[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Alright, I’ll look into creating a patch for this in the next few days (hopefully for inclusion in BP 1.2.6).

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

What’s the point of having a group private then?

Just make everything public!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

I would post about this on the WordPress.org multsite forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Since this is most likely a problem with your network settings after switching hosts.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Issue resolved!

Don’t you hate it when people use the activity post form instead of the forums, hnla?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Hi eyg1,

I already replied to this in your update.

For future reference, please refrain from posting about your problem in multiple places as that is unnecessary.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Ahh, I understand why it doesn’t work right now.
It’s because BuddyPress 1.2.6 hasn’t been released yet with the updated patch.

If you can’t wait for BP 1.2.6, make the following change:
https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset/3132

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Just looking over the parameters again, it appears that the “recipients” parameter should be an array.
So try changing that.

PMs and other BP components can be enabled/disabled from the “BuddyPress > Component Setup” page in the WP admin dashboard.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

You have to modify the code from that other post to work for groups.

Use a conditional like bp_is_group_home(), then modify the query string to add the “user_id” parameter for the group admin.
http://pastebin.com/Fv5kPuBk

Modify to your liking.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

“Activity > Groups” works for me. I see only group activity here.

I’m getting the opposite behaviour.
Under “Activity > Personal”, I get all the activity I’ve made including groups.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

I can see potential problems with that $args variable you have setup.
Try setting up the arguments as an array.

$args = array( 'recipients' => $user_id, 'sender_id' => 11, 'subject' => $title, 'content' => $message );

If PMs are disabled, the code will not run. In fact, most likely you’ll get an undefined function error.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

To be fair, this is a third-party theme, I’d recommend contacting the authors of that Buddymatic child theme:
http://freebpthemes.com/themes/early-morning/

Also follow the instructions listed in the post.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

I actually brought this up a long time ago when I was a BP noob

Seems like BP is missing a “Remove from group” option in the manage members screen.
This functionality could be added using the groups_leave_group() function.

Needs some investigating.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

If you want to emulate the reviews functionality for groups, then I’d recommend building it off the awesome Group Extension API:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/

It’s actually not that hard to build it.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Look at the pretty red arrows!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

I forgot to mention that this won’t fix existing blog posts in the activity stream.
See if new posts work.

FYI, if you’re going to be making changes to the bp-default theme, it’s better to create a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Nope, no DB entries for avatars!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Stickies in the support group forums are broken and we have no way to super-sticky them at the very top of the main “Support” or “Community” pages.
When Boone gets a chance to tackle some of the site’s issues, I’ll propose this to him

I did start something on the current codex:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/

There’s also the old FAQ thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/faq-how-to-code-snippets-and-solutions/

BP codex ninja, @mercime, is working on restructuring the codex here as well:
http://namoo.co.uk/groups/bpcodex-redesign/wiki/

Needs some eyeballs so feel free to help mercime out.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Notice how I’m linking to a specific post in the thread, rather than the beginning?

The post I’m linking to should allow you to override the BP-truncated excerpt with the original content.
I’ve updated the post above with a direct link to the code I’m referring to.

Add the snippet to your theme’s functions.php.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Clear out your avatars folder.

eg. example.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/ (assuming you’re using regular WP, not in network mode) – wipe out everything in this folder. You might want to back this folder up if you decide you want to bring them back.

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Definitely add this as an enhancement ticket on Trac:
https://trac.buddypress.org/newticket

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Cool, glad you’re up and running!

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

You can manually add a member avatar to your avatar directory.

eg.
example.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/USER_ID/hldkfhlaskjhdfljsdfdf-bpfull.jpg
example.com/wp-content/uploads/avatars/USER_ID/hldkfhlaskjhdfljsdfdf-bpthumb.jpg

The suffixes are important as BP will pick up any image with the “-bpfull.jpg” suffix or the “-bpthumb.jpg” suffix.

If you only have to do this once, then this is sufficient.

If you want to replace all the member avatars with a default one, try reading this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/group-avatars-how-to-change-the-default/#post-45764

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

What happens when you use the default BuddyPress theme?

Does the “Join Group” link work then?

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/how-much-php-memory-should-be-allocated-to-buddypress/

[@r-a-y Keymaster 16 years, 2 months ago]

Did you pass parameters into the messages_new_message() function?

All the parameters can be found in the /plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php file like Boone stated.

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Private messages are disabled on this website at the moment due to spam. However, on a regular install, simply navigate to the “My Account” menu in the BuddyPress admin bar (located at the top) and navigate to “Messages”.