[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Hi @simonvrolijk

Do you have the BP pages created under Admin > Pages?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Your community most probably won’t drain server resources (given it doesn’t grow) so perhaps look for a hosting package that offers good support and a good uptime guarantee. You won’t necessarily need the most powerful server (unless you’re allowing your users to do all kinds of photo editing or gaming etc).

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

You’ll need /members/username/messages/ in order for private messages to work. You could disable the rest such as /members/username/settings/ using a redirect function hooked to template_redirect

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Could it be that unactivated users are showing up in your Admin panel?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Your code didn’t format very well above so here it is…

function bpfr_my_directory_setup_nav() {
    echo '#main'; // link to what you want
}
add_action( 'bp_members_directory_member_types', 'bpfr_my_directory_setup_nav' );

What are you trying to do?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

@pietro_sferrino as a general guide to how templates work check out the BP Template Hierarchy

The template for the registration page would normally live here:

/your-theme/buddypress/members/index-register.php

You can edit that file if one has been set up by Mingle but as I say, I’m not sure what Mingle does because it’s code isn’t available.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Check out Roles and Capabilities. If your admin and custom roles share a common capability then you can distinguish these roles from the rest of the roles that don’t have that capability.

See
current_user_can() and user_can()

You would use them like this:

if ( current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
    // The current user can manage options so do something special.
}

if ( user_can( $user_id, 'manage_options' ) ) {
    // The specified user can manage options so do something special.
}

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Hi @paton400

This works great, but it also allows these user roles to read through other users private messages, change avatars, settings etc

If this applies to non-admin users such as contributors or subscribers, then this is a mighty big flaw. If that is happening due to the plugin then I’d expect the plugin author will want to know about it. Try raising the issue with them as a bug report or mentioning it in their support forum.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Hi @pietro_sferrino

I notice you’re using Mingle. It’s a premium theme so I’m not sure how their templates are set-up. Have you tried asking on the theme’s support page?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

@godavid33 I remember when this was being worked on (JJJ’s project – see the GitHub repo for it here) – It wasn’t in core the last I checked but am somewhat out-of-touch so it may well have made it in.

Hopefully this helps.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

‘whatever’ can be anything. I was using it as an example. In your case, it will be an image, or some text or anything. The key bit to understand is whichever page element you put id='anchor' on is the page element that will appear at the top of your page, on page load.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

Try finding your <body> tag in header.php then add an onload event attribute like this:

<body onload=' location.href="#anchor" '>

Then in your template:

<div id='anchor'>whatever</div>

When the page loads ‘whatever’ will be at the top of your screen.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 4 months ago]

This will need JavaScript.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

This isn’t possible without adding some custom code and I’m not aware of a plugin that does this.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Try using Theme My Login – you can have registration, login, lost password and reset password all within your themed pages.

Disabling access to WP Admin will require some custom code. Put this in your theme’s functions.php file:

// disable access to wp-admin for non-administrators
function block_wp_admin_access() {
    if ( is_admin() && ! current_user_can( 'administrator' ) && ! ( defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) && DOING_AJAX ) ) {
        wp_redirect( home_url() );
        exit;
    }
}
add_action( 'init', 'block_wp_admin_access' );

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @jrcode

Which theme are you using? Insecure items could come from absolutely anywhere – your theme, plugins etc. They can be images, links etc. The only way to solve this problem is to track down the insecure items by searching for http:// in your source code. Note that ‘secure’ items will all begin with https://. A good way to avoid the use of http:// when using SSL is to use relative paths i.e. /mypath/image.jpg

Hope this helps

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @digital-brain

You’ll need to distinguish users that offer something from users that find something. That can be done via roles and responsibilities in WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

You can add roles using add_role() and assign certain responsibilities to them:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

Once you have the custom roles set up, you can check if the logged-in user has a certain capability using current_user_can()

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_user_can

Hope this helps – it isn’t a fully coded solution but should be a useful starting point.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

I didn’t see facebook_uid is stored in user meta. That does make it easier

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

But he’s also checking facebook avatars, so the flag needs to account for that.

@shanebp good point. That’s a game changer unless there’s a hook for that too?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi guys

A way around this would be to hook on to the avatar successfully uploaded action and add a flag to the user’s meta which will tell you if a user has uploaded an avatar. If they delete the avatar then you’d have to remove the flag. This idea would work only for new file uploads so if you have a working site already you’ll need to find a different way.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @compixonline

get_user_meta() will allow you to retrieve the custom field data. You’d use the function like this:

$data = get_user_meta( $user_id, $key, true ); where $key is the name of the custom field and $user_id is the user ID of your BuddyPress member.

$data will then hold the custom field value you want for that particular member.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Themes can do that, if they want to!

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @antimuffin

This might not be happening due to BuddyPress. Are you sure your theme, Pinboard, isn’t removing the target attribute?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

It’s actually wp_mail() that yu’re looking for: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail

To change the sender info is possible without modifying BuddyPress depending on what they’re asking you to change. What info do they need you to change?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @amckinnell

When I click that link a window comes up with a bunch of info in it, but none of it looks like errors

What is the info you’re seeing in the console?

Just a few more questions – have you made any changes to your theme? And does the load more button work when you use a theme such as Twenty Thirteen?