BuddyPress.org

I have long thought BuddyPress was confusing, and so I decided to take on the task of building a theme that would solve every issue I have with BuddyPress. It can be downloaded at http://www.buddyboss.com.

1. Groups and Forums are combined in an INTUITIVE way on my theme. It finally makes sense!
2. @mentions are gone. In their place is a TRUE Facebook wall on every profile. Post on friend’s profiles and status updates with threaded comments. You’ve got to try it to see how sweet it is
3. Stripped out all of the nonsense that adds to BuddyPress’ general chaos, and what’s left is a simple and enjoyable experience.

Here’s the answer! It has always frustrated me how @mentions work in BuddyPress as I find it chaotic and confusing for users. So I built a theme that converts the @mentions system into a TRUE Facebook wall with post to profile and threaded replies. If you every need to, at any time you can deactivate our Wall Component from the dashboard and your content will revert to @mentions, You can download the theme at http://www.buddyboss.com.

I created a theme that comes with a true Facebook wall. It converts all @mentions into Wall posts that can be replied to and threaded on your profile and is extremely intuitive to use, and it makes use of some of the code in R-a-y’s plugin. You can get it at http://www.buddyboss.com.

You might want to try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It has a built in Wall on user profiles. Images and video can be added via oEmbed for BuddyPress, and the wall functions like a true Facebook wall in terms of how the conversation flows. It converts @mentions into wall posts so the BP Gallery plugin could potentially be integrated if you know what you’re doing.

@msullens88 How did you combine @mentions, status updates, photos from bp-gallery into one activity feed? I have been looking for the answer to this for weeks. I have an activity feed on a users profile, but can’t get @mentions to show.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

-Paul

@mercime, it’s because the @mention was after the excerpt on the profile activity stream. It’s weird.

Notice how our posts are somewhat indented?

Did you change the login name via a plugin or in the database? I’m looking at your site and the @mentions name in the usernav
is different –> @BNIWAdmin when the profile header says @stevieG

They are not 2 different kinds of usernames.

The “username” is for the @mentions.

Then, additionally, there are “real names” or, “profile names” that are displayed across the site.

=== the budypress.org site is not a clear representation of a budypress site : ===

http://testbp.org/ is a clear representation of a default install of BuddyPress as noted in Codex. And the wall/wire was in the core of BuddyPress plugin pre-BP 1.2 version. Don’t know why it was removed.

yes @mercime i understand that, but the point is not that it didn’t work with me at first, the point is why it is a feature here on the budypress site and not easily available on the core package/theme, so here they think its a good feature, but on all the other budypress sites its not, or if you want it, you have to hack it in to have something similar, doesn’t make sense… basically the budypress.org site is not a clear representation of a budypress site

fanvid, You could always ask for assistance / leave comment at @sbrajesh site

why isnt this core? and i tried to use the tutorial and it was a big FAIL!

Good! try and keep to lowercase syntax
Link removed – not sure the purpose of this link or the comment could you explain please @mention me on my profile – hnla

It’s custom and there was a tutorial awhile back that did something similar http://buddydev.com/buddypress/using-activity-as-wire-in-buddypress-1-2-themes/

Here’s how buddypress.org does it, with a filter that essentially adds a search term ‘ @username‘ to the bp_has_activities filter:
`function bporg_activity_with_others_filter( $qs ) {
global $bp;

$user_id = ( bp_displayed_user_id() ) ? bp_displayed_user_id() : bp_loggedin_user_id();

/* Only filter on directory pages (no action) and the following scope on activity object. */
if ( ( ‘dashboard’ == $bp->current_action && strpos( $qs, ‘personal’ ) !== false ) || ‘just-me’ == $bp->current_action ) {
if ( strpos( $qs, ‘filter’ ) === false )
$qs .= ‘&search_terms=@’ . bp_core_get_username( $user_id ) . ‘<';

return $qs;
} else {
return $qs;
}
}
add_filter( ‘bp_ajax_querystring’, ‘bporg_activity_with_others_filter’, 11 );`

The problem with this approach is that the search bypasses the private/hidden group setting, so activity created inside of a group will show up on public profile pages if it contains @username in it. Here’s a filter that gets around it about halfway, in a hackish way:
`function bporg_ensure_hidden_activity_updates( $has_activities ) {
global $activities_template, $bp;

if ( bp_is_my_profile() || !$bp->displayed_user->id )
return $has_activities;

foreach( $activities_template->activities as $a_key => $a ) {
if ( $a->type != ‘activity_update’ && $a->type != ‘activity_comment’ )
continue;

if ( $a->component != ‘groups’ )
continue;

$group = new BP_Groups_Group( $a->item_id );

if ( $group->status != ‘public’ ) {
unset( $activities_template->activities[$a_key] );
$activities_template->total_activity_count = $activities_template->total_activity_count – 1;
$activities_template->activity_count = $activities_template->activity_count – 1;
}

$activities_template->activities = array_values( $activities_template->activities );
}

return $has_activities;
}
add_filter( ‘bp_has_activities’, ‘bporg_ensure_hidden_activity_updates’, 999 );`

This latter problem should be fixed in BP 1.3.

Okay, so I’ll probably create a plugin for this in the coming week or two. Please remind me if I don’t get to this!

@dougjoseph – Your ideas have been discussed before.

Read this blog post on BuddyDev.com to post on a user’s profile (mirroring the functionality of bp.org):

Using activity as wire in Buddypress 1.2 themes

@thelandman, @hitler

With some template coding, you can enable writing on other people’s walls – it’s done on this site for instance… click through to any member, and you’ll see the post box at the top!

I haven’t looked in to the coding, but suspect it’s just a ‘simple’ case of hiding the @mention ‘behind’ the post form

Wow! @mercime !!!!!!! Thanks so so much for your post. Heading to modify what’s necessary right now. Regards!

Here’s a tutorial to do that – http://buddydev.com/buddypress/using-activity-as-wire-in-buddypress-1-2-themes/

I’d love to have that feature too! buddypress.org has that feature. Under each profile there is a form for us to post comments directly to friends. I’d like to be able to do that in my site.

Regards.

Martin