BuddyPress.org

Very nice, this is a great conversation starter.

In one sentence I would describe BuddyPress as: “Social networking in a box. An easy way to start your own niche social network”.

Lots of other social network tools try to define themselves as a do-it-all platforms that can be manipulated in all manner of ways, but then they don’t work so well out of the box or without some extensive configuration. Even though BP is also highly extensible, I’ve always thought the primary focus should be providing something that the non-techies can work with without much time investment. This is pretty much the same philosophy as WordPress.

@erich73: did you hear about email ?

@gian-ava

i want to come back to your first question around the “marketing point of view”. I recently searched about “community manager” and found a lot of answers in the marketing sector. Not what i expected, but suddenly i realised that while we’re playing with BP, some marketers with long teeth are building complicated strategies to conquest markets with social tools. To make it brief, for these marketers, a community manager is a kind of “propaganda staffel” leader, if you understand this expression.

If not and to be clear, i asked holly Google and here is what the algorythm god said to me:

marketing & social networks 119 000 000 -> google.fr results

marketing & strategy 89 100 000

marketing & experts 74 800 000

marketing & teacher 48 800 000

marketing & mass media 41 000 000

marketing & professor 33 900 000

marketing & humor 16 300 000

and the best for the end:

marketing usability 5 640 000

and now let us compare with:

buddypress 2 680 000

buddypress and marketing 601 000

so we can finally enlarge to a more generic request as:

marketing & open source 64 400 000

which lies somewhere between “teachers” and “experts”.

This are funny examples to illustrate what you can expect for your question “in terms of marketing”.

View a brief resume here: https://radiowalker.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/buyit1.jpg

(not intended to offend anybody here)

A community is a group of people, unified around a project, a personnality, ideas and a RICH CONTENT. But it is also a forum (in sense of forum romanum) and naturally a politic placeholder, as a process by which groups of people make collective decisions.

So you don’t need our opinion about why and how to build a community. This is your intimate affair. You have the choice and what you decide, you have to assume.

Requesting the recipe does not cook the potatoes. Giving the recipe either.

“O yeah. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/”

Its not the same thing unfortunately – and it hasn’t been updated since last year by the looks of it. (A bit of a red herring in this thread)

The one Dwenaus has built has the potential to store Karma points centrally from forum posts, blog posts and i suppose any activity could score.

Nice idea on the Rankings Table though :o) that’s a nice reward for community members.

Hopefully Dwenaus will let us know if that’s an option.

I have no way of testing the validity of this at the moment, but:

Child Themes style.css

The simplest Theme possible is a child theme which includes only a style.css file, plus any images. This is possible because it is a child of another theme which acts as its parent.

To create such a Theme, you must specify a set of templates to inherit for use with the Theme by editing the Template: line in the style.css header comments. For example, if you wanted the Theme “Rose” to inherit the templates from another Theme called “test”, you would include Template: test in the comments at the beginning of Rose’s style.css. Now “test” is the parent Theme for “Rose”, which still consists only of a style.css file and the concomitant images, all located in the directory wp-content/themes/Rose. Additionally (as of WordPress 2.7), the child theme may contain template files, which can be selected in the admin panel as normal, and will override the parent’s template files where those possess the same name.

From https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

“O yeah. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/”

This doesn’t work with Buddypress and wpmu, does it?

I would like to know more. I haven’t checked out your forum plugin yet, but definitely in need for a type of plugin that you are talking about.

Will I be able to display ‘rankings’ on a separate page that I can add to my template?

@ Warzan

I’m all for earning money on plugins/templates but I don’t want people offering their services on this forum, this forum is for questions about the main software, buddypress. If people want to earn for their efforts place it on your own blog for example or be like wpmu dev and ask a subscription fee.

O yeah. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings/

And I did add something to the topic, that it’d be more interesting if the plugin would support rating/voting on all components.

Not really interested there are enough plugins that allow this already. Perhaps a plugin that allows to rate everything on a wordpress/buddypress site (with the option to disable certain spots). For example: actvity, comments, forum posts, blog posts, pictures (bp album+) etc etc.

And I understand that you want to be funded for your efforts, but please don’t ask money on this forum.

Don’t know about forums but:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-edit-group-slug/

Use https://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_blogs_of_user to get the blogs of the user, then count the posts on every blog, add them all together and you’ll see wether a user has any posts or not.

If you want that, then you’ll need wordpressMU.

Hmm. No, I don’t think that ought to break anything (capitals in email). I know you can’t really test, but if it was capital letters in the username or email address, you’d have the same problem on a regular WordPress install.

It depends if you want your users to have individual blogs (like WordPress.com).

If not, stick with standard WP and give your new users a role of Contributor or higher so they can post on your WP site.

You can manually add video sites if you know a little code:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds#How_Can_I_Add_Support_For_More_Websites.3F

My plan is to create a new plugin that will offer support for more 3rd party sites.

I might make Youku one of them; though you can sway me over with a donation

@foxly and team

Good to hear that yall applied for GSoC. It’d be good for yall to get paid for all of your hard work. Perhaps if yall sent a PM to Andy, JJJ, and Marshall they might put in a good word for yall with the WordPress crew that’ll be choosing the projects.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/ helps you tweak what’s available to sub-blog admins in admin menu

Something to look at too, by same plugin authors still in beta – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

Again, all your errors refer to WordPress code.

Disable BuddyPress, switch to the default theme. If ALL of the standard WordPress functionality works, and an error comes back when you use BuddyPress, that’s because BuddyPress isn’t yet guaranteed to be fully compatible with WP 3. If you get an error with BuddyPress disabled, then it’s a WordPress error and you need to visit the wordpress.org forums.

Again, all your errors refer to WordPress code.

Disable BuddyPress, switch to the default theme. If ALL of the standard WordPress functionality works, and an error comes back when you use BuddyPress, that’s because BuddyPress isn’t yet guaranteed to be fully compatible with WP 3. If you get an error with BuddyPress disabled, then it’s a WordPress error and you need to visit the wordpress.org forums.