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.

Try the BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It combines groups and forums in a way that is MUCH more intuitive than the default BuddyPress setup, no hacking required. I think a big issue with BuddyPress is that the layout of groups and forums is usually confusing to people. We’ve fixed that

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.

Yes. The BuddyBoss theme at http://www.buddyboss.com has a true Facebook-style wall built in. It converts @mentions into an intuitive wall posting system with threaded replies.

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.

You can easily change the default avatar in your dashboard under BuddyPress > General Settings. The reason it doesn’t use the WordPress avatar setting is because BuddyPress is designed to be it’s own site with it’s own settings. If you want to disable gravatar support completely you can set no_grav to true in your theme’s bp_core_fetch_avatar function calls. This will be made even easier when 1.3 is released.

I need to do the exact same thing. @Matilde did you ever find an easy solution?

Thank you everybody for the suggestions. I’m setting up a site for an artist community and I don’t want BuddyPress to assign (IMHO not very attractive) monster gravatars to the members at all. Perhaps a future version could be written to respect the WordPress setting for No Avatar.

This functionality is currently being developed by @wpmuguru, but I don’t know that there has been any timeline published as far as a plugin release or it being included in core.

@beraike22, do u have a working example we can see? also I’m having issues with that plugin, when I enabled it, it seems like I would have to indeed modify it to show some plugins when i’m signed in. The problem with that is for troubleshooting purpose I can’t not be logged in, thus I want to test this out when asked to register or join. can you give me a bit more detail on how to achieve multiple profile types upon registration?

I have 1.2.8 and having the same issue, i took a look into pb-friends.php and the code seems correct…
global $bp;

if ( isset( $_GET ) )
bp_core_delete_notifications_for_user_by_type( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $bp->friends->id, ‘friendship_accepted’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_activity_screen_my_activity’, ‘friends_clear_friend_notifications’ );

@r-a-y @DJPaul?????

R-a-y – that doesn’t work for me unfortunately.

I am using the:
– latest version of WordPress 3.1.2
– Child theme of Suffusion

And the latest plugins for Suffusion BP Pack (1.02), BuddyPress (1.2., and s2Member (3.5.7).

Using the s2Member plugin settings, I have set my site to redirect users to a “Member Home” page upon logging in. This function used to work before I added BuddyPress + Suffusion BP Pack. However, since adding those plugins, I initially could not figure out why it no longer worked upon logging in. Currently, when a user logs in, the site just directs them to the main page (the default WordPress & site address). I disabled the other plugins and determined that it was BuddyPress handling the redirection.

So I made a bp-custom.php and added that code just to see if I can test the redirection function itself and it didn’t work. I even tweaked his code as well to try add_filter(“login_redirect”,”bpdev_redirect_to_profile”,100,3); Did I need to do anything else to activate the plugin or did it automatically run and link to BuddyPress?

Ultimately, it seems like I may have to implement a technique that onyx mentioned or something like http://www.thinkinginwordpress.com/2009/12/tweak-your-buddypress-login-to-redirect-to-the-page-user-was-viewing-while-login/

Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

Did you activate the plugin named “buddypress” ?

Yikes. Sorry

Doh you spoiled the game. Hints were required, hot or cold etc

The cause has to do with the fact that ‘2.7’ and ‘2.8’ (some old WP version numbers) are part of ‘1.2.7’ and ‘1.2.8’. It is a silly strpos() issue. It will be fixed soon.

Thought this would be a fun game so compared two readme from plugins showing as ‘Not tested’ Against my own little effort of little worth that does not show the warning, ruled out nearly every possible cause as one or other of the plugins showing warnings didn’t match on say order of == Installation == sections or omission of sections e.g one missed == changelog ==

As for tested up to I tried to be helpful with BP version number so that probably rules that out. The only common aspect the two plugins have that mine doesn’t that I’m left with is the ‘Donate link’ line? Is that the cause?

there seems to be alternative browsers for the iPhone that support uploading, but standard Safari does not in iOS 4.3.