[buddypress-dev] testdrivewpmu.com now running latest

[phlux0r]

I see your predicament here, fair enough. So essentially, your home base 
is an empty blog but your actual blog is another blog you would create 
once you're signed up.
I guess my immediate concerns are whether you can clearly distinguish 
the home base from the actual member blog. For my current project, I've 
made the previous Buddypress release work reasonably well so now I will 
need to see how much of my stuff will break. As long as I can find the 
member profiles and member blog(s) and retrieve profile and blog data, 
I'll be OK.

Now another thing that is a slight annoyance is the author profile data 
in the WP admin. Unfortunately it doesn't "sync" up with the BP profile 
data and could be confusing for the average member. Can this be 
addressed somehow? It would be good if, at least, we could hide some of 
the WP author profile data fields so that they are less confusing. In 
the front end, all my author links go to the BP profile anyhow. Ideally, 
it would be cool to "mirror" at least the First / Last Name fields and 
set the display_name to fn ln on sign-up. This would make the admin for 
users more consistent as well...

Well, I hope I'm not ranting too much here but these things are concerns 
I can see come up when using BP. I'm also quite happy to fiddle with the 
code to sync the BP profile data with the WP author profile if that is 
the way to go as long as I can get some pointers as to what I need to do 
for that. This could also mean that at least a member list with names 
can be generated much more efficiently than now.

Kind regards,
Robert

Andy Peatling wrote:
> On 9-Sep-08, at 6:55 PM, phlux0r wrote:
>
>> But Andy, couldn't you keep the original Mu option on sign-up where 
>> users can choose if they want a blog or just an account and then 
>> create a blog if they select that option? That would be the optimal 
>> way in my view. Of course they will always have the option to create 
>> a blog later if they haven't chosen so on sign-up.
>
> This would be a nice way of doing it, but it would require a lot more 
> work than that. When creating a BuddyPress account, you are actually 
> creating a blog regardless of your choice, but it's used as a home 
> base. The signup would have to be changed to you could create two 
> blogs at the same time.
>
> Perhaps in a future version this can be done, but at the moment this 
> should work for most people.
>
> Cheers
> Andy
>
>
>
>> Andy Peatling wrote:
>>> When you signup with BuddyPress, you are always signing up for an 
>>> account first. You will not get a blog until you specifically create 
>>> one once you log in.
>>>
>>> I've filed a bug for this as the wording needs to be changed on the 
>>> "Give me a blog" part of the signup form.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9-Sep-08, at 6:03 PM, Jed Barish wrote:
>>>
>>>> I signed up but still have to create a blog sign up again. I was 
>>>> given the subdomain name when I first registered then create a blog 
>>>> which it asked for a subdomain name. Why do I need to do that. In 
>>>> the backend, it still asked to create a blog even I did. I dont 
>>>> think its worked on testdrivewpmu.com with updates.
>>>>
>>>> Jed
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Andy Peatling" <andypeatling at automattic.com>
>>>> To: buddypress-dev at lists.automattic.com
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 7:54:47 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada 
>>>> Central
>>>> Subject: [buddypress-dev] testdrivewpmu.com now running latest
>>>>
>>>> http://testdrivewpmu.com is now running the latest version of
>>>> BuddyPress.
>>>>
>>>> To keep things simple, accounts have been reset and the base install
>>>> of WPMU wiped and upgraded.
>>>>
>>>> You will need to sign up again if you'd like to test. This should
>>>> (fingers crossed) be the last time this needs to be done.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Andy
>>>>
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