Split settings into relative WordPress settings screens

[johnjamesjacoby]

The bbPress settings screen should be split up and integrated more tightly into the existing WordPress settings screens. There is a core WordPress ticket that's currently preventing this from happening: ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9296

Once the WordPress permalinks page allows for custom fields to be saved from it, this is easily possible.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Doesn't look like this is going to make it into WP 3.2.

[cnorris23]

Replying to johnjamesjacoby:

Doesn't look like this is going to make it into WP 3.2.

Or 3.3

[johnjamesjacoby]

Correct. Punting.

[Mamaduka]

I think this won't happen before new Settings API - ​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18285

[johnjamesjacoby]

Bumping to 2.4. Going to put a switch in to allow an easy transition for this when it's time.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4932:

First pass at settings and options redux:

• Introduce toggle to break forum settings up into existing WordPress settings pages. Off by default, this allows us to migrate easier later, should we decide to go this route. See #1500.
• Introduce setting to handle the forum-root toggle. This eliminates the possible forum/topic archive slug conflict, if using topics archive as forum root. More to integrate here, including changing the main query and template part output.
• Break user slugs into their own section, and allow favorites and subscriptions slugs to be edited.
• Turn Forum Root into it's own section, and move topic/reply archive slugs into the new user section.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4933:

Move user base setting into new Users section. Tweak some verbiage to be more succinct. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4935:

Allow topics to replace the forum archive:

• Add condition to bbp_parse_args() and add a specific query variable early, and use this variable in bbp_is_forum_archive().
• Add condition to display_forum_archive() shortcode, to output topics if set.
• Add forum archive check to bbp_has_topics(), to ensure pagination links are correct.
• See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4936:

Correct typo that snuck in after testing. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4937:

Tweak include_root Settings verbiage to hopefully provide more context. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4938:

s/Base/Root. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4939:

Add bbp_settings_user_slugs section to mapped capabilities method. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

In 4940:

Check for both forum/topic archives when setting 'bbp_show_topics_on_root' query arg. Fixes paged 404's in configurations where a WordPress page is used in place of the normal Forum archive. See #1500.

[johnjamesjacoby]

This is largely finished, pending a WordPress core patch. Closing as fixed.