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i think the problem your having is the fact that p2 is not a “buddypress theme”

like in the main theme how it has a large widget area and 2 small ones, and also has a BLOG tab where the main blog is

the problem your having with p2 (and any other standard wordpress theme) is the BLOG tab is displayed on the main page rather than a large widget sidebar, as the recent blog posts thing is actually a widget, if you put this widget in your p2 sidebar you will see a direct comparison between the 2

currently you cant have a p2 “theme” that aggregates ALL blog posts like the buddypress widget does,

all the users will be posting to the main blog if you want them to use p2, and if you do then the current skin should be fine? it was designed to show comments

im sure you could add some nice jscript to add collapsing comments? this would probably bring better functionallity to your site if you didnt want the comments taking up the whole page?

Well, while the GF is in the shower, I’ll quick do this… Burt this is aimed directly at you, since I gather most others won’t want to do this kind of thing…

oci_bb_group_forums.php:

This prevents wrong inclusion order when using deep forum integration.

if (defined(BACKPRESS_PATH))

require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . '/class.ixr.php' );

This will return ALL user info, in the event that bbGroups does not exist yet for that user.

function oci_get_userdata($u){

$u = (int) $u;

$user = bb_get_user($u);

if ($user->bbGroups) {

return stripslashes_deep((array)$user->bbGroups);

} else {

return stripslashes_deep((array)$user);

}

}

oci_bp_group_forums.php:

This prevents wrong inclusion order when using deep forum integration.

if (!defined(BBDB_NAME))

require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/class-IXR.php');

This is how I passed the user info over from xprofile to bbGroups:

/**

* oci_get_user_filter()

*

* Live example of how to use the filter mechanism to add info to the data going across to bbpress

* This filter adds the user's forums and forums where the user is staff into the $user array

* @return

* @param associative array $user from oci_get_user()

*/

function oci_get_user_filter($user){

$users_group_info = oci_get_users_group_info($user['id']);



$user['users_forums'] = $users_group_info['forum_ids'];

$user['user_is_staff'] = $users_group_info['staff_ids'];



$user['custom_title'] = bp_get_field_data('Custom Title', $user['id']);

$user['signature'] = bp_get_field_data('Signature', $user['id']);

$user['aim'] = bp_get_field_data('AIM', $user['id']);

$user['yahoo'] = bp_get_field_data('Yahoo!', $user['id']);

$user['gtalk'] = bp_get_field_data('GTalk', $user['id']);

$user['msn'] = bp_get_field_data('MSN', $user['id']);

$user['jabber'] = bp_get_field_data('Jabber', $user['id']);

$user['icq'] = bp_get_field_data('ICQ', $user['id']);



return $user;

}

add_filter('oci_get_user','oci_get_user_filter',10,1);

oci_bb_custom.php

How I transfer the username (just in case fullname hasn’t been edited from wordpress.org transfer – see above oci_get_userdata changes):

function oci_user_name($u){

$bp_user = oci_get_userdata($u);

if ($bp_user['fullname']) {

return $bp_user['fullname'];

} else {

return $bp_user['display_name'];

}

}

bbpress/active-theme/functions.php

What I added to make the custom functions go:

add_filter('get_user_profile_link', 'bppro_user_profile_link', 10, 2);

function bppro_user_profile_link($link, $uid) {

$user = bb_get_user($uid);

return(bb_get_option('wp_siteurl').'/members/' . $user->user_login);

}



function bppro_user_url() {

global $bp;

return($bp->loggedin_user->domain);

}



function bp_check_title($user) {

$user_id = get_post_author_id();

$user = bb_get_user($user_id);

$user_title = $user->bbGroups['custom_title'];



if ($user_title) {

return $user->bbGroups['custom_title'];

} else {

return;

}

}

add_filter('post_author_title', 'bp_check_title');

add_filter('post_author_title_link', 'bp_check_title');



function post_author_signature() {

$user_id = get_post_author_id();

$user = bb_get_user($user_id);

$user_signature = $user->bbGroups['signature'];



if ($user_signature) {

echo '<p class="post-signature">__________<br />' . $user->bbGroups['signature'] . '</p>';

}

}

bbpress/active-theme/post.php

Displays avatar from BuddyPress if it exists, else bbPress/Gravatar. Also displays hooked data from above functions.php:

<div class="threadauthor">

<dl>

<dt><a class="oci-link" href="<?php echo oci_user_link($bb_post->poster_id); ?>"><?php echo oci_user_name($bb_post->poster_id); ?></a></dt>

<dd><span class="oci-title"><?php $patl = post_author_title_link(); ?></span></dd>

<dd><?php if (oci_user_avatar($bb_post->poster_id)) { echo oci_user_avatar($bb_post->poster_id); } else { post_author_avatar_link(); }?></dd>

</dl>

</div>

<div class="threadpost">

<div class="poststuff">

<?php printf( __('Posted %s ago'), bb_get_post_time() ); ?> <a href="<?php post_anchor_link(); ?>">#</a> <?php bb_post_admin(); ?><?php bb_quote_link(); ?>

</div>

<div class="post">

<?php post_text(); ?>

</div>

<?php post_author_signature(); ?>

</div>

i would like to see member themes changeable on a per user basis so they can have their own skins as such, and also allow them to create their own, i think we need to collaborate as to what the user can change and what they cant, it would be nice to allow them selected css,

i would also like to see the modules changeable in a drag and drop kinda way and allow the user to choose which modules they do or do not want to use,

im interested in a love plugin which allows users to post a little love icon with thier wire posts but i could also see this being extended to comments, i have made a request for it before but got no replies so visit my profile for the topic,

last fm integration would be majorly cool i think, as it would rival many of the ‘apps’ out there on the larger social networks. building on this area of things you could also add twitter, etc. so i guess what im trying to say is focus on the users ‘lifestream’

when the user logs in i want them to go straight to the dashboard but the dashboard should have things like pending freind requests, groups to join, latest comments, profile stats (incuding who visited thier profile), options and such like, and an aggregation of thier freinds activity updates. when i visit my site i dont care what user a,b and c are up to im just interested in what my freinds x,y and z did recently,

so it would be very useful to have these widgets in the dashboard, that way everything is centralised for the user to do things,

another thing i thought would be useful was profile privacy options, allowing members to discriminate based on age eg, users over X cant visit profiles for members under 18 or whatever, maybe allow the user to choose who can contact them / add them etc,

also have a block ability and mark as spam,

the profile itself should have 3 modes of operation, public – everything is displayed, semi private, freinds can see full profile, non freinds can see selected modules / different modules only, and fully private – the user must be freinds to see anything other than name, age and city/ country.

i have used the profile sidebar plugin, but as of yet there are no freinds or group widgets for it, i would like to see these with a good amount of configurability options allowing for things like top freinds, other half etc

sorry for such a long post but i would like to see these features implemented as i think they would greatly enhance buddypress!!

thanks!!