Groups, Friends, Profile and Activity widgets

[sooskriszta]

Core should come with ready-to-deploy widgets that show a preview of a user's:

• groups
• friends
• profile/about
• activity

Naturally, these widgets only deliver an output on member profile pages. e.g. see attached wireframes...

[boonebgorges]

I like this idea. We can put it into a release when someone writes a patch for it.

[megainfo]

I write a patch for "my friends" and "my groups".

[megainfo]

A patch for friends widget

[megainfo]

A patch for groups widget

[megainfo]

Widget Member Groups JS Code

[megainfo]

Widget Member Groups JS Code minifed

[megainfo]

Widget Friends JS Code

[megainfo]

Widget Friends JS Code minified

[boonebgorges]

Thanks for the patches, megainfo - this looks like a good start. Moving to 1.9.

[williamsba1]

I updated the friends widget and migrated the code to a new bp-friends-widget.php file. I also cleaned it up a bit, verified proper escaping and sanitization, and only enqueue the JavaScript on the members profile page.

The group widget code still exists in the patch but hasn't been touched yet.

[boonebgorges]

In 7392:

Introduce Friends widget

This widget displays a list of the displayed user's friends, when viewing
a user's profile.

See #5008

Props megainfo, williamsba1

[boonebgorges]

I started working on the Groups version of this, but there are a number of UX and code-related issues that need to be sorted out with it.

• The JS and AJAX should be written in such a way that we don't need duplication between the different Groups widgets
• The language suggested for differentiating between the current (sitewide) Groups widget and this (member) Groups widget needs some work.

Punting to the next version for further work.

[sooskriszta]

Replying to boonebgorges:

The language suggested for differentiating between the current (sitewide) Groups widget and this (member) Groups widget needs some work.

Shall we call this one "My Groups" (or less happily "Member of") and the sitewide group widget "Groups list"?

[sooskriszta]

P.S. This Group widget should work even if Group Avatar is disabled per #4677 (in this case, it should simply offer a text list of the groups)

[sooskriszta]

I'm a little confused - is this "My Groups" widget available in the core? I don't see it but the ticket has been closed as fixed once or twice.

[DJPaul]

We're closing this ticket because it has not received any contribution or comments for at least two years. We have decided that it is better to close tickets that are good ideas, which have not gotten (or are unlikely to get) contributions, rather than keep things open indefinitely. This will help us share a more realistic roadmap for BuddyPress with you.

Everyone very much appreciates the time and effort that you spent sharing your idea with us. On behalf of the entire BuddyPress team, thank you.

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