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Fact is that not every website needs to be a social network, same as not every site needs to be a blog network.
BuddyPress, much like WordPress, shines when you don’t even know you’re using it, and it’s up to good themes to make that happen; something BuddyPress lacks when compared to WordPress.
There are limitless setups that you could dream up with mutlisite WordPress and BuddyPress, but none of them matter if the theme can’t pull that functionality out to be front and center. Multiple blogs, sites, networks, domains, communities, groups, etc… I think it’s safest to mirror the development of your community similarly to how one prepares a server; react to the size and don’t over-prepare. If you have 10 users, you probably won’t need W3 Total Cache and a CDN. Once you have 10,000 active users, you may want to consider beefing things up. Same with BuddyPress; once you have a ton of users, turn on groups and forums, or add something new and exciting.
Community features should match community size. If you turn on too many features with not enough users, your website looks like a ghost town, and no one will join. If you don’t have enough features, people will get bored and leave. BuddyPress does its best to let you find that balance pretty quickly, and helps you shape your online community how you see fit.
It’s like SimCity, but without the natural disasters.
Hit it the nail on the head about deterrent-knowledge. I mean, I’m not the greatest coder out there… but at least I know a little CSS and how to read through forum posts before I post. Google is man’s best friend.
I’m still not even sure how I did my first WPMU install. I think I must have tried 20 different combinations of factors before I got it running. Even then I didn’t have the presence of mind to write it down.
Hopefully @r-a-y is right, that it’ll shed more light to developers.
Well creating a network (basically MU) in WP 3.0 still requires that same deterrent-knowledge you speak of. Not everyone will be turning this on!
However, bringing this functionality to the masses also sheds light to the project and more developers will be able to contribute to the codebase.I do agree with you about mass-communities! Not every community is going to be vibrant, but even those BP communities that have 10 active members is enough to warrant BP’s existence.
You should also know that there are a ton of low-quality “sucky” blogs because of WordPress, so what’s the difference if there are “sucky” communities because of BP?
Hello again,
First off, I’m a total noob to buddypress development, but better at regular wordpress development. So, here’s how I proceded:
1- in functions.php, I added two widgets, like this:
register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘showcaseImage’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);register_sidebars( 1,
array(
‘name’ => ‘showcaseCaption’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘after_widget’ => ‘‘,
‘before_title’ => ‘‘,
‘after_title’ => ‘‘
)
);2- I copy/pasted page.php and modified like this (removed loop and sidebar call):
<?php
/* Template Name: Showcase */
get_header();
?>3- in _inc/css/default.css, I added this custom code:
#showcaseImage{text-align:center; width:720px; height:300px; overflow:hidden; margin:0 5px 0 0; border:1px solid #fff; float:left;}
#showcaseCaption{width:200px; height:300px; overflow:hidden; border:1px solid #fff; padding:0 18px 0 13px; float:left;}4- in settings, I replaced the homepage by this static one.
That’s the whole hack, I guess. By removing the default css id’s and classes from page.php, and replacing them with my own, I place the widgets wherever I wish. Maybe there’s a better way? Not knowing enough about buddypress, your technique seems complex to me
Next step (for you and me): add some sweet jQuery and make this a slideshow
Additional next step for me: document this in a tutorial, I’m pretty sure it will come up handy for many.
~ hiddenson
