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Here’s my most desired plugin idea at the moment. It is basically a copy of something already done to a degree on facebook.

Something like a relationships indicator. Say for example I have a friend on my Buddypress install but this friend also just so happens to be my girlfriend. It would be nice if I could set that relationship up.

What I’m thinking is that the plugin could come with some default relationships E.G.: mother, father, son, daughter, cousin, aunt, uncle, wife, husband, co-worker and so on…but also the ability to add a custom relationship. E.G. if I could list a friend as a audio co-host. Friend would be the default level so that a user wouldn’t have to go through and define the relationship between themselves and every single one of their friends.

The ability to notify a user that a definition had been assigned to our relationship so that they could confirm would also be nice. E.G. I identify userX as my girlfriend and she gets an email notice of that and has to confirm the relationship at which point is reflected in both of our profiles or friends areas.

Displaying this information could be done in a number of different ways and regulating who can see these relationships E.G. everyone, friends only, specific individual, private. It could be a separate section under either friends or profile. It would be nice though if say all of my siblings were listed along side each other, all my cousins were grouped together and so on.

I say kudos to the developers of both plugins. And, to each according to online community’s requirements and site developer’s preferences as well.

@gregfielding –

I prefer BP Gallery plugin even in its RC1 version and I am using it in private membership site. As for people “shunning” a free outstanding plugin, I really doubt it. Right now, users can upload to group and individual albums and I’m waiting for the BP Gallery shortcode for user’s and group blogs, plus ability to upload albums in blog posts to appear in BP activity stream and sitewide gallery directory.

@foxly –

Get off your high horse. I find it weird that you would be dissing the BP Gallery plugin which has not been released as stable yet and which the developer has mentioned will be released as free after it’s been tested by paid members and cleaned up further by Brajesh. You are insulting both Brajesh and those who chose to support Brajesh in the development of BP Gallery just for your own self-serving promotion.

What’s weirder is that you’re getting all huffed up about the delay of BP Gallery releases when I among others who shelled out at least $30 to aid in development do understand the causes for the delays and are not vitriolic like you have been in this forum.

If you’re raising hell about BP Gallery to generate attention because you’re getting involved in BP Album and want to promote it, then you’re going about it the long way. As it is, shooting from the mouth in this forum just gives an impression of a totally unprofessional developer. Free speech and all that, your comments above leave something to be desired as you don’t even have the facts correct as Bowe mentioned above.

As for Brajesh releasing it free to the community after stable version is out – I’m all for it.

Do not presume to ascribe to all members what your negative preferences would have been.

@Brajesh – way to go man.

@Modemlooper – you’re on WP 2.9.2 and not WPMU 2.9.2 right? You have GD library enabled?

Thank you pcwriter, it’ss really helpful

I think you probably have solved my entire problem. I have to read carefully that tutorial, and if i figure out how to do all i think i can be back and solve the problem of @nipponmonkey.

It Should take me up 3-4 hours, but i promise i’ll be back. I let here some spoilers:

-If you can Widgetize a page, you can put a login form in a page.

-If you can put a loging form in a page, without adding it to navigation, you can redirect all not-logged-user to that page, soy they MUST fill the login form before seeing anything.

Regards form Spain

Thank you pcwriter, it’ss really helpful

I think you probably have solved my entire problem. I have to read carefully that tutorial, and if i figure out how to do all i think i can be back and solve the problem of @nipponmonkey.

It Should take me up 3-4 hours, but i promise i’ll be back. I let here some spoilers:

-If you can Widgetize a page, you can put a login form in a page.

-If you can put a loging form in a page, without adding it to navigation, you can redirect all not-logged-user to that page, soy they MUST fill the login form before seeing anything.

Regards form Spain

@hachimaki

This post from Sarah Gooding should help get you started with widgets:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

This is realy important, it doesn’t make any sense how it’s buddypress configured if all is public.

I have been searching also how to make that as we see in the Spanish Social Network “Tuenti” (Tuenti.com)

I also have been searching how to configure a homepage with different widgets once you’re logged (i use Unplugged Theme by Diesel Laws)

More help will be much more appreciated.

Doa search on here there have been many suggestions.

I totally agree with foxly. As I pronounced in another thread –

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bp-12-bppicture-album-plugin#post-36038

I understand developers want/ need their infrastructure and efforts paid. But it’s also in opposition to the open source idea founded with BP. A “small” webmaster like me, caring exclusively for private websites not about earning any monetary benefits, has to think twice about if he can afford a “premium membership”. Furthermore, which provider should be chosen? buddydev.com? premium.wpmudev.org? etc.

Paid or “membership based” plugins are fine, but NOT for a core component of BuddyPress.

Core components are: Activity Streams, Blogs, Forums, Friends, Groups, Private Messaging, Profiles, and… Photos.

These components are the key elements of *any* social networking site and have to be *tightly* integrated with the core to deliver a quality user experience. That means that the component doesn’t just “plug in” to Buddypress… it’s part of BuddyPress and changes are made to the BuddyPress core if necessary to make it work better with the plugin.

You *cannot* have a core component based on a commercial plugin. In has to be free as in freedom *and* free as in beer, *and* open source. And you definitely can’t have development run by a “one man band” …because time and time again the developer goes away, an update breaks the plugin, and we’re all screwed.

This is not from me. This is from Automattic.

What I’m trying to get going between myself, @francescolaffi, and hopefully a few other contributors (once we’ve got a solid framework implemented) is a canonical photo plugin that will eventually be merged into BuddyPress. It will have to be dependable, extendable, and secure, and give BuddyPress users the functionality they want. In a nutshell: Facebook Photos.

If others want to *extend* the canonical plugin, it will have a wide range of hooks and be exceptionally well documented -making their job much easier. So if somebody wants to make a commercial add-on that gives it image editing capabilities, automatic face recognition, streaming video, or something beyond what the average user needs, then they can do that, find customers, and be paid for their efforts.

I’m not trying to build a plugin that does everything. I want to build a high quality gallery plugin that satisfies 95% of the users out there and becomes the standard.

^F^

Bug alert!

Tweetstream conflicts with Forum (bbpress). Specifically, users cannot edit their forum posts/comments (or at least comments) when tweetstream is active.

Peter, I set up a vanilla WPMU/BP setup that duplicates the error; contact me for private link.

thank you! @peteranselmo

I am looking forward to it

re group access levels – generally it could do too,

is there a way to block access to groups/forums – until users log in?

as I understand. this setting is not about public/private group though

maybe i am wrong. i do not know, i am quite new to BP

theres already a plugin who does that, ,you can use the plugin or check the source and adapt to your needs.

Was this ever solved? I am trying to accomplish the same thing – make some profile fields private. Thanks!

I don’t know if you’ve found a treatment, for this, but I’d suggest a plugin named HashCash from Donncha:

http://wpmu.org/wp-hashcash-for-wpmu/

only problem with removing the link:

<?php echo bp_get_root_domain() . '/' . BP_GROUPS_SLUG . '/create/' ?> someone could still access the url directly to start the process.

I went ahead and created a plugin (waiting on repo request on wordpress.org) to disable the steps and show a ‘new groups creation is closed’ message. Also added in a midlevel-cap to allow another set of users the ability to create private/hidden + w/forums. I may expand this to restrict other steps in the group creation process (as other plugins using the group extension api may add in their own step)

Basically the plugin removes the $bp->groups->group_creation_steps – adds in a custom position 0 step to display a closed page.

actually you can create a login page in 1.2.1 and have your site private….. once they pass credentials, they will be allowed inside.

That code snippet probably applied to an older version of BP.

Cool! Glad it worked for you, Jfcarter.

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