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@ Jivany

You’ve covered this on trac: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1536

So this is a question of privacy settings for the blog.

I hope this isn’t considered hijacking, but do you, DJPaul or anyone know how to make _old_ posts that were counted as private (as per above) appear in the stream?

I can make new posts appear in the stream now but all the old blog posts (https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/p2) are still hidden. Some value in the db?

@Marc: Requirements is a pretty vague term itself eh? A requirement could be as specific as “must support IE6” (which would have an impact on price) or as general as “must position us as an industry leader”. So requirements can be about business, creative, marketing, functional, technical or other goals.

The biggest things that would affect price however would be any functional components that BuddyPress doesn’t include out of the box (like Wiki, Document Library, Video Sharing, etc.). Although much of that can be done with plugins… said plugins may still require custom theming and/or some work on integration.

Complexity of design could mean things like Flash. If Flash work is required, that would cost more. If you require a logo or other branding, that could cost more. But I was more thinking of the complexity of the design in general.

For instance, this design of mine took almost a month of design, development, research and testing (it works in IE6 believe or not and is designed to have graceful text-resizing… as all my work is. XYZ is a fake name of course):

http://davidlewis.ca/solutions/

While this very simple “design” (a freebee for a volunteer organization) took only 2 hours from zero to WordPress theme (p.s. I’m not responsible for any of the horrible content like the logo sidebar… for instance):

http://www.hrsar.ca/e2cdev/

That’s an extreme example… but you get the idea.

You can make pages in the regular WordPress part. And maybe this is helpful.

Consider the cost for wordpress themes, as buddypress themes are wordpress themes. There are thousands of wordpress theme players around the world. Quick search on Google should give you some quotes.

You may need to add bit more ($100 – $500) to the quote you get for thanking designers to work for wordpress themes for buddypress.

Sure, there’s a couple ways to do it.

If you want to turn off linking in specific profile fields (so that nothing in “About Me” gets linked, but locations in “Location” or “Hometown” do), you can use https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/. Near the beginning of that plugin, there’s a spot for you to list fields that should NOT be linkable.

If you want to be more specific and look for certain words in a field, here’s how. Copy the original xprofile_filter_link_profile_data function from bp-xprofile-filters.php, paste it into functions.php or wherever you put the remove_filter code, rename it something unique (like henry_xprofile_filter_link_profile_data), then afterwards add the line

add_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_value', 'henry_xprofile_filter_link_profile_data', 2, 2 );

At this point you’ll have to customize the filter to look for certain words. Use something like this (untested, but something like it should work):

if ( strpos( $field_value, 'Boston' ) ) {

$field_value = str_replace( 'Boston', '<a href="' . site_url( BP_MEMBERS_SLUG ) . '/?s=Boston">', $field_value);

}

In other words, if ‘Boston’ is found in the field, replace the plaintext ‘Boston’ with a link to a search on the word ‘Boston’.

https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers

Can I use “tags” (?) in the Welcome email in the Welcome Pack plugin?

I would like to include the password, so new members have a reminder in their inbox what they entered when they signed up.

What would the tag for the password be? And for the fullname?

This is my pet peeve with Buddypress! Wasted at least two weeks on this issue last Summer.

I use the same Beau Lebens email as login plugin that David Lewis found. So I wanted to get rid of username entirely and have basically only real name and email address on my registration form.

To integrate a mailinglist script I needed separate firstname + lastname. Buddypress doesn’t store them out-of-the-box. This is NOT a WPMU issue; WP/WPMU has firstname + lastname in wp_usermeta, but Buddypress simply refuses to synchronize those fields, so you can’t count on the data being there for other scripts (mailinglist, events, etc.).

Here’s my solution:

How to synchronize firstname+lastname between xprofile field_1 and wp_usermeta upon registration

And

How to autogenerate blogname (url) from Blog Title (or username from fullname!)

The Javascript I use for fullname->username looks like this

function copyinputuser()

{

var tmp = document.getElementById('field_1').value;

tmp = tmp.toLowerCase().replace(/^s+|s+$/g, "").replace(/[_|s]+/g, "");

tmp = tmp.replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "").replace(/[-]+/g, "").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "");

document.getElementById('signup_username').value = tmp;

}

Unfortunately a lot of people sign up with only one name in the Fullname (field_1) field. Question:

Would anyone know how to validate/check the input for a two-part (minimum) name? You’d probably have to check for a space, make a space required. How would that script look?

No firstname/lastname because this does not work for a lot of international users.

Which countries are you talking about?! Name them.

With all due respect, this is such a bizarre argument. Not only the western world, but India, China, etc. all have no problem whatsoever using two or more names. Countries that use only one name or more than four can write their own plugins, along with the language pack etc.

More than two names is no problem; separating first and last name is primarily about having a first name available. Users can put their other two, three, four names in the second field.

If Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. have no problem requiring separate firstname and lastname, why is this such a controversial issue for Buddypress? Why make life difficult for 80-90 percent of Buddypress users just to prevent offense to 10 percent with different customs?

I’ve tried this regular WordPress plugin for New User Email Setup, but it didn’t do anything at all for Buddypress activation.

This BuddyPress Registration Options has some very useful features that I probably need anyway, but it still doesn’t allow you to change the From and Subject lines. [username] seems to be the only available tag, not [fullname]. You can’t make any changes unless you check Moderate New Members.

Why is more control over the registration process not built into the Buddypress core? It’s essential to a social network imho.

WordPress MU 2.9 (currently trunk) / WordPress 2.9 are required for BuddyPress trunk and will be required for 1.2.

Here’s the latest trunk from WPMU:

http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress-mu/trunk/

Maybe OpenID could provide the solution,but twitter sign would be good.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitconnect needs to be hacked for BP.

Vincole, would this cover your needs?

Kaltura Media Component for Buddypress

Demo

solved my issue. Hope it helps someone. https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/16051?replies=6

You must have a theme with folder name “default” in your wp-content/themes.

This theme gets activated when you/your member create a new blog.

If you want some other theme, not the default, you may try this plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpmu-new-blog-defaults/

Hope it helps

Brajesh

As i am not a programmer nor IT professional, i am just a simple press photographer. I will keep listening for info on the gallery situation and hopefully one day this will be resolved.

Zenphoto is the only gallery script I’ve found that can handle uploads of 5+ Mb hi-res image files. NextGen is an excellent WP plugin, but not designed for professional photographers. Not sure if you’d need that for your BP gallery. That could be the trade-off going with a native beta BP plugin.

I don’t see Zenphoto rewriting their excellent, mature script to become a plugin for Buddypress

The ZenphotoPress plugin is actually very effective

Make up your mind.

I’ll explain it one more time so even you can understand; a stand-alone application that has a plugin to interface with WordPress is NOT the same thing as WordPress plugin.

… plugins are not hacks. Plugins are modular.

I never said plugins are hacks. Learn to read. I’m a big fan of plugins, but I prefer plugins that interface with existing, mature applications over plugins with entire applications written from scratch.

Case in point – I want to commit to a Gallery plugin. So let’s say I do and get users to upload thousands of pics. All is well. Dev stops. BP progresses and gallery breaks. I am faced with either correcting myself, finding another and hopefully resurrecting all the images, comments, galleries, etc (prob impossible) or <shudder> asking people to re-upload (not happening) I am ok taking risks but wondered how others deal with this issue (same applies for the seemingly stalled events plugin)

Solution: Use solid, mature stand-alone applications like Zenphoto. If they don’t have an interface plugin with WordPress, write one.

The key word here is ‘was’. If you know anything about WP, then you should know that by now it’s one of the most versatile CMS around.

Sure, functionality is ever-expanding, but the foundation is still blog centered.

BuddyPress does have a way to store 1st name and last name….custom fields …

My point is that they are not built-in, which is weird for a social network. And if you add them as custom fields you have to write your own custom function to get them into wp_usermeta.

But OK people, good luck writing that kick-ass gallery plugin for Buddypress! I won’t be wasting my time on it. I’ll be busy restructuring Buddypress’ crappy registration form.

First of all, plugins are not hacks. Plugins are modular. That’s what extensibility means. You should know that as an IT journalist. If you use BuddyPress, then, yes, it’s the standard. It’s what your whole site is based on. Use something different if that fits your needs better.

WordPress was for managing posts on a blog

The key word here is ‘was’. If you know anything about WP, then you should know that by now it’s one of the most versatile CMS around.

The Zenphoto solution, not cramming everything into one plugin, is more solid and versatile.

Is it just me, or does that not make much sense? You can build plugins that are applications in their own right (except that they need WP). There’s no cramming going on, mate. Only extending…

@Peter

“So Buddypress is The Standard and everybody else has to adapt?”

no, but WordPress is the Standard.