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Does anyone else think BuddyPress is a confusing mess?
Public Group active 9 months, 2 weeks agoIt could just be me – or is it bloody hard to make sense of how BP works?
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Matt O’Brien posted an update in the group
Does anyone else think BuddyPress is a confusing mess?: 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Here’s the answer to all of your problems: http://www.buddyboss.com
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Dave posted an update in the group
“Confusing mess” is maybe a bit strong, but I’m suffering from some confusion on first look. Its the ‘group’ object I think that causes most of it. There is only one forum per group, so why have the group object at all – why not just have forums? I guess it enables a dialog, like this one, without creation of a forum topic. But the group…[Read more]
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Yes. That’s why I made a super-simple theme at http://www.buddyboss.com. It’s like no other BuddyPress theme you’ve seen.
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Andy Peatling posted an update in the group
No, but perhaps if you explained your problem a bit more we can help you out.
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Groups are containers. They can have a forum and be extended with lots of extra functionality. A group could have a gallery, file repository, wiki, activity stream as well as a plain old forum.
Ok. I didn’t know that. I think any confusion is because we are familiar with the concept of a ’forum’ and ’user’ (and have pre-formed expectations), but not a ’group’. So it may need a bit more explanation. Sorry can’t be more constructive – short of time…
Why are people freaking out this is how 400 million facebook users deal with facebook. On facebook the groups are called pages. Each page as an activity stream, forum, photo galleries.
I think the problem is not with the concept of a group, but how the default skin presents things.
e.g I come to this site. I click on ‘Forums’. I see a list of the latest topics. Cool. I click on one and see a page dominated by an image and description of the group. The thing I clicked on – the thing I was interested in and wanted to see – is…[Read more]
You can change that text to whatever you want.