Without knowing the details, it would be nice if you could somehow ‘pull’ the post form into a custom home theme in BP. This way users could seamlessly cross-post to Twitter from the home page using one form. I’m using P2 theme as my home theme so the need is obvious, but perhaps this could be possible somehow.
Regardless, very happy to hear this is coming soon.
@Gpo1: Whatever you can do with the tweet form at Twitter, you can do with the tweet form in this plugin.
@Kunal17: It’ll be ready soon as we get the search widget created. Possibly this weekend. And no, we won’t use RSS for that. We’ll make it happen via the API because that is more flexible.
RC means release candidates and it’s a programming term for referring to specific pre-release versions of software. Buddypress has had 2 so far – RC1 and RC2.
On a similar vein, most programmers use something known as a revision control repository throughout development, primarily for easy access to previous versions (“commits” in this context) of software. One of the advantages of this is that it saves duplicating a folder on your computer each time you make progress. Each commit will have a version or release number. Imagine having 1303 folders on your hard drive with only slight differences between them.
As far as we are concerned here, RC1, RC2 and rXXXX (where X are numbers) refer to a particular snapshot or version. Now Buddypress has had it’s version 1.0 release, every live website ought to be running version 1.0.
Rules of thumb: any BP-specific plugins ought to run on v1.0. Any theme that says RC1, though, probably WON’T run on v1.0. There is probably a lot of tutorials etc that refer to a specific release number (like r1303 in your example). That’s just the nature of ongoing development – documentation is prone to getting out of date easily.
If you’re trying to follow some specific instructions and get stuck, just post here and we’ll help.
Very interesting video and article Burt. Thanks. 
My problem during last installation with bbpress alpha 6 and buddypress 1 was that all users in bbpress were set to ‘inactive’ and only bbress admin could post on bbpress via buddypress group forum – so it’s another thing to check out if you run into problems with integration…
@Timschmi
As stated above, a blog is typically more personal… written by one person. A Wiki is the opposite. The whole point of a Wiki is group collaboration… group being the key word. So within an organization, you may have a Management group, an IT group, a Training group… etc… and they would all have their own documentation to manage and collaborate on. So to me… Wiki’s within a group just make sense. Right now, the only thing you can share within a BuddyPress group is chat on the wire. But within an organization (for instance)… groups have much greater needs that that.
In case you couldn’t tell… I’m hoping to use BP someday as an Intranet… which to me means social networking + collaboration and document sharing. BP 1.0 has the social networking aspect nailed right now. It’s VERY nice. So sweet. I just hope it takes off and developers start getting on board to extend it.
p.s. I like the Elgg approach of having Wiki’s and Files within groups but also allowing you to browse *ALL* Wikis and Files on the site… so you don’t have to get to them from the group.
yeah! start a movement now! i might try that balloon thing.
Mention the site name, please
This plugin does it have the same function like twitter like tweet your followers replies & group followers etc?
M, the plugin is sounding great. Please let us know as soon as you have something for release. Do you have an ETA for an initial release?
Would it be easier to start with if the plugin just handled RSS feeds from twitter search instead of taking the search parameters from withing the plugin itself? Maybe 2 different plugins that integrate well will make things accessible to both basic and advanced users.
Still looking for some help with my error.
Should the ‘mysite’ in (BPLANG’, ‘mysite’) be ‘buddypress-mysite’ as my .mo file is called buddypress-mysite.mo?
@Gpo1: Not sure what you mean by all of that except your question about tweeting. Can you elaborate please?
Right now there is a separate page for sending new tweets. But we might integrate an option into the Wire screen. We’ll check into it before releasing.
As for Facebook, we might be able to add that via a different plugin since it doesn’t exactly pertain to Twitter.
@Kunal17: Search sounds cool. We could add a widget for that. Twitter search API is diverse, so we’ll have to figure out how to handle that without making a widget config overly confusing for plugin users.
We added a new feature to the plugin today: Rate limit detection. What – you didn’t know Twitter only allows X number of data downloads per hour? Ya, they do. So we’ve added code to help ensure that limit isn’t exceed (it should only happen in rare circumstances) and if it is then a friendly message shows up to let readers know that the tweet and trend content might be not entirely fresh at the moment.
Details: Twitter limits API calls to 100 per hour per user, or 100 per hour per IP address if you’re not authenticating whiile making an API call. So basically, those limits would only be exceeded if some BP user had plugins all over the planet each downloading their tweets or they were using a badly designed twitter plugin somewhere else (unlikely, but it could happen). Or, it could happen if a site is on a shared hosting account and lots of other sites on the same server are making Twitter API calls for trend or search data – again, unlikely, but it could happen.
So we try to handle those cases gracefully via code. And, so far I’ve not seen any other Twitter plugins for WP or WPMU that deal with those possibilities.
We try to be thorough (perfection is impossible 
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Im excited to know too, and might i add, I love BuddyPress.
Hello Tracedef,
You can subscribe to this group: https://buddypress.org/groups/buddypress-job-board
Gaetan
When you make the page, could you post a link for us lazy people that just want to baste in your glory?
this looks sweet! Looking forward to it!
They make one called Gallery and Gallery 2 which is a standalone and an integrated gallery that you can download from here http://gallery.menalto.com/
I use this integrated into my drupal install page, but I want one that is integrated into buddypress, not a standalone one. I can just make a link to my Gallery standalone, but I want one that is integrated into BuddyPress. Anyone know of one?
Hi! I have so many problems! and I need help! please!
Problems with buddypress in Localhost
Thanks!
Has anyone found a chat plugin that integrates with BuddyPress profiles?
Well, I found it! You can select whatever page you want as your entry screen in Administration > Settings > Reading.
Here’s the page (which needs updating) in the WordPress Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
Now I just need to build the page!
(am now marking this resolved)
@JeffSayre: the problem was first discovered on a running install with 10 blogs (which is currently crippled because of different languages). I’m thinking about creating a separate plugin with some regexp support so it’ll filter out the basic language for non-qtranslate enabled blogs.
With the first test install, not everything didn’t work like specified because I was using different domains. After I needed to play with a development version on live domains for that, for swift periods so those changes wouldn’t interrupt too much of the normal services.
Since the test install didn’t work under a test-domain, I needed to do it this ackward way, which required more time. Now I’m again porting the entire buddypress template towards the one I’m currently having installed…
Still, the qtranslate is a big miss, since it is currently causing havoc on the main “hotsite” and also for those with bi-langual articles…
OK. See: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/723 with the latest workaround with your problem fixed also. ‘wire_patch_three.patch’
That’s great . Can you tweet from wire to twitter
Need to reply to followers
Need to group followers
add tinyurl
add twitpic api
add facebook api
