bbPress Post ToolbarbyJason Schwarzenberger

Post toolbar for bbPress 2.0.

• Toolbar is automatically shown, though it can be set to manual insertion.
• Enables embedding of images in a bbPress post (turn it on in the settings).
• Users can upload images directly to the site (Valums’ Ajax Upload script)
• Allows in a bbPress posts.
• Embeds online videos from multiple providers (Dailymotion, LiveLeak, Megavideo, Metacafe, Vimeo, YouTube,) using [video]http://…[video]
• Also provides a shortcode.
• Embeds online pastebins from multiple providers (GitHub’s Gist, Pastebin.com) using [paste]http://…[/paste]
• Toolbar items all pluggable, defaults can be turned off and replaced by custom ones.
• Default item set is formatting, smilies, and videos.
• Custom CSS styling of the bar.
• Custom button ordering.

An example of the toolbar is on the forum on my website.

I would prefer it if support and feedback is placed on my forum because I’ll check my website more often than WordPress’ plugin forums.
I have a GitHub repository for this project here.
Bug reports, feature requests and other issues can be reported through the GitHub Issues system.
Any donations will be gratefully accepted. ?

To Do

• Go to sleep.
• Clean some things.
• Other things that I can’t figure out yet.
• Relax and have a cup of hot chocolate.

Custom Buttons

The following is about standard push buttons, not panel opening buttons. To see how a panel opening button works just view the bbpress-post-toolbar.php source.

Adding custom buttons to the toolbar is done using by making a plugin and adding a filter to hook into the button.
My example below is how I added the Spoiler button to the toolbar, which is my modification of the Tiny Spoiler plugin.

Note: This isn’t my only modification to Tiny Spoiler. I had to also build a function to parse the [spoiler] shortcode inside a bbPress post.

function bbp_5o1_spoiler_add_to_toolbar($items) {
    $javascript = << 'api_item',
        'inside_anchor' => '',
        'data' => $javascript);
    return $items;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_5o1_toolbar_add_items' , 'bbp_5o1_spoiler_add_to_toolbar' );

Available JavaScript Functions

Really, just look inside toolbar.js

• Insert an HTML tag: insert_data('tag')
• (returns , potentially wrapped around text)
• Insert a shortcode tag: insert_shortcode('tag')
• (returns [tag][/tag], potentially wrapped around text)
• Insert a smiley: insert_smiley(':)')
• Insert a color: insert_color('red')
• Insert a size: insert_size('5pt')
• testText(tag_s, tag_e) can be used to try to wrap a start- and end-tag around selected text. If there is text selected then the tag will be applied at the end of the post content wrapped around a single space.

Available Action/Filter hookers

These are filters or actions that I have made to make buttons populate the bar:

• apply_filters( ‘bbp_5o1_toolbar_add_items’, array() );
• do_action( ‘bbp_5o1_toolbar_css’ );
• …