BuddyPress Toolbar

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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Tips & More

• Check out more great helper plugins for admins in my WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar plugin series…
• Also see my other plugins or see my WordPress.org profile page
• Tip: GenesisFinder – Find then create. Your Genesis Framework Search Engine.

Plugin Links

• Translations (GlotPress)
• User support forums
• Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist
• Plugin tip: My WordPress Toolbar / Admin Bar plugin series…

Donate

Enjoy using BuddyPress Toolbar? Please consider making a small donation to support the project’s continued development.

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 :).