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Hi bollocks187-
I was just a little confused how groups was intended for use within WordPress/BuddyPress. To give you some insight as far as where I’m coming from, I’m moving from a Groupsite environment. In that environment, you can have ‘x’ number of groups. The groups can by hidden just like in WP/BP, but can have their very own content exclusive to them, which is hidden from non-members of that group (as expected). Likewise, members of a given group can communicate freely between each other. I was looking for a feature set within WP/BP that mimicks that behavior. The other thing missing is a peer recognition feature- kind of like a way for one user to endorse another. (another Groupsite feature). Think of this as a kind of letter of recognition from one user to another, so anyone visiting the endorsed member’s profile would see a senior member/administrator endorses/vouches for/recommends that user. I’ve been working with a messload of different plugins with varying levels of success/failure (far more failures than successes) and was getting a little frustrated -iterative testing to ensure a new plugin doesn’t break existing working plugins and trying to determine the UI for a new plugin since it’s often a sorely overlooked feature for so many developers.

I’m now looking into the possibility of using groups forums to address some of what I want to do, but am hoping that by doing so, it won’t confuse end users by having them try to contend with two separate types of forums – one open and public, and the other being ‘x’ number of private instances, one for each hidden group.

An explanation from a Group Mod would be nice.

I don’t want to ask a newbie question without first doing a thorough search. I guess google search it is for now.

Thanks Paul. Ticket Created: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4305

Thanks Paul-
Okay, so that begs the question- what are groups used for within WordPress/BuddyPress? If you deactivate forums, there’s not much left. You can’t contact just the people in that group. And I’m still looking for a good plugin to handle making content pages exclusive to certain groups. I’ve tried ‘Groups’ by itthinx, but there is a big disconnect between the actual BuddyPress groups and the groups within the ‘Groups’ plugin. So if I have a pre-existing group, the ‘Groups’ plugin doesn’t recognize it. If I name an existing group within the ‘Groups’ plugin, there is no members associated with it (since it is treated as a new group, but that can only be accessed via the plugin) so security doesn’t really apply. Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated.

Thanks

Group Forums, using the latest version of BuddyPress.

Thank you very much for your reply

AN UPDATE:

I followed the advice of hughes.chad in this support thread and I managed to successfully manually trigger a Daily Digest email, and confirmed that all emails had been removed from the Digest queue visible in ?sum=1.

I tried again to send a digest without manually triggering it, and no digest was sent at the time it was supposed to be sent.

I then added:

`define( ‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’, true );`

to wp-config.php, as suggested by Boone Gorges in the thread I have linked to, but again no automated Daily Digests were sent.

So it seems that I have narrowed the issue down to the triggering of wp-cron.php.

On the last attempt to check what was in ?sum=1 the URL changed to ?sum=1&doing_wp_cron=1340741443.4746210575103759765625, suggesting it was trying to activate the cron_job.

What else can I try to get this working?

Thanks,

Nick

Ok, I know that it’s not a good practice to change the core, but if someone needs it, here you have how editors can edit other user profiles:

/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-screens.php -> line 35

if ( !bp_is_my_profile() && !is_super_admin())

change it for this:

if ( !bp_is_my_profile() && !is_super_admin() && !current_user_can(‘moderate_comments’))

It works

@enderandrew Thanks a lot! It helps

Just wanted to add that all other plugins are working fine with BP mobile…only the above 2 mentioned plugins are an issue….I would request that BP mobile allow added plugins to work… cause then there is no other way to get the plugins working for BP mobile

So only gravity forms and wordpress?

Thanks a lot for your reply. Will check as you advised. I really hope and wish that BP Mobile plugin works with other plugins. In fact in my opinion there should be a mobile first approach.

Thanks once again for your time.