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Andy / Jeff – in line with my latest topic-start in this forum … can you give us a statement on what BuddyPress is supposed to be?

When I first started trying to get it into play, I was led to believe it was a community suite that tagged onto WPMU, but that’s not true. Yes, it’s a community suite, but it completely takes over and dominates WPMU, and that’s not what I wanted at all for this project, where the core function of WPMU had to be dominant.

Now it may be that this position is due to the default BP theme and its layout etc, in which case more themes (that are site-purpose structured, not BP purpose structured, need released) – instead of themes that “look pretty” with BP, we need themes that are for xyz purpose of site, and lots of them – take a lead from the accounting softwares and the business-type templates they provide in their softwares.

Example – themes for clubs, for charities, for communities of e-tailers, or communities of pub and hotel owners – these types of groups want their core site function to be to promote what there club / charity / business does – which is a great use for WPMU, but not if BP takes over and subdues the blogs into oblivion with all the chat and community slap and tickle.

At the end of the day, there is no real business-oriented community software as such. Sure some softwares have been tweaked for it (e.g. LinkedIn) but it would be a great niche for BP+WPMU if the theme developers kept such considerations in mind when designing the templates.

Gaz

p.s. – how do I demote BP to be a plugin and subservient to WPMU – I still can’t figure it out.

Gaz-

Read this thread and see if it gives you an idea on how you can accomplish what you’re after:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-run-non-bp-theme-on-tld-and-bp-theme-on-subdomain-all-on-same-wpmu-install#post-26695

I think you need to do some site architecture and wireframes first and then from there, do some custom theming. BuddyPress only appears to “take over” because the main navigation links to all of the BuddyPress directories. But you can make the main navigation whatever you want it to be… and you can make as many other navigation bars as you want as well… via custom theme work. Note than when you’re on a blog page, you’re not in a buddypress area… but the “main site” area.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-forum-integration#post-23059

The Kaltura plugin still indicates that it requires BP 1.0.3. I would recommend waiting until it has been updated to 1.1.2 or later.

The developers of the plugin should be using the trunk version of BuddyPress to update their plugin, possibly waiting until the 1.2 release of BP to reoffer their work.

I can personally attest that their has been significant forward progress over the last eight months. As Andy stated above, the changes that were implemented between 1.0 and 1.1 were made to give BuddyPress a stronger foundation going forward.

I’ve actively used a number of social platforms, and made the decision 8 months ago to get involved in BuddyPress because I felt it had the most potential–even though it was just a little over a year old at the time. I have been very happy with that decision.

I am confident that BuddyPress will continue to evolve and its development continue at the proper pace.

check out the BuddyPress-Kaltura Media Component developed by rtCamp Solutions at this link. ..http://www.wpveda.com/buddypress-kaltura-media-component/

Be sure to look into the filtering options on the activity loop:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Don’t be fooled by the forums. Forums for software are always going to be full of people with problems, it’s just the nature of the beast. People who set up BuddyPress and are happy with it don’t post. People only come here when they have a problem.

Generally most of the issues brought up here are user/hosting created. If I see anything that I think is an actual bug, I investigate or ask for it to be added to trac. This is not a high percentage of threads.

BuddyPress is moving forward quite quickly, 1.1 broke a lot of early development because a lot of forward thinking changes were made. This is new software and it can’t be held back right out of the gate to support older code. Most of the plugins that are broken can be fixed with a few function changes.

I can’t speak for any other platforms, but remember, the rabbit never wins the race. Boonex/Dolphin is certainly not without its development problems.

If you’re looking for direction, then the roadmap is a good place to start. Or you can talk in IRC to people who are helping with development: #buddypress-dev on Freenode.

Best of all, start taking bugs and fixing them and submitting patches. If you’re not a developer then consider writing some documentation, or helping out in the forums with experiences. Community is the most important thing.

Check the “bp-core-templatetags.php” line 1590 to 1717.

Looks like they use more then one check to see if your on a certain component of buddypress. Hope it helps.

In the codex template tags there are already is_ functions for the buddypress pages.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-template-tags/

If that is what your looking for..

Suggest you put this as an enhancement suggestion ticket on https://trac.buddypress.org/

Have a read of https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

Can you confirm with me that you’re using bp-sn-parent as your theme, and that it contains either /registration/register.php or /register.php?

This works for me on a “vanilla” installation.

There is also a ticket for this in the trac already, so maybe keep an eye out there as well…

https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1208

Hi Lisa,

I just ordered your book “BuddyPress for Dummies” via Amazon.com

It seems this book is not published yet ? When will this book become available ?

….. and yes, I am a BP-Dummy

Many thanks,

Erich

@JJJ

many thanks for your feedback !

So looking at the current pages “Members” (testbp.org/members) and “Groups” (testbp.org/groups) , I am currently missing the features “newest”, “active” and “popular” at those pages.

We have this at the “Home”-page at the “members column” and also at the “groups column”, but why not having those features also at the “Group”-page and at the “Member”-page ? It would even make good sense there, as the number of listed Groups and listed Members at those pages is much higher.

So maybe you are considering similar stuff for the “Blogs”-page (testbp.org/blogs) ?

A user is rather interested to see “newest”, “active” and “popular” Blogs than a list of Blogs sorted by “A-B-C”. Having a list of Blogs being shown by “A-B-C” as we do have currently, the user needs to walk through a list of hundreds of Blogs in order to find the e.g. “most popular” Blog.

The same goes for Forums (testbp.org/forums): we currently see “6 Popular Group Forums”. Why not also showing “newest” and “active” Group-Forums within those 6 Group-Forums at the top of the page ?

Besides that: give the Admin the ability to make 1 Group-Forum within those 6 Group-Forums to be “sticky” ? See my TRAC-ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1240

Also sorting “alphabetically” just by “paging” would be fine, the “A-B-C”-tabs are not needed after all, as if somebody wants to search for all members starting with e.g. the letter “K”, he just performs a search by entering the letter “K” into the search-box.

BTW: I just tried what I have described above:

I entered the letter “K” into the search-box and searched for members.

The search-result is actually NOT showing members with the letter “K” (member-names showing in the search-result are actually NOT starting with letter “K” and have also NOT included the letter “K” in their name). Is this a bug ???

@javicarrasco: a shared server is not going to cut it, if that’s what you’re using? Also take a look at caching options if you are running on low end hardware: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/improving-performance/

Or… take the easy Andy Peatling way, pick your posion.

Thanks Andy, I was looking for this as well for my new buddypress powered site.

Just use the activity loop in your template with filters:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'object=blogs&action=new_blog_comment' ) ) : ?>

Using those filters the stream will only show blog comments made across the entire site.