BuddyPress.org

http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/

I’ve been trying to find/develop something similar…creating an advanced “change avatar” plugin that allows admin to supply a set of custom avatars that members can choose from on the /profile/change-avatar page.

http://wpmu.org/how-to-add-a-custom-default-avatar-for-buddypress-members-and-groups/

These two links is as far as I’ve gotten, well I haven’t put too much time into it…just been looking around at this point. It would be cool if someone with the bp component making skills could do something easily.

well, that is the first thing I could come up with @hnla

@erich73 – try the welcome pack plugin, https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

Re: Forum vs. Activity – I have no doubt that it is harder than is seems, but that’s not relevant to the discussion. The issues being discussed are usability. Any good and usable design begins and ends with users… not programmers.

Re: Autocomplete (my pet peeve) – Sorry, doesn’t make sense to me. I’m free to message any member I want but I’m only given help and feedback when typing in friends names. Huh? If I compose a message to a non-friend by putting their username in “Send to” – I have no indication that I’ve gotten it right until after clicking send. And even then, the feedback is not that clear. An error message could be a wrong username or something else. I know you can more easily message non-friends by visiting their profile (instead of having to remember their username and type it without error) and clicking “Send Private Message”… but that only allows for one recipient. As for the spam issue – that’s a technical issue. We’re talking about usability.

And yes… I have tried to create a plugin and I got 99% there – but I’m not a programmer and I got stuck on how to remove / override the existing autocomplete ajax functions. I asked for help here but didn’t get a response. So I had to hack the core Oh well. And for some reason it stopped working the other day. Odd.

Anyway, BuddyPress just seems a little confused when it comes to it’s ideas around Friends, Followers and Members. It feels like an odd mix of Twitter (wide open) and Facebook (walled off).

Sorry, I should of mentioned I have already run the theme through BP Compatibility. The theme displays ok until you look at any buddypress related page where the sidebar will display under the page.

I understand I have to fix the alignment by matching the structure of page.php to the child theme pages (e.g /activity/index.php, /blogs/index.php). So how do I go about matching the structure?

Here is the page.php file

http://www.makingtrails.com/page.txt

Run this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

@dennis_h huh, i just noticed load more is no longer working too… is that in trac?

as for all the forum vs activity – i’m still hacking away at an activity stream discussion to replace bbpress. i hit a snag and more important projects came up so i’ll try and revisit it soon.

i still think the activity stream is the core of buddypress – if you can wrangle it and tone down the duplicates (ie, for blog comments/posts/forums topics/posts remove the excerpt and just make it a one liner with a permalink to blog and comment) – xxxxx user left a comment on blog xxxxxx. That is the nice thing about BP – change whatever you want.

i also have another advanced plugin – this would replace blog comments with the activity stream (though i don’t know how this works with a wpmu setup – single it works great)
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments/

I am attempting to convert a theme called Blocks (Version 3) but these theme looks too complex for me? Could someone have a quick look and tell me what I need to do?

https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/blocks

Thanks!

I don’t believe bp-contents is compatible with BuddyPress 1.2, nor does it look like it will be. Burt Adsit, the developer, has not updated it in almost a year, and there’s no word from him (I tried contacting him earlier).

Your best bet would be the BP Group Tags plugin:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-group-tags/
Latest discussion here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/buddypress-group-tags-is-now-available/

I dropped @rvenable‘s fix into my functions.php file for my child theme and it worked like a charm. Thanks yall.

Well it would work that is one of the methods to manipulating what appears as front page built into WP. The point to this thread was attempting to find a solution to the actual issue, ones meant to be able to set the activity stream from the backend but can’t, the thread arrives at a temporary solution to this.

I should also mention @nuprn1 ‘s other great plugin BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-stream-bump-to-top/

It helps Activity discussion not get buried so fast.

BTW, is anyone working on fixing the “Load More” button, so it loads more than 2 pages?

Hey guys, I just wrote a simple work around for this. Its working for me.

1. Create a Page Template for the Activity Stream
2. Create a Page with the Page Template (now that page shows the activity)
3. Use that page as the front page (This is normal for wp and works)

That’s it. see it here – http://millionclues.com/problogging/wordpress-tips/fix-for-buddypress-activity-stream-not-showing-up-on-homepage/

@menel001 see if this helps – http://millionclues.com/problogging/wordpress-tips/fix-for-buddypress-activity-stream-not-showing-up-on-homepage/

How to apply the patch? Where to apply?

@Erich73 I mean changing the name because calling it a forum is not really the right terminology when people are set in their head about what a forum really is. “discussions” seems like a better choice of wording as you posting “topics” that people discuss.

Maybe having a main forum but inside groups call it discussions like on facebook.

I’m not aware of any plugin that allows Groups or Users to create their own pages. There’s the Group Documents plugin for groups, but that’s the closest solution that I know of.

Same problem here. Nobody seems to know the solution I have tried disabling all other plugins but still doesn’t work.

Many thanks @r-a-y. :***

@r-a-y, I reopened the ticket. Thanks.

Hello everyone. I am having a slight problem with the budypress plug in. It wants to take over my website and change the face of it.
I am looking to install a social network as part of the wordpress blog, not in place of it. I would like it to reside in mydomain.com/buddypress or something like that. I am a Star Trek podcast and we want to create a social network like we had on ning, but if we have to migrate to an alternative, why not just take it in house and host it on our own server. So basically when you go to my home page which is at http://www.LouTrekShow.com you can see a link to our social network which would be http://www.LouTrekShow.com/buddypress and then the social network will pop up where people can hang out.
Is it possible to do this with buddypress??
Thank you.

@Erich73

If you want to check out the before picture here it is (black and purple): http://filmmakeriq.com

The new one should be up on or before July 4th, maybe as soon as this week (light gray and blue).