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Can I do this with BuddyPress?


  • PedroDiogo
    Participant

    @pedrodiogo

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I have a new project in mind I’m experimenting WordPress with a few plugins to achieve what I desire. However, I haven’t been able to achieve everything exactly as I want, so your feedback is much appreciated since I am new to WordPress.

    I’m building up a blog with 4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

      bbPress
      BuddyPress
      bbPress Topics for Posts -> Allows me to automatically create a new Topic in the forum for each newly published Post. This is how the Author will interact with the participants.
      BP Blog Author Profile Link -> When clicking the Author’s name, redirects to its BuddyPress member’s page.
      BuddyPress Follow -> I only need a few components of BudyPress’s social capacities… Friendship is not one of them. I just want participants to follow their desired Author and be notified of his/her new blog post. This plugin allows members to just follow other members without Friendship requests.

    These set of plugins solves *almost* every problem. However, I still need to change a few things like:

      the ability to Allow members to follow Authors and be notified of their new posts: so far, members can only check if a member has published something by accessing its Activity tab under his/her profile page. The member is not notified of this activity…
      disable the “Activity” part of BudyPress: I don’t want this on every member’s profile, but if I disable this component, members can not check for Authors’ latest blog posts…

    There are others thing I must change, but these are the most important ones. How can achieve such a thing? Should I not use BuddyPress at all (and loose its bbPress nice integration)? How can I improve its notification system while still not allowing them exchange messages (public or private) and activity statuses?

    I’ve search for a few plugins that could improve BuddyPress to work as I need, but could not found any. I’m not a PHP programmer neither I know how WordPress works, but, if needed, I can try to do some coding on BuddyPress… I want to avoid that, if possible, though, as it would cost me time and the solution might not really work properly…

    ANY help is much appreciated! Let me know if you need more information. Thank you, in advance.

    Regards,
    Pedro

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  • djsteveb
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    @djsteveb

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Without knowing everything exactly the way you envision, from reading:

    4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

    I think if you drop buddypress… do a WP MultiSite install – with 4 sub blogs… look into creating “author pages” – not all themes do that well out of the box… a simple subscribe to blog plugin for each of the 4 blogs.. I think you can install bbpress and mix it with each sub blog – but I have not messed with bbpress in a while, so not sure the best way to connect that.. I think you can enable to the bbpress “sitewide” then each individual sub blog author and enable it or something.. then code that into the sidebar if each blog.. that would do everything you have said I think.. maybe that will get you in the direction you are trying to go.

    I suggest searching the wp plugin repo for plugins that are “multi site” enhancements.. look into “author pages” in the codex, and search for themes that have special author pages to make experimenting easier..


    PedroDiogo
    Participant

    @pedrodiogo

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Ey, djsteveb, thanks a lot for your feedback!

    I’m trying the MultiSite feature right now and also trying to figure out what you mean by Author Pages. Could you please provide me some links so I can look into it? I’m not sure I’m doing the right research.

    Will keep digging in and will update as soon as I have something new.

    Cheers,
    Pedro

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