I’ve tested it using your code and if I change the primary username field while logged in to BuddyPress, the link no longer works because it’s looking for the title you chose first (username). Actually, this is of no concern to me anymore since I’ve chosen in my BP install to hide the primary username field from members so that they can’t change it after becoming a member.
One question I do have is whether the code as written is intended to provide a permalink and page title that reads “John Smith’s Page”? My use of it only provides the username in the title, so it reads “John Smith”.
Thx
I need to display a list of groups created by each BuddyPress member. Anyone have any suggestions how to do that?
Thanks in advance
I have upgraded to BuddyPress 1.7 and since the upgrade none of my group or user avatars are showing.
I attempted to revert to the BuddyPress default theme and unloaded all of my plugins, but nothing is showing. I also attempted to upload a new avatar to a group to no avail.
Any ideas why this is happening?
I had the functions.php that works but after BP 1.7 some didn’t works
There are two things that didn’t works.
1) //=Remove the “visit” link from the buddypress admin bar
remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_menus’, ‘bp_adminbar_random_menu’, 100 );
2) //=Removing site name logo from admin bar
remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );
How do I fix this?
Thanks, Mikey3D
I had a similar problem when I upgraded yesterday.
Does this in your functions.php or bp-custom.php help?
`add_action(‘get_header’, ‘my_filter_head’);
function my_filter_head() {
remove_action(‘wp_head’, ‘_admin_bar_bump_cb’);
}`
see: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/31-update-causing-28px-top-spacing-in-html-body#post-2405350
Why it wasn’t a problem before is another question….
Hi All,
In Jomsocial (the plugin I’m migrating from) there is a feature where users can set their own URL, similar to Facebook’s vanity URL. Is there a way for BuddyPress to do this? Do I have to get a coder, is there a plugin, or does this come with BuddyPress.
Please advise. All advice is appreciated greatly.
Thank you.
On a regular BP install, you have Name (aka pseudonym), used to show the username publicly . The first & last name are WP fields you can see only on the dashboard when you edit a user. At this place, WP gives you some choices between different names to use. Depending on your own BP settings – allow WP & BP members synchronization, this choice maybe work or not (never used this personnaly – i always allowed synchro)
That said, you have no control over what user type into a name field. Nore on WP/BP register fields, nore on FB or any other forms. Using external service such as FB maybe simple for the end user, rarely for site admins, as you experimented already.
You could also use Gravatar, it would be the same principe: one place to fill in a form and use it all over the web for any further subscription.
If you want more control over such things, you have not much choice except to be independant from external devices. And even in this case, some user will enter two names or more into the Name field.
I don’t know if searching by (last)names instead of username is possible. Users must know the real name to search for it. And so far i know, real names are generally not used/showed on public sites, for many reasons. FB is a kind of exception, but who gives you the guarantee that each FB user use his “real name” ?
Why do you absolutly want your user to use FB autoconnect to enter on your site ?
Have your regular user the same possibility when they want to enter FB ? No !
@chouf1 thank you for your response!
I tried the WP-FB-AutoConnect plugin and now I’ve got a better idea of how things work. If someone registers with their FB account (lets say John Smith), it will automatically generate the username John_Smith. And if another person registers with the same name, the username will be John_Smith2.
I didn’t have time to test it thoroughly, so I have 2 more questions:
1. I saw that in most occasions it shows the Name along with the username. That’s acceptable. Are there any occasions that shows only the username? That would be ugly!
2. Would the users be able to search for one another with their regular names (like FB) and not with their usernames?
@hnla
please is there any code or plugging that can track specific keywords in my buddypress or wordpress site and notify the users who has mentioned that keyword
example… if users are in the apple group.. and a user in the andriod group mentions ‘apple’ or about apple.. and if apple is among the keywords i want tracked
then all users in the apple group should get a notification that a user in andriod group mentioned or said something related to their group or what was mentioned
and also it should take more than one key word.. if its also possible to send all those users a mail when they are notified…
Hello
I would like to have a plugin which would allow the users to be assigned a type based on the number of comments/activty on the site. Maybe call them silver, gold and platinum or novice, pro etc etc. But I want it to be dynamic, that is once a user registers it gets the “silver” usertype and after lets say 1000 comments/ replies he advances to gold.
Also I would like to show an icon next to the user name depicting his role/type
Thank You
buddypress Version Version 2.2.4
Wordpress 3.5.1
Hi there,
I’m creating a site for a client with WordPress 3.5.1 with BuddyPress 1.7. The install went according to plan (no problems) and I’ve had success getting it to do what I need it to do so far. But I’ve hit a roadblock with this one.
Basically, I need to create a new page for members (a landing page) that will be a tabbed page (jQuery) that will contain a tab for “Edit Profile”, “Create New Post” and a tab for “General Links” and a few others not related to BuddyPress itself. I’ve been able to create the tab for Create New Post, but I can’t seem to get the Edit Profile info to show up. I’ve copied the code from profile.php in the BuddyPress plugin, but I’m assuming that there are some sort of problems with doing that. It just doesn’t display anything. I’ve changed the relative urls in the code to point exactly where they should (e.g. locate_template( array( ‘../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/profile/edit.php’ ), true );)
I can’t find any resources where someone has attempted this before. And I can’t seem to figure out what the available functions to me are.
Any help is appreciated. Can anyone point me to resources that would cover this sort of thing or is there magical functions that display these pages?
Hi
I’ve been using BuddyPress on the following site: http://www.thebusinessclublincs.co.uk
I have a problem with group admins, as I currently have to create a group from the user account that I want to be the group admin, as if I try and promote a different user to the group admin, and demote the current one, it does not change on the website.
I have added a test group here to demonstrate: http://www.thebusinessclublincs.co.uk/current-members/test-business/
I created the group using Diana’s account, then added a new member to the group and swapped over the group admin to the second member, but it still displays the group admin as the original user that created the group.
I’m using WordPress version 3.4.2, but don’t want to update it to 3.5.1 at the moment, and I’m using BuddyPress version 1.6.1.
I’ve had a quick look through the forum and can’t find anything similar to this problem.
@panoravu,
you asked for any clean solution for my members to register without using a username.
Registering is a WP process who need a username and a email. Those 2 information are provided by the user at his first visit when he decide to subscribe to your site, OK ?
Now you wonder how FB or Google can connect without username ? They use it ! But don’t show it to you, but fill in the username at your place during the login process, which is not the registering process, WP search the stored username and find the accordance between this name and the email provided by FB or Gg.
On the same maner, if you create with help of a plugin a WP account with your FB account, FB provide a username and a email. The username and the email you give on registering to FB. Again, this is made silently in the background.
These subscription tricks have only one target: simplifying user’s life. Don’t imagine because you don’t see the whole process, that some information are not needed. In our case, you don’t see the username, but it is still there.
Hi,
An excellent job on 1.7, thanks or all hardwork.
Is it happening to me only or is there a known bug that 1.7 does not generate unique classes for BuddyPress widgets? Every BuddyPress widget gets assigned with two common classes only these are .widget and .buddypress -> no more widget_bp_core_recently_active_widget or something similar to that one.
@praveshraheja Please don’t open 2 year old threads and ask unrelated questions in them. Start new threads for your issues, and you have threads running so please avoid multiple postings of issues.
Closing this thread.
Can anyone share if they are using legacy Group forums and successfully migrated over to bbPress 2.2.4 using this guide?
http://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/
It’s not working well for me as the Forum listing shows only the Group forums instead of the Forum discussion listing despite me editing the Forums page and putting
[bbp-forum-index] in it
Creating a new page with [bbp-forum-index] also doesn’t give the desired result.
I have disabled all plugins but bbPress and Buddypress, reverted to the default Buddypress theme and I still get the problem.
Appreciate feedback/tips TIA @mercime
and @hnla do you have any idea that if i use another theme other then default buddypress theme and after few pluging activations photo tag plugin doesnt work..not able to tag photos ..any help ?
@praveshraheja
You need to hire a developer because your requirements takes more than just a few lines of simple code!
please please suggest me that how we can make Like pages (like facebook) from front page not from dashboard.where user create pages and post things under that page ..or way by which only group admin can post and others can comment only
2nd things i need help in where 1 user can block other user..is there any plugin ?
3rd when i use child theme or when use other plugin photo tagging plugin doesnt work ..please help me for this..or suggest me any other plugin by which taging can be done in buddypress media plugin.thanks every 1
and please please suggest me that how we can make Like pages like facebook from front page not from dashboard…or way by which only group admin can post an others can comment only
2nd things i need help in where 1 user can block other user..is there any plugin ?
3rd when i use child theme or when use other plugin photo tagging plugin doesnt work ..please help me for this…thanks every 1
hi am getting problem not able to install ..when trying to install got this error please suggest me what to do
The file you are uploading was rejected by the server.
It probably contents viruses or trojans that can damage your website
Do not attempt to upload it again as your IP address may be blocked.
Hi there, app works but i can not post status updates, it just says “user posted an
update” but the message is missing.
I tried contacting the widget creator but they are long gone or don’t care.
BuddyDev
BuddyPress Sitewide Activity Widget
The Sitewide Activity widget feed works just fine in my sidebar.
http://www.MedoWorld.com is my website.
There is an optional widget feature to have a “Post Update” just above the activity feed. It looks good but doesn’t work. When you enter text and click on update you get a red error message thing that says “Please enter some content to post”.
I’ve gone so far as to deactivate every plugin I have just to see if the darn thing will work. Nope.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
I’m using buddypress for one of my site. On wp dashboard, It shows me that there is a update for bp. So I clicked on auto update. It showed me updating screen only. So I clicked on another link. And then bp is broken. All plugins are acting the same way. I can’t solve this problem. Please help me.