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Please elaborate on step 1 in the first post. “1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster”. I’m on my third attempt now from scratch. Pretty aggravated. To put it mildly.
p.s. On my third attempt I got WPMU, BP and BBPress installed successfully… but now I can’t log into the WPMU admin side anymore. I get a bunch of redirects to the login page and then the page fails to load due to too many redirects.
Anahita looks really interesting but the fact that it runs on Joomla makes it a non-starter for me and my clients… no matter how perfect the code is. I’m a big a stickler for doing things the “right way”… I’m a perfectionist… but the bottom line will always be usability and in that arena… WordPress is way out ahead. So at the end of the day… I don’t care TOO much about the MVC issue.
That said… I agree with your argument above. Doing things the “right way” doesn’t necessarily mean that something is more difficult, or costly, or what have you. I have a degree in architecture and one thing I always say is that when it comes to building… good design is more about thoughtfulness than budget. When designers blame the budget, client, or other constraints… it’s often a cop out.
Go Firefox. I wonder how many of my clients site are now “broken” because of this bug
Thanks for the info J3
MVC. Whatever. The bottom line for me is the user interface and easy of theming / customizing.
Take Joomla for instance. Most clients go into convulsions when they see Joomla the first time. There are enough radios buttons and options to make the most hardcore geek nauseous. And as a designer / developer… anytime I’m forced to use Joomla I feel like smashing my head through a brick wall… repeatedly. WordPress on the other hand is a joy to user for both clients and developers. So what if it’s not 100% MVC. I don’t really care.
But back to my Joomla rant. I did a Joomla 1.0.x project a year ago and there was no way to apply the design I’d created without modifying core files. The core was littered with thousands of lines of complex embedded html markup that was impossible to deal with via CSS alone. I spent 3 days just trying to find out where all the markup (mostly table code) was coming from. One day I spent an entire afternoon trying to track down the source of a single closing element (probably </table>). I finally found it buried deep inside a class file somewhere. Brutal. Absolutely brutal. And that admin interface. Ugh. And the plug-ins people write for it. One site I had to work on had a links plug-in installed that must have had over 100 configuration options. To make a page of links?!?! Unreal. Maybe Joomla 1.5 is better… but I’ll never know. I now turn down clients who ask for Joomla sites. I send them elsewhere. How it ever got to be so popular and considered suitable for Enterprise is beyond me.
@Gpo1: Zend is a popular PHP development framework. This plugin would enable that framework within WordPress. So unless you’re a programmer… it wouldn’t do a whole lot for you. If you are a programmer… it could make plugin development easier… which is pretty cool. Correct me if I’m wrong guys. That’s my rudimentary understanding.
You’ve used it on other WordPress sites? I don’t know… but one thing I’ve always found is that you should never mix and match javascript frameworks. They tend to mess each other up. Just a guess on my part! I see that Slimbox uses Mootools and WordPress uses jQuery. Again… that’s just a wild ass guess.
Group integration would be nice too.
Very exciting times ahead!
I agree. I’m still in the evaluating / designing / etc. phase… but assuming I go live with a new site for my volunteer organization… I will be donating beer money for sure.
You get what you pay for I guess. Although, in the case of BuddyPress… at a cost of $0.00… you get a whole lot more than you pay for.
Besides, if they waited until the system had absolutely everything… it would never be released. It was only released about a month ago. And now that there is an official 1.0 version out, I predict that developers will be flocking to it and developing lots of great third party plugins. It’s already happening. Consider that a couple of motivated developers have already freely donated their time to create pretty decent (if basic at the moment) events and photo gallery plugins!!!!! Pretty awesome if you ask me.
As for document management… there are a number of standard WordPress plugins that will handle that for you. Of course, it won’t be integrated into the groups, activity feeds, etc… it would just be a WordPress page with downloads on it… but one of those plugins might serve as a stop-gap for you for now.
If you really want/need free social networking software that is more feature complete now… right now… try Elgg. But it doesn’t have nearly the same amount of developer interest, buzz and support… it’s no where near as user-friendly… and creating a theme that does anything more than change a few background colors and images is next to impossible. I did a lot of research into these two options and BuddyPress… even with the limits of it’s current 1.0 feature set… was the hands down winner. No contest.’
Finally, you say you don’t care if something if free or paid for… you only care about the final product. Well, if that’s the case, there are literally scores of commercial web applications out there right now that do similar things… socially networked Wiki’s, Intranets, etc… but most of them are very expensive. Look at SocialText, Telligent, Confluence, ClearSpace, MindTouch, Thought Farmer… and on and on. Tons of them. Some are more Wiki-like with some social stuff added and some are more Facebook like with some Wiki stuff added… but there is certainly no shortage of commercial options out there.
I think bp-events should be another “official component” candidate. Very impressed with both plug-ins so far. I’ve had a few issues with bp-photo so far and it needs a few things like activity feed integration (or a widget), bulk upload and delete (or at least delete from the thumbnail view)… which I’m sure are probably on Manjo’s list… but for a beta… it looks very promising.
Okay. It’s working now. I’m pretty sure the string replace error was because of my lack of GD (which I have installed now) but the other issue (uploads stalling) is still happening intermittently. I can’t figure out why.
The error I’m getting is:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /Users/davelewis/Sites/wpmu/wp-content/plugins/bp-album.php on line 324I’ve noticed that I only get this error when attempting to upload small images. When I try to upload a big image, the browser just spins and nothing happens. If you look at the plugin code around line 324… it’s looking at the size of the uploaded file and then using one of two functions to generate thumbnails via the WordPress function wp_create_thumbnail().
So it must have to do with my environment or WordPress MU setup. I’m using the built-in PHP in Leopard which (annoyingly) doesn’t come with the GD Library. So perhaps that is the issue. Safe to assume that wp_create_thumbnail() utilizes the GD Library. I’ve tried installing the entropy distribution of PHP5 before and it’s been a huge pain to get it working. So for development purposes (on my local machine)… I just use the Leopard PHP build.
Can’t figure out why it’s not working for me. I put it inside a fresh install of WPMU 2.7.1 and BP 1.0. No other plugins even activated. Permissions problem maybe? Where to the images get uploaded to?
Screenshots look awesome… but I haven’t been able to get it working so far. When I try to upload it either throws and error or just spins and does nothing
I just did a quick test. In the home theme at least (wp-content/themes/bphome/header.php) the global nav at the top is already hardcoded. So it’s dead easy to hide the groups and members links simply by wrapping it with this:
<?php if(is_user_logged_in()): ?>
[ links for logged in users only go here ]
<?php endif; ?>In my template, the “groups” and “members” links appear on lines 48-53.
Note that the last item in the navigation is:
<?php do_action( 'bp_nav_items' ); ?>This function could pulling in more navigation links if you are using any plugins… like bp-events for instance.That said… I like the solution in this thread much better.
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1651&page=2
The “solution” above is very “low tech” and in fact, isn’t really a solution since it doesn’t actually restrict access… it just hides some links. Probably not a good way to go. You could probably still get into a group by… let’s say… clicking on someone’s profile link and then clicking on a link to a group they are a member of.
Ya… I don’t think there is any right and wrong way… it depends on what you’re trying to do. But in general… I think of Pages as being for static content that rarely changes and it organized according to a navigation hierarchy while Posts are for more timely content that is organized by date and can additionally be filtered by category/tag. To me… info about a breed is a Page. Sounds like static info to me. But again… it depends.
Yah… whichever file has your Home, Blog, Groups, Members etc. navigation. You could maybe just hardcode those links instead of using a buddypress function and then wrap the ones your want hidden with that if statement. Again… I’m just talking off the top of my head. I haven’t actually tried this. I think you might have to do it in a few places though since home uses it’s own theme right? Let us know if you get it working. I’m going to want to do a similar trick (for the time being… until the permissions access component is released).
The important bit of logic there is the line
if(!is_user_logged_in()… basically saying… if the user is not logged in… do this (i.e. direct to homepage). Could you not simply redirect somewhere else? Better yet… could you not simply hardcode your navigation and wrap some of your navigation with this if statement so they don’t even see the links to groups, etc.. Just thinking out loud here.On the one hand… manipulating the feed seems wrong. It’s contrary to the very idea of a feed. On the other hand… ever since Facebook changed their default feed from a broad algorithm-based overview of everything to a live feed of status updates only (and EVERY single status update)… I’ve been annoyed to no end by friends who post inane status updates 20 times a day. So I feel your pain. It would be a nice option. I’m afraid I don’t have an answer though. It doesn’t sounds too complicated to code… but I don’t know. Ideally… you would give the individual user the control over what they see in the feed (i.e. hide updates from jimmy… show more like this… show less like this… etc.)… but that would be a lot more complex of course.
It would only be awesome if people actually answered the pre-set questions and if the others on the site cared about the answers. How much structure do you want to impose on people’s social interaction? It’s a good question. For instance, I rarely if ever use the “buckets” in the buddypress.org forums… I only look at the “latest posts” area.
As for implementing what you’re talking about… you need a programmer. I’m not sure exactly what your goal is but from what you’ve said… it does not sound simple… there would be programming involved.
p.s. Wire vs. Status seems like semantics to me… same difference.
If you want to add a login to the sidebar and no widget exists… just hard code it in the templates. The code already exists in the admin bar… so it’s probably just a copy/paste.
Since you’re using a fixed width (960)… I assume you added either a wrapper around the whole interface or set the body to have a width of 960. Simple put ‘position: relative;’ on that parent element (i.e. the body or your new wrapper) and put ‘left: 0;’ back on the wp-admin-bar.
Right. I went through the same thing actually. I spend some time trying to figure out which RC I was running… couldn’t find the info anywhere… so I just upgraded. Don’t know why I didn’t just upgrade right away. Figure it would be a pain. But of course… it wasn’t a pain at all.
