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Presently, admin level users can’t see activity feeds for members who have set their privacy options to “only show activity to friends”. Is there any way to get around this so that admins can see everyone’s activity feeds, and profile fields as well? Ideally, I don’t want the privacy options to apply to admins at all.
I am trying to create a site that has 2 types of members but only displays 1 of their feeds and profiles.
I want to be able to have the Members directory only display the non-subscriber users/members and the same with the activity feed, I only want it to display non-subscribers.
I have created a child theme & then done a new members-loop.php
I was trying to follow the info from this topic:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/excluding-roles-from-the-member-loop/?#post-130978& this
http://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/
but it is still displaying all members. I am also using BP User Account Type Lite plugin to create 2 types of users. I’m not sure if this would interfere with it?
That plugin is meant to create a shortcode to display only certain members in a members directory page. But that page is also displaying all members.
Here is the members-loop.php code in pastebin
http://pastebin.com/Yjm3cwx7Any help would be much appreciated.
I am having some issues with updates to Private Groups, and I hope I can explain it well…
First off, I have two “test” accounts on my test site (one is an admin, the other is a subscriber). They are both friends with each other, and both below to a Public Group and the same Private Group.
I also have an activity feed (loop) on my front page to show 5 most recent activities from the community.
When either test account posts in the Public Group, it shows up in the activity feed on the front page no problem. I can view it from both accounts. I can also go to my “Activity” page and see it under the Tab “All Members” in both accounts. Also, if I’m signed into one account, I can go to the other account’s profile page and see on their wall what they posted in the Public Group.
HOWEVER, things get interesting and down right confusing when posting in a Private group.
When I post an update in a Private Group with either account, I cannot see that in the activity loop nor on the wall of the user’s account who placed that post. The ONLY place I can see if/what the user posted is either in the Private Group page itself or if I go to the “Activity” page and click on the “My Groups” tabs. I find this odd because the chances of just randomly going to check out a Private Group Page without seeing in the activity feed that one of the members posted an update is pretty slim.
This doesn’t make sense to me since both accounts are friends and they both belong to the same Private Group.
How come the activity loop does not include Private Group updates if you belong to that group? And If you are friends with a person AND in the same Private Group as them…how come you can’t go to that user’s Profile Page and see what they typed on the Private Group wall??
Any help on this would be GREATLY appreciated.
****There has been a couple sparse times when I reload the activity page all of a sudden the Private Group Posts will show, however, then they disappear right away again.****
Thanks,
AdamIv tested this on the testbp.org website so its not just my website. But if you go to the activity page, filter the activity by say ‘New Members’ then go to a user page in another tab it only shows activity that matches the filter on the original activity page – but the drop down always says ‘everything’ even though its not. Even if you then close the activity page and refresh the user page it comes up filtered. If you dont open it in a new tab but browse straight to a user profile from the filtered activity feed the user feed shows up with the same filter – only this time the correct filter is displayed in the drop down.
Im not sure if the later is meant to happen – and im not sure if theres much that can be done about the former, but i noticed it none the less. Its a bit annoying, but far from a deal breaker.
Once again, Buddypress freaking rocks – thanks a million.
Peace,
GoggerHello All,
I had a previous topic posted at the link below, there were quite a few issues with BP links redirecting to the homepage instead of to the users profile on BP. http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/members-activity-feeds-redirecting-to-homepage-after-bp-1-2-5-update-and-wp-3-2-1-update/?#post-105448
This issue has been resolved, thanks to some help form the WordPress team. This issue is verified and the item causing the problem was the BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility Plugin. I have done testing on this plugin, removed all plugins, activated BuddyPress and BuddyPress Activity Stream Bar as the only active plugins on my website… the links redirected fine. I activated BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility Plugin and BOOM, the links died and everything started to redirect back to the homepage instead of user BP profiles. I then disabled the BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility Plugin and everything is back to normal again.
BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility
Code that is needed to maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions of BuddyPress. Contains code for wire component, status updates, and functions that have been renamed or replaced.
Version 0.6 | By The BuddyPress Community
Thank you for your time and efforts in my previous thread…
– Sarah
I’m trying to weed out all the kinks in my site so I can start promoting it (verbradio.com). There are still some areas that puzzle me and I hope you can help.
Groups and Forums:
I don’t see a way to delete them OR to post topics to them. HELP! The only options I have are to create a group or forum and then post updates to the activity feed.
Registration:
No activation email goes out. People who register do not show up as members on the site BUT are showing up in the admin area under users. When they try to go to the site and create another account it won’t allow it and I can’t activate them in admin. HELP!
Using latest BP and WP 3.1.3I have been pouring over the site trying to catch up from when I took a break about 10 months ago. The only thing I notice is Andy is confirmed gone as he’s working on Jetpack now. I’ve read through the dev-chat logs and the trac and got fairly caught up.
I have two projects that I’m working on right now. One is for the AIGA of my University, the other is a personal idea, both based on a sort of social site. I have a few ideas that I want to get into the site, and instead of writing tons of plugins and hacks to get BP to do what I want I’ve decided I’m just going to take the groups object and build off of it on a case by case basis. Object Oriented BP in a way.
Starting with the group object we have a vast API and framework to build from. Not to mention when you add plugins like Group Docs, BP Albums, Bbpress, ETC. These make groups the strongest element on any BP based site. Stronger even than the individual user. Here are some sections I think could use the “groups” as its base and how I will be attempting my sites. Firstly, I am simply adding meta data for the groups to tell them what “type” of group I’ve created.
Users:
Strips all other members roles and ability besides admin, in this case the user.
Changes “members” to “peers(friends)”. This allows me to categorize other users into “roles” of the group. Such as coworker, family, acquaintance, etc.
Port Messages function here. Messages functions seems to be the only thing missing from the groups object.
Albums- Uses same structure as currently used by BP Albums. Or whatever plugin you want.
@mentions- Although personally not important, the fact that groups arnt already able to do this is weird.
Groups: Yes users can join other groups. So now groups can join other groups. Moderators can be in Admins, Admins in users. Yay OOP
Almost all other functions are the exact same for a user or a group.Groups:
Nothing changes, except they can now be in other groups, and have sub groups.Events:
A event is simply a group with a date. I dont see on a facebook event what the difference is. There are three roles of group members – Attending, Maybe, and Not Attending. Has albums, has a feed. Its a group.
Because groups can be in other groups, A event can be owned by any group or user.Then I have things like competitions, which are simply built off of the group object. A simple plugin would just add a new subset from the parent object and we are rolling.
I think this would be a much easier way to work. We have ONE object to update and modify. Plugin developers simple add to/ remove parts of the object. It’s already in place, its already strong, and does all the things we need it to. Forums are attached to groups so that means Events or Competitions or whatever could ALREADY have forums. Can my event have a twitter feed? Sure, groups already do. Can I set my personal privacy? Sure, groups have more built in here on what to hide or show. What about activity? Groups already stream just as much as users.
It just seems so stupid for everyone to be adding features and new objects so every BP install is so insanely different from the next that it takes “experts” to figure out all the plugins and crap on each one.
The only issue I see is backpat. I mean, I think a update script wouldnt be to bad, but would be a bunch of work. My sites are both ground ups so I’m not too stressed.
I just want some opinions on this. Mostly I’m trying to find someone to say why its a bad idea.. I half thought of just starting totally over with a central object and building a new plugin, but this one is so close to perfect. So please, weigh in, even if you hate the idea..
-Dennis
Hi BP community,
For whatever reason, Russian (Cyrillic) script is not functioning in the Group Forums. It appears as question marks. ??????. Even though the script appears fine in the Activity feeds and elsewhere in the BuddyPress installation, it’s only the Forums that does not appear to be internationalized. This is an issue because my BP network has a large number of Russian participants, essentially rendering the Forums useless for them.
Stranger still, the Russian Cyrillic script DOES work in another installation of the Group Forums on a different host server. And yet, it does not work on my live site, appearing simply as ????. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I can try to provide more info if necessary. Thanks for your help and for keeping in mind the international members of the BuddyPress community.
Felzor
Topic: New theme – Buddypress UX
dl the zip untill it’s added to the respiratory – Buddypress UX
I just uploaded a theme I created focused on enhancing the user experience – 3 column layout: multiple sidebars allowing for relative content to context, zebra activity styling, an enhanced logged-in widget and more.. The theme serves to be a base to work from and learn from whilst offering an alternative to the buddypress default theme.
A special thanks to r-a-y, hnla, DJPaul, dwenaus, modemlooper and boonebgorges for helping me problem solve and furthering my skill set over the past two years. The theme is a ‘response’ to the post I read earlier today. Screw this..: people often forget that these people help us out of their ‘own time’, buddypress is community driven and we should, how ever we can, give back to the community. Sorry if I have left anyone out.
Let’s hope it gets approved. I hope to get feedback/criticism on how the theme could be improved. In the mean time you can read the below.
What’s been changed in the theme?
The theme has been customized for a better user experience, there are a lot of small changes and I will try to list them all.
-added multiple sidebars: home/index, activities, members, groups, forums, blog.
-added a smaller header and content padder for the following pages; so users can focus on the task at hand, also removed the sidebars: registration page, create groups page.
-added zebra styled activity streams for better readability*
note there is an issue with IE
-customized the logged-in widget with some added functionality, previously located in the buddypress default sidebar ( sidebar.php ). This was done to improve ‘user navigation’.
-customized the activity form ( what’s new *user* ).
-added a ‘change avatar’ link to a members profile, ( ../members/single/member-header.php ). This is only visable by the ‘profile owner’.Themes intended purpose
This theme has been created to allow ‘new comers’ to Buddypress to have a bit more of a variety and a base to work from ( being a child theme of the buddypress default theme ) whilst maybe learning a thing or two – as the theme is well documented ( readme.txt ).
Along with the above, I have tried to create a theme where by the user experience is better enhanced, allowing for better usability and readability.To do
-fix the issue with the zebra styled activity streams not showing in IE.
-fix a issue where by if the content area is ‘shorter’ than the sidebars ( being ‘taller’ from widgets ), the content boarder breaks.
-remove unnecessary ‘pages’ and clean up the css.@oneearth.. Sure I can give you what i have so far. Here it is:
Series: Setting up W3TotalCache with BuddyPress – Part One
W3Total Cache has taken the WordPress world by storm this year. In my opinion it is by far the greatest performance tool for WordPress, and some of it’s features can be used to speed up BuddyPress as well. It has taken me some time to figure out the best settings, and with something as complicated as this, the results may vary. In this (lengty) trick I’m going to take you through the process of setting up W3Total Cache in the following order;
1: About W3 Total Cache and Installation
2: Server setup
2: Setting up the options that play nice with BuddyPress and your hosting setup
3: Using a CDN with MaxCDN
4: Hosting your Theme files and (group)avatars with the CDN
6: A word from the plugin author Frederick Townes
7: ConclusionAs you’ve probably seen, this is quite an extensive guide, and so I decided to split this post into 2 parts.
About W3 Total Cache and Installation
Plugin author Frederick Townes described W3 Total Cache as follows:
The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular blogs like: mashable.com, pearsonified.com, noupe.com, webdesignerdepot.com, freelanceswitch.com, briansolis.com, tutsplus.com, yoast.com, css3.info and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
Sounds impressive? Well it is impressive! So let’s install this plugin by going to your plugin browser and searching for W3 Total Cache. When you’ve found it, click on “Install” and that’s all you need to do install it.
Server Setup
Before we start with setting up the plugin, it’s important to tell you something about the general hosting of BuddyPress sites. Depending on the size of your community
Selecting the options that play nice with BuddyPress and your hosting setup
The hardest thing about using W3 Total Cache are the options that you cannot use in combination with BuddyPress. Because of the way that BuddyPress works and meant to be used (as a social networking tool), page caching and database caching causes trouble with the highly dynamic content that is being added to your site. Things like the activity stream will stop to function correctly if you simple enable all these features. I’ve read many times that the plugin “does not work” or “breaks” BuddyPress, but this is simply not the case. It only “breaks” if you try to use it for things that simply are not meant to be used with BuddyPress.
What caching basically does is taking a snaphot of a page at certain time intervals and serving that to the visitor when he visits that page (it’s more complicated then this, but this works to explain it easily). Now this works great if it takes a snapshot of a blogpost, because the content of a blogpost does not change every couple of minutes. But what happens when this concept is applied to your Activity Stream, Profile pages and Groups? You’ll see outdated data on the page, because in the meantime new content like status updates or group updates have been posted by your community. This explains why you can not use these features with BuddyPress.
But not to worry, there are plenty of feature you can use, and thus allow you to drastically speed up your site (just not as much as on a regular old -boring- WordPress site.
Here’s a screenshot of what you can enable:
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Minify:Minification can decrease file size of HTML, CSS, JS and feeds respectively by ~10% on average.
You can enable minification and configure it by visiting the Minify settings in W3TC it’s admin settings. Here’s how I’ve set it up on BP-Tricks:
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Depending on your hosting configuration you can choose which Minify Cache Method you want to use. If you have a dedicated server or VPS server and have something like APC, XCache or eAccelarator installed then use one of those tools. Or else you can just use the Disk method.
If you have a shared server your only option is the disk method.
Object caching: Object caching greatly increases performance for highly dynamic sites (that use the Object Cache API).
This feature so far has proven to work great with BuddyPress, altough it should be used with caution if you’re on a Shared server because sometimes it can actually decrease pageload times on your site. If that stuff happens it might be best to look into a cheap VPS or dedicated server. A little bit of information about the setup being used on BP-Tricks will be given in part two.
Content Delivery Network: Host static files with your content delivery network provider to reduce page load time.
This feature is probably the most useful for us BuddyPress users. In part two there will be a detailed step-by-step guide in setting up your CDN, so serve not only your theme files, but only your avatars, BP-Default Theme files and your essential plugin files!
Browser Cache: Reduce server load and decrease response time by using the cache available in site visitor’s web browser.
Gzip compression of your pages can also help speeding up your load times. Here’s what I have enabled for all sections on the page, and seems to do it’s job perfectly:
Set expires header
Set cache control header
Set entity tag (eTag)
Enable HTTP (gzip) compression
Here’s a screenshot with all my settings:[screenshot]
To check if gzip compression works, you can go to http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and check your domain and see Gzip is working.
Still working on the rest, this is all pretty general info.. But maybe it does help some of you
Topic: CSS for @username button
Hi all, I’m looking for the CSS for what I can only think to refer to as the “ @username” button – ie the blue (by default) logo to the right of a users avatar on the profile page, and similarly the button, also blue that shows a user’s name in activity feeds.
I simply want to tinker with the colours of these to fit in with my theme.I’m also struggling with the location of the CSS for the what is by default yellow and orange buttons, ie the message that says “active 2 minutes ago”, and the “reply” button near the bottom right of the screen.
I thought I’d find it by searching default.css for colour fff8e2 which seems to be that pale yellow, but no joy.Any help very much appreciated.
Derek
I am using WordPress 3.0.4 and have installed and followed the instructions for the plug-in “BuddyPress Template Pack”. I’m fairly sure I understand how to work with the placement of the <div> tags to incorporate the BuddyPress pages properly into my layout. However, no matter what I’ve tried, I can’t get the content to align properly.
If someone would please have a look at the code I post here and tell me if you it looks right I would appreciate it. I think the problem may be that my theme uses a <div> id of “content” and so does BuddyPress.
This first set of code is the BuddyPress Activity/index.php file
`<?php get_header() ?><?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<?php _e( ‘Site Activity’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_directory_activity_content’ ) ?>
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<?php locate_template( array( ‘activity/post-form.php’), true ) ?>
<?php endif; ?><?php do_action( ‘template_notices’ ) ?>
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<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_activity_type_tab_all’ ) ?>
- ” title=”<?php _e( ‘The public activity for everyone on this site.’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘All Members (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_site_member_count() ) ?>
- ” title=”<?php _e( ‘The activity of my friends only.’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘My Friends (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_friend_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ?>
- ” title=”<?php _e( ‘The activity of groups I am a member of.’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘My Groups (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_group_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ?>
- ” title=””><?php printf( __( ‘My Favorites (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_favorite_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ?>
- ” title=”<?php _e( ‘Activity that I have been mentioned in.’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>”><?php printf( __( ‘@%s Mentions’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_loggedin_user_username() ) ?><?php if ( bp_get_total_mention_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) : ?> <?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_activity_type_tab_friends’ ) ?>
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘bp_get_total_friend_count’ ) ) : ?>
<?php if ( bp_get_total_friend_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) : ?><?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?><?php do_action( ‘bp_before_activity_type_tab_groups’ ) ?>
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘bp_get_total_group_count_for_user’ ) ) : ?>
<?php if ( bp_get_total_group_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) : ?><?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?><?php do_action( ‘bp_before_activity_type_tab_favorites’ ) ?>
<?php if ( bp_get_total_favorite_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_activity_type_tab_mentions’ ) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_activity_type_tabs’ ) ?>
`
This second set is my theme’s page.php file
`<?php edit_post_link('Edit this Page','
‘,’‘); ?>
`
finally, this third set is the Activity/index.php file with both combined as I think proper. I’ve tried multiple slight variations of this to no avail.
`- <a href="” title=””>
- <a href="” title=””>
- <a href="” title=””>
- <a href="” title=””><?php printf( __( 'My Favorites (%s)’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_total_favorite_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) ?>
- <a href="” title=””>
`
There are 2 Blog topic plugins that I’ve seen for categorizing blogs…wpmudev’s Blog Types and the other Blog Topics. Can anyone give feedback, tips, helpful links, on applying either of these to a BP Multisite network. I’m trying to go the best way when it comes grouping, filtering, querying by Blog Type, (ex. get all posts from Lifestyle blogs. )
I’ve also tinkered with using the xprofile fields to group by blog since I only allow one blog per person…I can tie the xprofile category dropdown to the users blog. I’ve seen the forum threads around here about creating profile types and that sounds like an option but would be tougher since it’s on the back of profiles.
I also mentioned in an old thread that it would be nice to have the bp blogs component/directory function as the groups component does, and every blog have a “group-like” profile with its own activity stream and members,etc. So I guess that would even be a 4th option…and what i would consider the best option.
Anyway just looking to see if anyone can offer up some experience.
Maybe @MrMaz can tell you something about the performance of the plugin in more detail, but the feeds are cached and only checked once an hour or on a direct profile visit. So far the plugin has been performing great, and I have not noticed any performance issues with it. It is a lot less heavy on resources as a dedicated RSS feed importer plugin for WordPress, that’s for sure.
You do have to remember that the posts are not stored anywhere other then the activity stream itself. You can filter the stream for external blog posts but it does not save it as a regular post or anything. Excluding them from the Stream would mean that the entries are not stored anywhere basically making the plugin useless
If you feature requests just leave a comment on the blogpost on BP-Tricks itself so we can keep track of them!
Topic: RiotCart.com: A Reworking
So, some of you may remember me (or not, that’s fine too) from my BP project ClothUnderground.com, a venue for WAHM vendors to set up shop and sell their handmade goods…well, it flopped.
However, being the trooper that I am, I have recently decided to have another go at this. I enlisted the brutally honest criticism of both demographics I was after in the first place, WAHM crafters and those who buy their wares, and the results have not been very surprising.
The first thing that was mentioned (and not so gently, may I add) was that the site’s name was too exclusive. I tend to run in the online cloth diapering Mom/natural parenting circle, and chose “Cloth Underground” as a way to give those of us in that circle with pierced faces and tattoos a place to feel at home. My first stroke of genius was “ClothMafia.com” (which I do own, lol), but was warned that some might not like the connotation of the word “mafia”. Shortly after, I found out about CraftMafia.com, though and was glad I hadn’t gone in a similar direction. The “underground” part also seemed to be an issue, simply because it wasn’t descriptive enough of shopping OR crafting community. Anyway, The first order of business with the rebirth of this project was a new name. I wracked my brain for several days for something that held onto the “underground” spirit, but was more indicative of what the site was all about, and “RiotCart.com” hit me like a ton of bricks in the shower the other day. “Riot” gives it that spirit of rebellion and non-conformism, and “cart” is a common word in the community that I’m targeting (competitor’s sites: HyenaCart.com, CongoCart.com), so it ended up being perfect, IMO
The number one complaint about the site setup was that everyone was confused by the main site newsfeed and groups feature. Most have told me that they found themselves overwhelmed just looking at the home page (I had my main site newsfeed set up there) and left. One even told me that she felt as if she were intruding on others’ conversations, and it turned her off. As for the groups, I think that the vocabulary bears a bit of the blame, but mainly, there are already several other large, busy, dedicated forums for those that my site was targeting, so I simply disabled the feature altogether (except for one private group forum for my vendors to share tricks and ask questions away from prying eyes, but that’s beside the point).
The second biggest complaint was that there was too much focus being put on the community aspect of the site, and not nearly enough on the reason we were all there..shopping! In response, there is no longer a main site newsfeed linked to anywhere on the site. The only newsfeed that members have easy access to are those available in the “activity” sub items on their profile (personal, friends, groups (how do I get rid of that?), favorites, and @mentions). I’ve also linked the logged in member’s name in the sidebar directly to their “friends” feed, which seemed like a more natural landing spot than a list of what the member has posted herself.
As for the shopping side of things, I already had a good working sitewide post aggregation system going on using Donncha’s Sitewide Tags plugin, so I actually just incorporated that into the main site and onto the front page, rather than having it relegated to it’s own child blog. The main site index page now consists of a “features” module, where I’ll be posting about cool things our vendors are doing, giveaways, etc., a site news module, and below all of that, the very latest items that vendors have posted to their shops (currently set to 5, but will increase at some point). Since I incorporated the Sitewide Tags blog into the main site, I ended up deciding to create a new custom post type for site news, with categories “news” and “features”, so as not to muddy the waters too terribly. I’ve also installed the WPMU Blog Topics plugin, which will give shoppers yet another way to find what they’re looking for, as shop (child blog) owners will now have a way to categorize their entire shop into topics that I’ve pre-set, which will be great once we get the vendors signing up again.
Incredible feats (at least to me) that have not changed from the old site:
1. Member profile feedback system
2. Original shop (child blog) usage tutorials
…Anyway, I’d love for anyone who’s willing to check it out! It’s still very much a WIP and not ready for relaunch yet, but I really feel like I’m headed in the right direction this time. I do have a wealth of suggestions already from the vendors and shoppers that I’m catering to, but I’d definitely welcome the same from those of you here, who are probably a lot more technical minded (I especially need help with the sidebar…I’m drawing a total blank on what to do with that ugly thing!) Balance is nice
There has been some talk about finding a way to create lists of users that be used to organize the buddypress directory.
In my case, I’m using buddypress to create a combined intranet and socialweb for our non-profit organization. I have been looking for a way to assign members to various lists within the organization in order to set them apart from network partners, supporters and fans and to assign permissions and filter content in a way that paralells but doesn’t overwrite their wp permissions.
I’ve cobbled together a temporary solution using the BuddyPress xProfiles ACL plugin but I’m hoping somebody out there can make something a little more robust. What I do is create an extended profile field or fields and group them apart from the default fields. The plugin now allows me to make these profiles editable by only certain user-roles. In my case, I set them to admin only. In this way, I can manually add filters to my directory to list only members I’ve identified with a particular field.
Now, what I think would be really great is a plugin that takes this a bit further in these ways:
1. Allows individual xprofile fields to be set as admin-write-only (no need to group them)
2. Automatically creates a role for admin-only fields so that permissions can be granted
3. Gives the option to create filters for the activity stream and members componentsConceptually it seems like it ought to be possible. Wondering if any of the bp gurus out there can give feedback on whether this would work with bp code? Would anyone be interested in taking this on? I’d be willing to front some seed money.
“Spam!!!”
*sees the topic is about his own theme*
“Absolutely NO problem with this!”
Thanks for creating this topic Ross, I’m really glad you like the theme I’m putting up for sale. And Boone thanks for promoting my already outdated video as well
My intention with the new BP-Tricks site is not to only sell a premium theme, and offer some kind of subscription service (I’m not a big fan of subscription models for Themes).BP-Tricks will hopefully become a resource for great BuddyPress tips and tricks. Selling the theme is just a great way for me to keep BP-Tricks running, earn some money and hopefully improve the quality of BuddyPress Child Themes.. The theme is GPL and cool stuff that I add to it will all be shared in the form of Tutorials on BP-Tricks. The actual design elements and the support are what people are paying for (similar as WooThemes does this for example).
Everyone can submit code/design/inspirational Tricks through a form or the backend, and by doing so you’ll earn Awards ( @DJPaul his Achievement Plugin FTW!) and badges awarded by me. The best new trick each month earns a nice price (currently a Free theme, but I’ll try to get some sponsors) and they get listed on the frontpage in Widget of Fame
Besides that the Activity Stream is purely meant to be a source of information displaying ONLY new Tricks, external Tricks (BP-Links from @MrMaz) and external member blogs from our members (if you blog about BuddyPress or anything related to it) you can add your RSS feed to your profile and people who follow you get your updates in their stream. This plugin will be released to the community when the site launches next week.
There’s also a customized search feature which only searches the BuddyPress network (BP.org, BP-Tricks, WPMU.org, Etivite.com, BuddyDev.com, ShabuShabu.eu etc) and a bunch of other stuff which I probably forgot to tell.
All the site features remain free, and also the site will be Ad free for as long as I earn enough to keep it running without loosing money on it.
I hope this makes my intentions clear, and that it will become a place where you can enjoy great BP Tricks from not only me, but from anyone, without getting the feeling that I’m out for someone’s money.. because that is certainly not my intention
If you want to have access to the site before launch to look around and submit some Tricks for the community just let me know, and I’ll make sure you’ll have access and be a part of the cool kids 
where to make changes, really depends on your theme setup.
If you want a theme similar to the default, but with your own enhancements (such as the ones in this thread), you are best to create a child theme, and make the changes in there. You’ll be editing the activity-loop.php and entry.php files in your child theme.
Have a look in the documentation for the article on creating child themes.
I don’t know whether there are many examples on line of alternative activity loops. I posted one example earlier today of some amends we’d done to entry.php to access and enhance the activity template tags: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/omit-time-stamps-from-activityfeed-so-only-date-stamps-show
And here’s an example of how we do a custom blog loop from a site I’m working on at the moment:
`
<?php $args = array (
‘action’ => ‘new_blog_post’,
‘max’ => 20); ?>-
<?php $count=0;
while (bp_activities() && ($count <
) : bp_the_activity(); ?>
<?php $blog_id = bp_get_activity_item_id();
if ((int)$blog_id == 1) continue; ?>
<li class="<?php if ($count “>
`
Topic: More Core Committers?
I’ve been mulling this over the last couple of weeks in my mind.
Remember a couple of months ago when there was quite a stir about where Andy had gone and if BP was stuck in the mud? And then after a lot of public outcry @johnjamesjacoby came to the rescue, issued several bug releases, wrote a few blog posts and empowered @boonebgorges and the BP Ninja team to fix some bugs on BuddyPress.org? Remember all that?
According to the Trac Timeline BP 1.2.6 is 3 weeks late and still has 14 tickets waiting to be fixed. And trunk is who-knows-how-far-behind the current branch?
At it’s peak moment BP had 3 core committers: @apeatling, @johnjamesjacoby, and @mrmaz, but at this time only JJJ is truly active on a regular basis. I hope I don’t sound like I’m complaining, life comes up and we all realize that. Andy is being called by Automattic to work on non-BP related projects, the last time he logged into buddypress.org was almost 40 days ago. Marshall just had a newborn; he logged in 4 days ago. And John… well actually John’s been pretty much amazing. Last night I watched him commit something like… 10 Trac tickets in the middle of the night? He lives in Florida so it was like, 3am? But John is also working hard-core (excuse the pun) on the new bbPress infrastructure, so he’s got a lot of irons in the fire. I’m surprised that he hasn’t burned out.
We all know that it’s time to get 1.2.6 out the door and trunk merged. But that’s not a task that 1 guy can do alone. Sure, we can continue submitting patches and bugs (I try to do my part by submitting errors when I find them via Jing videos and provide feedback… I’ve even tested a few patches and submitted sample code once) but at some point we just flat out need more active committers who can commit the submitted patches. Like JJJ said in a blog post, “Activity Breeds Activity”.
Basically I think we’re looking at a project that really should have 3 or 4 core committers, but only has 1 active committer. BuddyPress has ample talent in the forums. These are the guys running support, submitting patches, and on the BP Ninja team. We know who they are: @hnla, @jeffsayre, @boonebgorges, @djpaul, and @r-a-y. Not surprisingly, all 5 of these guys have logged in within the last 24 hours.
If we were a democratic body (sorry I can’t help it, I’m an American
) I would cast my vote to give at least 2 of these guys commit access to the core. They’ve proved themselves worthy in my opinion. In the words of @Matt, OS projects like BP are meritocracies. These guys above have shown their value and their merit, so now let’s let them lead.And for reference sake, WP has 6 active core committers while BP only has 1. Albeit WP is a much larger project than BP… but perhaps that’s why?
Hypothetically speaking: Who would be in favor of at least a couple more core committers?
Ok, so this has turned into a two part question.
1. In my users activity feed (modified to show both @mentions, status updates, photos from bp-gallery etc) it shows guest posts as follows “ @marty hey hows it going” — My Goal is to elinimate the @username and I’ve successfully done this with css by adding “Display: none;” on my “div.activity_data p a:first-child” style selector.
As you can see this has obvious flaws, it hides any first link in the activity feed data, and its hiding my 1st photo on activity updates made by BP-Gallery.
So, what I am trying to do, is add a (id=”remove_mention”) to the link that is generated by buddypress for the @mention so I can hide it.
The closest thing I could find was in (bp-activitybp-activity-filters.php) but had no luck modifying it to include this “id=remove_mention” I could only get it to add the id to all posts.
2. I have the post-form.php working correctly on profiles that are not the logged in users and am able to leave @mentions but having to manually type in the @mention before the message then post.
I would like to include the displayed users mention id to the forms data before being posted, (e.g what I’m doing now “ @marty hey hows it going?” would like to type “hey hows it going” and have the @marty attached before posting much like on this site here.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, these are the last two major things I need to overcome before finishing up this site.