[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

You’d need to load the lightbox javascript of your choice and change the link info depending on which lightbox you want to use. It’s going to be different depending on which lightbox you choose to use. You may need to add additional Javascript.

I guess if you installed WP Featherlight then you should just need to add the featherlight attributes as specified in the plugin readme. This isn’t specifically a BuddyPress question, it’s a lightbox question and it’s not something I’ve ever done so you might be better off asking the WP Featherlight developer if you are struggling with their instructions.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

I’m not aware of any plugins that do this. It would probably need to be custom coded.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

Which buddypress_functions.php file are you talking about? I’d have thought you’d put it in your themes functions.php file or a bp-custom.php file located in the plugins directory.

Also I’d load it in the action hook ‘bp_setup_nav’, not ‘wp’.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

That indicates you have broken HTML on those pages. I’d deactivate all other plugins and test and also look for any customisations that might have been applied.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

Alternatively you could tap into a plugin that already does half the job – an analytics plugin and just pull the data from it’s database.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

It’s doable, but you’d need to write a plugin to do it. You’d probably need to set up a database which captures the page the current user is viewing and add a function to the members-loop to display what each active user is doing. Think you may stray into user privacy issues though.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

You might like to take a look at this plugin – https://github.com/imath/altctrl-public-group It allows a private group to have a public landing page. Think it’s what you are looking for.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

Ah so you are saying the emails are delayed. That’s interesting and potentially a hosting related issue. BP fires off the email immediately, as soon as the page has reloaded the email has been send using WP Email, so this might be more to do with your hosting. Maybe you should try the WP Mail SMTP plugin and see if that changes things? if there’s a problem in BP then it would result in emails not being sent at all, very unlikely to be the cause of delays knowing the way the code works.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

Hi there, BuddyPress uses the WordPress login page, so it sounds like it’s working correctly. Unless I’m missing something?

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

I think it would be possible yes. If you look at plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your bp theme/buddypress/members/members-loop.php for example, you can see the link for the members avatar being created for the members directory page.

Most lightboxes use a data tag to identify that the link is to open in a light box, so you could overload this file and replace the href with the link to the full size avatar and add the data tag as required.

You’d then need to add the Javascript for the lightbox, probably in a plugin and together that should work.

There’s nothing off the shelf that does this though.
However that would stop the current default of clicking on the avatar taking you to the members profile. That might be a problem for you but I guess you could simple add another button to visit the members profile.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

We only do BuddyPress support here, for other plugins you should raise a request on their wordpress forum.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

That’s your profile groups list, not the groups directory. Just like you had to set up a members page for your members directory, you also need to set up a groups page for your groups directory. On this page you get a create group option.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

Have you got a link to your groups page?

Also, there should be a create groups option in the BuddyPress admin bar dropdown menu. – on your site, hover your mouse over your avatar on the top right side of the screen, a drop down menu should appear, in this list there should be a Groups option, this should open to include a Create Group option.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

Probably the easiest way to do this would be to use the existing bp_has_members query to create a new array of members results, adding the xprofile data into the new array, and then run your own loop on the array in order to sort it by the xprofile field.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

From what I can see there is no option to sort by additional fields other than those setup by default. You’d probably need to write a whole new query.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

What you could do is install two factor authentication for your admin users:

Two Factor Authentication

That might help. This is more of a general WordPress query so you might get better responses if you post to the WordPress forums.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

You can use something like this:

function venutius_check_recipients( $message_info ) {
	$recipients = $message_info->recipients;

	if ( count( $recipients ) > 1 && ! current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) ) {
		unset( $message_info->recipients );
	}

}

add_action( 'messages_message_before_save', 'venutius_check_recipients' );

This will reject any message with more than 1 recipient, except admin.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

Hi there Josh,

Just tested this and it still works.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

No I was responding to what wp.com said about it being the theme that could be causing the issue.

Anyway, no we know you can see the BuddyPress Pages Setting and know how to assign your groups page buddypress, you can check to see if you get the groups directory to show.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

Difficult to say, maybe a change was made by wp.com?

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

It’s s bit odd for sure, it’s not even asking you for your login details. the URL is the web address that the link will take you to, if you hover above it, the link will usually be displayed in the bottom left of your screen.

What I notice about it when I view your site is that it’s got a redirect attached, to your register page. This isn’t usual.

Ah, I’ve just clicked it, this is not the usual WordPress login screen, which is what BuddyPress uses. This is something specific to WordPress.com, they seem to be overloading the login page. I think you will have to raise this with WordPress.com support. I think it’s something more generic about their version of login. Like they’ve set it to remember who you are and automatically enter your details for you. So maybe this is standard for wordpress.com sites? Makes testing difficult though.

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

‘Our sentries tell us that you should not be here’ That’s not a BuddyPress message, or one from WordPress either, could it me some security plugin you’ve added is doing this?

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

I’d deactivate all other plugins apart from BuddyPress and see if that fixes it. If it does, activate each plugin one by one until you find the one that’s doing it

[@venutius Moderator 7 years, 7 months ago]

What’s the url for your login link also? I notice when I visit your site the login link has a redirect to the register page. Do you have something installed that’s overloading the usual login process?