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I think in the first instance you’d probably need to ask the developers of ACEide to build in a mechanism to allow other roles to have access to the editor, there’s usually some way built in to change that.

You’d then thinking about how to integrate it into BuddyPress, such as enabling that post type to make a new activity entry on publication. You’d probably need to write a plugin for that as there’s quite a few features you might want to activate, such as notifications.

I’m using the latest version of BuddyPress, version 4.2. What plugin are you referring to when you say it’s version 1.3.3?

Hi there,

I can confirm this is an issue, could you raise a bug report on Trac?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

Thanks

https://wbcomdesigns.com/downloads/buddypress-activity-social-share/

/*
 * Paste in your theme functions.php or in bp-custom.php.
 * Load the site in a browser
 * Then REMOVE this function from your theme functions.php or bp-custom.php.
*/

function buddypress_add_last_activity() {

  $members =  get_users( 'fields=ID' );
  // $members =  get_users( 'fields=ID&role=subscriber' );
  
  foreach ( $members as $user_id ) {
        bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );
  }

}
add_action('bp_init', 'buddypress_add_last_activity' );

If you check out my website you should see I’ve written a lot about the basics of BuddyPress, you should check it out, it should answer a lot of questions.

When you enable the BuddyPress Groups component you will be able to set up a Groups page, when this is viewed it will automatically show a Create Group link.

If you install bbPress you can enable group forums, that way your users get the option of addinga forum to their group.

I’d first try switching your BuddyPress theme to BP Legacy in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options. and see if the menu appears

Ah ok, my hunch was wrong, hope you found it an interesting diversion. Have you tried deactivation all plugins apart from BuddyPress to see if there might be a conflict causing this?

Yep BuddyPress uses the WordPress user database, so creating a BuddyPress user automatically creates a WordPress user.

Are the users receiving the activation link and are they trying to login after activating their accounts?

Hi there,

To centre the title you can use the following css slector:

#sitewide-notice strong {
    text-align: center;
}

However currently it’s not possible to separate the two paragraphs. This is due to the text going through the wp_filter_kses() function which is removing the <p> tags from the text thus turning two paragraghs into a single paragraph.

You could ask for an enhancement in Trac, to change this to an alternative function bp_messages_filter_kses() this would allow you to add a filter to allow <p> in the sitewide notice content. If you raise the ticket I’ll add this information as a suggestion to the devs.

I forgot one, you also need to remove the option from the Admin>>My Profile page, if you allow admin access for users:

add_action( 'bp_members_admin_xprofile_metabox', 'bpex_remove_user_profile_metabox', 20 );

function bpex_remove_user_profile_metabox() {
	
	if ( ! is_admin() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			remove_meta_box(
				'bp_xprofile_user_admin_avatar',
				buddypress()->members->admin->user_page,
				'side'
			);
		}
	}
}

This one is not that straight-forward there is a filter you can use as follows:

function bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads( $default ) {
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
		foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
			if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
				$default = true;
			}
		}
		
		return $default;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_disable_avatar_uploads', 'bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads' );

However this causes BuddyPress to simply show the user that they can upload their profile image via gravatar, and I’m afraid you can’t switch this off.

So the alternative is to remove the Change Photo tab and admin-bar menu item:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo', 50 );

function bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() && bp_displayed_user_id() != wp_get_current_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );
		}
	}

}

function bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-xprofile-change-avatar', 'my-account-xprrofile' );
		}
	}

}

You’d need to put this in your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php file in the plugins directory.

Have you read this: https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/add-custom-filters-to-loops-and-enjoy-them-within-your-plugin/

To add the feature where people can post updates to the user would involve adding the activity What’s New form to the the users all activity page. It’s an odd quirk of BuddyPress that the standard profile based activity update form only displays when the viewing user is the profile owner.