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Follow users on your BuddyPress site. Similar to Twitter!
http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/
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Blogs I Follow Widget #64

Open mrjarbenne opened 9 years ago

mrjarbenne commented 9 years ago

Enhancement request: A widget (similar to the existing Users I Follow widget) that would allow me -- on my subdomain in a multisite instance -- to display the blogs I follow on the network. This widget should allow me to identify how many blogs to list in the widget.

Cheers.

espellcaste commented 9 years ago

+1

r-a-y commented 9 years ago

The one issue is blogs do not have avatars yet. Do we want to list blogs with the user avatars instead?

Something like:

Blogs I Follow

  • [USER AVATAR] TITLE OF BLOG
  • [USER AVATAR] TITLE OF BLOG
  • [USER AVATAR] TITLE OF BLOG

Instead of a traditional avatar-only widget?

Blog avatars might make BP 2.3. Even if blog avatars makes 2.3, would we want to use an avatar-only widget? If so, perhaps use a default blog avatar icon?

Feedback appreciated.

espellcaste commented 9 years ago

I can see a lot of scenarios here:

Client wants avatar for blogs; Client wants avatar of the user, not of the blog; Client want default avatar, as a default (maybe he's gonna use a custom avatar of his).

If I were to choose, I'd choose the default one or the avatar for Blogs.

What do you think about allowing or disabling one or the other with a function?

mrjarbenne commented 9 years ago

I think you need the title of the blog regardless of the avatar conversation.

With the Avatar, a default icon makes sense for me, until such time as there is a blog avatar option. Even at that point having a default avatar specific to blogs, in cases where the user has not uploaded a blog avatar, makes good sense.

It could be something as simple as a dashicon, so the entire widget becomes more text based rather than avatar based.

https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/#welcome-write-blog

mrjarbenne commented 9 years ago

On another note around design, I think it would also be helpful to be able to customize the widget title. Blogs I Follow may not apply to the context a user might be using the widget for. Being able to change that to "Sites I Read" "inspirational sites" "My Classes Blogs" etc would be nice.

r-a-y commented 9 years ago

Yeah, I plan on making the widget title a configurable option. That, and the user ID (or perhaps username?) to fetch the followed sites for.

mrjarbenne commented 9 years ago

Now that site icons is a core feature (WP 4.3) I think we now have our avatar source.