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@Erich73, Actually members do have their own blogs, I just created another blog at “wall.mysite.com”. I used the bp-community-blogs plugin, so that members of my bp site automatically became authors of “wall.mysite.com” blog. This blog uses P2 theme, so it does actually look like wall or wire whatever you want to name it. They can write infinite number of threads.

If you wish you can disable blog creation feature for your members from the admin backend, it does not matter.

@mikhailjon, to emove the blog authors link from the admin bar, go to:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-adminbar.php

Open bp-core-adminbar.php file and delete these lines:

// **** "Blog Authors" Menu (visible when not logged in) ********

function bp_adminbar_authors_menu() {

global $current_blog;



if ( $current_blog->blog_id > 1 ) {

$authors = get_users_of_blog();



if ( is_array( $authors ) ) {

/* This is a blog, render a menu with links to all authors */

echo '<li id="bp-adminbar-authors-menu"><a href="/">';

_e('Blog Authors', 'buddypress');

echo '</a>';



echo '<ul class="author-list">';

foreach( $authors as $author ) {

$author = new BP_Core_User( $author->user_id );

echo '<li>';



echo '<a href="' . $author->user_url . '">';

echo $author->avatar_mini;

echo ' ' . $author->fullname;

echo '<span class="activity">' . $author->last_active . '</span>';

echo '</a>';

echo '<div class="admin-bar-clear"></div>';

echo '</li>';

}

echo '</ul>';

echo '</li>';

}

}

}

And this line:

add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'bp_adminbar_authors_menu', 12 );

Alternative solution: Use the following Javascript to generate a username on typing:

function copyinputuser()

{

var tmp = document.getElementById('field_1').value;

tmp = tmp.toLowerCase().replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "").replace(/[_|\s]+/g, "");

tmp = tmp.replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "").replace(/[-]+/g, "").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");

document.getElementById('user_name').value = tmp;

}

And then add onkeyup=”copyinputuser()” to the field_1 input tag, which requires an ugly hack in a core file.

I see the html for the xprofile input fields is in function get_edit_html in bp-xprofile-classes.php:

switch ( $this->type ) {

case 'textbox':

$html .= '<div class="signup-field">';

$html .= '<label class="signup-label" for="field_' . $this->id . '">' . $asterisk . $this->name . ':</label>';

$html .= $this->message . '<input type="text" name="field_' . $this->id . '" id="field_' . $this->id . '" value="' . attribute_escape( $this->data->value ) . '" />';

$html .= '<span class="signup-description">' . $this->desc . '</span>';

$html .= '</div>';

break;

So I guess I could add onkeyup=”copyinput()” there, but then all xprofile fields will get that. Would that mess up the system? The Javascript refers to the fields by ID.

According to Jeff Sayre this method will be deprecated in version 1.1, but I need a temporary solution before I make the switch.

Trying that now…

Thanks Gaetan, I went ahead on bought the one month premium wpmu dev account and grabbed half a dozen plugins for my buddypress site. The mass email plugin worked great. I used it yesterday to announce our September contest.

Yes DJPaul, achievements is great. I wish there was a way to add our own achievements. Something like that would be very helpful.

PS. is there a setting to be notified when a comment is made on the forums here?

Ok, I wasn’t aware of that the plugin would be activated side wide, that explains certain behaviour. thnx!

Success! Solution found here.

The Javascript:

<script type = "text/javascript">

function copyinput()

{

var tmp = document.getElementById('blog_title').value;

tmp = tmp.toLowerCase().replace(/^s+|s+$/g, "").replace(/[_|s]+/g, "");

tmp = tmp.replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "").replace(/[-]+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");

document.getElementById('blogname').value = tmp;

}

</script>

The customized function:

function custom_signup_show_blog_form( $blogname = '', $blog_title = '', $errors = '' ) {

global $current_site;



?>

<div id="blog-details-fields">



<label for="blog_title">Blog title</label>

<?php if ( $errmsg = $errors->get_error_message('blog_title') ) { ?>

<p class="error"><?php echo $errmsg ?></p>

<?php }

echo '<input name="blog_title" type="text" id="blog_title" value="'.wp_specialchars($blog_title, 1).'" maxlength="24" onkeyup="copyinput()"/></p>';



// Blog name

if ( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) )

echo '<label for="blogname">' . __('Blog Name:', 'buddypress') . '</label>';

else

echo '<label for="blogname">' . __('Blog Domain:', 'buddypress') . '</label>';



if ( $errmsg = $errors->get_error_message('blogname') ) { ?>

<p class="error"><?php echo $errmsg ?></p>

<?php }



if ( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) ) {

echo '<span class="prefix_address">' . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . '</span><input name="blogname" type="text" id="blogname" value="'.$blogname.'" maxlength="50" /><br />';

} else {

echo '<input name="blogname" type="text" id="blogname" value="'.$blogname.'" maxlength="50" /><span class="suffix_address">.' . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . '</span><br />';

}



if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) {

echo '<p class="help-text">';

print '(<strong>' . __( 'Your address will be ', 'buddypress'  );

if( 'no' == constant( "VHOST" ) ) {

print $current_site->domain . $current_site->path . __( 'blogname', 'buddypress'  );

} else {

print __( 'domain.', 'buddypress'  ) . $current_site->domain . $current_site->path;

}

echo '</strong>. ' . __( 'Must be at least 4 characters, letters and numbers only. It cannot be changed so choose carefully!)', 'buddypress'  ) . '</p>';

echo '</p>';

}

?>

<p>

<label for="blog_public_on"><?php _e( 'I would like my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati, and in public listings around this site.', 'buddypress' ); ?> </label>

<label class="checkbox" for="blog_public_on">

<input type="radio" id="blog_public_on" name="blog_public" value="1" <?php if( !isset( $_POST['blog_public'] ) || '1' == $_POST['blog_public'] ) { ?>checked="checked"<?php } ?> />

 <?php _e( 'Yes', 'buddypress' ); ?>

</label>

<label class="checkbox" for="blog_public_off">

<input type="radio" id="blog_public_off" name="blog_public" value="0" <?php if( isset( $_POST['blog_public'] ) && '0' == $_POST['blog_public'] ) { ?>checked="checked"<?php } ?> />

 <?php _e( 'No', 'buddypress' ); ?>

</label>

</p>

</div>

<?php

do_action('signup_blogform', $errors);

}

What this does:

When the user starts typing the blog title – limited to 24 chars – the Javascript dynamically fills in the blogname for the URL.

The user can manually change the blogname if he/she wants. Not sure how that would work out…

You could probably also hide the blogname field, either through type=”hidden” or CSS. Haven’t tested all these options yet.

But imho this looks like a very versatile solution.

Or have I overlooked some critical issues? Comments very much appreciated!