[gregfielding]

@boone

Any way we can get check boxes by member’s names to add multiple members to a group at once?

Also, i wonder if there could be some integration here with a master-forum (like we’ve been discussing here https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/use-forums-without-groups)

maybe adding the “auto group join” features in to this.

Just some thoughts. I appreciate your plugins lots.

[r-a-y]

I kind of figured that, but it sounds like you’ve got a handle on it!

I guess my next question is would it be possible to add a subnav item to “My Favorites” for bbPress topics? This is just to avoid another nav item.

[rich! @ etiviti]

Would this hook into the existing BP “Favorites” system?

Not really – since BP Favorites is against the activity stream. At one point I thought about adding in the activity replies/comments on a forum component/type to the related topic but no clean way to pull the info out of the activity table – i’m still looking into it though, would be nice to pull it in

the only hook i can do is on bp_activity_add_user_favorite (and remove), then check the activity component/type for forum, then add it to the bbpress favorites system. – at least in theory.

but to avoid confusion of the two different ‘favorites’ – would rename the internal bbpress favorites to ‘watch topic’ or something like that.

[r-a-y]

Re: bbPress favorites. Sounds cool!

Would this hook into the existing BP “Favorites” system?

[rich! @ etiviti]

First, where is the “@ mentions” part in the BBCode that @3sixty is referring to?

Technically when Ajaxed Quote is enabled and someone quotes a post in the forums – the activity-update-filter will pick up the @username mention – thus if the user has the notifications turn on – they will get an email about it.

Second, should we be activating both BBCode and Shortcode sub-plugins?

No

Activate the “Forum Extras – BBCode” if you want to parse the bbcode into html prior to database update. (useful if you have external but also ok for internal). I’m a fan of this method as the process happens pre-save but when a user goes back to edit a post – they’ll see html

Or

Activate the “Forum Extras – Shortcode” and then Viper’s Shortcode BBCode wordpress plugin – this will retain the shortcode bbcode markup in the database. All this does does is enable the shortcode filter hook on the bbpress post content. (buddypress already hooks shortcode filter on activity updates) – Downside to this approach if you ever deactivate the shortcode – you’ll see the bbcode markup instead of filtering to the html equivalent but when a user edits a post – they see bbcode instead of html.

Hopefully not too confusing. I’ll update the documentation in the next release (working on getting bbpress favorites enabled)

[djsteve]

Did you go into the left sidebar of the dashboard and enable / setup the forums component (called ‘forums setup’ under the buddypress box)?

I also found that once that is done, you have to go into a group / then group admin , and enable forums posting there too..

Please mark this as resolved if it fixes your issue.

[gregfielding]

Rich,

2 more dumb questions…

First, where is the “@ mentions” part in the BBCode that @3sixty is referring to?

Second, should we be activating both BBCode and Shortcode sub-plugins?

My bbpress install is inside buddypress (so not external).

Thanks!

[r-a-y]

@gregfielding

The answer to your Q is yes – you can use a child theme for topic.php.

[gregfielding]

Thanks Rich!

Don’t want to be tinkering with this every time there is a buddypress upgrade…

[rich! @ etiviti]

I’ve never used a child theme yet, so i don’t know the answer to that one. i can take a look this evening

[gregfielding]

Dumb child theme question here for your code…

If I create the same groups/single/forum/ folder arrangement in my child theme, then copy topic.php there and make your changes, will that work?

[madmadmaxx]

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[rich! @ etiviti]

a simple example that will auto link a group slug mention in an activity update

this a proof == i’m lazy. so it only matches the group slug and NOT the true name (someone would have to build a function for that)

…and this uses a caret but anything can be used

function bp_activity_at_groupname_filter( $content ) {



//define your catch hook, i'm partial to the bang but lets eat a caret

$pattern = '/[\\^]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/';

preg_match_all( $pattern, $content, $groupnames );



/* Make sure there's only one instance of each groupname */

if ( !$groupnames = array_unique( $groupnames[1] ) )

return $content;



foreach( (array)$groupnames as $groupname ) {



//note this is the group slug as for a proof - need to build a group "name" lookup function

if ( !$group_id = BP_Groups_Group::group_exists( $groupname ) )

continue;



//too much work to get a link

$thisgroup = new BP_Groups_Group( $group_id );



$content = str_replace( "^$groupname", "<a href='" . bp_get_group_permalink( $thisgroup ) . "' rel='nofollow'>^$groupname</a>", $content );

}



return $content;

}

add_filter( 'bp_activity_new_update_content', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

add_filter( 'groups_activity_new_update_content', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

add_filter( 'group_forum_topic_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

add_filter( 'group_forum_post_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

add_filter( 'bp_activity_comment_content', 'bp_activity_at_groupname_filter' );

[foxly]

There is now a DEDICATED THREAD for BP Album+ Feature Requests and Discussion,

Join the discussion here!

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-album-new-features-requests-and-discussion

[foxly]

@_dorsvenabili – I’m glad you like our plugin.

There are actually two developers working on this plugin now, @francescolaffi, and myself @foxly; @francescolaffi is busy writing his exams right now, so I’m handling all the user support for the next few days.

BP Album is community-developed software! If you find it useful, please consider contributing code, translations, and ideas to the project. Helping answer new user’s questions on the forums is also helpful, because it means we have more time to work on writing code.

@hnla – Deciding how to dimension thumbnails, based on images with widely varying aspect ratios, and then present them in a grid, has been a problem that has dogged graphic designers since the earliest days of the Internet.

The two most popular way to do this are “Facebook Style”

http://foxly.ca/facebook-style.jpg

and “Flickr Style”

http://foxly.ca/flickr-style.jpg

I’m actually writing code for *both* options *right now*, and after some back and forth with @francescolaffi we’ll probably get it set up as an option in the administrator backend.

We could probably add the ability for users to manually crop the thumbnail for each picture in their gallery using the avatar cropping tool, and I will look at the feasibility of doing this. Experience has shown that most users do *not* want to do this for every picture they upload …and that’s why neither Facebook nor Flickr include this functionality.

^F^

[rspowers]

just an fyi for those wishing to do this, when a user goes to to post a topic, if they havent joined a group yet they are prompted to join or create one. So to get rid of this message, go into BP folder, forums folder, index.php file. in that file, just delete the part of the text that asks the user to create a group.

[Boone Gorges]

Hi Kunal17. When I upgraded my site from BP 1.0.x to BP 1.1.x, I had to go through the process of migrating from an external bbPress install to the internal one. Here’s the blog post I wrote on the subject: http://teleogistic.net/2009/12/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/

As far as advantages/disadvantages, to the best of my knowledge BP uses the most recent release of bbPress for its internal forum workings, and will continue to do so. Thus, as long as you keep your external bbPress installation up to date, it is unlikely that they will stop working together (granted that you have done the work to make them work together in the first place). When you move to the internal forums, you lose some of the extensibility of the external bbPress, as many of the plugins have not been ported to (or replicated for) BuddyPress yet. But not having to worry about the consistent look, shared userbase, etc was very much worth it for me.

[fashionsblogs]

Hello, I just upgraded my Buddypress. Now I am having problems creating groups and cannot create forums. When I delete the group to start over, it still says I have groups, but does not list them in the groups directory. My problem creating groups happens at this link http://fashionsblogs.com/groups/create/step/group-avatar/ when you click next is when an error occurs

[Jeff Sayre]

Here’s an old thread with an initial stab at your question:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/dos-and-donts-of-server-setups

[Jeff Sayre]

I’ve responded on your other thread:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/internal-server-error-after-activating-bp?replies=3#post-42971

[Jeff Sayre]

First of all, an Error 500 (internal server error) message usually means something is not working properly with one of the software components on you server. It is not directly a WordPress or BuddyPress issue.

I’m guessing it’s an issue with your PHP install. Forcing the server to run PHP 5 instead of 4 may do the trick–assuming your site is being served under PHP 4. This is just an initial guess. See these threads for more detail:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/error-500-internal-server-error-an-internal-server-error-has-occured-please#post-23821

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/500-error-after-uploading-buddypress-102#post-18421

However, there could be something else causing the problem. What you need to do is distill your environment down to the lowest common denominator. Make sure WordPress is working fine by itself before installing BuddyPress. To do that, you deactivate all other plugins and test WP by itself. If it is working without issue, then you reinstall BP and activate. You should not have any other plugins besides BP activated and you should be using the default theme that comes with BP when testing.

By the way, I suggest doing a clean install of BuddyPress. This means making sure the entire BP directory is removed and then starting over with a clean install of BP. Of course, as always, backup any data before you do any upgrades or reinstalls.

If you do not have any issues with WP running only the BP plugin using the default BP theme, then you know it has something to do with a custom theme, one of your other plugins, or some combination of the two.

You then start going back up the ladder one step at a time. Switch the default BP theme to your custom theme. Does the problem return? It not, then is has to do with your plugins. Activate one plugin at a time until the issue returns.

But, with an Error 500, I’m guessing it is something outside of WP and BP causing the issue. Show the links above to your hosting firm. They are the only ones that can help you.

Also, as another resource, search the WordPress forums to see if anyone there has reported a similar issue.

[lukeroge]

Hmm..

The BuddyPress Group forum system is actually powered by bbpress so it should be able to handle anything bbpress can. It is up to you whether you want to use the group forums system or work on integrating a standalone bbpress install into wordpress.

[modemlooper]

Go into the bp-default folder inside the bp-themes folder where buddypress plugin is and cut and paste the navigation code from header.php into where you themes navigation is.

or you could just create empty pages that link to the slugs

/activity

/forums

/groups

[sawyerh]

You want to edit forums/forums-loop.php

Find the <tr> under

<?php while ( bp_forum_topics() ) : bp_the_forum_topic(); ?>

and add

<tr class="<?php bp_the_topic_css_class() ?><?php if(bp_get_the_topic_poster_id() == bp_loggedin_user_id()){echo '-topic-author topic-author';} ?>">

[djsteve]

Resolved after reading this thread: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/new-install-of-bp-press-cant-post-any-topics-in-forum

I decided to login as a group admin, click on the admin for the group, and checked the box to enable forum posting. Now I have a publicly viewable forum post – so it seems to work… I guess this is resolved.

Although I must suggest adding a note somewhere around the forums posting area that posting a message to a forum that does not have it enabled will do no good… as I and many others are left confused about why we make a forum post and it just disappears.. I guess a note saying that that feature needs to be enabled by the group admin would be nice.

Or perhaps we should be able to enable general forums for users without groups membership being needed, maybe?