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In reply to: Logged in Links
I use WPFront User Role editor to control visibility of menu items, it has a useful feature where you can set visibility to Guests only or logged in members only
In reply to: Features and RequestsYes it would be nice to have the option to display the members and group lists in grid format. also the ability to have a top line where you can pick out the featured groups and also the Admin/Moderator members.
In reply to: Users not able to view the members pageYou’d think so, but I unloaded all the other plugins and still got the error. At least I’ve got a workaround.
In reply to: Users not able to view the members pageFixed it, it seems my install does not like the use of the name “Members” for the members page, any other name will do it seems.
In reply to: Users not able to view the members pageSeems to be a pretty serioous error maybe in the database, even the admin’s can’t access the members page. Not sure what to do, I went over all the backups and all of them have the same problem.
In reply to: Users not able to view the members pageon mt other site even not logged in users could access the members page but not on this new site.
In reply to: Comments on photos by BP members’ accountYou could also look at BP Gallery from Buddydev
Check out Iflychat, it allows non registered visitors to chat, has a couple of different modes and is free for up to 10 simultaneous chatters.
In reply to: feature/plugin request Promote contentThanks, invite anyone seems to do it, I’ll have a play
In reply to: Strange change to page layoutYep this looks like it could be the theme, I’ve installed a test site with just bp and the theme and get the same issue. Have raised a support thread on the theme pages.
In reply to: Strange change to page layoutI’ve checked the page settings and the correct page is set up as the members page so it’s strange why the format is changing for some pages.
In reply to: Hide Membered groups onlyWithin the menu page under Appearance there is an option under Buddypress called Groups. you should use this as your menu item instead of the current Groups menu item, this will only display the groups the user is a member of.
In reply to: Group Post supportRegarding helping with the development, I’m afraid I’m no developer. What I am good at is writing simple how to guides for people like me needing to install plugins and features. Not sure if you would have use for that skill?
In reply to: Activity stream customisation options…Yes I would like better customisation options for activity stream to be able to identify exactly which items appear in the activity stream.
Some new options could be to include updates to blogs and pages to be included in the activity stream. Similarly I would like to have the ability to choose not to show items such as members joining groups in the stream.
Just would be nice to have some options over what is and is not included.
In reply to: Group Post supportThanks for the reply, I’ve tried using Groupblog but unfortunately cannot get it to work, none of the support threads for that plugin have been answered in six months or more.
Buddydev do a plugin which allows you to set up categories for group blogs, I use that but unfortunately it does not solve the security aspect.
In reply to: Buddypress 2.2 and Links pageYep I have a test system
In reply to: Buddypress 2.2 and Links pageYes I restored from backup and I’ll wait on upgrading to 2.2 until there’s a fix (fingers crossed!)
In reply to: Customise the group home viewI guess the question is which group market these groups intend to compete.
In reply to: Better group description – html support etc.Yes interesting, thanks 🙂
In reply to: Customise the group home viewThink of it this way, When I set up a group, is the activity feed the most important thing I want my users to see? Probably not, I want to present them with detail about what the group is about, I want to present the preferred methods of interaction, I might want them to look at some specific documents. How do I structure my group so that new members are informed of this?
In reply to: Better group description – html support etc.Yes, better customisation options for the group description and make the description part of the group home view.
In reply to: Users add own favorite URL links to widgetThe closest I have seen is the BP Profile Widgets plugin, but it does not do what you want, unless the author could be persuaded to change the feature of the text widget so that your users could set up links in that or if he could be persuaded to create a new link widget type.
In reply to: Members Profile PageI think I’ve nearly done it! It’s taken hours of searching and a lot of lateral thinking but I’ve sorted on of my asks, and that is for a home page that summarises the various activity streams. I’ve got a test system up at http://www.sacredvale.org and I’ve been able to set it up with a posts feed, and activity feed, and forum feed and also a popular groups list.
I’m not happy with the forum feed though it will do, and the groups feed is just weird and won’t.
I’ve also found an app that allows me to say exactly where a widget will display, so I can customise the sidebars for every page view I care to.
There’s a lot of bugs here and there, mainly to do with the look and feel of the overall system and I’m still working on the members profile pages but an awful lot of what I’ve been looking for I’ve been able to deliver, for very little money.
Now, if only we can get wordpress turbocharged lol
Plugin count so far? a cool 100….but my feature list beats any off the shelf social network site I know.
In reply to: Members Profile PageThe site is called Truth of Self http://www.truthofself.com
In reply to: Members Profile PageI ended opting for Graphene, there are some compatibility issues, but it is so flexible, I must have tried about 30 different themes before settling on it.
I reckon all in all I’ve assessed about 500 plugins to arrive at what I have got. Comparing to other social networking sites I think I’m pretty comparable to pay for options such as Ning, some aspects are seriously lacking though. User profile customisation and on site social networking options being the biggies.
I wired my landing page to be the activity feed, with a blog summary slider, and then used a right sidebar to do a lot of the customisation with widgets. For the members profile pages I added a second left sidebar with more personal widgets like friend and group recommendations.
Image and video sharing was another issue, I think I’ve just solved that though. I figured it was ket not to have basic users having to access the admin bar to add images to galleries etc but they also needed to be able to create galleries that the whole site could see.
Currently I’m at the stage where I keep finding features I never knew I had lol.
What I would really like, is a USP, a feature that other social sites do not have. Not sure what that is exactly and it may be that the total collection equates to that but I still feel it needs something. Maybe insertion of slide shows into blogs without the short codes etc, so normal users can do it.
