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Chill out! Check this out: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-the-sitewide-globalunified-search-page-for-your-buddypress-theme/

I have this in my site, and it’s a great approach, if you follow the directions.

Wow, this is REALLY a huge GAP in Buddypress for me and I think MANY others. WordPress search is bad enough in and of itself….not having a federated search across WP and BP is well….poor. Hopefully this will be fixed nicely soon. The BuddyDev approach is messy…its a good stopgap but it is done all outside of the rest of the search world…so none of the search enhancement plugins etc will work with it. We really need a STRONG integrated search engine in WP and BP…. I HOPE there is one in the works out there with Highlighting, full text search ….well…LUCENE or SOLR like but not having to have that server loaded. If some of the SOLR hosting sites built this they could get my business

I just installed and activated the latest auto group join for my site healclick.com, and it’s still not showing up in my plugins menu or my buddypress dashboard. I tried the suggestion by Boone and manually entered the suggestions by Onyx into the php files. No go. Any suggestions?

@onyx808

That’s a basic feature of profile fields. Go to “Profile Field Setup” in your backend and you’ll see this:
“NOTE: Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.”

Simply click the “Add New Field Group” button and create the fields you want in that new group. They will not appear on the signup page, but will be available on the user’s Profile page.

Be careful with the “Required” setting though. If you set fields in new groups to “Required”, your users will be trapped on their profile page the first time they visit until they fill in all required fields.

Right now, your function is coded so it runs whenever the function is called.
You need to create an action listening function at a predetermined slug so your function should run; or if you’re feeling really up to it, use ajax to send the request.

Check out any action function in BP for hints.

Here’s such an example to get you started:
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.8/bp-xprofile.php#L398

If you read the blog article, it says the plugin is free:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-multilingual/

@boonebgorges invite-anyone plugin has template file “which can be overridden with a template file at groups/single/invite-anyone.php”
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/invite-anyone/tags/0.8.9/group-invites/templates/invite-anyone.php

Next time, it’ll be better if you post at the Invite Anyone plugin forums so plugin dev will be able to see your post https://buddypress.org/community/groups/invite-anyone/forum/

I bumped it because Boone and I were going through all the 1.3 milestone tickets to see what we thought could be left out until a later version. It was bumped because, whilst it’s an important issue or showstopper for people who use this sort of caching, it’s not a critical issue for every install and we need to focus on the must-fix tickets. It’s also outside Boone and mine’s knowledge/area. Personally I would have to go away and spend a lot of time figuring out how to figure out what’s not being cleared somewhere.

At time of writing, there are 47 tickets which we thought we really really need to get fixed for 1.3 — that’s obviously a lot of work and time, and contributions on any of the tickets in https://trac.buddypress.org/report/11 would be appreciated And if anyone has information on how to solve this particular ticket, or does fix it and provides a good patch, it’ll get into 1.3. It’s not set in stone.

From memory when I used to use W3TC, I ran into problems with caching not clearing on, I think, group pages (maybe the group’s activity stream). I think this happened when object caching was enabled (not page caching). We’ve got a ticket for 1.3 to try to look into this, but I personally don’t have enough knowledge about the way object and page caching works internally in BuddyPress, so I can’t do much more.

Did you update group slug the BP way, i.e. adding the following to your wp-config.php file?

`define ( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘challenges’ );
per https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

@cspowers

That’s a very interesting idea for a plugin! Any takers?

@sesaconsulting –

1. By default you create a group from the link at the Groups Directory header “Create Group” which generates this URL to take you through the process

2. The “Add Friend” link is found in any member’s header usually under or beside the member’s avatar.

3. You cannot find dashboard > BuddyPress > Forums Setup on your single WP site?

Further testing – Deactivate BP Template Pack plugin and change theme to bp-default theme to isolate the problem.

Does it go away if you disable memcache and batcache? (after clearing your own cache, of course)

Thank you @hnla

@Eclipsetuner018 I’ve tested the BP Mag theme on a test install upgraded to BP 1.2.8 and WP 3.1 before, and encountered that problem once. I deactivated all plugins except BP and the problem went away. I haven’t gone back to check which among the possibly outdated plugins caused the conflict since I was just focused on creating a child theme for BP Mag at that time.

Btw, @sbrajesh provides support for his themes and plugins at http://buddydev.com/forums/

@KendrickSnyder

The premium BP-Gallery plugin does all that, and a whole lot more too!

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