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  • #307297
    BuddyBoss
    Participant

    Hey Brajesh!

    Sure, happy to provide some additional feedback.

    I have tried your releases and I am still wondering what prevented you/your team from contributing to BuddyPress? Did you try to contribute or was there some other reason for fork?

    There are a lot of reasons we decided to go our own way. The primary one is that at a very fundamental level, BuddyPress was not providing the experience our customers are looking for and was really holding us back in our ability to provide the features and usability they ask us for. We have many thousands of customers and do a large amount of custom development, and there are so many things they ask for and wish were different in BuddyPress. BuddyPress development moves very slowly, and the types of changes we have implemented and will continue to implement require major changes to BuddyPress, in a way that can only be done by forking the plugin. We do theme development and mobile app development, and it’s not good that the foundation we rely on for everything is not under our control, and actually has barely changed at all over the past 5 years. We need to control its direction completely to achieve what we are trying to do. We are making mobile apps and other things, and want complete vertical integration between everything to provide an amazing experience.

    is there any future plan available for the platform?

    We have a multi-year plan for features we want to add. We also build mobile apps that replicate BuddyPress functionality into a synchronized app, and we will continue to grow there over time. Now that we control our core platform we can move much faster.

    The features we add are determined primarily by our customers. So the order in which things are added will depend to a large degree on what people ask for, and which requests have the highest volume of requests. We have a big support team responding to and noting requests.

    One major area of focus right now is performance. With each release you will see the product get faster. BuddyPress falls apart when it has too many users. We plan to fix that.

    Since the forking of BuddyPress, can you please provide what kind of new feature other than merging your own/others plugin into the bundle have your team added.

    Sure, this is going to be a very long list. I am just listing the high level items, as we have done so many smaller changes throughout.

    Layout

    We have our new BuddyBoss Theme which is much more advanced than any BuddyPress theme. It is only possible because we forked BuddyPress and are able to change the templates as necessary to accomplish our designs. Because we control our platform now, we can be sure that every single feature added is always styled in a consistent way, and with a unified admin experience. It much more powerful, and simultaneously, simpler and lighter than anything we could provide before.

    Profile Fields > Proper “Name” fields

    BuddyPress has just one name field, which drives customers crazy. They want professional networks with First/Last Name, or private networks with just nickname. BuddyBoss Platform has dedicated name fields for First Name, Last Name, Nickname. The site admin can control how to display names sitewide using this. In BuddyPress it is actually impossible just to display First Name + Last Name in the profile and activity feed, something that 50% of customers want. In BuddyBoss it is very customizable. We also let users change their Nickname (handle) any time.

    Profile Fields > Repeater Fields

    This is a request we have gotten for years, and could never provide; the ability to have repeater fields (Jobs, Experience, etc) so you can make a profile like LinkedIn. That’s out of the box now.

    Activity

    We have completely overhauled activity feeds. Instead of separated tabs, which is super confusing, it’s one unified activity feed. And within the feed, we have added a bunch of features:

    – Emoji
    – Animated GIFs
    – Likes
    – Follow
    – Link previews
    – Media
    – Ability to add any custom post type into the feed (via the Settings)
    – Ability to enable/disable any default BP activity type (via the Settings)

    Messages

    We have completely overhauled Messages. In BuddyPress, messages is a really poor experience. It uses a Gmail convention with subject and content, which makes little sense on a social network. We changed it into a single threaded message, just like Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and every other messenger works. This allows us to create a really amazing messaging experience (go play with our demo). Also we can extend this later into live chat, and messenger in our apps. Those features could not be built using BuddyPress messenger as it uses a Gmail style messenger. Imagine if Facebook messenger worked like Gmail, it would be awful.

    Media

    We added a native Media component for photos and albums, which provides a really amazing interface. It’s not just a fork of our old media plugin, it’s a total overhaul and is much nicer than anything out there for BuddyPress. And we will extend it over time for videos and other media.

    Private Network

    Out of the box, with one click you can make the whole site private from outsiders. This is a feature that more than 50% of BuddyPress users are doing but need to hunt for 3rd party plugins to figure out how to add. Our implementation is highly customizable also, in terms of what is public vs private.

    Network Search

    We added a new component for searching all content across the social network, with live results as you type. It’s not just a fork of our old BP Global Search plugin, it is a complete overhaul and is a much nicer experience.

    User Invites

    We added an invites system, to allow users to invite others into the network by email.

    Profile Types

    We added a built in interface for creating and managing Profile types, and many additional related options.

    Group Types

    We added a built in interface for creating and managing Group types, and many additional related options.

    Group Hierarchies

    We added a built in interface for creating and managing Group hierarchies, so you can have parent and child group relationships.

    Email Layouts

    Emails in BuddyPress look really bad. This is something we have had to hack up in the past on virtually every client site to give them something usable. Now, in BuddyBoss they look really beautiful out of the box, and are more customizable with logo options etc.

    Default Data

    This comes up constantly, people want to quickly add a bunch of default data into the site for testing. Now they can do it with the click of a button.

    And… that’s just the high level stuff. We have fixed usability issues all over the place and added minor options throughout. And don’t forget that we have been live to the public for less than 2 months. There is much more to come and we are moving fast. Revisit this in a year from now, and the list will be endless.

    #307296
    coolhunt
    Participant

    Im sorry to say that despite of the “updates” — BP is an extreme bear to wrestle..

    1) SUPPORT of any sort seems to be very lacking
    2) The usability (ui/ux) is sketchy –> its one of the reasons BP adoption is klunky (it takes too much work)
    3) the “THEME” (look & feel) is awful
    4) Theres SPAM on the support forum
    5) Documentation is getting sketchier & sketchier
    6) Between Buddypress, The Built-in wordpress-user/author mechanism AND “wordpress.com user-system” –its just confusing
    7) The Buddypress plugin ecosystem is a big gamble (most dont work right)
    8) WP community ALWAYS preaches to have as little plugins as possible – but get getting buddypress to be usable takes at least a dozen

    ***SUPPORT OF ANY SORT IS LACKING*****

    jcfromkc
    Participant

    I’m looking for a way to remove or replace […] at the end of blog post excerpts on the Activity Stream. I’ve found a way to replace […] on the blog page by using the following code.

    function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
    return ”;
    }
    add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’);

    excerpt_more is a WordPress filter. It helps with the blog page, but not the BuddyPress Activity Stream.

    I found another filter, bp_get_activity_content_body but so far I haven’t been able to make the filter do what I want it to do.

    Can someone please point me in the right direction? What BuddyPress filter can I use to remove or replace […] on the Activity Stream?

    Thx!

    #307293
    coolhunt
    Participant

    @sbrajesh WHOA! Im a big fan!!! There is no site I launch that doesnt have at LEAST one of your plugins or buddydev!!!!! Im often troll your site sniffing around and mining for tidbits of very useful buddypress insight.

    #307291
    Brajesh Singh
    Participant

    Hi Michael,
    Thank you for sharing your views here.

    Since the forking of BuddyPress, can you please provide what kind of new feature other than merging your own/others plugin into the bundle have your team added. Also, is there any future plan available for the platform?

    It is nice to know that you plan to open the platform for contribution in future. I have tried your releases and I am still wondering what prevented you/your team from contributing to BuddyPress? Did you try to contribute or was there some other reason for fork?

    It will help understand the decision better.

    Thank you
    Brajesh

    #307290
    BuddyBoss
    Participant

    Hey,

    Michael from BuddyBoss chiming in here. I can’t speak for BuddyPress, but I do want to clarify some of what was mentioned about BuddyBoss.

    It does not seem their fork will survive on its own(been following their updates from the first release till now) if the BuddyPress development ceases

    This is definitely not the case. Right now if BuddyPress development ceased, it would have no impact at all on what we’re doing. We are no longer pulling code from BuddyPress since forking (besides security patches) and our development team is substantially larger than the core team of developers at BuddyPress. Also our developers are all paid, full time staff, so we are able to build features very rapidly. And we will eventually open up the plugin to allow others to contribute to it. We’re not going anywhere.

    Other than that, no membership plugin has a vast eco system than BuddyPress(It has 500+ addons on wordpress plugin repo).

    BuddyBoss Platform has the same ecosystem. We have taken great care to make it backwards compatible to BuddyPress and to make sure that any existing BuddyPress plugin works out of the box with BuddyBoss. And if it doesn’t, you can submit a support ticket and we’ll patch it so it works.

    #307289
    deoluxe
    Participant

    My website was designed on a localhost and I used OceanWP Version: 1.6.10 and Everything worked very fine even up until now. After moving the site to a live server which we set up bu ourself in our office, the first thing that happened was that aside from the home page, other pages are returning erro 404 when visited. I search online for solution and after trying series of suggested solutions, i found out that adding index.php to a custom hyperlink fixed the error.
    Now the problem I am having is that the Activity and Member page are not working. Also, when you click on a members name from the widget i embed on the home page to display online members, the result i get is page not found.
    Please any suggestion as regards what could be done to make the site work on live server?

    #307286
    Swan1305
    Participant

    Hi, after going mad trying to track down a problem which meant my BuddyPress user profile page was loading up everything except the page it is meant to, I’ve found a compatibility issues between BuddyPress and NextGen gallery. It’s been mentioned a few times online now I’ve searched but I can’t really find a solution for it, can you advise please?

    #307284
    Brajesh Singh
    Participant

    Hi,
    BuddyPress.org is not shutting down. The next version of BuddyPress will be available on 15th.
    You can follow the development here
    https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress

    and for the upcoming REST API here
    https://github.com/buddypress/BP-REST

    BuddyBoss’s fork is mega bundle of BuddyPress and a few other plugins(bbpress, bp-profile search, and a few others) with minor enhancements. It does not seem their fork will survive on its own(been following their updates from the first release till now) if the BuddyPress development ceases. Consider it as a distribution that bundles some needed functionality together than a real fork(atleast until now).

    There have been many community plugin available in past(ultimate members, user ultra and I can recall 4-5 others) which have been doing well. There will be even more.

    The choice should be based on your needs. Using a commercially supported plugin provides better support which BuddyPress lacks currently. If support is important, BuddyPress may not be the best choice.

    Other than that, no membership plugin has a vast eco system than BuddyPress(It has 500+ addons on wordpress plugin repo).

    Hope it clarifies and helps you decide.

    Regards
    Brajesh

    #307280

    In reply to: Report button

    lordmatt
    Participant

    I’m working on a plugin to allow you to report and track the report of pretty much anything in BuddyPress. How soon this is ready for use rather depends on if I write it by myself or others chip in to help.

    #307274
    iamdev
    Participant

    Hey @lordmatt i appreciate your effort and i would like to help with my level of capability i am not very good at php but could help you in the front UI part if you want and i also think other should also join us such as @ventius please consider this effort from the buddypress community

    sibahmed
    Participant

    Hi i want some help that i want to make profile fields city dropdown which is that at the time of registration as a buddypress member when user select a country from country dropdown then against that country cities want to appear in city dropdown to select please help Thank You !

    #307254
    Russ Powers
    Participant

    Not sure if this is still relevant, but you can easily remove the email address field without having to remove the entire page. This can be accomplished by editing the BuddyPress template files you copied into your WordPress theme (wp-content/themes/mytheme/buddypress).

    The file you will want to edit is named general.php and is located in “wp-content/themes/mytheme/buddypress/members/single/settings”. Once you locate general.php, simply delete the following code located around line 27 and 28.

    <label for="email"><?php _e( 'Account Email', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>
    	<input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="<?php  echo bp_get_displayed_user_email(); ?>" class="settings-input" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'email' ); ?>/>

    Presto! No more email field 🙂

    #307253
    james4177
    Participant

    I am new to WordPress and Buddypress. I have a couple of items I am struggling with and would love a little direction.

    1. In Buddypress, when you visit a group that is private, you receive a default message that says “This is a private group. To join you must be a registered site member and request group membership.” I would like to add a button directly below this message that says “Register”. This would need to be connected with the default message in some way so that the register button appears every time (and for every different group) the default message is displayed. I tried before but it seemed to connect the button only to one particular group. How can I go about adding this to the default message and what file and where in that file would I edit such a thing?

    2. Once they press the button to register, how do you get them to redirect back to the group they were originally linked to?

    3. In Buddypress, is there any way to turn off the public, private, or hidden options when creating a group and just make all groups private automatically?

    I would really appreciate any assistance. Thank you.

    d3vnu77
    Participant

    When you comment on a buddypress post, that comment shows up as again in your feed as “posted a new activity comment”.

    I’d like to just see the comments on the original post. How do I filter these “Activity Comments” out?

    #307251
    tirinorius
    Participant

    I am new at asking for assistance in these forums. So, bear with me please. I am working on a WordPress site that involves BuddyPress groups as well as the membership system that PMPro provides. I am using these on the Kleo theme. I am looking to have a site that has many users who will make groups for their needed purpose. What I need to figure out is, once that group is made the user will send a link to the group they created to the guests they want to join said group. The guest that received that link will click on it and be sent to the group, however, they will still need to sign up to the site to access the group.

    What I would like to know how to do:
    1. The guest will be able to see the group (from clicking on the sent link) but I would like there to be a button on that page prompting user to sign up to the site to join the group.
    2. Immediately after registration, which will be a form on its own page, the guest will be redirected back or to the same group page as the link clicked.

    I am fairly novice at this kind of thing and not really even sure where to even start, so I hope that I explained it well enough and I appreciate any assistance greatly. Thank you!

    Evelien
    Participant

    In my BuddyPress forum I can see headings like “46 messages in [topic] (+2 hidden)”
    What does it mean if a post is “hidden” in BuddyPress?
    How can I find which are the “hidden” posts?
    Who can see them, and who can’t?
    Can a moderator change this status? If yes, how?

    #307245

    In reply to: Wer ist online Widgets

    iamthewebb
    Participant
    #307243
    welsh10
    Participant

    Hi,

    Suddenly my emails / buddypress notifications have stopped. The only recent change has been adding Sucuri WAF. I’m using Mailgun to send out the emails.

    Any advice?

    #307241
    tammya1999
    Participant

    We have been using BuddyPress Groups Extras plugin to add extra pages to each of our groups for some time now. But, the plugin hasn’t been updated in quite some time.

    Is there a way to add blank pages to groups where the user can update them? TYIA

    #307233
    rsmithgs
    Participant

    Hello guys,

    Just in case anyone else was wondering. If you want to grab data from topics or replies you need to grab the hook that fires after it is saved. These 2 did the trick:

    //for when new topic was created
    add_action('bbp_new_topic_post_extras', 'group_has_new_topic', 10, 2);
    //for when new reply was created to a topic
    add_action('bbp_new_reply_post_extras', 'group_topic_has_new_reply', 10, 2);

    I know that this will grab all bbPress topics and replies, but it fits my purposes.
    If anyone knows how to grab only BuddyPress Group Forums’ Topics and Replies that would be awesome, but for now this will work for me and I hope it works for others!

    These actions rely on $topic_id and $reply_id only and respectfully, but you can grab any other data such as Topic Title, Forum Name, Topic or Reply Author, etc. through the Topic or Reply ID alone like so:

    $topic_id = bbp_get_reply_topic_id($reply_id);
        $topic_title = bbp_get_topic_title($topic_id);
        $forum_id = bbp_get_topic_forum_id($topic_id);
        $forum_title = bbp_get_forum_title($forum_id);
        $user = bbp_get_reply_author_id($reply_id);
        $user_info = get_userdata($user);
        $username = $user_info->user_login;
    #307224
    Blake
    Participant

    I have an issue where I have https://sucuri.net locking down the wp-admin interface for security purposes to specific IP addresses.

    The BuddyPress plugin profile and cover image upload fields, on the profile page, appear to be using the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file to upload images to the site. I also have users who log into the site, but only on the front-end of the site. They do not have access to the admin section. These users are not able to upload images since the admin section is locked down.

    One thinking I noticed was that if I disable javascript in my browser for the profile photo upload screen the UI falls back to a PHP based upload mechanism. Is there a way to make the PHP method the default for all forms in BuddyPress so that I don’t have to unlock my admin interface?

    Thank you for any help.

    #307223
    shemakeswebsites
    Participant

    Hello, I have a a site where users seldom use friend connections – I’ve decided to do away with the feature. When I try to disable it from the BuddyPress settings, I get a message that reads, “Settings saved” but the friend connection function is still enabled….

    Any ideas on addressing this?

    #307222
    rsmithgs
    Participant

    WordPress Version: 5.2.2
    BuddyPress Version: 4.4.0
    bbPress Version: 2.5.14

    Hello, I’m looking for a hook to grab data of new topics and replies as they are added.

    I was thinking this would do the trick, but it does not trigger my curl request.

    add_action('groups_forum_new_topic_after', 'group_was_posted_on', 10, 2);
    add_action('groups_forum_new_reply_after', 'group_was_posted_on', 10, 2);

    Then I tried this:

    //new topic was created
    add_action('bp_forums_new_topic', 'group_was_posted_on', 10, 2);
    //new post was created to a topic
    add_action('bp_forums_new_post', 'group_was_posted_on', 10, 2);

    Still no luck. What actions/hooks do I need to use for:
    User creates a new topic
    User creates a new reply to a topic

    Thanks for your help

    #307221
    Heather Acton
    Participant

    I worked with WP Engine to get this fixed on a site so thought I’d paste his steps here in case it helps anyone else. This got activity feed loading activity (even on groups) while using BP Nouveau.

    Here are his comments (Micah B):

    so I did three total things. I cache excluded two URLs:

    ^/login
    ^/activity

    and I turned a very specific setting on our end off – it was referenced in an old BuddyPress ticket that related to some of the issues I was seeing.

    The setting name is “heartbeat_autosave_only” which I toggled to off

    Hope this helps!

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