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FWIW, My views on this went into the trac ticket.

Upgrade to 1.0 then to 1.1.3

It would def hav to be one plugin with connect options. ‘Buddypress Connect’

You install plug in and then choose which connects you’d like to use. When user signs up it gives connect options to use. I’ve seen it done on other sites where you input your email and it maps both connects to an email or user id.

Wow guys I think that everyone needs to keep in mind just how far BuddyPress has come over the last year. Yes there have been some hiccups along the way, but 2009 has been an amazing year for BuddyPress! Just remember that we are still 1.x software here folks! I just found my 1.x version of Final Cut Pro the other day and the box alone is 1/5 the size of my current version 7.x of FCP Studio (and it ran on OS9). I tell you all this so to remind you that we are all here at the infancy of what is going to continue to be a fantastic piece of software! Cheers and Happy New Year!

BuddyPress adds new template tags that have changed from version to version.

Is there a list of these changes somewhere?

I’m currently upgrading my custom theme from version 1.0 to 1.1.3, still based on the classic theme, which avoids the worst problems for now…

I like the idea of leveraging services like YouTube and Flickr and integrating them into your website using a plugin / API. You don’t reinvent the wheel and you end up with more online “channels” for your content. But the question is always just how well such generic solutions can integrate with your very specific tool (BuddyPress) and project requirements.

You haven’t been hacked and there’s no backdoor. The problem with open sources and sploggers is they can see the code just as much as we can, so they can figure out ways around it.

There *are* solutions and they *do* work. You just have to find the right combo from current information.

Hi Jeff,

this is a great ticket of what is really needed for BP to move ahead.

Thank you !

This is 100% the wrong way.

Log into wp-admin go to BuddyPress > Component Setup and hit the disable radio button next to the blog tracking component.

Haha, Bowe!

It looks like I was adding more details to my post as you where posting your response.

Mysterious Jeff.. Do we have a saboteur on our hands here? Maybe a NING user who felt the breath of BP breathing down it’s neck? Anyways your suggestion is exactly what we need and kudos for bringing this up 10 months ago

I agree with MrMaz’s assessment above. We should be thinking about extending the BuddyPress framework and not deprecating major components at this time.

The ability to assign more than one type of “friend” was something I proposed 10 months ago but was somehow deleted as a future enhancement by an anonymous person. That may have been an automatic “deletion” as it was around the time that the phrase “future enhancement” was replaced with “future release.” But, I would have thought that the ticket would have simply been switched to that new milestone indicator.

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/582

My suggestion in the link above is what jjj refers to in this comment on his Trac ticket linked to in this thread’s OP:

It would solve Jeff Sayre’s user relationship issue too…

The best solution to accomplish my suggestion is to extend the Friends Component and model the data in a one to many relationship. Simply relegating friends to another type of group does not accomplish the goal.

Most important thing for me would be the option to categorize your friends and filter the activity stream based on those categories..Looks like all types of sites could benefit from this, at least I haven’t seen people who were against that feature

I’m not saying separation is a bad thing, far from it. BuddyPress adds new template tags that have changed from version to version. If you create a theme with these template tags that are no longer present, things will break.

BuddyPress is much more than theme mods.

You can try this. Worked for me (I wrote the post): http://www.bp-tricks.com/tips_and_tricks/stopping-the-sploggers/

Are you running a stand-alone bbPress install?

Also, BuddyPress will now work in a sub directory install of single Wp.

@Mike Pratt, the original subject of this thread was whether Buddypress should get a Gallery feature:

Can someone please tell me if there will one day be an Gallery / Albums feature for this software. I am holding back my site due to its main use is to let users create albums. I know there are some third party plugins but not of them i have found are truly any good. Please Please Please someone make this happen

Then David Lewis added requests for an event feature:

… bp-events. It’s not keeping pace with BP 1.2 development. Which is fine. What do you want for free… right?! But with BP being such a niche right now… we don’t have any other options. We have to live with the broken solution or roll our own.

My point is that Buddypress can never be all things to all people. Events may be “a mission critical component” to David Lewis’ site – also for me BTW! – but to someone else ecommerce may be mission critical. Or paid membership. Or collaboration tools. Or whatever.

The problems Vincole, David Lewis and even you mentioned are typical for plugins; many of them are simply not very good, are not keeping up with WP/WPMU/BP and sometimes development stops entirely.

So I argued that it’s probably more efficient to use plugins to connect to existing scripts and that the attention of Buddypress developers should be on APIs that make that easier and strenghtening the core, not chasing features.

I’m just giving my feedback as a non-PHP-programmer trying to use the script, but apparently questioning the primacy and infallibility of Buddypress is a grave offense to some on this board. That’s disappointing.

@Peter Perhaps you are better off using Ning. The folks on this site are focused on moving the BP ball forward and you seem to relish using your 10 years of journalism experience either berating others or BuddyPress but certainly not in offering help to Andy or others.

I have the same problem…

I have deleted all groups and started a new group but no luck.

The thread appears in the sitewide activity, the tags get created.

I just get the error and the thread doesnt show up in my /forums page.

Any idea how to fix that?