Monetize your website with ease. With Buddyvents v2 you are now able to create and sell tickets for your events. Receive commissions on every single ticket sale for your members’ events.

As of November 1, 2011 we will not provide any support for Buddyvents v1.x. The respective forums will still be open and accessible though.

All existing customers will receive a voucher code via email. Please make sure to check your inboxes and grab your discounted copy of Buddyvents 2.0 now. Don’t wait too long. The voucher code will be valid until October 15, 2011 only.

Check out the new features of Buddyvents 2.0.

• NEW: PayPal integration
• NEW: Ticketing system
• NEW: API documentation using Documenter 1.4
• NEW: PDF invoice system
• NEW: Sales overview pages for site and event admins
• NEW: Webhooks overview page for site admins
• NEW: 4 dashboard widgets (latest events, this months earnings, unpaid invoices & to be approved events)
• NEW: Custom Google maps info window
• NEW: Events/calendar shortcode system
• NEW: Support for native BP oEmbed
• NEW: Everybody can attach an event to a group (incl. approval system for group admins)
• NEW: Attendees can be added manually

Please find below the rest of the changelog:

• Added: Lots of PHPDoc style documentation for functions
• Added: Various display options for documents, schedules and iCal download
• Added: humans.txt
• Added: Various filters and actions
• Added: More consistent way of removing the upgrade nag
• Added: Backend access is controlled by custom user capabilities
• Added: Email notifications for approved/declined events
• Added: System for adding custom backend bulk actions
• Added: Events to main search form
• Added: Increased security
• Added: Increased security
• Added: Help texts on backend pages
• Added: Ajax loader to colorbox popups
• Added: API keys and webhooks get cleaned up on user deletion
• Added: API keys get suspended automatically if hit limit has been reached 5 times
• Changed: Even better JS loading both on the front and the backend
• Changed: Group contact details can be optional now
• Changed: Moved all options from site_meta table back to blog options to allow for multi-BP setups
• Changed: All instances of file_get_contents and cURL to WP_Http
• Changed: Invites are now disabled during event creation if events need approval
• Changed: BPE Extension now also works in the backend
• Changed: Grid view, Google maps and PHP calendar use AJAX to get event information
• Changed: Dev/minified versions of JS/CSS files
• Changed: Readme and changelog are html files now
• Changed: Slight style changes in the backend
• Changed: Various vars in activity stream functions
• Changed: Log function takes multidimensional arrays and strings now
• Changed: Inconsistency in event comment component
• Removed: Unused datepicker images
• Removed: All WP_DEBUG notices
• Bugfix: Ajax loader for invites did not show
• Bugfix: Group fields get prepopulated again when creating events
• Bugfix: Eventmeta did not get deleted under certain circumstances when event got deleted
• Bugfix: Timezone and venue arrays
• Bugfix: Single navigation showed unapproved events
• Bugfix: Publishing events to Twitter, Eventbrite and Facebook
• Bugfix: Search terms were not picked up on search results map
• Bugfix: Document extension could get deleted when editing
• Bugfix: Random events only return public ones now
• Bugfix: Calendar widget was influenced by normal loop default variables

Please find below the details on our SPECIAL DEAL:

SAVE 15% compared to the original price and get your bundle for EUR 101,15 gross each *

* Price includes 19% VAT for German customers and customers from within the EU unless a valid EU VAT identification number can be provided.

One bundle is consisting of one copy of Buddyvents AND one copy of Mapology! The offer will be valid for a limited time only or while stocks last.

Hurry up and get Buddyvents and Mapology while they’re hot ! Get the ultimate events and maps solutions for BuddyPress now!

Please visit Buddyvents and Mapology for more details on the plugins.

Please find below the details to our Winter Sales 2011 offer:

• SAVE 30% compared to the original price from January 29, 2011 – January 31, 2011: First 5 bundles for EUR 83,30 gross each *
• SAVE 20% compared to the original price from February 01, 2011 – February 05, 2011: Second 10 bundles for EUR 95,20 gross each *
• SAVE 10% compared to the original price from February 06, 2011 – February 12, 2011: Last 15 bundles for EUR 107,10 gross each *

* Prices include 19% VAT for German customers and customers from within the EU unless a valid EU VAT identification number can be provided.

One bundle is consisting of one copy of Buddyvents AND one copy of Mapology! The respective offers will be valid according to the dates specified above or while stocks last.

Hurry up and get Buddyvents and Mapology while they’re hot ! Get the ultimate events and maps solutions for BuddyPress now!

Please visit Buddyvents and Mapology for more details on the plugins.

With Mapology it is possible to add various Google Maps (v3) including routes for groups, members and posts to a BuddyPress installation.

Check out some of the features of Mapology:

• Overview map for members and (optionally) groups
• Activity stream integration for users
• Profile integration
• Uses MarkerClusterer for basically unlimited numbers of markers
• Search radius for users, activity and groups (available from BP 1.3)
• Blog integration (shortcodes)
• User routes
• Routes can be attached to a group
• Activity integration
• Attach coordinates to blog posts
• Export as KML file
• Custom location post type
• Geo sitemap of all kml files
• Adds geoRSS info to normal feeds
• Feeds for global, member and group routes
• Group admins can remove routes from their group
• Routes directory, groups and member overview maps
• Integration with BP Moderation
• oEmbed support for route descriptions
• Grid view for routes
• Widget
• English
• German

For future versions the following features are planned:

• AJAX pagination
• AJAX route creation
• Import KML files
• Route categories
• Route tags
• Directions
• Frontend locations submission
• Custom infowindows
• Configurable distance search (e.g. 10 km from a chosen city)
• Proximity filtering for profiles
• Blog posts/location post type overview map
• Add super admin menu (edit/delete)
• Sort routes by continent/date/anything else
• Set default directory map locations (for user/groups and directories)
• Highlight locations tab on custom post type and custom taxonomies
• Refactor to use http://code.google.com/p/phpgooglemapapiv3/
• Combine KML files together for download (by group/user)
• When creating/editing routes be able to stop waypoint connections
• Create a map where all pins (routes/members/groups/events/custom components) can be seen
• Random route
• Finish hook reference
• Map ratings

Upon purchase of Mapology, ShabuShabu is giving free support for v1.x of the plugin including all minor updates, e.g. v1.1, v1.1.1, v1.8.5. After every major upgrade, e.g. when the version reaches 2.0, Mapology will need to be purchased again. Please visit the ShabuShabu shop for more details.

Have a look at the following function:

function shabushabu_change_group_tag_position()
{
	global $bp;

	if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->groups->slug )
	{
         	$bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['position'] = 20;
	        $bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['name'] = __( 'Activity', 'buddypress' );

	        if (  $bp->current_action == 'home' )
		        $bp->current_action = 'group-information';
	}
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'shabushabu_change_group_tag_position' );

The first thing we need to do is declare the $bp global

global $bp;

To change the position of a tab we need to modify the bp_options_nav array. In this example we change the home tab position on a single group page to 20.

$bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['position'] = 20;

The same way we can change the name of the tabs, like so:

$bp->bp_options_nav['groups']['home']['name'] = __( 'Activity', 'buddypress' );

Now, let’s pretend we created a new tab called Group Information using the Groups API. We already specified that the tab will be the first one, but the Home tab is still the default tab. We can change this by modifying current_action, like so (only on a group page and if the current_action was set to ‘home’):

if (  $bp->current_action == 'home' )
        $bp->current_action = 'group-information';

The only thing left to do is put the complete function into your plugin files and then add it to the bp_init hook

add_action( 'bp_init', 'shabushabu_change_group_tag_position' );

Let us know in the comments if you find this post useful!