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Why not simply invite your contacts to use the normal registration process at the point of contact?

For simple purposes can set up an extended field (say ‘Country’) in Buddypress without need for any particular plugin and have it included, even ‘required’, then you can use the ordinary WordPress search to filter the list of members to reflect only those matching the country of search. However I am not certain if you can restrict the content of that field to a particular known dataset of countries (ie you would have to rely on members correctly listing their country).
If you want to go further you could use a plugin like the BP Avatar Map ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-members-avatar-map/ ) which needs a ‘Location” extended field using various depth of location eg. just USA or Sydney,Australia or Sydney, NSW, Australia – the WordPress search should then find all from Sydney or all USA etc. The plugin includes a map for the Directory page but you could probably exclude that if you wanted.
Hope this helps.

@ikosweb this CSS is essential for the avatar cropping feature. If anyone is developing their own theme and has decided to disable the default BuddyPress CSS then try adding this CSS snippet to your theme’s .css

Hello,

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/redirect-user-login/
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-redirect-buddypress-users-after-login/

See and test https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/buddypress-1-6-beta-2-is-ready-to-test/

SOME privacy issues have been addressed. But not to the extent of being able to (out of the box) hiding members profile, groups, pages from visitors.

Just, now, visibility of individual profile fields can be allowed to be toggled/or fixed by admin between

@dan77 that code doesn’t seem to work anymore. It gives the following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /site/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php:50) in /site/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881

Go to the TwentyEleven theme. Remove BuddyPress. Create a page. Go to the page. Does the page load?

If it doesn’t, what’s the URL to that page? This is probably a permalink or rewrite rule problems, and creating a page is the easiest way to find out what’s going wrong.

fixed error in version 1.2.1

Your answer is in the codex:
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-groups-loop/

You need to pass the actual user id. Try this:

loggedin_user->id ) ) : ?>

take a look at this page for details of accessing the logged in user domain:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/the-bp-global/

There are also some wrapper functions you can use – e.g. bp_loggedin_user_domain()

@mike00m – first thing: if you want support on a particular problem, it really helps to give your thread a meaningful title that says something about the sort of problem you are experiencing.

Showing a list of latest posts from blogs around a WordPress multisite install is actually surprisingly challenging because of efficiency concerns. Polling lots of blogs takes a large amount of CPU time.

However, in BuddyPress, you can implement this relatively easily using a custom activity stream loop (which avoids the efficiency concerns):

Each time a post is saved, an entry with the details of the post is added to the activity stream.

You can then write a custom activity loop that just pulls out the latest blog post related activity.

Unfortunately, BuddyPress saves the info (thumbnail, excerpt, etc.) in a monolithic chunk that’s cumbersome to manipulate later (e.g. to pull out and style the thumbnail as you want). Therefore, you might also want to look at modifying the action hooks on post save, to set up the activity stream entry in the correct format for your site to begin with.

It’s relatively easy to set this up, but you do need to be a competent PHP / WordPress developer.

[it’s possible that someone else might be able to point you to an off the shelf plugin / widget for this]

It’s stored in the wp_user_meta table, and there are some BuddyPress wrapper functions around the standard WordPress get_user_meta() functions.

You should be able to use:

$activity = bp_get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘last_activity’, true );

Let me know if that works.

Cheers, Roger

Do you mean, you want to send an email to everyone when a new (blog) post is posted, or when any kind of item is posted to the activity stream?

For the first you can hook a function on to the WordPress ‘save_post’ action. In that function, you can iterate over every member (see https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/ for guidance), and for each member you use the BP messaging API ( messages_send_message() ) to send them an email.

For the second – you can’t seriously want to email everyone, any time anything is posted to the activity stream: the system and your users would be swamped – However, if you still do, check out some of the action hooks that are called when activity items are saved: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/activity-streams/

It’s standard WordPress syntax for including templates (e.g. sidebars, footers, template parts).

If you have a template called header-buddypress.php defined it will include that, if not it will fallback to header.php.

Probably a good first step would be to ease some of the load and one by one remove those plugins – or remove them all add back in one by one. I find with errors like this often stripping back will help.

You could also ‘sanity’ check your theme by setting to the default BuddyPress theme – of course if a live community you may not be able to do this.

It’s a little hard to follow but my suggestion would be to follow the template pack instructions and not dip into two tutorials which unless I’m mistaken you are a little. The guide to the template pack also is just a guide there are so many ways of doing it theme wise that your theme may be structured differently.

If you are still having issues a good help may be to let us know what theme are you using and maybe a link so we can see the issue (if that is possible) for ourselves?

You should be fine with the last method as you say if that appears in your index.php. I do have one question on that though – did that appear after you did steps in template pack? If it was always there perhaps your theme is designed for BuddyPress anyway and won’t need the template pack? You only need it if your theme doesn’t support BuddyPress.