WP.org Forums Plugins Audit

The version of bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. powering the WordPress.orgWordPress.org The community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ support forums is (despite being near and dear to my heart) out of date to the point of being a bottleneck towards progress on Rosetta. The plan has always been to migrate everything to bbPress 2.x, but the caveat to that otherwise (relatively) easy feat is the custom functionality that’s already built into the bbPress 1.x plugins that modify coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. behavior in a way that might not easily port over directly.

Below is an audit of those plugins, along with a brief description of what they do and the level of effort I estimate it will take to port that code. Thankfully, about half of these plugins will no longer be necessary. The other half will need to built as WordPress plugins that modify bbPress 2.x behavior.

fwiw, bbPress 2.6 is imminent (has been for a while) though I’m comfortable adding any actions or filters to bbPress core that might prevent an otherwise easy port. Stephen Edgar and myself are both available to help/assist/guide and/or to start porting these ourselves as well.

The plugins below represent 10 years of modifications to the WordPress.org support forums, and also represent an enormous opportunity for any volunteers who might want to help build the next generation of WordPress.org but maybe are not sure where to start.

Let’s use the comments below as the beginning communications towards what will likely be several individual initiatives, all working towards the common goal of bringing our support forums and the related moderation tools up to speed with the rest of bbPress and WordPress.org.

Migrate?	LOE	File	Description
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Low	_author-badges.php	Adds badge to pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and theme author replies for their replies in plugin snd theme-related forums (reviews, plugins and hacks, themes and templates) that pertain to their
Pending Testing & Review (@justingreerbbi)	Low	_bb-mail.php	Custom email subject from headers for support forums
Done (@jmdodd)	Medium	_codify.php	Converts [[wiki markup\|links]] into <a href=”http://www.example.com/wiki_markup”>links</a>.
Done (@jmdodd)	Low	_geriatric-threads.php	Add <metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress. name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow” /> to old closed topics
In Progress (@justingreerbbi)	Low	_lowfollow.php	View replies by IP address
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Low	_mailing-list.php	WordPress Announcements/Development News mailing list form
Yes	Medium	_plugin-reviews-listing.php	Plugin forum custom views
Yes	Medium	_plugin-support-listing.php	Plugin forum custom views
Yes	Medium	_plugin-svn-tracker-support-mock.php	SVN_Tracker_Support_Mock
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Medium	_plugin_stickies.php	Sticky topics for plugin forums
Done (@Clorith)	Low	_reg-hack.php	This is to blockBlock Block is the abstract term used to describe units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a webpage using the WordPress editor. The idea combines concepts of what in the past may have achieved with shortcodes, custom HTML, and embed discovery into a single consistent API and user experience. those stupid spam registrations
Done (@Clorith)	Medium	_registration-captcha.php	Captcha for registration
Done (@Clorith)	Low	_registration-speed-limit.php	max number of attempts per time period // time period user must wait before getting freed
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Low	_reviews.php	Miscellaneous modifications related to the reviews forum/feature.
Yes	Low	_subscribe_to_plugins.php	Subscribe to Plugins for wp.org
Yes	Low	_subscribe_to_tags.php	Subscribe to Tags for wp.org
Done (@coffee2code)	Low	_support-wporg-notifications-allow-superadmin-regex.php	WordPress.org Notifications Allow Superadmin Regex
Done (@coffee2code)	Low	_support-wporg-notifications.php	WordPress.org Notifications
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Low	_tag-codex-links.php	Forum codex links
In Progress (@Kenshino)	Medium	_template-mods.php	Custom template queries
Yes	Medium	_theme-reviews-listing.php	Custom views for theme forums
Yes	Medium	_theme-support-listing.php	Custom views for theme forums
In Progress (@nullbyte)	Medium	_version-dropdown.php	New topic form WordPress version dropdown field
Yes	Low	_views.php	Custom bbPress views
Yes	High	bozo.php	Bundled bbPress 1.x plugin that implements the bozo feature
No	None	_bb-quicktags.php	Inserts a quicktag toolbar on the post topic form.
No	None	_default-role.php	This should only run once per new user, as it’ll then have a capabilities meta for this site.
No	None	_email_login.php	Disable email login???
No	None	_fix-badly-utf8-trimmed-strings.php	FIlters topic title and terms via return iconv( ‘utf-8’, ‘utf-8//ignore’, $string );
No	None	_fix-topics-replied.php	fix_topics_replied
No	None	_fix-user-search.php	bbPress user search doesn’t deal with empty role arrays well
No	None	_fix_code_clickable.php	this replaces the make_clickable function with one that won’t do anything inside <code> blocks
No	None	_forum_row_click.php	disable until we can make this not open in a new window. If only you could do <tr href>. Curses, W3CW3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.https://www.w3.org/., curses.
No	None	_gravatar-retina.php	copy of bb_get_avatar, but with support for the devicePixelRatio 📱 cookie on .org
No	None	_hack_utf8_slugs.php	Sanitize URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org’s with dashes (Previous versions of bbPress didn’t try using mb_strtolower(), so all slugs were in original case. This makes the slug in the database and the one which we test again different, which causes 404s.)
No	None	_hidden-forums.php	Hides configured forums from general forum listings and prevents the forum’s topics listings. Only directly are its topics accessible.
No	None	_inception-fix.php	Because of either bad data or some other bug, the support forums don’t know the date of their first post properly.
No	Medium	_international.php	Hack all the i18n w.org login, menu urls, CSSCSS CSS is an acronym for cascading style sheets. This is what controls the design or look and feel of a site., keymaster roles, admin capabilities and user caps and roles
No	Low	_memcache.php	Custom memcache settings
No	None	_never-upgrade.php	Never upgrade the bbPress 1.x database
No	None	_new_plugin_post.php	FilterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. post titles and tags for plugin and plugin reveiew topics
No	None	_new_theme_post.php	Filter post titles and tags for theme and theme reveiew topics
No	None	_no-duplicate-emails.php	DO not allow duplicate email address’ for bbPress users
No	None	_profile-additions.php	Custom profile fields and profile sanitization
No	None	_queries.php	Query Debug
No	None	_random_seed.php	Skip the DB for random_seed transient – just generate an new (not very good) rnd_value on the fly
No	None	_return_helpers.php
No	None	_security.php	This file loosely corresponds to wp-content/mu-plugins/security.php
No	None	_spamhell.php	Spam Hell. Blocks for assorted spammers.
Maybe	Low	_add-replies-argument.php	Hangs a replies=# onto every topic link, so by appropriate styling users can see new posts
Maybe	Low	elfakismet.php	Adds the ability to stop akismet check after a user has x posts, and to always check for any you don’t trust.
Maybe	Low	_bb-google.php
Maybe	Low	_phishing_honeypot.php	Check a couple of specific IP addresses and email Nacin if true
Done (@SergeyBiryukov)	Low	_registration-chars.php	Block certain types of characters from being in usernames on registration.
Done (@SergeyBiryukov)	BP?	_registration-log.php	Check user registration log
Maybe	Low	_ssl.php	SSLSSL Secure Socket Layer - Encryption from the server to the browser and back. Prevents prying eyes from seeing what you are sending between your browser and the server. overrides and tweaks
Maybe	BP?	_stats_extra.php	stats logger for support forums
In Progress (@netweb)	High	_support-forum-admin-mods.php	Related to Bozo
Maybe	Low	_support-forum-autoload.php	Autoload support forumSupport Forum WordPress Support Forums is a place to go for help and conversations around using WordPress. Also the place to go to report issues that are caused by errors with the WordPress code and implementations.
In Progress (@netweb)	Low	_support-forum-mods.php	Moderator support for support forums and plugin/theme author moderators
Maybe	Low	_block-spam-searches.php	block_spam_searches_parse_query

#forums, #plugins, #rosetta

Marius (Clorith) 11:00 am on May 18, 2015

I believe `elfakismet.php` might need to be required, some of the states set by it as of right now might be used other places on w.org (not certain, though judging by the labels they get on profiles.w.org they quite likely are)?
- Samuel Wood (Otto) 1:50 pm on May 18, 2015
  
  Nah, we’ll change them to use something else.
Stephen Edgar 11:24 pm on May 19, 2015

The following 9 plugins can be removed from the “Yes” migrate list:
_mailing-list.php
_plugin-reviews-listing.php
_plugin-support-listing.php
_plugin-svn-tracker-support-mock.php
_plugin_stickies.php
_reviews.php
_subscribe_to_plugins.php
_theme-reviews-listing.php
_theme-support-listing.php

Each of the above are only used in the theme or pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party support forums, at this stage each locale will not be have localised support forums for themes or plugins, only general “WordPress” support forums.
- John James Jacoby 2:38 pm on May 20, 2015
  
  To be clear, these plugins will eventually need to be ported to something, just likely not specifically for Rosetta at this time, for this initiative.
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 4:12 pm on May 21, 2015

Volunteering @clorith and myself for any help with rewrites if needed 🙂 And me certainly to test and break things. You know I’m great there.
- Stephen Edgar 11:55 pm on May 21, 2015
  
  Thanks Mika 🙂
@mercime 2:42 am on June 4, 2015

Can volunteer to test and break things as well.
webdevmattcrom 3:22 pm on August 25, 2015

I plan to help as well. Trying to clear away some time after a big product launch this week.
Justin Greer 7:54 pm on September 25, 2015

Could we add a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. labeled “bbp_subscribtion_from_name” just like “bbp_subscription_from_email”. Currently bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. using get_bloginfo(‘name’) for the name while setting the “From headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes.”. Regex is need to parse the headers and change out the from name. Not a big deal but thought I would mention it.
Cristi Roberts 2:42 am on January 13, 2016

I would like to help but I am not a developer. Is there something a newbie could do?
Justin Greer 10:47 pm on January 21, 2016

I was just thinking about this. We have _lowfollow.php marked a low priority. Would it makes sense to remove it complexity. I don’t think it works on the current forums anyways. Just a thought as I am looking into this.
- Justin Greer 11:01 pm on January 21, 2016
  
  Disregard last statment. I already have view by IP completed anyways and just fine tuning.

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