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I’m not sure that the standard member search looks for usernames. @danbp can you shed any light on that?

You may need to use the BP Profile Search plugin.

/plugins/bp-custom.php

If you don’t already have one, you should create one yourself.

There may be an easier way via the back-end (I haven’t checked) but via code you could do this in functions.php:


function palmdoc_remove_group_user() {
$group_id = 6 // Change this value
$user_id = 320 // Change this value
groups_leave_group( $group_id, $user_id );

}
add_action( 'init', 'palmdoc_remove_group_user' );

The next time…[Read more]

You can add this to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /members/

Feel free to add more fields for the different areas of BuddyPress.

Note that it doesn’t guarantee Googlebot et al won’t index these pages, it just requests that they don’t.

do we have to passed argument along with that hook…

It isn’t mandatory but you can if you want to. $comment_id, $r and $activity can be passed to your custom function.

Ref:


@param int $comment_id ID of the newly posted activity comment.
@param array $r Array of parsed comment arguments.
@param int $activity ID of the activity i…[Read more]

A “generic user not found” page would be worse for SEO than a 404 (which would be the correct response for a page not found).

…but a read-only account can still comment, add files to the file repository (Multiverso plugin), add a calendar event, upload photos to the photo album and edit (but not create) wiki articles.

You may need to add custom validation in each of these cases. There should be hooks available at the relevant points which you can attach your custom…[Read more]

If your site is private then you don’t need a verification procedure. But my point was you should look at the verification procedure because the functionality is very close to what you’re trying to achieve.

I think writing abilities become available only once a user has verified their email address. So a registered but unverified user sounds kind of like what you need. They get a profile page and can browse the site but can’t write.

That plugin completely crashed my site

Ouch!

The developer of that particular plugin is a BuddyPress core developer so if you open an issue on the plugin’s GitHub repo, he should be able to help 🙂

Can you try deactivating all of your plugins whilst you have the TwentyFifteen theme activated? Sometimes a rogue plugin can be responsible.

You’d need a plugin for this. Check out BuddyPress Reply By Email.

The bp_after_profile_content hook fires after the display of member profile content. You will need to:

Write a custom function to “get” and “output” the signature.

Hook your custom function to the hook I mentioned above so that the signature is displayed on the profile page.

The bp_activity_comment_posted hook fires near the end of an activity comment posting, before the returning of the comment ID.

Hey djsteveb

Thanks for your feedback! As you say it could be a plugin conflict or maybe even a theme issue.

Not using GitHub isn’t a problem. Once you’ve completed all of your tests, can you post the issues you find on the plugin’s support forum? I’d be happy to take a look

Just looked it up

* Filter SQL query strings to swap out the 'meta_id' column.
*
* WordPress uses the meta_id column for commentmeta and postmeta, and so
* hardcodes the column name into its *_metadata() functions. BuddyPress, on
* the other hand, uses 'id' for the primary column. To make WP's functions
* usable for BuddyPress, we use this…[Read more]

Good shout @shanebp.

Also, looking at the groups_get_groupmeta() function definition, I’m wondering why we need to filter the query string with bp_filter_metaid_column_name?

Anyway, alternatively, this may work but I haven’t tested:

$retval = get_metadata( 'group', $group_id, $meta_key, $single );
var_dump( $retval );

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That’s strange. I’m assuming you’re passing it an actual group ID (integer)? That’s required. Can you var_dump what it’s returning?

I agree it sounds as though you’ll need a bookmarking plugin as the “core”. There are most probably lots to choose from in the WordPress Plugin Directory. My advice is set up a WordPress site locally for testing, install BuddyPress and try out some of the bookmarking plugins to see which suits your idea best.

The activation key is emailed to each new member in the form on a link after they register on your site. Does that help?