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@Gene53 BuddyPress does have an edit user function. I use it as admin all the time on my site to do just what you said (usually tidying up display names from older non-savvy new members). Skeleton Key, as cool as it is, is unnecessary

@dre1080 – That’s what this does https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-do-you-show-a-members-total-post-count#post-47160

Unfortunately I don’t have time right now to update the import plugin for single WP. But *I think* it should work with just a simple fix.

In brief, the plugin loops through all the blogs on an MU install and then loops through all posts on that install. You should just need to remove the outer loop. There’s a block of code starting around line 34 in bp-import-blog-activity-bp-functions.php that says

$query = "SELECT * FROM {$wpdb->blogs} WHERE site_id = '{$wpdb->siteid}' ";

Remove the block of code that starts with that line and ends with

switch_to_blog( $blog['blog_id'] );

Make sure you leave the query_posts(‘order=ASC’); – that code should work with regular WP.

Further down in that same file, find and remove

restore_current_blog();



}

Make sure you remove that bracket (which closes the foreach loop).

This is untested, but it should work in theory. Always do backups first!!!

Try one of these:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-join-groups/

http://brentandmary.net/2009/10/24/bn-auto-join-group-plugin/

http://buddypress.webdevstudios.com/blog/2009/11/13/buddypress-registration-options/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack

I think that one of them does what you’re describing or could be modified to do what you want.

As an added bonus, here’s one that should subscribe people to a blog at sign up:

https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13675

for some reason “Sorry, there was no comments found.” keeps showing up after posting a comment.

Exact same problem as rsutaria ^^. I created a WPMU installation under domain.com/groups, installed Buddypress, and chose the default template. Logged in as admin, I get a “Page Not Found -The page you were looking for was not found.” error when clicking the groups tab on the home page, and when navigating to members/admin/groups, I get what appears to be a page refresh and that’s all.

Prior to installing Buddypress, I had added the line for the comments template into the default template’s Page.php file. I had also had Blog Templates and Toggle_Admin_Menus plugins active, but disabling those and removing/reinstalling Buddypress didn’t fix this problem. I went through and ensured that the WPMU settings allowed new users and groups to be created and that the Buddypress settings were defaulted.

Any help would be great!

@jordashtalon: What did you put in the login.php file? Tried quickly just to add the same code as the wp-login.php file but did not work.

I got this after trying to download and install from the WP admin:

Downloading install package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments.0.1.0.zip.

Unpacking the package.

Could not create directory /xxx/xxx/xxx/wp-content/upgrade/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments.tmp

Uploading via ftp and activating worked fine.

I think you may have a mod-rewrite issue going on. I’m having the same thing happen and that is the direction I’m headed. I’ll let you know the outcome.

Thanks!

CPC

This is what you’ve all been waiting for: http://www.technologydigest.us/blog/featured/wp-fb-autoconnect_and_buddypress.html

The BP Import Blog Activity plugin only works with WPMU and not single WP installs.

@agrundner

MrMaz’s donation link can be found here:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=8591311

@MrMaz Groups Links will be a big hit! Stoked that it’s just around the corner Thanks for all your hard work — you need a donation link for BP Links.

@3sixty’s solution is a good one.

As for the question of how to get the user id, it really depends on exactly where you’re trying to pull it up. It sounds like in this case you want the user id for the last poster in a topic, so you should go to the template that controls the forum loop (bp-themes/bp-default/forums/forums-loop.php and see what’s being used to pull up the last poster’s name. In this case it’s bp_the_topic_last_poster_name. So go looking for that function. Usually if a function is referenced in a template file, it’s in the corresponding component -templatetags.php file; in this case, it’s buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-templatetags.php. If you look at the definition for bp_the_topic_last_poster_name, you can see that it’s getting its information from the global $forum_template that happens in the forum loop. Use print_r to print that global to your screen, and look for the ID that you’ll need.

The hosting guys could change it, but are unlikely to change it. Although usually they give priority something like this:

index.htm

index.html

default.htm

default.html

index.php

So, it will search for the files in that order.

Long term though, you should likely just create a child template for your blog so that it will go to your blog’s home page. You can make it look just like your index.html page (or at least really close).

Make sure you have read this first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

Here you can find a listing of most (all?) of the current WordPress hooks: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference

Here you can find a listing of BuddyPress hooks, although this is out of date:

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/

As far as your particular project, you probably can find the proper hook to tie into by searching the register.php file in the BP default theme. There are many hooks you can use.

Also, if you want to learn more about the current BuddyPress hooks, I would recommend searching for all “do_action” and “apply_filter” calls within BuddyPress.

As this is not an issue of overall BuddyPress privacy, but rather a malfunctioning action of hidden groups, I would call this a bug.

@ajohnson-

As far as privacy in BuddyPress, there are many threads about that topic that will provide you with an answer.

You can start here for a hint: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/privacy-component-where-is-it

It isn’t a bug as much as it’s just not implemented yet. There isn’t any real privacy controls with buddypress which is it’s huge downfall. Still a great product in it’s infancy so not need to be too upset. But a game-plan as to how it’s addressed moving forward would be nice. I think it should be priority number 1 for 1.3. Anyone else?

I think you should just be able to put an HTML file at the root and it should load that index.html file instead of the BP index.php file. At least if the server that host your website has it set to load index.html before index.php (which should be the default for most I believe). The only exception might be if the permalinks changes to the .htaccess file somehow have it ignore the index.html and go straight to the php one.

Just try adding the index.html at the root of a BP install and you’ll find out really quickly.

@jivany and @DJPaul It’s not a production site. It is my bleeding edge site where I run nightly builds of WordPress and BuddyPress so I can monitor what issues I may have with plugins and functionality on my development and live site. Though I must say I was a little surprised with how much went wonky when adding 1.3-bleeding.