@wernerk ,
Not too much of a long shot. Yes, I am using email addresses as the username. The users are created with a plugin called BuddyPress Import. I have it create usernames based on the email address.
BuddyPress Members Import
Your post at https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-with-email-adress-as-username/ appears to be the same problem I am having.
Since I can’t change the username this could be quite a hassle unless it can be fixed…
@bphelp can you create a user with an email address for the username and see if the issue can be duplicated on your install?
I found this plugin: BuddyPress Automatic Friends
Seems to be just what I am looking for. I’ll give it a try
Just a long shot… do you use an e-mail address as username?
Have a look at my question https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-with-email-adress-as-username/ from some months ago. Unfortunately nobody replied.
Workaround is to to create usernames without @ (we always create users ourselves, completely private groups, members need to be invited).
Didn’t check recently if the problem has been resolved or not.
Installed a plugin for users to login with their e-mail address or their username (which they typically forget) Plugin is WP Email Login: *Allows you to log into WordPress using your email address instead of a(nother) username.* Can be found at https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-email-login/
Don’t know if you might have a similar issue.
@mahdiar
Its been around 1.6 since I tried filtering the activity stream according to the codex:
Activity Loop
Just to see if something had changed I changed this line:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>
in activity-loop.php in my child theme and made the following modifications:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&object=status' ) ) : ?>
As well I tried this:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&per_page=5' ) ) : ?>
I also tried this:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&scope=friends' ) ) : ?>
None of them had any effect in the activity stream output. @mercime @hnla What has changed that you can no longer filter with my above examples? It used to work but it has been a while since I fiddled around that area. I am using WP 3.6 and BP 1.8.1 and a very basic child theme of bp-default. Thanks!
@mirgcire
As of BP 1.7+ bbpress is a seperate install. Try following the below instructions.
1.) Go to dashboard/settings/buddypress/components and check the box “User Groups”
2.) Install and activate bbpress.
3.) In the front-end go to the groups page and click the button “Create a Group”
4.) Give the group a name and description, click “Create Group and Continue
5.) Select your privacy options then click “Next Step”
6.) Under Group Forum click the box “Yes. I want this group to have a forum.” Click “Next Step.”
7.) Choose avatar for the group, click “Upload” then crop the image. Click “Next Step”
8.) Select friends to invite. If you dont have any yet just click “Finish.”
This should do it. Now you have groups with their own forum. Click the Groups nav button then click the group you created. Below the avatar you will see the tabs Home | Forum | Etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
Me again ….
Finally I get it. The Settings > Forum page has a section called “Buddy Press Integration”.
I was going to Setting > BuddyPress and looking for forums (shesh)
Hi bp-help,
I checked out the page you mentioned.
Specifically, I want groups to have their own forums.
So I jumped to the section labeled “Set up Group Forums only”
Where I found this instruction:
3. Go to admin dashboard menu Settings > Forums to configure Forum Settings
BuddyPress -> Enable Group Forums: Check “Allow BuddyPress Groups to have their own forums”
I looked in menu settings and buddypress settings, but found nothing relating to forums, so either the documentation is incorrect or my installation is messed up.
Specifically, on the configuring components page
The problem is that there is no longer a Forum tab in the configuration panel.
Obviously I am a nube, or I would not be reading the Documentation 😀
My understanding is that bbPress has replaced the built-in forum feature.
Wondering when this will be fixed, and, more importantly,
Where can I find up-to-date documentation if it exists somewhere else.
Thanks!
@jboye @petervandoorn –
There was a bug in a previous version of bbPress where the visibility of the private and hidden forums were not being saved properly.
The bug is fixed in bbPress 2.4, but for previous group forums, you’ll need to repair them.
You can do this by:
- Logging in to the WP admin dashboard
- Navigate to “Tools > Forums”
- Make sure to check “Recalculate private and hidden forums”
- Lastly, hit “Repair Forums”
This will regenerate bbPress’ internal private and hidden forum IDs that are used to filter posts and will therefore fix forum visibility problems.
Just to add a footnote to thread:
if by ‘main activity page’ we mean the /activity/ A Directory then we should be able to test for that with:
bp_is_directory()
Then not have to qualify the conditional with ! user_activity or at least be able to do bp_is_directory && whatever comp we’re after.
Anyone notice that the pagination on the “Topics Started” and “Replies Created” isn’t working correctly? If I click 2 for example to view the 2nd page on either one it just links to the buddypress.org home page.
Hello All,
I need help figuring out what to do with a requirement for a new website I am looking to design. What I need is a way to have a way to stream pieces of Facebook’s activity wall to a newly created users account on my buddy press. I ran across Buddystream but it seems that it is no longer supported. I then ran across Bebop which also seems similar.
Pretty much I need to have users data streamed to predefined boxes on my website but I want it all to sync during the account creation on my buddypress. Can you guys advise me on what is the best way to do this since I am concerned a bit to use plugins which will or can become extinct without support?
I want a plug in which will be supported and one that will last throughout all the updates Facebook will eventually put out. The big issue is here is I want a plug in which wont force my users to continually input thier Facebook ID’s for every streamed bit of content.
Please help me to find an answer.
Thank you,
Rob
Buddypress Activity Stream Hastags – the outdated one..
The issue with HashBuddy is it doesn’t recognize hashtags in comments, that’s just as big to me as recognizing it in posts.
Hey all, I’m new to the whole Buddypress thing but not new to WordPress.
I am soon to start up my own metal community soon for anyone who listens to metal music, metal bands and artists included and have chosen to use Buddypress.
Before I do purchase a web host package I thought I’d set it all up on a free test host first just to see what it would look like, how it all works and so on though I have come across a problem already…
So installing the plugin was simple enough and at first everything seemed fine though when I try to register another account just to see if it would work I come across a 404 page not found error, logged in again and checked the pages and the registration page is there.
Looked for a solution on Google and have read some topics in regards to the same or similar issues here and have come to the conclusion that I need to create both register and activate pages? I ask though what would the point of that be when they have already been created automatically?
Was also wondering if anyone knows where I could get a free rock/metal theme for Buddypress?
Cheers Chouf 🙂
“For the other question, searching for group names can be done by default on the group directory page. If you want to allow the same thing from within each group, maybe you could simply add the group directory search box on each group header for example.”
No i mean i want a tab that “auto searches” not a search bar 🙂 so for example if a reader was looking at Call of duty the “tab” when clicked would search my wordpress blog etc for “call of duty”
hi @gloopy,
i’m not a DB specialist, but so far i know about mySql, 20 000 or 100 000 entries is quite “nothing”.
Having 20 000 groups is certainly a wide range of groups to show on the Group Directory with somes seconds to handle, so it would be preferably that you think about how to sort them (recent, popular, most visited is implemented by default but also by genre: arcade, fighting, etc)
Don’t know how many members you have/expect, but i doubt that your 20 000 groups will be visited at the same time by 20 000 visitors…. If so (lucky guy), BP would probably by to small for such usage. For the moment, let’s be realistic.
For the other question, searching for group names can be done by default on the group directory page. If you want to allow the same thing from within each group, maybe you could simply add the group directory search box on each group header for example.
I’m trying to use form plugins (have both formidable and gravity) to display entries of users (not user profiles, but other entered data). But at the same time, I need to display the user that entered that data and have a link to link back to the profile. Both don’t seem to work. One displays the userID (which doesn’t work as the profiles shown in buddypress uses “mention” names), and the other displays the username, which doesn’t work too.
HashBuddy or the outdated plugin?
Above my php paygrade (0) sorry. Maybe someone else has an idea.
Hi there, just nudging to see if there’s a work around or hack in BP code I can do to enforce desired x-profile visibility levels as in my case users need not have an option to choose their visibility levels. So I hope someone can point me in the right direction on how to hardcode the visibility levels for my x-profile fields in the code.
Many thanks.
Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
The thing is, it works with the buddypress default theme. Something tells me I need to add an activity loop into my theme somehow but I’m not sure.
Any ideas?
In: Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress > Settings
I have checked the first option in Main Settings – “Show the Toolbar for logged out users”
but the toolbar does not display for logged out users.
I have added: define( 'BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR', true ); to wp-config.php and still no luck.
I just saw this ticket http://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4803 but I’m not sure if there is a fix yet. Can anyone offer a solution? (We cannot upgrade to 1.8 yet)
