If you don’t like the status updates on Facebook, then you need to either get more or more interesting friends. Or maybe you just need some friends that you care about.
The first part is probably possible by just modifying the theme page for the activity.
The second question go to the BuddyPress admin and General Settings and mark this: “Disable activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts?:” as yes.
I vaguely remember a plugin that would allow a file upload in the profile field. Have you searched the plugins for this? I think it was about resumes or something. However, you could just modify the display from a link to a document to display the image.
Did you want to do this in one specific place, or Everywhere you see the name on the site? If it’s one specific place, that probably wouldn’t be hard to help you do. If it was across all the site, that would take a lot of work.
If you are using WP MU (multisite…or whatever you like to call it), then you can do this easily at: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/ms-options.php Things like this is why I’ve installed my BP on WPMU even though I don’t use more than one blog. The good thing is that since WP 3.0 you can switch to MU easily. Just be sure to test it first and do a good backup.
I want to say there was some way to hack WP single install, but I can’t remember.
I think there’s a similar plugin for redirecting after log out. Although, I think the default log out action is to send you to the home page.
To get the landing page as the home page, you can either modify the index.php in your theme to be what you want. Or you can make a page template and set that as the home page in your WP settings or…I think there’s other ways, but that should work.
Yes! In fact, there’s lots of different options. If you provide some more details of what you mean we could suggest some options. Maybe an example list of sites and what you want would help.
Umm…have you done a BuddyPress install with bbpress enabled? I think it does what you describe. I’m not sure what other integrations you’d want. Although, bbpress is being recoded as a WP plugin and will likely be even better.
If you want to move it to a new server. You can move it just like WordPress. If you mean that you want to move it from a subdomain to the main domain (or something like that), then you must be a very brave person to do that. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I haven’t seen any easy ways to do it. BP relies heavily on the URL structure and changing that after the fact is problematic.
That’s the idea. Interesting that he chose to use an MD5 hash of the email. He describes some of the challenges. I’d also add that it modifies your URL since many URL use the username. So http://domain.com/profilename would become http://domain.com/uglyMD5hash There might be other things. Test and see.
It’s possible, but might take some conversion of the widget got to display right on the home page. Just create a page template. Assign the template to the page and then set that page as the home page. The key will be to incorporate the tt4b or cac plugin code into the page template. I don’t know those plugins that well, but a quick search seems like they add widgets to the sidebar, so you’ll likely have to modify the code to display on the page template instead of the side bar.
I’d say this is hard. I think i saw someone who did something close to this where they basically took the email address and then just cut out the first part of the email to use as the username. Of course, then you have to deal with overlapping usernames if both are john@… Sorry I don’t remember where the thread is that talked about it. The problem I see with doing this is that the username is used so many other places that just taking one based on the email is a bit awkward for the user experience imho.
The most requested feature doesn’t always get next on the list in most open source projects. I’d say the code that the user community wants to deliver is the most likely to happen next. So, if you and the group of people that want that feature want to support having a coder become motivated to develop this feature, then I bet it will get a much higher priority.
The best place is the codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/home/ but it still needs some more love. Little by little it’s getting better though. After that, the code is the best place to find it I guess.
