BuddyPress.org

You’d probably want to echo the result.

Use the following in topic.php:
bp_forum_send_private_message_link()

And not:
bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link()

bp-dev.org references an outdated version of BuddyPress. There currently does not appear to be a random parameter for the group members loop. One way around this is by using BP_Groups_Member::get_all_for_group() combined with a regular members loop. With BP_Groups_Member::get_all_for_group() (available in /bp-groups/bp-groups-classes.php). Pass…[Read more]

This should give you some tips:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/get-buddypress-profile-field-value

You can’t change that because WordPress doesn’t save the user’s IP address by default, so you’ll have to wait until the user next logs in to your site to save the IP.

The forum editor plugin is probably hyperlinking the oembed link before posting; this will indeed not render the oembed content.

Not sure why it wouldn’t show the link at the very least though.
I don’t have the time to look at this at the moment, but I’ll try to remember to get to this.

Sorry hnla, you’re right; if you’re not using ajax, the code should be:

<a href="YOUR LINK">Another Forum Loop</a>

tubruk – if you upgrade BP, you will lose your changes made to bp-default/_inc/ajax.php. I would recommend the filter available in the bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring() function.

Try setting your activity stream filter to “No filter” or “Show Blog Comments” and see if that helps.

Also like claudeg said, it might be a plugin conflict. If you have “Block Activity Stream Types” enabled, you might have accidentally blocked blog post comments.

Try this WordPress Disqus plugin to import your existing Disqus comments back onto your blog:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

Check to see if the forum topics exist in the database.

The DB table is “wp_bb_posts”. If there are posts in that table, then that’s good! You could then try repairing the database table.

Could also be a plugin conflict. If you’re running any caching plugins, try flushing the cache, or disabling the plugin.

Check out this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

Also check out this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-automatic-links-in-profile

“YOUR LINK” is the link you want to set. This is only useful if you want to link to a new page (like your new forum loop) and you don’t want to use AJAX. However, it seems like you want to use AJAX, so you’ll have to manipulate the AJAX querystring so BuddyPress knows how […]

Adding post tags to activity meta sounds like an idea. Though, you’ll still need to craft a DB query to pull only activity blog items that match your tags.

Re: switch_to_blog() queries – see:
https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/15951

The function you’re looking for is:
bp_get_profile_field_data()

An example use case:
$field = bp_get_profile_field_data(
array(
'field' => 1, // where 1 is the field_id or it can be the field name
'user_id' => bp_displayed_user_id()
)
);

echo '<a href="//university.com/shchedule.jsp?' . $field . '">Schedule…[Read more]

If get_IP() can handle passing a $user_id, then yes it would work when you use that code snippet on a forum topic page.

You want to search sitewide blog posts? That would be taxing! An efficient method would be to use the activity loop and filter by blog posts and the “search_terms” paramater (which in this case would be your xprofile field). One problem with this approach is blog posts, by default, are truncated when they are saved as […]

Not sure. I haven’t used the BP Unread Posts plugin before, but if that plugin modifies the $topic_template global, then it will probably interfere with the code.

@xberserker – Try the 0.6-beta.

It should already have a filter to add the transparent values.