BuddyPress Groups Extras vs TDLC Birthdays

BuddyPress Groups doesn’t have much-predefined content inside. Forums and activities are created (or not) by users. But most of the time group creators (aka administrators) have much more to say or explain to other members of the community. BuddyPress Groups Extras will give the ability to them to create extra content. General Choose groups you want to allow custom fields and pages. Define who will have access to managing fields or pages in groups (groups admins or site admins or both). Create a predefined Set of Fields that can be imported to all groups on a site OR can be imported on a per-group basis. Tweak various options, like enabling Rich Editor. Drag-n-drop groups nav menu items as you wish (Fields and Pages can be your new group front page!). Custom Group Fields Create custom fields using various types (radios, checkboxes, dropdown select, textarea, and text). Edit fields data on Edit Group Details page in Group Admin area. Display/hide page, where all groups fields will be displayed (and rename it too). Reorder fields. Custom Group Pages Create group pages (for group FAQ or wiki, or events, or descriptions or whatever you want). Edit page data in the Group Admin area using WordPress RichEditor (with embedding content that WordPress supports!). Display/hide page, where all group pages will be displayed (and rename it too). Reorder pages. Make your groups full of possibilities!

Update: I’ve revamped the plugin and improved it’s security, performance and styling. And also, I’m in the middle of adding a feature to send out Birthday Emails to members. You will see that I’ve created a settings page, and also most of the code has been created. However, I’ve ran out of time to get this completed, for now, and thought I’d send out the updated plugin, as it’s now significantly improved. This is a Plugin that creates a multi-instance ‘Birthdays’ Widget that you can use in your Buddypress pages. Once you’ve created a datebox field in the Buddypress profiles and referenced it in the TLDC Birthdays widget settings, the widget will display the list of either all BP users or just the connected user’s friends whose birthday is today and also, if you like, the list of upcoming birthdays within the next n days. Plugin now supports Andy Peatling’s Buddypress Followers plugin when installed, so that you can also track the birthdays of people you follow. So to sum up, in order to get things to work, you’ll need : A birthday field in the Buddypress extended profile settings Users to fill it out in their profiles The TDLC Birthdays widget properly installed and set up (see Installation) Features : Display only friends, or followed people (if BuddyPress Followers plugin is installed), or everybody’s birthday Display upcoming birthdays within a range of your choice, or just today’s birthdays Hide or show ages Optionally suggest your users to fill out their birth date if not already done Multiple widget instances now supported ! Remarks: Localized! Currently English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish languages are included. Many thanks to the translators! Sounds obvious but in “display friends only” mode, as you only see your friend’s birthdays, you wont see your own birthday in the widget. This does not mean that your friends don’t see it either! Same thing goes with the Followers option. Settings In order to get the widget working, you need to fill out the Birthday field Name (or ID). The Birthday field must have been previously created in the Buddypress profile page (and it should be a datebox type field). Of course, the users must also fill it out on their profile pages… The other settings are self-explanatory (or at least I hope so). Known Issues Some translations are incomplete. The new strings related to the ‘Followers’ plugin support added in v0.2.5 is not translated yet except for French and English. If you find any other bugs or want to request some additional features for future releases (which I may consider if I’ve got time), please post a comment on the plugin homepage.