[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@sawyerh I was thinking about doing something very similar, but have not yet dug deep enough to find the code to modify this. Can you point me in the right direction?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I’m not sure that default blogs is setup correctly on my site.

Here is a screenshot: default-blogs .1 bp 1.2.1

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/files/2010/03/20100315_defaultblog2.jpg

I get the impression from the above replies, that I am supposed to see a list of available choices to add to new blogs from the default blog?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

worked for me, no issues to report.

thank you!

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

SWEEEET

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thank You!

I can report that it works perfectly on my system. I was able to upload documents in multiple formats with no isses at all.

Fantastic plugin!

ideas:

I use a lot of pdf documents on my church site, and also use a great plugin to display them inline

http://davismetro.com/gde/usage/

Would it be feasible to have the ability to create a modal window where a user can choose to click a ‘preview’ pdf button with the gview plugin in use so we have inline document previews?

(gview plugin handles multiple types of docs already)

also:

it would be nice to see some type of sorting features down the road as the documents folder grows. I can see a few cases where a new document would be added each day or a few times a week on some of my bigger sites.

maybe a folder system via doc type, and date grouping?

finally:

How about an admin setting where only admins/mods can upload docs on a per group permission basis?

anyhow just ideas… love the plugin as it is, it will come in very handy, thanks again

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I uploaded 2 pics on the test site. I noticed that the activity stream says time was ‘some time ago’, and it has the pictures in the wrong order. The activity stream shows the pic I uploaded first ahead of the second in the stream. (wrong order).

Other than that… seems good

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

When I make a post on a group blog, is it supposed to show up on the blogs activity stream?

I do not see any activity on the groups activity stream, but if I click blog, then I see the blog posts, and the activity stream for the blog..

Is that intended?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

idea —

I am using this to setup my default buddypress theme for group blogs. I also use the woo navigation system on my theme (3.0 has it). Would it be possible to import the navigation settings as well?

I could do some digging around and find the database information if that helps.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

+1 to having forum categories on a per group basis.

I already run a number of vb sites with hundreds of thousands of users and would love to someday bring that platform to wordpress/bp.

The problem is that my forums are huge (millions of posts) and without separation, it would be impossible using group forums.

I’d rather not have to create a separate group just to have a separate forum, as then I would end up with hundreds of groups (one forum I run has about a hundred or so subforums all are very active). That would only diminish the value of using groups imho.

I just don’t see the feasibility of doing it this way.

For instance, how in the world would you convert a site like vbulletin.org forums over to bp groups?

Even with very fancy templating it would still not work properly

(Yes, I know, groups are really just uber powerful forum categories… for a lack of a better way of putting it)

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

thank you

ticket created https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12569

my first time posting ticket, hope the info is what is needed.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I actually do run my business from the root domain.

1.customer goes to root.com to register and signup for a site.

2. customer is given a subdomain.root.com blog which I domain mapp to their own domain

That is normal wp operation.

Where it gets sticky:

1. customer whose site is actually subdomain.root.com turns on group blogs and tries to create one…. that creates subdomain.subdomain.root.com

see the problem?

It’s pretty much the exact same type of situation that wordpress.com does.

1. I go to wp.com and register my site, subdomain.wordpress.com

2. If they had group blogs, I would go in and create one, it would create subdomain.subdomain.wordpress.com

I hope this makes it clearer, how I am actually doing what wpmu was intended to do. I run everything off of the root domain, so every customer is subdomain.root.com

The only ‘solution’ I see without having wpmu fixed, would be to give complete fresh installs of wpmu to each client, so they are actually on a root.com instead of a subdomain.

That completely kills the entire concept of wpmu (one codebase for me to maintain). I would have to maintain all the installs separately, which would suck bigtime.

Anyhow, it is not an error with your plugin, but rather an error with wpmu core. I posted question in their forums, and if I can find the ticket system for mu I will report it as well.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@Mariusooms

As far as I can tell there should be nothing really unique with my setup. I suppose the only difference between me and others, is I am using wpmu as a hosting platform for clients like edublogs/wp.com/etc… There are actually a whole lot of us out there doing this. That was kind of the point behind wpmu in the first place. One install = multiple sites.

Actually this can happen to anyone using wpmu, even those people not hosting other sites. If you have your own wpmu install and create a new group blog, that creates a new blog subdomain.root.com. What happens if a user visits that blog, and then while in that blog decides to create a group with a blog… see what I mean?

Just to testing things out, when I am in a sub-domain blog and go to create a new blog, you are correct, it creates it wrong, subdomain.subdomain.root.com

Obviously this is a core wpmu issue and I need to create a ticket for this issue.

Once that problem is solved in the core, then I’m sure your plugin will work as expected. I will report back what I hear.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

You are correct about the subdomain.

I run the root domain as the install of wpmu. Wpmu is installed in the root directory of the root domain.

I then create customer accounts off of the root domain, like customer1.root.com

This allows me to run a system kind of like wp.com does. I only have to manage one install of wp.

The customers don’t know they are actually on a subdomain.root.com because I use domain mapping.

(well my customers know, I don’t hide it, but the website visitors have no idea which is all they care about)

So I went into my shawngaffney.root.com blog as though I was a customer and tried to setup a group blog.

That is how I ended up with shawnsfriends.shawngaffney.root.com when I created the group blog from a subdomain site.

When I went into the root blog and then into a group and created a group blog, it worked. it became testblog.root.com as it should.

I’m only guessing, but I think the ‘create blog’ function is grabbing the url of the blog from the db?

It’s probably grabbing the subdoman.root.com url instead of the root.com url…..

Maybe it’s as easy as one change url change in the code?

I may have an idea of how to get this to work with domain mapping.

Obviously the groups blogs plugin needs to reference the root.com url for proper path creation –mentioned above.

But…. if you also save the url of the subdomain site that the user was on when the blog was created.. then I can solve domain mapping issue.

by having the ‘true’ domain address of the group that created a blog, then it’s just a matter of comparing that value to the domain mappings table?

just a few ideas

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

thank you.

I did copy the groupblog folder over to my child-theme and made the needed changes, however it did not work.

I’ll just wait for now until you get more time for testing.

thanks for taking this project on, it’s going to be a very nice addition.

One request I do have though deals with domain mapping.

As I use one install of wpmu/bp for my clients, I have to rely upon domain mapping for their sites to appear autonomous from the others.

Is there any way where if my install is on abc.com and I have a subdomain 123.abc.com that is domain mapped to ‘zyz.com’ to have a system where if the domain mapped blog creates a group blog, that the links going to it would go to ‘subdomain.xyz.com’ instead of the root ‘subdomain.abc.com’ ?

Wow, that was hard to explain

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I tried creating a group blog from the root domain and it seemed to have worked, although it’s not showing up properly.

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/groups/hissanctuary/blog/

As I am using a child theme, I’m guessing this part of the problem comes from my need to bring over the files to my child theme. I have tried creating the folders /groups/single/blog and placing the groups blog theme files in there that I need to replace, but it does not seem to be the correct location.

What path do I need to place my child theme templates in?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I think that I am doing something wrong as it does not seem to be working for me.

On my site http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/

I had a group called ‘public test group’ which was already active. I then installed the group blogs today for ‘public test group’.

It said that it installed correctly, however, I get an error when visiting the blog link:

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/groups/public-test-group/blog/

also:

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/blogs/

notice the first blog is there, but it does not work, looks like the url is trying to go to:

http://publictestgroup.shawngaffney.anointed.net/

My best guess, is that something is going wrong because I am creating a blog for a group from a subdomain?

My basic setup is easy:

1. I have wpmu/bp installed so that I can put all my client sites on one install. Makes updating wp/bp/plugins easy, so that I only have to update in one place.

2. I give all of my customers a subdomain off the main blog, and then let them use domain mapping.

Is there something I need to change somewhere to fix this?

thnx…

also, I use a child-theme. What is the folder structure that I need to add to my child theme in order to theme the group blog accordingly?

do I just create a folder called bp-groupblog in my child-theme and place the modified files in there?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@edelwater

It is more than possible to integrate 123flashchat with buddypress users and groups. It would be no different than what I had done with my elgg setup. Pretty much flashchat can hook into any users database so long as it contains the username/pass.

flashchat has the capability of having unlimited chat rooms (groups), so it would require a script to auto-generate a new chat room upon group creation. Then it’s simply a matter of tying the user system together.

When I get the time I will read through all the code in my elgg install, so that I can get a clear picture of how they integrated it for me. The language barrier was SO bad that I gave up on them and just kept sending trouble tickets until they got it all right.

The web-messenger also would tie in the same way. There is even a ‘facebook’ bar available for that. However messenger is more like msn messenger than a chat system. It’s one-on-one chat instead of multi-user. I still use that system every day, as do thousands of my members.

You are correct, there really is not a comparable product anywhere else. Yes, it is crazy expensive, but really worth it.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

A few questions.

1. When I go to my profile button and click chat it says You’re currently logged out. (I’m not)

2. When I go to another persons profile and click the chat button (next to groups middle page) it says:

Only steve can look at steve’s chat. (I’m logged in as admin in both cases)

3. When on a group homepage, is there a chat button somewhere for the group chat?

4. I’m using a custom bp child theme. I created the folder directory in my child theme /members/single/chat/index.php but it was not taking effect, not to mention I am not sure what I should put into that file.

Are there instructions anywhere on what the child-theme path should be so that we can style the page appropriately?

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I’m not sure what the demand for it would be as it’s very expensive, but I use

http://www.123flashchat.com/

They sell 2 primary applications, a group chat system and an instant messenger service. I purchased the unlimited license on both products and had them totally integrated into my elgg platform. Needless to say it’s pretty amazing software and my users loved it. Especially the live audio/video chat, that was a huge hit.

Of course you really need a dedicated adobe flash comm server to run it properly. I still use the messenger program to this day and have thousands of users on at all times. It has never once crashed on me, and has become a great replacement for msn messenger for our family/friends.

I am seriously considering having this added as a bp plugin, however the company is from Japan, and to put it nicely, their english skills are lacking. It took months of back and forth before they understood what I wanted with the elgg install. If I do get it ported to bp, this time I will probably just hire the job out to someone who speaks english lol….

It is a very strong codebase, and there are sites with millions of users using this software, so it does expand via the multi-server edition. I never had a need to go beyond 3 servers, 1 of which was the flash comm server.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

sorry boone it’s an old update. I should have mentioned that.

I added another person to the group just now and their avatar showed up, so it’s fixed… thank you

I’m curious if you have any plans of adding the ability for the admin or moderator to add members who are not friends to a group via the front end instead of the back end.

Basically I am doing everything I can to keep people away from the back end of wordpress. I plan on having a lot of moderators for bp, who really should have no reason to ever see the back end if possible.

If not, no worries, the plugin works perfectly as it is. a HUGE thank you!

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@Boone

I updated to .2 but notice that steve’s avatar is still mine:

http://shawngaffney.anointed.net/groups/public-test-group/

fist activity in stream ‘steve’ joined public group….

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Thank you MrMaz

As it turns out I was being ‘mislead’ by the wp codex, and when you combine that with my limited knowledge of php, I was bound for problems.

The codex gives an example:

query_posts(array('category__not_in' => array(2,6)));

That lead me to believe that I needed to write my function to return a string of id’s separated by commas. Esp when I added in the numbers manually and it worked, that made it really confusing.

Once I removed those lines and made a small change to the homepage code, it worked perfectly.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I’ve narrowed down the query_posts function to one that works perfectly when I manually type in the numbers 4,42,46 that makes it so those categories are not showing up in the loop.

This works:

<?php

$excludecatss = get_exclude_categories_loop();

print_r ($excludecatss);

query_posts(array('category__not_in' => array(4,42,46)));

?>

This does not work:

When I don’t hardcode in the numbers and try to use my $excludecatss in there instead, it does not filter the loop like the hardcoded one did.

Tells me this function is not right…

<?php

$excludecatss = get_exclude_categories_loop();

print_r ($excludecatss);

query_posts(array('category__not_in' => array($excludecatss)));

?>

Both of them print out the proper numbers before running the query, so I know my print_r is returning exactly what I want, 4,42,46

Where I am stuck is the query_posts part.

I can’t seem to get that to have $excludecatss put the numbers there so they are excluded….

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Ok, getting closer:

<?php

$excludecatss = get_exclude_categories_loop();

print_r ($excludecatss);

?>

returns 42,4,46

That is absolutely correct.

I’m guessing it must have something to do with:

<?php

query_posts( array( 'category__not_in' => get_exclude_categories_loop() ) ); ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

I’m so close that I can taste it lol.. man what a day…

I can’t seem to locate any documentation in the codex about passing a function name to the category__not_in argument, so I’m not sure where to go from there.

[@anointed Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz

Thank you for the pointers. Like I said, I am trying hard to learn how this stuff actually works so that I can become more self sufficient.

I did change out the valid php from above on my homepage, yet it’s still returning all of the posts.

I think something is wrong with my get_exclude_categories_loop function.

(It’s a mess as I am not exactly sure what the top half of the function is doing. copied it from another theme, and made so many changes throughout the day that I’ve lost track…. grrr

I do know that the information is in the database properly. So at least the user UI is working properly

function get_exclude_categories_loop($labelz) {

$labelz = "zoo_cat_box_";

$include = array();

$counter = 0;

$cats = get_categories('hide_empty=0');



foreach ($cats as $cat) {



$counter++;



if ( get_option( $labelz.$cat->cat_ID ) == 'true') {



$excludecats[] = $cat->cat_ID;

}

}

if(!empty($excludecats)){

$excludecats = implode(',',$excludecats);

}

return $excludecats;



}

Is there a way to ‘echo’ out the function so that I can at least see if it’s returning something ‘3,5,7’ etc?