BuddyPress.org

make sure you submit it to http://www.freebuddypressthemes.com

we need more themes!

@brandtd, back from the dead… Looks good and I like the colors a lot.

Something I noticed is that the page links in your main navigation start with “www.” when it doesn’t need it. If you’re using RC1 then that is hard coded and you can just omit that and be good to go.

@Andy, question that I didn’t see asked… For the recent forum widget, are you using the existing widget for non-mu WordPress, or did you make a special one for BuddyPress?

I’ve messed with Social Engine before…not a bad script at all.

Here’s what I’ve done with my BP home page for a site that worked better with a static 960px width layout. I know it’s not perfect, but please view with either Firefox, Chrome, or IE7 (I think 6 bugs out a little).

http://mmaopinion.com/

We have the same problems with Sámi characters: ŽžčČáÁŠŠđĐŋŊŧŦ

The problem occurs in wires and member theme fields. The procedure for carrying the utf-8 characters to the database seems to be wrong. All characters are replaced with ‘?’ indicating that the fields do not handle utf-8 characters. Since the texts then get stored without correct characters in the database, all texts has to be re-entered to be corrected when the problem is fixed.

I think this is an extremly serious fault in Buddypress so far, and excludes us needing the utf-8 characters to use BP.

i would like to see member themes changeable on a per user basis so they can have their own skins as such, and also allow them to create their own, i think we need to collaborate as to what the user can change and what they cant, it would be nice to allow them selected css,

i would also like to see the modules changeable in a drag and drop kinda way and allow the user to choose which modules they do or do not want to use,

im interested in a love plugin which allows users to post a little love icon with thier wire posts but i could also see this being extended to comments, i have made a request for it before but got no replies so visit my profile for the topic,

last fm integration would be majorly cool i think, as it would rival many of the ‘apps’ out there on the larger social networks. building on this area of things you could also add twitter, etc. so i guess what im trying to say is focus on the users ‘lifestream’

when the user logs in i want them to go straight to the dashboard but the dashboard should have things like pending freind requests, groups to join, latest comments, profile stats (incuding who visited thier profile), options and such like, and an aggregation of thier freinds activity updates. when i visit my site i dont care what user a,b and c are up to im just interested in what my freinds x,y and z did recently,

so it would be very useful to have these widgets in the dashboard, that way everything is centralised for the user to do things,

another thing i thought would be useful was profile privacy options, allowing members to discriminate based on age eg, users over X cant visit profiles for members under 18 or whatever, maybe allow the user to choose who can contact them / add them etc,

also have a block ability and mark as spam,

the profile itself should have 3 modes of operation, public – everything is displayed, semi private, freinds can see full profile, non freinds can see selected modules / different modules only, and fully private – the user must be freinds to see anything other than name, age and city/ country.

i have used the profile sidebar plugin, but as of yet there are no freinds or group widgets for it, i would like to see these with a good amount of configurability options allowing for things like top freinds, other half etc

sorry for such a long post but i would like to see these features implemented as i think they would greatly enhance buddypress!!

thanks!!

I would like to see the ability for users to be able to personalise their profile page, with this I mean them being able to pick ‘boxes’ with content (say, my groups, my friends, online friends, personal info, etc sort of like widgets, but picked by each user) and place them on their profile, perhaps able to move them around ajax style (and hide/minimize/maximize them) like in the WordPress backend dashboard.

Well, I can’t look at the same code you are running because I’m running RC-1 and the latest trunk. The global var $bp is not an array any more it’s an object now. Take a look at bp-core.php and the <component>_setup_globals() functions to get to know the new layout of this object. It’s got all the same things but we reference them differently now.

It’s not a very good idea to be modifying the wpmu core code for any reason. That being said, I see where you are calling the fn from now. I still don’t know the context in which you are calling this function. This is within a theme you are building?

I’m marking this a ‘not a support question’ because this really has nothing to do with bp support.

Where are you calling this modified wp_query member function? In a theme? I gotta have some idea of the context. The wp_query obj doesn’t have a context all by itself. It can be called from anywhere.

I’ve seen this theme and I think its very cool,maybe you could get some ideas from it for member themes on BP?

http://experience.thirteen23.com/2008/10/06/facbook-the-way-it-should-be-ego/

Group Site Permissions.

I think having a default hidden user group for registered users is a good idea. This way you could put *bad* members into a hidden *bozo* group and maybe restrict their abilities based on preset group permissions? Bozo’s can’t instant message or upload avatars, for example.

how about a plugin that would allow a user to join group(s) when they signup for their account, rather than after.. Ideally the group selection being an Admin Sponsored Group. That way zillions of groups aren’t shown in the selection list.

Admin Sponsored Groups.

PHP Developer

Buddypress Developer

User createdGroups

PHP California Developers

Blah, blah

Brian

perhaps I posted wrong the line:

<?php bp_friend_last_content_update() ?>

doesn’t do much, you’ll need to decide what material you want to display there.. I assume this is going to be the “home” theme of the wordpress mu right?

Thanks, John! I was lost until you mentioned removing home.php. Thanks to you, too, Burt.

I installed the ‘New Blog Defaults’ plugin and got a load of ‘headers already sent’ and other errors.

So … in plain English, can you explain the above please?

Do we follow the instructions as johnjames stated or simply adjust home.php?

TIA

EDIT – Actually, scrub that as I found the correct 2.7 version of the plugin and it works perfectly!

I’m not sure in what context the function is being called. You are saying this works in bp for you but not outside of bp? The call might be failing because the bp globals might not be fired up. bp’s plugins get loaded but bp relies on the ‘wp’ action to init the $bp global object which has all the table names and other goodies bp needs to operate.

You are making the fn call from inside query.php inside of a wp theme context? Is this from an ajax context? If it’s ajax then bp doesn’t have any plugins loaded or global vars instantiated.

Try doing this in an ajax context:

wp-load.php like you are then

wp();

See Andy’s /bp-core/bp-core-ajax-handler.php for how he does this.

chiscarter, John is exactly right. What a wonderful, brilliant idea John. If home.php exists in a theme directory it gets preference over index.php which is the ‘theme’ you are talking about Chris. It’s really a wp template. I tried it out and it works like a charm. Just disable the file home.php by renaming it home.php.off and voila! Instant bp blog theme instead of 3-column home theme.

Bloody stroke of genius John.

(still working on my international slang)

Thanks for the tip. I’m sure others will find it useful.

Oh no, I’m following you out the door and to the grocery store.

They are the same theme, hosted in the same directory. It is only the home.php file that is in the way.

Follow the exact steps above, and delete the home.php file from your new theme. I called mine buddypress-sub, for example. I renamed the theme in style.css, did exactly as I mentioned above, and tada.

@johnjamesjacoby Sorry, you’re not following. I don’t want the BP theme (http://testbp.org/) active on user blogs, I want the admin’s news blog theme (http://http://testbp.org/blog/) as the active theme on user blogs.

Same rules apply as above except keep the BuddyPress Home theme active and deactivate all others.

Keep in mind that widget layout will never follow, meaning that each new blog will need to configure its own widgets.

I recommend copying all of the contents of BuddyPress Home to a new directory, modifying the style.css to a new name, comparing your existing WP header.php/footer.php files to the ones in your new directory, taking out all the WordPress specific PHP function references and replacing them WordPress MU/BuddyPress ones. Tedious, but effective.

I found that the main hurdle when doing this kind of migration (for me) was letting go of my old WordPress ways of doing things. I.E. no longer using the page widget as my main navigation menu, etc… Which you can still do if you want to, there’s nothing stopping you. The functions are still the same, but you’ll still want to use the BuddyPress home theme as your starting point, as it gives you the building blocks towards integrating your existing theme with the new platform.

@johnjamesjacoby The News theme I am referring to is not a separate theme. It is the News/Blog theme that is embedded within BuddyPress that is the default theme for the admin on the News/Blog page.

To be clear: How can I make this theme: http://testbp.org/blog an available theme choice for member blogs?

1. Activate BuddyPress Home theme for main blog.

2. Site Admin -> Themes – Deactivate all themes including BuddyPress Home theme.

3. Site Admin -> Themes – Make sure News theme is enabled.

4. Find and activate the “New Blog Defaults” plug in. (Help ensure new blogs get the default theme you want.)

5. Configure “New Blog Defaults” and set default theme to your News one.

6. Create a new blog yourself, and you’ll be forced to use the only active theme, and cannot change to any other.

I’m wondering this same thing.

@burt If you activate the BP home theme for your personal blog, you get the three column/widget theme. What ekine and I want is the admin’s News (now Blog) blog theme to be the mandatory user blog theme. I’ve seen this done but don’t know how. Any help?