Thanks for your feedback.
Although i think replacing the username by display name can be achieve using the different filters the plugin is offering, i realize it could be easier.
See: https://github.com/imath/wp-idea-stream/issues/3 to have the follow up
Pages ?
The plugin is injecting its content using page.php or index.php if the theme does not have a page.php template. For the single idea it uses single.php. I don’t understand the problem with sidebar, surely because i don’t see your site. If the page.php has no sidebar or single.php has no sidebar, i can’t do much right now, except for the page.php. You can for instance create an ideastream.php on the model of your page.php and add a sidebar in it.
You can add WP Nav Menus using the links used by the plugin.
Shortcodes ?
i think your memory is wrong 😉 Never did shortcodes with this plugin. I think the problem is some of your theme templates file doesn’t include a sidebar. So i’ll advise you to use WP Nav Menus.
I’ll see what i can do for the single.php part on a next release.
See https://github.com/imath/wp-idea-stream/issues/4 for the follow up
Well actually i’ve double checked. I’m using the page.php for single ideas too. So if you want to have more control and eventually be sure to include a sidebar for each IdeaStream view. I advise you to create an ideastream.php template in your theme and include a sidebar in it. It will be loaded for each IdeaStream area, meaning you’ll always have the sidebar.
Actually, i really think this part :
Also the (Pages) autocreated by the plugin don’t have a title and really dont have an easy way to go back to the (for example) to the page where your have a sidebar with your widgets?
is theme’s territory. I’ve created a specific branch of my “thaim” (the theme i use on my blog) to show how to build specific displays for IdeaStream.
This is the link to this specific branch :
https://github.com/imath/thaim/tree/bp-ideastream
I advise you to have a look at the ideastream.php file, you’ll see that you also can define some specific header and sidebar.
If you need to change the css of the plugin or override some template parts, you can use a wp-idea-stream subfolder into your theme to put your specific style.css or template part files (those that are in the templates folder of the plugin)
