Plugin / BuddyPress Groupblog

Description

Requires BuddyPress 1.7+ and PHP 5.3+.

The BuddyPress Groupblog plugin extends the group functionality by enabling each group to have a single blog associated with it. Group members are automatically added to the blog and will have blog roles as set by the groupblog admin settings.

Features:

• P2 integration and frontend posting.
• Admin can set Template specific groupblogs.
• Allow group admins choose the desired template page themselves.
• Full blog theme integration. The included bp-groupblog theme mimics the group pages.
• Automated blog registration at group creation stage.
• Bypass default blog validation to allow dashes, underscores, numeral only and minimum character count.
• Blog privacy settings are initially inherited from group privacy settings.
• Group members are automatically added to the blog.
• Blog roles match group roles as set by the group admin.
• Solid error checking that the blog follows validation.
• Group admin tab to access the group-blog settings.
• Blog themes will have the ability to pull in group info and create a theme that could resemble the group exactly.
• Leaving the group will downgrade the member role to ‘subscriber’.
• Allow the group admin to select one of his/her existing blogs.

• A new ajax backend.
  Known Issues:

• In order for Group Avatars to show on blogs please adjust the bp-core-avatars.php file. I realize this is a nono, but I don’t see another way. Patches and ideas are welcome. For know adjust the last two functions for plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php to the following:

  /**

  • bp_core_avatar_upload_path()
  • Returns the absolute upload path for the WP installation
  • @global object $current_blog Current blog information
  • @uses wp_upload_dir To get upload directory info

  • @return string Absolute path to WP upload directory
    */
    function bp_core_avatar_upload_path() {
    global $current_blog;

    // Get upload directory information from current site
    $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();

    // If multisite, and current blog does not match root blog, make adjustments
    if ( bp_core_is_multisite() && BP_ROOT_BLOG != $current_blog->blog_id )
    $upload_dir[‘basedir’] = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads/’;

    return apply_filters( ‘bp_core_avatar_upload_path’, $upload_dir[‘basedir’] );
    }

  /**

  • bp_core_avatar_url()
  • Returns the raw base URL for root site upload location
  • @global object $current_blog Current blog information
  • @uses wp_upload_dir To get upload directory info

  • @return string Full URL to current upload location
    */
    function bp_core_avatar_url() {
    global $current_blog;

    // Get upload directory information from current site
    $upload_dir = wp_upload_dir();

    // If multisite, and current blog does not match root blog, make adjustments
    if ( bp_core_is_multisite() && BP_ROOT_BLOG != $current_blog->blog_id )
    $upload_dir[‘baseurl’] = WP_CONTENT_URL . ‘/uploads’;

    return apply_filters( ‘bp_core_avatar_url’, $upload_dir[‘baseurl’] );
    }