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Did you manage to get it hiding certain fields? I need to ask people for sensitive data that I don’t want shown on the public profile. Would this suffice and where in the code do I need to flip it?

This is exactly what I need….is there a plugin?

@Petronic, liaise with Andy or Jeff Sayre or make a privacy plugin ?

I am very interested in privacy component. How is it going so far? Do you have some estimation when will it be available to test or use?

What I have found as a must regarding privacy (until now) is:

– allowing user to set what details from profile s/he wants to be public, available just to friends or private

– settings on activity streams which will allow user to select what type of activities s/he wants to be displayed in sitewide activity, be available to friends or be totally private. This settings could be similar to Notification settings (for email notifications).

I intended to write this on my own, but found out that it can’t be done easily without changing activity core files (and that is never a good option) and then I discovered that you are working on privacy component. So, if you see a way how I can help in development process, please let me know.

Hey Erich,

i know a developer who is able to achieve this. They wrote me a private message on the german buddypress forum as a reply to my post:

http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/buddypress/48801-buddypress-international-benutzerdatenbank-teilen.html

Maybe we could work somehow together to get something suitable for both of us. If you are interested in the developer write me a PM and i sent you the details (you can write in german if you want).

Is there anyway I can hide the “group creation” option from the users? Basically, only admin can create the “groups”.

Removing post cuz it was WRONG!! lol – (sorry about that)

Any clue on a fix for the escapes? I’m having the issue in group topic titles. Groups look fine but when you look at the topic in bbPress, there are escapes in the title.

Posting via bbPress it works fine. Posting via groups, the titles get escapes.

Hoping the fix for this can be applied to my issue as well. (using BP1, bbPress alpha6, wpmu 2.7.1)

Corourke, which version of BP are you using?

I’m still seeing this issue as well as it occurring in profile form fields.

Kit-

I’m sorry you’re having troubles with your theme folders. To be clear, I want to make sure that you realize that you were not, as you state:

advised to change my “bphome” name to preserve it in case of future BP upgrades.

I assume you’re talking about the discussion we had in this thread you asked:

I assume renaming the theme is simply changing the name of its folder?

I responded:

That is correct. Make a copy of the bpmember theme, rename your copy, make whatever changes you want to it, and you have–in effect–a custom theme! Just make sure you keep your new theme in the /wp-content/bp-themes/ directory.

Also, in this thread where I advised you to:

Follow the same procedure as before. Make a backup of the standard bphome theme, rename it to something new…

This means, rename your backup to something new, not change the name of the original theme folder.

Furthermore, as per a private conversation you initiated with me on May 6 via the members messaging system, I state that:

Make sure that you make a copy of both bphome theme and bpmember theme. Your customizations should be done in copies, not the original. That way, if you have issues with your custom themes (and we all do when working on customization), you can switch back to the standard BP themes to see how things should work.

And, as we were talking about CSS issues in that private message and you stated that you had WordPress theming experience, I assumed you knew that the primary style file in BuddyPress, style.css, would need to reflect your new theme’s name.

If you were confused by my advice, I do apologize. But, if you had done what I advised, you would have made a copy of the original theme and altered the copy. As I stated in my private message response to you, do not alter the original theme files.

Well, when I did this for bpgroups I just piggybacked onto the groups component. bpgroups records new topic and post activity that is directly created in bbpress. Since bp group forums was already recording the activities, I just had to simulate the same thing.

The function bp_activity_record() in bp-activity.php does the grunt work. It takes about a zillion parameters. Here’s how I did it:

$activity = array(

'item_id' => (int)$group_id,

'component_name' => 'groups',

'component_action' => 'new_forum_post',

'is_private' => 0,

'secondary_item_id' => (int)$post['post_id'],

'user_id' => (int)$post['poster_id'] );



// create a group obj that the rest of bp can use, play nice

$group_obj = new BP_Groups_Group($group_id);

groups_record_activity($activity);

groups_record_activity() in bp-groups.php takes an array param and if you look in there it eventually calls bp_activity_record()

You’ll have to figure out how to translate all the params that takes into the table colums and eventually into what you see displayed. There aren’t any docs for the activity streams as far as I know.

That sounds good, thanks.

Kogigr-

This thread has not seen activity for more than 4 months. It is doubtful you’ll get a response.

Here’s my guess at what he meant to say. He most likely made a typo. He probably meant to type “geek”. But, if you need to know, I suggest private messaging him.

I’m closing this thread as it is not relevant anymore.

1.) yes, the group admin can add other admin/moderator and ban users

2.) they need to join your group, then under group memebrs you can add them as an admin/moderator

3.) this is possible yes, I accomplished this by adding <?PHP if is admin ?> into the bp-core to hide the create group button from non-admins (your community will want the ability to add groups though)

4.) you can create “private groups” that are visible to everyone, but you can only join if you’re accepted…

why don’t you create a couple different types of groups, then you’ll see all the features/abilities they have

Philip-

We are working on a proper privacy component for BuddyPress that will allow for a given member to decide how much of their personal data they want to expose to the world. This not only includes their profile data, but also a member’s data contained in the other BuddyPress components.

As far as group-specific privacy control, that is also an area we are discussing.

@DJPaul any ETA on how long after v1 it might be?

Also is there any way to just limit members viewing privileges solely to the groups to which they are subscribed. So for instance if I, as a new member, sign up on a blog I could be automatically relegated to a specific private group. From there I would only be able to see and friend others in my own group?

I haven’t dug around in the code too much to see about this but intend to. Has anybody done this that you know about?

I took am looking to achieve this same thing.

Hi Enlightenmental1,

The functionalities/features of the Photo Album plugin so far are:-

* Create unlimited number of albums

* Inserted unlimited number of photos into each album

* Album Cover Selector

* User comments per album and per photo

* Owner of the album/photo can moderate all comments

* Users can alter their own comments in the album/photo

* Automatic image resizing and optimisation

* Permalinks to albums and photos

My plan (which can change) is as follows (in no particular order):-

* Twitter Integration

* JavaScript Thumbnail Cropping

* Create an AJAX driven interface – but only when the main extras of the plugin are complete (easier this way and for SEO reasons)

* Website Administrator Settings – number of albums, photos users can have, and/or user upload limits.

* Handle other media like videos.

I generally don\\\’t like to release a unfinished product until it\\\’s stable enough in my own opinion, otherwise it\\\’s too hard to administrate feedback and ideas when I know some little parts are broken here and there.

However, if anyone would like to get a glance at the plugin first, drop me an email though my website (http://www.dallasjclark.com/contact.php) or directly here on BP.

In the future:

I will be happy for other developers to make improvements or the general public to submit ideas, however every line of code will be moderated and thoroughly checked. The licence of the plugin will be GPL sometime soon.

Donations:

I have in the past tried to do things for free, however when you have a home loan to pay and a family to look after, doing work for free isn\\\’t as easy. Especially when I have an endless number of projects lined up that will pay me.

The plugin I\\\’ve created so far, already has a sponsor but only a small one. I\\\’m working on this plugin 3 hours a week, and both the sponsor and I would like to see more. I\\\’m not asking anyone to fork out hundreds of $\\\’s (would be nice and I would only ever be so kind) but it would be great to get a few dollars here and there.

For anyone\\\’s interest for my credibility, these are some of the projects I\\\’ve worked on and currently working on.

Free Projects (see I did do some free work )

* Particls – http://www.particls.com

* Peepel – http://www.peepel.com (25% of my development time was paid for)

Paid Projects

* WOMF – http://www.womf.com – In Particular v3 (http://cairns.womf.com)

* Fitnice – Gym / Club Membership Management and Billing Software – converting to Adobe AIR and iPhone shortly.

There are more projects but some of them are private and cannot be discussed.

Any further queries, let me know.