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In reply to: Show widget into buddypress profile page
Hi there,
Does your default page layout include a sidebar? If so you can use Context Aware Sidebars to display a profile page specific sidebar including that widget.
In reply to: Admin approvalI’m not sure there is a plugin that covers both the WordPress and BuddyPress new member moderation. I remember I asked the BP Registrations Options developer for it to include moderation of the WordPress Access but he said it was outside of the remit of the plugin.
In reply to: Post as GroupThere’s no plugins that would do that for you, one option would be to register a username with the same name as the forum and use that to post as an official voice I guess.
In reply to: Online StatusHow about setting the theme to 2015? IF that fails then there must be something up with your basic WordPress install.
In reply to: Online StatusHave you deactivated all other plugins except BuddyPress? looks like something is causing BP to not see the files
In reply to: how to create a my profile menu itemThe BuddyPress specific Menu items, including the link to the members profile page are now only avaialble from the menu options in Customize, you need to go there to find the menu item you need
In reply to: [Resolved] Initial Setup HelpTry logging out and then viewing them from the frontend, they don’t display if you are already logged in, though I thought they just took you to the homepage.
Failing that I would try deactivating all plugins apart from BuddyPress to see if there is a conflict.
IF that does not help try changing the theme to 2015.
In reply to: [Resolved] Initial Setup HelpIt’s easiest if you enable New Users to Register before you activate BuddyPress for the first time, it then creates these pages automatically.
However if you installed BuddyPress and then enabled new users to register then you have to set these pages up yourself, it’s pretty easy, you go to Dashboard>>Pages>>Add New and create two pages, one called “Register” and the other called “Activate”.
Then you go to Dashboard>>Settings>>BuddyPress and click on the Pages option, from here you can associate the BuddyPress Activate and Register Items with the pages you just set up.
FYI, I am setting up a BuddyPress Blog and have just published an article on setting up BuddyPress for the first time, you may find it useful.
I’m going to follow up with testing and configuring your BP site pretty soon.
In reply to: Buddypress page settings inheritanceI’ve been told that BP does not work that way and has never worked that way, however when I first set up the site that’s exactly how it worked. I tried your suggestion, unfortunately that did not work.
I was also told to copy my three column layout file from the theme to /themes/buddypress.php but this did not work either.
In reply to: Theming & CustomizationThere is a new update coming in Mediapress which is going to allow the display of the users media in a widget, not sure when its due but would be worth getting onto BuddyDev and taking a look
In reply to: Private message from student only for teacherFor the second part of your ask there are a couple of mass messaging plugins that allow only certain roles to send messages to everyone.
one does it from the front end, the other from the backend.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-in-buddypress/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-for-buddypress-by-alkaweb/
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?For myself I think I’m getting close to having a pretty decent home page for my groups, there’s just a few bugs to iron out before I can go live.
What I am doing is using Extras to create a new default landing page that have extended group info in it, and then adding to this a bbpress Shortcode and an activity shortcode to display summaries of the groups forum, activity and comments, with a comment entry box on the same page. If I could move the groups activity feed into the widget area that would be better.
One of the key things for me however is that this stuff needs to be able to be done by users, by ordinary Joe’s who just joined the site to set up their special interest group, there should be no need to Admin intervention as that’s a none scaleable resource.
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?That’s interesting, what widget is being used to display the group activity?
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?Just found this other plugin that might be of interest:
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?Ah, just found out that this plugin causes a conflict with BuddyPress Group Extras, so avoid it, by the looks of things it’s unlikely to get fixed anytime soon.
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?An interesting plugin I just found is https://wordpress.org/plugins/galau-ui-visual-editor/ this allows posts to be edited from the front end, but it does not allow posts to be created, categories to be set or images added from the media library, so has limited use I think, still it’s a nice plugin if all you need people to do is edit the text of their posts without going to the admin screen.
In reply to: Delete user : what happens with his data ?You could look at something like this:
In reply to: Delete user : what happens with his data ?You can choose to add their content to another member or delete it, if the user deletes themselves the content stays and is attributed to anonymous
Would it not be a forum loop hack I’d be looking for?
In reply to: WordPress 4.6.1No issues
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?I use DJD site post, it has similar features and is free, it’s not been updated in quite some time though.
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?I had a play with Groups Extras and using it the group admin can create a page that includes images and formatted text and set that to be the group home page. It’s not strightforward though and the editing is very basic, on top of that the meny item for that page is always going to be pages but I think this is the closest you are going to get.
Yes a front end post is important too, but clearly anything someone writes as a group description/introduction will get lost as the blog categories for groups plugin always displays the latest blog first when its clicked on in the groups directory. Another issue with that particular page is that it will only display one page of results and has no ability to see older posts that are off that page. But still, you can always ask the developer to add that feature, I don’t think it would be hard.
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?I think the issue is that most people, when creating a group, want to include in the description page images, videos, proper formatting etc.
The BP Group description is simply a line or tow of unformatted text that appears at the top of each group.
Surely any group owner would like to have a page where they can explain in detail about the group, with any information they want, including media? You’d think there would be a solution for that. Group extra’s I think comes the closest, but it hides it’s pages under a subpage and you can’t make it home as far as I can see.
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?Group extras allows you to create an extra page for a group and set that as the homepage I think, maybe that is worth a look? Only the editing options are not good
In reply to: Dedicated pages for groups, is possible?There’s not really that much available. in terms of relating blogs to groups there’s really two options, for a single site you can use the combination of relate blog categories for groups, which you have already tried, and use this with bbPress Topics for Post which will allow you to have comments for that post appear within the group forum.
The other option is to use BuddyPress GroupBlog, but that only works in a multisite environment.
There are other plugins such as BP Group Docs, Buddypress group Extras and BuddyPress Group Documents that you may like to look at but none of these really gives you the type of group homepage customisation that is required.
I did try to do a template overload of the group home page but I found that the way the Forum works interferes with this so it is not trivial and beyond my capabilities for the moment. If you can, hire a developer is all I can suggest.
