BuddyPress.org | drwebstein | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/drwebstein/activity/ Activity feed for drwebstein. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:15:20 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 e9e4af855881f3d780c5dd02d2e9b72c drwebstein started the forum topic Has Anybody Found a Definitive Solution for Spammer-Splogger Registrations? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/has-anybody-found-a-definitive-solution-for-spammer-splogger-registratio Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:34:47 +0000 Hello BuddyPress Community.

I have a Multi-Site BuddyPress site set up and working great, but we’ve begun to have a real problem with spammer/splogger registrations being created and immediately sending spam […]

]]> 96117fd06130dff864c941321b75a100 drwebstein started the forum topic Is this plugin going to be updated to work with WP 3.1? in the group BuddyPress Groupblog http://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-groupblog/forum/topic/is-this-plugin-going-to-be-updated-to-work-with-wp-3-1/ Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:09:13 +0000 Just checking in to see if there are any plans to update the Groupblog plugin to work properly with the most recent version of WordPress, which is currently 3.1. We’ve found a handful of issues that have kept us from using it in its current state, and we’re curious to know whether or not there […]

]]> 8a300c23229ed7bc04d6c94f791d271b drwebstein joined the group BuddyPress Groupblog https://buddypress.org/updates/p/159505/ Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:09:12 +0000 0 26d4b275888db1106a554d9cfaa6196d drwebstein posted on the forum topic Group Admin cannot delete posts from the Activity Feed but WP Super Admin can in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-admin-cannot-delete-posts-from-the-activity-feed-but-wp-super-admi Wed, 25 May 2011 16:30:34 +0000 I’d also love to know if anybody can confirm that posts to the activity feed can only be deleted by the WordPress Super Admin and the person who posted the item but not by the Group Admin. That seems strange considering the “Delete” links appear next to the items when the Group Admin is viewing […]

]]> 2adf1401546088f862966c338903482b drwebstein posted on the forum topic Group Admin cannot delete posts from the Activity Feed but WP Super Admin can in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-admin-cannot-delete-posts-from-the-activity-feed-but-wp-super-admi Wed, 25 May 2011 16:27:41 +0000 Thank you for your response, mrpavlikov, but unfortunately it doesn’t appear to have done the trick for me. After closer inspection of your code, is it possible that the check_is_admin() function should use the Group ID as the second variable instead of the Activity ID? And if so, how do I reference the Group ID? […]

]]> de2bd79e1ccac4f32ed62730b62c8e5e drwebstein posted on the forum topic Logged in as admin - can't delete entries from sitewide activity in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/logged-in-as-admin-cant-delete-entries-from-sitewide-activity/#post-9878 Mon, 16 May 2011 18:29:02 +0000 Actually, I tried switching to the default BP theme to see if it was a theme-specific issue, but the issue didn’t go away, which leads me to believe it is a Buddypress issue.

]]> 724a3875258d0b35d50d1e18a7266339 drwebstein started the forum topic Group Admin cannot delete posts from the Activity Feed but WP Super Admin can in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-admin-cannot-delete-posts-from-the-activity-feed-but-wp-super-admi Mon, 16 May 2011 15:59:25 +0000 The WordPress super-admin for my multisite installation can delete posts from a Group’s activity feed, but a Group Admin cannot. If a Group Admin attempts to delete an activity post, it appears to be removed from the activity feed, but if they leave the main Group page and return to it, the activity post returns. […]

]]> eb087ec776d6125e79e2c3e796ae8961 drwebstein posted on the forum topic activity feed - feed not working after upgrade 1.1.3 in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activity-feed-feed-not-working-after-upgrade-113/?topic_page=2#post-9876 Mon, 16 May 2011 15:50:46 +0000 I just attempted to use Steve’s delete fix to resolve a similar issue, but it didn’t seem to do the trick for me. I’m using WP 3.1.1 and BP 1.2.8 My issue is that the super-admin for my multisite installation can delete posts from a Group’s activity feed, but a Group Admin cannot. If a […]

]]> 218e49e37f745acbaae63ecbb9a0a8de drwebstein posted on the forum topic Logged in as admin - can't delete entries from sitewide activity in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/logged-in-as-admin-cant-delete-entries-from-sitewide-activity/#post-9876 Mon, 16 May 2011 15:23:58 +0000 I’m experiencing this same thing.

Has anybody identified the reason for this?

]]> 60bd0b532704c002089674742136b108 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Can I add a "Send Private Message" button to the list of Members within a Group? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/can-i-add-a-send-private-message-button-to-the-list-of-members-within-a- Thu, 05 May 2011 21:18:26 +0000 Thank you for your response, Chouf1. Creating a button to link to the page from where they can send a private message is exactly what I was trying to do. Do you have any idea whether there’s a way to implement this so that they don’t have to manually enter the user name once they […]

]]> f6f191befbab5c7a564f3f934993b3e4 drwebstein started the forum topic Can I add a "Send Private Message" button to the list of Members within a Group? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/can-i-add-a-send-private-message-button-to-the-list-of-members-within-a- Tue, 03 May 2011 19:07:47 +0000 In the list of all of the Members of a single Group, I’m trying to add a “Send Private Message” button, like the one that appears on a the Member Profile page. Is this possible? Can anybody recommend how I would do so? I’d also like to add the most recent status update for each […]

]]> e26ab1121867b507b3cd1d3667f5f992 drwebstein started the forum topic Removing group extension link from the Admin subnav menu in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/removing-group-extension-link-from-the-admin-menu/ Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:39:53 +0000 Hello BuddyPress Dev Community. I’ve used the Group Extension API to create a few custom tabs for my group, on which I display some very basic mostly-static info. Unfortunately, when a group admin clicks the “Admin” link for the group, a link for each of these group extensions appears within the admin subnav. How do […]

]]> dd11a1c57f7aa157dbb5a814e4542cf8 drwebstein joined the group Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/updates/p/150523/ Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:39:53 +0000 0 71f3808a5780aebaa12acc3567fe1950 drwebstein posted on the forum topic [Resolved] Call to undefined function bb_get_id_from_slug() in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/call-to-undefined-function-bb_get_id_from_slug/#post-96108 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 22:24:57 +0000 I’ve run into this same issue, but none of the suggestions in this thread helped me to resolve it. Has anybody else encountered this and confirmed that their file structure is correct and the meta_value for the record with meta_key = uri in table wp_bb_meta is the correct URL? Any other ideas? Is this bb_get_id_from_slug() […]

]]> 3dccc6b203e8089ec67032c5f9a451db drwebstein posted on the forum topic Can I display different tabs for different groups within the same BP installation? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/can-i-display-different-tabs-for-different-groups-within-the-same-bp-ins Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:31:18 +0000 Just curious to know if anybody has any experience with this.

Thank you.

Adam

]]> e4d492caf24866f9b811fdcf4a496320 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Can I display different tabs for different groups within the same BP installation? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/can-i-display-different-tabs-for-different-groups-within-the-same-bp-ins Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:31:08 +0000 I see that one of the CUNY Academic Commons groups has a tab that another group does not: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/ – has a “Visit Blog” tab http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gc-comp-rhet-area-group/ – does not have a “Visit Blog” tab This makes is seem as if it is possible to show different tabs to different…[Read more]

]]> b4dc8ea99c3804cca23d6777f18eb13b drwebstein started the forum topic Can I display different tabs for different groups within the same BP installation? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/can-i-display-different-tabs-for-different-groups-within-the-same-bp-ins Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:24:33 +0000 Hi BP Community. Is it possible to display different tabs (Forums, Documents, Members, etc.) for one group within a single BuddyPress installation than the rest of the groups are displaying? Or must all groups within a single BP installation display the same tabs? Ideally, I’d like to set up a bunch of different tabs and […]

]]> 56d5b1effcf4b97649906cda2342b229 drwebstein started the forum topic Adding BP tab with (mostly) static content in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-bp-tab-with-mostly-static-content/ Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:00:29 +0000 Hello BuddyPress Community. Is there functionality or a BP plugin that will allow a group administrator to add a tab that contains mostly static content? For example, suppose the group administrator wanted to add an “About Us” tab to their BP group that would contain some basic information about the group. Seems like pretty basic […]

]]> a17c6ba6d4f10ff94c42309dcc98501f drwebstein started the forum topic "Links" tab within BuddyPress group in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/links-tab-within-buddypress-group/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:19:31 +0000 Does anybody know of a plugin that will add a “Links” tab to a BuddyPress group, like they’ve implemented here: http://caryl.fr/groups/iphone/links/ (“Liens” is French for “links.”) I know of the plugin that allows users to add links to their profile, but it didn’t look like the same functionality could be added to a group. Thank […]

]]> 328464dbc503ef681e4268ec4244a947 drwebstein started the forum topic Announcements tab like CUNY? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/announcements-tab-like-cuny/ Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:44:52 +0000 Can anybody recommend a way for me to replicate the “Announcements” tab functionality that CUNY has put in place on a number of their groups? Example: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/ctl/announcements/ I didn’t see any BuddyPress plugins designed to do exactly this, but the functionality seems quite simple. It seems as though they are just…[Read more]

]]> 4a385b2a6b6f0262431c3b3443204700 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Group Announcements Plugin/Tab? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-announcements-plugintab/#post-85658 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:27:26 +0000 I’m also interested in replicating the Announcements functionality that CUNY has implemented. Does anybody know how they pulled this off?

]]> fd3c4866606e6a7c90eb7813a98593b1 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Blank white screen when a newly created user clicks the login link if somebody is already logged int in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/blank-white-screen-when-a-newly-created-user-clicks-the-login-link-if-so Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:31:47 +0000 To answer my own question, this appears to be a BuddyPress specific issue because if I deactivate BuddyPress, it is no longer an issue.

Adam

]]> 7bd345d64368d542e5e121a86ae65114 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_page_title() in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-bp_page_title/#post-69035 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:29:13 +0000 For me it is the latter, but only because that’s the URL that is included in the automatically generated email when a new user is created.

]]> 43852ebd71da8c24f3e493e2eeaf655d drwebstein posted on the forum topic Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_page_title() in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/fatal-error-call-to-undefined-function-bp_page_title/#post-69030 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:12:44 +0000 I’m seeing the same behavior, lwaltzer, but I have not yet found a fix.

Adam

]]> 28b229fb49e6c5e0ff1c1f01bfffc889 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Detecting if logged in User is Administrator in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/detecting-if-logged-in-user-is-administrator/#post-69023 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:55:31 +0000 I decided to go ahead and try replacing all references to is_site_admin with is_super_admin, but it did not resolve this issue.

If anybody else is experiencing this issue, we can continue to discuss in the new thread that I set up for it at…[Read more]

]]> 23aaeeeaeae7bcaeca6b4b5f051b242a drwebstein posted on the forum topic Blank white screen when a newly created user clicks the login link if somebody is already logged int in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/blank-white-screen-when-a-newly-created-user-clicks-the-login-link-if-so Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:54:25 +0000 I decided to go ahead and try replacing all references to is_site_admin with is_super_admin, but it did not resolve this issue.

Has anybody else seen this? Can you help me identify whether it is a WordPress issue or a BuddyPress issue?

Thanks,
Adam

]]> c8f371086b62aa068b5f99cdf569d1e9 drwebstein started the forum topic Blank white screen when a newly created user clicks the login link if somebody is already logged int in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/blank-white-screen-when-a-newly-created-user-clicks-the-login-link-if-so Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:38:41 +0000 My newly added users are getting a blank white screen when they click the link within the auto-generated email? In testing, I find that if I’m still logged in to the admin back-end when I click the login link within an auto-generated new user email, I get the dreaded blank white screen. However, if I […]

]]> 4cfc67886b92a58802bf771219d2ce95 drwebstein posted on the forum topic Detecting if logged in User is Administrator in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/detecting-if-logged-in-user-is-administrator/#post-69019 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:36:31 +0000 Is it possible this could be causing my newly added users to get a blank white screen when they click the link within the auto-generated email once I’ve created the new user? In testing, I find that if I’m still logged in to the admin back-end when I click the login link within an auto-generated […]

]]> 01cfae33453367386f2a0e965eb300d8 drwebstein started the forum topic Super Admin named 'wp-admin' - can't view profile in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/super-admin-named-wp-admin-cant-view-profile/ Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:05:55 +0000 I wasn’t thinking and chose to name my Super Admin user ‘wp-admin.’ Now, when I attempt to view the profile of that user within BuddyPress at the address http://mydomain.com/members/wp-admin/ I see the WordPress admin dashboard. Is there a way for me to fix this? Perhaps there’s a trick that will allow me to change the […]

]]> 8377ce074420614d3a503ada4189efc8 drwebstein started the forum topic Is it possible to display different profile fields for different groups? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/is-it-possible-to-display-different-profile-fields-for-different-groups/ Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:55:51 +0000 Is it possible for 1 group to display different profile fields from another group?

Is there a plugin that will facilitate this? If not, can you point me in the right direction if I was to do this by creating my own plugin?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Adam

]]> b66e7799fb5e54d1aefda10ec1e17d3d drwebstein joined the group How-To and Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/updates/p/37541/ Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:55:51 +0000 0 e75a3640f405eb335f32b2fa5ea3fc39 drwebstein started the forum topic Private member list in the group Security & Privacy http://buddypress.org/community/groups/security-privacy/forum/topic/private-member-list/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:57:17 +0000 Can we restrict the ability for members to the see the list of all of the other members?

We plan to have multiple groups, but we don’t want any mingling between groups. Is that possible?

Thank you,
Adam

]]> 53241bb237745fdb8400f0fd7e2fa0b0 drwebstein started the forum topic Private profile fields in the group Security & Privacy http://buddypress.org/community/groups/security-privacy/forum/topic/private-profile-fields/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:43:34 +0000 I see that the BP Profile Privacy plugin allows the admins to control which profile fields appear publicly.

Is it possible to give different settings for different groups? For example, can one group have different public and private profile fields than another group?

Thank you,
Adam

]]> 0c8a239b15c470718a53423c496966c3 drwebstein joined the group Security & Privacy https://buddypress.org/updates/p/32877/ Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:35 +0000 0