BuddyPress.org | kenrichman | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/kenrichman/activity/ Activity feed for kenrichman. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:55:19 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5ed0e8a431f1607044532f54e54c637b kenrichman replied to the forum topic Activation Code after New Member Registration in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/activation-code-after-new-member-registration/?topic_page=2#post-112291 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:01:01 +0000 I am trying to find out about this activation page and activation key that it seems I don’t need but gets added automatically. How did this arise? Can anyone shed any more light please?

]]> 8963af78bb1626e8a5a042882adea48c kenrichman replied to the forum topic wp and bp profile syncing--works only sporadically in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/wp-and-bp-profile-syncing-works-only-sporadically/?topic_page=3#post-110 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:36:45 +0000 I am disappointed that BuddyPress does not simply use and extend the WP profile fields. It complicates things.
And synching profiles with mailchimp plug-ins is now more complex – ok it doesn’t work – for me […]

]]> 714fad28225270f2f093548ce7fc86e0 kenrichman started the forum topic Friends with everyone by default? in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/friends-with-everyone-by-default/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:08:11 +0000 My users are a friendly lot. They would like to be friends with everyone, straightaway by default or, they would like perhaps not to bother with the friends functionality at all.
How can this be achieved?

]]> 339c5b30ac532a69b8ea3e5263136bb5 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Invite users to join group who are not already friends in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/invite-users-to-join-group-who-are-not-already-friends/#post-98998 Thu, 19 May 2011 00:07:50 +0000 Buddypress auto group join plug-in by Scott Hair is a help in getting members into the right groups initially, but I would still like to be able to skip the ‘become friends’ step before inviting people to my group(s).

]]> d6d5927dc40caf5217511b83506616bb kenrichman posted on the forum topic URL Encoding Abuse Attack Attempt in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/url-encoding-abuse-attack-attempt/#post-98931 Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:54 +0000 I have logged in as a different user from my Mac, tried Firefox and it was fine, too. Something very odd about my Firefox. Especially as I have upgraded to the latest version and had this problem with both versions. And disabled all plugins and extensions. I may have to give up on this, as […]

]]> b1e5c5d2a59fddc32d164bef012d3427 kenrichman started the forum topic Invite users to join group who are not already friends in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/invite-users-to-join-group-who-are-not-already-friends/ Wed, 18 May 2011 13:19:14 +0000 When setting up a site and enrolling people, can it be made easier to get them into the appropriate groups? As a group owner I want to be able to look down the list of members and invite them to become members of my group without first having to send a friendship request and have […]

]]> b18541b4c47e6c03b1787e47fdd4ac16 kenrichman posted on the forum topic URL Encoding Abuse Attack Attempt in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/url-encoding-abuse-attack-attempt/#post-98925 Wed, 18 May 2011 12:55:43 +0000 Hi! @mercime Sorry for the delay in getting back. Problem is ONLY with Firefox. And only with my ‘live’ site not my development site. Here is the development site: http://kenrichman.com/harc/ Here is the live site: http://www.harc-network.org Firefox cannot load the front page. If you have Firefox on a mac could you try it? If you get […]

]]> 2b2a59fe80f1e4c0d7b13c2c740064f7 kenrichman started the forum topic URL Encoding Abuse Attack Attempt in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/url-encoding-abuse-attack-attempt/ Wed, 04 May 2011 15:14:21 +0000 Something within BuddyPress is triggering this response from the mod_security server firewall – resulting in IP addresses getting blocked.

Seems worse when using Firefox – bizarre!

Anyone else had this problem?

]]> 77a1684621c13162e62ae78b07b236e7 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Hidden group posts visible to all in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/hidden-group-posts-visible-to-all/#post-95986 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:40:24 +0000 @embergermedia – just wondering if you’ve had a chance to look into this?
Fortunately my site won’t be using the activity stream – yet!

]]> d4661ff28b98a37a3bc8eea157a0d1a3 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Google Translate in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/google-translate/#post-95983 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:22:05 +0000 @aces GENIUS!!

thank you . . .

]]> 1c92967c2833885b98dd9c1094652e60 kenrichman started the forum topic Google Translate in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/google-translate/ Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:59:48 +0000 I would dearly love to be able to add Google translate to my BuddyPress site, I have tried various plug-ins in the sidebar but they will not allow me to translate every page – I get logged out all the time. I think Google Translate is ok with a normal Wordpress site but not with […]

]]> 78b02bfd792ee610de5d0ba7cbd78b7c kenrichman posted on the forum topic Changing Group tab display defaults in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/changing-group-tab-display-defaults/?topic_page=2#post-94531 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:17:46 +0000 @Marcus Thanks very much for this – haven’t tried it yet but am about to. But what I think is really needed is simply the option for the group admin to choose the default tab – as part of the group settings. I wil have several groups that will need different defaults. Can your code accommodate […]

]]> 2624381c88e9021eb53d020fdc31ec0c kenrichman posted a new activity comment https://buddypress.org/updates/p/7341/#acomment-144622 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:50:34 +0000 Yes – take a look at sidebar.php

In reply to - Peter posted an update in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: Anyone know how to alter the login text? Right now it says, “To start connecting please log in first.” Can that be changed? ]]> 478493b1f9bb339c41d86e25ee998352 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Adding images & photos in groups in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-images-photos-in-groups/#post-94087 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:03:13 +0000 I would like to know also – it sounds easy, but is it?

]]> c835c4faf51de0aab02cfad2e2d41d40 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Hidden group posts visible to all in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/hidden-group-posts-visible-to-all/#post-94047 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:09:05 +0000 @hnla – re: your suggestion – displaying favourite only to logged in user if also displayed user – I agree this would be a good fix, as I don’t really want favourites to be visible to all. If you can help with the code to achieve this I’d be grateful as the site is about to […]

]]> cc6e43c3690ad8a46fed1220fd5332b8 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Extending Group Documents plugin in the group Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/extending-group-documents-plugin/#post-93971 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:02:12 +0000 Hello! I have also been asked for this type of feature – people want a site-wide library. So I have implemented the library as a public group. Well, it works! But they would also love to be able to add details about each document such as author, publisher and so on as separate fields. I […]

]]> c01e83e8f9afb7be32f9628705a3962b kenrichman joined the group Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/updates/p/144404/ Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:02:12 +0000 0 af0dc52847c8f27c0e7503b2fd84092b kenrichman posted on the forum topic Adding text descriptions to sign-up form in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-text-descriptions-to-sign-up-form/#post-93233 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:46:24 +0000 Great – that worked. I added:
Lowercase letters and numbers, no spaces, no punctuation.

However I’d still like to put this string in its proper place along with the other input field descriptions. Can anyone advise where would that be? Where are they stored?

]]> ac5892af8883e64e789861b103782a51 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Adding text descriptions to sign-up form in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-text-descriptions-to-sign-up-form/#post-93230 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:17:03 +0000 Terriffic – I’ll give that a go.

Thank you.

]]> f7df83f195c91e9c9e530610ae377018 kenrichman started the forum topic Adding text descriptions to sign-up form in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/adding-text-descriptions-to-sign-up-form/ Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:37:19 +0000 I want to add a text description under Username on the sign up form to let people know they can’t use upper case etc.

I think this is written out by a call to bp_the_profile_field_description in register.php but where does the function get the text descriptions from?

Thank you in advance. . .

]]> 7d650d2bcc9fe86f148108a28cabcc9e kenrichman posted on the forum topic Privacy and Security - is there any? in the group Requests & Feedback http://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/privacy-and-security-is-there-any/#post-92987 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:08:52 +0000 Thanks Paul, yes – I have read about group privacy settings, implemented them and they seem to work. Of course they do not extend to profiles, as the settings are just for groups. So is that the only real issue? People reading other people’s profiles? For my present use that is something I want people […]

]]> 41697dc373922eac0db9a15d30e30673 kenrichman started the forum topic Privacy and Security - is there any? in the group Requests & Feedback http://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/privacy-and-security-is-there-any/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:19:13 +0000 BuddyPress describes the groups as being either public, private or hidden. Private and Hidden suggest a degree of privacy is implemented. But now I read a lot of debate about privacy being basically non-existent in the BuddyPress core. And about having to rely on third party plug-ins that may or may not be supported. Then […]

]]> 7cf6b64d18d78bd454cbd18ac1f2c992 kenrichman joined the group Requests & Feedback https://buddypress.org/updates/p/142689/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:19:13 +0000 0 07e262724f68f9d070d28d0634a6de18 kenrichman posted a new activity comment https://buddypress.org/updates/p/7341/#acomment-139433 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:46:50 +0000 Good question and one I’d like the answer for too … Anyone? I didn’t spot it in the language file.

In reply to - Peter posted an update in the group How-To and Troubleshooting: Anyone know how to alter the login text? Right now it says, “To start connecting please log in first.” Can that be changed? ]]> 5e95c1f95f9c2f4aebe6ec412af0b898 kenrichman started the forum topic Moderator without admin privileges? in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/moderator-without-admin-privileges/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:35:15 +0000 Can a user with moderator privileges at the WordPress level be allowed to moderate all BuddyPress groups? (Not just ones they have been invited to moderate?) I would like to assign moderators who can moderate all of the groups, users and forums without having to promote them to Admin as they don’t need access to […]

]]> 8662d3134952ba1ad9cd840c98f52e28 kenrichman posted on the forum topic Hidden group posts visible to all in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/hidden-group-posts-visible-to-all/#post-89829 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:36:50 +0000 Thank you guys, really good to know this is being worked on.
I agree that favourites is not the sort of thing for public knowledge.
I would really appreciate some help with the code to add this fix. It may sound quite trivial to some but for me I’m afraid it isn’t.

]]> 801c54b3f7ba64a2e0cc3b659a532957 kenrichman started the forum topic Hidden group posts visible to all in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/hidden-group-posts-visible-to-all/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:50:56 +0000 I looged in as admin, created a hidden group, added some posts to the forum, made one a favorite. Then logged out. While logged out I looked at my member profile, clicked on favorites, and there was my post, where it could be read by anyone. Also displayed was the hidden group name and hidden […]

]]> 33950b057be0bf44ae74a5263bee727d kenrichman posted on the forum topic Friends - rename to something else in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/friends-rename-to-something-else/#post-89773 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:37:18 +0000 Much happier now having created a translation file. Wish I’d known before that is the best way to go about it.

]]> c0ce5252c292fe89779d7a9627f57163 kenrichman posted on the forum topic How can I change the text "Visit Blog" to somthing other like "Visit Post" or "Watch News" In buddyp in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/how-can-i-change-the-text-visit-blog-to-somthing-other-like-visit-post-or-watch-news- Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:30:47 +0000 All sorted …!
I created a new language file – worth doing because I could fix up all the American spellings (well, there are one or two) to UK and customse various messages to make them nicer.

This link in the codex was a great help.

]]> 4a77fe8ff00bfda4748dae4510c788da kenrichman posted on the forum topic Friends - rename to something else in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/friends-rename-to-something-else/#post-89734 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:05:25 +0000 Thanks – this helped – and I posted my feedback on the thread you mentioned above, aces.
But it’s still not perfect, as I still have’ Friends’ showing here and there which is probably worse than leaving it as it was.

]]> 1795c5159bf566d9e5458655c800902a kenrichman posted on the forum topic How can I change the text "Visit Blog" to somthing other like "Visit Post" or "Watch News" In buddyp in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/how-can-i-change-the-text-visit-blog-to-somthing-other-like-visit-post-or-watch-news- Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:44:01 +0000 Progress! Using Text Mangle as a plug-in, I’ve changed various strings to what I want them to be, but unfortunately not all. For instance the tab that shows the number of friends e.g. Friends (2) I guess because the string has a variable part, it doesn’t match simply using the Text Mangle plugin code above. […]

]]> 4da1d6557e9e12c2f0434f50db3f5628 kenrichman posted on the forum topic How can I change the text "Visit Blog" to somthing other like "Visit Post" or "Watch News" In buddyp in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/how-can-i-change-the-text-visit-blog-to-somthing-other-like-visit-post-or-watch-news- Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:23:35 +0000 Thanks for the links guys. I will try your suggestions. I am new to this but I can’t believe this is such a pain to do. Strings are constants – a type of data. Code is code. Why mix the two? I am an ex-programmer from the 80’s – back then, it was easy to […]

]]> 9f21622b29869ff7abcc743fb02d1451 kenrichman started the forum topic Friends - rename to something else in the group How-To and Troubleshooting http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/friends-rename-to-something-else/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:34:16 +0000 I want to change the term Friends to something else e.g. associates, etc. It must be consistent right across the site.
How can I do this?

Also where can I find a description of the Friends functionality?
Just becoming friends doesn’t seem to achieve very much, or am I missing something?

Thanks!

]]> e5ed8ddac77fd2a94163cffd83d17f83 kenrichman joined the group How-To and Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/updates/p/137121/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:34:13 +0000 0 e04033de105b9d6ac984b1998466e13c kenrichman started the forum topic Avatars look poor quality in the group Miscellaneous http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/avatars-look-poor-quality/ Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:34:12 +0000 I upload a square avatar, of a good sioze e.g. 174px x 174px, go to crop it and the result is very poor, fuzzy image. It looks fine up until the crop.
Can I upload the avatar directly to avoid this distortion?

]]> 3fd3faef68a7a935cd68c4e80ca4bed0 kenrichman joined the group Miscellaneous https://buddypress.org/updates/p/135868/ Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:34:11 +0000 0