The code for fetching avatar resides in buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatar.php
checkout this function there
bp_core_fetch_avatar
There are several filters there and you can use those filters to manipulate the things better.
Nice, Brajesh!
Have you updated your auto-activate plugin lately?
In your comments, you mention you were going to update the plugin in November, but the last update was in October.
Also, has using this plugin affected spam registrations for you, Brajesh?
I tried the plugin but it doesn’t include the ability to embed media. It should work fine if you just need to post but if you need to attach and upload files, I don’t think this one will work.
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Has anyone successfully used this plugin?
As described, it is exactly the functionality I need. Its beyond my current technical ability to fix, but I’d be happy to engage the right developer to get this working for me.
It’s funny because when I first found out about WPMU is was indeed wildy confused about what it meant exactly. Already familiar with single WordPress I installed WPMU because I wanted to use BuddyPress and thought it was some kind of special version of WordPress (not realizing the Network of blogs/sites kinda thing).
After I got BuddyPress up and running and started a blog I got launched into another admin panel which suddently missed all kinds of menu options and had a different name.. “WTF is going on here” was my initial response..
Until I realised that WPMU actually allowed me to setup multiple blogs from one panel and would allow me to create a network of sites!
This name change is a good thing and much easier to grasp. It does make me think; should I call new blogs on my network “sites” or “blogs”.
Hey Chouf1,
You’ll need to override the BP forum filter.
By default, only the breakline and paragraph tags are supported.
To override the filter, you’ll need to write your own.
Some examples can be found in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/allow-image-plugin-in-forums#post-27201
David have you seen this plugin:
http://buddypress.webdevstudios.com/blog/2009/11/13/buddypress-registration-options/
It pretty much does what you want and helps jumpstart your community.
What I would like to is some kind of option for an admin to create a group which not gets listed in the users group list but the member is actually part of (without choice) and receives updates from. Something you might call a “sitewide group” or something!
My understanding is that the technical details of the merge are only just now beginning to be discussed. See the links here: http://wpmututorials.com/news/merge-news/, including the merge trac ticket, which was only opened 10 days ago. That ticket would be a good thing to monitor as the merge approaches.
As far as the BuddyPress end of things is concerned, I’m assuming that Andy’s recent work on non-MU compatibility is a step in the direction of ensuring that the move to 3.0 doesn’t break BP. But I have a sense that the details of how the merge will affect existing sites, and in particular those running BP, will not emerge until some of the technical details of the merge start to get decided.
@anointed
Check out “/wp-admin/users.php” and snag the code from there. It should give you more than enough examples on ways to filter the users on that specific site. I think it should include pagination, user type, etc…
The key for you will be making sure that the right members are subscribers of the correct site. If you have multiple domains or multiple registration pages (for each site) that should be pretty straight forward.
In my opinion, the downfall of this plugin is that it uses JS to hide xprofile fields that store the lat and lon instead of just using user-meta. That and it just works a little strangely, and I couldn’t really figure out why I wasn’t comfortable with it.
I’ve got a re-engineered version of this plugin I’m using for a client at the moment, and will probably give that code back to the devs of this plugin to be reused for later.
@Andrea –thanks for the link and information. I will install the rc this week and play around a bit before posting the questions. I’m just hoping that Donccha is familiar enough with bp to understand my question in how it regards to wpmu.
@JJJ I did not realize there were 2 separate lists already, user list – member list. That just may be the answer I was looking for. Do you happen to know if there is any documentation on how to filter for just the user list on a given blog for output display?
Yes I had always planned on keeping the ‘root’ blog as the master bp site.
I had a need to do this with posts (geocode, sort by distance, map). I did it with two WP plugins Google Maps Geocoder and SimpleMap. I had to rewrite Simplemap to query the post/postmeta table instead of its own tables.
Now that I know how to do that, it shouldn’t be hard for usermeta or groupmeta. I just suck at javascript which all the geocoding and mapping stuff uses.
I will need to do the same thing for users and groups once BP 1.2 is out. If no one tackles it before I do, I’ll donate the code, but it won’t be plugin worthy as I don’t do admin interfaces and options pages. Since the site is for me, I save my time and bandwith by putting settings in a well commented php file.
@anointed, if you wanted to just make it so you’re grabbing the user list of a blog instead of the members list, that’s very possible to do. But you will still probably want your root blog to be the center of all members.
Like andrea_r said, I imagine that MU is in a feature freeze at the moment until 3.0. All the devs are going to have their hands full rearranging the code to make it fit into normal WordPress so it’s a smooth transition for everyone.
Where the actual work happens, in trac. Yesterday, merge work started, so I’m not sure where to put a suggestion like this right now.
If you stick it in https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/report I know it will get read by Donncha.
Also, user management is changing, so you may want to play around with wpmu 2.9.1 rc-1 a bit before filing any tickets.
The fact that this exists vindicates BuddyPress’ decision to have a ‘Delete Account’ button on the profile page
The standard support questions which mercime linked to help us help you. Despite the fact that FB Connect is not BuddyPress and as such is a third-party plugin, there are plenty of existing threads in these forums about issues with FB Connect
Facebook Connect is not working with BuddyPress trunk version so I had to delete it, but it worked in BP 1.1.3 set up in subdomain structure. Some couldn’t get it going on subdomain install but went well with subdirectory install of WPMU. Those are only some variables which might affect the install of the FB connect plugin..
“Connect URL in the application settings editor”
– somewhere in Facebook Config Page, 2nd step or so, make sure you have something like this:
Connect URL: http://yourbuddypress.com
Base domain: yourbuddypress.com
Maybe someone has gotten it to work with trunk already. Good luck.
@mercime
that is not the answer I expected. and your answer does not help me.
I certainly use the latest version of wpmu, and running normally. Only that plugin are problematic. I also do not make code changes of buddypress or wpmu.
Such a button has been added to the default 1.2 theme.
Try this http://buddypress.pastebin.com/m6144dbb0
We told you on IRC yesterday that, as you don’t know PHP, you are best to find the (CSS) ID of the field in question, then write some custom CSS to insert such an image. First step is to https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
Oh Mike go over ther you have to see the show… features people were begging for a long time they are rolling out in quick fashion. They have a new twitter integration (a lot like twire if you ask me). You can easily generate your own sitemaps now, and a few others like javascript in the network headers. I’m telling you Buddypress must really have them scared.
I keep one eye on what they have going on because I still have a few networks that I am wanting to export/import out of there… But I will never ever go back to that joint I love Buddypress! In addition there is no way the Ning freemium business model is going to be sustainable aver the long term. They are going to have to take liberties from their networks sooner or later. It will be more painful the next time they do.
Does anyone know where I should go to make a suggestion for wordpress-mu itself that may possibly be read by the devs?
I really think the only thing holding me back from doing this project is a core change in wp, to allow assigning a user to a particular blog or blogs. With 3.0 being the ‘final’ wp-mu merge, it would seem to be a great time to add this functionality. I just don’t know where to post the suggestions.
@Xevo — Yes that was the first important step in trying to accomplish what I am after. I have inserted that function, and indeed it did what it says it does. However, I’m after something that requires a lot more to it. (separating members and activity on a per blog basis) To the best of my knowledge that has not yet been implemented, which is why I was asking if it’s made it into the bp core yet. Thanks for the heads up though.
@JJJ Thnx for the answer. You are correct, I want each bp ‘blog’ to have their ‘own’ members userbase. (think ning again).
Ultimately what would be perfect in my scenario, would be some type of identifier for the user that sets a blog or blogs they belong to. Then we could filter the users and their activity on a per blog basis.
That would also allow me to do like ning, where you can have separate communities, yet all communities technically belong to the same overall group for the ‘master’ blog site, where I could show all activity from all members across all blogs.
Where it would be even cooler is if I could ‘tag’ the users as well. Then I could create even further ‘sub cultures’ where I could have one blog showing all the ‘sub-blog’ members that are catholic etc.. So if I had 10 separate ‘catholic’ church blogs, each blog would have their own bp area, yet I could also build another ‘catholic’ blog that shows all activity from all the catholic blogs… lol that sounded so much simpler in my mind than reading this lol
I do have the ‘blog type’ plugin installed. That way when a person creates a new blog they have to assign themselves to a group. I can then ‘aggregate’ all the content from those blogs who belong to that group into a central sub-blog.
Well thanks again. I’ll keep checking back from time to time to see if this ever becomes a possibility. I SOOO want to use bp that it’s driving me nuts having this great toy available that I can’t play with yet…..
