Forum Upgrade Update

Hello again! It is time for a progress update on the forum upgrade project.
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Plugins
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. has had volunteers working on converting various forum-related plugins for the past year or so, and we’re now at the point where those plugins are being committed. When doing conversions, I’ve tried to concentrate on the spirit of the code, rather than having an exact match. We can’t adhere strictly to the filters and actions that were previously available in bbPressbbPress Free, open source software built on top of WordPress for easily creating forums on sites. https://bbpress.org. 1, as these do not always map well to a bbPress 2 code path. Additionally, in some cases bbPress 2 has a better hook available, so we can avoid needing to code conditionals into the new plugins by choosing a more precise hook.
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I’m currently working through and committing the backlog of converted plugins. These are being updated to use common meta.trac.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/ code structures and the ‘wporg’ text domain for translations. Generally speaking, simple filtering plugins are being committed as classes, while more complex plugins that require an admin or user interface use namespaces. All of these plugins are open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. (GPL2+), and can be used in other bbPress installations. All are also easily testable with a local installation of bbPress 2 or the meta environment.
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Some plugins which are integral to all of the forums are:

• Topic Resolution — this allows topics to be set to ‘unresolved’, ‘resolved’, and ‘not a support question’ (formerly known as Support Forums)
• Version Dropdown — this allows the user to set the WordPress version relevant to a given topic
• Subscribe to Tags — this allows the user to subscribe to a given tag and will play an important part in the 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. for plugins and themes
• User Moderation — this sets a user’s posts to be automatically moderated

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Because all of the above plugins actually create and store data, rather than just filtering it, it is important that they be ported prior to forum upgrade. I’d rather spend the time to get all the moving pieces in place rather than convert a forum and then discover later on that I’ve left something important behind, like tag subscriptions. It is far easier to run the complete conversion once rather than trying to backfill unported data from the old tables, especially when it involves user metadata.
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Props go to everyone who has contributed code to the 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 overhauls, including @nullbyte, @justingreerbbl, @Clorith, @coffee2code, @Kenshino, @SergeyBiryukov, and @netweb.
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URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org redirects
I’ve written a bbPress 1 plugin to handle requests to the original forum location; this will allow me to incrementally convert *.forums.wordpress.org to *.wordpress.org/support without needing to constantly update the nginxNGINX NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. https://www.nginx.com/. rewrite rules. Once all the forums have been converted, then the nginx rewrite rules can be updated once and plugin removed.
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Conversion script
In my first pass, I took care of most of the topic meta and user options that were plugin related, but missed the tag subscriptions and user favorites. I’ve had to go back and code some parts of the conversion script to handle this data, as well as dealing with iterating over the usermeta table.
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I’ll be committing the required plugins all week so that I can start running the conversion script. Plugin testing is welcome; please pingPing The act of sending a very small amount of data to an end point. Ping is used in computer science to illicit a response from a target server to test it’s connection. Ping is also a term used by Slack users to @ someone or send them a direct message (DM). Users might say something along the lines of “Ping me when the meeting starts.” in SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/. on #meta if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the ported plugins.

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