Settings enhancement thoughts for 1.3

[johnjamesjacoby]

For 1.3 I'd like to flesh out bp-settings along with bp-xprofile; they have such similar qualities that doing both side-by-side or at least having two teams tightly in sync with each other, would be a good idea.

I would personally like to see settings be more than just for users. If bp-settings has an API behind it, then anything can tap into it, similar to the way the activity stream does for users and groups. I think that every component (groups, activity, users, blogs, forums) has or could have settings, as well as blogs and even the entire BuddyPress installation.

A BuddyPress specific domain.com/settings/ page (password protected or role based access control) would be a nice way to avoid going into the depths of wp-admin for anything BuddyPress related.

[DJPaul]

Switching to future release as there is unlikely to be time for this in 1.3, plus we need to review exactly what this ticket is proposing.

[r-a-y]

I'm in favor of something like this; we'd also need to make sure current things like the edit avatar screen are properly moved over to this Settings API.

FWIW, I've been hacking together a universal settings template for a theme I'm working on (merging the current settings pages + profile subnav items), however the permalinks are all different ;)

[johnjamesjacoby]

Our current settings component is exactly this, using BuddyPress existing API's for extending existing components. Closing as fixed and moving into the 1.5 milestone when Settings was properly introduced.