at 6:18 pm #1427

    Oh, which bbpress plugins/codes do you use to help improve the forums?

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    Brajesh Singh on November 7, 2015 at 11:44 pm #1439

    Hi Joshua,
    I personally have used only 4 bbPress plugins till date.

    1. Search BBPress 2.0 by Stephen Carrol:- Must if you need fully functional bbpress frum search

    2. GetShopped Support forums:- Slightly modified version of it. Using to give users point and rank for the bbpress posts. Also It allows us various topic status like resolved etc.

    3. bbPress Notify Admin:- Our very own plugin to get notifications whenever there is a new reply/new topic on the forum. It is very helpful if you are running support forums.

    4. bbPress backtick:- Again our own implementation to allow using backticks for posting code in bbPress forums. There is an alternative available as bbp backtick.

    That’s all I use. The first one is a must have for enhancing experience and the second helps you to have more engagement for the user.

    Hope that helps.

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    Erich199 on November 8, 2015 at 1:27 am #1440

    Brajesh,

    I came from MyBB, which is an in depth forum. One thing I see lacking in BBpress are forum prefixes and to my surprise, no one has made a plugin for BBpress that allows admins to make forum prefix’s.

    The Getshopped support forums, does it have the ability to add forum prefixes? I noticed in the wordpress plugins that there is a notice it hasn’t been updated in two years (also the Search BBpress 2.0 plugin). Is this the correct area to get them?

    Thanks for the detailed reply.

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    Erich199 on November 8, 2015 at 3:33 am #1442

    I saw your plugin that allows group admins to change the background image. Do you have a plugin that allows a group header image?

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    Brajesh Singh on November 8, 2015 at 4:25 am #1443

    Hi,
    Try Bp profile cover image plugin. They have used our code and modified it to set covers.
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-cover-photo/

    Also, this is coming as part of BuddyPress 2.4

    Hope that helps

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    Erich199 on November 8, 2015 at 7:05 pm #1444

    Thanks for the response Brajesh,

    I did give the cover photo plugin a shot. But for some reason , it’s not showing the photo on the group pages.

    I’m thinking this might be a theme issue, and I’m not sure where to start with it. I’ll start digging around in the template files to see if it’s missing something.

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