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Should be an easy question, but nobody here to give an answer. It’s a pity, because I cannot use buddypress 1.2 if I cannot edit the activity stream.

To not show the friendships I deleted in index.php of activity-folder in the theme:

<?php if ( bp_is_active( ‘friends’ ) ) : ?> <option value=”friendship_accepted,friendship_created”><?php _e( ‘Show Friendship Connections’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></option> <?php endif; ?>

BUT:

I don’t know how to only show blog posts. I think it will not work to delete all Options but NewBlogPosts, because this only gives the links and not what is shown as default option.

Everything is explained on step three of the setup process.

@Erich73-

Haha! I appreciate the thought. I’m sure Automattic is able to afford to buy many things! I have no issue with Automattic. I do not expect them to pay me.

@everyone

My code, like any other GPLed theme or plugin is freely available for all to use. So, if Automattic wants to merge my code into BP core, I would be honored and not expect anything else in return.

I hope that my posts (in this thread and on my website concerning this issue) do not come across as me being bitter. That is not the case.

I fully support and believe in the Open Source model as expressed via the GPL. I also believe in giving back to those Open Source projects from which you have benefited. I of course have done that with the hundreds of hours I’ve donated as a moderator on these forums.

The referenced-to post above was just my attempt to try to figure out a possible way where I could actually earn part of my living by creating great-quality plugins for the WordPress / BuddyPress community. I think talented programmers should be able to do that without having to resort to consulting. I have no interest in providing consulting services. I owned a consulting company for 7 years. It was great, but I have no need or intention of going back down that road.

So, enough said with all of this stuff about me and my needs. I appreciate people’s concerns and suggestions.

Let’s put this thread back on track. Please try to limit your comments to the future of privacy in BuddyPress and not about me!

Strange as Admin after I active the plugin and add some links and try to log out I’m getting a blank page breaking the blog. Only when I deactivate the plugin evrything is back to normal. Any idea? Running WP 2.9.1 with BP1.2

“False consensus effect – the tendency for people to overestimate the degree to which others agree with them.”

I don´t know if “STOP feature polls” was meant as a joke or not, but I can´t really see why this is a problem (if you are serious). People have different opinions on what is the most important features that should be developed, and what should be included in core.

For instance, letting users be able to post to blogs from the frontpage sounds like a perfect plugin match for me, as I have no real need for that. Still I don´t go around making several posts (saw you posted at the dev site as well) about how devs should STOP working on frontpage blogposting and focus on xxx feature instead.

Maybe the false concensus effect have blinded you a bit my friend.

To me it is important to keep in mind that testbp.org has over 15 000 users. We all have different plans for buddypress.

The way the dev team are trying to figure out what to develop next seems like a fair way to me:

(1)First getting suggestions, (2)then adding their professional opinion on what should be devoloped next and lastly (3) letting the users again be a part of the process by allowing us to vote on what we want the most. This will hopefully allow the highest percentage of people to be pleased.

EDIT: I was a bit slow you posted your reply in the mean time Erich.

@Xevo, I’m pretty sure Erich73 was not asking for a poll plugin. I think his comment was about the relative pointlessness of open polls for new features, when there are still many core issues that should be fixed first.

I remember we’ve gone through this over six months ago, also with a poll and promises that certain features, like privacy, would become core in version 1.2 and 1.3. Very little of that has materialized.

… I can see that users of wordpress/buddypress wanting the wp-admin to be only for admins as the name suggests and keep the users off the creepy admin panel.

Absolutely. That’s why I’m trying to sort out front-end posting with P2 and/or Posthaste. Raoulduke is working on it as well.

yes – I logged in as that user – doesn’t see it. I will try again with the branch… (by the way – any more ideas on this very strange issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/after-update-private-hidden-groups-empty – sorry to use this thread, but it’s important to me )

@Michael Berra – did you log in as this user and confirm they cannot see the blog? Also – don’t use the trunk, use the 1.2 branch:

https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/

thx @D Cartwright

@ 21dcb

I believe that Polls should be a plugin made by some third party plugin developer. That’s why I said that, I do believe some buddypress users could use something like that. Also seeing that Erich said it was in the development list for 1.3, I figured it was for the core buddypress.

Also, Facebook was build off the ground, I can see that users of wordpress/buddypress wanting the wp-admin to be only for admins as the name suggests and keep the users off the creepy admin panel.

@ DJPaul

So on which items the most votes are, is going to be developed first?

That’s what I mentioned here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/indexation-of-content

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Thanks for the update Peterverkooijen – I’m going to put this all together today. I’m not at the stage to work with the group blogs.

Totally agree, Erich73.

I’d also add privacy (making parts members-only etc.), another core feature that was promised a year ago and again after polling last Fall, but disappeared from the priority list for 1.2 and 1.3. Poor Jeff Sayre has been struggling with that without any support from Automattic.

‘User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end’ can be done in most places by integrating the P2 theme or using the Posthaste plugin. Both work fine on regular blog index/home pages.

I’m trying to get it to work on the group blog homepage. No luck so far. Will post for download today or tomorrow two versions of the excellent bp-groupblog with P2 and Posthaste code integrated, as far as I can figure them out. I will need some help fixing them.

This is not a BuddyPress question; you should be asking on the WPMU forums.

Hey r-a-y, than you for your reply

I have some little questions, after i’ve read all topics around here (i guess) about bbpress and buddypress combined:

– To have a forum as it is on buddypress.org/forums, you need to install bbpress seperatly and integrate it with wordpress. Does this way allow the Group Forums, as if you install bbpress within buddypress (not seperaly) ? (maybe there is a plugin for that as far as i know, but know nothing about its stability with the new buddypress);

– I’ve installed bbpress within buddypress, (not a seperate bbpress install). I made a group called Forums to check if forum will be enabled in it…and yes it is as you can see here. http://myislamicblog.com/groups/forums/forum/

But the problem is if you noticed, the Forums Link on the right menu doesnt appear next to blogs and groups.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!