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@zlamczyk and anyone else who finds this — to redirect activation email to admin….

function my_redirect_activation_email()
{
return get_site_option( “admin_email” );
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_to’, ‘my_redirect_activation_email’);

I’m sure can be manipulated to plop user email in there.

@jimsnaps “So is there no way to use buddypress, block out what’s not needed, and add an article mod? “
I answered based on your requirements, and you mentioned forums were optional No intention to limit you at all, just keeping it simple and clear. Of course you could install BuddyPress, and activate only the component/s you need at this time.

If you want the Forums component, know that you need to activate Groups component as well because the BP forums component is attached to groups. And members automatically join a group by default when they post to the group’s forum unless that group is private and no-one can post to that group’s forum unless invited to join the group. I also suggest reading through this general reference
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

Of course with BP activated, there’s the One Quick Post plugin which will allow your members to post articles from the frontend. However, you will need to code using BP blog loop to generated the list of posts that each member has posted in your blog to show up in individual member’s profile page.

If you do not want to go through all that, install external bbPress forum and integrate it with your WordPress installation. When you’re ready to use BuddyPress components, BP can integrate existing external group forum to its fold – again, with the caveat that forum will be then be attached to groups.

@fatherdalton – there is no admin bar visible on your site.

If you want help on this – you’ll need to provide more information – can you confirm what theme you are using (it looks like the default, have you built a child theme?), any changes you’ve made to the admin bar, CSS, javascript, etc.

Someone may be able to assist then.

@jwack – you’ll hit some performance problems –

You’ll need to use switch_to_blog(blog_id) to change to each blog, and extract the post, author, etc. details.

Each call to switch_to_blog incurs a performance overhead.

Your alternative is to store the information you need in the activity stream when a post is saved:

Most of the information you need is already stored there for you. Take a look at the function: bp_blogs_record_activity()

You can then code a custom activity loop on your home page, that loops through activity items for new blog posts and checks whether they are in your list of featured blogs: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

josh does it integrate with buddypress well?

I don’t know of a plugin that could do it, but it’s a nice idea!

A couple ways you might go about it:
1) Filter the output of bp_has_groups() to unset those groups that the user is not a mod/admin of. Pro: You could do this pretty easily right now. Con: Not terribly efficient in terms of queries and cpu cycles
2) Write your own custom MySQL query to get those groups. Pro: Efficient. Con: You don’t get to use the group loop.
3) Submit a ticket at trac.buddypress.org to have that kind of bp_has_groups() parameter put into BP core. Then you get the best of both worlds, though not until at least BP 1.3

Good luck!

@jwack

Here are good places to get you started:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference

BuddyPress Codex

It sounds like you didn’t run the bbPress setup installer, or that something went wrong during that setup process.

Go to Dashboard > BuddyPress > Forum Setup, and click Setup a new bbPress installation. Re-install if it asks you to.

If it still doesn’t work, check to make sure there’s a bb-config.php file in the root of your WordPress installation, and that the credentials in that file are correct.

@Pisanojm in your tags-to-row function, the return t and n just seem to write the letters t and n before and after the tag. I can’t find anything in the function where these might be variables meaning something else. I’d think you’d just want a separator there.

What did I miss?

There’s a trac ticket for this that I opened a few months back: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2380

@bowromir not that I’m saying my designs are awesome or nice. I’ve just been hunkered down, is all…and seeing all the ways BP can be made to look like not-BP. (and working with Achievements too) – I’ll share on BP-tricks ! So that I might earn a badge!

@hnla sure you did.. sure.. whatever.. *looks mad at awesome macbook pro monitor*

Your intentions where absolutely clear to me, and I’m glad you also like it I would love to see some cool Tricks from you when the site launches, so I’ll probably stalk you until you do!

@nahummadrid: awesome! Thanks for the compliment and if you have something to show design wise, please do

@bowromir i’m trying to be a cool kid! I just registered. Nice theme. Nice idea for Achievements. This is interesting I think we’ll begin seeing some pretty awesome bp themes, yours being one of them. I think alot of folks, including myself, have been hunkered down designing BP in really nice ways.

“Spam!!!”
*sees the topic is about his own theme*
“Absolutely NO problem with this!”

Thanks for creating this topic Ross, I’m really glad you like the theme I’m putting up for sale. And Boone thanks for promoting my already outdated video as well My intention with the new BP-Tricks site is not to only sell a premium theme, and offer some kind of subscription service (I’m not a big fan of subscription models for Themes).

BP-Tricks will hopefully become a resource for great BuddyPress tips and tricks. Selling the theme is just a great way for me to keep BP-Tricks running, earn some money and hopefully improve the quality of BuddyPress Child Themes.. The theme is GPL and cool stuff that I add to it will all be shared in the form of Tutorials on BP-Tricks. The actual design elements and the support are what people are paying for (similar as WooThemes does this for example).

Everyone can submit code/design/inspirational Tricks through a form or the backend, and by doing so you’ll earn Awards ( @DJPaul his Achievement Plugin FTW!) and badges awarded by me. The best new trick each month earns a nice price (currently a Free theme, but I’ll try to get some sponsors) and they get listed on the frontpage in Widget of Fame

Besides that the Activity Stream is purely meant to be a source of information displaying ONLY new Tricks, external Tricks (BP-Links from @MrMaz) and external member blogs from our members (if you blog about BuddyPress or anything related to it) you can add your RSS feed to your profile and people who follow you get your updates in their stream. This plugin will be released to the community when the site launches next week.

There’s also a customized search feature which only searches the BuddyPress network (BP.org, BP-Tricks, WPMU.org, Etivite.com, BuddyDev.com, ShabuShabu.eu etc) and a bunch of other stuff which I probably forgot to tell.

All the site features remain free, and also the site will be Ad free for as long as I earn enough to keep it running without loosing money on it.

I hope this makes my intentions clear, and that it will become a place where you can enjoy great BP Tricks from not only me, but from anyone, without getting the feeling that I’m out for someone’s money.. because that is certainly not my intention If you want to have access to the site before launch to look around and submit some Tricks for the community just let me know, and I’ll make sure you’ll have access and be a part of the cool kids