[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

fyi, most developers include donate links with their plugin. Either on the developers website or in the plugin readme or the plugin download page. This way you can choose which plugin to support or to create incentive for the developer to prioritize a feature.

I guess also, don’t wait for a system, if you feel a plugin is deserving the time and effort put in, just support it. In reality it might give the developer a chance to buy a starbucks coffee, since my limited experience tells me that donation are far and in between. Thanks for bringing up the fact that developers should be encouraged though!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

This is the code for pagination:

<div class="pagination">

<div class="pag-count"><?php bp_activity_pagination_count() ?></div>

<div class="pagination-links"><?php bp_activity_pagination_links() ?></div>

</div>

It is already on that page, but it wrapped in <noscript> tags. Just remove those tags and should be good for the top of the page. Just repeat that code somewhere at the bottom, preferably just before the <?php else : ?> statement.

To remove to “load More” tab remove or uncomment the following code on that same template:

<?php if ( bp_get_activity_count() == bp_get_activity_per_page() ) : ?>

<li class="load-more">

<a href="#more"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>   <span class="ajax-loader"></span>

</li>

<?php endif; ?>

Also look at this codex page, it could be helpful to show you a number of things:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

This is where Drupal open source community shines. Developers can submit code or bug fixes to the project eventhough they are not part of the team. The lead developer, can then at their own leisure decide what to do with this. Sure we have trac and all that, but Drupal does this a whole lot better. This in turn makes it much easier for lead developers and encourages people to help with the project.

I realize this is not a helpful piece of information at all actually I just wish we could work together better and more effectively as co-developers.

Thanks for sharing Erwin, I totally understand. Honestly, I log to many hours and should keep a better balance. I’m glad you are able to do that. We all look forward to your continued involvement and we value it a lot. Especially since you are not a professional programmer! So be encouraged, sorry I can’t be involved more since bp 1.1.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 2 months ago]

That is the best news today!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning

That article explains a lot. I use the revision number for bug fixes. Minor versioning for new feature releases and major…well haven’t gotten to that yet, but when it is completely rewritten or forked, update the Major number.

fyi

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

As a developer I agree and understand gregfielding and foxly. It is though for developers to promote an open and active development enviroment along side paid subscriptions. Developers are far and between in regards to BuddyPress in comparison with the demand from users in the forums for features. Just look at how many post come with “What I would like in BuddyPress”, however contribution to third party plugins is ever so often.

It would be good for developers to contribute to each other and stimulate open source. Subscription fees don’t allow that, because another developer is not going to shell out money. So just merely to argue the point between paid and non-paid. Paid works fine for demand and users, but on the flip side it damages open source development and developer collaboration.

However, I do think in the last few months more developers have joined the bp community, which is good.

Paid subscription also doesn’t necessarily mean quality. Nothing in regards to Brajesh intent or skill or longevity that I know off, but I have been burned before by paying for software and never getting support and the product being abandoned. However, if the team is good, then it can also mean better quality, but free open source can be just as good or better or worse. It is no measure.

So from a developer standpoint I agree with foxly and gregfielding, but from a user demand perspective I can understand you have needs and wont mind paying for it. It fills a need, but it doesn’t help the open source community, which is what we are.

Can they co-exist? Probably, but in a perfect world, duplication should be prevented and collaboration should be encouraged.

Ps. I wrote this just to share my thoughts, I have no intend to fuel either fire or take sides, just discussing the issue at hand.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

I have the same problem when creating activity loops with specific arguments. I think it works if you don’t use the “Load more”, but regular pagination. However it is not nearly as fun.

I think the load more show use the arguments passed in. Could this be a bug or is this expected behavior?

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Very good news! Looking forward to a release.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

This is fixed in the upcoming version. It was mention as known bug on the the WordPress bp-groupblog plugin download page

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Thanks! Good to be reminded, I’ll make sure to check again in case I missed something.

The new bp-default is already a MAJOR change in a good way since the old BuddyPress theme btw. The old theme was littered with empty clearing div’s.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

R-A-Y?

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

You are right, but this philosophy stems from working from the main domain….you might consider working as reseller from your main domain rather than a subdomain. That would safe you a lot off head ache. I don’t think WPMU will ever support creating subdomains from another subdomain, but I could be wrong.

In any case, God bless on your continued adventure

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

The groupblog_blog_id should hold a single value. If this isn’t the case it is misfiring somewhere. Did the following post help at all? Please follow the instructions there and see if you can clean up the meta table. This should not be a problem in 1.4.4, but 1.4.3 causes issues.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=6#post-1427856

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

No, this plugin is only for wpmu or until Wp becomes WPMU or the other way around Either way, it is meant for multiblogs as a single blog would defeat the purpose of this plugin..

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Congrats Man…now JJJ can finally go on holiday to the Bahamas!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Hmmm, I’m starting to think your setup is quite unique. While we want to help out as much as we can, it looks like this goes beyond the scoop of what the plugin entails. If you can figure out how to make it work we could possible include into the core code. As it is I don’t belive we would be able to support your setup.

We use the same function that WordPress uses when a user creates a blog. So my question would be, can you create additional user blogs from your subdomain.root.com? If so what domain does it create? If you can create regular blogs from your subdomain, in theory the groupblog should do the same. In short, the only thing we do extra is create some meta keys to link it to the group and we decide the name for the blog.

Let me know your progress.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Hmmm….I don’t think so, that is getting fairly hairy. For one, I don’t think we can pull in buddypress function in your mapped domain. Also I noticed your install is not on abc.com but on 123.abc.com. So you are already installed in a subdomain. That’s maybe one reason why the plugin is trying to make blogs like xyz.123.abc.com instead xyz.abc.com.

We will look into to it however, but domain mapping might be beyond the scope of this plugin. I would almost think that external group blogs plugin would be a better fit as it relies on rss. But we are not giving up yet!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Hmmm…yes subdomains seems a bit untested. I’ll see if I can get a test enviroment up this week and do some debugging.

As far as theming goes, it is hard to say since it is not working anyway, but you copy the groupblog folder over to your bp-default theme. The upcoming version of bp-groupblog gives you a bunch of other options as wel.

I will try my best to make sure we support subdomain installs.

* Edit: oh right, for child themes you would put the groupblog folder in the root of your child theme. *

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

It behaves correct…since the blog is based on the group, we take the group slug and use that as the blog url. Like wise we use the Group Title as Blog Title. These fields can not be entered by you. So the blog gets created, or is already created in your case. Once the blog is created it can no longer be released. This is because the blog makes a strong bond with the group.

We thought about an option to leave this open, but it could lead to people snatching blog names from groups that could need their blog name later on if they did not activate their blog yet. For example a group Apple might not have a blog yet. Someone likes Apple and creates a group Oranges, but uses the name Apple as a blog name. Now Apple does decide to activate their blog. However, that blogname is now already registered to a group that is not even named Apple. Does that make sense at all?

Off course this does not apply to every community, but it seemed more stable solution for know. For similair reason we thought it not very effective for groups to release blogs. It could get messy very very fast. If anything only a site admin could possible release the bind between group and blog if desired.

I hope that makes sense.

BTW…P2 integration and lots more excellent features are coming very soon.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Their was a terrible bug in 1.4.3 Please update to 1.4.4. Please read this post at the WP forum and see if that helps you. Otherwise you can contact me through BP and we can figure it out. In future version we make sure to avoid creating havoc.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=4#post-1427856

Regards,

Marius

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Does this post help at all: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/371370?replies=4#post-1427856

Do you have access to your db?

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@peterverkooien you could easily do that with bp-events. You just need to find where all the links are that mention “Create Event” and wrap that in an if ( site_admin ) statement. Than only you will be able to create events. That’s why it is nice to use components that use the BuddyPress framework, since they are more extensible.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

The GroupBlog plugin does not fit into that structure really well. While it does some of it, it really is going a different direction in its approach. You’d be best to take a look at this plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-community-blogs/

It is no longer under development for a year and will not be updated either. It will not work with 1.2, but it does do what you desire. You could at least use that as a starting point and port the code to bp1.2.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

That’s excellent news!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

This shoulb be fixed in 1.4.4.