[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Great Nic. I’m developing another version of this that expands on the navigation.

Remember that this isn’t really a plugin, more like a starting point FOR a plugin.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Scotm, this might be possible. I’ll look into it. I’m more interested in the BuddyPress then “reinventing the wheel” on a lifestream or social plugin. Those have been done, and i’m still looking over the more popular ones to see if we can convert those WordPress plugins into BP. But I’ve got a feeling writing something custom is going to be alot more useful and unlimiting.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Some had an issue downloading the file from the blog. Here is a confirmed working link, just in case you tried but failed and were so pissed you didn’t leave a blog comment.

Here is the code: http://davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-social.txt

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Adding a new menu item to the member theme, NOT the top bar. I did this with my recent example of “social” (view the screenshots):

http://www.davidbisset.com/2008/12/23/buddypress-adding-twitter-and-friendfeed/

This is a clean slate version of that above, if that makes sense.

EDIT: Duh. This actually DOES BOTH. This will add the same menu item in “my account” WITH submenu navigation in the grey “BuddyPress” bar that is present on the top page when you login.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

what account settings? backend or settings on profile theme?

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I know nothing about Facebook’s API or stream. If someone wants to be kind and gather a list of lean/small PHP classes that already grabs the info (I already have Twitter and Friendfeed) that would be great. Especially for Flickr and/or Twitpics.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Update:

http://www.davidbisset.com/2008/12/23/buddypress-expanding-settings-menu/

Andy suggested that this could be a plugin to drop into the mp-plugins folder, which i managed to do. Now you do NOT have to modify ANY BP core files. Happy days!

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Simple, but effective. Kudos Trent.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Congrats on the new community, but for now i only have the time to monitor this particular forum. I imagine BuddyPress resources are going to be popping up in the next few months. You may repost it over there if you wish.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Ok, so basically you just copied the description from Social Network PHP Script. Might have been easier and simpler to say that from the beginning.

Good suggestions overall. Not to sound like a “bummer” person, but i’m sure it will take a while to put something together like this for BuddyPress. Andy is also already working on a photos module which won’t be visible for at least a few months.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I would be interested in this as well. I have figured out how to expand the settings on BuddyPress profile pages. It would be great to allow users of BP to actually go into “settings” (because profile is public), edit their social settings, and then display the feeds on a seperate BuddyPress page, widget, or (even better IMO) a new BuddyPress component. I just posted about this in the forum a few minutes ago.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

So say you have a plugin that displays a twitter feed given a username. You want ALL profile pages in BuddyPress to automatically show this. I would think this would be a WPMU plugin, but i wanted to confirm. I managed to create additional profile pages in my BP test install (and even additional setting screens) but can’t get plugins to work on the pages I have created. Thinking it might have to do with where the plugin are installed.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I highly recommend something like this, especially for signups. Spammers target MU blogs to auto-register and then auto-create/post blogs.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I use media temple, cheapest VPS. Never had a problem regarding getting WordPress MU or BuddyPress to work with them. Hope that helps.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Smacking forehand. Thanks burt.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

ok stupid question – where do you setup the welcome message?

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Nice job Trent.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Very good interview. Nice to throw out questions in the chatroom.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I see a need for both Photo Book and Flickr approaches. I’m sure both will exist at some point in the future.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Basically showing a Flickr stream on a profile page. For example on my profile page, I would allow someone to see my latest posted Flickr images. I’m pretty sure this will need to be a customized BP component.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

You might want to check this out:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks. Seems a little odd to do that. Definitely needs a mention in a Readme (or maybe i missed it).

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Perhaps there’s a flickr plugin out there now that could be close, without reinventing the wheel. Even considering throwing a few dollars at a developer this but need more input, support, and feedback.

[@dimensionmedia Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

Ignore this. Got error but it posted it anyway.