[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@Mike Pratt The bp-events came into being by using the bp-groups as a model, almost a search and replace really. So in that sense I mean that events component is based of the groups component. Sorry for the confusion, I didn’t mean relationship

Off course profiles could create events and either link them to groups or not.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

I was hoping that helping out at startup was enough, moving bp-events from bp1.0.3 to bp1.1. Given the fast development and change of code, it is not easy to keep up to speed if you don’t active develop. We also need bp-events for our platform, but are busy with groupblog and have some realy, realy cool things coming out for that which will blow your mind.

Given that though, without events our site is dead in the water. I can’t make any promises, or backwards compatibility, but events is definitely a project we are considering adopting (after I talk to my co-worker ). It would still be based on bp-groups, maybe under a different name since it gives us more freedom to move forward. Either way, it would be a while for us to take on such a project (after bp-groupblog is done), but our hand might be forced.

So again, no promises, but we are looking at it. If you have any good alternative names for this plugin, share em. I guess it could be as simple as BuddyEvents.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Okay…we can verify this error and will try to fix tomorrow. We have a good idea why this is happening and should be resolved soon. It happens indeed when trying to select an existing blog for groups. We additionaly found another issue related to this, so thanks again for bringing this to our attention.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Hi greg, I have someone mention this error before. We ourselves have not encountered it yet. We will continue trying and see if we can find out why. Your explanation to the error could help, thanks for reporting. I will keep you up to date on the progress in regards to this error.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

How about miniature avatars instead of names?

Also, is there a function which you can call on the viewed single item (e.g. single blog post, single activity item) so you can see a list of avatars who all liked this item?

Great work…integrates nicely.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Made a lot of progress already. Group blog page looks like bp-default with posting using P2. Test site coming soon.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

In short…we define a page template which we redirect to from the group blog. Since the child theme resembles the group exactly, it won’t matter. So it will be like your posting from the Group structure. Since our child theme page template loads its own css file, you can still style the main P2 blog theme the way you want.

We don’t want you to work hard, so we are prepackaging a P2 child theme that works out of the box and looks like bp-default. With some more effort you can create your own child them too, but not everybody can theme.

So, yes, I would wait if you can and see if we can meet your needs. If not, you can always continue your journey, but it is up to you

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Actually…The child theme will have P2 features with BuddyPress look and feel AND features in tact! It will be mix of both themes strengths. At least that is the goal, once I have a theme for trunk I’ll give a shoutout to testers.

The largest goal will actually to allow wpml play nicely with P2 as we have to support that plugin.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

We are actually working on this. As the co-author of the Group Blog plugin we are adopting the P2 theme as a base and making a child theme that ‘s based on buddypress’ look.

To integrate with the Group Blog plugin we added new functionality that allows deeper blog integration inside your group which enables P2 to exist within the group. It will be very nice and we have some additional goodies coming which I don’t want to spoil yet

Some of the templating functionality is already in trunk of the plugin for those who are adventurous or curious. It shouldn’t be to long out for a release as we are actively developing for BP1.2.

I’ll keep ya’ll posted on the forums on the progress.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Don’t know

In any case we are looking to support the P2 theme closely. It will be a start to get a child theme going. From there it could develop in a lot more. At least we are looking to integrate with P2 as time permits off course.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@peterverkooijen We actually use the same code as blog defaults from Deanna Schneider. Except her code probably fires later. We can look into that…could be useful for the groupblog settings to take priority.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@peterverkooijen I think I understand your structure a bit, however frontend posting will always be tied to a theme that is activated on the blog itself. I don’t think it will be possible to post from the group url. Not until frontend posting develops into a plugin rather than tied deeply into a theme. If all the features P2 offers would be part of a plugin, than it could be activated on any theme and we would be one step closer to post from within the group.

You could potentially still do what you wish, nut it would require each blog to set up two front pages as described here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

You could then use one front page to be loaded inside the group structure and style it as the group by attaching a unique stylesheet. Your other front page would be the main blog front page and could look entirely different.

That is probably as close as you will get, until someone comes up with a clever frontend posting plugin.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@Avi M, @Mike The latest bug fix should possible fix a lot of issues. Basically the code was missing a vital function which prevented blogs to be created for EXISTING groups. That inadvertently also fixed ‘main blog posts’ on the group page.

@Peterverkooijen I will be making a child theme for P2. From there you can set that theme as the default group blog theme, wish will enable frontend posting.

@Mike I’m including a setting in the wp-admin settings to change the behavior of the blog link within the group. By default it loads a template. If deeper blog integration is desired you can set to redirect the blog link to the group blog home page. This is only useful when your theme matches your current buddypress theme. Two child themes will ship with the group blog plugin that will do that. One based on bp-default and one based on the P2 theme.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/tweetstream-twitter-plugin-beta-testers-needed

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@Mike It is actually correct. The blog path is shown. The url you are referring to is merely a template we show in the group structure and is completely separate from the blog. In that particular template we show some blog activity and posts. It basically is container for what goes on in the blog. Does that make sense?

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

@Avi M I have not tested it with sub-domains sadly. I will see if I can get a test environment for that as well. If anyone else can chime in on subdomains issues, feel free.

@Mike Thanks…let me know what could be useful to add. Group activity streams will come, but I’m not sure how exactly yet. Therefore I included a custom groupblog activity loop on the group blog page.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

If this will work with WPML I’d be so grateful! Will test this soon…

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

While it is very true that the backend is confusing our users regarding complexity, I still think that, atm, posting from the front-end is not developed far enough yet (as far as I know, please correct me if I’m wrong). It is fine for micro-blogging, but I don’t think there are option to include image/video/media uploading, tagging, and categories.

Therefore we are still painfully educating our users so at least the can harness the full potential of WP rather than to use it as a feature rich paper weight that can only do text. If anyone knows of a way to post to the blog from the front end that’s more full featured than just text, it will be implemented immediately (as a manner of speaking)!

We could do this with Drupal, but I have not seen it yet, or search hard enough, in WordPress.

So yes, I to would absolutely feel liberated if I did not have to send our users to a backend…it is not what is expected for most users using common social sites. Definitely high on the priority list!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Compatible version for 1.2 should be released on Friday, fingers crossed. Improvements mentioned by Boone are already in version 1.3.1 of the plugin.

As we move forward with this plugin we are definitely looking to post from the main page. Currently we have not yet experimented with it, but it is on our minds

You should be able to pull in whatever you like in to your group. Per definition what works within your blog should also work on your groupblog. All you need is the blog id that belongs to the group. If you look at the template files you’ll see how we set the blog id and use switch blog to change blog id’s.

Looking ahead we are even going further and reversing the concept of pulling in specific blog content into the group, but let the blog be the group and pull in buddypress information to the blog itself. The power of that approach is that you let groups have specific themes. The main group slug would just forward to the blog home page.

The groupblog plugin is still being maintained and under development!

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 3 months ago]

Well….I have finally moved to our new address…three doors down…and can assure you that we will make the groupblog compatible with bp1.2 and wp2.9+ in the coming weeks. However our site still runs at previous versions of both bp and wp. Our plugins follow the upgrade path at the speed of development of our organization site.

We are merely sharing with you the efforts we put in that are required by our own product. Anything beyond that would fall under hobby or paid service (and hobbies I have plenty especially as the new proud owner of the iPhone 3GS). So hang in there as I will start upgrading our organization along with the needed plugins.

Pray for me that I will not get run over by a bus if you find the time

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

I’m currently renovating and moving so I’m mostly or completely of the grid. However I will try to make every effort to put in Andy’s code tomorrow to ensure compatibility with wpmu 2.9.1.

Sorry for the inconvenience to those who already upgraded.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

I’ve heard one confirmation that it works fine with subdomains. It will just create http://groupblog.example.com instead. Let me know if you run into any trouble.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

@Suzanne I’m glad you figured it out. If you wish to use your own template, have a look at the code between lines 730-780 of bp-groupblog.php. This does however require you to create a new theme file and stick that in the theme folder, but in turn gives you more freedom for markup. Let me know if you need more help with that or if the plugin template is sufficient.

@1stAngel I will continue support on your issue at the link you provided.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

@nexia If you would have bothered to read his post, it is regarding a BP theme, so it would make sense to ask here as well, since theme developers do exist here.

@gsmith6673 No I personally haven’t.

[@mariusooms Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

Is this on the new buddypress theme? Not sure what the reason is that the buttons are messed up. Can you provide a link?