I am working on a site conversion for some friends of mine who currently have their site on smearedandsmudged.ning.com to smearedandsmudged.com. I am using WordPress 3.0, BuddyPress and some of the plugins listed here on buddypress.

I would like to know if there is a way to embed pictures within the group conversations, or the activity timeline.

For example if someone is posting about a cake they made in the group for cakes, that in the space of the post they could add a picture and the picture (not a link of the picture) is displayed.

Any advice is much welcomed!

Thanks!

[@modemlooper Moderator 14 years, 5 months ago]

oembed plugin allows posting from certain sites but so far, and its the most requested feature, there is no upload on activity or forum postings.

[@danstinebaugh Participant 13 years, 10 months ago]

has there been any updates to this? I’d love to be able to post images to a group stream as well!

[@dainismichel Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

i’d like admins to be able to post real posts into groups. that would mean real posts with images and such. then everyone else could comment. it would be a lot like a category.

[@boonebgorges Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

What does “real posts” mean?

If you want the ability to include media in activity items, you might check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/

[@dainismichel Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

I mean a “real wordpress post” from the WP dashboard. The idea is that I could create a real WP post and select the group as if it were a category, and then if you are a member of the group i posted to, the post would appear in your activity stream. Otherwise not. The “group’s activity stream” or by that i mean the “category” that is the page on which all of the group’s posts are summarized…that would work just like a normal post excerpt.

So, basically, it’s not about adding media like on FB, it’s about posting real articles, that is “real wordpress posts.”

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Something like this? http://buddydev.com/plugins/blog-categories-for-groups/
More info here