BuddyPress

checkout my new plugin here: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/

I’ve recently upgraded it so that it plays nicely with ajax in BuddyPress. It also has an improved tag adding interface. If you download and try it out, please rate it. and provide feedback.

thanks,
Deryk

This is just way too cool. Two plugins in one afternoon? Priceless. Thank you.

Yes, I agree two plugins in one day is too cool for school!
Thanks Dwenaus!

Works fine for me. Thanks for the hard work.

glad you guys like them

@Dwenaus I was thinking of a Group Categorization plugin to allow me to sgment the directory and showcase groups better but this might very well fit the bill. Are group tags exposed via functions inyour plugin so we can shape a directory listing (or even avail in a variable eg bp_get_group_tag() ?

@mikepratt – I’m using the group tags for basically the same reason – to categorize groups. In my project, i will be pulling out certain tags and listing them in a page along side the ‘My Groups’ tab. Let me know more about what you implement for the directory listing.

One future thing I’d like to do is create a group tags widget. however I first need to figure out how to get the slug /groups/tag/myslug to redirect properly to my code. I might make another attempt next week. Any ideas or code help would be much appreciated.

yes, all the functions are exposed and should be pretty obvious by their name and brief comment about usage.

@dwenaus,
Thanks. As you know, I’ve been waiting for this. Let us know when you get the slug and/or ajax stuff figured out. I only have a few categories of groups and I’m going to try to let users use this functionality to choose their category on group creation.

Would love to see an online implementation of this if anybody has got the plugin working somewhere.

@designodyssey, it’s pretty much the way you see it in screenshots http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-tags/screenshots/ and when you click on the tag, the page will show groups that are tagged e.g. “plugin”

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Here you can see it: http://www.young-people.ch/groups
I like it very much!

I just wanted to say thanks for the awesome plugin!

OK, those screenshots must be new. Thanks for the demo Michael. Now to hook this to the ajax for groups and list them separately by type. The hard work has been done.
Thanks again.

hey, @designodyssey the ajax is not implemented properly, and plays well. I made that change in version 1.0 of the plugin. no ajax issues like before. Sure there are more features that could be added, such as a group tags widget, but the core works great.

@Dwenaus

Slight problem here: when on the blog creation page (Create a Blog from Blog Directory), group tags appear at the top of the page content. Oops!

Any way to remove / hide this?

I’m running WPMU2.9.1 and BP1.2.1 with default theme.

I’ll fix this soon. it is easy to fix. thanks fror the notice.