I’m working on a new version of this site that will automatically create a group for every new BuddyPress plugin that appears in the repo. This means plugins will get all the functionality of BP groups – a forum, activity stream, a list of members who are interested in the plugin, etc etc. I’m also going to add a donate page, which should help out a bit.
This has been held up a little right now because I’m trying to get the new upgrade/install wizard done first. This will allow BP to use WordPress pages instead of hacking with root components. It’s all bits of the jigsaw that need to be put in place before I can continue. Hopefully by the end of the month I should have at least the first iteration of the site close to completion.
You either need to write the AJAX function to handle this (you should be able to copy something from one of the core components) or put a class=”no-ajax” on the surrounding div.
I don’t see much point in this, just use the activity stream loop and filter on ‘new_blog_post’. BuddyPress used to have this functionality, but it was not very efficient and the activity stream handles it better.
Change the user_status value in the wp_users table for those users to something like 99 and they will be hidden. That’s one somewhat hacky way of hiding them in the frontend.
The users who register need to activate their accounts. They are not marked as a spammer (user_status = 1) they are marked as not active (user_status = 2). Until they activate their account they cannot log in.
If your emails are being marked as spam or phishing then this is likely something to do with the domain or IP address of your site. It has probably been black flagged.
The default view for the member directory is “active members”. This will only show users who have logged in since you activated BuddyPress, and are therefore considered active (last_activity meta is present). If you change the ordering to something else, the members will show.
I’d imagine we can sneak slug editing into the next version – this would be a great plugin as a temporary solution? We could perhaps even merge the plugin into the core if someone is interested in building it.
Perhaps just keep the base profile field group to a minimum so there is very little on the signup page, then add a message to the activation page template telling the user to go fill out the rest of their profile.
Much of the BuddyPress post and comment functions have been removed from 1.2.2 since they were no longer used at all. They were due for removal in 1.3 but I brought that forward because I didn’t want plugin devs making use of them. They are in the process of being moved to the back compat plugin. The activity stream tracks blogs, posts and comments and is a much better way (both performance and usability wise) of fetching the latest blog activity. Boone’s method is the way I would recommend.
You can use the “Users > Add New” menu to create users that do not need activating. There isn’t a way to activate a user account as an admin right now, unless you edit the users DB table and change the user_status from 2 to 0.
Users must activate their accounts before they can log in. They will be sent an email with a link to click that will return them to the site activated so they can log in.
Yes, there’s a bug in 1.2.2 which is super frustrating as it was fairly obvious. I’m tagging 1.2.2.1 which fixes it and will be out in the next 30 minutes.
