BuddyPress.org | Steve Taylor | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/gyrus/activity/ Activity feed for Steve Taylor. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:26:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 83ffbd845ae0c7e32639bbce12749e79 Steve Taylor replied to the topic Urgent: roll back to pre-12 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/urgent-roll-back-to-pre-12/#post-332230 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:08:15 +0000 OK I discovered BP Classic.

]]> d3c5f749c410337fab87441242717a55 Steve Taylor started the topic Urgent: roll back to pre-12 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/urgent-roll-back-to-pre-12/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:42:22 +0000 I’ve just woken up to find an auto-update to BP 12 has completely broken groups functionality on a client site. E.g. the main groups page is now post type ‘buddypress’ instead of ‘page’, so it’s no longer in the main nav. Lots of others breakages.

I need to roll back to the previous version. Presumably this involves doing more than rolling the…[Read more]

]]> e3ee812595de3def237d3c41153418b4 Steve Taylor replied to the topic BuddyPress 12.0.0 in the forum Miscellaneous https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-12-0-0/page/2/#post-332228 Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:32:39 +0000 Hi, I just woke up to find that one of our major client sites has auto-updated to BuddyPress 12 and this has completely broken groups functionality, which is a major part of the site. How can I quickly roll back to the previous version? It looks like more than just rolling back the plugin itself, it seems to have done loads of things to the data…[Read more]

]]> 287ff43feeb0a858f41f16f471d98509 Steve Taylor started the topic No last_activity even though activities have been logged for members in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/no-last_activity-even-though-activities-have-been-logged-for-members/ Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:37:26 +0000 Out of about 6000 members, we have around 1000 who have no entry with the type last_activity' in thewp_bp_activity` table.

I think some will be simply members who have yet to log in, but it doesn’t seem to be all of them.

For instance, if I search the data for members who have no last_activity but do have an entry with type updated_profile, I…[Read more]

]]> 37df67557f9476bc6c1a2624a4cb5c1c Steve Taylor replied to the topic bp_core_catch_no_access no-caching member pages in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp_core_catch_no_access-no-caching-member-pages/#post-328756 Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:37:14 +0000 I’ve had no luck debugging this. It seems the no-cache response header is being set in two places:

  1. /wp-includes/class-wp.php:760 > nocache_headers() (this seems to be WP core not recognising the member profile URL path (e.g. /community/directory/john-smith/)
  2. /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php:613 > bp_do_404() >…

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]]> 3d76e16b92abd251d42c80396c78eb61 Steve Taylor started the topic bp_core_catch_no_access no-caching member pages in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp_core_catch_no_access-no-caching-member-pages/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:33:51 +0000 Our hosts have reported that all BP pages in the member directory are being set to no-cache, and are taking up a lot of processing power.

There might be more than one issue here, but to focus on the caching… It seems that if I visit a member profile page, it’s got this response header:

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

As…[Read more]

]]> 6a8158ef44d764cda56e0d92620a2ce6 Steve Taylor replied to the topic 'Declined' email wrongly sent to registrant in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/declined-email-wrongly-sent-to-registrant/#post-325192 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 09:07:27 +0000 Thanks I’ve worked out how to disable that email. I don’t think this solves my initial problem – in theory this email should be active so it’s sent when an admin turns the request down. However, I kind of agree with the view in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/membership-requests-email/ – that usually when an admin turns a request down, it…[Read more]

]]> 2888589b28634cc45787d855e641bc03 Steve Taylor started the topic 'Declined' email wrongly sent to registrant in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/declined-email-wrongly-sent-to-registrant/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:42:10 +0000 We’re experimenting with manually approving signups for the first time after starting to get too many spam signups.

Under Settings > General I’ve unchecked ‘Anyone can register’. Then, under Settings > BuddyPress > Options > Members Settings, I’ve checked ‘Allow visitors to request site membership’.

Now, when I fill in the registration form, an…[Read more]

]]> f21777e6a668cac513e2cb09e1f8929f Steve Taylor replied to the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/#post-320750 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:02:49 +0000 Actually there’s an issue running the SQL on our live server, which I didn’t get locally. With the first ALTER TABLE statement I get:

‘Index column size too large. The maximum column size is 767 bytes.’

If I then run the next statement I get:

‘Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key.’

Not…[Read more]

]]> 275c651f39af52754f04deabdb0bbf57 Steve Taylor replied to the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/#post-320749 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:47:30 +0000 Thanks, that does the trick. I’ll let you know if we hit any problems down the line with this, but the table is there now at least.

]]> f23016f0f3be2e8ca2ac1bdd6291442a Steve Taylor replied to the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/#post-320747 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 17:36:45 +0000 Yes, all tables have the prefix wp_, as set in the config file.

On the production site our hosts run a caching system, but I’m working locally on this, no caching. All minification etc. is done using Grunt build scripts – so nothing in plugins or otherwise as the site runs on the server.

The theme is quite a beefy custom theme, but I switched to…[Read more]

]]> 1b4f67948d59ea8ed0cebc989154df56 Steve Taylor replied to the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/#post-320743 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:36:06 +0000 Sorry, no joy. I deactivated BP, updated from 9.0.0 to 9.1.1, re-activated, and still couldn’t see wp_bp_optouts in the DB. I tried re-running the tool mentioned, still no opt-outs table.

]]> 9464d009d0f1c23500cdba2feaec32d2 Steve Taylor replied to the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/#post-320719 Wed, 25 Aug 2021 07:56:02 +0000 Thanks, I hadn’t seen this tools page. However, even though running the last repair item reported as successful, I still don’t see the wp_bp_optouts table. And when I go to the ‘Manage Opt-Outs’ tab on the tools page, I get the same ‘table doesn’t exist’ error.

]]> ccb8f37ed31432861b00cd5467208133 Steve Taylor started the topic Table 'wp_bp_optouts' doesn't exist in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/table-wp_bp_optouts-doesnt-exist/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 17:04:00 +0000 I’m trying to solve an issue with replies to activity comments that aren’t appearing on the site (even though they’re in the database and not marked as spam). I tried posting a new reply to an activity comment as a test, and when the reply was posted, it came with 2 errors, SQL queries which failed because the table ‘wp_bp_optouts’ doesn’t…[Read more]

]]> ccc95b667177f1d223a8c3e8cd801c42 Steve Taylor replied to the topic updating from BP 2.9.4 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/updating-from-bp-2-9-4/#post-314837 Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:12:52 +0000 A note for anyone doing this. Sequential updating is probably best, at the very least if going through version 5.

I updated from 2.9.4 to 6.3.0 and got an error regarding a missing DB table (bp_invitations). This is new in BP 5.

Check bp-core-update.php, which contains functions for special actions updating to major versions. The one for…[Read more]

]]> 79551d831bba445bbc1844c97dcb4bf1 Steve Taylor replied to the topic updating from BP 2.9.4 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/updating-from-bp-2-9-4/#post-314512 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 16:08:56 +0000 @shanebp Sure, we’ll be going through the process locally then on a staging space before applying to production.

If there’s no well-known red flags for updating through so many major versions at once, I’ll have a go with the all-at-once update and backtrack if we get stuck.

Thanks for the advice!

]]> c7cf908a74e9d48be7e993ebe1a33fcc Steve Taylor started the topic updating from BP 2.9.4 in the forum Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/support/topic/updating-from-bp-2-9-4/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 10:22:16 +0000 We have a site with quite a complex custom theme, a bunch of template- and hook-based BP modifications, and for various reasons we’ve not updated BP for a while – it’s on 2.9.4.

This is no longer viable, so we’re assessing updating to the latest version.

Are there any general tips for managing such a big update jump? Of course I’ll be reading…[Read more]

]]> 86c909bde40fe0ee143a3f90582ca4fb Steve Taylor replied to the topic how is the autocomplete list for mentions compiled? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-autocomplete-list-for-mentions-compiled/#post-276131 Tue, 04 Sep 2018 14:36:51 +0000 Thanks. It turns out bp_before_get_suggestions_parse_args was the filter I was looking for, applied to the bp_core_get_suggestions() function’s args. Since it’s called from AJAX, you need to parse $_SERVER[ 'HTTP_REFERER' ] to find out where it’s being called from, but then you can pass args through to BP_Members_Suggestions or BP_Groups_Member_Sug…[Read more]

]]> a3ab04d310a877a9ef63e0d5ccb6a209 Steve Taylor replied to the topic how is the autocomplete list for mentions compiled? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-autocomplete-list-for-mentions-compiled/#post-276117 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 11:01:06 +0000 I was thinking of developer docs rather than guides to the user interface – but thanks anyway.

]]> 3295dc2d6e049593235bf59561ccf811 Steve Taylor replied to the topic how is the autocomplete list for mentions compiled? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-autocomplete-list-for-mentions-compiled/#post-276111 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:26:30 +0000 As I said, it’s too erratic to replicate easily. At the moment I can’t get it to do anything other than suggest group members, which is what I expected. But before I posted this it was sometimes the list missed group members, sometimes it included all site members. Sometimes it was different in updates compared to comments, sometimes not.

I’m…[Read more]

]]> 929ca4ca7b4d199e36cef9ec72a751ce Steve Taylor replied to the topic how is the autocomplete list for mentions compiled? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-autocomplete-list-for-mentions-compiled/#post-276107 Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:19:10 +0000 I’ve looked. I was looking for more information, and have searched to no avail. It’s not documented anywhere?

]]> 70ab091bb74d22b440019599c30f4902 Steve Taylor started the topic how is the autocomplete list for mentions compiled? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-is-the-autocomplete-list-for-mentions-compiled/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:03:00 +0000 I’m trying to work out the mentions functionality. I thought that in groups the autocomplete list was basically from other members of the group. This sometimes seems to be the case, but it’s erratic. Sometimes it’s different in activity comments compared to activity updates in the same group.

It’s so erratic that I can’t really provide steps to…[Read more]

]]> b8838b46793828ad7fbced7c36ca1f89 Steve Taylor replied to the topic content not loading in custom Activity subnav item in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/content-not-loading-in-custom-activity-subnav-item/#post-275955 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:34:08 +0000 That’s crazy. Why are there loads of code samples out there, very close variations on what I’ve got, with no mention of this need to stick code into the main activity template? I assume you mean members/single/activity.php – it’s the one being displayed despite me specifying members/single/plugins in the subnav screen function callback. I’ll work…[Read more]

]]> 3e048a4ed62d0033c44eed388c94050d Steve Taylor started the topic content not loading in custom Activity subnav item in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/content-not-loading-in-custom-activity-subnav-item/ Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:24:55 +0000 I’m struggling to get some code working in a custom theme. Two points that may or may not be relevant: (1) it’s a child theme (parent is a ‘base’ we use for our projects), and (2) in the theme (child theme) we have all the BuddyPress templates (overriding the core templates).

I wondered if part of the problem was the code running in the theme. I…[Read more]

]]> f65e096b5292c57a1529bf23eda1f705 Steve Taylor replied to the topic user_id in code for custom members loop in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/user_id-in-code-for-custom-members-loop/#post-267625 Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:58:25 +0000 This hack works, though not sure why it’s necessary. Just inside the loop:

global members_template;
if ( empty( $members_template->member->user_id ) ) :
$members_template->member->user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
endif;

]]> a41a4300ad4b9eb002f11578cc27c87d Steve Taylor started the topic user_id in code for custom members loop in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/user_id-in-code-for-custom-members-loop/ Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:35:10 +0000 I’m creating a custom members loop to show a few active members. I pass query args to bp_has_members(), then include the usual members loop.

Some member info is displayed correctly, e.g. bp_group_member_link() does show the member’s name, linked. But the link is missing. Also, the avatar isn’t showing.

I’ve drilled down into the core functions…[Read more]

]]> 5e762ef18aa4f92b6427be59725a73af Steve Taylor replied to the topic are there potential issues with completely dequeuing legacy CSS? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/are-there-potential-issues-with-completely-dequeuing-legacy-css/#post-267568 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 08:47:22 +0000 Thanks @henrywright. I’m discovering a few bits that are ‘utility’ styles that I’m copying over (e.g. screen reader text class). It’d be really useful if things like this were in a separate ‘core’ include for people who want to strip back to a minimum. Anyway, I’m ploughing ahead, I’ll keep an eye on the markup.

]]> d57beacdf8ec50b5da7d18f08b97c778 Steve Taylor replied to the topic are there potential issues with completely dequeuing legacy CSS? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/are-there-potential-issues-with-completely-dequeuing-legacy-css/#post-267546 Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:38:49 +0000 Thanks. I was wary because @danbp suggested otherwise: ‘Yes i understand (i’m also using a bootstrap theme), you can do like you want. But don’t claim after that that BP doesn’t work correctly.’ You’re saying that ‘doesn’t work correctly’ means ‘won’t be styled correctly’? There seems to be a confusion between functionality and presentation here.

]]> 796ed8aa02c17effa26aeb5efb6bd240 Steve Taylor started the topic are there potential issues with completely dequeuing legacy CSS? in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/are-there-potential-issues-with-completely-dequeuing-legacy-css/ Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:28:31 +0000 We want to gain full control of styling, so we’re looking at dequeuing bp-legacy-css and starting styling of BP elements from scratch, integrated with our custom theme styles.

Dequeuing itself is easy enough, but there’s a thread here which (1) contains a warning that completely ditching BP styles may break the site’s BP elements, but which (2)…[Read more]

]]> 9992d9ca83ab87620d6e24ceb11b63fc Steve Taylor replied to the topic Using member types tabs for custom members directory filter in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/using-member-types-tabs-for-custom-members-directory-filter/#post-254178 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:11:50 +0000 Thanks. As far as I can see, the relevant section there that deals with the Members directory is looking at the ordering drop-down. It’s not what I would call a ‘filter’, i.e. filtering results by certain criteria to shown only a sub-section of members. I was thinking that the tabs (where currently there’s only ‘All Members’) would be the more…[Read more]

]]> 85544e1c76d0ef1e03ae137cd6434cfc Steve Taylor started the topic Using member types tabs for custom members directory filter in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/using-member-types-tabs-for-custom-members-directory-filter/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:08:50 +0000 The system I’m building assigns members to particular local authorities, and each local authority has a particular member selected as the ‘primary contact’. On my BP members directory listing, I want to add a tab next to ‘All Members’ to just list ‘Primary Contacts’. I’m going to have to do some synching of metadata to then make it possible to…[Read more]

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