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The more I think about it, nig3d has the right idea. A screencast (or a couple) that showcases what BP is capable of would be a really great idea. But then you’re focusing on the developers as opposed to the potential users of a BP site.
One of my favorite examples of BP is thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/ and if you didn’t explicitly know it was running BP, you’d be hard pressed to discover it was. That user community has very easily figured out how to use BP (but again, it’s customized). Profiling some of these sites as “what you can do with BP” in a screencast would probably help “sell” BP to a larger audience.
@Bowe, as for the Facebook/Twitter stuff, both apps are almost better for not having screencasts. People have found numerous ways of using Twitter that are not the original intent. As for Facebook, they just don’t really care about anything outside their firewalls.
From a user point of view, I found BP prior to the 1.2 activity stream concept to be very confusing. Anyone who has used Facebook or Twitter will easily understand what the textbox is for.
I could go on and on but then I’d be really thread jacking.
Given that the entire “look and feel” of Buddypress can be modified via themes, how can “we” offer screencasts on how to use a Buddypress site? I’ve seen many examples of “Buddypress” sites that look and operate nothing like a bp-default themed Buddypress site.
At the same time, if the current interface is not intuitive enough then no matter how many screencasts are created users will still be confused. Facebook and Twitter didn’t have screen casts on how to use the sites. Users just figured most of it out.
I’m not trying to knock Buddypress at all – I’ve been impressed enough that I’ve gone and started submitting bug reports and even fixes when my time permits! I’m just hoping that active members like DJ Paul aren’t going to get stuck spending a lot of time creating screencasts that benefit a very small number of developers/users.
There are probably really great Buddypress specific topics that could be covered in a screen cast but I can’t come up with any. Maybe I’m just too old and come from the generation where everything wasn’t screencasted to us and we had to do something called research or trial and error.
Holy, I really didn’t read the codex entry for is_admin correctly!
How about:
if ( !function_exists( 'is_site_admin' ) ) {
function is_site_admin() {
return current_user_can('level_10');
}
}Thanks for the info Brajesh. Your solution makes sense to me now.
Hey, I know it’s in the instructions but is there anyway to programmatically detect that the “links” directory hasn’t been moved/updated. By default it should be put in bp-sn-parent (or bp-default in 1.2+) so any child theme can make use of it. Even if you don’t automagically move/update the “links” directory, make one of those nifty info bubbles appear at the top of the plugins page telling the user to move/update the directory.
I’m a big-time “Add new” plugin sort of person and seldom manually install anything if I can help it.
Fantastic plugin and fantastic rationalization too. Made me double think media sharing in my current side project. I’m looking forward to your updates for the new 1.2 bp-default theme.
