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Here’s 2 cents of input from a new comer…

It’s great that BuddyPress is free, that’s certainly an important part of the market to serve, and I applaud members for doing so. Truly.

However, there’s a downside to free too, nobody is obligated to the user, as is the case with paid software. So for example, if I were to succeed in my goals I’d have a social site full of serious professional people, who aren’t going to be easy for me to attract as they are already quite busy. I can’t afford to invest tons of time in winning them over, and then have some software let me down.

So I’m looking for some situation such as I have with a WordPress.com paid account, where if something technical goes wrong they jump on it immediately and fix it, and I can stay focused on content, marketing, networking etc. The WordPress support team says they would help me with BuddyPress if they could, but it’s not their software so there’s only so much help I can expect, which seems entirely reasonable to me.

I could come here for assistance, but I would have paid the BuddyPress team nothing, so it wouldn’t be reasonable for me to expect help unless somebody just happens to feel like it on that particular day.

So as seen from here, BuddyBoss is not really competing with BuddyPress, but providing a different kind of service, a commercial service. The downside with BuddyBoss, best I can tell, is that BuddyBoss isn’t really up and running yet. You know, they’ve been unable to point me to a single one of their client’s sites, a limitation they explained to me quite promptly and politely.

Wordpress.com has a theme which offers some level of social site features, but so far I’ve been unable to make any sense of it. If it’s confusing to me, it will likely also be to any new users I am able to attract.

So my first impression is that BuddyPress appears to be interesting hobby software generously provided for free, but if I want a more serious setup I’ll have to start looking beyond the WordPress environment.

UPDATE: GETTING CLOSER… I think

So it’s confusing…. I changed the terms to aa_site_expired instead of “your-agentassets-pro…” etc.
I changed it to the “situation” slug instead of the “email” slug.

Question: How do I tell it that I want to send that particular email that I created. Multiple emails can have the same “situation” selected. So how do you tell it WHICH email you want to send? Seems confusing. However, changing it now let me past the “missing_email” error and now gives me a fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_address() on null in /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php:3218 

Stack trace: 
#0 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/agentassets-site-manager/includes/aa-agentassets-class.php(421): bp_send_email('aa_site_expired', NULL, Array) 
#1 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/agentassets-site-manager/includes/aa-check-for-expired-sites.php(77): AgentAssets::deactivate_expired_blogs(Array) 
#2 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/themes/agent-assets/buddypress/blogs/blogs-loop.php(22): getAllBlogsDetails() 
#3 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-includes/template.php(724): require('/home/aabiz/pub...') 
#4 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php(155): load_template('/home/aabiz/pub...', false) 
#5 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php(61): bp_locate_template(Array, true, false) 
#6 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/themes/agent-ass in /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php on line 3218

Looks like it’s the NULL in:
bp_send_email('aa_site_expired', NULL, Array)

But I put in my email address in the call… why doesn’t this work?
$sent = bp_send_email( 'aa_site_expired', 'bquaid@gmail.com', $args );

@espellcaste thanks for the reply but i’ve read all of the resources already that you posted. My question is why use bp_core_install_emails if I can just create my email in BuddyPress Emails as shown in the screenshot below?

My BP Email Test with a custom token for site.id
http://scrgrb.in/76g

BP Email slug – “your-agentassets-property-site-has-been-deactivated”
http://scrgrb.in/76i

My script gets all sites needing to be deactivated and sends to this function. Inside the function, I have this code:

$args  = array(
    		'tokens' => array(
    			'site.id'             => $site_id,
    		),
    	);
    	$sent = bp_send_email( 'your-agentassets-property-site-has-been-deactivated', 'bquaid@gmail.com', $args );
        print_r($sent);

What am I missing here? The array getting printed out is:

WP_Error Object
(
    [errors] => Array
        (
            [missing_email] => Array
                (
                    [0] => bp_get_email
                )

        )

    [error_data] => Array
        (
            [missing_email] => Array
                (
                    [0] => your-agentassets-property-site-has-been-deactivated
                    [1] => Array
                        (
                            [no_found_rows] => 1
                            [numberposts] => 1
                            [post_status] => publish
                            [post_type] => bp-email
                            [suppress_filters] => 
                            [tax_query] => Array
                                (
                                    [0] => Array
                                        (
                                            [field] => slug
                                            [taxonomy] => bp-email-type
                                            [terms] => your-agentassets-property-site-has-been-deactivated
                                        )

                                )

                        )

                )

        )

)

Hi Folks!

I agree it is not that easy to add a new situation or a custom email. That requires custom code and a bit of knowledge of BuddyPress internals. Also that’s not documented anywhere. This is just not an area that a lot of devs look for.

Anyway, fair to say you can hook into bp_core_install_emails and install your own emails and situations. I recommend you look at the code to know what to do to add your own email and also your custom situation: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/990a4c7cf65d4e05a9a26a0a97fc9ebe276f5e4e/src/bp-core/admin/bp-core-admin-schema.php#L503

About the email not being sent. It is important the new template has the proper name. single-bp-email-{custom-name}, if you are creating a custom e-mail, that’s how your new email template should be named for.

I’m now in the same boat with Matt2012. I am getting missing_email error.

Not sure why. I created the email in the BuddyPress Emails and copy and pasted the used slug for the email.

I have an update for adding situations… since nobody from BuddyPress helps or seems to get on this site anymore, I guess I’ll post this for anyone who needs this.

(Maybe that’s why BuddyBoss came out?)

Anyway, I got the situations to show up by going changing to:

plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-taxonomy.php and changing line #39 ‘show_in_menu’ to true instead of false.

This makes it show up and you can change everything and add new ones.

So @sbrajesh, @imath what about the PHP version?

Still no change on the complains i made consigning the previous version on :- <a href=”https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-5-1-0/”

Ok nice and congratulations on your new release “Buddypress 5.1.1”, Good

So please, can I ask
What should does with the latest PHP version (php 7.1 and above) Do !?

Do bubbypress now have premium version, that supports the latest PHP version?

Hey there,

Starting a similar thing and found this thread somewhat useful… can someone help me fill the gaps?

1) @Matt2012, I use Postman too. Did you ever figure this part out?
2) How in the world do you add a new “situation” in BuddyPress Emails? There is NO documentation on this that I can find.

My situation:

Using a cron job to find all sites expired or almost expired and send the users the right email. I have the arrays of users ready to go. I just need to programatically send these user ID’s to be emailed with the correct template.

Those templates would then use their own tokens to fill in the gaps. You site: {{site.name}} is now expired. Do this and that. It expired on: {{expiration.date}}.

How do I do this?

@imath
Still no change on the complains i made consigning the previous version on :- <a href=”https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-5-1-0/&#8221;

Ok nice and congratulations on your new release “Buddypress 5.1.1”, Good

So please, can I ask
What should does with the latest PHP version (php 7.1 and above) Do !?

Do bubbypress now have premium version, that supports the latest PHP version?

@buddyboss Hey Michael!

I totally understand what you mean. I feel the same way about WordPress. Even simple whitespace changes there become endless discussions that result in no changes and no agreement, and worse… no fun.

My own personal concern here, comes from everyone involved in BuddyPress purposely trying to create an inviting, open, fun, rewarding experience to contribute to the project, and seeing talented folks like yourselves choose to compete instead of collaborate is the opposite of the target we are shooting for as a project.

What more could BuddyPress have done? What could the team have done differently? I’ve never really seen much in the way of upstream improvements or recommendations or requests in Trac or the forums from your team. Not that it’s necessary. Not that it’s expected. But there isn’t a history of anyone saying no or shutting y’all down.

I applaud the independence. I wish all y’all nothing but the best. And I hope BuddyPress is inspired from the creativity and inventiveness that BuddyBoss is known for.

I’m totally new to the BuddyPress universe. So far I’ve been unable to find any site which uses either BuddyPress or BuddyBoss. I’m sure they exist, just can’t find them. Posted that question on this forum, no reply yet. Emailed BuddyBoss, and they politely informed me they have no way of connecting me with any of their client sites so that I can try their system.
Gotta say, so far my first impression is that none of this is ready for prime time.

FYI, while I’m ignorant of all things BuddyPress, I have been working online since 1995 and have coded my own blog and forum software from scratch.

Anyway, I’m hoping to be able to join anybody’s BuddySomething site so I can experience this software as a user. Activism sites would be ideal, but any site will do. Thanks for any advice.

Hi @chaddblanchard

If you are using the BP Legacy template pack, you can follow @shanebp snippet available in response to this support topic: Display profile fields on members page

It will also work on the BP Nouveau template pack, but it will be wrongly positioned. FYI, I’ve opened a ticket to fix this in next BuddyPress major version.

You can also use a different strategy using the BP Template hierarchy. If you create a copy of the bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/members-loop.php into a buddypress/members/members-loop.php file of your theme (be careful to respect the relative path into your theme: create a buddypress folder, then a members one and finally put the members-loop.php copy inside this folder. From this copied file, you can modify the html layout to include specific code to display the profile field(s) of your choice.

Here’s an example: https://gist.github.com/imath/67c2c5d961083bc8d4205860a2a075b2#file-members-loop-php-L44-L46 The specific code to add has a yellow background.

How come the new BuddyPress 5.1.0 is not compatible with the latest PHP 7.1/7.3

Its a waste updating to BuddyPress 5.1.0, with the latest PHP version, it would only crash your site ….My advice, STAY OFF

@imath vous êtes formidable et je vous remercie.
J’ai modifié les permaliens en : /%monthnum%/%postname%/%day%/%year%/
et ça marche ! Je peux créer mon premier groupe !
Merci et bonnes fêtes.
Pierre

Question subsidiaire : si j’ai d’autres soucis plus tard avec mon site WordPress, quelle est la meilleure solution pour être vite dépanné ? Passez par vous ? Ou allez vers une autre personne calée en WordPress et Buddypress ?