@ All,
Please do not forget, in every developing community, where the developers try to find a way to stay confirm to the Open Source philosophy and also make some profit, it always comes to this point.
The idea of donating does not work. I developed free software by my self .
Some plugins were downloaded thousand of times, but Paypal Donation was always less.
Not more than going out for some beer!
Look what happens to bbpress where ck stopped at least after she got tired of doing things for nothing.
What I want to say is, let’s be careful not to spoil people, who are thinking a lot about our all problems.
Of cause for most of us our busyness is build on Open Source Software.
So we all need the freedom of GPL.
In my opinion premium memberships are a great idea of having the source still GPL. People need to earn money.
I like it much more as the idea of free software with ads. Then you need to pay for ads free one…
I immediately would pay premium memberships for bp-events and other software around buddypress. This will offer stable software, you have a quick support forum and you will find some other stuff like an extra bonus in the premium area.
I’m looking for a free future without ripping of peoples engagement.
I love bp-events.. such a great feature.
I’m new to BuddyPress, but love it already, and would love to see bp-events evolve and gain features (like mapping event locations, etc.)…
However, I’m very much a noob in all things “‘Press” so far (hopefully that will change), so I’m wondering if in the case that Erwin stops developing the bp-events plugin… if there have been cases where other developers take over something like this.
Even better, would the events function eventually be rolled into the BuddyPress suite of plugins? 
Swaymedia I think you should try to see the perspective of the people that are actually taking the time to write these extensive plugins like Brajesh his Gallery component. This is not something you can do easily it takes a lot of time, effort and support (after release).
Imagine you working hundreds of hours on something and then giving it away for free and spending most of your free time working on it. Having to deal with people who are STILL complaining and asking for more features without paying anything for it. Frankly that’s a big part of the life of a BP developer right now, and your reply makes it even more clear how ungrateful people can be.
You would not even have BuddyPress if it was’nt for people like Brajesh who work their ass of for free. If you still want more and are not satisfied then you should create it yourself, for free! And don’t forget to release it to all of the other users and give support and handle all the complaints and feature requests!
Looking forward to your plugins!
edit: another thing.. I’m a member of BuddyDev and the cool thing is that you can directly ask for features you would like to see developed. Right now we (Brajesh, Mercime and others) are brainstorming about Default Global Widgets (for blogs) Facebook Connect Pro and many other cool ideas, which actually have a good chance of being made by Brajesh.. Combine that with some great plugins like “Let a user choose a theme on signup” and the upcoming Gallery component and you have a huge bang for your buck
In \plugins\buddypress\bp-groups\bp-groups-templatetags.php on line 654 change to
<span class=”activity”><?php echo $admins[$i]->user_title ?></span>
and it should give default value i.e Group Admin
Where can I find out what the starting text should be in the custom po file? I downloaded Poedit and figured out how to make a file called buddypress-es_US.po. Now I just want to know what to put in that file!
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Bowe may be referring to this …
The issues with white screens will probably be because I’ve removed all deprecated code from BuddyPress. I’ll be supplying a backwards compatibility plugin that can be enabled on a site so old code can be supported.
From testbp.org
Just found https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/publishing-documets-to-a-group#post-32999 which I assume you may have been referring to. I’m sure themes will straightforward enough to provide back-compat for but again we’ll wait and see about comprehensive plugins (think ones that add new components or do serious heavy lifting). 
There have been at least two nights of discussion in the WordPress and WordPress MU IRC dev channels about this. Tonight will be a third night of discussion, I’m sure, in the WordPress meeting.
As the naming of WordPress features isn’t something that is to do with BuddyPress directly, I kindly suggest you visit the WP or WPMU forums — or IRC — and contribute to existing threads so that your comments will be seen by more people.
Could you make a trac ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/ for this issue? Not sure if WPMU/BP bug or to do with the plugin, but if you create the ticket so I get a reminder, I’ll give it a test.
@David Well, I’m stumped. I am on the same exact install as you and I get he admin panel for auto join when I click on my link. Email me at mike @ mikepratt . tv and I’ll try and figure it out.
Of course, I am now getting
BuddyPress is ready. You’ll need to activate a BuddyPress compatible theme to take advantage of all of the features. We’ve bundled a default theme, but you can always install some other compatible themes.
on 1.2-rare with my theme activated (even though it’s an untouched clone of default. Who knows
Have a look at this topic about changing built in vergiage. Probably would have saved you some time.
MAN.. I wish they had a BuddyPress plugin that turns my install into a Tumblr like clone.. I especially like the “LIKE/HEART” function and the “FOLLOW” function. that would be sweet.
@Peterverkooijen sorry for the confusion but I was actually referring to the Buddy Press Registration Options Plugin that you actually mentioned. I seem to be having issues with it and I just wanted to confirm a few things.
DJPaul, registration are coming the normal registration page and I’ve set the BP Registration Options plugin set to enabled.
@Brajesh… never feel sorry for someone who can’t read properly… just point the fact, period. If you start feeling sorry each time someone whine about the price of your memberships, you will work hard time on that, and you loose interests…
i have the same situation on my site… i have “freebies”… accessible when people are subscribing a membership… lol… the freebies are available freely, but you need to pay for support. i never charged for the scripts themselves, but people continue to whine about that even on other public forums, that they know i lied by charging for scripts that are supposed to be free… people think we owe them all our lives and they want free things only.
personally, i would pay 500$ for a complete buddypress with “all you can eat”…
@swaymedia
I am sorry if you got confused by buddydev.com for budypress. I will like to know, where you got the feeling that Buddypress is charging?,I have made it a clear point on the membership page of my site that It is NOT associated with buddypress.org, still if there is something confusing, that must be removed.
BuddyPress is not chargin anything,It is free(as already mentioned above),
Yes, I am charging a membership fee for access premium plugins on my site(and this preticular plugin will be available to you as free within 3-6 months as mercime already pointed.)I have already promised this in another thread here, I am sorry you still got confused.
Just wait for few months, I am sure, I will put it as free on/before bp 1.3 comes out.
Thanks
Brajesh
And BuddyDev.com never claimed to be affiliated with BuddyPress.org And it’s $30 for 3 months. Per Brajesh, it will be released as free plugin within 3-6 months after it comes out. So you’ve got the premium members testing the gallery plugin and Brajesh improving on it before it’s released as a free plugin.
swaymedia is talking about Brajesh’s site:
http://buddydev.com/
BuddyPress.org is not affiliated with BuddyDev.com
Like Erich stated, the core BuddyPress platform will always remain free and open-source.
Additional plugins and functionality are available from third-party sites for free, or in Brajesh’s case, on a paid-subscription basis.
BuddyPress.org / testbp.org is for sure NOT charging for anything.
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
