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.

Screenshots

Installation

1) unzip the bp-groupblog.zip file into /wp-contents/plugins/bp-groupblog

2) move all the themes in bp-groupblog/themes/ to your WP themes folder

3) activate the plugin

4) run through the admin setup options

5) You are done!

Reviews

Plugin works fine

Derin Tolu September 16, 2020

Requires WP-Multisite

No longer working

tinofave August 27, 2018

Does not work/display. Tried on various themes and WordPress installs. I keep giving this ONE star, but it automatically updates to five starts when I submit.

Plugin appears to be abandoned

chrtravels March 21, 2018

It’s unfortunately as this seems like a great plugin. Perhaps the developer should think about charging as this is the only plugin of it’s type that I can find. Not updated in 2 years and no support responses to anyone that I can see.

not working

thinkinginxyz October 25, 2017

If you have a modern version of Wordpress, dont bother to install it. It doesnt work.

an important plugin – not quite there

rkeogh2015 September 3, 2016

This plugin has great potential. The idea and demand is there, but the documentation and support is not. I would gladly pay for this plugin if it had better function and application documentation – which I am sure would reduce the demand on the support forum.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.9.3

• When a user leaves the group, remove them altogether from the group blog.
• Fix cache invalidation problem that caused a failed attempt to fetch a deleted group.
• Internal improvements to reduce direct database queries.
• Improved compatibility with PHP 8+.
• Improved compatibility with latest versions of WordPress.
• Improved translator comments.
• Improvements to inline documentation.

1.9.2

• Use group avatar on Site Directory for groupblogs, rather than creator user avatar.
• Allow query args for page butons on blog tab to be filtered.

1.9.1

• Fixed activity stream behavior for comments from non-logged-in comments.
• Fixed redirectblog behavior for hidden groups.
• Improved values passed to filters.
• PHP compatibility fixes.

1.9.0

• Bumped PHP requirement to 5.3 and BuddyPress requirement to 1.7.
• Added support for comment activity recording.
• Fixed activity pagination on BP groupblog templates.

1.8.13

• Bumped BuddyPress version requirement to 1.5
• Fix bugs related to groupblog role sync when joining/leaving a group
• Improved compatibility with BP 2.6+

1.8.12

• Improved accessibility for radio buttons
• Update group last_activity when groupblog post is created

1.8.11

• Removed duplicate CSS selector in nav item
• Improved compatibility with BuddyPress 2.2.0

1.8.9

• Allow some simple HTML in groupblog post titles in activity stream
• Add ‘new_groupblog_post’ type to activity filter dropdown

1.8.8

• Better wording for activity filter dropdown

1.8.7

• Prevent fatal error when blogs or activity component is disabled

1.8.6

• Don’t suggest blog domains longer than 63 characters, for better standards compliance

1.8.5

• Delete groupblog activity item when the groupblog post is deleted
• Improved compatibility with PHP 5.4+

1.8.4

• Fixes duplicate activity items on some setups
• Allows activity commenting based on global bp-disable-blogforum-comments setting
• Corrects activity link URL for groupblog activity items

1.8.3

• Improved CSS for theme previews
• Improves performance when setting up group with JS disabled

1.8.2

• Fixes problems with groupblog redirects
• Ensures that blog roles are repaired when users are banned or removed from a group

1.8.1

• Security improvements
• Fixes some markup, deprecated function calls, and PHP variable reference bugs
• Fixes a number of bugs related to group member syncing and groupblog URLs on certain setups

1.8

• Fixes bug with blog autojoin
• l18n improvements
• Fixes switch_to_blog() bug
• Impovements to consistency of menu display

1.7.1

• Refactors the process that adds members to group blog, to improve performance with large groups
• Fixes bug that caused blog post activity to be posted to the incorrect group on some setups

1.7

• Allows group admins to specify blog address and title at the time of creation
• Ensures that ‘Enable group blog’ checkbox is checked when returning from a failed blog creation
• Enables admins to ‘uncouple’ groups from blogs

1.6

• Compatibility with BuddyPress 1.5
• Cosmetic changes to the P2 BuddyPress to match the default BuddyPress
• Bug fixes related to blog autojoining

1.5

• Added support for subdomains, big thanks to Lemmy
• Added the ability to select layout for group admins
• Added check to make sure Layout options are only available to P2 BuddyPress theme
• Generated a new pot file

1.4.9

• Generated a new pot file

1.4.8

• Fixed readme
• Fixed template page creation on existent blogs with missing template pages or matching page titles.

1.4.7

• Fixed Blog tab visibility based on redirect
• Added code to set front page under ‘reading’ admin setting when template layout is used.
• Changed the descriptions a bit under the settings menu.

1.4.6

• Fixed users being added properly to the group blog.
• Fixed user rights applied to correct blog. The main blog is no longer affected.
• Fixed hidden and private groups to allow member joining.

1.4.5

• Overhaul of the admin section
• Inclusion for P2 support
• Variety of new options, including template control
• Made compatible with 3.0 asaik

1.4.4

• Sorry I neglected this plugin for a while and did not transcribe the changes.

1.4.3

• Restructed templating. To control the sidebar of your group, you will need to move the bp-groupblog/groupblog folder to buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/.

1.4.2

• Changed group template behavior and structure
• Added admin option to redirect to Blog Home within the Group

1.4.1

• Groupblog were not created for existing groups, now fixed
• Fixing the issue above also solved main blog posts within groups

1.4

• Made it compatible with WPMU 2.9 / BP 1.2
• Moved the moment when the blog is actually created to the group save step
• Updated the included theme to reflect the new BP Default theme
• Added new admin option, such validation overrides and redirect option

1.3.1

• Prevented group creator from demoting him/herself to anything lower than administrator.

1.3

• Reworked all the code regarding adding users to the groupblog
• Users are now immediately added on group join (No more visiting the blog first!)
• Promoting, Demoting, Banning and Unbanning directly adjusts the member permissions
• Big thanks goes out to Boone for developing much of the needed code!

1.2.4

• Added missing registration hook, to ensure default settings are set.

1.2.3

• Removed unnecessary code, fixing mysql errors.
• Added Blog links menu.
• Changed the local to use ‘groupblog’ in group template files.

1.2.2

• Added a function to check BuddyPress is loaded first

1.2.1

Updated language files

1.2

• Added admin settings screen. You can now set the default groupblog theme, plus some bonus options.
• Changed some code here and there.
• Including a groupblog theme based on the bp-sn-parent theme. You can use this theme to make wpmu blogs resemble the BuddyPress group and display group related content inside the groupblog theme.

1.1.6

• Added a message to inform the user that a groupblog is only chosen once.

1.1.5

• Fixed a bug where the member roles were not being updated upon group creation.

1.1.4

• Added file_exists to various files, so templates can be overridden in the theme. This also means we had to move the resource folders back into the theme folder.

1.1.3

• Now using plugin-template.php, so there is no longer a need to move the groupblog folder to the active theme folder. Also updating the plugin through the wordpress plugin interface now works without problems.

1.1.2

• Updated language files.

1.1.1

• Improved jquery handeling on check boxes and radio buttons.

1.1

• If a member leaves the group they will now be downgraded to ‘subscriber’.
• Added template tags: groupblog_blog_id($group_id), get_groupblog_blog_id($group_id), groupblog_group_id($blog_id), get_groupblog_group_id($blog_id)
• Group admin now has the option of either creating a new blog or associating one of his blogs with the new group.
• Moved css, images and js folders to the theme folder.
• Added Jquery to give feedback to user input.
• Fixed a bug which would cause the group creator to be demoted to subscriber of his own blog if member blogging.

1.0

• Initial release.

The changelog can also be found here:

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/log/bp-groupblog?verbose=on