There are 2 parts to BP themes. One is for the “home” area, and the other for the “member” area. You’ll need to upload and apply the theme(s) correctly to get site-wide coverage.
Issue update: plugin update has been posted, import is now functional. My only remaining issue that imported users aren’t assigned default friends and groups via Welcome Pack anymore.
Of course I’ve already posted on his site, but he tends to take a day or so to respond. My hope was that someone else had seen the issue or that my msg would prompt someone with php skills using the plugin who hadn’t realized the issue existed to take a look and see if it’s a minor or major issue.
I’ve soft-launched our University community at http://www.wearesau.net. I’m hoping to do a lot more with it visually, but for now I’m just testing and watching it very closely.
* Group categories – You may want to allow your users to categorize their groups by subject, location, etc. Categorized groups make it easier for users to find and join groups that interest them. As the admin, you can create an unlimited number of group categories and subcategories.
For me, this would be super useful. I\’ll have a group for each of our residence halls (category \”housing\”), one for each of our sorority/fraternity groups (category \”greeks\”), one for each of our non-social student organizations (category \”student organization\” for which it would be cool if \”greek\” could be a subcategory, but I\’ll take what I can get), etc. We\’re going to have a LOT of groups, it would be very nice to be able to organize them somehow.
* Browse groups – Users can browse groups by category or search for groups by keyword. This makes it easy for them to find and join groups that interest them.
* Group photo album – If allowed, each group is given its own photo album. Like normal albums, limits can be placed on the allowed file types and image dimensions. If allowed by the group leader, comments can be posted on these photos.
@Josswinn Great idea, perfect ticket description. I’m specifically hoping to use this feature to tie group activity into Twitter accounts for various University groups.
For example, have an all activity feed for our Alumni Associate group in BP that feeds out to the Alumni Twitter account, displays on the sidebar of the Alumni Associate web site, etc. There’s no end to how useful this could be for us.
I’m all for either. My goal is to find ways to tie in all of our tools, RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc so that we’re sharing/building content across channels. Autopopulating group wires with specific topic news feeds (and possibly related Tweet streams, etc) seems like a reasonable way to generate traffic, garner feedback/comments/activity in groups and hopefully by extension facilitate user interaction with friends and other groups.
I completely agree. In a standard social network I’d care less, but the project I’m working on is an official university initiative and the ability to clean up a mess before/because of a complaint is going to be key.
Same here with the “inactive” on my name in the forum…weird.
If I leave it blank or deselect checkboxes (or any applicable action that means leaving it blank/unused) the information does not disappear from the user profile. The previously active checkboxes still show, the deleted information in the text field still shows, etc.
If you go back to the “edit” screen the checkboxes will still be deselected and the text field will still be empty, and hitting “submit” will give you a success message, but the info will still show on the viewable profile.
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Steer clear of MediaTemple for a WP/MU/BP install. They’re great overall (fantastic support), but the GridService setup they have isn’t particularly friendly for these projects. DreamHost isn’t a high service option, you get what you pay for.
An email yes/maybe, but also a queue would be important for very high traffic sites. Something that would allow more than one user (possibly all “admin” users) to view and act on items that have been reported. Being spammed with email isn’t likely to make my admins want to log in and manage things.
I see your point, I just know my administration…try to keep it simple and they’ll demand every convoluted combination of features nobody ever thought of. I agree though, “report this” would be sufficient.
