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Hi, I need to have a few more profile-fields where users can upload thumbnails. Can this be done via bp-custom? I try to avoid editing core or theme. ex: fieldname1 thumb1, uploads to location /wp-content/userthumbs/username1.png. etc
I guess I could create those as text-fields (from bp-admin) but I’m not sure how I can hook and change it to submit.
Obviously, everyone has different needs. My goal is to build a large real estate community. My members want to blog to promote themselves and be easily found by visitors to the community. Over the last few months, I’ve received a lot of input and feedback from my real-world users.
Here are the 4 areas where, IMO, Buddypress is so-far lacking practical usability:
1. Search. It’s not intuitive to users to have to search for different things in different places. Ideally, I’d like to see a lone sitewide search – members, blog posts, sub-blog posts, comments, galleries, activities, forums, groups, etc. – on the front page. Then, on the results page, offer a filter.
2. Search by Profile Filters on Member’s Directory Page. One of the most enticing reasons to join a community like mine is the possibility you might get found. As it stands, exploring the membership to meet new people is virtually impossible.
Standardized address fields are a must, along with the option to add more filters (profession, specialty, hobby, etc). It should be simple for a visitor to my community to find a real estate agent in their city, but it is virtually impossible.
If it were easy and intuitive for them to be found, then a lot more people would want to sign up for my site. This is by far the most pressing issue for me and the one I get the most complaints about.
3. The current forum display is confusing and not intuitive, if for no other reason than it’s not what people are used to. Common sense would suggest 2 classes of forums: smaller, specific discussions tied to specific groups, and huge, general discussions meant for every member AND visitor.
This has been a heated topic here, without any middle-ground found as of yet. I practical solution might be to enable select forums to be “featured”, above the others in the directory. Then, to remove group-confusion, maybe there is a way to simply make those groups invisible, deleting them from profile pages and the group directory.
Also…and I hear this is being fixed…there needs to be a refined search and refined tags within sub-forums.
4. More functions to enable viral promotion (and more features to encourage it) – where members promote for us. @boone ‘s Invite Friends from Profile http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/invite-friends-from-profile is a big step in the right direction, as if the Badge Maker that’s in the works http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/badge-maker#post-43163
People regularly invite others to check out their facebook pages or follow them on twitter. We don’t yet have a user-friendly solution to encourage people to “follow” our members.
One suggestion I’ve heard from my membership is to allow Profile Pages to be more customizable. Maybe we need custom headers and backgrounds. Maybe we need to be able to add custom features, like on facebook pages. Either way, the more unique and special profile pages can be, the more excited members will be to show them off to their friends and colleagues. And that’s how we grow.
We all have different needs, but these concerns are probably fairly universal. I just thought you guys would appreciate this feedback…not just from me…but from my members.
Topic: Admin to edit users profiles
I have buddypress setup with extra registration fields where new members can enter additional fields so it shows in their profiles.
Is there a plugin for admin that will allow admin to edit members/users profiles or make notes about the users?
Thanks
For Cureuphoria (http://cureuphoria.com) I disabled the default admin bar and decided to design a custom one that would fit the design better.
define('BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR', true);When you’re not logged in, the bar displays the login fields, and a link to create an account if you don’t have one.
When you are logged in, the bar displays the member avatar, and links such as: My profile – My messages – My friends – My groups – Settings – Logout.
Now, I’d like to have the notifications system in that bar, like for the default bar I desabled.
First question is: can I do that?
Second question is: if I can, how?
Here’s my code:
<div id="curemates-bar">
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : //logged in ?>
<?php do_action( 'bp_before_sidebar_me' ) ?>
<a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>"><?php bp_loggedin_user_avatar( 'type=thumb&width=30&height=30' ) ?></a>
<ul id="user-menu">
<li><a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/profile/edit/">My profile</a></li>
<li>| <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/messages/">My messages</a></li>
<li>| <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/groups/">My groups</a></li>
<li>| <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/friends/">My friends</a></li>
<li>| <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/photos/">My photos</a></li>
<li>| <a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain() ?>/settings/">Settings</a></li>
<li>| <a id="logout" href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_option('home') ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Log Out', 'buddypress' ) ?></a></li>
</ul>
<?php do_action( 'bp_sidebar_me' ) ?>
<?php do_action( 'bp_after_sidebar_me' ) ?>
<?php if ( function_exists( 'bp_message_get_notices' ) ) : ?>
<?php bp_message_get_notices(); /* Site wide notices to all users */ ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php else : //not logged in ?>
...stuff...
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- end "curemates-bar" -->Now, I now that the code I am looking for is in the “bp-core-adminbar.php” file, and I’ve made a few attempts to extract what needed to re-create the notifications menu, but obviously without success.
Can anybody help me out with this?
Thanks.
It becomes just string manipulation. Create a new function (my_funky_function) and do something like this:
function my_funky_function() {
echo str_replace( "username","", bp_get_the_profile_group_field_ids() );
}Then replace the bp_the_profile_group_field_ids() call in edit.php (in your child theme of course) with my_funky_function().
I think that will work but it’s not tested.
Edit:
Oh, sorry, I’m sort of wrong. This is what I get in my edit.php form in the HTML:
<input type="hidden" name="field_ids" id="field_ids" value="1,3" />Field_id 1 is the Username for me. You just need to filter that out so the str_replace call should be “1,” instead of “username”.
Oh, nope, it probably means that the code is actually checking that the field ‘username’ should be getting updated. I was sort of wondering if that would happen.
Hi,
I’m relatively new to WP and BP development, using WP 2.9.2 and Buddypress 1.2.2.1, and am wondering if and how it would be possible to filter the members list alphabetically by default.
Furthermore, would it be possible to actually remove the ‘Order By:’ dropdown altogether?
Also, the Search box returns results from each of my text profile fields when ordering by Newest Registered, but only is returning results from First Name and Last Name fields when ordering Alphabetically. Does anyone have any idea why this would this be the case?
Thanks in advance.
