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Hi everyone,
This spring I looked closer to the socnet plugin (and core modifications) and it was not what I was waiting for. So I decided to make my own to bring this feature to a community that I run and who needs it. Then I will share
with everyone.
The project is call sphere plugin. Main features will be:
- Manage friends
- Manage personal groups
- Personal blog
- Personal photo galery
- Personal book
- Personnal calendar
- New profile with socnet links and flow
- Customisation of the personal page's name
- Manage access privileges to public, friends, personal groups or private
- Notifications management
- Connection statistics (admin)
- Public portal flow: last infos, last pictures, calendar (admin and
possibly public)
As we were out of the gscoc this year I spent my non co-mentor time to this project, and an alpha preview for this sphere plugin is now live here.
First features allow to members to add or remove users from contacts, and post links, videos, images, informations and comments.
Any feature request and feedback are welcome.
Thanks,
Ben
This spring I looked closer to the socnet plugin (and core modifications) and it was not what I was waiting for. So I decided to make my own to bring this feature to a community that I run and who needs it. Then I will share
with everyone.
The project is call sphere plugin. Main features will be:
- Manage friends
- Manage personal groups
- Personal blog
- Personal photo galery
- Personal book
- Personnal calendar
- New profile with socnet links and flow
- Customisation of the personal page's name
- Manage access privileges to public, friends, personal groups or private
- Notifications management
- Connection statistics (admin)
- Public portal flow: last infos, last pictures, calendar (admin and
possibly public)
As we were out of the gscoc this year I spent my non co-mentor time to this project, and an alpha preview for this sphere plugin is now live here.
First features allow to members to add or remove users from contacts, and post links, videos, images, informations and comments.
Any feature request and feedback are welcome.
Thanks,
Ben
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Looks great Ben!
How do you plan to integrate it into the main user profile page? Are you thinking of just a link to their sphere?

How do you plan to integrate it into the main user profile page? Are you thinking of just a link to their sphere?
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Yes I think there will be a link and few infos like when you click on the member name on a sphere plugin page.
Thanks for the feedback.
Ben
Thanks for the feedback.
Ben
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Hey Ben,
If you want anymore control over or input on how plugins can access the Geeklog user profile page. Let us know.
Once Geeklog 2.0.0 is out the door I will probably start this feature request soon...
http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1320
Tom
If you want anymore control over or input on how plugins can access the Geeklog user profile page. Let us know.
Once Geeklog 2.0.0 is out the door I will probably start this feature request soon...
http://project.geeklog.net/tracking/view.php?id=1320
Tom
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Feature Request
The ability to add handshakes directly on articles, staticpages, etc..
Tom

The ability to add handshakes directly on articles, staticpages, etc..
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The ability to add handshakes directly on articles, staticpages, etc..
Not so easy to make it. I will try it.New features: remove and edit our posts
Ben
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Demo update: Forum posts and replies, products from paypal plugin, new files from Downloads plugin and new themes from purepro thememaker are now display in the spheres.
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Hey Ben,
I get the "Unfortunately, an error has occurred rendering this page. Please try again later. " error when I click on the link.
Tom
I get the "Unfortunately, an error has occurred rendering this page. Please try again later. " error when I click on the link.
Tom
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In sphere plugin you can add new posts, images, videos or links. Sphere plugin can also now display automatically :
- Articles and comments from your geeklog CMS
- Images from new articles
- The birthdate and last login of each member
- Forum posts from forum plugin
- Products from paypal plugin
- New files from Downloads plugin
- Ads from the classifieds plugin
- Maps from maps plugin
- Events from the calendar plugin
- Polls from polls plugin
- Albums and images updates from mediagallery plugin 1.6.12
- Staticpages updates
Next steps: build the user profile, the settings management (access, display, visibility...), for each member integrate content from facebook, twitter, youtube..., add personnal blog, personnal page, and personnal calendar features.
See demo page
Ben
- Articles and comments from your geeklog CMS
- Images from new articles
- The birthdate and last login of each member
- Forum posts from forum plugin
- Products from paypal plugin
- New files from Downloads plugin
- Ads from the classifieds plugin
- Maps from maps plugin
- Events from the calendar plugin
- Polls from polls plugin
- Albums and images updates from mediagallery plugin 1.6.12
- Staticpages updates
Next steps: build the user profile, the settings management (access, display, visibility...), for each member integrate content from facebook, twitter, youtube..., add personnal blog, personnal page, and personnal calendar features.
See demo page
Ben
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Does the Geeklog stuff automatically get added or do you have to add them manually?
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Sphere plugin can also now display automatically
Everything is automatic (display, updates) and respect group security feature.
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Sphere update : The sphere plugin can now display your facebook timeline and your last posts from twitter.
Beta release will be available next week.
Ben
Beta release will be available next week.
Ben
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Looking forward to it.
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This plugin would surely make Geeklog rock!
Looking forward to it too!
Sam
Looking forward to it too!
Sam
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