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Hi @eloyruiz

You can add this Gist into a bp-custom.php file to achieve what you want to do:
https://gist.github.com/imath/113ad3226c9a01ac56c2d2edabb458f3

PS: you need to keep the public view for users viewing other profiles.

Hi @coolhunt 🙂

I think it depends on the level of user interactions you need. If your need is simply to list businesses, then yes a plugin like the one above should do the job.

But if your need is to build something more “social”, like having business fans listed, discussions about the businesses, reviews. Then I’d probably choose BuddyPress and use one of my plugins to add profiles to group 🙂

There’s a ticket on BuddyPress Trac about it: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6783

About SEO, I’d love to see a plugin making BuddyPress more friendly in this area and we’d be very happy to help improving this part as soon as we could have guidelines about the needs.

You could set a profile type as Business and then set profile fields for it that make sense for a business. That’s one option.

One issue people sometime run into is that they want users to have a profile that represents a person, and then also have some business content like listings etc which are associated with that person. So then you’re back to using BuddyPress for the profiles and needing another plugin for the business content.

So it really depends on what you’re trying to do. In most cases I think it’s cleaner to use a listing plugin and have it link to the buddypress profiles as the authors of the business listings.

You could also use Groups to represent businesses. But that makes more sense if they are representing a company with members (employees), like a Facebook page. If you just want “listings” it’s overkill and then you’ve also lost the ability to use groups later on for what they’re really meant for.

There is a plugin I really like for listings that is just simple to configure and use in my opinion. I have no affiliate with it, just have used it on some custom projects and found it easy to work with. This one, worth a look:

Advanced Classifieds & Directory Pro

In terms of being locked in, there is no more lock-in with BuddyBoss vs BuddyPress. Both are free, open source plugins. And BuddyBoss is being more actively developed than BuddyPress actually.

It is very easy to toggle between the two while testing. We only have one migration script, which is for people who have used our old Media plugin to migrate their media posts. For all BuddyPress data there is no data migration necessary. The core data structure is intentionally the same.

The main work to switch is just switching your theme. As we have editing the templates quite a bit to achieve a nicer frontend experience.

As for putting the BuddyBoss Platform on Github, that will happen soon. This month or next. It’s actually on Github now we just need to document the contributor process and then make the repo public. We want developers to contribute to it. This has always been our plan, we’re just doing things carefully one step at a time. We’ll soon let customers vote on core features as well and then we can pick the most requested features and prioritize them.

Hello there,

I’m reviving this old thread cause I can’t wrap my head around the text domain.

I’ve read this thread, the codex and this example : https://gist.github.com/imath/dce8426f686da1727f82

It works for me, I understand how and the code but in case of adding buddypress-activity support to a post type created by another plugin (CBX Poll) I can’t figure out what text domain to use when I put this code in bp-custom.php

With a home made plugin I would add support at post type registration and use this custom plugin’s domain.

I guess I could use the functions.php of the theme and the theme’s domain but then it’s theme dependent.

If anyone can enlighten me…

@prashantvatsh thank you for this. My case is a little different. I want to a tab in the buddypress profile menu that shows all the site-wide forums where members can click and add topics or replies. They wont be able to create forum. Basically, I just need what I see in “homepage/forums” to be replicated in homepage/members/username/forums.

Thanks in advance

Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.

Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.

If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…

The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: How to fix WordPress Not Sending Email issue

Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.

Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.

If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…

The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: WordPress Not Sending Email – Mail SMTP Not Working

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I don’t there is anything that matches exactly what you are after but the above thread lists plugins for reporting if that is any use.

Thanks a lot for your interesting suggestions @coolhunt. I agree we need to talk about how we can improve BuddyPress documentation and about how to find help to start using/resolve issues.

We are currently working on the next major version of BuddyPress (5.0.0). As soon as it’s released, I’ll start a discussion about it from our Development news blog.

PS: really happy you like the work accomplished in Bowe Codes (although it would benefit from some improvements, but that’s another topic 😉 )

Hi @coolhunt

Everybody is welcome to contribute to BuddyPress, here are possible ways to do so https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/

Writing documentation, helping others in support forums or translating BuddyPress in other languages are examples of contributions which does not require development skills.

Hey, do you know what version of BuddyPress you upgraded from?
I think there used to be guides on steps required for really old versions

Hi @m4soN – The easiest place to add custom CSS is in the Customizer. See https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-easily-add-custom-css-to-your-wordpress-site/.

Once there, you’ll need to learn a bit about how CSS works to make the changes you want to change. Without knowing more about what “very ugly” means, it’s hard to give specific instructions. But let’s say you wanted to increase the field padding. You might introduce the following CSS:

.buddypress-wrap .bp-tables-user tr td {
  padding: 20px;
}

Here’s some more info about getting started with CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Introduction_to_CSS

The function responsible for creating the notices is bp_nouveau_template_notices(). For example, if you override the buddypress/members/single/profile/edit.php template, you can insert <?php bp_nouveau_template_notices(); ?> just above the tabs, and the notices will show there. (They’ll also show in the original spot, which you could hide with some targeted CSS.)

To make a similar change without overriding the template, try the following:

add_action( 'bp_before_profile_field_content', 'bp_nouveau_template_notices' );