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Kathryn Presner 10:13 pm on July 28, 2013

Two Forum Tricks for Newbies

Hiya! Mika suggested I post a couple of tips for the new folks joining in the forums. Welcome!

Handy tip #1

Kees Meijer (keesiemeijer) built a tool that displays your profile-page in order of activity. This is extremely useful for viewing all your most recent forum posts where someone other than you replied last. You can also toggle it to hide resolved posts.

http://www.stoerke.be/recentforumactivity/

Handy tip #2

If you put a Codex topic in double square brackets, it’ll auto-generate a nice text link in your forum reply:

Example:

[[Integrating WordPress with Your Website]]

becomes:

Integrating WordPress with Your Website

Got more tips to share? Add them below!

Samuel Wood (Otto) 10:16 pm on July 28, 2013

If the code for the first one is available somewhere, then it might be a viable enhancement request for 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/ itself..

…and we have a tracTrac Trac is the place where contributors create issues for bugs or feature requests much like GitHub.https://core.trac.wordpress.org/. for that. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, say no more)

http://meta.trac.wordpress.org
- zoonini 10:44 pm on July 28, 2013
  
  Done! https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47
- Patrick Nommensen 4:35 am on August 1, 2013
  
  The app is available for download at http://www.stoerke.be/recentforumactivity/recentforumactivity.zip
siobhyb 7:45 pm on July 29, 2013

Great tips! Wish I’d known these earlier. 🙂