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Yes, what is this “proprietary component”? Or is that information proprietary? LOL. I assume it centres around collaboration and / or document management perhaps?

Haha!

Yes, can I sound anymore stuck up than throwing around the term proprietary on an Open Source software forum.

To answer your third question first, yes.

As to your first two questions, I can only give you the most nebulous of details at this time. The component I’m working on is very specific to the site. It will be the primary collaboration and project management engine. So, it will not be something I will make available to the community. Besides, with the exception of using this component to become a direct competitor, it will not have any value to anyone else.

@Boone – that looks like a logical and necessary change

@Marisooms – I have some questions and thoughts regarding the Group Blog concept. PLease understand this critique is in the context of my particular use case, although I believe it to be a very common one.

The Group Bog plugin/tool looks to be quite powerful. In our case, our users are not looking for all that power. We just want to be able to write blog posts as “part of” a group. When you install and run Group Blogs (bp-gb for short), an entirely new blog is created with a url not subordinate to the group. Ex we have a group called USMA-1987 for the class of ’87 on my dev site (mjpratt.com if you care to see the issues). bp-gb created a blog at mjpratt.com/usma1987 instead of mjpratt.com/groups/usma-1987/blog or something like that. When you are viewing blog posts, you are looking at the standard individual blog and widget structure, NOT another section of the Group -> now this may be a bug/error as I once saw that but for the last 2 group blogs I created, there are no Group menus or sections for the group blog showing up. weird.

Bottom line is, the user should never leave the group menu/system environment when dealing with the group blog. In our case, group admins are more like moderators and should not have to do things like configure Akismet, widgets, etc. So I will have to go in and do that for every group. We’re just looking for a little extra group functionality as opposed to an entire group blog ecosystem.

I still think this is the best effort down this path and i am determined to figure a solution out so thanks for the work.

If anyone can hazard a guess why this group -> http://mjpratt.com/groups/usma-1987/ HAS a group blog, created by the plugin at -> http://mjpratt.com/usma1987/ but (as you can see) there are o references to it on the group home page, I would very much appreciate the insight. Thanks

Hi Marius,

2 questions, please:

– is the “Groups-Blogs plugin” compatible with the “to be released” version of BP 1.2 ?

– do you have a website at which I can have a look at how “Group-Blogs” is working ?

Many thanks,

Please would you answers these questions so we can see if we can spot something? Thanks.

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/when-asking-for-support

Thanks for the help.

I have to admit that at first I was a little annoyed with the “people really shouldn’t be asking these questions, either you know how to make themes or you dont” comment until I looked into firebug.

I have heard about it but never checked it out until now. My loss and I now realize how much time I have lost over the years without it.

Thank you for pointing me in the direction of what looks like will be my new favorite firefox extension.

Check line 782, and people really shouldn’t be asking these questions, either you know how to make themes or you dont. We can’t help everyone that can’t find a css line..

Use firebug to find certain styles people..

I’ve tried to determine what Kaltura plugin can do for me and I can’t at this point.

I have some videos which are user-submitted and I don’t have the storage/bandwith to support this long term unless I have some expiration on videos. I have some videos that are on Youtube which will drive some traffic back to the site.

I’m trying to answer two questions:

1. Can Kaltura plugin handle self-storage, Kaltura storage and serving Youtube/Vimeo through the same player

2. What is the pricing beyond 10GB free account

Great questions, Porscheheritage. I would love to know how to do both those things — bigger avatars in sitewide activity, and resized feed images — too. Did you manage to figure either out?

I’m working on some sort of @username notation that will email notify that user. That should fix the concern.

I think having others post on your profile stream is a bad idea. I dislike the way Facebook does that. If I go to your profile I want to see your activity, not others asking you questions and junking it up. I don’t mind seeing comments in reply to threads you have started though.

At the risk of being too negative, some of your statements don’t make sense to me and some seem purposefully (or naively) vague. If you’ve been at WP and BP for 3months now, then logic would dictate that you should be familiar enough with the 2 that you’d be able to answer your questions about their capabilities.

If you’re convinced you are onto some new idea of what people want in a new collection of networks, then you will get much better feedback if you added some detail/clarity in your request. So far, imho, the reason you are getting these nebulous opinions is because your request sounds more like “I wanna build this new car that no one has built, any ideas?”

WP/BP are ready for you to launch your project now. Do some styling and you’re off and running. See if that demand is really out there. Good luck.

@Andy,

Job well done on the activity /wire stream, it removes clutter and useful. Please don’t forget that request trac regarding questions on wire for users to answer!

Silly questions…

• Are you 100% there’s no deep integration?
• Maybe put some echo’s in the original bbPress files and see how and when they’re getting included?
• Is there a widget or plugin that’s preloading bbPress before BuddyPress?
• Do you have the old integration plugins disabled?
• Can you confirm in wp_sitemeta that “bb-config-location” is pointing to the new bb-config.php and not the old one?

Just a few things to look at and consider…

Nope, sounds like a good plan.

IME, using wp-super-cache, it creates flat html files on the server. if those are deleted, they get regenerated again. When you remove cache files, performance takes an initial hit until the cache is built up again.

But even outside that – the number of posts & users make it a big job.

You shoudl back it all up, yes. But you don’t necessarily need to ftp it down to your computer. I normally make a copy of the folder right on the server.

If you are double-sure you have cache files, you can clean them out. What are you using the cache? Because wp-super-cache has a cleanout button back there on the admin screen.

It’s not unusually large, no, dpeending on how may users and/or visitors you have. Lots of users, lots of hits, means lots of cache files & loads of upload files if they like to post pics to their blogs like you’re Flickr. (Hi mom!)

Yes, you’ll want to backup the db as well. Optimize those tables, and if you’re really feeling frisky, clean out the spam.

Remember that with the BP upgrade, the theme changes location. The MU part should be smoother.

Pick a time when your site traffic is low, like the weekend.

If you’d like to associate a blog with a group, you could use Marius Ooms’ BP Groupblog plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-groupblog/

Most likely the group filter will pick up the blog as a group.

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There’s also Andy’s External Feeds plugin:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/external-group-blogs/

Which you can use to grab an RSS feed and it will populate the group activity and site-wide activity streams.

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About the other questions, I don’t have time to delve into it!

Maybe a mod or someone else can help you.

IMO this is a theme design decision; if you want a graphic logo on your site, then that’s a custom theme. The bundled theme is just a starting point, even if you only re-do the colours. I’m even going to go so far to say if you want a graphic rather than a text header, you are very likely to want to change some other aspect of the site design at some point; so you’d be creating a child theme for that anyway. I can’t see people *only* wanting to change the site title to a graphic being a very common situation.

In previous versions, we used to get a lot of questions about which file to replace for the graphic, and ‘what font was used/can I have the PSD file for it’, and all the issues that both of these entail.

Hi Philipp

Don’t worry, your English is very good.

To answer your question, I think you need to think about what content there will be on your site.

Will the volunteer placements remain the same each half-year? i.e. a school and (for example) at a charity.

If this is the case, you probably want to keep the structure of the site very similar so people can read and learn from what previous volunteers have experienced. You could automatically ‘tag’ data in each half-year period; this would let you find and sort the data appropriately.

If volunteer placements can be anywhere and different in each half-year period, then you might want to use Groups as a form of category – i.e. rather than having groups for Example School 1 and Example School 2, use just one group – ‘School’. Again, you could let users tag data with their specific placements.

EDIT: I’ve also re-titled this thread to make it a bit clearer as to the type of questions you are asking

@stwc

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