ps-thanks in advance for any advice!!
Simple idea, execution might not be so simple. I’m definitely new to this, but I need to get this account creation for buddypress so that there is no “full name” field, or merge it with user name, or at the very least, don’t make it required. I shake my head in bewilderment that there are two required name fields in the first place, especially in an age where online privacy is such a concern for our users. I know this may involve some minor coding tweaks. If you know how this can be done, please give me the path as to where the file(s) is/are that would need to be edited, what coding needs to be inserted/deleted, and where this coding needs to be added or removed. Basically, a mini tutorial if it’s not too much trouble. I have my data backed up, so I am willing to experiment if the solution isn’t well tested. Any help is very much appreciated.
Hi guys,
I have set up a Forums Page on my WordPress website. I’d like my BBPress forums to be displayed on the Forums page I’ve created in my WordPress theme. But there is some sort of confusing relationship between BBPress & Buddypress. After several days of effort I still don’t know what the relationship is?
How do I get my BBPress forums that can currently be awkwardly found on a side panel on to my WordPress page, displayed on the WordPress forums page (which I’ve named ‘Better investor forums’) ?
This is my site http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/
And this is my forums page: http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com/better-investor-forums/
On the right side panel of my homepage you will find a forums widget. I’d like have these forums in my Forum page too.
Can you help?
Thanks
Thanks for a response. I’m not fiddling around with the templates, nor am I trying to adjust the text labels. I’m using a custom theme so naturally BuddyPress is using the theme’s own page.php template. The “Create A Group” button displays just fine on the “Groups” page, but when I actually go to the “Create A Group” page the button is switched.
No I use other theme and flexslider isn’t a plugin but jquery… and I believe it is a BuddyPress issue, because I searched through internet and found that others have similar problems with this plugin, but unfortunately I didn’t find a right solution. Any help is appreciated…
@fotant
This is not really a BuddyPress issue! Why not pose this question on the plugins support forum? If memory serves me correct this is a Woo Themes plugin!
@caming
Using a shared server is not a good idea! Typically most shared servers will remove your site if it uses 20% of its resources because its to hard on the CPU! As far as plugins go, a well written plugin doesn’t really bog down a site anymore than BuddyPress itself would!
Why would you fiddle around with the templates code when a more simple update proof solution is available?
Please review: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
Hello everyone!!!
I use WordPress v. 3.6.1 and also BuddyPress plugin v. 1.8.1
The problem is that I use flexslider as an image slider and when I activate Buddypress, the flexslider doen’t load the first image of the gallery (it only loads it for 1 sec and then white content and starts working fine from second slider). When I deactivate buddypress, slider works just fine..
You can see a copy-demo of original site here->http://test.snowboard.gr/
Hi there,
On the create a group page the “Groups Directory” button just says “Groups” and is loaded before the “Create a Group” text. The source code looks like this:
<h1 class="entry-title">
<a class="button" href="http://demo.ghostpool.com/multidev/groups/">Groups</a>
Create a Group
</h1>
If I switch back to the default BuddyPress this is fixed. Obviously there is an issue with my theme, but I’ve used the same code on my other theme’s and do not have the same issue. Could it be related to the multi site installation I’m using?
@elangley: just had a look at the status of this issue: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2425
It seems it has been closed there, as it was submitted on the bbPress, rather than Buddypess Trac.
I submitted this very issue now to the Buddypress Trac: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5187 (rather than ask you to do this, I just copied your original submission)
Hi Paul,
In the Buddypress Codex there is information last updated 2 years ago by Sarah Gooding that recommends the two above points that I mentioned for caching. Is this information out of date?
Also the codex points to a support thread:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/configuring-w3-total-cache-with-buddypress/
This support thread is also a couple of years old and ends with no solution or resolution to BP caching and a lot of frustrated people.
Is it safe to say that the caching plugins do not provide a good solution for Buddypress? And that a server side caching solution is the best option?
I am self hosted on a VPN so for me this is not good news.
Hi all,
I have spent a long period of time trying to look out for a Buddypress plugin or customization that allows for users to create groups specific for a post (i.e. that only appear on the post page).
I intend to review video games on my site, and I would like users with interest in that particular video game to be able to create a group below the content of the page that would allow for other users to join him in a group to discuss the game — or even to add one another in an online gaming portal.
Is this possible with Buddypress or has anyone had any experience in dealing with such an idea?
Any help in greatly appreciated in advance!
http://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/
Hey @r-a-y and @hnla
Under “Single Group Pages” in the article above, should the paths be /buddypress/groups/single...
Some seem to read /buddypress/members/single...
I am wondering if this is the case or is there a solution to this. Thank you very much! ((:
It’s blog posts to stream isn’t it, tracks your sites posts.
is it possible in anyway to have clonable or repeatable fields or group of repeatable fields for buddypress user profile
What does this option actually do? I’d like to know a little more about it if anyone has some info…
It is found under Settings > BuddyPress > Profile Settings
I can now confirm that there are problems between the integration of bbPress 2.4 and buddypress 1.81.
It turns out that there’s a bug in bbPress 2.4 that does not allow the admin to make a Forum ‘private’ or ‘hidden’. At the moment, the only workaround is to use the bulk edit facility to apply the ‘private’ setting to a forum (but, not, sadly the ‘hidden’ attribute as of yet).
In other words, if you go into the forum setting for the individual forum on the back-end and change the attribute there, it won’t stick. The forum comes back again as ‘Public’.
I used the build editor to change my forum to ‘Private’ and that stopped the replies to topic posts from being broadcast to everyone in the buddypress sitewide activity page. Now, I’m waiting for the ability to make the forums ‘hidden’ for extra security. In the meantime, I’ve been using s2member to lock down the content of the bbPress Group forum. This ONLY works for Group forums, because their topics have a forum-specific URI structure (so URI-restrictions can be used; e.g. ‘/group/<name of group>/forum/’)… whereas non-Group forums just have the ‘/topic/’ URI which is sitewide and cannot be restricted by a particular forum name. This is lamentable, as bbPress is very hard to lock-down otherwise.
It’s taken me many hours to track down all of these niggly problems, which is frustrating, since bbPress and buddypress are meant to be integrated now. So, it seems as if the integration is mucky.
Given all the user confusion regarding forum attributes in bbPress and forum security in buddypress, I would really love to see the development teams come up with a simple, unified interface for managing memberships and access restrictions. Otherwise, we’ll all end up chasing settings in different places, without really understanding their interplay.
This is definitely part of the problem that I’m having. It turns out that there’s a bug in bbPress 2.4 that does not allow the admin to make a Forum ‘private’ or ‘hidden’. At the moment, the only workaround is to use the bulk edit facility to apply the ‘private’ setting to a forum (but, not, sadly the ‘hidden’ attribute as of yet).
In other words, if you go into the forum setting for the individual forum on the back-end and change the attribute there, it won’t stick. The forum comes back again as ‘Public’.
I used the build editor to change my forum to ‘Private’ and that stopped the replies to topic posts from being broadcast to everyone in the buddypress sitewide activity page. Now, I’m waiting for the ability to make the forums ‘hidden’ for extra security. In the meantime, I’ve been using s2member to lock down the content of the bbPress Group forum. This ONLY works for Group forums, because their topics have a forum-specific URI structure (so URI-restrictions can be used; e.g. ‘/group/<name of group>/forum/’)… whereas non-Group forums just have the ‘/topic/’ URI which is sitewide and cannot be restricted by a particular forum name. This is lamentable, as bbPress is very hard to lock-down otherwise.
It’s taken me many hours to track down all of these niggly problems, which is frustrating, since bbPress and buddypress are meant to be integrated now. So, it seems as if the integration is mucky.
Given all the user confusion regarding forum attributes in bbPress and forum security in buddypress, I would really love to see the development teams come up with a simple, unified interface for managing memberships and access restrictions. Otherwise, we’ll all end up chasing settings in different places, without really understanding their interplay.
I tried running the Tools > Forums but it only solved the problem of new topic posts, but not replies to those posts. Here’s my rundown of the situation:
I think the problem has to do with buddypress – bbPress integration.
The bbPress Group Forums appear to be set to ‘Open’ by default, even if they are hidden within buddypress. In fact, I cannot alter this. I tried changing my secret forum to ‘hidden’ within bbPress (2.4) and it won’t save the change – it always comes back as ‘open’.
Therefore, it’s up to buddypress to manage the privacy of the forum. It seems to be doing this with new topic posts (I can confirm that hide_sitewide in the activity stream table is “1” for new posts). The problem is that if someone replies to that post, the hide_sitewide for that reply is set to “0”, even though it’s inside of a ‘hidden’ group forum. To me, this is a serious security breach, as it exposes the forum name, the original topic name, and the contents of the reply in EVERYONE’s Activity stream, whether they are logged in or not, a member of the hidden forum or not.
Actually, this problem is not resolved and appears to be pretty bad. Here’s my rundown:
I think the problem has to do with buddypress – bbPress integration.
The bbPress Group Forums appear to be set to ‘Open’ by default, even if they are hidden within buddypress. In fact, I cannot alter this. I tried changing my secret forum to ‘hidden’ within bbPress (2.4) and it won’t save the change – it always comes back as ‘open’.
Therefore, it’s up to buddypress to manage the privacy of the forum. It seems to be doing this with new topic posts (I can confirm that hide_sitewide in the activity stream table is “1” for new posts). The problem is that if someone replies to that post, the hide_sitewide for that reply is set to “0”, even though it’s inside of a ‘hidden’ group forum. To me, this is a serious security breach, as it exposes the forum name, the original topic name, and the contents of the reply in EVERYONE’s Activity stream, whether they are logged in or not, a member of the hidden forum or not.
I think the problem has to do with buddypress – bbPress integration.
The bbPress Group Forums appear to be set to ‘Open’ by default, even if they are hidden within buddypress. In fact, I cannot alter this. I tried changing my secret forum to ‘hidden’ within bbPress (2.4) and it won’t save the change – it always comes back as ‘open’.
Therefore, it’s up to buddypress to manage the privacy of the forum. It seems to be doing this with new topic posts (I can confirm that hide_sitewide in the activity stream table is “1” for new posts). The problem is that if someone replies to that post, the hide_sitewide for that reply is set to “0”, even though it’s inside of a ‘hidden’ group forum. To me, this is a serious security breach, as it exposes the forum name, the original topic name, and the contents of the reply in EVERYONE’s Activity stream, whether they are logged in or not, a member of the hidden forum or not.
@bp-help
I don’t think you have to explain someone why you do or don’t do things. As Buddypress is Open Source and as long as people do things for free, I’ll appreciate their work. I don’t think that the guy who developed a paid version of the plugin you do for free has to starve or die because of your work – maybe he has to think about some more advanced functions – so, I would be glad to get a free version of your plugin!
Greetings,
noizeburger
