[buddypress-dev] testdrivewpmu.com now running latest

phlux0r phlux0r at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 04:22:33 GMT 2008 

Andy Peatling wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, that's how I'd expect it to work too so that's great.
> 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.
This sounds good too. However, my question was referring more to the 
control you have when you're on the main site with a BP install. My main 
site will have a member and blog list and site-wide tags, site wide 
latest posts  etc as well as main site posts (and we will even have a 
concept of external blogs which is an option we want to give our members 
who already have a blog elsewhere).  So, at the moment I'm using a few 
of the bp_ functions (like bp_get_field_data bp_user_full_name, 
bp_core_get_userid...) to get data on my home page and main site blog 
Since I want to display a user controls box as soon as someone logs into 
the site. The "Me" and "You" paradigm of the BuddyPress template won't 
quite work for my case but that's OK I can work around it and will 
create my own templates for the BP profile, messaging etc... features.
> 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.
Ok... I guess I'll have to see it. I will take the plunge, back 
everything up and try an upgrade this week and see what I need to change 
to get things working again.


Thanks for taking the time to answer all our questions here, much 
appreciated!

Regards,
Robert

> 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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