[@agrundner Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

For those interested, the plugin etiviti (rich!) created for this issue can be found here:

BuddyPress Restrict Group Creation

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

@MrMaz Go for it. Release 0.4 with Group Links (not sure what re-links are). As for the group activity stream integration… I think we all can wait until it’s ready.

FYI, I’d be happy to test the plugin you’ve got on my non-public development site.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

Recommend watching Kevin Rose’s presentation. Lots a great tips from someone who’s had a fair amount of success.

9 Ways to Take Your Site from One to One Million Users:

http://carsonified.com/blog/web-apps/9-ways-to-take-your-site-from-one-to-one-million-users/

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

@Anton So how did you incentivize your initial group of 20 members?

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 6 months ago]

@gian-ava Perfect timing. I’m in the process of finishing up a BP site and was thinking about this very topic. Definitely appreciate @Dimensionmedia comments. Right now I’m focused on how I’ll be promoting the site and how I can get others involved in spreading the word.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz Groups Links will be a big hit! Stoked that it’s just around the corner Thanks for all your hard work — you need a donation link for BP Links.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz Great to hear 0.4 is just around the corner — I say wait until WP 3.0 is out for all around compatibility.

Feature Idea:

I really like the BP Group Blog plugin concept. I think Group Links would be awesome! This way each group can have one parent link category (or, optionally, be able to create additional subcategories for their group links as well). Of course, all Group Links would show up in the site’s activity stream and on the default Links Directory page.

What do you think?

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz I’ve got some good news for you. While I still can’t get the avatars to work via the thumbnail chooser, I have gotten avatars to work on a single wordpress install when choosing to “Customize” the link’s avatar. In my case it can crop the image and upload the thumbnail and fullsize pic to /wp-content/uploads/link-avatars/

In case this helps anyone else… I had to use the “Full URL path” in wordpress’ Settings > Miscellaneous to get BuddyPress user avatars to upload (in case someone wants to use a different avatar than their Gravatar)

Full URL path example: http://www.mysite.com/wp-content/uploads

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz Or we can just wait until WP 3.0 comes out ( http://wpengineer.com/wordpress-3-multisite-settings/ ) since it will have multisite capabilities and it will create a blogs.dir subfolder in wp-content which is compatible with the plugin. But then again I’m not sure how long it will take for v3.0 to hit when we’re currently at v2.9.2.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz Yeah… I’m not having any luck getting avatars resized and uploaded on a single wordpress install. BP Links (Version 0.3.2) is just embedding the URL of the original image. I’m guessing the plugin currently has no folder structure for a single install like it does for MU, which you stated earlier places avatar images in: /wp-content/blogs.dir/files/link-avatars/ — I’m keeping my fingers crossed the next release will have a fix for this

Out of curiosity, anyone know how I can alter the user link (will be editing: link-header.php)?

Currently using bp_link_userlink() but I’d like to change the output from mysite.com/user/ to mysite.com/user/links/ so people can see other links posted by the link owner.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

I should have done a bit more testing before providing feedback. BTW, I am using BP Links with a Single WP install on my development server.

*** I made an error earlier: avatar images aren’t uploaded in their original size to your wordpress uploads folder. The single link page embeds the original fullsize image from the site one links to (again, not the greatest thing if you’re working with a fixed width template), but the thumbnails shown on my Directory Links page are the fullsize image, just scaled down by width and height pixel values. ***

@MrMaz I’m glad to hear that BP Links is handling resizing and creating thumbnails to the BP constants. I guess things are being handled differently on a Single WP install at the moment. I’ll continue to test this plugin as things develop. Or I might just migrate to WP MU, though I’ve heard WP 3.0 will have a multi-blog feature that one can enable.

FYI, I encounted another issue. When I created a second test link the Directory Links page only shows one link now (the newest one). However, both created links appear in my Activity Stream.

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In regards to the filtered RSS link:

I hope other people request this as well. I plan on adding the Most Popular or Highest Rated feed to the site’s twitter updates via twitterfeed.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@infution I’m concerned as well about the space the avatars will take up. Right now it uploads the images to the uploads folder in its original size (a problem if you have a fixed sized template area you’re working in).

My wishlist for @MrMaz:

1. Let admins specify a separate directory to use for BP Links avatar images or create a sub-directory in uploads

— Reason: It keeps things separate in case we want to remove BP Links in the future and delete all associated images.

2. Use the setting in WP > Settings > Media to create matching sized thumbnails (i.e. 150×150) and resize images down to the “Medium” image size setting (my max width is currently at 500px).

— Reason: one word… consistency. Plus, it helps keep things manageable.

* I noticed the thumbnail BP Links uses is actually the fullsize stored image — but scaled down per the width, height pixel values.

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Advanced cool feature I’d like to see…

Links that have been voted down by X number (most likely because they’re spam or totally unrelated) automatically get weeded out and their associated image(s) removed. This would free up a lot a space as well.

[@agrundner Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz Is it possible to get custom RSS feeds for each filter type? It would be great to see the feed icon link change with each filter selection.

Default (shows Most Recent):

http://mysite.com/links/feed

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Would like to see something like…

Most Popular:

http://mysite.com/links/most-popular/feed/

Highest Rated:

http://mysite.com/links/highest-rated/feed/