Hi @brianbws,
You’ll need to extend the BP_Attachment class with your own subclass. See the BP_Attachment article for more info.
So I’ve taken a stab at it and gotten the tab to show in the correct place, but my Cover_Photo_Attachment attachment class still is not uploading images and I’m not sure why. Trying to follow the great work of @imath and the BP_Attachment documentation.
Also having trouble trying to get the Avatar UI to show for a nice upload experience. Is it even possible to repurpose that UI for this? Any help would be appreciative.
See my code:
https://gist.github.com/brianrc/912c95d28e913b3aad23
hi @brianbws
Here are some advices :
1/ I wouldn’t “mix” a cover photo into the avatar UI, it’s not the same need
2/ I would create a new profile tab “Change cover photo”
3/ From there, i’ll use a regular upload/crop experience or build a new UI using Backbone like i’m doing in the next version of this plugin https://github.com/imath/buddydrive/tree/1.3 > follow the buddydrive_editor() function to see how to do this.
4/ I’ll extend the BP Attachment class > the codex page should help you.
To extend the avatar UI, you can have a look at the plugin BP Avatar Suggestions 1.3, i’ve updated it to add a new tab to the UI because : it is to set an avatar 🙂
This plugin also creates an upload UI and extends the BP Attachment class.
I think watching the codex page, the 2 plugins, will help you. Bye.
Thank you. I’ve tried examining the BuddyDrive implementation, but I am just lost and I don’t understand backbone at all.
I’ve also been patiently waiting and watching for any other use of the BP_Attachment API on Github, but unfortunately have found none.
It’s such a cool feature, but I fear too complex for me. Hope others take up the cause soon.
Most likely there are things in the pipeline but we haven’t seen them come into fruition yet. The new API was introduced at the beginning of June so hopefully we should start to see plugins appear over the next few months.
