[Michael Eisenwasser]

Happy to help

[Michael Eisenwasser]

See a demo of the Wall in action at http://buddyboss.com/demo/members/guest/. Login with guest / guest to test it for yourself.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

See a demo of the “Wall” at http://buddyboss.com/demo/members/guest/. Log in with guest / guest to test it out for yourself!

[Michael Eisenwasser]

And yes, it combines all activity streams into one simple stream. No more @mentions.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Please check out http://www.buddyboss.com. Our theme has a built in Facebook wall out of the box. It’s the real deal, much more Facebook-like than even buddypress.org.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Check out http://www.buddyboss.com/demo. The theme has a built-in Facebook Wall. It doesn’t allow for picture uploads but it works just like a Facebook wall and you can add videos in via oEmbed. Full disclosure: I built that theme.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

@josh101. @mentions are confusing to 99% of users, for real. I have built lots of client sites and literally *every* client asks me WTF are @mentions. I tell them how it works and they say why doesn’t it just work like Facebook, and I pretty much have no response because I agree with them. Hence, http://www.buddyboss.com

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I have long thought BuddyPress was confusing, and so I decided to take on the task of building a theme that would solve every issue I have with BuddyPress. It can be downloaded at http://www.buddyboss.com.

1. Groups and Forums are combined in an INTUITIVE way on my theme. It finally makes sense!
2. @mentions are gone. In their place is a TRUE Facebook wall on every profile. Post on friend’s profiles and status updates with threaded comments. You’ve got to try it to see how sweet it is
3. Stripped out all of the nonsense that adds to BuddyPress’ general chaos, and what’s left is a simple and enjoyable experience.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It combines groups and forums in a way that is MUCH more intuitive than the default BuddyPress setup, no hacking required. I think a big issue with BuddyPress is that the layout of groups and forums is usually confusing to people. We’ve fixed that

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Here’s the answer! It has always frustrated me how @mentions work in BuddyPress as I find it chaotic and confusing for users. So I built a theme that converts the @mentions system into a TRUE Facebook wall with post to profile and threaded replies. If you every need to, at any time you can deactivate our Wall Component from the dashboard and your content will revert to @mentions, You can download the theme at http://www.buddyboss.com.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Yes. The BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com has a true Facebook-style wall built in. It converts @mentions into an intuitive wall posting system with threaded replies.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I created a theme that comes with a true Facebook wall. It converts all @mentions into Wall posts that can be replied to and threaded on your profile and is extremely intuitive to use, and it makes use of some of the code in R-a-y’s plugin. You can get it at http://www.buddyboss.com.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

You might want to try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It has a built in Wall on user profiles. Images and video can be added via oEmbed for BuddyPress, and the wall functions like a true Facebook wall in terms of how the conversation flows. It converts @mentions into wall posts so the BP Gallery plugin could potentially be integrated if you know what you’re doing.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

“BuddyPress Auto Group Join” only kind of works. It requires that you have multi-site enabled for it to work.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

@hcleary

Please try upgrading to the newest version of the theme, which you can download at buddyboss.com. If you have an old version (from a week or two ago) there was a bug with this exact issue.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

You’ll still have the problem that the dropdown for the “Visit” menu at the upper right doesn’t have room, because the dropdown incorrectly aligns to the right side of the screen. Just scoot it over a bit to the left to make room…

* html #wp-admin-bar ul li.align-right {
right: 140px;
}

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Using this will completely fix the admin-bar in IE6, even when using fluid width.

body {
position: relative;
}
* html #wp-admin-bar {
position: absolute;
}
* html #wp-admin-bar .padder {
width: 100% !important;
}

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I think €100 is well worth it for a good plugin. If the plugin means I can save a lot of time and get the results I need immediately, then yeah I’ll happily pay. My time and frustration are worth money too. If he spends 20 hours developing a plugin and I buy it for €100, I think I just got a great deal!

I find this JobBoardr plugin particularly interesting because we had a similar plugin written for our site, easyoutsource.com. It’s a job hiring site for Americans to hire people in the Philippines as online workers. The big issue, as you’ve already discovered I’m sure, is how to separate the roles. We set up a custom field for workers and one for employers and made you pick your role on signup. The role is just a profile field you select on signup. Then on the site every function is dependent on which role you picked. Groups have been turned into jobs entirely. Employers can create groups and workers can apply to them. Another big issue we had was that employers always showed up in the search results. We wanted to display workers (members) and jobs (groups). No employers. So we had to get a custom plugin written (by the ever so talented R-a-y) to hide employers from search results.

It’s interesting that you’ve set it up so that employers ARE groups and workers are members. Are your employers not also members? Do they have their own profile pages? How did you get this to work correctly?

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Here’s what you do:

Install s2member, and then in s2member settings go to General Options > URI Access Restrictions. If you add /groups/ as a URI fragment, all URLs with /groups/ will be restricted to logged in users. If you add /groups/create/ then anyone can see groups but only logged in users can create new ones, etc. You can do the same thing with /activity/ and /forums/.

I wrote up a really detailed article about integrating s2member and BuddyPress over here: http://www.buddyboss.com/how-to-set-up-recurring-billing-subscriptions-in-buddypress/

[Michael Eisenwasser]

That’s fantastic news! I can’t wait.

I have it working in BP1.5.2 + WP3.0. However I cannot do a keyword search while also filtering by fields. it’s one search or the other. Does anyone know how to set that up correctly?

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I would be willing to contribute to it.

@Paul Gibbs

I would consider paying you to build it for easyoutsource.com, and we could package it and release it to the community as a plugin. We’d like to be able to filter members by rate, availability, etc., and we’d like to be able to perform boolean searches where you can search multiple filters at the same time. Any idea how long it would take and how much it would cost?

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Does anyone have a live site using this that we can take a look at? Please post. I’m going to try to implement it this week and I’ll share my results.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

Any progress? I’d like to do the same.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

I already figured it out, but thanks! Just so people know, this does work as expected. Make sure to upload both the mo and po files, and to use the bp-custom.php tip from r-a-y.

[Michael Eisenwasser]

To change the default “member” avatars, go to /wp-content/themes/bp-sn-parent/_inc/images/mystery-man.jpg

Just override mystery-man.jpg with a new image of the same title.