[buddypress-dev] Re-activation

[Buzz Lightyear]

Hi Chris,
i like the idea of BP template tags... That'd make things lot easier

BTW. great site of yours at beatbase ;) Let me register and upload my 
stuff..

buzz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Taylor - stillbreathing.co.uk" <mrwiblog at gmail.com>
To: <buddypress-dev at lists.automattic.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [buddypress-dev] Re-activation


> Hi,
>
> Good to see this back in use. Well done on reaching version 1, Andy.
>
> I'd love to see easier integration of bbPress, in fact I've only
> successfully got it to share cookie with a WPMU installation once -
> and I'm not sure how I did that. Every other time has failed. A
> click-once integration would be fantastic, not just for BuddyPress,
> but for WPMU generally.
>
> Regarding themes, it may be an idea to make it even easier for people
> to integrate BP with their existing WPMU installs though the use of
> BP-specific template tags. You may have this already, but something
> like bp_users_online() that spits out HTML with user icons. Or
> bp_latest_groups(), which is pretty obvious what that does. That way
> people don't have to recode their WPMU themes using the BP skeleton
> theme (as I am currently doing for http://beatsbase.com).
>
> The problem then is the members profile page, groups page etc. Perhaps
> some larger-scale template tags could be created which output standard
> HTML layouts for those features. Again, that's so people just have to
> add in one line of code where they want the stuff to be. It may be
> tricky to make that work, but I do think saying to existing WPMU
> webmasters "just drop these plugins into a directory, then add one
> line of code for groups, member profiles and other stuff" would be
> really powerful.
>
> I'll no doubt have more ideas when I get BP up and running on a live site.
>
> By the way, I'm working on a few plugins for WPMU at the moment
> including a statistics system, secure invites (already released:
> http://wpmudev.org/project/secure-invitations), events, a newsletter
> system for each blog, and most usefully for MU developers a plugin
> that will automatically create demo users and blogs based on some
> parameters.
>
> Chris
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