[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

I want this checked in next week.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve created a trac page where people can list details of custom components they are creating:

https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/custom-components

If you can start of the list and add some details there, that would be great. Once we have a couple of useable ones, I’ll add a tab to the main site with more information and download links.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

In the menu bar at the top, there is a link to the profile of each blog author. Right now you need to be logged in, but this should probably change. It would also be nice to make a profile badge widget too.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

@brianbrey – Yes, I’m working on it right now. It’s important for this to be in the first version of BuddyPress.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

@MrWiblog – Not sure exactly how the “Hot Posts” will work yet. It was more just an idea. A rating system would be good if there is one out there that would work?

@milo317 – Everything is dynamic, although content will likely be cached to reduce server load.

@wildebees – I think a site wide activity feed shouldn’t be too tough. Every members activity is cached in the DB, so merging those together to produce a site-wide feed should be ok to do.

@Member – Site wide categories and tags would be a big plus. Not sure if that will make it by December though.

@orangeguru/dazednconfused – Some people love padding, others hate it. Thankfully you can edit the CSS, so it should be fairly simple to tighten up the theme.

@exchequer598 – I think someone was working on a BuddyPress video component, but I’m not entirely sure.

@trent @andrea_r – Thanks!

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

I believe there is a plugin from the guys at Incsub that will enable multiple servers for one installation. It should work with BuddyPress.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Email and screen notifications are coming soon. Just working out the best way to create something generic that all components can use.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

In the upcoming home theme yes.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

So here’s why blogs are separate from home bases:

BuddyPress is designed to support existing blog networks, as well as brand new installations. On an existing installation, users already have their blogs set up and established. Forcing a new blog on them just to use BuddyPress features would make no sense and most of them would be left empty and unused.

It could be possible to give users an option whether or not to set up a personal blog with their new home base. The trouble is, that would mean some home bases have blogs, others not. That could end up being even more confusing for users.

Also, another big problem is adding additional authors to the blog. This would mean other site members would be posting within a users home base which would mean an additional layer of security would be needed so they couldn’t access the main user’s messages, profile etc.

Overall, separating blogs from home bases saves a whole lot of headaches, and allows BuddyPress to easily support new and existing installs. Perhaps we can work out a way to automatically set up a redirection from “user.domain.com/blogs/blogname/” to “blogname.domain.com” for each new blog. Going any further than a simple redirect would be fundamentally change the way WordPress MU works – and that’s not something we want to do.

I’d also like to create a BuddyPress blog theme, that will tie in with the overall look and feel, and add the user navigation menu. This should reduce the contrast between home bases and blogs even further.

Hope this explains the choice a bit more.

Cheers,

Andy

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Are you using the trunk version? Make sure you are not using a mix of trunk and tagged components.

If you check out the complete trunk version you shouldn’t be getting this problem.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Edit and administration will be the next version coming along in the next few weeks.

Check this page for details:

https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/roadmap/groups

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Take a look at this page:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/extending-components/

All you need to do is replace:

$bp with $bp

This will let you add custom pages to the groups component.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Use an image with dimensions of 450×450 or larger for now, I’m looking into a fix for this.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Yes, all the components work the same way, so you can use the same code to extend the groups component.

I’m in the middle of updating the docs, so I will be making this a bit clearer. I’ll post another reply when I’m done and point you in the right direction.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Thanks for the questions. Some things I’d like to see on the home page:

– Latest posts, comments, tags and new blogs.

– Recently active, new, and biggest groups

– Recently active and new members

– Member, group and blog directories

– Site wide activity stream

– Recent group forum posts

– Latest photo updates, most viewed photos

Just some initial ideas. Most of this should be possible already with what is already there. I’m going to tackle the home theme next week.

As for your second question. I’d like to see the signup process modified to allow the first blog to be registered straight away. This may be down the line a little bit though.

Blogs will stay on their own subdomain/subdirectory simply because this is the way WordPress MU works – and changing that would break existing installations.

Site RSS feeds will be available at some point.

Andy

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

All done, tab bliss!

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

I’m putting the final touches on the codex theme today, which should be live at some point this afternoon. Once that is activated the docs tab will be consistent with the others.

The demo tab should be a simple one to solve – I just need to add the site header to the home theme.

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

Your wish is my command. Zing!

[@apeatling Keymaster 17 years, 8 months ago]

I’ve talked with Sam a bit about this, and it seems the best way to do it would be to include one installation with every BuddyPress install.

With one installation, a single forum could be generated for each new group created. I’m not sure about a “global” forum yet, but I assume the same could be done for that too.