My name is Boone Gorges and Teleogistic is my personal blog.
I am a PhD student in philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.
I am a WordPress developer specializing in BuddyPress. I am currently the lead developer for the CUNY Academic Commons
In a previous incarnation, I was an instructional designer at CUNY Queens College.
On this blog I talk about philosophy, technology, education, etc.
You can email me if you want to shoot the breeze. Combine my Twitter handle (located in the left sidebar of this page) with @gmail.com.
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Boone,
I saw that you helped a guy with the issue in the thread below:
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/more-privacy-options-private-blogs-and-activity-streams
I have been trying to solve that problem for my own site (http://bolagskartan.com/members/support/) for a long time. And I thought your post would solve the problem for good =). But, it did not work for me =(. But somehow, I believe you know the problem of this and I am therefore emailing you asking for help on this.
Any help appreciated!
Fredrik, I am working on a real plugin-based solution for version 1.2 of BuddyPress. I’ve got a more or less working copy on my test server, and it should be cleaned up and in the repo in the next week or so.
In the meantime, if you’re running version 1.1.x of BuddyPress, the core hack I describe here should work: http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/hidden-blog-posts-from-private-blogs-in-sidewide-activity-stream#post-32757
Sorry, it did not help.
Looking forward to your update/plugin.
Please let me know when it is ready.
HELP!!
Hello, Installed buddypress and get the following error.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_core_add_nav_item() in /home/content/14/4457114/html/wp-content/plugins/group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/bp-group-forum-subscription.php on line 500
I can’t login to my wordpress admin and going to the site directly results in the same message.
Hi Ron,
Bring your blog back by accessing your site via FTP and renaming, or deleting, bp-group-forum-subsciption.php.
As for why the problem happened: What version of BP are you running?
Hi Boone,
Just a quick question about getting accepted into the repository. I sent in a request on the 1st of March, and haven’t heard anything yet.
How long, in your experience, does it take for a new plugin application to be processed and accepted by WordPress, thus giving you access to the repository?
Thanks,
Chris.
Hi Chris,
It varies – a lot. Sometimes acceptance takes a few hours. The last time I submitted, I sent the request around 8pm, and the email was waiting for me the next morning. Sometimes it takes three or four days.
My understanding is that there’s one guy who handles the requests. He does it all manually, and there may be a certain extent to which he vets things. That doesn’t mean he rejects things haphazardly, but it might take a bit longer if it’s your first time submitting, as he might take more time to see if you’re legit (looking at the plugin URL you listed, for example) than he would for a regular contributor.
Good luck! – Boone
Great. Thanks for that. So I won’t scream just yet.
http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Is the best WP/BP education site I’ve ever seen.
I’m a fan!
Thanks, OEP!
Hi Boone,
maybe you could help me. I’m using the fantastic group subscription plugin for BP <1.2. It all works like a charm, but there is this certain serious problem, also described here: http://teleogistic.net/2009/09/new-buddypress-bbpress-plugin-group-forum-subscription/#comment-7486
I know that you closed support for this plugin version, but maybe you could give me a workaround for this problem (a piece of code or a hint, what and where to edit a database entry manually in order to get a user unsubscribed for sure)
Looking forward to your comment!
Nico from Cologne
Hi Neobond,
Unfortunately I can’t give you a quick fix. The way the plugin works is this: When a new forum topic is started in a group, the plugin checks each member of the group to see whether they are set to be automatically subscribed to new topics in that group. The relevant database entries would be in wp_usermeta, with meta_keys of the form gfs_14, where 14 is the group number. If that option is set to ‘yes’ (or 1 or something, I can’t remember), then it finds that user’s bb_favorites (another meta_key in wp_usermeta), which stores a comma-separated list of topic id numbers.
To unsubscribe someone from a topic in the db, edit their bb_favorites value to remove the relevant topic_id. That part is easy. The hard part is figuring out why they’re getting subscribed in the first place. Check the gfs_xx values to see if they are what you expect. If they read ‘no’ but people are still being subscribed, it means that something is broken in the plugin – but I’m afraid that I don’t have the time to go back and troubleshoot that kind of problem, as it might be fairly in-depth.
Good luck!
Hi Boone, thank you for developing very useful BuddyPress tools.
I am looking for paid support to fix your Import Blog Activity plugin in order to work on a plain WordPress installation (NOT mu).
Please get in touch with me whenever possible.
Thank you.
Hi Boone, How do I email you? I can’t find your email address here.
Boone,
I have a suggestion for your “Invite Anyone” plugin for BuddyPress: It would be really nice if we could have an option to enable/disable group invites on a per-group basis. What do you think?
Josh
Good idea, Josh. I will think about putting this into the next major release. Thanks for the feedback!
Hi Boone,
could you get back to me about a BuddyPress project I am looking to get done?
Thanks so much
James
Hi Boone,
I am not a web developer and just know basics. I just activated Group Forum Subscripton for BuddyPress 1.4.1 and it is not showing up under “Dashboard” or “Settings” like most plugins do when I activate them. Do I need to configure something on the backend? I can give you access to my admin site if you would like to take a look.
Thanks
Tanya
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