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I think most of us here would say BP is miles better, but like all things in life that’s strictly personal. Personally the only alternative to bp is socialengine but that script expensive and has a bad community and a price tag on everything from support to themes and plugins.. I’d stay with BP
Thanks for further explaining yourself JJJ, and I like the general concept behind a lot.. But the idea that speaks to me the most is making BuddyPress in general more flexible and not “hook” into the group API but make a new one based on that which can not only be used for groups but also for users (and thus friends options).
The idea to make a general API which can be hooked in by the Core components and 3rd Party plugins seems to me the best solution. If you take the group API for example and use it’s functions for individual users:
– Add extra signup pages/fields
– Add new pages
– Add new navigational items etc
All these things are possible with the Group API but take lots of work with a regular profile. Like MrMaz said you could break these functions into smaller parts which can be called upon and extended upon for Groups, Users, Friends and the Activity stream.
The amount of possibilities for new plugins would be endless
Once again I’m no programmer and this is coming from as a site admin/BP enthousiast/”Copy and Paste and pray to god I don’t get a white screen of death” kinda guy..edit: I would also like to say that Mike perfectly summorized my exact ideas of what a group should be and what a group of friends means. Well spoken. I’m getting a Deja Vu here lol
If you want something more fancy check out this post:
MrMaz his BP-Links plugin has automatic rich media detection and does exactly what’s needed.. maybe he could use his code to make it work in the activity stream. He told me that he would look at it as soon a BP 1.2 releases
edit: LOL.. He already posted here.. hihi
Mysterious Jeff.. Do we have a saboteur on our hands here? Maybe a NING user who felt the breath of BP breathing down it’s neck? Anyways your suggestion is exactly what we need and kudos for bringing this up 10 months ago
Most important thing for me would be the option to categorize your friends and filter the activity stream based on those categories..Looks like all types of sites could benefit from this, at least I haven’t seen people who were against that feature
If you’d read the post properly Modemlooper you would see that Xevo is making the exact same point you were making.. No point in copying something exactly and trying to target the exact same market as the big bad competition. It’s much better to focus on a specific subgroup of that huge pile of users..
He’s not saying; don’t try.. he’s saying; try, but don’t copy and target a specific subgroup of the big bad competition and see where it goes
@Designodyssey: some creative thinking going on here! I’m interested if you can find a hack/solution to let users or groups easily create group blog post without the need to visit the WP admin panel and with the basic post functionality (wysiwyg editor etc) Keep up updated
There is also a solution for that.. It’s called Community blogs: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/
From the plugin description:
By activating the Community Blogs plugin, Administrators can give immediate registered user status to any member of their BuddyPress enabled site on the blogs they choose. All the member has to do is visit the blog. The user is silently added as a registered user of that blog. Administrators can choose the role the new user has. Either Contributor or Author. Admins can give access to all users or users from specific BuddyPress groups.
As soon as a (registered) users visit the Blog (in your case Community Voice page) it automatically gets added as an author and is allowed to post! Great huh?
The buddypress themes should be place in the normal WP theme folder:
wp-content/themes
Upload bp-sn-parent and bp-default to the theme folder and activate the bp-default theme
