1-Two main groups, let’s call them “males” and
“females”
2-Both groups when registering must write specific
information about themselves (e.g. MALES must specify: age, nationality, hair
color.) (FEMALES, instead, must declare different things from the previous group)
3-To complete the registration they must pay a fee (I think
that I should use another plugin to do that)
4-Once they are registered on the website “males”
can start to upload media on their profiles
5-Once “females” are registered they can improve
their profiles too
4,5 plus – Is it possible to make that media rely on a
personal server?
6-I want to make possible that only one group can send
messages to other one (e.g. females can write to males but not viceversa)
7-It’s important that only females can check the profiles of
the males and the males are not able to see other males’ profiles (e.g. male1
cannot see male2’s profile but female1 is able to see male1 and male2 profile).
8-Related to point number 2: I need to complete those
information because when females are looking for males they must be able to
categorize them and find only the profiles that respond to that specific
characteristic, that’s fundamental.
9- Is this plugin fully responsive to make it easy to
navigate from smartphone?
Looking at your requirements I’d say this is probably doable, but with quite a bit of customisation. BuddyPress supports member types, so you could set up two member types and make content decisions based on those members types (for example only display a member list for the male member type).
You would however need to do quite a bit of customisation regarding the registration process. These’s a plugin called BP Better Registration that splits the registration process into several parts. This could be a basis of your registration process as you could make decisions based on the selected member types between page loads. So for example at initial registration you can ask for username password and member type, then the next page can ask for registration detaills based on the selected member type. That would all need to be coded.
Do you think that plugins such as “BP profile search” or “select2” or “userinsight”, could work for my request?
I’ve only used BP Profile Search and I’ve got to say you would probably need to customise that too, it’s got the basic fuctionality in that it allows you to search all the profile fields but I think the search algorithm itself needs revamping, also it would need to only be visible to one member type I think.
in addition another question, where goes files uploaded by the subscribers? the files will be embed or uploaded on the website, how does it work?
This depends on the nature of the files and the plugin that is allowing the upload. All files will go into a subdirectory of the uploads directory. BuddyPress Avatars (profile images) for example go into the uploads/avatars directory, Profile cover images go into the ploads/buddypress/members/user_id/cover-image directory.
Additional media uploads would need a plugin. mediapress for example and in that case they would go into the uploads/mediapress directory with a subdirectory for either member or group gallery uploads.
Additional media uploads would need a plugin. mediapress for example and in that case they would go into the uploads/mediapress directory with a subdirectory for either member or group gallery uploads.
Does it operation make the website slower?
I mean creating “subdirectory” where each member upload his media.
Thank you for your help
Not really, I mean adding the functionality does add to the operational overhead of the site, however, the significant time factor is the actual upload time of the file, which would be the case for any platform/solution that involved allowing file uploads.
