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BP-Gallery features
* User Galleries
o Unlimited Gallery
o Each gallery can have any number of media(Photos/audio/videos)
* Group Galleries
o Unlimited Gallery
o Any Member of group can upload
o Only group Admins can create Gallery
* Multiple types of media Supported
o Photo Gallery
o Audio gallery
o Video gallery
o Can be extended with few code to support any time of media you want
* Privacy
o Fine grained Privacy control for gallery/media
o User gallery/media can have the status private/public/friends only
o Group gallery can have status public/private
* Multiple Uploads
o Upload multiple files without any extra effort, just select and click upload
o There is no limit on upload size, It depends on the size you set in gallery settings and/or The maximum upload size allowed by your web host
* Uploading and Sharing from Activity stream
* Publishing to Activity stream or not is in your hands, you can publish multiple images/videos etc to the activity stream and it will appear as single entry
* Shortcode
o For embedding Gallery to your blog posts
o Embedding Photo/Audio/video to your blog
* Widgets
o Sitewide gallery widgets
o Sitewide media Widget
* Directory where all the public galleries are listed, you can search them, filter them by Audio/video/photo
* Security:- I can vouch for gallery being 99% secure, the rest one percent is always uncertain
* Object caching: If you enable persistence object caching, you can reduce upto 90% database queries
* 100% Buddypress aware, disable Buddypress, the Gallery will not cause any issue/error.
* Modular and decoupled
o decoupled from Group(If group is disabled, gallery will still work)
o decoupled from Activity(If you disable activity, gallery will work, but support for commenting and publishing to activity stream will be no more available)
o decoupled from Friends(The privacy features will work even if you disable friends component)
* Extra addons
o WordPress Plugin for TinyMce to insert gallery/media to your post/page(Thanks to Phillip)
o Widget to show sitewide listing of gallery/images(Thanks to Phillip)
o Highslide Slideshow for showing Images (Thanks to Phillip, will be coming soon)
o jQZoom Plugin to show case site wide Public Photos
* Site Admin settings:
o Control which media types are allowed, enable/disable galley types,i.e you can enable/disable Photo Gallery/Video Gallery/Audio Gallery
o Set maximum upload space per user
o set maximum upload file size
o Enable Disable gallery Link
o Enable/disable upload from activity stream
o Show the remaining/used space to users
o got an issue, enable debug mode of gallery to see what’s going inside
o Set Image sizes for Thumbnail/medium/Full size
* What Is Coming In future:
o FFMPEG Support for Video Galleries
o Face Detection/Tagging(OpenCV extension will be required)
o Gallery from Youtube/picass/flickr/vimeo etc
o Various CDN Support
o Decoupling of Video Player to allow you use various players to choose from
* Upcoming Addons:- atleast 4-5 slideshow widgets to showcase the gallery media(Including supersized,mooflow and more)In wordpress, I have set my Permalinks to
/%category%/%postname%/Would that have any effect on my buddypress as well? How do I fix it though?
I cant really change the permalinks settings now as it will generate hundreds of 404 errors from search engines.Topic: Groups name not changing….
Running the newest version of buddypress, with 2.9.2 of wordpress regular. But i changed the name of a group, but they didn’t change when i go to forums, i see it change in topic list at top of forums, but not in group list. How would i fix this so it changes to fit the right way?
I’m interested in giving our members at http://www.rockstartriathlete.com more social networking capability, but want the installed Buddypress to stay true to our current theme. So when I install Buddypress, should I install it into a new directory or into the existing directory? Will it automatically integrate with our current theme, or do I need to hire a developer to make it look right? Has anyone “added” Buddypress to an existed WordPress site to add a social networking component to that site, without losing the already existing site content?
Thanks!
Topic: Adsense on BuddyPress Pages
I installed the BuddyPress plug in to my WordPress 2.9.2 and it works great. I had an adsense plug in install and it works with what was there before (blog pages), but all the new BuddyPress stuff like members pages,activity stream etc, do not have the adsense in them. Is the a fix for this, a plug in perhaps? Thanks!
Topic: Re-thinking ‘posts’
Take it for what it’s worth. By many accounts in reply to this discussion:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/the-buddypress-ui-design-and-conceptual-approach-to-social-networking/For WordPress, I know only two types of ‘posts’ a user can make, and I like it that way:
Rich, and plain. Strictly technically speaking, no other type of post exists. A horde of different options for display, permissions etc. still applies (like the difference between ‘post’ and ‘page’).Typical blog post:
– Rich blog post (usually close to a proper ‘article’ or ‘story’)
> plain comment
> plain comment
–> plain comment
–> plain comment
> plain commentThe blog post is commonly well written and formulated with the mindset that it is content, mainly for people to read and react to, but not so much add to.
Typical forum post:
There is none is there? But this is just as good an example as any:
– Rich post (thread starter; commonly posts a question or problem to be solved)
> plain comment
> plain comment
> rich post
> plain comment
> rich postWhat most forum posts have in common though (“stickys” are usually the exception) is that the thread-starter expects participants to add significant value to the thread. In fact, the starting topic is often just a question, awaiting detailed response. You can start with a plain post with rich content added to it later.
Simple pros & cons
Blogs
+ The key contents are usually found in the top article alone.
– Users are blocked from adding rich content.
– Insightful as some comments might be, they are much less likely to be read than the blogpost itself.Forums
+ “Every post is equal”; Equality fosters collaboration. Knowing that your reply will be read, you speak your mind in full.
+ Users can add to the value of the thread by attaching rich content.
– Valuable information and media gets lost in the midsts of long threads.
– Forums have a hard time encouraging concise writng.I think the technical design between the two can easily co-exist as one and the same, while maintaining (and adding to) the strengths in their differing use-cases and common form.
Roles
The forum is the place for discussion of all things, including blog posts. No discussable item escapes the forum.
A ‘blog post’ is just a particular way of displaying a rich article, with certain conventions applied to the form of comments.
(an ‘update’ is a form of microblogging, i.e. just a particular way of displaying a plain article)Visibility
First off, the way to create a ‘board’ can be done with many different metrics: display all ‘threads’ within a certain ‘category’, ‘tag’, ‘group’, or a more finely tuned mix and match of each, even specific to each board.
In-practice Example #1
So say you have the BuddyPress group, with the tabs ‘Blog’, ‘Activity Stream’ and ‘Forum’.
I make a blogpost called:
“Rants for $0, free all weekend!”In the blog section, it appears like you’d expect.., it’s a blog post, on top of other blog posts, and if you ‘read more’ you see the simple box for comments at the bottom.
In the forum, it appears like this in the ‘latest topics’ section:
> “Rants for $0, free all weekend!”
> Posted in: Blog; By: ; Latest: ; 4 minutes agoYou won’t find it in any category unless you have created a category for the ‘blog’ type (which one might do to create an alternative way of browsing the blog archive). It can already be found where people expect it: In the group’s blog section.
On the other hand, if a blogpost is in the ‘development’ category, and a ‘board’ (just a way to collect all posts with a certain labeling, remember?) happens to collect all posts in that category, it will appear there, just like any other forum post.The ‘wire’ (I think that’s what I’m referring to anyways. A ‘wall’, in other words) would work in the same manner, except for the wire you only deal in plain posts and maybe an enforced character cap. Personally I’d probably refrain from using the activity stream unless it was in conjunction with other social networks like Facebook and Twitter; that way I’d have more incentive to make a special form of brief updates.
In-practice Example #2
The traditional way:
John is the author of the “Rant Enhancement Plugin” (it’s really just a smiley-pack of mixed emotions). He has just released the beta of a new version that could really use some feedback. Not a whole lot of people frequent his plugin (group) listing. He’d like more exposure, but it makes no sense to post outside the domain of his own group when he’s got this nice piece of space dedicated to his work already. Instead he posts in two places: One elaborate post in the group as the call for feedback, and another post in the dedicated ‘Extensions’ and ‘Features’ boards, just briefly directing interested users to the main thread.Better way:
With the use of ‘boards’ and their keywords detection for grouping of contents, John’s call for feedback would appear anywhere relevant.—
I have more thoughts on threaded conversations, organization of rich vs plain content etc., but I’d rather deal with it one discussion at a time. What I’m trying to address here is merely the visibility of blogposts vs forumposts, and ways to encourage continuity and exposure of threaded discussion. One last thing to bear in mind: I did not take the time to fill in every single conceptional gap. When you spot a hole, I’d recommend trying to suggest a solution for it before you call it a flaw (the abuse of keywords to appear everywhere for instance, is amendable).
To anyone who reads these words without having skipped through any of the above, I commend you.
Topic: So New from NING
So, yeah, I’m used to NING, it was pretty easy but really lacked the thing I was looking for which was a seamless WordPress integration. I messed around with some Ning comment integration plugin but it was pretty useless and once they stated the pricing changes I decided its time to move.
So, I have my buddypress community started. I must say its a little more involved in setting up something that’s decent. I tried integrating it into my existing wordpress theme but it just looked like junk. Not being real savy I decided to just change themes to a bp theme. Not real easy either as I had made a number of customizations which I had to go back over. Anyway, I managed a descent looking setup but the biggest thing concerning me is some things I would think core functions in a community. Photos, Albums (Plural) and events.I realize there are Plugins for these things and I try to research them all but then I get confused. I wonder what one is best? Which one will continue to be developed and which one will get phased out and I’ll be stuck with it. I’m afraid of using one and then having a bunch of photos uploaded from members and then telling them, “oh, sorry gotta change plugins, your photos will be deleted.” I’m not sure which event calendar is popular or if one is still even being developed.
Could I get some input on whats the safest options to go and what people are using in general. A list of essential plugins maybe? I see alot of potential with buddypress but I think there is alot of functionality I’m overlooking because it comes in the form of a plugin and I don’t even know whats good and whats not.
thanksi want to replace the jetaadc title w/ the logo at the top. for some reason, i can’t do it? help!
@jivany (“I don’t understand your BP forum complaints. You don’t use forums because you have basically replicated the forum concept in blog posts/comments”)
Exactly! My point is that integrating an external forum like bbPress into Buddypress is unnecessary and only creates a lot of confusion, undermines the structure. Less is more. KISS.
I would like Buddypress to consolidate on the smallest number of parts, leverage what’s already in WordPress, instead of adding database tables and external scripts that partly overlap/clash with other parts.
But bbPress seems to be taking over Buddypress. Wrong direction imho.
