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need help in making a social network website with buddypress.

tsnevgi
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@tsnevgi

8 years, 4 months ago

hello,
Myself Tejas Nevgi. I work as an intern in a startup company and trying to make a social networking type of website for them. I am kinda new to wordpress and buddypress so i’m kinda facing difficulties.
The website is a social networking type of website for painters, musicians and photographers. So we want an option for the users to select type of member they are and also what type of feeds they would like to receive. also, instead of friends we want followers. i have installed buddypress, installed a theme and found the plugin for followers and all. Got the login and registration also working. but i am kinda stuck this member type functionality. how do i get the users first to signup as an artist, musician or photographer and also let them choose the type of feeds they would like to receive. i tried making groups for each of them but then realised may be this isn’t the proper way to do it. or is it? pls help!
also, i want to have a custome login and registration page for the users with some of my images in the background. how do i do that?

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Slava Abakumov
Moderator

@slaffik

8 years, 4 months ago

You can use BuddyPress Member Types Generator plugin to create members types.

Or use BuddyPress Member Types plugin, they have a bit different functionality. The 2nd one seems to have more features.

Different “Types of feeds” is not easily achievable, only with custom coding.

Custom login and registration pages – lots of solutions for custom login. Custom registration page is limited to BuddyPress, there is no plugin, that can do anything with it. You will need to dive into templating and custom styles.

tsnevgi
Participant

@tsnevgi

8 years, 4 months ago

Thanks Slava. I kinda found one plugin for custom login though. but it cannot be fully customized. i guess i have to do with it for now. about the feeds, you sure there is no way to allow users to receive particular types of feeds?.. like say Paintings, Photography?

Slava Abakumov
Moderator

@slaffik

8 years, 4 months ago

Yes, I’m sure. Technically it can be done, but some coding will be involved, and that is not a 5 min task. As a starting point you can check this codex page.

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