[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @asd315

You should look at the plugin’s documentation to find out if template tags are provided and then copy the relevant ones (if available) into your activity template. For more info on template tags see the Template Tags article.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @garrett-eclipse

Can you provide a gist of the code you’ve written? People here might then be able to help.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @dimensionmedia

I had a look at the .zip, in particular I looked at your class that extends BP_Component. I noticed you’re not registering it as an active component. So inside your constructor method after your call to parent::start(), you can do:

$bp->active_components[$this->id] = '1';

It may explain why things aren’t working because you seem to be bootstrapping your component properly. Actually (I’m now thinking out load), try dumping the $bp global just to make sure one of the global variables you’ve set shows up.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

@mcpeanut good point. I think < 10 is a manageable number when it comes to updating. As you say, when you go above that number, you run the risk of bringing on a headache when it’s time to upgrade WP. Also, until WP bumps the required version of PHP to 5.3+ and namespacing becomes available, function naming collisions is another problem because some plugins use common prefixes.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

@mcpeanut

Not really that big of a list 26, ive had a site running 75 plugins efficiently

That’s the highest number I’ve heard of 🙂 But, if things run smoothly then why not! 😀

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Do you think that perhaps the plugin I’m using, to block those several pages, could be causing the issue?

Is there any way you can disable it to see if the problem resolves?

I’ve always wondered if it’s normal that it says /forums/forum/?

example.com/forums/forum/ is quite normal. I’m not hugely familiar with bbPress but I think there’s an option in the back-end to disable the base slug if you wish:

example.com/forum/

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

You could just provide your own template for the registration page (hence have your own custom registration form).

BuddyPress will use the following template hierarchy /buddypress/members/index-register.php

Check out the Template Hierarchy article for more info on how templates work in BP.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @gromozeka

You could create a new component but that isn’t required. Check out bp_core_new_nav_item() for how to add items to the navigation.

bp_core_new_nav_item()

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @zigmund

This will all be possible, likely with xProfile fields. To get started with BuddyPress, check out the docs (there’s links to subpages on the left-hand-side).

Hope the info helps.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @feyrisa

Is that a way to add membership checkout to my buddypress registration ?

It will be possible but there isn’t a configuration setting that’ll do it for you (unless the plugin itself has a setting that allows integration with BuddyPress).

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

@mcpeanut

glad you got it working! 🙂

Oh one last thing henry it turns out i didnt need to use the echo $count; at the end because it was causing it to echo 4 times on the page

That’s strange. I’m not sure why that would be happening because the echo statement should execute once only. Perhaps you’re running the code inside a loop which causes the count to display multiple times?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

I heard recently at WordCamp London that the WordPress core team are considering introducing a button on abandoned plugins that lets developers register their interest in maintaining them. I’m not sure if that will happen but if it does then there is a chance that some of the older plugins that no longer work could be updated.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @itkid

Does buddypress support markdown?

Not currently. A markdown plugin would be great for BuddyPress activity posts and comments, private messages and so on, but to my knowledge there isn’t one available right now.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Always great to see a new BuddyPress plugin! 🙂

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @matthias70

There are quite a lot of active BuddyPress plugin developers out there, although you’re right in that there’s not as many BuddyPress plugin developers as there are WordPress plugin developers.

Both kinds of developers overlap, so feel free to put plugin ideas out there, and who knows, maybe a BuddyPress dev (or a WordPress dev) will decide to build something.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hey again @mcpeanut,

I’ve had a little bit more time this evening to look at this for you. I found that the notifications component provides a public static method get_total_count() which can be used to get the unseen mention count. You can use it like this:

$query_vars = array(
	'user_id' => get_current_user_id(),
	'component_action' => 'new_at_mention',
	'is_new' => true
);
$count = BP_Notifications_Notification::get_total_count( $query_vars );
echo $count;

Hope that does the trick!

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

@danbp right, I see what you mean! 🙂

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Great stuff! (and thanks to @danbp 🙂 )

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hey @danbp

More about this:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_notifications_add_notification/

@mcpeanut isn’t trying to add a new notification, instead the aim is to get the ‘unseen’ mention count.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

what are the other 4 parameters?

They won’t help because it’s the count that you really need, and that is passed to the function. Everything else in the function is useless with reference to what you want to do.

To see how it all works, take a look at the BP core code, the notifications component section in particular:

https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/tree/master/src/bp-notifications

You may find a function has already been written but my guess is you’re pioneering the way on this, and therefore would have to write something yourself (or open a functionality request ticket on Trac).

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @alice-kaye

That’s a huge list of plugins. My first thought is that the problem will be related to one of those. If that’s not the case, then the problem is likely to be your set-up. The easiest option in this case would be to set up a test site, activate all of those plugins and then do some testing to see if you can reproduce the problem.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @medianp

If you remove all custom code you’ve added, activate Twenty Fifteen and disable all plugins aside from BP, does the admin bar still fail to display?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Like the comment count, I’m not sure there’s anything for mentions either. The function responsible for outputting the count you currently see for ‘unseen’ mentions is bp_activity_format_notifications(). It accepts 5 parameters, one of them being $total_items. That variable is what’s used when outputting the text “You have X new mentions”.

But again, to my knowledge, there isn’t currently anything available ‘stand-alone’ that will do the job for you.

Hope this helps?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @mcpeanut,

Bug confirmed at my end using Twenty Twelve, WP 4.1.1 and BP 2.2.1. No plugins installed.

Can you open a ticket on Trac, reporting what you’ve found?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 7 months ago]

Hi @jaremilus

The stay-on-page prompt isn’t a BuddyPress thing. I think it’s coming from your browser. Alternatively, it might be from a plugin, if you have a plugin installed with that kind of functionality.