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Just a note on this and its applicability.
For example, universities and colleges. In this room, a teacher only can post new posts, but all can comment. Or in a faculty, the various teachers can, and the bulk of students can only comment. It’s useful because you don’t always want all members to be able to post new posts to your wall, but you want everyone to be able to reply to your post.
Thanks @danbp , Yes when I have something presentable I’ll offer it to the codex.
I’ve been able to edit the header (profile and group), but
where can I find the code for undernieth the header? The section that has Activity Profile Notifications Messages etc on “Profile” and Home Members Send Invites on “Groups”?
Stumped. How can I link a button to logged-in-user’s-activity-stream? (the same thing clicking on “Activity” does) ?
I have the button, but how to I link it? or where can I find this link code for the header items “Profile” “Activity” “Notifications” etc.?
Personally, I like the @group function, because it makes it easy for me to use it without error (error for me and code error). One way to make it a little nicer is to add it onto the end of your message like with Twitter.
Working on a tutorial for people unfamiliar with BuddyPress on one of my blogs: http://blogunity.net/front/how-to-customize-your-buddypress/
Obviously just a work in progress but I think it will help introduce the task. Any thoughts welcome.
@shanebp Thank you for pointing me towards the files and towards “overloads.” I’ll be on that today.
@danbp This is just an idea, but maybe it would be possible to harness the power and motivation of us bunch of developers who want to work on additions to BuddyPress but don’t know our way around the BuddyPress code if one of you guys responsible for the code were to do a basic YouTube video where you just, say, set out to make 3 changes to it (maybe along the lines of whatever people are requesting the most), then just looked at the page before, went into the code and found that, made the edit, then returned. Even though the actual code might not be useful for what others are doing, just seeing what it looks like when you do it and getting a feel for someone navigating the code / editing it may give us a good footing?
Hi @danbp and thank you for responding.
I had been searching the files inside the plugin, trying to find one that directed the layouts so I could edit that. I figured I would back up the entire plugin, then make notes on the files I was going to edit, then edit them and add comments so I could move my edits to future versions.
I tried searching for page elements, like ” Editing ‘Base’ Profile Group ” which appears on the profile/edit page, but when I tried searching “contents of files, too” I didn’t come up with anything. Maybe you or someone has some suggestion for a good program to drop the files into so I can “search file contents”? I also tried “inspect element” and searched some code there but wasn’t successful. (I’m not a veteran coder by any means — self-taught and have only coded 3 or 4 websites ground up, so there’s a lot I’m not aware of from the coder world).
Thanks for providing that resource. That will be useful when I need to build something with BuddyPress code. I think for editing the existing code though I need to try to find the files that match up with the BuddyPress pages (profile / profile/edit / etc).
Thanks for building this! Glad to do what little I can.
@friends is a very good idea. I mentioned a few other possibilities (outside of the group setting), as your mention mentioned.Is it possible to post a message to a group (and all members) from my own (activity) stream? Like just type “@locomotives-group messagemessagemessage” and post it in my stream to do the same thing as your plugin does now when I post “@group messagemessagemessage” on the group wall?
It would be nice to reserve this ability only to mods if preferred.
My @group sent an alert (red dot) to group members! Functioning.
Just an update on this thread.
At the moment, there aren’t any plugins for this. The BuddyPress Like plugin is broken (it breaks WordPress themes on install and isn’t being supported). I tried others as well. The BuddyPress Compliments seems like a great plugin, but only allows users to compliment other members (not compliment posts). It’s interface and options, useability is great though.
It does what many people are requesting (on WordPress as well as this forum): lets people add “likes” to posts AND lets people customize the button that does the “liking” (I mean you can name the object and set an image for it).
Is there any plans within BuddyPress to add a “like” function (which tallys the likes on posts)? (If so, Compliments is a great model.)
Screens of BuddyPress Compliments:
Thank you guys, I will look at those two options.
Thank you, danbp!
Can I also use this file to replace “language” as you seem to be calling it with images? For example, replace “Activity” with an activity icon?
Thanks,
JMThanks for the information and the update, Mr Wright.
Forums with active mods are the best for users!
His guys. I guess it doesn’t do this already. If you are going to write a plugin, that is great. Is it also possible to learn the code (I wm my site so I am able to reduce plugins, even though I think the plugin will be very popular).
If you want to avoid “group” and illegal characters, you could maybe use what you said there: “@allfriends” or “@allgroup” or “@allfriendsingroup” (as different functions).
Or, if you had multiple groups and wanted to message one from your own stream, maybe @allgroup’groupname’
There is limited spam potential, but if groups have mods mods can ban / restrict membership. And the plugin would only be used by those who thought the benefits outweighed.
If anyone knows how, maybe you could point me towards the general code scheme for this and I can work on it as well. Might help in the future when something else needs improving.
Thanks,
JM
