I developed a simple (and old) wordpress plugin where subscribers can “like” articles.

This week I started to use buddypress and I am wondering about to send a custom notice to users saying something like ” Hello SomeAuthor, user Alpha likes your article. “

Is possible to automatically compose and send custom messages?

What documentation should I read?

[@shanebp Moderator 14 years, 5 months ago]

You have to roll your own.
I got thru it awhile back with help from @r-a-y

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/send-private-static-message/

[@carlla Member 14 years, 5 months ago]

@shanebp Thanks for your help I’ll try that

[@carlla Member 14 years, 5 months ago]

@shanebp I tried that code, but I couldn’t get it working yet. Could you help me with it?

On my functions.php I added bp_send_private_bzzt, bp_send_private_bzzt_link and bp_get_send_private_bzzt_link.
I also added the buzzt link on my theme, but this new link gets me to a 404 page. I’m using the twentyten theme and bp-themplate-pack plugin.

[@shanebp Moderator 14 years, 5 months ago]

The link just goes to the page that it is on.
That’s what this does: bp_core_redirect( wp_get_referer() ) in bp_send_private_bzzt()

So a 404 indicates some other problem that I can’t diagnose, unless…

Did you try putting the code in bp-custom.php, per the instructions, instead of functions.php ?

[@carlla Member 14 years, 5 months ago]

@shanebp sorry my noob question, but what folder should I put bp-custom.php?

[@carlla Member 14 years, 5 months ago]

This is working now! What nice thing! Thank you very much @shanebp

[@carlla Member 14 years, 5 months ago]

I’ll try to get it working with an ajax call.

I notice that the most bp components ( friends for instance ) does ajax call to wp-load.php.

I am curious about why not use admin-ajax.php like most wordpress plugins does. Is there a special reason for that?

[@shanebp Moderator 14 years, 5 months ago]

Glad you got it working.

I’d love to see an example of this using an ajax call, about which I know little.
Please post your working example when you get there, thanks.