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Thanks, this is actually in private testing as we speak. Hoping to release this any day now. I got it working in the top search box as well.
Burt,
This is awesome. It has inspired me to complete my Auto Suggest plugin and i’m having a few test it. Regardless, I can easily see this as a useful plugin for many.
I honestly don’t know where all the instances for this is (plus “wire” appears in the urls, etc.). First start would be checking out the bp_wire_setup_nav function in bp-wire.php file in mu-plugins.php. That at least would change the menu names. Then I would imagine you would have change text in the BuddyPress user themes…
Check the bp_blogs_setup_nav() function in the bp-blogs.php file in mu-plugins.
I did some investigation at the BuddyPress xp-profile component and it doesn’t look like you can override or add the “field types” in the profile (“text box”, “date selector”, etc.) without editting the core files. Which means it’s off of my short-term list to make this into a plugin. It’s a shame, my solution would be great to add for social networking or anything really.
I suggest (1) perhaps using the “settings” panel for the user to add these variables (I did an example recently of this) or (2) do socialbandit’s hack.
Andy – can we build in a way to override the field types for profiles? If “date selector” is a custom object it’s possible we will be coming up with more.
cristiano, i barely think right there are any serious “BuddyPress templates” besides the default and maybe 1 or 2 that have been recently put together.
However, I have no doubt that in 2009 we will see this and might be one of the factors that drives BP into mainstream. However, it has been said that you can adapt almost any theme to BuddyPress. You just have to do some work, maybe get a little dirty. Not an environment for the lazy crowd yet, but hopefully we’ll get there.
And feel free anyone to prove the above wrong.
That’s good to know, Trent. I won’t frequent the bbPress forums, and almost relying on my BuddyPress community here for any bbPress+BuddyPress tips. Nice to know we have a bbPress pro in the house. <end kissing butt>
Ha, well mine is a “wish” list. There’s also a new car and new computer workstation on that too, just to put things into perspective.
It’s honestly difficult for me to write group plugins right now because i have no site to test them on. And I don’t feel like creating 20-30 groups with REAL content just for testing at the moment. That DOES sound lazy though.
I would find a way to perhaps make this automated as well, or provide the option. I know some clients and people that will set this and forget about it. What would be REALLY cool (and won’t happen for months, but that’s ok) is that people can recommend groups (with a simple “thumbs up”) and recent high recommended groups can be it’s own widget. Oh, i’ll have to write that down on my to-do list.
danf,
That sounds great. Perhaps you can send us some urls so we can see this firsthand. I’m guessing for one to add/edit products, they have to do this in their blog dashboard?
If we don’t hear from you in 2 days we now know what happened…
Look at MobilePress and WPTouch for ways to show different looks of a WP site to mobile users (the latter is especially for the iPhone). There are at least a few other stylesheets and templates as well. I have an iPhone, and these have been decently successful on standard WP sites. The iPhone browser uses MobileSafari.
What I would really like to see is an iPhone app that would allow you to browse almost ANY Buddypress site with a standard look-and-feel.
Well, member’s blogs would be a big thing to include if users select the “please publish my blog to search engines” function.
It would be nice to give users a choice if they want their own public profiles open to search engines. But your thoughts seem pretty solid.
Great start to a flickr plugin!
The basic building blocks I constructed, in combo with the settings panel modifications, would allow you to build a lifestream service after entering u/p of your social networks… but this is obviously much easier. You guys are just suggesting an easy way to provide links in one’s public profile. I might tackle this after i complete my auto suggest plugin.
EDIT: This is assuming this can be done without touching core files. I still think a “link” type of field would be nice to have for newbies.
This is a good solution (or hack) for when this has to be in the profile page. I can easily see this expanding into it’s own page for bigger sites. And I forgot about the filter hint from Andy. Good job.
To my knowledge if you want to change the names of the labels in the components you’ll need to hack the plugin files (not sure if you include these as “core” files or not). Not sure if there is a better way (haven’t tried to be honest). But on the plus side, these are very simple changes. I’m also interested to see if there is a better way.
I can easily see this added to BuddyPress, just make it another field like “news”. it would be admin controlled, which I think is personally fine. Then adjust the groups search to search those tags/keywords. Am i missing something?
If you are talking about the profile TEXTboxes then yes, the link will be shown. Did you try actual HTML? Using the < a > tag? Otherwise, not sure if you can get a pretty URL without some sort of modification. Perhaps a “link” type of box would be a good request (I always thought this plus a “password” and/or “hidden” type of box would be also good additions).
I’m at a loss how you would work a shopping cart into BuddyPress (from a conceptual, not technical standpoint). Are you trying to create an environment where everyone has their own store? If that’s the case, you could easily adapt a standard ecommerce theme into a Buddypress compatible one and make that the one and only blog theme for users. Just curious.
Burt,
These are great. And yes, these would be great long term if they were template tags or something similar. That way we can easily incorporate them into well-built components. But excellent job.
You may want to think about commenting the code in the pastie site itself, since some may stumble upon it in a manner OTHER than this forum post. Just a suggestion.
David
Due to the holidays over here, i haven’t had a chance to look at this but if it works well done. BTW, I tried the link on your .org site first and got a 404.
There is more than one way to skin a cat – in fact your example is very close to the v.0.1.0 example i created a few days back. Both of these work for VERY simple components. Nice to see a slightly different execution. The more ways we can show this, the faster people will learn. Good job!
@Nic. Unfort. i’m guessing what you are saying. It’s not clear, but i realize english is not your first language. The examples above include how to simply modify the existing BuddyPress theme. Plugin-template is actually a nice starting point, I just added more to my examples. Thanks for the feedback.
UPDATE: This trumps the first version of bp-test mentioned above.
Basically I have created three versions of bp-test which allows one to learn and hopefully start building BP components. Here is a blog post with screencaps:
For those impatient, here are the links:
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-0.zip
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-1.zip
http://www.davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-testv0-1-2.zip
Version 0.1.0:
This version is very close to the proof of concept screenshots for Twitter and Friendfeed. Very basic – it just adds a menu and two submenus to that menu. It should automatically also add the menu to the “BuddyPress Bar†that appears at the top and (by default) is grey.
Version 0.1.1:
This version adds the “header tab†navigation you see in the screenshot on my blog. This requires a few additional PHP functions, and therefore increases the complexity a little bit. I also added a few BuddyPress PHP functions in the sample page that you should become familiar with but are very straightforward. This version rounds out how to create major navigational elements in BuddyPress.
Version 0.1.2:
This (final?) version changes the “Second Page†into an example of showing rowed results (similar to what you see on the wire page). This bumps up the complexity a bit since we use alot more PHP functions, mostly stored in the bp-test-templatetags.php file. We also use several classes seen in bp-test-classes.php and bp-test-templatetags.php. Also add a “standard†(of sorts) filter file (bp-test-filters.php). If you are planning on displaying anything in a table/row format like in the screenshot above, then you will want to examine this version. I have removed AJAX references to make it easier. Honestly this is all very close to the WIRE BuddyPress component so if you want to look at that as well, especially if you have the hang of this and just need to add in AJAX, that would be a wise move.
These three versions support potential BuddyPress components ranging from the very simple to more-or-less the level of some of the current BuddyPress beta components. These building blocks will hopefully be a learning tool first (if you don’t understand what they do, then you won’t get very far) and a time saver second.
Pers,
What exactly do you mean by “main page”? I am on the main page of my BP site and i still see the “test” in the dropdown “my account” in the top bar. I am logged in, though. Screenshots would be helpful.
Just want to confirm to determine perhaps if it’s MY code or truly a BP bug.
