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Haraldo, there is nothing wrong with your install, there is NO built in way to message all users in BP. The site notification will merely place a widget type notice at the top of your sidebar for all logged in users, which thy can then choose o close. It isn’t emailed or passed as a private message.

There are a couple of old plugins for this such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mass-messaging/screenshots/

It’s an option that is useful, HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend you export your users to CSV. Again export plugins are available and import people into a 3rd party email service like Mailchimp.

This is far better for email marketing, however in itself is a bit tricky, as unless your members have signed up or opted into a list, it’s technically breaking the T&C’s of all 3rd party mail apps.

The problem with sending email direct from your server is if you get people unwittingly or deliberately labelling your mail as junk/ spam in clients like hotmail, yahoo and gmail, the ip address of your server can get blacklisted.

At that point NO mail at all from your server is going to get through to those services, not just for the accounts that labelled you as spam but your server will be blocked and mail won’t reach anyone with a hotmail address etc.

Sounds dramatic but it could kill your community if you aren’t careful.

You should always use a 3rd party.

Rules are still incredibly stringent though. You are generally allowed one spam complaint in every 1000 emails sent.

Hope that helps!

Members can’t write on each other’s walls in BuddyPress anyway. Not unless you are using a plugin / bespoke theme that supports that.

If you are, you’ll have to disable the bp_is_friend() check in that code to enable the function in all cases.

@doctordr I just found this forum and took a look at your Avatar Tools Plugin for social engine. This is exactly the kind of functionality I would like to have with my buddypress site. Do you know of anything out there? I’ve searched but yet to find a solution.

I was just searching for something similar..

Found it straight in the Codex,
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-activity-stream-loop/

Thanks to everybody who help build those WP Codex’s they are so much helpful for ID-10-T people like myself

It doesn’t work – I don’t know why it is there @johnjamesjacoby

Hi Thomas –

a few pointers for you:

To integrate your videos into BuddyPress, you probably want to take a look at building a BuddyPress component – check out the bp skeleton component – it gives all the outline code you need for integration with the activity stream, adding new menus / screens within a user profile, and creating classes / custom post types to store your data.

You won’t need any new tables – WordPress custom posts and data storage in wp_post_meta should give you all you need.

I’d suggest you’ll probably want a new custom post type for storing your playlists, and can make use of the existing WordPress video post format for the actual videos.

It’s not easy coding, but if you know your way around PHP, and WordPress custom post types / taxonomies, you’ll be fine.

cheers, Roger

@Bookkus

My avatar cropping seems to have broken too (since 1.5.6). Looking for a solution…

likely permalinks needed re-freshing accomplished by visiting permalink structure page

Go in via ftp/control panel or whatever access you have to your hosting account files and rename the BP plugin folder this will force a deactivation and should let you back in to your site admin, then you might need to investigate what PHP memory limit you have and if low get it raised.