Comments on: BuddyPress plugins running on the CUNY Academic Commons

By: April

April — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:31:22 +0000

Thanks, Boone. I’m not thrilled at plain text posts in the integrated forums and it may be asking too much of my users to use shortcode. WYSIWYG would be a great help for them. I look forward to any solution you may come up with.

~April

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:30:49 +0000

April – You can try the unofficial but mostly working (I think) version of TinyMCE posted here: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/tinymce-for-buddypress-works-for-12-as-well/#post-42520. Other than that, I don’t think anyone has come up with a great solution. If I get time, I will figure it out myself sometime soon and try to make something more stable.

By: April

April — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:21:29 +0000

Gah, not Mark but Boone. Sheesh. Sorry about that! : )

By: April

April — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:20:48 +0000

Hi Mark,

I’ve always enjoyed the openness of your site and the content you provide the larger community. I find myself wondering, though, if there is a plugin or fix for BP Forums that would allow a better (or any) type of text editor for both forum posts and replies. You noted above that the TinyMCE editor does not work well and that is the only option I’ve been able to find. Do you have any suggestions on workarounds?

Thanks!
April

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:37:28 +0000

Hi Mark, Thanks for the congrats! I haven’t noticed any problems with Groupblog specific to a recent update. What versions of WP/BP/GB are you running? I have to do some cleaning up on my production installation in the next few days, so if I stumble across any problems or fixes I will certainly pass them along.

By: Mark Schafer

Mark Schafer — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:54:08 +0000

hey Boone, it’s been a while. Congrats on the wedding/honeymoon thing. I’m wondering how the GroupBlog is performing for you. For a while now (weeks, maybe months), I’ve lost the automatic credentialing of group members on the blog. And the making a groupblog during initial group creation fails (i’m using subdomains). Groups can only either be associated with an existing blog Or a groupblog can be created from scratch through the group admin (as long it’s after the Group has been created). Are either of these items issues for you? Mariusooms has acknowledged the problem with the creation of groupblogs during the initial group formation (on subdomains). Did you edit the plugin so that it no longer gives the option for a group blog during the creation of a group? Until this is fixed, it seems to be less confusing than prompting for an action that won’t work at this time. If you did edit the code on the plugin to remove the option of creating a groupblog during group setup, please pass on your fix for this and for the automatic credentialing issue mentioned above.

By: Boone Gorges

Boone Gorges — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:14:50 +0000

Sarah – There is a pretty good amount of custom functionality built into bp-custom.php and our theme’s functions.php. Nothing huge, though. bp-custom.php defines a modified “Who’s Online” widget, reproduces a couple of old bbPress functions, and does this stuff. functions.php contains a language domain definition, fixes of a couple BP core quirks/bugs, registers a few new sidebars, modifies a few plugins, and tweaks the body classes a little bit. Our theme is a child of bp-default and probably overwrites about 1/4 of bp-default’s template files. I think I have some minor jQuery spread through those files to make various things work.

As for WPMU plugins – there are a bunch running but most are not really integral to the way the site works (contact form plugins, video plugins, etc).

In general I’ve tried to stick pretty close to BP’s core setup, which was especially important during the first few stable versions of BP – BP’s core code was changing very quickly and I didn’t want to be at the whim of other plugin devs for key functionality.

I guess we must be doing something right if it looks to the outsider like there’s some magic behind the scenes :)

By: Sarah Gooding

Sarah Gooding — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:05:42 +0000

Wow that seems a lot leaner than I imagined for that site! Are there a lot of custom functions that you have included in other files so as not to have to load up on plugins? Do you have double that number in WPMU plugins running on there?