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Plugin Description
Quick Access to BuddyPress Resources – Time Saver!
This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot BuddyPress related resources to your toolbar / admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for community managers/ administrators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Activity Moderating’ (BP 1.6+), ‘Groups Admin’ (BP 1.7+) or the ‘Main Settings’ page etc.
General Features
- The plugin is primarily intended towards (multisite) admins and webmasters.
- Support for all native BuddyPress settings plus a huge list of supported plugins & themes out of the box (see below for full listing).
- Fully Multisite compatible, you can also network-enable it – full support of Multisite specific stuff!
- A massive list of resource & community links is included: support forums, code snippets, translations etc.
- A special – fully conditional – “Manage Groups” group where plugins like hook in.
- The added menu items by the plugin follow the same user cabalities as their original links – in other words: if a link to a settings page is not displayed without my plugin for a certain user role/capability it won’t be when my plugin is active!
- 4 action hooks included for hooking custom menu items in — for all main sections plus the resource group section (see FAQ section here for more info on that).
- 11 additional icon colors included 🙂 (changeable via filters)
- 7 filters included to change wording/tooltip and icon of the main item – for more info see FAQ section here
- For custom “branding” or special needs a few sections like “Extensions” and “Resource links group” could be hidden from displaying via your active theme/child theme – for more info see FAQ section here
- Fully internationalized! Real-life tested and developed with international users in mind! Also supports update-secure custom language file (if you need special wording…)
- Fully WPML compatible!
- Tested with WordPress branches 3.6 Beta, 3.5+, 3.4+ and 3.3+ – also in debug mode (no stuff there, ok? 🙂
The plugin is fully compatible with the latest WordPress version 3.4+/ 3.5+ and therefore with BuddyPress 1.6+ and 1.7+. It’s also still compatible with former BP branch 1.5 (and WP 3.3+) but we always recommend to run the latest versions. The plugin dynamically supports the different admin settings links in BOTH BuddyPress versions! — So, just go and manage your community. Use this time saver! 🙂
As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards community managers/ webmasters and administrators. The new toolbar / admin bar items will only be displayed if the current user has the WordPress role/cabability of administrator. (Note: This can be customized via helper functions/constants, see FAQ here.)
Plugin Support
At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some BuddyPress specific plugins:
- Plugin: “BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware” (free, by ScholarPress Dev Crew)
- Plugin: “BP Checkins 1.0+” (free, by Imath)
- Plugin: “BP Group Organizer” (free, by David Dean)
- Plugin: “BP Group Hierarchy” (free, by David Dean)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Group Extras” (free, by slaFFik)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Group Default Avatar” (free, by Vernon Fowler)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Group Email Subscription” (free, by Deryk Wenaus + Boone Gorges)
- Plugin: “BP GTM System” (free, by slaFFik + valant)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Relate Groups to Blogs” (free, by spurge)
- Plugin: “BuddyBox” (free, by Imath)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Group Folders” (free, by Rudolf Enberg)
- Plugin: “CD BuddyPress Avatar Bubble” (free, by slaFFik + valant)
- Plugin: “Buddypress User Account Type Lite” (free, by Rimon Habib)
- Plugin: “BP Profiles Statistics 1.1+” (premium, by slaFFik)
- Plugin: “BP Profile Search” (free, by Andrea Tarantini)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Portfolio” (free, by Nicolas Crocfer)
- Plugin: “BP Polls 1.2+” (free, by Themekraft)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Extended Settings” (free, by modemlooper)
- Plugin: “BP Menus” (free, by modemlooper)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Mobile” (aka BuddyMobile) (free, by modemlooper)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Share It” (aka BuddyShare) (free, by modemlooper)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Media Component 2.0+” (free, by rtCamp)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress BP Gallery” (free, by Caevan Sachinwalla)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Login Redirect” (free, by Jatinder Pal Singh)
- Plugin: “BP Profile as Homepage” (free, by Jatinder Pal Singh)
- Plugin: “sxss Buddypress Shared Friends” (free, by sxss)
- Plugin: “Breadcrumbs Everywhere 1.1+” (free, by Betsy Kimak)
- Plugin: “BuddyStream” (free, by Peter Hofman)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress MyMood 1.6+” (free, by Ayush)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Achievements” (free, by Paul Gibbs)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Twitter” (free, by Charl Kruger)
- Plugin: “BP Code Snippets” (free, by imath)
- Plugin: “BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu” (free, by Sensible Plugins) (free lite version!)
- Plugin: “Invite Anyone” (free, by Boone Gorges)
- Plugin: “BP Trunk Junc” (free, by modemlooper) – Beta Tester plugin
- Plugin: “SeoPress” (free by Themekraft)
- Plugin: “Events Manager” (free, by Marcus Sykes)
- Plugin: “WangGuard” (free, by WangGuard Team)
- Plugin: “Members” (free, by Justin Tadlock)
- Plugin: “Members Import” (free, by Manish Kumar Agarwal)
- Your free or premium BuddyPress specific plugin? – Just contact me with specific data
Theme/Framework Support
At this time my plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some BuddyPress specific/supporting themes or frameworks:
- Theme Framework with child themes: “Genesis Framework” (premium) via “Genesis Connect for BuddyPress” plugin (free since v1.2) – both by StudioPress/Copyblogger Media LLC.
- Theme: “Custom Community” (free, by Themekraft)
- Theme: “Frisco for BuddyPress” (free, by David Carson)
- Theme: “Elbee Elgee” (free, by Doug Stewart)
- Themes: “Visual” (premium) and “Fanwood 0.1.6+” (free) (both by DevPress)
- Theme: “Builder Framework” via “Builder BuddyPress” plugin (premium, by iThemes)
- Theme Framework with child themes: “Infinity (Anti-) Framework” via “BP Template Pack” plugin (free/beta, by PressCrew)
- Themes: “Gratitude” and “Buddies” (both premium, by Chris Paul/ZenThemes)
- Themes: “Business Services” and “BuddyPress Corporate” (both free, by WPMU DEV)
- Themes: “3colours”, “Bruce”, “Detox”, “Ines”, “Ice”, “NewYorker”, “Niukita”, “Soho”, “Solitude”, “Speed”, “Spyker” – all from 3oneseven.com (all 11 free, by milo317)
- Your free or premium BuddyPress specific theme/framework? – Just contact me with specific data
Special Features
- Not only supporting official BuddyPress sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole BuddyPress ecosystem 🙂
- Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
- Link to official German BuddyPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)
- NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!
Localization
- English (default) – always included
- German (de_DE) – always included
- French (fr_FR) – user-submitted – currently 22% complete for v1.6.0
- .pot file (
buddypress-toolbar.pot) for translators is also always included 🙂
- Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “BuddyPress Toolbar”…
- Your translation? – Just send it in
Credit where credit is due: This plugin here is inspired and based on the work of Remkus de Vries @defries and his original “WooThemes Admin Bar Addition” plugin.
A plugin from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes
Feedback
- I am open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of my plugins!
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Translations
- English – default, always included
- German (de_DE): Deutsch – immer dabei! Download auch via deckerweb.de
- French (fr_FR): Français – user-submitted, only a few strings yet…
- For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to
/wp-content/languages/buddypress-toolbar/ (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that, just use a language file like buddypress-toolbar-en_US.mo/.po to achieve that (for creating one see the following tools).
Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: Translate “BuddyPress Toolbar”…
Note: All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin and for validating the “Poedit Editor”, which works fine on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Additional Info
Idea Behind / Philosophy: Just a little leightweight plugin for all the BuddyPress community managers out there to make their daily community admin life a bit easier. I’ll try to add more plugin/theme support if it makes some sense. So stay tuned :).
Screenshots
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – primary level – default state. (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – second level – BP settings/components and frondend roots pages of active components. (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – second level – BP user field groups (plus some specific extensions). (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – third level – BP users management (plus some specific extensions). (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – second level – optinal BP Groups management group (only if supporting plugins are active!). (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – third level – extensions support (here with a huge list of active plugins :). (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – second level – resource links group. (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
BuddyPress Toolbar in action – translations/language specific links at the bottom – for example: German locale. (Click here for larger version of screenshot)
