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There was a group documents plugin, but that’s no longer available.

It would be a project to build these capabilities, but nothing too difficult for a BuddyPress developer — the starting point would be the groups extension API: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/group-extension-api/

You can adapt a theme to work with BuddyPress, your first port of call for that is to use this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/

Hi, have you checked if the latest pack on Suffiusion supports the latest WordPress/BuddyPress? I see this:

WordPress 3.0 or higher
Suffusion 3.6.8 or higher.
BuddyPress 1.2 or higher

To me, that may be the issue is that it is not compatible. I’d probably suggest contacting the pack authors to confirm.

For ratings — have a look at GDPress and their star rating plugin

You can search for ‘buddypress.org anti spam’ on Google ( search doesn’t work on this forum ), and it should throw up a lot of previous discussion on the subject.

@djpaul also revealed that a coming version of BuddyPress will have Akismet support for activity stream entries (1.6 or 1.7… I can’t remember which).

@newpress — if you want to modify a website theme, at the very least you’ll need some HTML / CSS knowledge. It would be a good idea to book up on those before attempting to modify the look and feel of your site.

Hi, @raminjan you can certainly achieve that, both making it yourself working at code level or (what I suggest) start with a plugin that achieves the “private community” functionality and set yourself a “front page” (you’ll use a modified version of the login page I guess ).

Here are some helpful links on how to do what you need:

http://wpmu.org/buddypress-news-create-your-own-private-buddypress-community/
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/buddypress-collaboration-system/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/private-buddypress/

Hope it helps! cheers,

-JM

@mercime thanks for all the help, it’s really appreciated. The site is almost 100% except that when I access any of the Buddypress sites the right sidebar drops down as the central column expands. Which CSS file must I edit, I don’t want to risk messing it up as it’s working great.

I’m also having the problem with my Register page just refreshing instead of going to the Sign Up Completed page. @james_zedd I thought I was having the problem you described, but then I realized it was taking me to the home page because I was already logged in to my site. Make sure you are logged out when you’re testing the Register page.

@RehaugeW hope your problem is resolved and that the solution helps me out.

And if someone could be extra kind and create a trac ticket for this over at https://BuddyPress.trac.WordPress.org — be sure to link back to this discussion — I’ll be your BFF.

@pescholar thanks for all the information! Hopefully we can figure out a permanent fix for this.

@aces Yes, but it wasn’t obvious to me that setting the user_id to -1 would stop it matching against profle field data with user_id = 0, as I didn’t expect that situation to ever occur!

Two problems here. One, this zero matching. The second is how zero user ID profle data gets put into the database. We/I can definitely look to fix the first for BuddyPress 1.6 — I’ll look into it when I finish work

This has also been raised in the following post: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/registration-page-has-prepoulated-full-name-field-help/

have a look in the codebase at bp_the_profile_field_name() and you’ll see the ‘get’ function that it uses.

Trawling the codebase is the best way to find functions for BuddyPress (or the site phpftwr – google a function name and it will come up in the references)

In this case your function is bp_get_the_profile_field_name()

@djpaul – did you see the last (recent) message to you about this?
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-clear-the-previous-registration-form-data-1/

It’s straightforward to do in BuddyPress – @hotsitez has already pointed you to the basic function for echoing profile field values (which is also documented in member-header.php), and I’ve told you which files you need to look at.

As a PHP coder, you should be able to walk through those files to find the appropriate points in the code to hook actions in or modify your templates. You should also be able to search the BuddyPress codebase to find profile field functions you can call — start with the one @hotsitez gave you.

You can also look on the documentation (codex) area of this site for information about the profile field loop which may help you further – and point you to how base and other profile field groups are handled.

[Edit: and, if you want to learn about the action, filtering paradigm for development, you can find introductory articles on the wordpress.org codex]

I’m pretty sure this came up recently, and the core team had been unable to replicate — @djpaul was this something you were looking at?

I am also having a problem with registration.

Every time I go to my registration page (http://www.bodyweightexerciseblog.com/register) I am returned to the homepage of my website.

Also using s2member plug in with buddypress. In Focus theme with buddy press child theme.

> Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in /home/…/…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php on line 168

Your error is coming from bbPress, not BuddyPress. Please post on the bbpress.org forums for help.

@natetheaverage –

an outline solution (there are lots of areas where you’d have to work to implement it):

When a group is created, you could write a hook that creates a corresponding xprofile field group (remember to hook on delete group as well to remove the profile field group)
In the member’s profile screens, you would hide that xprofile field group if the member is not a member of the group
In a hook on Join Group, you’d want to display an additional screen that prompts for the user fields, and when that is submitted use the xprofile API to write the data to the user’s profile
I guess finally, you’d also want to modify the members loop inside the group to show that information

There’s a lot of code for you to trawl through

Nope. But when BP 1.6, you can use bbPress 2 for both group and site wide forums, and it comes with backend admin panels.