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Hi. I wonder if you’re getting a little confused as to what Super Socializer and BuddyPress actually do? Although they both allow people to have an account on your site, they’re not really the same thing.

Super Socializer allows you to cross-post your own blog posts onto Facebook, etc, and to then amalgamate any comments back to the original blog post. But the important thing to note is that it’s only really about your blog posts.

BuddyPress (with bbPress) allows you to have people create forum posts and send each other messages, completely independently of any blog posts you may make.

Of course, Super Socializer would also be of benefit to a BuddyPress install as it would allow users to set up and log in to a BuddyPress account using their Facebook login.

I’ve never used Super Socializer, btw.

Hope that helps

Peter

Create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\members-loop.php

And then remove this code from the overload:

<?php if ( bp_get_member_latest_update() ) : ?>

	<span class="update"> <?php bp_member_latest_update(); ?></span>

<?php endif; ?>

I can recommend the WooCommerce WooMembers bundle – allows you to limit access to the site and take monthly subscription payments: https://woocommerce.com/products/woomembers-bundle/

It mostly works with BuddyPress (in that you can limit access to most pages and bbPress forum posts) but they do have work to do to make it fully protect a BP install, but it is on their radar.

Hope that helps

I struggled with this for weeks. It never worked out well for me.
I used the Register Helper add-on plugin to add custom fields to the PMPro registration. I tried the above mentioned fixes, but nothing I tried let the PMPro registration process communicate with the BuddyPress (basically, I wanted one registration page to fill out the BuddyPress profile AND the necissary PMPro info).
Whichever way I tried it, they remained seperate. Of course, the PMPro registration process did add the user to BuddyPress, but with an empty profile, regardless of the custom fields that I added.

FINALLY, after MANY hours of working with this, I tried s2Member. This plugin is much more involved to configure, BUT it works perfectly AND integrates well with MailChimp. So now, I not only have integration with BuddyPress (specifically the profile, although the display is a bit off), but also with Mailchimp. And, this means that I can have different mail-lists or mail-list groups within Mailchimp! Perfect 🙂

Basically, what I am saying is that if you want a better integration, go with s2Member.

Note: I did not pay the $300 / year for paid membership pro support (too expensive for me), maybe they would have been able to help me resolve this issue. I did scour the forum and glean every bit of info I could to solve this without paying, but to no avail. BUT, with s2Member, it is free AND only $80 one time for the Pro version of the plugin.

Good luck!

And, if anyone sees this and has a solution, please add. As people (I assume because I was) are still looking for a solution.

These are the BuddyPress forums.
The bbPress forums are here.

hi,

try putting the po annd mo files into wp-content/languages/plugins/

please have a look at

A Good Explanation

BuddyPress uses a theme compatibility layer, meaning it uses its own templates that are designed to drop into any theme. You can overload all kinds of template parts for BuddyPress:

Template Hierarchy

However, there are plugins (I’ve not tested) that you could maybe get to work if you have two themes in mind: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/

Best,

-David

There’s no way to do that via shortcode as far as I know, but lots of ways to do it via theme. You could apply a page template to the “members” page to modify what is output. You could also overload the template at /buddypress/members/single/home. Read more about the template hierarchy:

Template Hierarchy

This is the codex article I was thinking of:

Modifying the Registration Form

Sure, you can add a filter on the bp_get_member_permalink hook and do whatever you wish. The BP member profile is much richer than the the authors page, though–if you’re not using the member profile fully, are you sure you need BuddyPress for your site?

For the second question, use the shortcut link: https://mysite.org/members/me which will redirect users to their profile.

Best,

-David

You can save extra things manually on the bp_core_signup_user hook:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-members/bp-members-functions.php#L1900

But I imagine that the simpler answer would be to use Profile Fields. If you add profile fields to the base group, then they appear on the registration form and are saved at signup. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Best,

-David

Hi moefahmy,

Just registered my first WordPress.org account since over hundreds of sites I’ve built in the past, hehe. I’m facing exact the same issue as you have. I seriously thought that BuddyPress would support features like this. In the wp-admin > Groups > Single Group, there’s even an option that says: ‘Who can invite others to this group?’, WHY is this option available but not ‘Which usertype can post to this group? e.g. Administrators, Moderators, Subscribers etc.’.

Is there a plugin that anyone in this community is aware of which handles above feature? I really need a feature to assign posting permissions to users or userlevels…

Hey! I am using the plugin: BuddyPress Docs. You can create Wikis and upload docs inside the groups.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/

“Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, “

It is working, but I would be interested too if there is a better solution..

Hi @paksunny-

#1 can be accomplished by adding this code to you bp-custom.php file (or wherever you keep your customizations): https://gist.github.com/dcavins/c65f3856dd6ed5be37eef115ab09405a

#2 Try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

-David

Please use the code button when sharing code.

This is the relevant file:
\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\members-loop.php

Some themes bundle their own version of BP files.

To find out if you’re in the correct file, try:

echo 'testing...<br>';
$test = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=la-empresa' );
var_dump( $test );

If you don’t see ‘testing…’, you’re in the wrong file.
If you do, but don’t see the profile data, then there is an issue with that field or perhaps the value does not exist.

Did you look in the documentation?

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Next time try hiring an expert or consult a more experienced developer in private to sort out some issues.

Without being told the people that started this Buddypress has tried a lot. I don’t think they need this sort of discouragement.

please nobody should regard this topic.

Looking at the source code, both items make a call to the function bp_is_active(). For profile cover images, the check is
if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile', 'cover_image' ) ) {)

For groups, if ( bp_is_active( 'groups', 'cover_image' ) ) {}.

In both cases, the default is true, so I’d guess that your theme or another plugin is filtering that value, using one of these filter hooks:
bp_is_profile_cover_image_active
bp_is_groups_cover_image_active
bp_is_active

You can quickly check by using something standard like twentythirteen as your theme and deactivating all plugins other than BuddyPress.

Hugo,

is tracking on on your site checked? Settings >> BuddyPress Settings >> Site Tracking make sure it is checked.