BuddyPress.org

Unless they have an add-on to support BuddyPress, you’re out of luck (unless you write one yourself).

You could hook into the bp_activity_add action like this:

function bp_plugin_hook_activity_add( $activity ) {
 
    // insert code to be executed when activity is created
    // read the link below for more code examples
 
}
 
add_action( 'bp_activity_add', 'bp_plugin_hook_activity_add', 10, 1 );

You can access the activity variables like this:

$activity[‘type’] or $activity[‘content’]

you should be able to use any of the keys below:

id
action
content
component
type
primary_link
user_id
item_id
secondary_item_id
recorded_time
hide_sitewide
is_spam

For more reading check out this link:

Posting Activity from Plugins

As you have established that this is a WordPress issue, and not a BuddyPress one, you might be better to create a ticket over on wordpress.org, where there are more eyes looking at your ticket.

You could use something like this to add a badge to admin/verified users.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-verified/

Did you try this code snippet from the BP codex: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/guides/change-members-profile-landing-tab/

It does exactly what you are looking for.

The Notifications %s string looks like it is available:
https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/2.6.1.1/buddypress.pot

If you’re using a custom translation from a previous version, you need to merge your language files together. Here’s a quick tutorial I found on Google:
http://www.marketpressthemes.com/blog/how-to-merge-two-po-files-using-poedit/

You might also benefit from a translation that is already available here:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress

I see that BuddyPress has a REST API now that can access BuddyPress data from a URL.

BuddyPress is in its early stages of developing the REST API. It’s not close for production usage yet. Follow development here:
https://github.com/buddypress/BP-REST

It would be great if I could just add a URL somewhere in the settings and have data get pulled in.

You will need to do some custom development here.

If your CRM is CiviCRM, there is a BuddyPress plugin that syncs with that. If your CRM is something else, you could take a look at the codebase and modify it to suit your needs:
https://github.com/christianwach/civicrm-wp-member-sync

I don’t believe this is a BuddyPress issue. When you change your permalinks, are you able to visit a regular WP post permalink? If not, it’s a WordPress issue.

I would say make sure your server is able to write to the .htaccess file.

Also, you might have to alter your .htaccess file to add the following to the top of the file:

Options +FollowSymlinks

I’m sorry, groups_is_user_admin() is the wrong function, you need something more like this current_user_can('editor') || current_user_can('administrator'). That needs to be wrapped in an IF statement.

You would put that in your-theme/buddypress/activity/post-form.php.

Use the Group Extension API. Bit of a learning curve, but powerful once you get it.

This is a similar problem https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-stop-topic-creation-for-groups/

I believe this is the default functionality of a BuddyPress powered site.

Your theme may be hijacking this, I’d look in the theme files first for a template.

First you are creating a custom function called automatic_group_membership() this takes one parameter $user_id.

This function terminates if there is no $user_id provided, meaning you don’t run rogue code and your site is more optimised.

When a $user_id is present the groups_accept_invite() function is run. This function is a BuddyPress core function you can find it in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-functions.php on line 1400.

It accepts two parameters a $user_id and a $group_id. You need both in order to create the relationship.

This function is “hooked” with add_action() which is a WordPress core function. This function add_action() has many hooks available for various situations. You can read more about hooks here https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks.

Essentially it’s an opportunity to run your own code against WordPress core, or in this case BuddyPress core. BuddyPress provides the hook and we use them to achieve cool things.

So the hook in this case is bp_core_activated_user and the code we want to run when this hook is available would be the customer function automatic_group_membership which is passed as a second parameter.

I’m not sure where the $user_id gets populated along the way here, nor the $group_id maybe someone can help?

Otherwise, I would do this not on activation but when a user has logged in for the first time.

Then we have access to global $bp which contains a loggedin_user->id which can be used with this function and you could manually set the $group_id in bp-custom.php

Don’t know if it will work with your theme but you may want to look at the code snippets here

Login redirects not working

Hi, this started to happen to me with the latest buddypress update, I have a buddypress folder in my theme with my customizations, so I tried renaming that folder so it won’t be used, however the issue still occurs…

the php error is the following

[error] 10524#0: *41486276 FastCGI sent in stderr: “PHP message: PHP Warning: reset() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /var/www/website.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template.php on line 3048” while reading response header from upstream, client: 74.130.56.345, server: website.com, request: “GET /members/meinhardt/media/604/ HTTP/1.1”, upstream: “fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:”, host: “www.website.com”, referrer: “http://www.website.com/activity/“

I use a shared hosting environment and performance is sluggish at best and I’ve taken a lot of time to develop a theme that is barebones with regard to what WordPress and BuddyPress both give you.

So, you may want to setup in an environment where you can be provisioned for more hardware resources or better hardware.

Like Paul says though, there are many successful sites out there. I’d do your research and speak with the host.

I’m not savvy in this area, only speaking from experience,

@madmarc read up on it here

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Try asking the theme author to add BuddyPress support. It’s easy for themes to support BuddyPress ever since the template hierarchy went live in BP 1.7.