BP Group Documents vs MediaPress

BP Group Documents creates a page within each BuddyPress group to upload and any type of file or document. This allows members of BuddyPress groups to upload and store files and documents that are relevant to the group. Documents can be edited and deleted either by the document owner or by the group administrator. Categories can be used to organize documents. Activity is logged in the main activity stream, and is also tied to the user and group activity streams. The site administrator can set filters on file extensions, set display options. Group members and moderators can receive email notifications at their option. The group administrator can decide if all members or only admins/moderators can upload documents (Since v0.5) User verification for Downloads: when a document is downloaded, a redirect page checks is the user is member of the group (in case of a private or hidden groups) and only then the user can download the file.(Since v0.5) For private networks, see the FAQ “I have a members only network. How to disable file download for non members?” . 4 Widgets: “User’s groups documents”, “Recent Uploads” , “Popular Downloads”, can be used to show activity at a glance. If the theme support different sidebars for group pages, the BP_Group_Documents_CurrentGroup_Widget can be used to show current group’s documents. Contributions by Lena Stergatou, with additional bug fixes and improvements by Keeble Smith (http://keeblesmith.com) and Anton Andreasson work for BP 1.7. Original plugin author was Peter Anselmo. PLEASE: If you have any issues or it doesn’t work for you, please report in support forum. It doesn’t help anyone to mark “broken” without asking around. Thanks! Notes Roadmap.txt – contains ideas proposed and the (approximate) order of implementation History.txt – contains all the changes since version .1 License.txt – contains the licensing details for this component.

MediaPress is a modern media gallery solution for WordPress & BuddyPress. At the moment, MediaPress is almost(We need you to decide) the best option available for BuddyPress photo gallery, BuddyPress video gallery, BuddyPress audio and BuddyPress documents gallery. If you are looking for a lightweight, feature rich BuddyPress Media Gallery solution that provides pleasant experience for your users, Please give a try to MediaPress. MediaPress has modular architecture, that makes it easier for developers to extend while keeping the code simple to maintain. It is built to be reliable, scalable, secure and flexible. We have worked hard to make it easy to use and we will love your feedback in making it better. MediaPress core comes packed with powerful features, some of which are listed below:- For WordPress:- WordPress Sitewide Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Audio Gallery, Document Gallery Front End Gallery Creation and upload Allows adding videos from youtube, vimeo facebook etc to BuddyPress Activity and Gallery. Add remote media using link(oembed or direct link to remote file). Most awesome Gallery creation & Management via Dashboard(try and you will love it) Flexible Privacy for photo, video, audio and other media types Easily extensible Gallery/Media Views If you are a theme designer, you can rewrite whole layout using your own templates Extensive admin options We will improve it a lot more for WordPress in future MediaPress gives full control to the site admins while making it easier for them/their users to upload media. For BuddyPress, MediaPress provides following features:- BuddyPress activity wall upload for videos/audio/photos/documents BuddyPress Photo Gallery, BuddyPress Video Gallery, BuddyPress Audio Gallery and Document Gallery for users and groups Add youtube video, facebook video, photo etc to BuddyPress/WordPress(using oembed). Add video, photos from another server using link. Highly flexible privacy system (Inbuilt support for public, private, logged in, friends only, groups only, following only, followers only privacy) Drag and Drop Uploader Easy to extend API for other components Easy to extend API to support new media types Multiple Layout for media(Grid, playlist, list) Playlist view support for audio/Video Galleries Shortcode for everything you want(almost). Widgets to help you list galleries, media, playlist , audio etc. Extensive admin options. Are you a developer? Here is a short list of things you can do with few lines of code:- Use a different storage manager( we support local uploads in core, you can write one for the cloud, check core/storage/storage-manager.php for details) Add support for a new Media Type. Write a custom media loop using MPP_Media_Query Write your own custom Gallery loop/list using MPP_Gallery_Query We have also got some nice developer documentation ready for you and more will keep coming in future. Links MediaPress Site Demo Support Github Development Repo API Guides Admin Guide API Reference – progressing Template Tags Uploader Javascript Event Lifecycle Lighbox Javascript API More to come soon. Let us build MediaPress together We are working on the next version of MediaPress that uses a different uploader and allows adding media with the activity comments too. Our expectation is to have it by the end of the year. Please help us create it better by testing the plugin from https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress and providing your suggestions at BuddyDev support forum or our github repo. If you are looking to extend MediaPress further, we have some free and paid addons for you Extending with Addons Here are some of our available addons for MediaPress. MediaPress Media Moderator MediaPress Media View Counter – Free MediaPress Media Rating – Free MediaPress Featured Content – Free MediaPress Set Profile Photo – Free MediaPress myCRED Addon – Free MediaPress Downloadable Media MediaPress Upload Terms of Service MediaPress S2Member Storage Limit MediaPress Flexible Storage Limit MediaMark:- Watermarking solution for MediaPress MediaPress Paid Memberships Pro Restrictions more coming soon Looking for more powerful BuddyPress plugins? Check out our list of amazing BuddyPress plugins. We are here to help with everything you need with MediaPress. Please use BuddyDev community forum or premium forums for support(We support both free & paid members without any differentiation ). MediaPress is young, If there is a feature that you need, please let us know at our forums. We will be happy to have it if it is going to help the community. MediaPress is a community project and we welcome all contributions, be it with Ideas, technical or anything you deem fit. If you are a developer, let us work together. Please use github repo for development. BuddyPress & MediaPress Maintenance & Custom development If you need any assistance with setting up or adding new features to BuddyPress or MediaPress, Our team is available for hire. Please use our BuddyPress Development Services for any custom development needs.