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Idea for Scholar Theme

One of the descriptions that attracted me to the Scholar Theme is: “designed to work for heavy content”. Well most of the action / discussions will probably occur within the forums. What do you think about the idea of putting the 3/4 most popular forums on the front page … after ‘news’?

For my site that would be a real plus – what do others think?

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:51:03
  • Tammie
    • WordPress Wizard

    @andre7: I’d suggest a plugin for that rather than the theme itself. That’s more appropriate for such coding than a theme. With Scholar you have a large amount of widget areas and could easily if didn’t want to use those adapt the home template. As for what plugin, I’ve not looked into it but there more than likely would be one out there or you could do a plugin request. The problem also comes where a lot of people use bbpress or some other forum rather than the buddypress one itself. Since 1.2. they have done a bit to make that area a bit ‘more’ but it’s still not usually the forum people prefer.

  • andre7
    • Flash Drive

    OK thanks Tammie… will do some searching.

    Another idea … not very original, but something that I really like about Edublogs. Can we have a separate front page for logged-in users from logged-out users. This seems a great way to highlight the benefits of joining the community for new visitors … (something members don’t want to see constantly)?

  • Tammie
    • WordPress Wizard

    @andre7: hmm that’s a good idea I like that one. Currently nothing else is going to get added to Scholar however I will add that to the request list. Possibly it would be done a bit later on though so can’t give a delivery date. I would update with a forum post though if such a thing was added as that is quite an edition beyond it’s normal functionality.

    You can however do your own home brew version of this by using the following code:

    <?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

    //Put whatever want the logged in people to see here }

    else{

    //Put whatever want the logged out people to see

    }?>

    But, bare in mind this will only work for BuddyPress sites so if you are running a non-buddypress site you’d need to add the bp_exist check as a wrapper around it:

    <?php if( $bp_existed == 'true' ) { //check if bp existed ?>