I have a client who needs a social networking with using wordpress with buddypress.
However, he needs to be sure that his people in the field (25) can access the information, chat and upload pictures from their i-phone, Blackberry or Android.
Can you please confirm if this is possible? I know that there are aps to control wordpress for iphone and android. I’m not sure about Blackberry and the editing of buddypress for mobile devices.
Have a look at how capabilities are granted in models/events.php—you can grant the required caps to subscribers too. Or, there’s an event_creator role that’s just meant for this—in the wordpress admin area, you could make the default user role Event Creator, and also bulk modify the existing user capabilities to event_creator.
Brajesh has the plugin on his site: http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-chat/
wpmudev.org has a chat plugin.. not sure how it works tho
I haven’t confirmed whether standard WordPress notifications are being delivered to email addresses with country code extensions. I’ll give that a try and report back.
Would it be possible to give permission to create events to all Subscribers (new and old) ? I’d like to enable event creation by default for all logged in BP users. I’ve fiddled around with wp.php without any success… Any ideas? Thanks @kunalb! Looking forward to the next version!
you may try bowob.com – quite nice chat module – very similar to FB chat and some interesting config options.
It has both free and paid versions.
Good luck
Boone, thanks for the feedback.
I’m still a bit hesitant to use custom post types. Maybe the query powers are good enough but in some cases where I want to get meta information about all ratings, won’t I run into problems when my data is separated into the posts table and the posts_meta table. I’ll have to do some complex joins and what not. But if I make a custom DB table, I can just use GROUP BY or DISTINCT to get what i need quite quickly. I’m thinking of stuff like Highest Rated XYZ or Most Rated ABC. These things won’t fit so well into the custom post type/custom taxonomy mould. Any more thoughts on this?
@djpaul – I see in your (totally awesome) achievements plugin, that you use a few custom db tables. Do you have any thing to add regarding your choices. I’m thinking this ‘Rate everything’ is more akin to that plugin.
Also, I’m thinking this plugin will be a bit more like Facebook ‘Like’ than an actual star Rating. but we’ll see what comes out in the end.
You can add the following line to your wp-config.php file the tell WP where your wp-content folder is located.
`define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘/path/to/your/wp-content’ );`
Make sure you leave off the trailing slash. That may fix things, and it’s an easy fix/test.
Nevermind! I was actually able to fix it by going into wp-config.php and making sure that the BP_ROOT_BLOG was set up with the right blog ID. I had a ‘9’ instead of a ’10’ 
Child themes don’t restrict anything. You can have a child theme that completely overwrites the parent theme’s code. The idea behind a child theme is that it allows uniformity, and something for plugin authors to count on when it comes to hooks and such.
Also, most of the changes you’d like to see are changes that would need to happen in core, with minimal code changes to the theme, and a few of them would be doable as plugins.
This may also be a problem with your hosting. Make sure to set the correct permissions in your wp-content folder.
How would I go about starting to check up on my multisite set up?
few things I’d like to change :
if you’re looking at your own profile then you should see friends activity as default instead of your own,makes more sense to me.
comments on your own activity should not repeat as activity in your own stream.
allow users to delete and filter comments and @ mentions on their profile. that way users can delete unwanted comments and @ mentions (SPAM)
if user is not your friend then he should not be able to comment on your activity stream.
and of course privacy settings are very important.
Few other cool things are ,you may know this user and birthday notifications.
No,I don’t want to prove you wrong,it’s just my opinion.
I have just set my website homepage to the users friends activity stream, and it works absolutely fine for people who have friendship connections. However, there is an error displayed when the person tries to view friends activity, but they don’t have any activity there because they don’t have any friendship connections.
I would like to to read something like “You will need to make friendship connections before you can see activity”, but instead there is an error message that says Fatal error: Call to a member function user_activities() on a non-object in /home/fitnesss/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php on line 259
How do I resolve this?
You can do what you, but I think there’s not much scope other than post formats for any more changes to the theme on the upcoming release cycle. If you want to prove me wrong, I suggest making some mockups before you start writing code.
You will find that currently as things stand all themes for BP are in effect child themes, themeing for BP is not quite the same as themeing for WP. I am presently working through a new theme or at least framework it replaces all theme files , referencing only the JS files in essence, yet many of the files will remain structurally pretty similar, but that is the framework for then tweaking the UX and UI to something that one prefers, then you start to have to get involved in filtering actions and playing around with template tags where you are able.
This is as different as one is able to take a BP theme I tend not to think of it as a child theme or a re-skining but in truth it is technically a child theme if one was to be accurate about it.
The bp default theme is probably past it’s sell by date somewhat and there has been vague talk about setting to and developing the next generation theme so give it a go.
On the BP admin bar, you get a notification when you get a new friend request etc. Is it possible to make your own notifications? I am not talking about e-mail notifications here.
Can you display a notification when someone mentions you in a post etc? As far as I know BuddyPress won’t notify you when you get mentioned. Thanks in advance.
@bgrun80 No worries mate, glad I could be of assistance!
just another BP child theme?
no man 
all those child themes look the same,can’t believe people waste their time on developing that kind of things.
The default theme needs improvements as well,lot’s of things makes no sense to me and it’s kinda messy.
Especially activity stream.
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
There’s a ticket on Trac that would make this a filter, and would mean that one line of code in your themes function.php could clear everything up (https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1150).
Hello,
Is there a way to sort the buddypress member list alphabetically by last name, rather than first name? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction?
Regards,
Christian
