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Replace the “float: left” on #userbar and #optionsbar with “float: none” change “width: 138px” to “witdh: 100%”.
On #userbar ul#bp-nav and #optionsbar ul#options-nav remove “width: 148px.
Add “float: left” on #userbar ul li and #optionsbar ul li
Note: This is without any styling and should just point you in the right direction.
@Bpisimone: Don’t we have that already? Check testbp.org, log into your account and check “Activity” -> “My Friends”
AJAX live updating of site wide activity stream is on the roadmap for BP 1.4 (https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/)
What i think would be really helpful for users is some kind of “Dashboard” component that appears as your landing page when you are logged in. It should include everything that is interesting for you and you normally would check manually, including:
– Last activities of your friends
– Your friends that are actually online
– Latest status updates of your friends
– Newest activities of groups that you are a member of
– Latest replies to your forum posts.
– Your last recieved messages
– A field where you can update YOUR status.
That would give an overview of nearly everything thats going on. A place where everything is aggregated. I’ll bet users would love this page.
Hey that sounds great! Erichs idea of another directory tab besides “Groups”, “Members”, “Blogs” called “Friends” is growing on me more and more!
I know from some other social networks and the behaviours of some friends, that the first thing they do after login is to check what did their friends most recently.
Maybe you could include the latest status update of your “friends” to that component! So at the end we would have a friends directory that appears after you are logged in that displays your recent online friends accompany with ther status.
Do users have to log into the wordpress backend in order to write a wiki post, or is there kinf of frontend editor?
I do understand your arguments, but i would also prefer it to be nested in “Settings”.
I spent some more time on the mockup and included the third column, just to see if it works.
http://img29.yfrog.com/img29/1253/settingsprivacymockup2.png
@Jeff: It would be great if “Privacy” could be a menu point within “Settings” and not another main menu item. Otherwise the userbar is getting more and more cluttered. I know this is kind of difficult task, but maybe it is possible in some way. I did a concept about a possible solution -> http://img243.yfrog.com/img243/2700/settingsprivacymockup.png
Thanks John James Jacoby. I found Eric set up a project page (http://trac.ywamnetworks.com/projects/bp-events/) and a demo page (naminanu.com)
What i like in WPMUDEV’s solution is that events are related to a group. BP useres are used to this from how forums work, so why not go a step further and bind events to a group. Thats a good setup. An Event, a Group of people and a Forum to discuss.
I got a reply from WPMU DEV James related to my question if their plugin offers a global directory where all events are listed (like the forums directory in BP 1.1}
It may in future – currently though it adds activities to both the
personal and group activity streams.
If you do join, please request the feature in the forums and we’ll
canvas opinion on it an other additions.
Doeas anybody know if Erwin Gerrits is still working on BP Events Calender?
Does it have a global directory where all events are listed, or does it only work on group pages?
I agree it is a pitty that it isn’t freely available, or at least testable for demo purpose.
By the way are there any plans to include an events component into BP core?
Thanks to Travel-Junkie it is now working for me.
Here is what i put in my bp-custom.php (not tested in the themes functions.php)
define('BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG', 'features');
function example_page_setup_root_component()
{
bp_core_add_root_component( BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG );
}
add_action( 'plugins_loaded', 'example_page_setup_root_component', 2 );
function bp_show_example_page() {
global $bp, $current_blog;
if ( $bp->current_component == BP_EXAMPLE_SLUG && $bp->current_action == '' ) {
// The first variable here must match the name of your template file below
bp_core_load_template( 'features', true );
}
}
add_action( 'wp', 'bp_show_example_page', 2 );It is for a features.php page which is in the root directory of the child theme.
@John James Jacoby: But you can confirm that it still works for BP 1.1?
It seems this nice little function isn’t working anymore with Buddypress 1.1, at least i tried the code in every possible location (funtions.php, bp-custom.php) without success.
It would be great if we could figure out why, because it was so simple and useful!
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I was looking at http://www.dailywp.com/jobpress-wordpress-theme/ which is in use at http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/. I was wondering if it was compatible with WPMU and Buddypress.
I would definitely interested in ur jobboard component!
I would also test this.
But i’m trying to alter the activity-stream widget that comes with buddypress. The “template” file is located at buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php which is in the core directory.
I could copy the plugin code and hard code it in my home.php but then i would have to track the edits Andy and the other developer are doing to the activity stream plugin.
I would need a filter or hook to change the activity-stream widget avatar size.
Hey Tore thanks for the hints, however i want to change the size of the activity avatar WITHOUT touching the bp core files.
I have still no answer if it’s possible to do so by adding some lines of code to bp-custom.php, so if u know a method which isn’t altering the core files i would appreciate ur solution!
Wow JJJ, thats great news! If there is something i can do to support ur project please let me know, i’m willing to help with this!
Is MultiSite plugin suitable for such purpose? That would be awesome.
I’m also looking for a solution to set up individual buddypress instances with different languages but with the same user base. So a user who has registered on http://www.domain.org would also be able to log in on http://de.domain.org.
Sure the user has to enter his profile details again for each language version he choose, but he can use one username and password to get logged in o whatever language version he wants.
This would be similar on what wikipedia is doing. They have different instances of mediawiki for each language, but you can change between these instances without an additional log in.
Andy, will u write this blog post if u have some more time, say after 1.1 release?
Thank you Andy.
So, will there be some blog post on how to create a dashboard in our themes? Are there any further plans to include this in buddypress 1.1 or 1.2? I think it’s a great improvement compared to the actual situation where profile page shows up when a user is logged in.
PS: By the way, why is the profile page at position 2 in the userbar and activity on position 1? Shouldn’t it be vice versa because the profile page is the first page that shows up?
Great idea!
Great idea, i’ll hope to see something like this in BP 1.2
Such a dashboard would be a great landing-page for logged-in useres and much better than the actual profile-page! I would also like to see this as a future buddypress core feature. Any informationm about it, andy?
