Featured Images

[marv51]

When creating a forum in the dashboard. You can set a featured image in the picture upload box. This is not shown anywhere in the UI and can also not be undone. This breaks themes that use this kind of images.

[marv51]

Patch that adds the featured image meta box

[marv51]

Patch that adds the featured image meta box

[marv51]

Sry uploaded twice. This adds the 'thumbnail' capability to the forums post type. This fixed my problem and is quite a nice feature actually.

Please be gentle, this is my first patch ever.

[johnjamesjacoby]

Congrats on your first patch! Yay! :)

So I don't quite understand the problem. :) bbPress has these built-in features turned off so that plugins or themes can choose to optionally turn them on if they support them. Post thumbnails are not enabled by bbPress, and there is no danger of data being lost breaking things, etc...

[marv51]

Your are describing the way it should be, but nevertheless that's not how I see it here in my test install. I can very clearly see the link "Set as featured Image" after I upload a image in the editor for the forum. As you said, that is not the expected behavior.
I will try with a clean install later and post a screenshot.

[marv51]

Here is a screenshot showing the problem (circled red).

[johnjamesjacoby]

Appears you found a WordPress bug!

I created WordPress ticket ​#WP18669 for you, and am closing this one since it's not something we can fix here.

If you want to enable featured images for your forums, I'd suggest making a small plugin to filter 'bbp_register_forum_post_type' instead. That way your changes won't get wiped out when updates to bbPress roll in.

Thanks for the report and good work!