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I’ve been working on moving my community from a Facebook group to my new buddypress community site over the last couple of months, considering I’m not a professional developer, I feel like it has all gone pretty well, but I’m hoping you guys can give me some ideas on how to make the most of my community’s new home.

Most of the members have made the transition from the old Facebook group without too many problems – although, I won’t lie, there have been grumblings from a fair few while they’ve been getting used to the new site!

The main thing a lot of them miss is ease of access/use on mobile phones. The biggest factor seems to be that they could access the Facebook group via the app rather than needing to use a browser and the instant notifications of mentions to their phones helped keep them feeling involved. I’m not a developer, so there’s only so much I can do, but is it possible to have buddypress site (with busy bbpress forums) running as a mobile app at the same time?

Or is there some other solution I can offer? I’ve explained about email notifications, but members don’t feel like that’s the same.

The other issue is that members are saying it’s difficult to follow threads because on Facebook the original post will appear at the top with replies below and it gets bumped up the page each time anyone replies. I know Buddypress activity posts work a bit like that, but most of the activity appearing on my homepage activity feed is from the forums. Any suggestions?

I think Buddypress is amazing, by the way, and I want to say thanks to all developers who created it and everyone here who shares their expertise to help people like me make the most of it. Love what you do guys! 🙂

I basically want to make an activity stream show only yourself and friends. I’d just change/hack the title of ‘All Members’ to something like ‘My feed’ or something.

Mission impossible? Core feature? Any info on this would be great.

We ran into some trouble when installing 2.0.2. We received an “unknown funcion” error for wp_bp_xprofile_field_data(). We are on the latest version of WordPress (Version 3.9.2) and have the following list of plugins installed (all up-to-date):

Add to home screen WP
Amazon S3 and CloudFront
Amazon Web Services
BackupBuddy
bbPress
bbPress Genesis Extend
bbPress Moderation
bbPress Threaded Replies
Better File Editor
BuddyPress
BuddyPress Activity Plus
BuddyPress Members Import
Genesis Connect for BuddyPress
Gravity Forms
Gravity Forms – Update Post
Gravity Forms MyMail Add-On
Gravity Forms Signature Add-On
Imposter
WP Master Slider WP
Menu Management Enhancer
MyMail – Email Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
MyMail AmazonSES Integration
Private Only
Private Only, Disable Feed
Raw HTML
Relevanssi
S3 Media Maestro
SP Gravity Forms List & Edit
UberMenu 2 – WordPress Mega Menu Plugin
UberMenu Conditionals
User Role Editor
W3 Total Cache
WordPress HTTPS
WP-Filebase Pro
WPBakery Visual Composer
WP Bootstrap Tabs
WP Courseware
WP Developer Tools

Any suspected cause?

I know this topic has been covered in the past but the only solutions I’ve found have covered when BBpress and Buddypress we’re two different plugins. We all value our privacy and I’m seeing some red-flags go up from installing Buddypress already. My site is an ecommerce site and we’ve had some Facebook groups going for years now and I’d like to get them moved over to WordPress to have everything in the same place. Since it’s an ecommerce site, I have a lot of customers who already have profiles, and some made their username their email address. For obvious reasons, I don’t want to have those visible to any sort of web-crawlers since it will show activity once they log into their account to make a purchase on our site. I’d like to implement some sort of code to keep the members page search only, rather than having all the customers usernames or emails out in the open, and hide the rest of BuddyPress from non-logged in users. I just want to make sure everyones info is being protected and I’ve search for solutions everywhere and had no luck so far.

Just curious..

Why the red part gets checked before the filter select menu can work ?

I’ve changed my menu a bit but for some reason the filter doesn’t work anymore and I’ve got the feeling I’m very close to the problem.

My new menu:

<nav class="item-list-tabs no-ajax nav-centered">
	<ul class="button-group activity-type-tabs">
		<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_groups_directory_permalink(); ?>"><i class="fi fi-root-groups"></i></a></li>
		<li class="selected"><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>"><i class="fi fi-root-groups"></i></a></li>
		<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>members/">Abonnees</a></li>
		<li class="group-btn-select item-list-tabs no-ajax">
			<ul>
				<?php do_action( 'bp_group_activity_syndication_options' ); ?>
				<li id="activity-filter-select" class="last">
					<select id="activity-filter-by" class="button filter">
						<option value="-1">Alles</option>
						<option value="activity_update">Updates</option>
						<option value="joined_group">Abonnees</option>
						<?php do_action( 'bp_group_activity_filter_options' ); ?>
					</select>
				</li>
			</ul>
		</li>
		<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_group_is_member() ) : ?>
		<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>send-invites/"><i class="fi fi-megaphone"></i></a></li>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<?php do_action( 'bp_group_options_nav' ); ?>
		<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_current_user_can( 'bp_moderate' ) ) : ?>
		<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>admin/edit-details/"><i class="fi fi-wrench"></i></a></li>
		<?php endif; ?>
		<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_activity_feed_link(); ?>" title="RSS feed"><i class="fi fi-rss"></i></a></li>
	</ul>
</nav>

Ajax-/JS code: ( changed div.activity-type-tabs to ul.activity-type-tabs )

	/* Activity filter select */
	jq('#activity-filter-select select').change( function() {
		var selected_tab = jq( 'ul.activity-type-tabs li.selected' );

		if ( !selected_tab.length )
			var scope = null;
		else
			var scope = selected_tab.attr('id').substr( 9, selected_tab.attr('id').length );

		var filter = jq(this).val();

		bp_activity_request(scope, filter);

		return false;
	});

I left all needed BuddyPress classes in play and for some reason it won’t filter. Only at Activity streams. Groups & Members index pages all filter nicely with almost the same menu.

Image to give an example of what the menu looks like:

Image of the error I get.

Can somebody help me out here?
It’s probably a little change in a line of code.

I’ve manually re-created the bp_get_options_nav because it’s a too dynamic and clunky piece of code.

Now I’ve made a simple HTML nav-list of each group component and added some PHP code between to print the ‘bp_group_permalink’ / [component-name] / but I only need to find a way to check IF a user can moderator this current group or is admin, if thats TRUE –> print the HTML list of the [admin component ] IF FALSE do nothing and hide this HTML list.

I would like to have the same conditional statement for the [ send-ivites ] component that checks if a user can invite friends because he’s logged-in + member of this group.

		<nav class="item-list-tabs no-ajax nav-centered">
			<ul class="button-group radius">
				<li><a class="button" href=""><i class="fi fi-root-groups"></i></a></li>
				<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>"><i class="fi fi-home"></i></a></li>
				<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>members/">Members</a></li>
				<li class="group-btn-select item-list-tabs no-ajax">
					<ul>
					/*** select filter stuff here ***/ 
					</ul>
				</li>
				<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>send-invites/"><i class="fi fi-megaphone"></i></a></li>
				<?php do_action( 'bp_group_options_nav' ); ?>
				<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_permalink(); ?>admin/edit-details/"><i class="fi fi-wrench"></i></a></li>
				<li><a class="button" href="<?php bp_group_activity_feed_link(); ?>" title="<?php _e( 'RSS Feed', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><i class="fi fi-rss"></i></a></li>
			</ul>
		</nav>

How can I make those conditionals on list number 5 and 6.

Thanks.

I have perused the forums and have only found some very old topics on how to disable the newsfeed for sitewide activity. I placed the following code in my functions.php but if I go to the link, the newsfeed is still there.

function bp_remove_feeds() {
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_personal_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_friends_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_mentions_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'bp_activity_action_favorites_feed', 3 );
	remove_action( 'wp', 'groups_action_group_feed', 3 );
}
add_action('init', 'bp_remove_feeds');

I have my site as a private community so having the newsfeed readily available to anyone who knows all they have to type in is /activity/feed is not very secure for my members. Any help on how to get rid of it would be greatly appreciated.

Using: latest Buddypress and WordPress

I’m building a “private” BP site using the “Private Community for BP” plugin. This site won’t be heavily used (or at least I don’t envision heavy use at this point).

That said, what I would like to have is a way to have BP generate an email notification when a new item is posted to the activity stream. This is highly useful in my situation since updates will be relatively rare and I don’t want to force my members to “ping” the website constantly to check for activity.

The only solution that I have found is to use the RSS feed and MailChimp. Obviously, this isn’t an option with the “Private Community for BP” plugin as the RSS feed is blocked.

Any ideas?