Asgaros Forum v1.10.0: RSS Feeds & Enhancements

#1 · September 2, 2018, 2:56 pm

I am happy to announce version 1.10.0 of the Asgaros Forum plugin for WordPress. This release comes with RSS feeds and more enhancements.

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds are a new optional feature which is disabled by default. Enabling RSS feeds inside your Asgaros Forum settings adds new buttons to the lower area of forums and topics which allows you to view and subscribe to individual forums/topics with your favorite RSS reader.

Change Main Forum Title

Its now possible to change the main forum title inside the Asgaros Forum settings which is displayed in the overview.

Change Forum Title

Unread Indicator in Activity Feed

A lot of activity is going on in your community and its hard to keep an eye on interesting posts and topics? The activity feed now contains an unread indicator which allows you to find unread posts and topics more fast.

Unread Indicator

Show Location of Search Results

Search results now contain their forum location which makes it more easier for your users to find the relevant topics.

Search Results Location

Additional Changes

Added asgarosforum_wp_head hook
Added asgarosforum_bottom_navigation hook
Added asgarosforum_filter_editor_buttons filter
Fixed broken cookies when using SEO-friendly URLs
Render allowed HTML-tags in signatures inside the profile
Fixed display issues with some themes
Minor design changes
Performance improvements and code optimizations

Version 1.10.0 of Asgaros Forum will be available in the next 48 hours via the WordPress Updater!

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#2 · September 2, 2018, 3:39 pm

Great, thanks for the work.

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#3 · September 4, 2018, 4:45 am

Wonderful! Thanks so much!

Is there a possibility in future updates that the search term might be able to narrow down to a specific reply or page?

#4 · September 4, 2018, 8:54 am

Hello @kaqurei

Yes, I plan to implement some improvements for the search in the future, for example: Link to the first relevant post, highlight search keywords in posts, etc.

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#5 · September 4, 2018, 9:06 am

Thanks. Great job.

Just a little note. In your search results, you don’t have translate “in”. In french it’s “dans” for exemple.

#6 · September 4, 2018, 9:13 am

Hello @tof

Thanks for the notice. The french translations are managed by some other users. If you want you can suggest a correct translation here:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/asgaros-forum/stable/fr/default

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#7 · September 7, 2018, 9:27 am

Unread Indicator in Activity Feed

A lot of activity is going on in your community and its hard to keep an eye on interesting posts and topics? The activity feed now contains an unread indicator which allows you to find unread posts and topics more fast.

It is possible to sort the posts by Unread at first ? In order to have a quickly look of what is new.

#8 · September 8, 2018, 3:48 pm

TOF’s idea of having posts sorted by Unread first is a good one. Perhaps as a variant of that, a button that, when pressed, displays ONLY posts that are unread. And/Or an option to show only posts made since the user’s last sign in.

On our forum there are many threads and not all of them are of interest to every user. An option to see only posts made since the user’s last sign on would make navigation much faster.

Thank you for a really useful tool!

#9 · September 10, 2018, 4:33 pm

@tof @gespanne

An option to show only unread posts is a nice idea. I will keep it in mind and will check if I can add it with one of the next updates.

An option to show only posts made since the last login is more hard because its almost impossible to define the “last visit”. If a user writes a post, gets an one hour phone-call and comes back, it could be considered as a new visit and now the last unread topics will not be shown anymore. So I dont really want to go that way. If users want to have something like this they should use the “Mark all read” button at the end of their session to clear all unread-markings. When they come back they only see markings for new posts/topics.

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#10 · September 11, 2018, 10:29 pm

@Asgaros, I continue to be a slow learner. Where is the “Activity Feed”?