[buddypress-dev] testdrivewpmu.com now running latest

Andy Peatling andypeatling at automattic.com
Wed Sep 10 03:50:33 GMT 2008 

On 9-Sep-08, at 8:05 PM, phlux0r wrote:

> 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.

Basically, your home base does not function as a blog. From an end  
user's perspective there are no blogging features at all. The home  
base is where your profile, messages, group lists, friend lists are  
all kept. It's where other members and the public will go to view your  
details. It's your account home, a place where all your activity is  
aggregated.

> 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.

There are functions to check:

bp_is_home() - will return true if the current blog is the users home  
base.
$bp['loggedin_domain'] - will always contain the URL of the users home  
base.

In the admin area for the user, the users home base is indicated by a  
user icon, where as blogs have page icons. The home base admin area  
contains no blogging tabs. Any link back to an author on a blog  
comment, blog post, wire comment or anywhere on a BuddyPress install  
will link back to a users home base.

> 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?

In the latest build, all references to built in WordPress profile data  
have been removed. End users have no access to these input fields or  
the ability to view the data.

> 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.

Take a look at the friends_get_friends_list() function (http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-friends.php#L224 
). For now you could modify this function to list all members  
alphabetically. You'd just need to fetch all member ids, instead of  
just friend ids.

Cheers
Andy

>
> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> ---------
>>>>> Andy Peatling | Social Engineer | Automattic
>>>>> http://apeatling.wordpress.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
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