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Hi @ravals
Same problem here.
I found two workarounds so far.
1. if you use mediapress or rtmedia as media component, they have a feature for uploading from activity stream.
2. replace “what’s new” by tinymce. I have chosen the second option but I am struggling with the editor resizing. See the thread

Hi @georgio-1

Thanks for your opinion and inputs.

1. There will be a media component in 6.0.0 🙂
2. We will ask for users input soon about their ideas of BuddyPress blocks (that’s a first step)
3. We will think about how to satisfy developers building on top of BuddyPress as well as end users.

Hi I just sent you an email to the address you’re using with your BuddyPress account. I have detailled another approach in this email, because I think we should not work on production site.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I’m doing with a fresh install of WordPress, BuddyPress and having the Twenty Twenty theme active and I can’t reproduce.

The only explaination I see is there’s some custom code editing the query. Custom code can be:
1- into the functions.php of the active theme or active child theme,
2- into a /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file,
3- into any file located in the folder /wp-content/mu-plugins,
4- into a plugin.

That’s why we generally ask to deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress, switch the active theme to a Twenty “Something theme” and remove files of point 2 and 3.

Reading our thread so far, you already did that testing right?

This is a very interesting subject. I am using buddypress for different projects since 2014. I would like to express my point of view, not as a developer (my development skills are limited) but as business coach.
If I see buddypress as a project, I think that there is a problem with the goal. Buddypress provides a networking solution and its orientation is supposed to be user experience enhancement.
It seems that the team is oriented towards the technical side of the project. So they make technical improvements that may be important but the final user will never see and doesn’t care about. For ex. with the latest version, I saw a modification of the password verification system while at the same time members cannot block annoying users with this messaging system, they cannot upload a photo using the “whats-new” form and there is no reporting system to keep your network clean.
There is no media component which is important for a social network. No likes, no sharing, no global searchtool etc
You have to install a lot of plugins and frequently fight with conflicts. Plugins should exist for special features not for basic ones.

If I had to manage buddypress as a project I would invite buddypress users on this site to give feedback on what features they consider important to be implemented. Then I would make an agenda to implement them using code from existing plugins.

Since 2014 I saw only two things that enhance user experience: autolinks and a better theme.

I hope that my point of view helps to define a project orientation that, in my opinion, is not very clear now.

Hi @welshlamb10

I’m sorry I can’t replicate what I’m understanding of your issue. Let’s be sharp in explanations!

Here’s what I did.
1/ Added a regular user to 2 hidden groups (A, B)
2/ loggedin as this user.
3/ Posted an update from Group A then being an admin I’ve edited the date of this update so that she appears when clicking on load more only.
4/ As the regular user I’m going on Group B’s activity stream, click on load more multiple times and all I can see is activities from Group B.

Could you:
1/ Reproduce the bug on your site,
2/ Note in details the different steps you did to reproduce it,
3/ Share these details like I did above ?

Thanks in advance.

About BuddyBoss, I was speaking of this other issue: BuddyBoss Media (upload image icon) no longer displays for certain mobile devices. I can’t imagine a scenario where BuddyPress would be involved on the “upload image icon” vanishing for a Plugin output..

Hi,

First I’m sorry to read about these issues. I’ve just tested the first item of your list with latest BuddyPress, WordPress and Twenty Nineteen theme.

I confirm that when I’m on the activity page of an hidden group and after scrolling down to load more activities, only the activities of this group are displayed.

Have you tried to deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress, remove custom code, and switch to a Twenty “Something” theme to see if you still had the issue?

About 404 on posts page, is it when you click on a the link of an activity relative to a page (meaning you activated the Site Tracking component and added some custom code to track the page post type) ?

About BuddyBoss Media, have you tried to reach their support team ?

FYI, this support topic explains how you can trouble shoot in case of issues, I advise you to read it.

There are several ways to edit messages. Since these messages are filtered (it’s applied here: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/includes/functions.php#L932), you could add something like this in your bp-custom.php file:

add_filter( 'bp_nouveau_feedback_messages', function ( $messages ) {
	$messages['request-details']['message'] = 'My custom message';
	return $messages;
} );

If you find yourself changing a lot of messages, then creating a custom language file is the way to go. https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

I need this too, now that I’ve changed to 5.0 and the Nouveau themplates.

I used to be able to over-ride the text
“Registering for this site is easy. Just fill in the fields below, and we’ll get a new account set up for you in no time.”
by editing a copy of register.php in the child theme.

That doesn’t work now, the above text is found in
/buddypress/bp-template/bp-nouveau/includes/functions.php

Is it safe to put a copy of funtions.php in
/child-theme/buddypress/includes/functions.php and make the edit there?

Or is there a better way?

Hi Tom-

I’d guess that you (or the previous site admin) edited the Display Name field to be called “Name.” You can check by visiting this screen on your installation: /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup

“Display Name” is usually the first profile field created, so if you inspect the input, and it has the name=field_1, then you can guess that your “Name” field is the “Display Name” field I’m talking about, just renamed, similar to how you renamed the “Base profile.” It sounds like when you’re talking about “Forum Name” you’re talking about BP’s Base Profile > Display Name, but with your own naming convention.

I also was wrong about the synchronization between Display Name and First and Last name. If I update the Display Field to be “Too Slim”, the WP First Name will become “Too” and the WP Last Name will become “Slim,” assuming that “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” (s you said). The WordPress “Display Name” field will become “Too Slim.” The WP “Display Name” is also looks like what is used by bbPress in its loops.

So, if you want your users to be able to change the name used by the bbPress forums, you’ll need to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked. Then, the WP “Display Name” field is updated when the BP “Display Name” field is checked. If you want to leave WP’s First and Last Name fields to not be synced after sign-up, the following code could be added to your bp-custom.php file or wherever you keep your customization code:

// Remove BP's action because it syncs nickname, display_name, first_name and last_name.
remove_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile_on_single_field_set' );
function my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set( $user_id = 0 ) {
	// Bail if profile syncing is disabled.
	if ( bp_disable_profile_sync() ) {
		return true;
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
	}

	if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$fullname = xprofile_get_field_data( bp_xprofile_fullname_field_id(), $user_id );

	bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, 'nickname',   $fullname  );

	wp_update_user( array( 'ID' => $user_id, 'display_name' => $fullname ) );
}
add_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set' );

It’s a modified version of this function, leaving the first and last name logic out: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php#L803

Hi Slava

What an awesome function! Just what I was looking for 🙂

It still works on my BuddyPress setup, but I just wanna know if you have made the function even more elegant or if you have solved the issue in another way.

Thanks
Torben

Well Laurent nice catch!

I think it’s a bug we introduced in version 2.5. I will investigate more asap. You can follow our progress from this ticket:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8138

Hi !

I would try to deactivate BuddyPress from the Administration if you can still access to it. Otherwise using your FTP access I would remove the buddypress folder that should be into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your site. I would then go within the admin to switch to a “TwentySomething” WordPress theme, download a fresh version of BuddyPress, reactivate it. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue, then ask for help to the author of your theme. Otherwise, eventually redo previous steps to remove/re-download BuddyPress. Before reactivating BuddyPress, deactivate all other plugins. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue reactivate the other plugins one by one until the bug is back. Once it’s back ask for help to the author of the plugin. Otherwise, try to find the error_log file with your host to see the potential error message.

I also advise you to read the Basic Trouble Shooting part of this forum topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/ (especially if you use bp-custom.php or the wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder.

FYI 4.4.0 just like 4.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.6, 5.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.7