Great Nic. I’m developing another version of this that expands on the navigation.
Remember that this isn’t really a plugin, more like a starting point FOR a plugin.
I don’t want to confuse buddypress with the various microblogging tools (twitter, laconica, etc.) but Openmicroblogger.org has taken the Twitter Tools for WordPress plugin, for example, and made it work with their platform so that you can post to Twitter from within Openmicroblogger (much like how it works wth WordPress).
More importantly, the OMB platform lets you ‘subscribe’ to your Twitter friends or other users so that their tweets complete with Gravatar can appear in your stream on the OMB network of servers. Having this ability to ‘pull’ your subscribed network of users, over and above a lifestream of your own tweets or whathaveyou, whould make the ‘social’ plugin in Buddypress even more powerful. Hope I explained this in some manner of clarity.
Cheers
Scotm, this might be possible. I’ll look into it. I’m more interested in the BuddyPress then “reinventing the wheel” on a lifestream or social plugin. Those have been done, and i’m still looking over the more popular ones to see if we can convert those WordPress plugins into BP. But I’ve got a feeling writing something custom is going to be alot more useful and unlimiting.
Some had an issue downloading the file from the blog. Here is a confirmed working link, just in case you tried but failed and were so pissed you didn’t leave a blog comment. 
Here is the code: http://davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-social.txt
slaFFik, i’m working on it now.. check your spam, i will activete your account..
Adding a new menu item to the member theme, NOT the top bar. I did this with my recent example of “social” (view the screenshots):
http://www.davidbisset.com/2008/12/23/buddypress-adding-twitter-and-friendfeed/
This is a clean slate version of that above, if that makes sense.
EDIT: Duh. This actually DOES BOTH. This will add the same menu item in “my account” WITH submenu navigation in the grey “BuddyPress” bar that is present on the top page when you login.
@nicolagreco, I can’t sign up on http://buddypressdev.org/. Everything is ok, until I need to get the email with my password. There’s no email for 30 hpurs already. What should I do? I’m very interested in this project.
I don’t understand what you said, if you think this topic it’s not good for the community, delete it.. (if you said that)
Oooh Nicola. It’s not good to push ‘send’ without thinking. There are always consequences for our actions. We’ll just have to come up with an appropriate punishment for your thoughtless behavior.
In the meantime I moved it.
Oops. Sorry Burt. Failed to refresh as I was replying.
David – Love where you’re heading with this. When you say “menu” do you mean Admin bar or the Home/Blog/Members/Etc menus in the BP header. I hacked the latter but would much rather do it thru a plugin such as you’ve developed
David,
“…minimum required to give you the ability to add a new menu item…”
You talking about adding a new menu item to the buddybar ™ or to the user/options bar in the member theme?
I would like to throw this here before I throw this on my blog, make sure someone else can duplicate this working. I didn’t put this into plugins because this actually doesn’t *DO* anything.
http://davidbisset.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/bp-test.zip
bp-test – building block for BuddyPress components
v0.1 – 12/24/08 12:05pm EST
David Bisset
http://www.davidbisset.com
http://www.dimensionmedia.com
twitter.com/dimensionmedia
WHAT THIS IS:
Basically this should be the minimum required to give you the ability to add a new menu item, with two sub pages, to an already-working BuddyPress install with the beta components. This is meant for you to LEARN and possibly use as a starting building block for your BuddyPress components.
LEGAL CRAP:
Use At Your OWn Risk. Don’t blame me if it doesn’t work, although i’m open to making this the best way to start off building for BuddyPress (hey, that’s a great title for a book – it’s mine! copyrighting right now!).
HOW-TO:
You should be able to tell this Basically drop the mu-plugins right into the folder. You don’t even technically need the bp-test folder – the bp-test.php file in the mu-plugins is enough, but not useful for learning purposes. Don’t forget the member-themes files.
SUPPORT:
Post on my blog (davidbisset.com) or BuddyPress forums so that all can share.
with a new install of buddypress i noticed that the Member Listing page is empty because data hasn’t been inserted into the users profile yet.
has anyone written a script to mass insert usernames from the WP database for Full Name or similar so all existing members would show up?
i hate to go live with 100+ members and none showing up in the new member listing page.
ideas? what did you do?
dimensionmedia
This may not be possible, but it might be nice to include users of Identi.ca (and Laconica servers) plus Openmicroblogger.org servers in this stream. Both use the OpenMicroBlogging protocol enabling users to post to Twitter and subscribe to friends on each platform.
Openmicroblogger.org in particular is heavily tied to WordPress plugins and themes already.
Cheers
The “my-plugins” folder is actually based off the root of your forum install. If it is /forums/ then you would have /forums/my-plugins/ for the folder.
The real trouble with getting the forums side working is that it makes the assumption that you have WPMU and bbPress installed 100% and integrated properly even before you start trying to get the buddypress side going. Always make sure the logins are integrated and working right before you continue on.
Biegun also has a point as well. Buddypress accesses bbPress through publically accessible xmlrpc.php and if you put .htaccess in there for password protection, it will break as well since it won’t be able to access the installation.
slaFFik I would just suggest that if you reinstall WPMU 2.7, you also restart on bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 from scratch as well and then integrate the installs off the installation of bbPress and just go through all the steps again without having a bit more information.
Hello buddys,
I would just like to say that I am very impressed, not only with BP but also the friendly and helpful people involved.
I have integrated googles Friend-Connect with http://www.blogfred.com perhaps it could confuse some people as there would then be “”2″” communities on my site!!
Umm!
Still very early days for me as I have a busy life elsewhere.
Yesterday i thought about a Plugins Directory, given that there isn’t one.
To help developers and community i wrote a Plugins Directory where users share his own plugins at http://buddypressdev.org/plugins
I think that who wrote a plugins should have to add his plugin filling out this page
http://buddypressdev.org/add-plugin
/* PLEASE READ
I hope that users understand that this is NOT a spam post but an help to the BuddyPress community to have a Plugins Directory and to share our own plugins..
*/
(i clicked on publish without selecting a category for this topic -.- sorry)
Right.. but that Widget is showing the correct url for all the users. like http://sitename.com/network/members/Joorgeta/
But in one users name is showing like this :
http://sitename.com/network/members/amitasree%20bhattacharya/
Now.. my question is.. If BuddyPress doesn’t support any WordPress MU widgets then why on the home page we see the links “Click to add widgets on this space” ?
Regards
Hi,
When I added the Widget called “user list” on my home page, I can see the latest username links.
One username has a Blank space between, like “john ccrot” which i click on his profile, I dont see his information in the profile.
These registrations are not done by “buddyPress” registration page. These users are coming using my wordpress blog normal registration page.
Please help.
Regards
i got most the errors gone but for some reason the searches and letter search still isnt working. i really dont think this is wordpress MU but buddypress thats causing this.
And here, on my Russian BuddyPress Support Site, is the same manual in Russian for the Russian BuddyPress User. Enjoy!
Hi,
I am creating my first plugin for buddypress.
Is there a variable which is assigned the username of the person logged in.
Something like $bp_current_user or something?
I need to create a link to their profile page, so the link would be something like:
<?php echo “www.example.com/members/”.$bp_current_user.”/profiles”; ?>
Thanks so much for your help
Hmm well i installed it with the trunk version 1581 and now i get error 500 everwhere. worked great untill i put buddypress on, hmm. any ideas for this?
