Hi,
Ive asked a similar question to this but without an answer, so I thought id rephrase the question.
Basically I want to be able to link buddypress users and page/posts using common metadata (checkbox values).
The aim of this is too be able to tag books (posts) with a genre, and allow a user at registration to define which genres they are interested in.
The problem is that the data must be the same. In other words the genres must be one managable list which can be associated with both users and posts.
It is in some ways similar to this solution to define user types however they have hardcoded the values rather than taking from a pre-defined custom feild of checkboxes:
http://cleverness.org/2010/10/13/user-types-in-buddypress-assign-xprofile-groups/
Hope that makes sense, anybody have any solution to this?
Thanks
Hi beraike22
Thanks for this, unfortunately it doesnt really solve the problem. What this will do is allow users to register to a group on signup.
I want to store metadata in a users profile taken from a pre-populated custom field. So that I can use the same custom field to tag posts and therefore establishing a link between users and posts. So if a user says they are interested in science fiction books, then in theory I could present a list of pages tagged with science fiction can be displayed, etc,.. the dispalying isnt the hard part, its creating the metadata which is consistant throughout posts and users.
Thanks for your help
I’m using buddypress child theme on both root blog and other blogs without enable bp multiside function.
Now, on the other blogs, the slugs shows “maindomain | page title”.
I would prefer the slugs on browser tab shows “subdomain | page title”
How can I change this?
Anyone can help ?
In the bp-groups-externalblogs.php file I found the following code :
/* Record found blog posts in activity streams */
foreach ( (array) $items as $post_date => $post ) {
$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘Nouvel article %s sur le site %s’, ‘bp-groups-externalblogs’ ), ‘‘ . attribute_escape( $post ) . ‘‘, ‘‘ . attribute_escape( $post ) . ‘‘, ‘‘ . attribute_escape( $group->name ) . ‘‘ );
What I want is to open links form external blogs in a new window to I change with but It does not work 
I will try it too, thanks @MrMaz and @Bowromir for the info 
WPMU 2.9.2/BP1.2.3
I deactivated buddypress so I could try and trouble shoot why I was having a signup issues. My origional theme was having an issue so I switched to the default theme. Which also had the issue. So I was going to try just WPMU all by itself. Which does work. When I tried to reactivate Buddypress and get a white screen.
I then backup all of my plugins from both the plugin folder and the mu-plugins folder. Once I did that I deleted all of the plugins and tried to reactivate Buddypress. Still getting the white screen. I then deleted that copy of buddypress and downloaded a fresh copy of 1.2.3 from the Trac and tried to activate it again. Im still gettting the white screen.
I have looked in my error logs and there are no recent errors from PHP.
Can anyone point me in another direction to try?
Thanks…
I am using Buddypress 1.2.6 on WordPress 3.0.1 and I am experiencing a weird error.
When I mark a user as a spammer I get two or three of my own legitimate blogs marked as spam blogs. Does anyone have any idea how this could be happening? Could it be a plugin conflict?
Thanks,
John
Hi Everyone – I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for but this is what I did! And NO coding required! lol
Under Buddypress Componet Setup enable the Group Settings. Now go to your profile page and set up as many groups as you like. Then use the Buddy Press Registrations Groups the author page is this – http://hardlyneutral.com/wordpress-plugins/ this will have the groups show up on the registration page and they will be asked to select which group they are a FAN of.
If you want you can go to the Editor Page or your FTP or Cpanel for that Plugin and on this page: buddypress-registration-groups-1/includes/bp-registration-groups.php scroll down to you see where it says Fan of and check one or more areas of interest and chance it to whatever your website needs are.
I hope this helps.
Another great plugin is https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-member-filter/ When you put brackets [ ] around any word in your profile it makes it a link to all other members that have that word or phrase linked. So when you click on it all members with that link come up on a list.
Here is a example I use on my directions page for creating their profile.
[Hair Stylist]
I am a [Hair Dresser] [Beauty Salon] owner I offer [Hair Cuts] [Perms]
[Hair Coloring] [Hair Highlighting] [Braiding] and other misc [Hair Care] services.
I am available Monday – Thursday for appointments only.
Again I hope this helps someone!
I’ve encounter the same requirements for a profile field to be editable only by admin that is non-editable by suscribers.
Someone could eventually commit a small plugin that allows this sort of administrative tagging.
Outside of buddypress perspective, I end up using wp_usermeta database table with a call to add_user_meta($user_id, $meta_key, $meta_value [, $unique] ) and when i need the info stored i use get_currentuserinfo()
references :
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo
It’s a problem with buddypress.org’s hosting situation. As @crashutah alludes to, buddypress.org shares user database with wordpress.org, which at the moment has pretty severe restrictions on the kinds of files that can be uploaded.
I’ve spoken with some of the staff at Automattic about the problem, and they’ve informed me that the general restrictions on uploads at wordpress.org will be lifted relatively soon. At that time, the avatar problem here will be fixed.
I can’t implement any other fixes on buddypress.org at the moment because of the fact that it’s running a WP 2.9.x installation, which must be upgraded before any more fixes go up. That upgrade process is going to be very complicated. I’m working on it.
In the meantime, I agree that it’s not a great first impression, but I encourage you to download the software and check it out.
This is now being discussed on at least three threads simultaneously. What’s confusing, is there seemed to be a moment, nearly a year ago — where it was going to be supported, and there even seemed to be a patch in the commit pipeline, I think.
Jeff- Thanks for the quick response. So I understand this is not possible currently with BBpress. However, on the kevjumba site they were able to accomplish what I would like to do. Any thoughts on how they were able to accomplish this? Thanks
Sean Mathes
@pickykim, @mercime, @DJPaul
I’ve seen quite a few post on this (including mine :0) )…i opened up a feature request for this today
Kim keep me posted if you find out or make any progress
@John James Jacoby and @petronic
was the plugin ever published?
@John James Jacoby and @petronic
was the plugin ever published?
Hello —
I’ve been following the various threads about creating separate BuddyPress networks, but I haven’t quite managed to divine the current state of things:
There’s this patch, here (http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2561), that seems quite promising.
I gather that it didn’t make it into trunk — but man! It sure would be useful. At any rate, it seemed like some work was being done here on the matter: http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/wpmuguru-working-with-bp-mu-ticket/
That fizzled out.
It appears that the issue is still being brought up( http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/ ), where it’s said that it won’t make it into 1.3. I don’t know if that means the ticket above — which really just opens the door to a plug-in — or something else.
At present, I have really jammed up my client’s system, in claiming that BP could be installed on MU — only to be shocked to find all users activity broadcast on every installation! That, of course, is how it’s supposed to work, but I’m trying to see how to salvage things.
At any rate, I was just hoping to get a read from some knowledgeable folks about the current state of the development for separate BP sandboxes, and what, if anything, can be done to hasten it on its way.
Thanks!
I am getting a bit frustrated. I understand that the current buddypress install comes with forum functionality. My problem is, I just don’t like it unless I am not understanding something. I want a more traditional forum. I have found a very nice site I like with an integrated forum using wp forum server here.
http://www.kevjumba.com/forums/
He said this was integrated easily with buddypress but haven’t been able to find any info on how to make this integrate on google. Here is my site I am trying to put it on. http://actingbuzz.com
Any insight or tips are greatly appreciated. My main problem is that I don’t like having to use groups to build the forum. I want to create the groups and discussion topics in more of a traditional forum look and feel. I hope this is clear. Thanks for any input.
Sean
.i would like to have the main site with a theme (doesn’t need to support buddypress) and for the network sites, i would like to enable the default buddypress colour childthemes and simply update the headers for each (or any other buddypress theme)….but this method, while simple, seems to be a major issue for buddypress
are there any plans to truly make buddypress fully leverage multisite?
@bowe
it seems like the themes are not visible to other sites in the network and the headers are not adaptable
I came to this thread and read all the way through hoping I would see the answer at the end of the rainbow. eborg9 totally has a point and boy he sure had to work to make it. eborg9, I feel your pain.
Case in point, I am using BuddyPress for an alumni group. They won’t know what to do with a username other than use it login (would be nice if they just used their email addresses). Usernames are displayed all through my BuddyPress site and there is no way to turn that off. This is counter intuitive for my audience. In fact, for my site they need to see each other SITEWIDE by “first name + last name in school” (aka: maiden names for women). This shouldn’t be so difficult. I’m surprised there isn’t a plugin to modify the Sign Up form and to edit the profile output. I would pay for such a plugin and I know others would. Does one exist that is for sale? I don’t expect to find one for free.
My site members shouldn’t have to navigate to a members directory and do detective work to figure out to discover another members identity if they belong to an open community established so they can communicate.
@Ishimwe Do you think asking for help is something wrong ?
Yes you may argue here that i used a wrong way but can you get the scenario here. I posted that kind of Language after 3months !!!
Ok second fact you said i should appreciate others’ efforts ( others should include both Buddy press developers and its users) … but you are considering only one side here .Lets for time being say i am a nerd i don’t have any knowledge about PHP or rather any kind of programming and what CMS are build for ? to simply solutions for non programmers. So what i am appreciating here is ‘ TIME & Energy ‘ of people who are not as good as you in programming so i am telling them there are these kind of problems in this system instead of getting to know about it after putting your time and energy look if you can solve them and then only decide to use this CMS . .. whats wrong with that approach ??
Again if the solution provided by you solves the problem as i have not tested it but if it does then don’t you think my this post which is actually all over Google if you search anything even close to buddy press will help buddy press users ( both new and present ) who are facing same problem ?So my coming here to vent about buddy press is actually going to help people than otherwise i guess !!
