Widgets for bbPress

GD bbPress Toolbox Pro adds many new widgets for bbPress powered forums. Some widgets are designed to replace default bbPress widgets with a wide range of new and improved settings. Plugin version 7.5 has a total of 9 new widgets available. Through plugin settings you can disable any of the plugin widgets, and they will not be registered or available for use in the sidebars.

List of available widgets

The plugin version 7.5 has 9 widgets:

• Forum Information: This widget shows information about the forum that includes topics and replies counts, last user activity, options to subscribe and a few more things.
• New Posts: This widget is much more flexible than normal bbPress widget and allows selecting period, content and a few other things. You can even exclude some of the forums from the query and check if the current user has rights to view the topic.
• Online Users: This is a simple widget that will show the list of users currently online, with additional information about a total of online users and visitors, and a maximum number of online users with the date they were recorded.
• Search Forums: This widget shows the search form that can search everywhere in the forums, or in the current forum only.
• Forum Statistics: This is widget similar to the default bbPress widget, but with some extra information and options to choose items and change their order.
• Topic Information: This widget adds various information about the topic currently open. Through the widget interface, you can adjust what will be displayed. If the current page is not topic, the widget will not be displayed.
• Topics Views: This widget will generate a list of links for each topic view registered and selected in this widget. Widget lists all registered Topic Views and allows you to use drag-drop to rearrange the list of views the way you want them to be displayed.
• Current User Profile: This widget shows a profile for a currently logged-in user, or if the user is not logged-in it will show links that lead to login. Through widget controls, you can choose what elements will be displayed. Widget template can be overridden through the theme to allow making changes beyond plugin settings and default layout.
• Top Thanked Users: This widget shows the list of users that received the most thanks for their topics or replies.

Widgets Interface

All widgets share similar interface, using tabs and wide widget settings layout. Global, Content, Filter tabs are used to configure widgets, and every widget is different.

Three special tabs, represented with icons only are:

• Extra (Flag): HTML to add before and after widget generated output; ID used for developer purposes.
• Visibility (Eye): control who can see the widget on the frontend.
• Shortcode (Brackets): generate shortcode based on the widget settings to use widget anywhere on the website.

Compatibility

Widgets are fully compatible with WordPress widgets specification, they work in Customizer, Widgets panel on the admin side, and work in the Block based Sidebars management panel too.