Forum Plugin tags
Development and Programming
I am trying to add a plugin I have created to the forum template and the tag {exp:my_class} is not evaluated in the template.
If I try a different plugin tag, it still just shows up in my rendered page, curly brackets and all.
I notice that plugin tags are being used in theme_rss and theme_atom and they work there, how come they don’t work in all of the forum templates?
The short answer is that the forum uses a different templating engine that won’t use plugins or other EE tags. Reason? To save on resources–the forum templating engine is faster and more lightweight.
That said, you can still run the forum through the regular engine, in which case your plugin should work. Here is the doc page that explains the {exp:forum} tag you want.
Hope that works!
I am still confused about why the plugin tag renders correctly in the forum RSS template, but not in regular page templates.