Topic: Duplicate Group Components (Multiple Group Types)

Duplicate Group Components (Multiple Group Types)

fordp
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@fordp

11 years, 9 months ago

Anyone ever conquer duplicating the group component? This has been discussed several times over the last 3 years and I can’t find where anyone has come up with a solution.

Essentially, the group functionality is perfect for multiple types of content on my website. I’d like to customize where and how certain “types” of groups are displayed on the site, so categorizing the groups and then changing templates based on the parent would not be adequate.

Any ideas? Anyone know of plugins that have duplicated the group component?

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shanebp
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@shanebp

11 years, 9 months ago

Rather than duplicate the component or use the skeleton component, create a plugin using Custom Post Types – a WP approach. It works great within BP.
fordp
Participant

@fordp

11 years, 9 months ago
I have a lot of experience with custom post types, but within BuddyPress I believe the group functionality would be better.

Here is an example mockup:

For the above functionality, it would make sense to use a custom post type and a custom post screen within a users profile. However, using a variation of groups would instantly give me:
1. Ability for users to follow the vehicle (change members to followers)
2. A blog for the vehicle (using group blog)
3. Easy interface for users to manage their vehicles, I could quickly create admin pages for specifics (a page to specify capabilities, like range and speed, which would be used in the group listing page to filter vehicles)
4. If a vehicle were a university project, multiple “owners” could be specified.
5. I could use a task management plugin for vehicles
I’m not doing anything with vehicles, but I thought this would be a great example of using a variation of groups. I could also get this functionality through multisite and user blogs, with each vehicle being a blog with integrated theme and custom admin panel to match the user profile, but that is much, much more work and a really heavy implementation. It would allow each vehicle to be a powerful hub, but that’s beyond what I need.

Beyond that, I would also want to have groups used like on BuddyPress.org (Plugins vs themes), but I don’t want them to share a slug (/extend/plugins/ vs /extend/themes/).
shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 9 months ago

Then try this
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

or this
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-skeleton-component/

fordp
Participant

@fordp

11 years, 9 months ago

Ah okay, I had been confusing the first one with the second. The BuddyPress Skeleton Component looks like the perfect starting place.

Edit: looked through it some more. THANKS! This is perfect (just needs some updating).

fordp
Participant

@fordp

11 years, 9 months ago

Update:

After looking at the skeleton component, I essentially just copied all of the files in buddypress/bp-groups/ and did a find and replace of “group” to “vehicle” and worked through the errors. But in the end, I’ve ended up with multiple group components.

@ChrisClayton
Participant

@chrisclayton

11 years, 9 months ago

Was going to say that copying the groups directory, doing a find/replace, creating a loader and modifying a few things (like calling the active components array – don’t forget manually telling bp your component is active) has worked for me in the past.

fordp
Participant

@fordp

11 years, 9 months ago

@ChrisClayton

It works great. The only issues I encountered were with the group forums – though my extra groups don’t require forums so it’s a non issue for me.

LudachrisGSX
Participant

@ludachrisgsx

11 years, 8 months ago

I’m completely new to BP, but am considering using it for my next project – which will involve sub-profiles like the vehicles example above. Has anyone gone down the paths suggested above to show us the possibilities? If this can be done I’ll likely start on some test development. I just want to know first that it’s possible (without extensive custom coding) before committing time. I’m not a big coder so I’d have to contract out if it requires a moderate amount of coding, which wouldn’t be so bad if the foundation is already there. So, has anyone successfully done this?

facs01
Participant

@facs01

11 years, 6 months ago

@fordp I wanted to ask you where exactly did you put the copy of the bp-groups and where did you replace the word “vehicle” for “group” I’m very new at buddypress, and need to build a site with a similar functionality as you.

Thanks!

Fabio C.

fordp
Participant

@fordp

11 years, 6 months ago

Mine was actually called “examples”, I was using an old projects mockup as an example to not reveal the actual project I’m using this on..

I’m going to have to write a tutorial, I looked through the project I was using this on and I had to make some various modifications to core code to get it to work. E-Mail me at hello@placementedge.com if I can use your installation to implement it on while writing a tutorial.

facs01
Participant

@facs01

11 years, 6 months ago

Hi @fordp,

I’ve already sent you my e-mail. hope that you can help me.

Thanks!.

Fabio C.

4ella
Participant

@4ella

11 years, 6 months ago

@fordp pls.inform us when you will finish your tutorial, I would like to create a second group too.

jassi22g4u
Participant

@jassi22g4u

10 years, 7 months ago

pls.inform us when you will finish your tutorial, I would like to create a second group

cristiedesigner
Participant

@cristiedesigner

10 years, 5 months ago

any news on this? I really could use this approach at my project.

aaronkine
Participant

@aaronkin

10 years, 3 months ago

bump.