This could quite easily be theme functionality rather than something that is added to core.
Ok. Just think that can be easier for some people to integrate it.
Thank you.
Best request so far on this forum and surprised you reopened this thread. Buddypress, bbPress, and WordPress are so easily close the threads before anything is even discussed and easily just assumes its better to go to a theme author to implement it when it not the theme author that works on this plugin at all. Theme Authors are 3rd party. So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.
So it is better for this plugin to do the styling.
BuddyPress is intentionally built to be flexible. Even though it works well “out-of-the-box” it isn’t designed to be finished. If we added everything to core, then it would bloat the project. The idea is for you to extend your own personal copy of BuddyPress with plugins and themes to make it unique. There’s 2m+ BuddyPress sites out there (according to the number of downloads) and we wouldn’t want them all looking and acting the exact same.
It’s a philosophy.
I don’t think we can compare flexibility and usage/look. If an usage is adopted by lot of people (just to see at the buddypress templates around the web), why can’t it be regarded as a future development/integration? (and you can active or desactive a such option)
I’m such we can do the same parallel with some wordpress functionalities (just look at the gallery functionality).
I’m thinking to the beginner and to the stability of a solution, it can be great. Plugin are great and useful but sometimes too much plugin isn’t so cool.
Is there a plugin to display a member list in a member grid?
Than you.
Are there any Themes that show these lists as grids?
Yep. You can look at Premium ThemeForest Themes by example.
And when we look at the default attached informations to a member list entry, I think too much spaces are loosed for only few informations. Have a member grid can be great to optimize the area page and don’t have to scroll too much.
Pretty sure next set of templates will have members as a grid, yes. All of the popular third-party BuddyPress themes have done it like this, so we’d be foolish to not do the same.
Trouble is other then the lack of buddypress support I really like my theme, I guess that’s always going to be an issue unless I can find an alternative that has the right look and feel. None of those that were listed for example seem to support a header image, which I find is desirable. Also, they tend to be a bit too buddypress centric as far as I can see.
