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There is going to be an album plugin, it’s just not finished yet. For more about it check out the about page.

As for what features it will include I don’t know off hand but it wouldn’t be too difficult of a task to add ratings and comments I presume if they weren’t included.

Same idea here https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=25#post-92 , where Andy linked to this topic .

I think we need to discuss more about it.

We can handle such URL like http://domain.com/andypeatling/home or http://domain.com/user/andypeatling simply by customizing the home theme. Instead of using another theme for the home base, let the home theme handle it.

I hope the other components have enough flexibility to be used in such way.

As far as I know this plugin should work with BuddyPress, I know it works with WPMU 2.6.2.

There’s a privacy plugin available for WPMU, but it works on the blog part only and I’m not sure how well it would work with Buddypress.

http://wpmudev.org/project/More-Privacy-Options

For number 2 see: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26

Number 1 is not possible right now, but a plugin could be written for this.

This is on the roadmap but probably won’t make it in for the first version:

https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/roadmap/friends

In the first version for the end of the year, BuddyPress will only support open networks. However, the plan is to put together a generic privacy component which can be used by all components to restrict and allow customizable privacy levels.

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for number 5.

The rest of them are a no at the moment, but plugins could be created to add all of your desired functionality.

Possibly, but it does rely heavily on the way URLs are structured at the moment.

See https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=26 for more information.

I’ve created a trac page where people can list details of custom components they are creating:

https://trac.buddypress.org/wiki/custom-components

If you can start of the list and add some details there, that would be great. Once we have a couple of useable ones, I’ll add a tab to the main site with more information and download links.

File them in trac.

https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

(Oh hey, I just noticed the links at the bottom of the page…)

Until the bbPress integration is fully done with BuddyPress I just integrated bbPress with WPMU. I’d speculate that the global forum should actually be the easiest to implement since bbPress can already integrate with MU’s user tables.

Also, will the bbpress dashboard be in the buddypress dashboard? Meaning, not 2 seperate installations?

Thanks a bunch.

Matt

What I’d look for in a default theme is not necessarily the styling but the functionality. It should provide all possible features of BuddyPress and be documented reasonably well to make customisation easy. Hardly anyone will use a theme out-of-the box anyway. If anything you wouldn’t want to overload it with too many styles and graphics .

The theme looks nice and goes with the look and feel of the BP profile theme.

By the way, what will the criteria for the active/popular groups and members tabs be?

Wow. I’m super impressed and excited for the future of buddypress. Do you think a version 2 will be part of the dec release?

Keep up the great work Andy!

– Brian

Some stuff already available by using WPMU plugins:

– sitewide feed

– recent posts across the system

– latest blogs or members

– member list

all over at http://wpmudev.org/plugins.php

Remember, Buddypress is a plugin for MU – mind you, a really extensive plugin. Other sitewide features can be added the same way they get added in WPMU, it’s just a matter of figuring out if what the end result you want is pulling directly from a BP function or a regular MU function.

This forum is a great idea now that things are moving forward so fast. Good deal.

Trent

Yay! I got featured on the screenshot .

Great work Andy. I remember someone asking for video support. Maybe you can download some free FLV player and brand it ‘BuddyPress Player’ or something and use it for video content throughout the website!

For orangeguru:

Nice, but did you have published this website ?

What kind of configuration do you used ? WordPress MU + Buddypress + what widget ?

Add

I like this, very impressed that it seems that their will be a sitewide activity feed (as opposed to a per user feed) Am I right Andy?

What I don’t see is categories and tags. I know WordPress MU does not support sitewide categories, and I know theres a plugin to make Tags sitewide.

Any plans for these features in Buddypress?

I believe there is a plugin from the guys at Incsub that will enable multiple servers for one installation. It should work with BuddyPress.

So here’s why blogs are separate from home bases:

BuddyPress is designed to support existing blog networks, as well as brand new installations. On an existing installation, users already have their blogs set up and established. Forcing a new blog on them just to use BuddyPress features would make no sense and most of them would be left empty and unused.

It could be possible to give users an option whether or not to set up a personal blog with their new home base. The trouble is, that would mean some home bases have blogs, others not. That could end up being even more confusing for users.

Also, another big problem is adding additional authors to the blog. This would mean other site members would be posting within a users home base which would mean an additional layer of security would be needed so they couldn’t access the main user’s messages, profile etc.

Overall, separating blogs from home bases saves a whole lot of headaches, and allows BuddyPress to easily support new and existing installs. Perhaps we can work out a way to automatically set up a redirection from “user.domain.com/blogs/blogname/” to “blogname.domain.com” for each new blog. Going any further than a simple redirect would be fundamentally change the way WordPress MU works – and that’s not something we want to do.

I’d also like to create a BuddyPress blog theme, that will tie in with the overall look and feel, and add the user navigation menu. This should reduce the contrast between home bases and blogs even further.

Hope this explains the choice a bit more.

Cheers,

Andy

I’m really excited about BuddyPress…

I’ve been kicking WPMU and Buddypress around for the past few weeks with a view to adopting it to build a social site for some groups I am involved with.

The BuddyPress stuff is looking very cool and potentially could save a lot of bespoke development and/or plugin integration and customisation BUT… and this is a pretty big but…

As echang highlights above, it worries me that a user has to have at least two different sub-domains in order to have a blog. Could a potential solution, at least in part, be to create a mod-rewrite rule that maps a blogs sub-domain to a sub-directory of the primary user sub-domain such as /blog. Thus the blog admin could be http://username.domain.com/blog/wp-admin/

I’m pretty new to all this and I might be over simplifying the issue (or I might just be overly “simple”??? ) but I would be extremely intrested to hear what others in the WPMU and BuddyPress communities think about this topic, along with any other proposed solutions.