Hey everyone,

i’ve build something in my spare time the last months, which is now finally open for beta-testing.
the project is called »plazaa«. On plazaa you can rate/review/recommend locations in german cities (5 currently).

plazaa: http://plazaa.de
Profile example: http://plazaa.de/profil/poolie/
A location: http://plazaa.de/koeln/restaurants/italienisch/rosticceria-massimo/

It’s running WPMU and the latest BuddyPress version.
Most of the work was on the templates and of course the functions.php

There are around 10+ plugins in use, like GD Star Rating (Star-Rating), YOURLS (plaz.es url shortener), Search Everything (going to look for other solutions probably), Invite Anyone, SEO for BP, W3 Total Cache ..and some more

I would like to thank all people who contribute a lot of good code in the bp-forums, which helped me a lot (i’m a designer, not really a coder).

Any feedback is appreciated.

ps: don’t create too many fake accounts, thanks
pps: yes, it’s german

[@thelandman Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@poolie, that’s a quality design! Nice work. Good to see more people not sticking to the default buddypress interface. Plazaa is a complete face lift. I like it *thumbs up*

[@skolbloggense Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Impressive! Cant believe its BuddyPress

[@antonrsa Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@poolie – awesome! I feel more like an amateur now

[@lph2005 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Wow. The site is impressive. Congratulations.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Very nice, like the profile pages layout.

Thanks for making me feel depressed

[@el_terko Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

If @antonrsa and @hnla feel like amateurs or depressed, what`s left for us mortals ?

@poolie your site is an excellent example of the wonderful things that can be made with buddypress. And how far I am of achieving this. Ich mochte dich congratulieren.

[@poolie Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

thanks a lot guys!
since it’s the first day of the public beta, i still have to debug some stuff tonight.

@el_terko that was almost perfect german, danke

[@ekine Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Okay, jetzt weiß ich… dass ich nichts über wordpress+buddypress weiß. ^^ Good work!

[@poolie Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@ekine ach komm.. and thanks!

[@svenl77 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@poolie, habe mich gerade bei platzaa angemeldet. Tolle Seite! Sehr schön! Werde mich da als Düsseldorfer gerne beteiligen und meine Bewertungen und vielleicht ein paar Locations eintragen.

Schön, schön und noch mal, schön! Die erste Buddypress Seite, die ich im Leben wohl benutzen werde…

[@poolie Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@Svenl77 vielen dank! würde mich sehr freuen, düsseldorf ist im moment noch ein wenig leer
und auch danke für das tolle seo plugin!

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@poolie –

es gefällt mir viel. Sehr gut gemacht.

Was haben sie benützt für den Locations? Sind Sie WordPress Custom Post Types?

[@poolie Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@rogercoathup no, they are normal blogposts actually
with wordpress 3 you could use custom post types of course, but i didn’t need them.

[@paulhastings0 Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Agh. I can’t understand anybody! I need to learn German now. Awesome BuddyPress theme though. I hope you use your skills and creativity to create more.

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@poolie: Ah klar, ich verstehe. Die Felder gehen Direkt von TDO-Mini-Forms in den Custom Fields.

Was ist auch klar … es vielen Jahren seit ich Deutsch gesprochen habe

@paulhastings0: yes, we should all have a little German, a little Spanish, a little Mandarin, and although it pains me to admit it, a little French. I was also saying how great the site looks. It’s good to see something well designed and focussed on the user experience.

[@hnla Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@rogercoathup Yeah but I notice you couldn’t write “WordPress custom post” in German
poor show

[@rogercoathup Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

@hnla ja ja stimmt! I thought long and hard about that, but decided proper names and all shouldn’t be translated… Honest guv!

[@konrads Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

wow, just registered and had a first look. very inspiring fresh design and use of buddypress. nice work!

[@chrixhh Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

the site looks great! What kind of gallery plugin did you use? Is it self-hosted or somewhere else?

[@poolie Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

the gallery plugin is self coded. i host it on a root server at hetzner.de

[@chrixhh Participant 14 years, 3 months ago]

Good job! Would you provide us – the community – that plugin? I looked for several solutions and couldn´t really find anything small but nice that fits my requirements. I´m looking for a simple gallery tool that offers users to make pictures or galleries public or privat, that has a category tag-function (e.g. this picture belongs to the category “nightlife”) and that includes some other stuff like automatic resizing, multi-upload, widget-displaying…etc…
Any other good idea (anybody)? Any exeriences with the BP-Gallery plugin? Is there a stable version available yet? http://buddydev.com/buddypress/bp-gallery-beta-available-now-download-test-and-enjoy/

[@asshu Member 14 years, 2 months ago]

I like it

[@poolie Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

we have relaunched the homepage and a lot more.
you can also vote for us at the wordpress showcase https://wordpress.org/showcase/plazaa/

[@javiarques Member 13 years, 3 months ago]

Absolutely amazing, the best Buddypress work i’ve ever seen!!!!
Contratulations @poolie !!!!

[@poolie Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

thank you @javiarques