BuddyPress -> portfolio page?

[Ryan]

Complete BuddyPress n00b here!

Is there an off the shelf way to setup a BuddyPress site which allows a user to have their own online portfolio? I have a client who wants to use BuddyPress to power an online market where their users can sign up and post their portfolio of work online.

I see that BuddyPress has a FaceBook wall style feature, which would be useful for user-feedback, but I couldn't see any way to include a page of just static content, images, text etc.

[andrea_r]

Wouldn't that be what you'd use the blog portion for?

(assuming you;re running a network or using mu)

[Ryan]

But wouldn't that give them an entire blog?, ie: with ability to add pages, posts etc., whereas they just require a single portfolio specific page, not the all the extra functionality.

[andrea_r]

Then that'd be their activity stream. post the item to their profile page & there ya go.

[Ipstenu]

You could extend the profile page to include all that sort of stuff, couldn't you? Add in fields, and maybe try a gallery plugin for the users, if they need that sort of thing.

[andrea_r]

Yeah, pretty much.

Can't remember if there's a good gallery plugin for BP yet (so it's front-end not backend).

[Stevan]

cv.rs is god example, it's built with buddypress but don't ask me how to do it :)

[andrea_r]

I can't see anywhere on that particular site where it has any hint of being built on wordpress, let alone using buddypress.

Sure you have the right site?

[Stevan]

http://buddydress.com/2009/03/facebu...5/#comment-121
^It sure was buddypress
http://www.cv.rs/help/newslist/news_1
^wordpress

It have friend feature, wall and it's built by Vladimir Prelovac so I figured out with my n00b logic that it's powered with heavily customized buddypress. You think it's not bp?

[Ipstenu]

FYI, just because a site has a post that LOOKS like WordPress doesn't mean it IS WordPress.

View the page source. It looks NOTHING like the source of a WP site. In fact, it looks to me like they once had a WP site and exported it into something else. Even the URL is wrong.

Here, try something like this : http://www.cv.rs/help/&p=1

The URL has dissalowed characters. The &p=whatever is a WP standard. They're not on WP.

It's entirely possible they once were, but there's no promise that Vladimir's still working on the site anymore.