Title: Two Forum Tricks for Newbies
Author: Kathryn Presner
Published: July 28, 2013

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zoonini/) [Kathryn Presner](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zoonini/)
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/](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](https://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website)

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 1.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/250257111d1248c34046552bbcdf6999949ef56b2f992dd5eb39bf45cabeb18a?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 2.   [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/otto42/)  10:16 pm _on_ July
     28, 2013
 3.  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/](https://wordpress.org/)
     itself..
 4.  …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/](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/).
     for that. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge, say no more)
 5.  [http://meta.trac.wordpress.org](http://meta.trac.wordpress.org)
 6.   * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/73511af463288236f96ca58d2703c605f6d1fb974ebce82463d6c0c0fe6df244?
        s=32&d=mm&r=g)
      *  [zoonini](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zoonini/)  10:44 pm _on_ July 28,
        2013
      * Done! [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47)
      * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/66fad2c03da1ec784294f4fab53e76e11ba4e70fb7977a8b173c18f0411e13d7?
        s=32&d=mm&r=g)
      *  [Patrick Nommensen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/instovo/)  4:35 am _on_
        August 1, 2013
      * The app is available for download at [http://www.stoerke.be/recentforumactivity/recentforumactivity.zip](http://www.stoerke.be/recentforumactivity/recentforumactivity.zip)
 7.  ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/4923393472f6ddbc153f8ac76d9385dbfd91ec4d1afd14b16d3d0c25c5405df8?
     s=32&d=mm&r=g)
 8.   [siobhyb](https://profiles.wordpress.org/siobhyb/)  7:45 pm _on_ July 29, 2013
 9.  Great tips! Wish I’d known these earlier. 🙂

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