When I first heard about BuddyPress I got quite excited and I started thinking about ways Instinct could contribute to the cause.
One of the things I like most about Facebook is the Status Updates feature. Before I really knew what was happening I was sitting with Allen and we were designing a WordPress plugin that replicates Facebook Status Updates.
Currently you can install this plugin and manage your own Status and it uses your gravatar image as your profile image. If there is interest from the BuddyPress team we will integrate it with BuddyPress so that it also works with your friends.
This plugin has been released under the GPL and we hope that Andy Peatling and the rest of the team like it.
Update: We have been given the nod of approval from the BuddyPress team. We will start integrating Status Updates with BuddyPress next week.
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Hi Dan, love the idea for the plugin. One thing I was really looking for, is that we have a videogame clan/community website, where we have a couple of administrators, but the rest of the community is setup as subscribers. We don’t want to setup a MU version of wordpress, but want to include our members in the community by updating their user profile and basically displaying a roster page. I’ve pictured using this to display the uploaded photo from them, their specs, and given them the ability to go into their profile and update their current status. Would it be considered expanding this plugin to allow for that beyond just Authors and not on MU Wordpress?
Sounds cool. You could commission us to build this for you time permitting – email me personally and we can chat about it.
Ciao,
Dan
How do you use it? Installed it, but there are zero instructions.
This is really neat… anything like this for twitter status update?
How does it work? pleas someone give me the instructions..
javascript errors, can’t update status.
to use go to Appearance – widgets – then drag status updates into the side bar. then go to your home page and update the status from there :)
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