[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@modemlooper

Seems the theme repo is undergoing renovation. Do you have a direct link to the new theme?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Still having a ball discovering *all* about tagging.

Here’s a suggestion: incorporate member tagging with @username. That way, when a member gets tagged in another user’s photo, s/he can receive notification of it – i.e. “UserX has tagged you in a photo!” Email notification could also have a link to the “site.com/members/user/album/pics-of-me/” page.

Now, that would take member tagging to another level.

Great stuff guys, keep it up! And thank you very much for all your work on this.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

+1

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Well, there seems to be some interest in this so… bump!

Anybody have any ideas?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@foxly et al

Wow!

Very cool that a user who tags himself in another user’s photo can see that photo in his own album, and that clicking that photo takes him to the album of the user to whom the photo belongs. Now that’s social engagement… and the flexibility of tags in action. Great feature guys!

Definitely looking forward to the next release… thumbs next to the tag text links (he asks with quivering lips)?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Yup, Pods seemed like the best option for what you apparently want to accomplish. I’ve bookmarked the site too for future reference… it’s extremely flexible, yet looks quite simple to learn.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@anaxent

There’s really no need for individual albums. If you read through the other posts in this thread, you’ll see that every uploaded image will have tags associated with it. What that means is that the person uploading the images decides what “categories” each image falls into. As every image can have several tags, clicking on any tag (possibly in a tag cloud) will dynamically create an album containing all images with that tag.

Say, for example, I upload several images with the tag “Best of 2009”, some with “My Beach Holiday” and a few more with “Julie’s Wedding” and “Best of 2009”. If I click on the “Best of 2009” tag, I’ll get a dynamic “album” displayed containing all “Best of 2009” images and the ones from “Julie’s Wedding” that are also tagged “Best of 2009”.

As for “hot linked” video and other media, have you tried @MrMaz’s BuddyPress Links yet? Check it out, it’s worth it!

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@djpaul

My bad… I sometimes get ahead of myself when I’m learning stuff

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@gene53

BP-default must reside with the rest of Buddypress. Your best bet is to create a child theme and install your plugins onto that. https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@Bowe

Silly question maybe but… did you enable the 3 options in Welcome Pack settings and save them? It works fine on my install which is the same setup as yours.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I agree with @Anointed: preview and edit functions are musts. But so far, WOW!

My hands are itching to get this theme and get the L&F to my liking…

I only found one glaring omission: clicking any category tag displays the archive for that tag on a page that has no group header.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@foxly

Thanks for your reply. And I apologize for my ambiguity. My question was more to satisfy my own curiosity than to anticipate any user demands.

Giving my users the ability to switch between templates is not terribly important to me at this time. And I would tend to agree with keeping layouts more on the uniform side… I can just see my inbox flooding with “how do I fix this” type of questions.

On the other hand, being a creative fellow myself – who really likes to fiddle with things, sometimes to the point of breaking them – I imagine many users would appreciate having the option to switch their album layout between 2 or 3 styles. (Of course, the lack of uniformity here could conceivably be cause for confusion among users.)

We are building communities. I believe our focus thus needs to be on what our community desires as a whole, rather than on the caprices of individuals. But who am I to impose my own beliefs upon others? Ultimately, if a choice can be made, it should be by the user.

My conclusion: keep it as admin-only for now – to get the next release out on schedule . But let’s have some discussion about whether or not the option could – or should – be added to a future release.

What say you gang?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@foxly

Looking again at the screenshots you posted earlier, I just thought of something. Will it be possible for users to select which display style they prefer – Default, Facebook, Flickr? Or will that be a strictly admin-only option?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@rolfe

BP Album+ will probably do the trick for you.

You can see some screen shots of what the next release will look like here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-album-new-features-requests-and-discussion/page/2?replies=16#post-43760

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@foxly

I’m loving the simplicity of your plugin so far!

One essential (IMHO) feature that seems to be lacking, as far as user-friendliness is concerned, is centering of single-image or slideshow views on the user’s screen.

With many themes, bp-default included, the header and top-of-page content forces the image “below the fold”, requiring the user to scroll down to view. When viewing multiple images in slideshow, this becomes very tedious, quickly.

I’m no coder, but can anything be done to correct this?

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

This is a theme-related problem… as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Using my child theme – a slightly modified version of the default – nested comments work fine. With another theme – Fishbook – no nesting, no matter the settings in dashboard.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@foxly

Sure thing!

Just PM me to let me know when the time is right (I keep my eye on the Notifications thingy…)

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

I’m good to go for the French translation!

EDIT: Oops, just saw that Chouf1 already translated to French. Never mind

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@kanefulton

I just visited your hosting company’s website. You’re very likely going to have problems with such a small company.

I would suggest, as an essential first move, transferring your domain to a host that offers unlimited space and bandwidth.

A Google search for “unlimited hosting space uk” brings up several affordable options.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Ok, things are up and running again (sooner than I thought).

You can see the difference between not-logged-in and logged-in users on my site now.

Just login with any account you already have from AOL, Google, Yahoo, OpenID, Facebook or Windows Live (a really cool plugin courtesy of RPX).

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@armandmorin

This post should help get you started.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/adding-content-to-the-12-default-theme-homepage#post-35953

You can’t see the results on my home page just yet; I’m reinstalling everything after really messing things up. Give me a few hours and then visit my home page at http://rspace.org

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Add the standard instructions to your registration page for new users to whitelist yourdomain.com in their email accounts.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@Djsteve

That’s exactly what Dave’s buddypress-ajax-chat plugin does. Check it out.

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@MrMaz

Just activated Links on a new install of WPMU 2.9.2 / BP1.2.2.1 with Buddypack Fishbook theme.

Weren’t the link thumbs/avatars supposed to also show on the single page when clicking through from the home page activity stream? (Or is it my memory that’s on the fritz?)

[@pcwriter Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

@hachimaki

This post from Sarah Gooding should help get you started with widgets:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/