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I think that would not be needed and would look kinda dumb haha
I do think rvenable his idea is brilliant.. sound like exactly the right approach!
My problem is basically that I’ve spent years learning myself all kinds of stuff (xhtml/css/photoshop/marketing/journalism/community manager) but always skipped the PHP part. If I decided to pick up programming PHP 6 years ago, instead of waisting countless hours drawing ugly designs in photoshop, I would now be a very happy programmer
I’ll look into Lynda, because I’ve learned a lot from them in the past (I followed a few audio production courses, which were great!)
I see your point jivany, but so far I’ve seen that about 90% of the active BP Communities use the default theme with some slight modifications. With some clever editing/focus on certain things which almost every BP site has, it could be very useful.
Think of something like http://www.wordpress.tv:
I would also rather see very specific and in-depth tutorial from BP Pro’s sooner then later, but if you look at the questions asked on these forums, you can not skip the basics here and simply presume that the “easier” stuff will be figured out as they go.
Imagine you stumbling upon BuddyPress.org and being able to get a few nice basic video instructions. You get a sense of professionalism and a clear view of what’s possible with the software, the advanced stuff we all like to see can be covered at a later point imo
And about Facebook and Twitter;
A screencast of twitter would have saved me quite some time, and don’t even start about Facebook lol.. I’ve tried 2 hours to find a feed of my status updates and after trying everything known to man I still haven’t found it. Facebook is awesome but it makes no sense whatsoever on certain aspects
You can create a new blog with a completely different theme without a problem.. just create the blog, go to Appearance > Themes and select the WP theme of choice
My site will feature a blog dedicated to videos only:
No that hard to set up
You think you can make it a plugin DJPaul or maybe a documented php file/tutorial, basically anything that might help the average non-techie out ?
A plugin would be a good solution.. Extend Member Profiles or something. I certainly would not be able to creating something like this with my zero PHP skills
I don’t have a solution for all your problems but assigning different “user” types to your site is easy:
– Create a xprofile field in your BuddyPress admin. For example: What kind of user are you:
a. Swimmer
b. Skater
c. Surfer
– Install the BP Member filter plugin: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-member-filter
– Users can now filter members on the member directory page to find certain usertypes
The only thing you might want to look into is to show/hide specific xprofile fields for different groups. That’s more advanced and requires some new code to be written by someone
Good luck!
edit: Maybe if you combine both tips from Boris and me you just got your solution
ps: I’m interested in the jquery profile fields stuff as well.. sounds handy!
You have the Supporter plugin from WPMUPremium:
http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/supporter
That looks like a really good alternative.. I don’t think there are free solutions out there for introducing a service on your site which is meant to make money haha
nice introduction from a new member
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
that should do the trick.
Because if I would mention your name somewhere for no important reason you would get annoyed by all the notifications you’d receive.. For example if I wrote a heavilly discussed blogpost on my site and people are talking about it around my network I would go crazy with the amount of notifications I would receive
you need a character for this to make it work and @ is the best one
By the way I certainly like this feature and I don’t think it’s that confusing for a user (apart from the displayname/username issue). But I do think it would be good if site admins could enable or disable this feature from the admin panel, just for those we don’t like it.
You do! And Andra wrote a handy tutorial to transfer you BP theme to a blog theme;
http://www.bp-tricks.com/design/member-blog-themes-to-match-your-buddypress-theme/
Good luck
There is a multilingual plugin for BP available which does this:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/
I don’t know if it’s compatible with the BP 1.1 or the upcoming 1.2. I need this as well so we should look into it then
Also take a look at this ticket I made today: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1593
If the “supergroup” feature would be implemented it would mean that you could make different “homes” for different countries/regions and still have a central homepage where all sitewide content is shown.
There is some functionality written by TravelJunkie which allows you to create group types. Find his post here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/soon-to-release-bp-group-control-plugin
@Erich73: Supergroups are similar and could be seen as another group category.. The ideal situation would be if you could create different categories and could also say which category could do what. For instance:
Group Cat 1: Can use forums, activity stream and groupblog plugin
Group Cat 2: Only forums
Group Cat 3: Supergroup which can do all + has an extended activity stream as described in trac: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1593
To make it ever better it would also be cool if you could set up different desciption fields to fill in per group;
category 1 : Info, history, goals
category 2: Name, description, latest news
There must be someone who could help us out with this guys
edit: I am willing to pay for this plugin to be developed. Might not be the only one I think?!
