[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

Not currently for hire due to a lack of time – that said, there are quite a few BP developers who will be able to help. Perhaps check who is available on the jobs board. @shanebp might be a good person to ask

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

Your theme’s functions.php file wouldn’t get overwritten with each update. The changes you make to this file will be safe going forward.

A great place to hire a BuddyPress developer would be the BP Jobs Board:

BP Jobs Board

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

If you use this code directly below while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); in the members loop, you’ll be able to see which members are editors.

<?php 
   $user_id = bp_get_member_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
   
   if ( $user->roles[0] == 'editor' ) {
      echo 'this user is an editor';
   } else {
      echo 'this user is not an editor';
   }
?>

I know this isn’t exactly what you’d like to do but it should put you on the right track.

Note: This code assumes that all of your users have a single role assigned.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

You’re on the right track – although it isn’t your theme’s style.css that you’d want to add it to. You’d add it to your theme’s functions.php file.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

The activation email body can be filtered using bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message

The subject line can also be changed bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_subject

For example: To change the subject line you would add this to functions.php

function activation_email_subject_filter( $subject, $user_id ) {
	$subject = 'Hello New User';
	return $subject;
}
add_filter('bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_subject', 'activation_email_subject_filter', 10, 2 );

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Which premium plugin did you find?

To make uploading an avatar a requirement you’d have to have an upload form on the registration page. This used to happen in BuddyPress. Some discussion on it in this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-avatar-upload-in-registration-form

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Disabling usernames sitewide sounds like a huge task to me. BuddyPress needs a unique identifier to use in URLs. Have you thought about providing your members with the ability to change their username?

BuddyPress Username Changer

You’d just need to send a global message to all members letting them know how they can update their username.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

There was an alternative to BuddyPress Media (rtMedia) – I think it was called BP Media. I’m not sure if it is supported anymore or even in the WP plugin repository but it might be worth a try if you can get hold of it. That said, rtMedia is working very well for me on my test site. Will be putting it live in the next few weeks.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Hi @naijaping I tried that filter and it doesn’t work. Does it still work for you?

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

@shanebp – oops thanks for pointing that out. global $bp; can be removed

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

@shanebp good point about using the bp_send_private_message_link approach. Although you would avoid double buttons by using a translation file.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

actually you could make use of the bp_send_private_message_link function and do it like this:

<a href="<?php bp_send_private_message_link() ?>" title="Private Message">Private Message</a>

You can change the “Private Message” text to whatever you like. You’d just paste the code into your theme where ever you’d like the button to appear

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

You could do it like that but each time you update BuddyPress you’ll lose the changes you’ve made to bp-messages-template.php. I’d try to avoid making changes to the plugin core.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

you would add something like this to your theme’s functions.php

function bp_disable_messaging() {
	global $bp;
	
	if ( USER_TO_DISALLOW && bp_is_current_component('messages') ) {
		wp_redirect( home_url() );
		exit();
	}
}
add_action('wp','bp_disable_messaging');

Note: USER_TO_DISALLOW would be your unpaid WooCommerce users. You would need to get whatever this was from WooCommerce as I’m not familiar with the plugin. Once you’ve added that bit in the code should work.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

This will help you. It shows you how to change most of the text labels and messages outputted by BuddyPress:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

@hnla I was planning something infinitely more simple 🙂

Just working on a little project and wanted to filter the body text and subject line of a few of the emails that are sent out.

Besides you don’t need a legend, I’m sure you could make it happen 🙂

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

I haven’t tried it yet but will give it a go! BuddyDev often replies to support tickets so it might be worth you raising your question with him?

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Yoast SEO doesn’t work with BuddyPress at all. Going forward this may change but in the mean time Brajesh’s plugin is your best bet. Might be a good idea to ask him for support?

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

As Hugo said you could always add classes to the body element. You would do it like this:

//add class to body element
function add_to_body_class( $classes ) {
	$classes[] = 'custom_class_name_goes_here';
	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'body_class', 'add_to_body_class' );

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Just downloaded Paul Gibb’s Welcome Pack plugin and can see that has a good list of the emails sent.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

As @hnla said, bp-friends-template.php isn’t a template file so you can’t override it. Some parts of it may be filterable (look for the apply_filters() function) so you may be able to modify parts of it’s output via your theme’s functions.php. Again though – it all depends on what you want to do.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Sorry for the delay in my reply @prolet. Assuming you want the search form in your site’s header then you’d paste it in your theme’s header.php file.

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

bump…

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

@terraling

Yes, I think one of the BP core developers worked at The Telegraph before his move to Automattic.

I would guess the number of active users should be the main metric to use. A site with 1m inactive users will test just how much data the server can hold whereas a site with 1m active users will test so much more.

See this response I found on Quora from @jjj:
http://www.quora.com/BuddyPress/What-is-the-largest-online-community-that-is-running-BuddyPress

[@henrywright-1 Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Take a look at @shanebp’s posts in this thread:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-if-the-user-is-online-or-not-in-the-forum-topic-and-profile/#post-99951

Also some more info

Here:
http://blog.svnlabs.com/wordpress-user-is-online-or-offline/

and here:

Buddypress – Check if a user is online