How to Allow Users to Upload Outside of Buddypress

BuddyPress Activity+

INACTIVE NOTICE: This plugin is unsupported by WPMUDEV, nosotros've published it here for those technical types who might want to fork and maintain it for their needs.

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Fast powerful prototype, video and link sharing for BuddyPress.

Integrate easy admission to video, image and link sharing.

Like shooting fish in a barrel Sharing

Add a set of buttons that make it easy to share content from across the web. Simplify video embed, photo sharing and content linking. Preview embedded content before posting, add together your ain commentary and auto-pull titles, descriptions and thumbnails. In that location's no configuration needed – merely activate the plugin and allow your users to start sharing.

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Use a congenital-in mode or create your own.

Styles That Fit

Choose one of the included button fashion that all-time fits your theme. Button designs include Legacy, Mod and rounded. Or follow the simple customization guide and craft buttons that perfectly fit your pattern aesthetic.

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Autofill title and clarification and choose a thumbnail.

Consummate Command

Configuration tools are super like shooting fish in a barrel to utilize from toggle theme and alignment selection to oEmbed and thumbnail size setup. All the BuddyPress Activity + settings can be accessed from one unproblematic settings page.

Usage

To Become Started:

Start by reading Installing Plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Transmission if you are new to WordPress.

To Install:

i. Download the plugin file

2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard bulldoze

3. Upload the _/_buddypress-action-plus**/** binder and all its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ binder on your site

4. Login to your admin panel for WordPress or Multisite and activate the plugin:

On regular WordPress installs - visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
For WordPress Multisite installs - visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Actuate the plugin.

5. Once installed and activated, you will encounter a new carte item in your admin at Settings > Activity Plus.

Configuring Settings

Bones settings can be configured at Settings > Activity Plus.

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1. Theme
2. Alignment
three. oEmbed Width
4. Image thumbnail dimensions

ane. Select aTheme to be used for the icons.

ii. Choose theAlignment, either Left or Right. This alignment setting will be used for the posted media.

3. Specify theoEmbed Width, which will be the width of any media files such as videos. The height of the media will adjust to accommodate the width.

4. Specify thePrototype thumbnail dimensions, both Width and Height, to exist used for thumbnail images for the posted media. Now permit's take a look at further customization options.

Usage and Customization

You tin can also use custom icons in your theme, simply use add_theme_support("bpfb_toolbar_icons"); in your functions.php, copy over the rules from css/bpfb_toolbar.css and edit to suit your needs. Alternatively, if you're OK with 32x32 icon sizes, y'all tin just override the icons in your stylesheet using background property and !of import. These are the IDs: #bpfb_addPhotos, #bpfb_addVideos, #bpfb_addLinks, #bpfb_addDocuments You can too set your preferred thumbnail size separately from your default thumbnail size settings, if you wish to practise so. You lot can do that by adding this line to your wp-config.php: define('BPFB_THUMBNAIL_IMAGE_SIZE', '200x200'); Where "200x200" are width and summit (in that guild), in pixels. Finally, exist sure to verify your default sizes for embedded media. It'south in Settings -> Media -> Embeds -> Maximum embed size There are a few boosted constants that you tin can override in your wp-config.php file to further customize how the plugin functions. Add the following to wp-config.php to override oEmbed width: define('BPFB_OEMBED_WIDTH', 450, truthful); Add the following to wp-config.php to increase/subtract the number of immune images per activity particular: define('BPFB_IMAGE_LIMIT', 5, true); Add together the post-obit to wp-config.php to open links in a new window: ascertain('BPFB_LINKS_TARGET', true);

User Feel

Here are a few screenshots of what this plugin could look like on your site for your users (depending on your theme of grade).

Adding an image to an activity update.

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Adding a video to an activity update.

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Adding a link to an activity update.

Calculation a link to an activity update.

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Known Issues

When using the plugin in combination with BuddyPress Media, a disharmonize can arise due to the activity stream upload, since both the plugins are trying to upload media through the activity stream. If you want to use the BuddyPress Activity Plus functionality, uncheck "Enable Activity Uploading" on the BuddyPress Media Settings Folio.