@hnla thank you for your respond , I thought that I will be finally forced to do that with all my plugins , I also thought that somewhere should exists some tool which is able to realize which plugin should do that , or if is already known fact that for example I have noticed that most of google maps plugins are calling google website even when no map is currently on the page , and I think that it causes bigger server load , or if somebody knows that it is better to do not use for example “followers plugin” because it is getting website slower (it was example) , I hoped somebody should say how they are experiencing their website script speed with their plugins .
@Andrea_r I am on Bluehost for 5 ys. and it is true that all my scripts seems to run slower , is it much more bigger difference to go for dedicated server ? I was thinking about dedicated server , but my website is not running yet , I have no earnings from that , hoping I will in near future , but before I didn’t want to spend a too much money .
Now something that may be againts (well not really cause it will be GPL) the rules is how would I go about striping out all the bp_ and ‘buddypress’ in this “clone” and replacing them with say bw and BLACKANDWHITE.
And thanks for the advice and tips
Has everyone suddenly deserted BuddyPress for another platform i’m not aware of? The documentation is very very very “light” here, and if no one pitches in anymore this plugin is going to die off…
I figured something out so here’s the code in case someone wants to achieve the same thing:
` // Check to see if you are currently displaying a member profile page.
// Replace xProfile_field with the profile field name.
// Display value of profile field
`
Thanks,
C.
Hi
I’m trying to fetch the content data from wp_db_activity table in order to escape from HTML tags that are wrapped around the content. I need this since I want to implement an audio player for links to mp3 files.
The `bp_activity_content_body()` gives me results like
`http://link_to_mp3_file`
while I need only the link
`http: // link_to_mp3_file`
without the markup for use in JavaScript.
Using the following code in bp-themes/bp-default/activity/entry.php, I got only the activity ID, but cannot fetch the content data.
`$content = $wpdb->get_results($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT content FROM $bp->activity->table_name WHERE id = %d” , bp_activity_id()));
`
I’m new to BuddyPress, and still learning the code, so any help would be great.
Thanks in advance
i created roles for users and user have to select the role on registration .
i want to approve the user with specific role like member using BuddyPress Registration Options plugin .
currently it works for all users registered with any role but now i want that users with role of member should be approved by admin after registeration how can i do this plz suggest.
i am using bp role manager to create roles for users in wordpress.
now i want to that only user with specific role should be approved by admin through BuddyPress Registration Options plugin it is now used for every type of users registered.
how can i do this plz suggest.
just found this, should get me started, but am still a bit mystified by how these profiles work :S
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-edit-user-profiles/
Thanks guys! Will await this with anticipation! Any ETA?
@DJPaul @pcwriter thanks for the input guys.
Deleting a member through the WP dashboard most certainly DOESN’T delete any of their BP entries.
Their username is deleted from the member’s list and their avatar etc goes, but from what I see all of their forum posts remain, without a username and a random avatar associated with the posts.
Is this a bug then Paul? Anything I need to do to file it?
@sanchothefat – Hi did you find a solution for that ?
@djpaul
Thanks for reminding me of my favorite prayer: “Oh Lord, help me to keep my big mouth shut until I know what I am talking about.”
@rossagrant
Sorry if I led you astray 
Hi folks,
I’m new to Buddypress and have been scouring the forums trying to find the answer to the first of many questions, but to no avail:
How can I activate existing user accounts so that they show up as members of my community? Or more to the point, how can I manage user profiles as SuperAdmin, thru the backoffice?
I have a site that was classic WordPress with about 20 contributors. I want to implement MS+BP, but my tests are still wonky. On the members page I show up, and it seems to recognize that there are 22 members altogether, but they will not show up in the list and are not searchable. Argh! They do show up as Authors thru blog posts, and I can click on their names to bring me to their profile page. But they seem to be considered “inactive” or something like that.
These existing users would not have filled out the mandatory BP profile info like Name, and additional fields that I’ve added (or want to add).
Am having a hard time understanding this relationship between Member profiles and User profiles. Suggestions? Tips? Plugins? Help?!
Merci beaucoup!
-jennyb
Hi All. I know all are fighting hard to protect their websites from spam and other illegitimate users.
Despite adding plugins such as captcha, bp-math during sign-up, I tend to see at least 10 human-spam users and irrelevant activities in the website which are really annoying the legitimate users!
What I have finally planned is to, hire 2 guys who can simply moderate my buddypress website along with multi-site enabled. Their tasks are to monitor the activities, delete the spam users, and also monitor the blogs, forums, groups and other misc activities inside the website. I am afraid to give them an admin privileged account. But I need to give them an access which is capable of doing my wish-tasks. Could somebody advise me on what account can I give to my employees who can moderate end-users? I am all a non-techie and a new user to buddypress. Pls guide me to proceed my work smoothly. Thanks in advance.
Thanks for your advise. I am not a techie guy but I could able to realize what you have said!
I understand that the paypal donate button should be visible in a group page. What my requirements are, it should be amended only by group admins such that they can update their paypal email ids to get donations. In this buddypress.org website, the groups have a link called Donate which is what I am searching for. I knew it’s not an easy or too difficult for any techie to achieve this functionality. I am expecting a built-in plugin. If not, is there any one who could help me out here?
Thanks in advance.
@djpaul
Where are you calling it? from my desk, calling loudly towards the monitor but it doesn’t work.
Can’t be removing it before it’s been called can it? calling it in functions.php child theme and cycled through various priorities from your ’11’ down and up as it’s simply a remove_action() I expected it to work without issue, what am I missing then about functions.php loading order? However I prefer the approach to de-registering rather than leaving registered but simply not adding.
I don’t know if this is where I need to be posting this. i’m having two issues with the avatar page in registration.
1. when I upload and crop an avatar, it doesn’t “take”; I end up with the default (mystery man) avatar. But I can re-upload and crop via MyProfile>ChangeAvatar, and the avatar then is saved. Not sure, after skimming all posts in this discussion, how to deal with this.
2. more importantly to me, from a user standpoint, is the lack of direction from the avatar page. When first arriving, I’m told “we’ve fetched an avatar for your new account…” but there’s no means of actually accepting that avatar. My only options are “Choose File” and “Upload Image”. As a user, I am FORCED to upload an image (which, from #1, is then lost anyway). If I do upload an image, I am then returned to the same avatar page with the default (mystery man) avatar and the same two options (Choose File and Upload Image).
Some help establishing a simple “accept this avatar” button would be appreciated.
I’m using most current BuddyPress 1.2.8 with WP3.1.2.
Thanks
@rossagrant
BP is a plugin that creates its own metadata and db tables to store that data. So, deleting a user via the WP backend simply removes the user from being associated with your site. But it does not delete BP metadata associated with that same user in the BP part of things.
For all user metadata to be deleted from BP tables, you must delete the user via the “Delete [username]” link in the “Admin Options” menu that appears in the adminbar when visiting the user’s profile. I just deleted a test user from my sandbox and watched as all activity items disappeared.
I havent run into this problem as of yet. How ever I will keep a look out. Currently – Like I said All I did was take the entire default theme, place its contents into a folder named after my new theme, changed ALOT of things – still trying to get rid of things like ‘buddypress’ and bp_ with out it breaking – and uploaded it to my site, the default theme is still there – it has not been moved, changed, deleted – just copied. the new theme is what I am currently using (which sits in my core wordpress theme directory). So I dont think anything will break in terms of buddyPress or WordPress
based on this information is there still a chance of breakage? even with a buddypress upgrade?
If you do it in widgets, you could use something like widget_logic() and then check for something like `if(bp_is_group_home())`
These type of template tags can be found in /bp-core/bp-core-templatetags.php so you can narrow it down as you need 
@rsib2000 Could this jquery conflict only show up in certain OS’s? I’m having no problems cropping or updating my avatar (Win 7, Chrome 11.0.696.68/IE8/FF4.0.1), but folks with OSX (they’ve tried it with FF, Chrome, and Safari) can’t. From what I know of js, this shouldn’t be an issue. Any insights?
Hi Buddies,
I have a strange utf-8 side effect. Currently I am running a BuddyPress 1.2.7. Everything was going as expected since last week. Now all fresh comments (on activity stream, gallery comments, etc.) are done via ajax are not shown in the valid UTF-8 character set. (Example: the presentation of the character ä is now ä) The wrong part is only the ajax injected part since a hard page refresh via browser, at this moment all is back in correct manner. UTF-8 is set to blog, utf-8 is set to .htaccess (no change with and without: AddCharset utf-8 .css .html .xhtml .php .js), utf-8 is set to DB and further I tried the accept term in