[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 10 months ago]

Yes, the template hierarchy will use template parts from your theme:

Template Hierarchy

If you’re using a theme that is updated, then, yes, you should use a child theme to keep your changes.

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 10 months ago]

Hi Marc-

It sounds like you’re just getting started. Custom fields are part of the extended profile component. Read more about it here:

User Extended Profiles

Displaying Extended Profile Fields on Member Profiles

It is not really possible to show groups with any richness outside of the group page. Your best bet is probably to customize your group templates to show what you want. The template hierarchy will help you:

Template Hierarchy

An all-user overview with search and filtering is the members directory available at yoursite.com/members

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 10 months ago]

Hello there. BuddyPress doesn’t add jQuery to a site (it relies on WordPress to provide jQuery). It looks to me like you’re using a plugin to fetch jQuery from a CDN rather than use the local version that comes with WordPress. Disable your plugins one at a time until the code changes, then you’ll have found the cuplrit.

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 10 months ago]

I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking for, but my best guess is that you’re looking for a URL that will redirect the current user to his or her user profile.

Try http://mysite.com/members/me

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 12 months ago]

WordPress has a built-in function for getting the number posts published by a user:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/count_user_posts

If you’ve been able to figure out how to display profile data, use the same approach here, and you should be in good shape.

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 12 months ago]

This plugin doesn’t add a pending queue for approval, but it does allow users to flag inappropriate posts for moderation:
https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/BP-Moderation/

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 12 months ago]

The simplest answer is probably to style that span as display: block then you have a number of options for forcing it below other elements. It’s going to depend a lot on your theme.

If you choose to modify the template, the template to modify would go in child-theme/buddypress/members/member-header.php.

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 12 months ago]

There are a few non-BuddyPress reasons I can think of for this:

• The page is cached by WP Super Cache or a similar plugin
• Your shared server has some sort of caching built-in (like object caching or expires headers)
• Your browser is using the cached version from your last visit to that page (try a different browser to test)

The setup you describe works ok for me on my local test (no caching enabled) installation. You might contact your hosting company to see what is enabled on your shared server.

[@dcavins Keymaster 8 years, 12 months ago]

This is probably a server configuration problem. This simple plugin can help you figure out if your WP installation can send emails:

Check Email

Alternatively, the emails may be being sent, but ending up in your users’ spam folders.

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Hi Georgio-

It depends on how they’re being added. I’m guessing that they’re being added (by a plugin?) on the bp_group_members_list_item_action or bp_group_members_list_item action hook. If I were adding a button in that case, I’d add a conditional like in this example:

add_action( 'bp_group_members_list_item', 'conditional_group_member_list_item' );
function conditional_group_member_list_item() {
    // Check the member list item member ID against the current user's ID
    // Only show added info if the user is not the current user.
    if ( bp_get_group_member_id() != bp_loggedin_user_id() ) {
        ?>
        <span>This is NOT me.</span>
        <?php
    } else {
        // This member listing is the current user.
        ?>
        <span>This is me.</span>
        <?php
    }
}

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Thanks for the update!

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Hi @VentureCore-

It seems like you can make avatars work remotely. Check bp_core_fetch_avatar() for some filter opportunities. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L98

I’ve not done what you’re trying to do, but it seems that the filter points bp_core_avatar_folder_url, bp_core_avatar_folder_dir could be useful, but there’s a filter on the final result at bp_core_fetch_avatar for the “html” output version and bp_core_fetch_avatar_url for just the url.

Cover images should actually be easier to manage. Take a look in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-core/bp-core-attachments.php#L28

Alternatively, you could filter the other plugin to ignore avatar and cover image requests. Lots of ways to solve this, I’d bet.

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

I’d use BuddyPress Docs for this purpose, but I’m a fan of and contributor to that plugin. It’s great for creating organized shared libraries with tags and search ability.

If you’d rather it be more forum-like, use bbPress.

-David

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

What about using a custom member front page? Then you’d have total flexibility:
Custom Front Pages for your users profiles

Otherwise, I think you could conditionally filter bp_displayed_user_get_front_template to specify members/single/activity.php for self and friends and members/single/profile.php for non-friends. See this function:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.2/src/bp-members/bp-members-template.php#L1397

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Regarding your first question, it appears that your theme is adding marks to your navigation menu. You’ll need to inspect the element to see what rule is causing it, then override it. (Or choose a different theme.)

Regarding your second question, if your theme has a full-width page template, select it for your BuddyPress pages. If it doesn’t you’ll have to create one, or choose a different theme.

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

HI @khappamj-

It sounds like you’re overriding the file the right way and at the right location. There must be some other reason the file isn’t being used. I’d try checking the file permissions to make sure that apache can read the file.

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Hi @snecz-

Yes, you can filter the starred slug using the bp_get_messages_starred_slug filter. Unfortunately, the ‘sentbox’ slug is not currently customizable.

Here’s an example of how you might filter the starred slug:

add_filter( 'bp_get_messages_starred_slug', 'bp_codex_filter_starred_slug' );
function bp_codex_filter_starred_slug( $slug ) {
    return 'important';
}

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Were you adding the avatar upload to the registration form via some custom code? (I think I’ve seen plugins and such that do that.) It looks like you’ve removed that step for now, so maybe all is well?

-David

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

BuddyPress uses a theme compatibility layer, meaning it uses its own templates that are designed to drop into any theme. You can overload all kinds of template parts for BuddyPress:

Template Hierarchy

However, there are plugins (I’ve not tested) that you could maybe get to work if you have two themes in mind: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/

Best,

-David

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

This is sort of a big WordPress question that lots of people would like to change, but it’s not that easy. You could try using the plugin Theme My Login, which would need to be applied carefully, as it overlaps with BP a bit. https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ (I have no idea if this is a good plan, you’ll just have to try it.)

The black bar across the top is a WordPress per-user preference “Show Toolbar when viewing site”. There are many resources on the web about how to disable it/change the behavior:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+disable+toolbar+for+subscribers

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

There’s no way to do that via shortcode as far as I know, but lots of ways to do it via theme. You could apply a page template to the “members” page to modify what is output. You could also overload the template at /buddypress/members/single/home. Read more about the template hierarchy:

Template Hierarchy

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

This is the codex article I was thinking of:

Modifying the Registration Form

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Sure, you can add a filter on the bp_get_member_permalink hook and do whatever you wish. The BP member profile is much richer than the the authors page, though–if you’re not using the member profile fully, are you sure you need BuddyPress for your site?

For the second question, use the shortcut link: https://mysite.org/members/me which will redirect users to their profile.

Best,

-David

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

You can save extra things manually on the bp_core_signup_user hook:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-members/bp-members-functions.php#L1900

But I imagine that the simpler answer would be to use Profile Fields. If you add profile fields to the base group, then they appear on the registration form and are saved at signup. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Best,

-David

[@dcavins Keymaster 9 years ago]

Hi @paksunny-

#1 can be accomplished by adding this code to you bp-custom.php file (or wherever you keep your customizations): https://gist.github.com/dcavins/c65f3856dd6ed5be37eef115ab09405a

#2 Try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

-David