BuddyPress.org | peterverkooijen | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/peterverkooijen/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning peterverkooijen. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:24:58 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 0dfe4d0509cb19bbdf43b1ef258d6704 Derek posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hey join my group "What the heck happened?" https://buddypress.org/updates/p/62645/ Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:28:43 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hey join my group “What the heck happened?”

]]> 0 460658ae2994585b0954bb2dbdfae71e erikshosting posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hey I don't know if you still need to […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/59068/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:20:00 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hey I don’t know if you still need to redirect users from wp-admin/profile.php to their buddypress profiles… but i made a plugin that does it! Check it out here: http://erikshosting.com/scripts-code/dashboard-lockdown-and-buddypress-profile-redirect/

]]> 0 f89aef2f2aff0bfc504d7dd7de618683 belstaff posted an update: @peterverkooijen Belstaff Belstaff Jacket Belstaff […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/52709/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:45:54 +0000 @peterverkooijen Belstaff
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]]> 0 4abd141c8c4e41f74f7beded41ba80bf wpgav posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hee Peter, nog een Nederlander hierzo. https://buddypress.org/updates/p/46289/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:26:58 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hee Peter, nog een Nederlander hierzo.

]]> 0 414cf7ccf94c83ae70db733aca77276e paulhastings0 posted on the forum topic Time on my site is off by 5 hours. in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/time-on-my-site-is-off-by-5-hours/#post-68492 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:05:46 +0000 @peterverkooijen I think a patch has already been submitted in Trac and the next version of BP (hopefully next week?) will fix it.

]]> 3092d9f9aff2f63c3bc9490c853ab2e2 intimez posted on the forum topic Time on my site is off by 5 hours. in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/time-on-my-site-is-off-by-5-hours/#post-68479 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 03:32:29 +0000 @peterverkooijen

Did you try General – Settings – Timezone?

]]> a4651f86ebb3ee2c8d2fdfa31fa68301 dralamir posted on the forum topic Does BP 1.1.3 work on WP 3.0+? in the group Wordpress 3.0 + BuddyPress http://buddypress.org/community/groups/wordpress-3-0-buddypress/forum/topic/does-bp-1-1-3-work-on-wp-3-0/#post-62568 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:40:21 +0000 Cheers @peterverkooijen. I think I’ll try it out then. 🙂

]]> a9e685449d3a581f0709207ac6d05e49 lincme.co.uk posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hi Peter. Yeah, I was getting very […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/25800/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:59:22 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hi Peter. Yeah, I was getting very frustrated with BP on and off, but aside from creating our own tools (maybe in another life) it’s the best option all round. I haven’t tried an older version, but have got the fledgling site looking and working as we want. Lots more to do on it of course, but the basics are there.

I think I was…[Read more]

]]> 0 3aa1eb6985ae5b47d2c8cd4d2d0f9e32 lincme.co.uk posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hi Peter. Yes, we have a new baby site at […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/25670/ Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:50:30 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hi Peter. Yes, we have a new baby site at lincme.co.uk, which was working ok until a couple of days ago when I upgraded BP. I lost my member friends who were testing it, and am now rebuilding. Ho hum. We’re now on WP 3.0 and BP 1.2.5.

I dumped BP for a third time(!) and used Mingle, but the problem is that we *really* need…[Read more]

]]> 1 9f2675a52fd32ed4d3b63fbe1b028992 lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=4#post-61478 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 01:58:34 +0000 @peterverkooijen; It’s all good, and once we’ve had a few ruffled feathers we can get down to sharing really useful ideas, eh? I don’t think you’re “wrong”, any more than I think I’m “right”. We probably see more the same way than not. As for BP as a project, sadly, it’s perhaps too late to go […]

]]> 0c9465378a47e16c732274087849a1af lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=4#post-61437 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:03:58 +0000 @peterverkooijen; Ok, I came across sarcastic back there. Apologies. Discussion is always useful, but not when we let ego get in the way. Your comment about “Mushy holistic talk” made me smile. Where did those terms creep in? Perhaps “New Age Software: it does nothing, but it feels good!” might be the key here, umm..? Actually, […]

]]> b64544cac9bcac2748a2807304b862ce alanchrishughes posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-61384 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:43:14 +0000 @Peterverkooijen you keep talking about privacy

but anyways, I’m still looking for a solution to simplify the messageboard/s system. Right now I’m looking into renaming “groups” to “topics”

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/completely-re-naming-the-groups-component/

]]> 26970cc952d48afd9a775cdec1ce9d09 alanchrishughes posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-61375 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:56:33 +0000 @Peterverkooijen said: I’m sorry, but the whole point of a social network is that it is not anonymous. You can’t have unregistered users on a social network. The point of a social network is to allow members to interact with eachother in a trusted environment like they would in the offline world You just described email. […]

]]> 6b58d054b6eba510ad5b72153e6731a8 lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-61215 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:42:05 +0000 @peterverkooijen said; “Talk about dropping rigidity and opening up to an amazing new flexibility and power is pure nonsense”. Ah Peter, without visionaries such as yourself, how would we ever have got to where we are..?! Growing out of rigid definitions into new flexibility is where the virtual world is heading, like it or not. Everything […]

]]> 02e71842048c4dbf6a949466cabbb7b3 alanchrishughes posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-60834 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:27:24 +0000 @Peterverkooijen I don’t care what is considered a “natural” part of a social networking website, it is what I want for the website I am developing. I wanted a messageboard potentially with subjects divided into specific groups, not groups with a bunch of messageboards inside of them. Like I said a few posts back I realized […]

]]> 9359e8e04b2d61f5b233eff9b4fc70d6 alanchrishughes posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-60794 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:59:06 +0000 I think there should be some kind of separation for the anonymous commentors, common sense stuff though, like they could comment on forum/group posts, but not on a personal update stream or whatever. @Peterverkooijen just because buddypress or wordpress or whoever develop new features for an application doesn’t mean you are forced to use the new […]

]]> e3d2c1a3b35f4d6bf75e223aaa7bcd34 lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=3#post-60783 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:20:04 +0000 @peterverkooijen; I don’t think mixing in anonymous users defeats the point at all. Why should it? Don’t you talk to people you don’t know almost every day? Don’t people comment in passing about things, often making people smile? If software systems model the real world of human interactions, then I’d say that anonymity is quite normal. […]

]]> 3aa2189450027efa941efaae592a2f5c alanchrishughes posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=2#post-60761 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:12:54 +0000 @Peterverkooijen I really like the idea of them all being mixed together, if nothing else just to see what can be done, breaking down boundaries. Sometimes you just want to blurt something out facebook or twitter style into your stream, other times you want to post something with a bit of direction that you would post […]

]]> bdd92d442d30485799093ec95b163b21 lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic Removing Groups From Forums in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-groups-from-forums/?topic_page=2#post-60760 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:12:10 +0000 @peterverkooijen; Good points about the focus of a social network being on the member, while a forum is focussed more around the information. I think @alanchrishughes has a point too though, about non-techies being put off by having to register.many people are still terrified that if they enter their name and email address then you’ll have access […]

]]> 8379197c12efbc835de69ef30e328173 lincme.co.uk posted on the forum topic How to filter extended profiles fields editings? in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/how-to-filter-extended-profiles-fields-editings/#post-60719 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:53:39 +0000 @peterverkooijen said; “There is also zero privacy/security in Buddypress”. Care to expand upon that Peter? Our site isn’t ‘open for business’ yet, but when it is our members will expect some privacy, ie., profile stuff set to private and private group posts actually being private. Are you saying it can’t/won’t be properly private?

]]> 67859876ae665f7edaf04bba9d7c99ba soccerplayersbase posted on the forum topic Creating a General Forms Plugin for WordPress! in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/creating-a-general-forms-plugin-for-wordpress/#post-60667 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:45:17 +0000 thanks @Peterverkooijen for the plugin {mm forms} now it’s mm forms community

]]> 05bae7ca537fc21c23e4060c5e930bec Erich73 posted on the forum topic users complaining in the group Requests & Feedback http://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/users-complaining/?topic_page=2#post-59135 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:23:04 +0000 @peterverkooijen

“….You really only need three basic building blocks; users, posts, comments…..”

users, post, comments: I would call this a Forum. So as I have deactivated the Activity-component from my own page now, it actually looks like a Forum with some Groups now, which is fine !

]]> 7e0170ffecdf3dc1a1090d337c78479d Derek posted an update: @peterverkooijen I am not upgrading to 1.2 either. Please […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/20130/ Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:17:56 +0000 @peterverkooijen I am not upgrading to 1.2 either. Please let me know if you get 1.1 to work with 3.0

]]> 2 1592cca86a3f488a7d8798f02cea5d09 Ryan Cronin posted an update: @peterverkooijen Do you have email or skype? I wish to work […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/16553/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:53:57 +0000 @peterverkooijen Do you have email or skype? I wish to work with you on developing a simplified way to use real names across buddypress. Please email me at Ryan@blackoutplaylists.com

Thanks!

]]> 0 3d06c3ecec6062b1fefd66c10fc21106 r-a-y posted on the forum topic Is it possible to create a Community where people can use thier real names ? in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names/?topi Sun, 23 May 2010 20:40:54 +0000 @peterverkooijen – I guess it’s possible to make sure display/real names are unique, but you still run into the issue of someone having the same name. The email address is unique; you’re right.

]]> 0a020f144a592d4149adaa6703d79b05 thelandman posted on the forum topic Is it possible to create a Community where people can use thier real names ? in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names/#post Sun, 23 May 2010 14:08:31 +0000 @peterverkooijen, @eborg9, if you guys are having issues then hire a developer to make a plugin. You could simply edit the template files (I think)

Create a First Name and Last name profile field. In the template files wherever http://pastebin.com/57Sm4VNu appears replace it with http://pastebin.com/hESCVX9D

Something along those lines.

]]> ae230acfcb4992db7c1dba59300bc5e1 r-a-y posted on the forum topic Is it possible to create a Community where people can use thier real names ? in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/is-it-possible-to-create-a-community-where-people-can-use-thier-real-names/#post Sun, 23 May 2010 06:16:56 +0000 @peterverkooijen – There are no conspiracy theories involved. If you have a solution, post it. I’ll make sure it doesn’t get deleted. — @eborg9 – the concept is quite simple. A username is something you login with, the “Name” field as mentioned here shows your real name in all places (except @mentions). The signup process is similar to […]

]]> 40591c13ae6c0d5f6aeadad8be345955 bplove posted an update: @peterverkooijen Hi Peter, Curious on your success with p2 […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/9671/ Tue, 18 May 2010 06:25:34 +0000 @peterverkooijen Hi Peter, Curious on your success with p2 for groups. Have you been successful here?

Best ~ BPLOVER

]]> 0 87c0e7cf03de80b672e070b81c8b90e3 Scotm posted an update: @peterverkooijen Love how you moved the profile info to the […] https://buddypress.org/updates/p/4854/ Wed, 05 May 2010 12:45:49 +0000 @peterverkooijen Love how you moved the profile info to the sidebar in your Web2NewYork install. I’ve been wanting to do that with my theme as well. Any tips?

]]> 2 b11e581867bbc8067fd9143ac614a359 Scotm posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=5#p Wed, 05 May 2010 02:44:31 +0000 @Peterverkooijen Sounds like your setup is exactly what I suggested many posts ago in this thread. P2 functionality was totally overlooked in the whole BuddyPress design but it seems to me to be a great fit. Give me a P2 groupblog with a cleaned up groups feature and BuddyPress is relevant again. Would like to see […]

]]> dc8b17d1654af9db51d8a6be9d9f0164 jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=4#p Wed, 05 May 2010 02:25:22 +0000 @Peterverkooijen said: Why would you need forums? What makes forums so great for collaboration? You’re confusing me now. You don’t see the benefit of forums yet you have basically created a forum on your site. Everyone has to think outside of the box because “forums” != bbPress. I’ve spent many many years on many different “forums”, all […]

]]> c67cced0ef64721ff6792895029a4fc6 jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=4#p Wed, 05 May 2010 01:46:33 +0000 @Peterverkooijen based on your setup description, I don’t understand your BP forum complaints. You don’t use forums because you have basically replicated the forum concept in blog posts/comments. The only advantage I see of this setup (without looking in great detail) is the benefit of using the more robust WP commenting system. Fundamentally you…[Read more]

]]> e07260f4d14312ddcb74da753ecc5e99 jivany posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=4#p Wed, 05 May 2010 00:59:50 +0000 @Peterverkooijen said: @stwc, can you answer the question, what makes forums so great for collaboration? What can you do with forums that you can’t do with blog posts + comments? I’ll wade in here (ugh, bad idea?) with one major difference between forums and blog posts. On a typical WP installation, blog posts are written by site […]

]]> 5a253981a8ff150bd5c0e347f1488148 Sadr posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=3#p Tue, 04 May 2010 21:46:07 +0000 @r-a-y @peterverkooijen Just to clarify: I’m not really for the actual inclusion of bbPress inside of BuddyPress. What I want is the ability to replicate forum-like functionality within the boundaries of what Wordpress+BuddyPress can be extended to. I believe social networks can be the next generation of collaborative forums. That is the type of…[Read more]

]]> 0e84e987724fd497003e325f613777bb r-a-y posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=3#p Tue, 04 May 2010 21:43:18 +0000 @peterverkooijen – If we’re talking semantics, you referred to me saying this: “I definitely don’t believe is a “parasite” like you do.” (which I did write) And then, you wrote this: @r-a-y, this sounds pretty parasitic to me: “… it should be possible (and rather effortless at that) to mold BuddyPress into a more forum-like environment …” (which […]

]]> 140a2e1dd5ed51cfc687830f4ef062a6 r-a-y posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=2#p Tue, 04 May 2010 21:12:21 +0000 @peterverkooijen – But did I write that? Also that’s not a strong citation for your argument.

]]> 09ee796aaaee20e5c2f6e539b4dd19e2 Peterverkooijen posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/?topic_page=2#p Tue, 04 May 2010 13:37:14 +0000 Mike Pratt said 1 day ago: ” @peterverkooijen @hnla I take the other side of your “little diff b/t blogs and forums” opinion. To me, a blog post is a significantly more “deliberate” piece of content … For ex, we have a group called the “12th Man Training Table” which centers on athlete nutrition. Folks want to […]

]]> 49194bed61be38c40fc699bf66935dd2 Mike Pratt posted on the forum topic The BuddyPress UI Design and conceptual approach to Social Networking in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/#post-52008 Mon, 03 May 2010 12:49:43 +0000 @peterverkooijen @hnla I take the other side of your “little diff b/t blogs and forums” opinion. To me, a blog post is a significantly more “deliberate” piece of content . Blog posts do (and should) take much longer to write. They are thought pieces..with paragraphs/sections, and often media,etc You know what I’m talking about here. Forum Topics, […]

]]> 7ea1fb66cd16d4f1d59a68ce478539c9 Gezan posted on the forum topic BuddyPress site redesign in the group Requests & Feedback http://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/buddypress-site-redesign/?topic_page=7#post-51479 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:10:05 +0000 @peterverkooijen: Try telling your opinion without personal attacks and being harsh. That’s just counter productive, for you, the thread and everything else.

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