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Okay, Here’s what I get.

if ( bp_has_members(bp_ajax_querystring( 'members')) ) :

only returns one result.

But

if ( bp_has_members(bp_ajax_querystring( 'members').'&type=alphabetical') ) :

returns them all…hmm…

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It’s just not working, period. As far as I can tell.

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This solved my problem: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/help-wp-admin-white-screen-after-activating-bp-plugin/

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Just following up on this — what might some code look like? Say, to just even simply create a new profile field type and populate it once?

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@jeffsayre & @foxly it’s been a while since I visited this thread, but I liked the momentum on it. What was the consensus at the dev chat? What’s the stat on this item? Can I help in any way?

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Interesting…

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Here’s what worked for me: http://pastebin.com/WLMckWV6

Again, thanks for the help!

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Thanks @r-a-y — always to the rescue! I’ll let you know if it works.

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Adding to this thread (maybe I should start a new?)…suppose I didn’t want to edit header.php in any way shape or form. Is there any way to suppress certain pages from a functions.php page…

…further what I might actually want to do is suppress *all* wp_list_pages() and just keep the native BuddyPress ones. Hmm…any thoughts?

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Ha ha, free hugs. Nice.

Thank you @johnjamesjacoby for taking this initiative. Some of those other threads (I know the ones of which you speak; I read, just didn’t participate) made me feel uncomfortable, and it’s always difficult navigating the more abusive types, etc. So I just wanted to speak from the other side and say there are some of us who appreciate it. So thanks!

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Somebody explain? This looks fun, but clearly I’m out of the loop…

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Awesone plugin. I just paid ye.

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One (troublesome, but workable) solution would be to switch your WPMU site to WP. Realizing this could be a pain if you’re site is highly configured — but it *is* a possibility.

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You were one step ahead of me. I was just creating a group avatar. :p

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@jeffsayre — i trust and get your concern w/ openid. That said, it’s hard to stop a moving train. I just don’t want to completely disregard all the motion going on elsewhere. So call me the healthy skeptic in the room — that should be a good thing, right? It just means that as we move forward you’ll have someone voicing alternate points of view. But I’m still on board to make *something* happen. (Btw, Chris link works for me. Maybe the site was just having a bad day :p ).

Have we set up an actual group for this? I think that might be a good place to start.

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Oh — that’s marvelous — I don’t know why I never noticed this one before. Think of that. SVN repos for plugins. Nice.

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This is an interesting read: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2010/05/16/combing-openid-and-oauth-with-openid-connect/ @jeffsayre — what say ye on that one?

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BTW, to answer your question more concisely, I am aware of Tim Berners-Lee’s vision (a more 3-dimensional web, if you will), and even have my own radical views of what that might entail.

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@jeffsayre I’ve chatted on a few occasions w/ @djpaul about distributive technologies w/ regards to BuddyPress. (Actually, I talked w/ @apeatling & @johnjamesjacoby during WordCamp NYC 09 about some of the possibilities, too.) I would say I’m much more aware of the semantic protocols. I actually haven’t ever delved into the stack, but I’m excited to do it. I’ve read several of your posts over the last year. I keep track of Messina, Smarr, Shephard, Hammer-Lahav, Recordon, and other advocates…

…I started out with the interest in just getting my own site running on the stack. But my interest kind of snowballed, and now I’m pretty much thoroughly all around passionate about it. I’ll set myself up so I can start working. Maybe just tell those of us who want in where to go.

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By the way, it is exciting to see more buzz about all this on BuddyPress — I just hope it doesn’t fizzle. This is one area of development that actually excites me enough to insert my skillz/experience and help it along. (I actually tried it once before, but kind of went about it the wrong way, and didn’t really have a lot of help as consequence.)

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@jeffsayre @jackreichert @deltina etc.

Can I just counterpoint?

Chiming in here. I’m waiting for @apeatling to also talk more about this issue. Somebody mentioned DiSo. As I understood it, DiSo was more than just trying to systemically build distributed social networking out of WordPress or BuddyPress, but trying to do so through the establishment of more widely accepted protocols, i.e., the “social stack,” which included things like OpenID, OAuth, PortableContacts, and so forth. (“Social stack” is less of a buzz word today, but that was part of the beginning.)

I partly agree with the sentiment about WordPress needing implicit ground-up structural changes for the implementation of better social protocols, however, part of the problem @ the time actually had more to do with a lack of experience as well the protocols were still being nailed down. For example, we’re entering a second phase in all of this, as OAuth 2.0 is in the process of being released as a spec, and a 2nd iteration of OpenID will be issued as OpenID Connect — part of the problem also in the first place was these two protocols weren’t designed at the same time, so they didn’t work together conjunctively as well, but phase two here has the benefit of a foundation, so they can now build off each other. (See http://openidconnect.com/ and http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/05/new-openid-connect-proposal-could-solve-many-of-the-social-webs-woes/ )

There were also several other issues in flux, a major one being discovery. XAuth is providing a temporary solution for this going forward. Other less-known, but increasingly important protocols matured or are maturing rather rapidly: Salmon, PubSubHubbub, Activity Streams, to name a few.

That said, I think @Jeff_Sayre has been a little bit of a voice in the wilderness on all these matters. I just read this blog post of his http://jeffsayre.com/2010/05/15/repackaging-the-promise-of-the-social-semantic-web/ and it hit the nail ON THE HEAD for what’s staring everyone in the face. Sometimes things are so obvious that it’s hard to perceive them, you know?

That being said, can I just make one plea? Sometimes I hear a lot of the main BuddyPress developers intimate that they don’t really like the protocols being developed toward this end…the technology is wrong, etc., etc., and then there’s sometimes talk of how to do it right or how to do it better than the social stack.

I don’t involve myself *too much* in development here @ BuddyPress central, but I’ve been following development from the beginning, perhaps most especially with an eye toward distributing the social network beyond just one BuddyPress silo, and I do have a fairly solid view of the history of both the social stack and BuddyPress.

Can I just offer that we try and go with the flow of the protocols already being worked on in other arenas? The Internet Identity Workshop is taking place tomorrow (Mon. – Wed), it’s 10th session in just five years, and so much has happened and will continue to happen — just look at what’s on the agenda: http://iiw.idcommons.net/Proposed_Topics_IIW10 (Main site is here: http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ ) It’s true that these tend to be a lot of big players, i.e., Google, Facebook, MySpace, and so forth. But a lot of the people @ this particular workshop started out working small (like on DiSo), and have the interest of the open source community in mind. I sort of feel like I’m preaching to the choir, but I do think it’s really important that we all not forget the work that has already been done towards establishing solid protocols. In other words, instead of bitching about how to do things right, I think we ought to come to the IIW table, so to speak. These new internet standards have come a long way since then, and we still have a long way to go, so lets help make that happen.

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Thanks for the link.

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Found it! I love it when I answer my own questions. ;p There’s a whole commented-out section in the members-loop.php section that details how to do it. Lovely!

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So’s to not modify other files, you can also serve it up through functions.php:

//serving up a different default avatar for members
function set_default_member_avatar($url) {
return get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .’/images/new_and_improved_avatar.png’;
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_mysteryman_src’, ‘set_default_member_avatar’);

See this URL for groups avatars: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-default-avatar/

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ugh, it didn’t insert my code… let me try that again…

bp_profile_field_data(‘field=Biography’);