The groups architecture may work as a framework for lessons. But beware that it may be difficult to organize these lessons/groups into the views that you want. Basically BP gives you the all groups directory and that’s about it. Other views can be created, but require programming. Another pitfall I foresee will be differentiating lessons from other kinds of groups, in the directory and on users’ profiles. The groups metadata table may help you here.

You should check out BPDEV groups extra (http://bp-dev.org/plugins/). It is incompatible with 1.2 I believe, but may be easy to fix. See my post for at least one thing that needs to be changed. This plugin lets you configure extra fields on the group profile page. You can make one be a youtube embed or something like that. It is a pain to set up – you have to edit a config.php file in order to setup the fields you want.

Really a cleaner way to add group fields is to use the groups extension api. It requires that you know PHP, and possibly some MySQL for saving the data, although you can use groups_update_meta() if you’re only adding one or two fields.

Check out Group Documents. Also, Community Blogs may help you create a lesson that incorporates a linear set of teachings.

Good luck with your site!

– Dan

I have an interesting project I’m working on and I would like to know if you have any suggestions.

I’m currently trying to use buddypress as a social network centered on a bible study with mutlitple lessons. The lessons are available online and I want to show which lessons each buddypress member has learned and invite them to learn newer lessons.

My idea is to use groups as the “lessons”. But what I would like to know is if I can add custom fields (for pulling content) to the creation of a group. I would want to include a field for the featured image, and the video to be embedded for that lesson.

My other idea was to create a custom page template. Here is a prototype I built before installing buddypress, http://newlifelb.com/daniel . It is not really using the buddypress members or groups, but I am researching to see if this could be done using buddypress.

What do you think?

Have you ran into any troubles with bp_the_topic_post_poster_link() ?

Your plugin is wonderful, thank you very much.

Wonderful plugin, thanks a lot.

I’m looking for a Buddypress Guru to help me complete my site. Are you availible for hire? I don’t need much, just a way to sort members by state and industry, and I need the wp-wishlist membership plugin to work with Buddypress. Thanks.

Richard

Also, I might make it so that password and confirm password completely disappear if you check the random password and email box, and then have this checked by default. The email options will probably turn into a radio switch that is always either one or the other.

“Make this an identifying membership” is hard to understand the meaning of what this is doing.

suggestions for wording:
“Show the Group-Name at the Profile of this User”
“Show Group-Name at Users Profile”

Thanks !