BuddyPress.org | Paul Wong-Gibbs | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/djpaul/activity/ Activity feed for Paul Wong-Gibbs. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:12:46 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 52ea66c47b9e05963edd9a7e9b430fd6 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic What is the most important thing BuddyPress is missing? in the forum Requests & Feedback https://buddypress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-important-thing-buddypress-is-missing/page/2/#post-327153 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:33:14 +0000 Has the project decided what to do about the product?

]]> 6cf543ca9f54c5e79a705d2c2b7e0053 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic What is the most important thing BuddyPress is missing? in the forum Requests & Feedback https://buddypress.org/support/topic/what-is-the-most-important-thing-buddypress-is-missing/#post-326447 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 08:05:50 +0000 The problem with asking contributors who put so much time into a project in its early days, is that those people often have rose-tinted glasses and inaccurate memories of what worked well and what didn’t, and what they wished they could have done differently. 🤩

BuddyPress at the start was “Facebook in a box”, and broadly remains the same today…[Read more]

]]> be387894dad64aad61f237496c4bf705 Paul Wong-Gibbs commented on the post, BuddyPress 6.0.0 "iovine's", on the site BuddyPress.org https://buddypress.org/2020/05/buddypress-6-0-0/comment-page-1/#comment-46188 Tue, 19 May 2020 13:55:55 +0000 Nice one! Congrats all.

]]> 8d716e214c1a53f82a57365ad93a3db4 Paul Wong-Gibbs commented on the post, BuddyPress 6.0.0-beta2, on the site BuddyPress.org https://buddypress.org/2020/04/buddypress-6-0-0-beta2/comment-page-1/#comment-46039 Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:21:53 +0000 Thank you and congrats on the effort to getting another big release out, and keeping the project alive!

]]> 35813a89fb21eb24f51bcf239731b99e Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic How to create a dynamic link to "my friends" in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-create-a-dynamic-link-to-my-friends/#post-300614 Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:23:23 +0000 Don’t resurrect old threads please. A new discussion would have been fine.
Have you tried example.com/me/friends ? I think it only works like that.

]]> 710aa7a5d1c910d10e0774cdff8af318 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Error in updating from 3.2.0 to 4.0.0 in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/error-in-updating-from-3-2-0-to-4-0-0/#post-282276 Wed, 28 Nov 2018 15:45:57 +0000 Unfortunately, it’s unlikely that file permissions are related to any change we made in the 4.0 release. I don’t know how they might have been set incorrectly, though if you’ve used any plugin installer or tool to add a plugin or update your site in the past, that might have been the cause.

You or someone who manages your server needs to go into…[Read more]

]]> ac3f3ef4605377fa30d0d9c2752f24da Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Peepso vs Buddypress in the forum Third Party Plugins https://buddypress.org/support/topic/peepso-vs-buddypress/#post-282258 Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:13:51 +0000 It’s not really the place to try to sell your plugin on our support forums, please; it’s rude.

]]> b193ff452ec00d3a5350b5b5ea2940ef Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Buddypress registration ignoring WP Mail SMTP in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-registration-ignoring-wp-mail-smtp/#post-279782 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:22:04 +0000 WP Mail SMTP seems to be a well-written plugin. I’ve taken a quick look at its code, and how it affects what WordPress does, and it looks like BuddyPress – in theory – should work with it. However, if you say it doesn’t, I don’t know why – you’d have to spend time debugging what is going on.

]]> 8cfa5d3052484078b9b8e77db17fa103 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Remove the no-js body class in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/remove-the-no-js-body-class/#post-279781 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:09:47 +0000 No need to try to un-hook where BuddyPress adds it. The body_class filter passes an array of class filters. I’d just filter it, and find and unset the no-js class you don’t want.

]]> f957045747fb4e1dcd52e404f500cd77 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic https in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/https-2/#post-279780 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:07:01 +0000 Nope.

]]> ab703da6f3310ef27a31a915370f5d0b Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Sendgrid and buddypress emails in the forum Miscellaneous https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sendgrid-and-buddypress-emails/#post-279779 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 22:05:04 +0000 @whoweez This old code sample does nothing much at all. I’m not sure what the intent was, this is basically debugging. To answer your specific question:

I thought “__return_false” on “bp_email_use_wp_mail” should prohibit any BP emails from being sent in the first place as the new class should handle the email sending process…?

If that filt…[Read more]

]]> 7f81ae6e3442055f767f1f6453081d2c Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic BuddyPress PHP 7.2 Compatibility test in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-php-7-2-compatibility-test/#post-279778 Fri, 02 Nov 2018 21:41:50 +0000 This is a false positive. It’s a custom function. See https://github.com/buddypress/wp-cli-buddypress/blob/master/features/bootstrap/utils.php#L426

]]> e83599ae0ed8be0352c5f7cbce16cd52 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic buddypress Wordpress 5 and Gutenberg editor in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-wordpress-5-and-gutenberg-editor/#post-279654 Mon, 29 Oct 2018 14:29:33 +0000 There’s no planned overlap. BuddyPress doesn’t provide any Gutenberg blocks.

If you’re referring to some of the extended profile field types that allow HTML, I expect those will stay as TinyMCE for now.

]]> a600ce60002dadb7e56ac44a1fbd8f74 Paul Gibbs updated the Releases page, on the BuddyPress Codex https://buddypress.org/updates/p/193680/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:15:22 +0000 The following are the various versions of BuddyPress, listed chronologically from the oldest to newest, along with the Change Log information on new features and improvements in each version.
N.B from version 1.5 […]

]]> 0 b30dcd84fadd7e11481cc147a84558ee Paul Wong-Gibbs wrote a new post on the site BuddyPress.org https://buddypress.org/?p=276415 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:14:20 +0000 BuddyPress 3.2.0 is now available. This is a maintenance release that fixes 25 bugs and is a recommended upgrade for all BuddyPress installations.

Update to BuddyPress 3.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, […]

]]> 7c4ec8b4cb8719917ddda0279340e825 Paul Gibbs updated the Version 3.2.0 page, on the BuddyPress Codex https://buddypress.org/updates/p/1331582/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:13:18 +0000 Version 3.2.0 is a BuddyPress maintenance release. 25 bugs were fixed.

For version 3.2.0, the database version (bp_db_version in wp_options) was r11105, and the Trac revision was r12238.
Fixes

Nouveau: […]

]]> 0 b5e5f39585e9ff0041cbbd1fa52401bc Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic feautered image in stream -> blurry img in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/feautered-image-in-stream-blurry-img/#post-274805 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:02:39 +0000 Have you checked the resolution of the image? Maybe it’s just too low.

]]> ac32b604f0327c4ebc4f91a24ee23c00 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic xprofile field saving problem in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/xprofile-field-saving-problem/#post-274804 Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:01:55 +0000 Share your entire relevant code.

]]> cfc4ea9a9645eabf624fab2ddfa4e642 Paul Gibbs updated the Version 3.1.0 page, on the BuddyPress Codex https://buddypress.org/updates/p/1191787/ Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:48:34 +0000 Version 3.1.0 is a BuddyPress maintenance release. 23 bugs were fixed.

For version 3.1.0, the database version (bp_db_version in wp_options) was r11105, and the Trac revision was r12167.

View […]

]]> 0 90dd7b261f66fb36182dcfca4cdc8d7c Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic BP3.0 strange behavior in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp3-0-strange-behavior/#post-273801 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:49:48 +0000 The log in widget, and the activity stream comment bugs, will be fixed in v3.1.0, which will come out before the end of next week.

]]> 29bc9c2b0dfad48355d0efadb676c67d Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Few things in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/few-things/#post-273800 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:49:01 +0000 This is not a BuddyPress question.

]]> 08d9f6bff719e368b3f0bfecdccbeb03 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic bp-nouveau vs bp-legacy in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-nouveau-vs-bp-legacy/#post-273799 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:46:37 +0000 It’s likely that any new features will be added to Nouveau, and not Legacy.
It’s up to you which you want to support or build from.

]]> 7d6001ef9181979cf17f87088000d80e Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Read activation key in activate.php in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/read-activation-key-in-activate-php/#post-273798 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:45:04 +0000 bp_get_current_activation_key()?

]]> 4eeec9d886abcabce1d5896c69b7f53c Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Edit or Display "Profile Fields Group" on homepage or elsewhere in the forum Third Party Plugins https://buddypress.org/support/topic/edit-or-display-profile-fields-group-on-homepage-or-elsewhere/#post-273796 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:43:04 +0000 Yep, you’ll want to use a survey plugin for this, and probably code some sort of integration yourself.

]]> 324e84bee48eebc0db423942c6d74c98 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Desactive / Remove last_activity metadata on user_meta in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/desactive-remove-last_activity-metadata-on-user_meta/#post-273795 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:40:45 +0000 I don’t know about “simple”. The function in BP is bp_update_user_last_activity() and that calls WordPress’ user meta functions. I am positive there are filters within that stack you could use to override the value or prevent the writes, but you’ll need to look into that code yourself.

@boonebgorges Do you think we can stop this mirroring yet?…[Read more]

]]> d85d4b409ae45c3039c13b8d6bd94a21 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Error (500) after update from BP 2.9.2 to 3.0.0 in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/error-500-after-update-from-bp-2-9-2-to-3-0-0/#post-273794 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:36:40 +0000 It’d been helpful if you’d linked to it, @venuitius 😉
I’ve just tried searching myself and couldn’t find it.

At any rate, this is not a BuddyPress problem — it’s an out of date and unsupported plugin.
We are looking at trying to introduce some of these field types into the main BuddyPress plugin for future versions (it will happen, just a…[Read more]

]]> cde59e6abe1916280e6466e36992487c Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic GDPR compliance in the forum Requests & Feedback https://buddypress.org/support/topic/gdpr-compliance/#post-273793 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:24:19 +0000 Our position is that we want BuddyPress to provide tools that help site owners comply with privacy legislation.

Our 4.0 release, about a month away, will be our first pass at this. Read the latter comments in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7698 for linked/related tickets, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 4f51cb91ed83704d9e9d95dbc0813420 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user filter failing in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp_notifications_get_notifications_for_user-filter-failing/#post-273792 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:21:39 +0000 I can’t see any code change in 3.0 that might have affected this. This filter is called in three places, and each place we pass eight parameters.

If you can debug this, perhaps with wp_debug_backtrace() and find a code execution path, that would be handy.

]]> 328fb57b3f1ab765257ec1fbab606e95 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Activation Emails are not being sent in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/activation-emails-are-not-being-sent/page/2/#post-273790 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:17:43 +0000 We have this fixed for our next release, v3.1. This will be released next week (Wednesday) at the latest. The bug was addressed at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7869

@alpokoskiniva “Repair email” deletes the emails from the “Emails” menu, then re-adds them. You don’t need to do this unless you’ve added a translation to your site…[Read more]

]]> b579897f5541cdcdb2f81345bed73d5d Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Failed to migrate to another url in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/failed-to-migrate-to-another-url/#post-273789 Thu, 31 May 2018 09:13:53 +0000 You need to talk to whoever runs your server. It’s possible the PHP error logging configuration is different on each.

Furthermore, you can see the problem comes from the folder /plugins/buddypress-links, which is not BuddyPress itself.

I haven’t seen BuddyPress Links in a long time — I’m assuming it’s not compatible, and that your PHP…[Read more]

]]> 7f288330a8276b6436b9b82d652925e3 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic bp-nouveau vs bp-legacy in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-nouveau-vs-bp-legacy/#post-273695 Mon, 28 May 2018 13:11:51 +0000 Imagine a BuddyPress Template Pack as something analogous to a WordPress theme. You can’t have a child theme compatible with multiple parent themes.

And you can’t have a template pack compatible with multiple themes. I don’t think there is anything in the template hierarchy – like the named folders that you suggest – that would let you do this.…[Read more]

]]> 6892181ec5df24414c0d2963c7d8a6b0 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic users can not be activated after registration in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/users-can-not-be-activated-after-registration/#post-273228 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:51:33 +0000 Are you using the new Nouveau template pack that came with Buddypress 3.0?

]]> 728ed9b8c76f5aeba983663a0fcfc31d Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic User Profile Fields in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/user-profile-fields-2/#post-273227 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:50:25 +0000 Sorry, what is the problem?

]]> 9415f3f2a9aed7ccdf9e9ec9f221bc81 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic User cannot publish activity after install buddyblog plugin. in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/user-cannot-publish-activity-after-install-buddyblog-plugin/#post-273226 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:50:03 +0000 Yep, it’s not a core BuddyPress problem. We can’t support other plugins, sorry.

]]> 4ea3b29935dd579b319b319b78dc1f9d Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic bp-nouveau vs bp-legacy in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-nouveau-vs-bp-legacy/#post-273223 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:47:35 +0000 I am pretty sure themes will choose to use one template pack or another. It will be almost impossible to support multiple template packs.

]]> c8947a3620b0f136f962049dd89cc5ec Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic add user to group when user is added via dashboard in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/add-user-to-group-when-user-is-added-via-dashboard/#post-273221 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:46:39 +0000 @anrahulpandey Check the function declaration for groups_join_group() inside BuddyPress’ files!

function groups_join_group( $group_id, $user_id = 0 )

I think you are specifying the user_id and group_id parameters in the wrong order. 🙂

]]> bc4badf6a47c246af9eef7e0794901b9 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic BuddyPress 3.0, no new users since... in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-3-0-no-new-users-since/#post-273219 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:44:48 +0000 Keep an eye on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7845#ticket !

]]> e5c88a54a00ba123f3b67d7ac6068564 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic User registration fails when multiple options selected in BuddyPress 3.0.0 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/user-registration-fails-when-multiple-options-selected-in-buddypress-3-0-0/#post-273218 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:44:39 +0000 Thanks for the details. Keep an eye on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7845#ticket

]]> 9876b79819f0c0342754beea872b2ef2 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic No more Forums tab inside the group since 3.0 in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/no-more-forums-tab-inside-the-group-since-3-0/#post-273217 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:40:24 +0000 We don’t have enough information to figure out what the cause might be yet, I think we will need to try to reproduce the problem, but it doesn’t seem to be unique to your site, so I’ve created a bug report at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7844 — please keep an eye on that for updates.

]]> 8a4108316b092f6a5507627c8b40c19f Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Forums No Longer Appearing After Update in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/forums-no-longer-appearing-after-update/#post-273216 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:40:18 +0000 We don’t have enough information to figure out what the cause might be yet, I think we will need to try to reproduce the problem, but it doesn’t seem to be unique to your site, so I’ve created a bug report at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7844 — please keep an eye on that for updates.

]]> 402c399e58ff4b34fcb07ccef4907b02 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_nouveau_before_loop() in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-bp_nouveau_before_loop/#post-273215 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:37:35 +0000 @andreia22 What URL are you visiting to trigger these errors, please?

]]> d587761f7437c40b3f645b61098eae50 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Sorting my custom members-loop-2 loses the filtering in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sorting-my-custom-members-loop-2-loses-the-filtering/#post-273214 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:35:54 +0000 Because the sort options trigger an AJAX request which reloads the directory content. This is not the same data that’s in your custom members-loop template.

]]> 31336d812edfdbafffdc977623e2b1b4 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic BuddyPress 3.0, no new users since... in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-3-0-no-new-users-since/#post-273213 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:34:03 +0000 Are you using WordPress with multisite enabled, or not?

]]> 00565f6b7d9f03484bdeacfbefde5b23 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Profile Menu's Disabled in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/profile-menus-disabled/#post-273212 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:32:39 +0000 This might be related to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7837

Were you using the new Nouveau template pack when you had this problem?

]]> d29efa0fafbce0575675f09d75ab9705 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Buddypress user and group home set up in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-user-and-group-home-set-up/#post-273211 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:31:13 +0000 Hi

I assume you’re using the new Nouveau template pack? Have you tried looking in the WordPress Customizer for the options?

]]> 22f0ac3bfcf4aae31594982b2e802cf9 Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Default Admin name in Emails using Buddypress Group Email Plugin / in the forum Requests & Feedback https://buddypress.org/support/topic/default-admin-name-in-emails-using-buddypress-group-email-plugin/#post-273210 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:28:52 +0000 This would have been better posted on the wordpress.org forum for that specific plugin next time, please.

]]> 5cff4444dd345a74b8e5d4bfd5b65a5f Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Buddypress activity bug "The page isn't redirecting properly" in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-activity-bug-the-page-isnt-redirecting-properly/#post-273209 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:27:17 +0000 Bug: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7843

Keep an eye on that. Sorry for the inconvenience.

]]> e5134c5c9d779024560fe04a009b2a6c Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic Want to allow everyone can view single activity in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/want-to-allow-everyone-can-view-single-activity/#post-273208 Sun, 20 May 2018 13:26:56 +0000 Bug: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7843

Keep an eye on that, and sorry for the inconvenience in the meanwhile.

]]> 41bbb03da9b2ea552bcc3b7ef9d4268d Paul Wong-Gibbs replied to the topic No more Forums tab inside the group since 3.0 in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/no-more-forums-tab-inside-the-group-since-3-0/#post-273145 Fri, 18 May 2018 15:07:22 +0000 That code controls a setting. It has nothing to do with the actual navigation bar. I am confused as to what exactly you are reporting is wrong.

]]> bdc57789246f48f345d9f5cff23f0003 Paul Wong-Gibbs wrote a new post on the site BuddyPress.org https://buddypress.org/?p=273108 Fri, 18 May 2018 00:23:37 +0000 BuddyPress 3.0.0 “Apollo” is now available for immediate download from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard. “Apollo” focuses on various improvement for developers, site […]

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