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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.

@Jimcipriani

Okay, I read your request differently.

<>I need 2 groups of Groups: Practice Groups and Offices</>

By this, do you mean that your client has employees that fall into what they term practice groups? Such as, lawyers or doctors who are “in practice”. If so, then how many practice groups and how many offices do they have?

The best way to do this would be to disallow the creation of groups by anyone except the site admin or a few, select group admins–for lack of a better term. Then the group admins would create all the necessary Practice Groups and Offices groups, making them public or private as needed.

Since it seems that you are simply dealing with nomenclature, it is overkill to create a new component with the exact same functionality but with a different slug name.

@Stefk, try Burtadsit’s solution.

Private members and groups sections should be a core feature of Buddypress imho.

Hi Guys…the profile are private but cant seem to get the groups to become private too? Any suggestions?

Just to add my 2 cents,

I’m using Eclipse as my IDE, and have had great luck with phpeclipse and subclipse. Because eclipse is java based it is cross platform, for the ide and plugins. I have used this setup on both a Ubuntu system and my Current Mac.

I have 3 projects currently “checkout out” the Buddypress trunk, the WPMU trunk, and my private svn for personal development. This allows me to look at source code for everything. I only have submission permissions on my private svn, which is probably good.

On my server I can also use the command line and checkout the files and copy them into the required directories.

Hopefully this inspires someone,

Brad

Let me try and answer this diplomatically because this seems like spam without being spam to me…

BuddyPress isn’t Facebook, and it really doesn’t have any intentions of trying to imitate it. That’s up to an audience of GPL contributors to try and mold and shape it into that, if they so choose.

BuddyPress also has a test development site already, to flex its muscles and allow people to use it as they like. testbp.org.

There are unlimited domains available, with unlimited hosting and bandwidth options. None of what you’re offering really has anything to do with BuddyPress other than using it for potential profit. Contributing a domain that specializes in spreading bad news isn’t any part of Automattic’s roadmap that I’ve seen, so don’t count on getting any hosting.

If what you’re doing is offering a business opportunity to specific individuals, you should contact them privately and see if they’re interested.

(I’m locking this for now. If any other staff feels like re-opening it for discussion, go for it. My gut tells me this isn’t what the forums here are for.)

bp and wpmu use the same user table. A bp ‘account’ is a wp ‘account’. You can use any theme you like on your blog. All blog posts and their comments show up in activity from any blog that hasn’t been set to ‘private’.

I also noticed a similar behavior here in this very form where I’m typing (forums, edit topic).

If I post a topic, then edit it, more slashes are added each time I edit. For example, if I edit the same post 3 or 4 times, I’ll end up with \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\it's instead of just it's.

I was able to duplicate this behavior, but don\’t have a fix in mind for it. This is with the latest trunk (revision 1302):

To repeat, log in as a user and send a message to another user with this subject line: Just wondering how you\'re doing

When that first message saved to the database, the field value is this: Just wondering how you\'re doing

So far, so good.

Now log out and log in as a different user (the recipient), and go to the messages area. Click the subject to open the message, and type a reply.

Now look in the database (in the \”wp_bp_messages_messages\” table) and you\’ll see that the subject field for the reply is: Re: Just wondering how you\\\'re doing

Now repeat this four or five times, and you\’ll see that each time the message gets saved extra slashes are added:

Re: Just wondering how you\\\\\\\'re doing

Re: Just wondering how you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'re doing

Re: Just wondering how you\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'re doing

The issue, as far as I can tell, is that when the subject is saved, the escape characters (slashes) from the previous subject line are themselves escaped.

Ok, let me put it another way. It’s not an issue on my install which is the latest trunk.

benny this has nothing to do with bp itself. It’s a theme thing that is happening here only.