[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress] #2742: Allow group admins to choose a groups front page.

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#2742: Allow group admins to choose a groups front page.
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  Reporter:  modemlooper  |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  1.3
 Component:  Activity     |    Version:  1.3
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback
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Changes (by boonebgorges):

 * keywords:  needs-patch => has-patch dev-feedback


Comment:

 I took a swing at making home content configurable by user without having
 to change theme files. See 2742.patch.

 A couple considerations for when you look at this (as of yet only half-
 baked) patch:
 1) It adds a dropdown to group Admin > Group Settings. Seemed like the
 logical place
 2) To allow for maximum flexibility, especially in terms of group
 extensions, I build the dropdown menu dynamically. But I realized when I
 was done that this won't be good enough, because template names (eg
 groups/single/activity.php) are not enough to differentiate between
 multiple group extensions, which all use plugins.php and then populate the
 page with hooks. So my method won't work exactly. It suggests two possible
 solutions: (a) make it so that only core tabs (Members, Forum, Activity,
 Send Invites) can be Home (easy but lame), or (b) intercept the Home
 loading process higher up the chain so that things like current_action can
 be swapped out. One possibility is for example.com/groups/group-name/ to
 never actually resolve; it always gets redirected to the sub-page
 (...group-name/activity, ...group-name/members) that is set as the group
 home. Not sure what the SEO implications are for this move.
 3) As it stands, the patch doesn't directly address modemlooper's original
 goal, which was to allow arbitrary content on the Home page. But, when
 combined with a very simple implementation of the BP Group Extension API -
 one that has a static display() method and nothing else - it *does* solve
 the problem, in a theme-independent way.
 4) I haven't written the logic to deal with fallbacks when the selected
 Home component is disabled. Should be fairly trivial. Allowing group
 admins to disable the Activity tab should be trivial as well - just
 another checkbox on the Group Settings page.
 5) There is also the issue of which tabs are shown. Right now, the
 Activity tab is not shown on the group, because it's assumed that Home =
 Activity. As this patch stands, changing to Members (for example) makes
 group activity inaccessible. I kinda think that we should show all active
 tabs all the time, even if it means that two of them (eg Members and Home)
 show the same content. Or maybe we just get rid of the Home tab
 altogether.

 Feedback welcome. Is this patch a step in the right direction? Or is a
 more theme-specific approach more desirable?

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