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FYI… Elliot updated wp-hashcash for BuddyPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-hashcash/

@Brajesh Singh – Thank you for joining the discussion. The first thing I want you to know is that I’m not criticizing *you* I’m criticizing *the situation*. From what I’ve heard of you, you’re a very skilled developer, and getting as much software written as quickly as you have is an impressive achievement.

Look guys, here are the issues:

Up until 3 days ago, there was only one working photo plugin for BuddyPress: BP Gallery. It was a paid plugin, and I think we can all agree it was having some development challenges.

Running down the list and calling them out point-by-point was definitely mean; but I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true.

I want to make it clear that I am NOT saying Brajesh is a bad developer – he’s probably an excellent developer; in fact, the problems that have happened with BP Gallery eventually happen to virtually *every* major plugin developed by a one-man operation.

That’s why BuddyPress needs a community-developed photo album plugin that doesn’t depend on just one contributor.

We build it as a team, each put our best effort into it, and make something that’s really, really good.

If Brajesh, or any other developer, would like to contribute code and ideas to the project, they are welcome and encouraged. This is not about proving that X is a better developer than Y or any of that nonsense. This is about getting the best possible BP photo application built as quickly as possible, and ensuring it runs securely and reliably for a long time to come.

@Bowe – Point taken, and I’ll try to be nicer in the future. I am not attacking Brajesh’s efforts or contributions to the community. He has earned his place. I’m saying that if the community needs a BP Photo plugin, then working together as a team to build it is a lot better than relying on the efforts of a single developer; especially one with a lot of other projects on the go.

@gregfielding – Also, another thing to consider is that if lots of users want to switch back and forth between plugins, we could probably write a function that imports data from BP Gallery … or *exports* data *to* it.

It’s all about what the users want.

^F^

Every step, huh? Looks like I hooked into the wrong group action

I modified the post above to the correct action now.

Functions.php is fine.

is it possible to ask for support and to add another site in this plugin?

or I have to do it myself?

kind regards

Kris

Rossagrant, I wrote a plugin for a client to make a default forum topic when a new group is created. I’ve been thinking about putting it in the repository, but in the meantime, you can download it from my personal site:

http://www.code-zen.net/2010/buddypress-default-forum-topic/

Note, you need to open up the PHP file and modify the title and text to what you’d like to use.

Please note, this will likely not work with the SQL script you’re using, it depends on a trigger event that is fired when the group is created with BP.

Edit: this was in response to default topics, three posts up

at this time it seems like the only way to do it is to do it yourself/hire a programmer. i would like to do the same thing but have not found anything that can migrate or bridge them that works well with phpbb3.

@MrMaz

Just activated Links on a new install of WPMU 2.9.2 / BP1.2.2.1 with Buddypack Fishbook theme.

Weren’t the link thumbs/avatars supposed to also show on the single page when clicking through from the home page activity stream? (Or is it my memory that’s on the fritz?)

@Foxly: I honestly don’t understand why you feel the need to be so overly critical to someone else his work without being properly informed. For me it’s quite obvious that we’re all working on the same goal here; Making BuddyPress better.

You claim to do this for the community but somehow you are throwing with number of downloads and are telling how much better your just released (first?) plugin is then BP-Gallery.. Brajesh has been helping people on BP.org for many monhts, and has released nummerous themes and plugins for free, so I think that your direct attack on his efforts and motives is pretty uncalled for to say the least..

ps: I don’t want DJPaul to ban me, so I will stay out of this thread from now on

You can also try this method by Boone Gorges if your install is on the same domain:

http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/10/12/displaying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-in-other-applications/

Try to rename wp-content/plugins/buddypress to something else and then access your site.

Is your sites front end accessible from http://www.website.com/main/. where you had it.

Is it wordpress/wpmu.

I guess, most probably, it should be an issue with the siteurl in the database. You might have given it to http://www.website.com/ at the time of installation, please check and provide more details.

You might like to get some anti bot plugins from wordpress. I have WordPress MU and Buddypress and use the following plugins to prevent bots from joining my site.

WP-SpamFree – An extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that virtually eliminates comment spam. Finally, you can enjoy a spam-free WordPress blog! Includes spam-free contact form feature as well. http://www.polepositionmarketing.com/library/wp-spamfree/

WPMU Super Captcha – Custom captcha program made to stop spam bots cold in their tracks. Features audio, word files, or random text. You configure it! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/super-capcha/

Or go to http://www.wordpress.org, click on extend and find them there.

hi all

Just got pointed to this thread, so I thought, I need to chime in .

I am happy to see the BP Album+ coming as a successor of Manoj’s Bp-Picture album, I am not very happy with the criticism here for the gallery, and I thought, I will express it here.

@foxly

First of all, I don’t want to go into the details of opensource philosophy, but what about RedHat Enterprise in case of Linux. People prefer them because Redhad has more reliability over it’s free alternative(e.g centOs and others). Let the choice is in the hands of End users, and GPL does not restrict to charge for code/distribution.

For your questions:-

1.Being free/opensource does not guarantee quality, what are the measures of quality, let me know, I will be glad to allow someone who want to do quality analysis have access to the code and post his/her review here.

I have no objections, if you say, gallery is paid and you will avoid using it, but Gallery has much better code quality than most of the plugin available free. And I am ready to go through any quality analysis process to make sure, what I say is correct. I will urge, do not predict anything, if you have not seen the code.

2.Delays:-

If you know, buddypress 1.2 had scheduled release date of 2nd week of Dec, but it was released after 15th Feb, so the core project got delayed for 2 months from it’s original schedule date. and You know, any project which depended on it, got delayed too, and to add that, from Rc1 to RC2 transition for buddypress broke many things. How about that ? The Rc2 is coming tonight for your info.

3. No of contributor: How many contributors buddypress had before the joining of JJJ, only one, and He was Andy, so how do you felt at that time ?

4. GPL::- Have you seen the license for Gallery:- IT is GPL and will remain that, so If I leave development(which is not going to happen in near future), anyone can go ahead and do that. I choose GPL to allow others to use it in case something happened wrong with me, otherwise I might have opted for more restrictive license. I will advise to read terms at my site, it specifically says, until and unless mentioned, everything available there is GPL. Each and every component available/coming are/will be released under GPL only.

6.Code Quality: You are most welcome to check the code, and see where the gallery code compares to any of the plugin available for Buddypress.

7.As far other programmer are concerned, a few most respected programmers of the buddypress community have access to the plugin(I am not going to mention their name), may be they can chime in if they want.

8.Extendability:- Currently, gallery supports user galleries,group galleries, and has well written filters,action to hook gallery with any component, be it events/blogs or what ever new component which has a presense of its own. I agree I have not provided a user documentation, where is the documentation for other well written plugins for Buddypress ? Can you point me to a few? and I assure, I will provide the documentation before the final release. Documentation will come after the stable is out.

9. Supporting Plugin: Is there any one paid plugin/free plugin/themes on Buddydev which is not supported, point me, I will change my statement here.

10. Why do you think BP Gallery to be released as opensource is nill, It is currently released as opensource but paid. You should rather correct and ask what are the probability of getting it released as free(It is already opensource, and there are so many differences between free/opensource).

I have mentioned it again and again, It will be released as FREE on/before bp 1.3, and I have mentioned it to all the members/ here in the community too. So, you should still be happy to know, I will release it as free before bp 1.3.

I am not pulling $30,000, at all, and neither I am pulling $3000 per month, it is much lower. and there are very few paid members, there are thousands of free members there. If I had to charge, I would have rather charged much higher not the mere $30.

Please do not make it as an issue, I wish the development of BP Album+ all the best and If you need any assistance, do Let me know, I will be glad to help you as I have done these things for gallery.

It will be better if we concentrated on the purpose of this thread.

Thanks

Brajesh

not avatar feature avatar uploading feature,how can i disable that using the php script edit

@gregfielding I never said I was “against” BP Gallery, I said it was inappropriate to use a *commercial* plugin with only *one* contributor as a BP core plugin, which is our ultimate goal for the BP Album+ plugin.

No matter what claims are made about this and that being “free”, until Brajesh releases his plugin, properly documented, into the WordPress repository under a GPL license so others can reuse its code, it is a *commercial* plugin.

In terms of features, BP Gallery *currently* has much more functionality than BP Album+.

But over the next couple of months, we’re planning on adding a huge amount of functionality to the BP Album+ plugin, and as we get more people onboard, BP Album+ will probably quickly eclipse BP Gallery.

I’m not going to try and tell you what gallery you should use for your site, but I want to point out some key reasons why I’ve chosen to team up with another developer and write a free open source BuddyPress Photo album plugin (and give it away to the community!) versus just handing over $30 and using BP Gallery for all of my social networking sites:

1) The release date of BP Gallery has slipped six times over three months, and its status hasn’t been updated since Feb 06 2010. Brajesh announced he was releasing RC2 on March 11/12. Didn’t happen. And BP Gallery Stable on March 14/15. Didn’t happen.

2) Simultaneously with all of this, the guy’s released two themes, two other plugins, and has posted that he will be releasing a chat plugin and another BP theme by the end of March. He’s also handing out free subscription extensions to all of his members for not getting his plugins working on time.

That’s impressive. Much respect to Brajesh for sheer volume of work!

But it raises some scary questions:

a) If he’s sprinting to get fifteen different projects done simultaneously under penalty of losing all his members, how efficient, extendable, and secure is the code inside BP Gallery? Has it been checked by other programmers?

b) Brajesh makes his money by releasing several new plugins every month. What incentive does he have to keep *improving* his existing plugins versus writing new ones?

c) If a BuddyPress core update breaks his plugins (as *just happened* with Manoj Kumar’s original BP Album, prompting the development of our plugin) …how long is it going to take Brajesh to repair his dozens of plugins, and where will BP Gallery fit in that lineup?

d) What happens if Brajesh gets hired by Google and quits developing plugins? Who will keep them working with future BuddyPress updates and how will they learn such a huge codebase in time to avoid disaster?

And to the people that keep saying “Well he’s going to release BP Gallery as Open Source in a week or two”, consider this:

e) If you were a website owner that’s paid $30 a month for a site membership to get the BP Gallery plugin, and then patiently waited for 3 or 4 months for the developer to finish it (and don’t kid yourself, that’s what 90% of the site members are there for) …would YOU be happy if the developer finished the plugin, then released it for FREE to EVERYONE as open source?

I’ve been wrong before, but I’d say the odds of BP Gallery being released as free open source any time soon are slim to nil.

It’s a sad situation, because if Brajesh released BP Gallery to the plugin repository, we could continue development on it for him, integrate it with our app, and release a fantastic plugin that gives the community what they want; and he would have more time to work on his other plugins. But again, very unlikely to happen.

….

There is a solution to all of the above problems: build ONE application that is FREE OPEN SOURCE, maintained by MULTIPLE developers, and can be EASILY EXTENDED. It’s how Linux is developed. It’s how WordPress is developed. It’s How BuddyPress is developed.

And it’s how the BP Album+ plugin needs to be developed.

….

As for “Community Support” …. we’ve had 600 downloads in 48 hours and will probably hit 1,000 downloads before most people even see this.

Unless Brajesh is pulling $30,000 a month from his site (=1000 members) I’d say we’ve already beat BP Gallery in terms of installed user base.

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@Modemlooper I’m going to turn this around on you and say “What if WordPress had no text editor, no file upload capability, no admin menu, and no comment functionality”. All of these are required elements to make a blog platform run, and that’s why they ship with WordPress. Twitter functionality, on the hand, is not a required element, and that’s why it’s implemented as a plugin. Likewise with BuddyPress, Forums, Profiles, User Activity, and… photo albums … are required elements of almost every social networking community. That’s why I want to stop screwing around with third-party plugins and help build something that’s good enough to ship with the core.

So there’s my thoughts!

^F^

@kriskl

That’s Giovanni’s plugin. See his post above

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/invite-friends-from-profile#post-42273

This is realy important, it doesn’t make any sense how it’s buddypress configured if all is public.

I have been searching also how to make that as we see in the Spanish Social Network “Tuenti” (Tuenti.com)

I also have been searching how to configure a homepage with different widgets once you’re logged (i use Unplugged Theme by Diesel Laws)

More help will be much more appreciated.

@smuda

Read what Andy wrote here:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/using-bp_blogs_get_latest_posts-returns-an-error#post-42478

Cool plugin! I’ll have to play around with this at some point.

Anyway, back to your question.

Look around the BP code and find anything that says “do_action”; this is where you can hook your functions into a BP action.

For instance, to add 10 CubePoints when creating a group, add the following to your theme’s functions.php or /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php.

function my_bp_create_group_add_cppoints() {

if( function_exists('cp_alterPoints') && is_user_logged_in() ){

cp_alterPoints(cp_currentUser(), 10);

cp_log('User created a group -- +10 points', cp_currentUser(), 10, 1);

}

}

add_action('groups_group_create_complete','my_bp_create_group_add_cppoints');

In this case, we hooked the cp_alterPoints() and cp_log() functions to the groups_group_create_complete hook found in /buddypress/bp-groups.php.

In the next little while, I’m going to try and add a bit of documentation to the codex.