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Did this work on your test / development site? Have you run through all of the questions / checks Paul has given you to the letter – when it comes to BuddyPress, he knows what he’s talking about.

Ok, my suggested further steps for how you can ascertain information that will help you find the problem on your site:

1. Turn off all your plugins — not just those you think could interfere — just leaving BuddyPress activated
2. Switch to the bp-default theme
3. And to be extra safe — remove your bp-custom.php file

[You’ll probably want to do this on a mirror development environment, if you’ve already taken the site live]

If emails don’t work in this basic BuddyPress install, you know it is a problem with your hosting, general email setup or installation.

If emails do work, you know it is a problem in either your theme or your plugins. Try adding them back one by one, and test at each stage.

This comment sounds like a general WordPress / User Role Editor plugin issue, and not anything to do with BuddyPress – Have you asked on their forums?

BuddyPress provides a filter to let you do this.

If you look through the code for recording a post (hooked on save_post) in the bp-blogs component, you should be able to figure out how to use it.

I want to check these out. Thanks!

Here are a few of my favorites…

BuddyPress Profile Privacy – Users can hide different parts of their profiles… very cool.

The following are not Buddypress but they seem very compatible so far.

AG Custom Admin This is Dashboard Editor and you can control what your members see.
I have cleaned up their dashboard – they no longer see the wordpress profile or the press this tool or other random plugin settings. You can do so much with this tool and completely customize the way the back end looks. I was amazed.

User Role Editor – You can add new roles and give and take away specific powers. I have made a new role based on the Author role and gave the new role category powers. The site I am building is a family recipe site and I wanted to allow them to add their name as a category and also different cooking terms. This plugin is also a nice way to view every detail of the standard roles in WordPress.

Search Everything – This plugin seems to help with searching… I wasn’t getting any results before installing but now everything comes up.

In 1.6 beta 2 https://buddypress.org/2012/07/buddypress-1-6-beta-2/ there is a facility to restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Anyone, Logged In Users or My Friends.

In addition there is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy/ for earlier versions of buddypress. This can restrict visibility of profile fields to —-> Everyone, My Friends, or Only Me

Hi
i was create a plugin Buddypress Notifications Manager – BpNM , you can disable email notifications for all members, or you can disable some others. you can enable or disable Email Notifications user access with the plugin too. the plugin work fine wp 3.4 and buddypress 1.5

you can download it and try it in your localhost.
:snip: – jjj
//Mod edit: this is an untested and unknown file only download and run at your own risk and not on a production site.

after enabling the plugin, go to Setting > BP Notifications

Fact: BuddyPress does NOT copy the site administrator in on all emails that are sent out. So it’s something on your site.

How are you creating user accounts? As usual, through WordPress, or do you have an LDAP integration or something exotic? Have you confirmed (by looking in the wp_users table) that the email addresses are actually different (not meant to be a stupid question)?

I would ask how your host moved the database/site across, but you probably don’t have the details to hand. I asked because while I haven’t seen emails get messed up, I’ve seen site URLs and permalinks break. Does all regular WordPress content on the site seem to work?

What company provide your hosting?

Sharing user databases across multiple separate installs of WordPress can be complicated. I wouldn’t recommend for this purpose. I’m not sure BuddyPress even works in this configuration — it might, I’ve never tried.

If you want to try, check out this section of the WordPress codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Custom_User_and_Usermeta_Tables

All you need is in that first line. Let’s break it down:

PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘apiServiceException’ with message
‘Error calling https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/108328961616806242196/activities/public?maxResults=5&alt=

json: (403) Daily Limit Exceeded. Please sign up’

in /home/wolf/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google/lib/external/google/io/apiREST.php:99

Going backwards, the error is coming from the wp-content/plugins/google/ plugin, and specifically the error returned is “Daily Limit Exceeded”. Looks like you need to sign up or otherwise increase your rate limit for whichever Google API you are using.
Also, assuming this Google plugin is actually https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google/, you should be able to use WPMUDEV’s support forums if you need further assistance resolving this.

There are some wordpress poll plug ins. If your after surveys other than buddypress, go for free survey scripts

By default BuddyPress doesn’t send ‘crazy amounts of emails’, and doesn’t typically email to every user — what emails are you receiving? What notifications do you have turned on? Is it site wide notifications? What theme are you using? Please provide as much information as you can, as it makes it easier for people on the forum to help you

It can be achieved, but will involve a number of changes. If you are not a competent PHP / BuddyPress developer, then you would be best to hire one for this job

If you have a look at the bp_message_thread_avatar() function in the BuddyPress codebase, you can see which arguments it accepts, and also which functions it calls onto to get an avatar.

That should help you determine which alternative avatar function to use.

@djpaul this is a extremely vexing issue been backwards and forwards over the menu settings all I can establish is there appears an issue with ‘network true’ so have removed that altogether but still have plugin feature on both plugin screens, add_action(network_admin_menu, $function) just doesn’t appear to work regardless of changes I make i.e simplifying things right down with no if/else choices, I used if bp_core_admin_hook falling back to add_action(network_admin_menu) or (admin_menu) I get no menus even in site_admin, the only way I can get settings screen to appear is to comment out everything bar add_submenu_page and add_action(‘admin_menu’

Not sure where to take things from here other than to try and remove all mentions of netwok settings and be done with it.

Have a look at some of the classes applied to body — there’s no single class being used for BuddyPress pages, but the set is quite small, and you should be able to base your selectors on them to capture whether you are on a BP page or not:

.directory …. , .my-account … , etc.

And, if you are using a pre-processor such as LESS or SASS, it makes it much easier to write nested CSS like this

If you’re certain that you’re receiving new members’ BuddyPress-generated emails, my guess would be you have something affecting how emails are sent.

Are you running any plugins or custom code that affects sending email, appearance of emails, etc, anything? Finally, how did you move your site from Dev to production. Did you copy the DB across, too?