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Hi MrMraz, I installed the old plugin since a few weeks and I haven’t had the occation to see how it works, simply because it is not obvious straight away that this is more of a BP component, such as Groups and Forums.

I scratched my head off trying understand HOW to create a link (and I am not the only one https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/is-there-a-buddypress-plugin-that-can). To me it wasn’t clear that you need to manually create a link to the Links directory or something like that, wich mean you need a place in your navigation to put “Links”, along with Members, Forums, Groups (wplace that I don’t have on my site).

Anyway, I got two basic problems (with 0.3.2). I already got a page on my site called “links”. I’ve changed the buddypress-links.php file, line 24:

from

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘links’ );

to

define( ‘BP_LINKS_SLUG’, ‘members-links’ );

which I find more appropriate for my site. But I noticed the warning message:At this time, it is not recommended that you try to override this!

So, what am I to do?

Another problem is that when I try to create a link i got the error:

Warning: require_once(single/forms/details.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …(mypath)/wp-content/themes/(mytheme)/bp-links-default/create.php on line 22

I’ve checked the file and that line was not coded properly:

require_once ‘single/forms/details.php’;

instead of: require_once (‘single/forms/details.php’);

Did it work for everybody else, that way?

Otherwise, I am going to test 0.4, since I see that there is a feature to “Create link directly from user profile and group pages”.

I’ll let you know.

MrMaz: I’m still on vacation, but heared that you are now part of the buddypress-dev team! Congratulations, i’m really excited about the API you are working on. I guess the abilty to post Links as Activity-Item-Attachement from the “John Doe Postbox” won’t be there before BP 1.4?

I have a small question. Does the “Automatic thumbnail picker” in BP-Links only works for certain websites and what are the criteria to get Rich Media detected? I’m asking because most of my Links show up without an automatic detected thumbnail, but the articles i’m “linking” have a lot of pictures on it? Do you see any potential to improve the “Automatic thumbnail picker”. Links Directory looks really great with thumbnails, but my users are to lazy to upload them manually.

One of the sites that doesn’t get detected is http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,688472,00.html

Kudos to all your hard work!

Yes, done some testing. No bugs found yet, looks nice @MrMaz!

No bugs found yet (except the conflict with Simple Tags that I reported in the 0.3 thread.

@Mrmaz

Great new features! Running WPMU2.9.2/BP1.2.3 with child theme of bp-default.

Sharing works flawlessly; from group to group or profile, from profile to group or other profile, from directory to group or profile. Link creation from group and profile works fine too. And activity stream commenting also works across all pages as it should, including comment deletion.

Two suggestions:

1 – I think the “Share” button should also be present on the activity single page and the link home page, ‘cuz that’s where all the discussion is going to happen. Perhaps right next to “Public Link” / “Active X time ago”?

2 – It would be great (imho) if a thumbnail could also be shown in the activity stream and on the activity single page.

Great stuff… thanks for this!

Everything seems to work perfectly so far.

Not sure why when I Share –> Share this link in My Profile, it returns an error div with ‘Sharing a link with yourself is not allowed.’

Am I misunderstanding what that Share link is for in that context? (Makes perfect sense to me in adding it to a Group, though.)

@stwc Profile sharing is a way to “copy” someone else’s link into your own link list. Let me know if you have any ideas on how to make that more obvious.

Ah, OK. Maybe just a change of wording then, or hide that My Profile radio button if I’m the link creator?

MrMaz, the play_photo icon is terrible!

We need to find something better for the plugin.

If you want I’ll see what I wan come up with.