active 1 year, 1 month ago
jivany
Embedded Software Designer by day and web tinkerer by night. :) Sorry if I am terse in my responses or if I don't give you 100% correct code. If you're not paying me, I'm not doing all of the homework. ;)
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Labranard.com is a pretty simple BuddyPress site I created in my spare time. Devoted to people who own/like Saint Bernard / Labrador Retriever mixed breed dogs. Labranard is a term I came across on some other site a couple years ago and since I own a “Labranard” I figured there might be other people interested. No [...]
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jivany started the forum topic Request: BP.org Forum Index "Freshness" column link to last post in thread in the group Requests & Feedback:
Would it be possible to make the time in the “Freshness” column a link the latest post in a thread?
Can the same be done with the “X time ago” text in the Support topics main index (http://buddypress.org/support/topics/)?
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jivany started the forum topic Request: BP.org Plugin page - add next page navigation at bottom in the group Requests & Feedback:
On http://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/ it would be really nice to have the links for the next X pages of plugins also at the bottom of the page. Having to scroll back to the top is annoying and I’m lazy.
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
@xspringe You are correct. The BP interface should be designed for the end user. This keys off my peeve that BP is marketing itself as enabling social networking “out of the box”. Yes, it can but not without some tweaking for each specific site application. And I’m not talking about simple template colour choices or layout modifications. If [...]
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
@Peterverkooijen said: Why would you need forums? What makes forums so great for collaboration? You’re confusing me now. You don’t see the benefit of forums yet you have basically created a forum on your site. Everyone has to think outside of the box because “forums” != bbPress. I’ve spent many many years on many different “forums”, all [...]
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
@Peterverkooijen based on your setup description, I don’t understand your BP forum complaints. You don’t use forums because you have basically replicated the forum concept in blog posts/comments. The only advantage I see of this setup (without looking in great detail) is the benefit of using the more robust WP commenting system. Fundamentally you…[Read more]
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
@stwc Agreed – I’m a developer – I can (mostly) make BP do what I want it to. I’m not a community builder because there is really no such thing. As a site owner, I can only offer up tools that I think my site needs to help it become a community. Once a community forms, [...]
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
@Peterverkooijen said: @stwc, can you answer the question, what makes forums so great for collaboration? What can you do with forums that you can’t do with blog posts + comments? I’ll wade in here (ugh, bad idea?) with one major difference between forums and blog posts. On a typical WP installation, blog posts are written by site [...]
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jivany posted on the forum topic Existing bbpress to buddypress in the group How-To and Troubleshooting:
Thanks guys. I figured I would have to do it manually.
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jivany started the forum topic Existing bbpress to buddypress in the group How-To and Troubleshooting:
Sorry, I’m sure this has been covered already but I can’t seem to find the magic search terms. I have an old bbPress install and I’d like to import the forums/topics into BuddyPress. Is there any way to do this? I’d even settle for a solution that dumps everything into one group. One thing to [...]
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jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous:
As seen in other threads (and this one) I don’t think you can easily define a Social Network. People have different needs and desires when it comes to connecting with other people. Fundamentally, connecting is the only thing we’re all trying to do in one way or another. Buddypress really is the kitchen sink. It [...]
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Blah. I’m still having a hard time navigating at the moment which is why I didn’t notice your other thread. That’s sort of a good thing because it’s making me very aware of how I need to make changes to my own BP project.
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I’m assuming that the plugin groups and support groups have been created using the Groups Extension API. Is there any chance that we could see the code that pulls off some of this magic?
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Not sure if anyone else noticed (sorry, I haven’t gone through the 5 previous pages of this thread) but the “Load More” link/button on the activity page only loads a second page worth of status updates. If you hit “Load More” a second time, it reloads the same set of updates.
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thank u!
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On the /support/topics/ index page, it would be nice if there was a way to link to the latest post in the thread.
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There’s an errant “a” in the followers template right after the body tag.
