Plugin: BuddyPress Toolbar

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Description

Quick Access to BuddyPress Resources – Time Saver!

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot BuddyPress related resources to your toolbar / admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for community managers/ administrators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Activity Moderating’ (BP 1.6) or the ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

General Features

  • The plugin is primarily intended towards (multisite) admins and webmasters.
  • Support for all native BuddyPress settings plus a huge list of supported plugins & themes out of the box (see below for full listing).
  • Fully Multisite compatible, you can also network-enable it – full support of Multisite specific stuff!
  • A massive list of resource & community links is included: support forums, code snippets, translations etc.
  • A special – fully conditional – “Manage Groups” group where plugins like hook in.
  • The added menu items by the plugin follow the same user cabalities as their original links – in other words: if a link to a settings page is not displayed without my plugin for a certain user role/capability it won’t be when my plugin is active!
  • 11 additional icon colors included :) (changeable via filters)
  • 7 filters included to change wording/tooltip and icon of the main item – for more info see FAQ section here
  • For custom “branding” or special needs a few sections like “Extensions” and “Resource links group” could be hidden from displaying via your active child theme – for more info see FAQ section here
  • Fully internationalized! Real-life tested and developed with international users in mind! Also supports update-secure custom language file (if you need special wording…)
  • Fully WPML compatible!
  • Tested with WordPress versions 3.3.1, 3.3.2 and 3.4-beta releases – also in debug mode (no stuff there, ok? :)

The plugin is fully compatible with the latest WordPress version (requires WP 3.3+) and therefore with BuddyPress 1.5 branch AND the upcoming 1.6 branch (currently in alpha status). The plugin dynamically supports the different admin settings links in BOTH BuddyPress versions! — So, just go and manage your community. Use this time saver! :-)

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards community managers/ webmasters and administrators. The new toolbar / admin bar items will only be displayed if the current user has the WordPress role/cabability of administrator. (Note: This can be customized via helper functions/constants, see FAQ here.)

Plugin Support

At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some BuddyPress specific plugins:

Theme/Framework Support

At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some BuddyPress specific/supporting themes or frameworks:

  • Theme: “Custom Community” (free, by Themekraft)
  • Theme: “Frisco for BuddyPress” (free, by David Carson)
  • Theme: “Elbee Elgee” (free, by Doug Stewart)
  • Themes: “Visual” (premium) and “Fanwood” (free) (both by DevPress)
  • Theme: “Genesis Framework” via “Genesis Connect” plugin (premium, by StudioPress)
  • Theme: “Builder Framework” via “Builder BuddyPress” plugin (premium, by iThemes)
  • Theme: “Infinity (Anti-) Framework” via “BP Template Pack” plugin (free/beta, by PressCrew)
  • Themes: “Gratitude” and “Buddies” (both premium, by Chris Paul/ZenThemes)
  • Themes: “Business Services” and “BuddyPress Corporate” (both free, by WPMU DEV)
  • Themes: “3colours”, “Bruce”, “Detox”, “Ines”, “Ice”, “Niukita”, “Soho”, “Solitude”, “Speed”, “Spyker” – all from 3oneseven.com (all 10 free, by milo317)
  • Your free or premium theme? – Just contact me with specific data

Special Features

  • Not only supporting official BuddyPress sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole BuddyPress ecosystem :)
  • Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
  • Link to official German BuddyPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
  • NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization

  • English (default) – always included
  • German – always included
  • .pot file (buddypress-toolbar.pot) for translators is also always included :)
  • Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “BuddyPress Toolbar”…
  • Your translation? – Just send it in

Credit where credit is due: This plugin here is inspired and based on the work of Remkus de Vries @defries and his original “WooThemes Admin Bar Addition” plugin.

A plugin from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes

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