TimCarey

<p>Creates a bp Group Frontpage from a form BuddyPress Group Admins can fill out. Like a book cover. For instance group banner image, large description, and links. Compatible with Suffusion child theme with Suffusion buddy pack and BP compatible themes.</p>
<h3>Info Before Activation</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin is designed for use with network sites or MU site in conjunction with buddypress</li>
<li>Buddy Press 1.2.7 or greater should be activated prior to activation of this plug in. </li>
<li>bp Album+ should be activated prior to activation of this plug in. </li>
<li>works on most buddy press compatible themes. </li>
<li>Now fully functional with the buddy press default theme. </li>
<li>Background colors and other frontpage settings relating to the looks can be simply adjusted by changing the included CSS document.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To Come Eventually</h3>
<ol>
<li>The ability for group Admins to be able to add up to 4 more ad hoc areas by choosing number of ad hoc areas from a drop down..</li>
<li>A menu under the buddy press menu in the website admin for this plug in.  There would be the ability for the site admin to set the text 2 welcome screens.  One welcome screen is for the group admin who just started the group and the other welcome screen is notifying users that the group is still being created.  </li>
<li>The ability to rearrange frontpage items.</li>
<li>The addition of an advanced admin menu to be able to create and edit CSS style sheets in group frontpage group admin settings.</li>
<li>Frontpage setting to be in its own and main menu of being with another and possibly having its own creation step when a group is created.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Adding Custom Style to A Group</h3>
<ol>
<li>Note: Group Frontpage styles only affect the group frontpage styles and not every page of the group.</li>
<li>Make a copy of the group frontpage default CSS document through FTP to your computer.  ( Default CSS file name is: bp-group-frontpage-css.css ).  The directory where this is stored is /wp-content/plugins/bp-group-frontpage/css.</li>
<li>Rename this copy and based on the name of the group it is intended for.  If your group name is My Group, then your file will be bp-group-f-my-group-css.css.  Notice that there is the addition of minus signs ( – ) between each word of your group name and the entire file name is lower case.  And the word frontpage is truncated two just the letter f. </li>
<li>Edit the file for your group and save.  </li>
<li>FTP your new file into the same directory as the default file.</li>
</ol>


BP Group Frontpage

Creates a Group Frontpage from a form BuddyPress Group Admins fill out. Like a book cover.

BuddyDev

Brajesh Singh

Ravi Sharma

Press Programmer

<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>MediaPress has modular architecture, that makes it easier for developers to extend while keeping the code simple to maintain.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>MediaPress core comes packed with powerful features, some of which are listed below:-</p>
<h4>For WordPress:-</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress Sitewide Photo Gallery, Video Gallery, Audio Gallery, Document Gallery</li>
<li>Front End Gallery Creation and upload</li>
<li>Allows adding videos from youtube, vimeo facebook etc to BuddyPress Activity and Gallery.</li>
<li>Add remote media using link(oembed or direct link to remote file).</li>
<li>Most awesome Gallery creation & Management via Dashboard(try and you will love it) </li>
<li>Flexible Privacy for photo, video, audio and other media types</li>
<li>Easily extensible Gallery/Media Views</li>
<li>If you are a theme designer, you can rewrite whole layout using your own templates</li>
<li>Extensive admin options</li>
<li>We will improve it a lot more for WordPress in future</li>
</ul>
<p>MediaPress gives full control to the site admins while making it easier for them/their users to upload media.</p>
<h4>For BuddyPress, MediaPress provides following features:-</h4>
<ul>
<li>BuddyPress activity wall upload for videos/audio/photos/documents</li>
<li>BuddyPress Photo Gallery, BuddyPress Video Gallery, BuddyPress Audio Gallery and Document Gallery for users and groups</li>
<li>Add youtube video, facebook video, photo etc to BuddyPress/WordPress(using oembed).</li>
<li>Add video, photos from another server using link.</li>
<li>Highly flexible privacy system (Inbuilt support for public, private, logged in, friends only, groups only, following only, followers only privacy)</li>
<li>Drag and Drop Uploader</li>
<li>Easy to extend API for other components</li>
<li>Easy to extend API to support <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/media-type/mpp_register_type/" title="Registering new media type " rel="nofollow ugc">new media types</a></li>
<li>Multiple Layout for media(Grid, playlist, list)</li>
<li>Playlist view support for audio/Video Galleries</li>
<li>Shortcode for everything you want(almost).</li>
<li>Widgets to help you list galleries, media, playlist , audio etc.</li>
<li>Extensive <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/getting-started/settings-options/configuring-mediapress/" title="Configuring MediaPress" rel="nofollow ugc">admin options</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Are you a developer?</h4>
<p>Here is a short list of things you can do with few lines of code:-</p>
<ul>
<li>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)</li>
<li>Add support for a new <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/media-type/mpp_register_type/" rel="nofollow ugc">Media Type</a>.</li>
<li>Write a custom media loop using <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/mpp_media_query/" rel="nofollow ugc">MPP_Media_Query</a></li>
<li>Write your own custom Gallery loop/list using <a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-reference/core/mpp_gallery_query/" rel="nofollow ugc">MPP_Gallery_Query</a></li>
</ul>
<p>We have also got some nice developer documentation ready for you and more will keep coming in future.</p>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/" title="MediaPress site" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Site</a></li>
<li><a href="http://demos.buddydev.com/mediapress/" title="MediaPress demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/support/forums/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress" rel="nofollow ugc">Github Development Repo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-guides/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Guides</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/getting-started/" rel="nofollow ugc">Admin Guide</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-reference/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a> – progressing</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/guides/api-reference/template-tags/" rel="nofollow ugc">Template Tags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-guides/mediapress-uploader-events-lifecycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">Uploader Javascript Event Lifecycle</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/mediapress/topics/api-guides/lightbox/mediapress-lightbox-javascript-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lighbox Javascript API</a></li>
<li>More to come soon.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Let us build MediaPress together</h4>
<p>We are working on the next version of MediaPress that uses a different uploader and allows adding media with the activity comments too.<br />
Our expectation is to have it by the end of the year.<br />
Please help us create it better by testing the plugin from <a href="https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/buddydev/mediapress</a> and providing your suggestions at BuddyDev support forum or our github repo.</p>
<p>If you are looking to extend MediaPress further, we have some free and paid addons for you</p>
<h4>Extending with Addons</h4>
<p>Here are some of our available addons for MediaPress.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/media-moderator-for-mediapress/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media Moderator</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-media-view-counter/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media View Counter</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-media-rating/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Media Rating</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/mpp-featured-content/" rel="ugc">MediaPress Featured Content</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-set-profile-photo/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Set Profile Photo</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mediapress-mycred-addon/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress myCRED Addon</a> – Free</li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-downloadable-media/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Downloadable Media</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-upload-tos/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Upload Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-s2member-storage-limit/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress S2Member Storage Limit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mpp-flexible-storage-limit/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Flexible Storage Limit</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/mediamark/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaMark:- Watermarking solution for MediaPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/paid-memberships-pro-restrictions-for-mediapress/" rel="nofollow ugc">MediaPress Paid Memberships Pro Restrictions</a></li>
<li>more coming soon</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Looking for more powerful BuddyPress plugins?</strong> Check out our list of amazing <a href="https://buddydev.com/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress plugins</a>.</p>
<p>We are here to help with everything you need with MediaPress.<br />
Please use BuddyDev community forum or premium forums for support(We support both free & paid members without any differentiation ).</p>
<p>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.<br />
MediaPress is a community project and we welcome all contributions, be it with Ideas, technical or anything you deem fit.</p>
<p>If you are a developer, let us work together. Please use github repo for development.</p>
<h4>BuddyPress & MediaPress Maintenance & Custom development</h4>
<p>If you need any assistance with setting up or adding new features to BuddyPress or MediaPress, Our team is available for hire.<br />
Please use our <a href="https://buddydev.com/buddypress-custom-plugin-development-service/" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress Development Services</a> for any custom development needs.</p>


MediaPress

I absolutely love this plugin!
It works great for all mine and my users media,
This is by far the best media plugin that's available on t WordPress directory,
The support by the developers is also amazing,
Great work on this!

Regards

Ben

Awesome Plugin

MediaPress is the most advanced and feature rich media gallery plugin for BuddyPress & WordPress.

BP Group Frontpage vs MediaPress