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Andy, it sounds to me like you are storing the @ tag, you’re just storing it in the message content, which is what I don’t like.

You’re right that it is simple, which is good, but that doesn’t make it easy to use. A command line console is simple, and if you know the right commands it is efficient and easy to use. Yet, most people are confused by command lines. GUIs are far more user-friendly, but compared to a command line – a GUI is just UI bloat.

You said you plan on addressing the confusion between usernames and display names “probably though autocomplete, or accepting display names somehow.” I don’t know how you are going to do that without UI bloat.

I think the tag box idea minimizes UI bloat as much as possible, while keeping a healthy separation between content and meta data. I think that separation will be more important as BuddyPress develops and as more plugins are created.

Also, you said “It’s just a filter on the content that is posted to look for @mentions”. So, does that mean that every update message gets searched for the string “@rvenable” every time I want see my messages. Isn’t that going to get slow fast? Wouldn’t it be faster to have the message be stored in the DB with the user_id so you can just search a table of numbers instead of parsing thousands of string messages?

“No Thumbnail” text is not translatable on “/links/[some-slug]/admin/edit-details” page.

I sent you a PM with the link to ru_RU.

Why’s that worrisome? It just shows how fast you can get results with BP.

Only when you are a PHP programmer. If you are not, you waste weeks figuring out little things like storing firstname/lastname, fixing Ajax buttons that are intricately connected with CSS elements and fixing plugins that break between versions of WPMU.

The worrisome thing is when BP developers assume the end users are all PHP programmers. Or if they are not, that they should learn PHP.

WordPress was originally intended for content creators who know some html/css, but don’t have to know “programming”. I’d hate to see Buddypress abandon that goal.

That basically means you talk an aweful lot about things you really don’t know that much about…

I don’t and make that very clear, but I still need to figure out ways to get these little things to work or they would derail my project. And I can’t afford to hire anyone to do it for me.

I know general structural things; I don’t know programming from scratch. In particular working with arrays etc. is pure hocus pocus to me.

You need a test case!

Here’s a thought…

I am creating a social networking site for entrepreneurs.

http://networkingpeople.biz/

You can use my website as an example, and interview me as I go through the process of learning buddypress and setting up my site.

I’ve been working with WordPress for 5 years, but am not a PHP programmer. I’m guessing this probably defines most of the (non-developer, business oriented users) who will be using Buddypress.

I am open to ideas.

– Derek

You can contact me at:

dlittle800@gmail.com

I’ve marked this as not a support issue as it is an issue with a BuddyPress plugin and not BuddyPress itself.

if I’m not mistaken, all of the bp-dev.org plugins were all in beta and were for older versions of buddypress. That plugin looks like it was created for bp 1.0 and as such probably doesn’t work.

He had some really nice plugins there and I wish he was still active but I don’t think any of the plugins on there have been updated for the newer versions.

Hi there,

I dont understand the fix you’re proposing Issidha, because when I go to the WordPress MU files you indicate need tweaking, I dont SEE those lines pertaining to taking out the www in front of URLs… ??

I tried entering the domain name where i’m trying to have Buddypress with a www. in front but I have the same issue:

— > The main page is showing up but all other pages ( Members/Blog…) are not accessible: ie, I get a wrong URL message.

As in:

Trying to go to : http://www.sitename/groups

*** The requested URL /groups was not found on this server. *****

I and other users CAN access wp-admin ( http://www.sitename/wp-admin/) , as if only the WordPress MU was working, and not all the Buddypress features.

I also installed a fresh copy of WP MU, and installed Buddy Press 1.1.3, as recommended, through the instal Plugin of the WP MU dashboard.

I had also installed a couple more plugins, the Buddypress SEO, Hashcash and a forum subscription plugin for BP, which I just deactivated to see if that helped. But it makes no difference.

Thanks for your advice…

@Peter: Yes… BuddyPress is quite new. Comparing it to WordPress isn’t really fair since WordPress has been around for 7 years. BuddyPress hasn’t even turned 1 yet. The first public release was last spring.

@MrMaz, very impressive and I’m wondering does it have a feature that streams in RSS/Atom feeds ? I mean when a user uploads to youtube /ustream.tv & flicker then it’s added in BPRC-link.

Because I want it on the pro version?

Support aggregator flickr photos and ustream.tv & youtube videos

Some developer created one but not support any more:

http://bp-dev.org/forums/topic/bp-aggregator-to-aggregate-own-blogs-flickr-photos-and-youtube-videos

agh.. i cant make this thing work..

“Please fill in all of the required fields”

is the message i get

I have object cache installed does that make a difference?

Looks like this thread is now over a month old, but I couldn’t find corresponding tickets in trac, so I opened two tickets for this now:

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1648 (deleting doesn’t work)

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1649 (sitewide activity rss doesn’t work)

It is already there.

But you may not edit the Fields which are stored by wordpress(If your User had registered before activating buddypress). Only Buddypress xprofile fields can be edited from profile page.

Under profile link, you will see edit profile which will allow you to change the basic details(xprofile fields).

Under settings->general you can change email/password.

Do trackbacks work when BuddyPress is disabled?

Hi alone,

did you try this ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

and this ?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/

Love it Mr. Mas, keep it going!

I think the most popular screencasts are going to be:

1. What BuddyPress is, and what it can do.

2. How to set up BuddyPress from scratch.

… if the current interface is not intuitive enough then no matter how many screencasts are created users will still be confused.

Absolutely agree. You should not have to educate users how to use your site. Please, if you have time to spare, use it to help improve the user interface instead of making videos.

Also a clear explanation to the users between their buddypress profile and blog dashboard would be nice!

How about closing the blog dashboard to members and bringing the functionality into the Buddypress profile, under Settings or Account, under the site’s theme?

I’ll have to figure that one out when I have the time…

wow! that looks cool Mr Maz

keep up the good work

hi Erwin

It seems bp-default theme is no more using livequery.

If you are trying to load something after activity has loaded(using ajax), then I have also the same problem.

I had opened this ticket and waiting for an official response from Andy or JJJ

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1616

WOW! Very nice work MrMaz.

The more I think about it, nig3d has the right idea. A screencast (or a couple) that showcases what BP is capable of would be a really great idea. But then you’re focusing on the developers as opposed to the potential users of a BP site.

One of my favorite examples of BP is thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/ and if you didn’t explicitly know it was running BP, you’d be hard pressed to discover it was. That user community has very easily figured out how to use BP (but again, it’s customized). Profiling some of these sites as “what you can do with BP” in a screencast would probably help “sell” BP to a larger audience.

@Bowe, as for the Facebook/Twitter stuff, both apps are almost better for not having screencasts. People have found numerous ways of using Twitter that are not the original intent. As for Facebook, they just don’t really care about anything outside their firewalls.

From a user point of view, I found BP prior to the 1.2 activity stream concept to be very confusing. Anyone who has used Facebook or Twitter will easily understand what the textbox is for.

I could go on and on but then I’d be really thread jacking.