There are plugin templates for members and groups since these are two distinct objects. This will allow for better customization and support for varying layouts depending on the object in question.
If you are using the group extension API then your plugin should auto switch to using the new template. If you’ve used something else, then you will need to sniff for the files and use the appropriate one.
is_admin() is just a function that returns true if the user is in wp-admin, so that’s not going to work. I’ll take a look at this and see if there is a better way to replace the functionality.
is_site_admin() will be present in 3.0 but deprecated with is_super_admin().
@Andy I think the central issue is that WP and BP store member info separately. For the uninitiated, it means that comments on blogs on a BP sire will not show the same profile info as comments on forums, etc. b/c the blog gets it’s info from the Wp table. So if you go into my admin on my site, none of the info is filled out except email and username, altho there’s AIM, website, First Name etc. But none of that is made avail into a BP install. On my site, the blog comments say ” username” commented….. instead of “Display name” commented.
My main issue with member management in BP is that there is no built-in consistent way to store firstname+lastname, as I’ve explained over and over to the annoyance of many on this forum.
This isn’t going to change, I’m not going to force people to enter “firstname” and “lastname” for the same reasons I wouldn’t force people to enter “state” or “postal code”. You can bring it up as much as you’d like on the forums, but a solution that works for everyone in the world is to have a single field. If you would like something else, then it’s possible to write a plugin or work around it. I’ve seen no more than ten people complain about this out of everyone who uses BuddyPress. If this was a widespread issue then there would be endless complaints and tickets.
I don’t understand your issues with member management? WordPress MU provides excellent member management tools, and BuddyPress rides on the back of this. What is it that you need so desperately?
It does indeed work with WordPress 2.9, however none of my registered members are showing up. The only account that shows up in the member listing is the admin account.
The default members page filter is “active members”. If they haven’t logged in and been active since BuddyPress was activated they will not show. If you change the filter to “Alphabetical” or something else, they will show.
No the theme is no absolutely required, if you take the templates you need and adapt them to your existing template it will work. You will need to keep them up to date over each version though. I don’t expect the number of template changes to be as significant after 1.2.
Boone: I was thinking this would simply search the activity stream and return a list of all activity that matches the hashtag. The same way Twitter search works. In the long run this could perhaps be linked in with a global search by tag feature.
Shortlinks will work, but video embedding shortlinks will not work right now. I had this working using the new built in oEmbed functionality, but it’s not stable enough to include in 1.2. I’ve since removed it.
Someone could certainly make a plugin to get this working quite easily, it could be added for 1.3 then.
