Mingle Forum WordPress Plugin now fully supports Media Embedding such as YouTube, Photobucket, Flickr, WordPress TV and more. It took a few trial runs to get it right but as far as I can tell Mingle Forum version 1.0.06 supports it very well without any bugs. The Forum plugin uses WordPress’ built in media embedding functions so it integrates nicely with it and runs very efficiently. Hope you enjoy it! Check out the links below for more info:
For a complete list of supported sites please visit: http://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds.
For a tutorial on how to use the embed feature: http://cartpauj.icomnow.com/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=43.0
For a demo of the embed feature in action: http://cartpauj.icomnow.com/forum/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=96.0
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Hi Cartpauj,
Came across your work after being totally disgusted with Thesis and Buddypress not being compatible. There are lots of folks in the same boat, so your work is very much appreciated!
I have a few questions about feature requests, etc., but one would be to be able to pull a particular part of the forum (either by topic or by group) and embed it in a particular part of the site (rather than just doing the forum wholesale). I’m trying to create a site with lots of fishing locations and I’d like to be able to sort of patch the appropriate forum into the main page of each. Just a thought.
Looking forward to your continued work with this — thanks so much for all of your efforts thus far!
Thanks for your kind words! Glad you’re liking the plugin. But hmmm…that seems pretty tough to implement. I’ll have to give that one some thought but to be honest I’m not sure when, or if, it will happen.
I suppose you could end up making many forums each with one category, but that might be a tricky alternative too.
In a way, I guess I have “groups” in mind, the way that buddypress does them. In order to take things beyond a robust forum and to be really social 2.0, the functionality of allowing users to sort themselves by group is key, at least in my mind.
Let me know if you have more thoughts about this — I’m weaker on the tech side in terms of knowing how to build this, but I always like bouncing ideas around!
Thanks again!
-JC
I ditto Jonas” comments about his experience with BuddyPress and Thesis ….I was also looking into his idea about each forum becoming a post (using SimplePress)…..but it sure does lead to complications, as the forum is no longer centralised…and some posts you may want to be in a forum format and not end up as separate posts…at least I was in this boat.
To my mind, if there were a vote on the direction that this forum plugin goes…I would vote for simplicity.
Jonas: could your objective be achieved simply by giving users the right to write a post…then comments will automatically appear under them? In this case…what it needed it integration from Post comments into the activity stream. no? or?
agreed Craig. Simple makes better load times. My site doesnt leave much room to talk. But in the event for fishing ponds and areas, your audience might not have the best bandwidth connection. I would go lightweight on your MySQL.
how can I download this plugin ?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mingle-forum