[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @playerzero

It depends on what kind of support you need. If the problem you’re having is a bug then you can create a ticket at Trac:

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

If the problem is a ‘how-to-do’ something then the Codex (user context) has lots of useful information:

https://codex.buddypress.org/context/user/

If the problem is something else, then feel free to create a new topic to discuss (as @bphelp already mentioned above).

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Are there any console errors when you click it?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

@naijaping yeah you’re right, no reason to use Bootstrap – you can quite easily write your own media queries. I actually do use Bootstrap a lot (mainly for the responsive grid), but that’s because I’m lazy 🙂

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

I also get this error:

ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress

It’s very Facebook-esq in the way it looks, which I think will be appreciated by some users as they’ll be familiar with how Facebook works.

Just a suggestion, could you try making the theme responsive? I took a look on my laptop, tablet and mobile. It works and looks great on my laptop, but could be optimised slightly more for tablet and mobile.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Have a read of this article:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-are-you-sure-you-want-to-do-this-error-in-wordpress/

It may help solve the problem.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

@godavid33 and @naijaping – whilst on the subject of preloaders – check out this resource http://ilovepreloaders.tumblr.com/ – I’ve found it V useful in the past

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @godavid33 I think users will always appreciate some sign of ‘we are working behind the scenes whilst you’re waiting’ especially when the wait happens to be for a few seconds. Perhaps you could share your code in a jsfiddle so we can see a demo?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

There was a Trac ticket raised for this. I’m not sure if anyone agreed it was going to happen. Perhaps @sooskriszta can provide an update?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Check out this article on what hooks are and how you can use them to interact with WordPress and BuddyPress:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

bp_core_activated_user is the hook you can use for this sort of thing.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

@amid11 you could use WP user meta to tally the ratings. +1 for an up-vote and -1 for a down-vote. Querying by user meta is supported by WP_Query – see here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

@godavid33 that plugin is actually free. Maybe tear open the code to see if a solution jumps out at you? Just an idea.

Regarding your problem, I came across the issue a few months back when 1.9 was rolled out. You need to capture the item’s ID when adding a notification. See here for some related discussion

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5389

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Try deactivating all plugins ‘one-by-one’ to see if any are causing the issue.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

There might be a problem with $user->ID then? Can you echo that out to see if that is what you expect it to be?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

This might be a silly question but check these members actually do have friends. The var_dump seems to indicate they don’t as an empty array seems to be returned.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

something like

$var = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user->ID );
var_dump( $var );

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

All I can think of is friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user->ID ); doesn’t return an array as we expect. I just looked at the documentation and it doesn’t specify the return type. Maybe try echo’ing out friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user->ID ); to see what exactly is returned?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Try changing:

$friend = get_userdata( $friend->ID );

to:

$friend = get_userdata( $friend );

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Can you paste how you’re using friends_get_friend_user_ids()?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Sorry, you’re right!

friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id ) should be what you need. So change my first line to:

$friends = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id );

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

I the function is the one you need to use, you’ll just have to do a little more work to get info about each friend. Loop through the array that’s returned by friends_get_friend_count_for_user() and then use get_userdata() like this:

$friends = friends_get_friend_count_for_user( $user_id );
if ( $friends != false ) {
    foreach ( $friends as $friend ) {
        $friend = get_userdata( $friend->ID );
        echo $friend->display_name . '<br />';
} else {
    // this user is friendless
}

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Just looked at your plugin code and think you may be using the function wrong. I could be wrong but you seem to be treating what is returned as an object where as it will be either an array of user IDs, or false if none are found.

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

As far as I’m aware you don’t need to include any files in order to use BP core functions. I’ve never had to. Perhaps someone else here can confirm?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @mika89

You should be able to use friends_get_friend_count_for_user() in your plugin. Are you sure you have BP activated? Are you sure you have the Friends component enabled?

[@henrywright Moderator 12 years, 5 months ago]

@dta_madrid

Further to @shanebp’s method, WordPress has a function called count_users() which can be used to get the number of users in each role.

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

$users = count_users();

// display total users (if you want to).
echo $users['total_users'] . ' total users';

// display count for contributors. 
foreach( $users['avail_roles'] as $role => $count ) {
    if ( $role == 'contributor' )
        echo $count . ' contributors';
}