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Hi,

I am a total novice in coding. Please bare with me now. I have used copilot, gemini and chatgpt to help me build a custom page from zero.

The page shows registrered employers on my website. (Wpjm+buddypress)

If a user is not logged in the message button on the employer profile card on the custom page will read “please login to message this employer”.

If pressed you go to the login with a redirect to your own compose message page with prefilled to field with the username of the employer.

The issue here is I cant get it to work. Tried 1000s of different variants but the AI models wont give me a solution. They tell me it cant be made and that I have to split the redirect code with some code on the page and some code in the function file.

HOWEVER! This is where it gets weird. The first round of code help I got it managed to solve this without function file. But I cant find the solution again since I am stupid/novice enough to not save work as I make new changes…

I wonder if any kind soul would see if they can help me solve this. The page for reference is here: https://arbetssokande.nu/registrerade-arbetsgivare/

One of the code I have used that wont work:

<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'messages' ) && isset( $user ) ): ?>
    <?php
        $recipient_username = $user->user_nicename;
        $query_args = array(
            'r' => $recipient_username,
        );
        $query_string = http_build_query( $query_args );

        if ( is_user_logged_in() ):
            $compose_url = bp_loggedin_user_domain() . bp_get_messages_slug() . '/nytt-meddelande/?' . $query_string;
        ?>
            <a href="<?php echo esc_url( $compose_url ); ?>" class="bp-message-button">Skicka meddelande</a>
        <?php else:
            $redirect_url = home_url( '/' . bp_get_messages_slug() . '/nytt-meddelande/?' . $query_string );
            $login_url = wp_login_url( $redirect_url );
        ?>
            <a href="<?php echo esc_url( $login_url ); ?>" class="bp-message-button">Logga in för att skicka meddelande</a>
        <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

The message button works if you are logged in. As also does the “see job ads” of the chosen employer (both logged in or logged out and redirected).

Am I stupid/remember wrong that the redirect for message worked one time some days ago? I feel so stupid its sad.

Please help if you can.
Best regards,

flamuren

I am one of the disenchanted users who went away from BuddyPress that @imath mentions in his post https://buddypress.org/2023/04/buddypress-has-a-new-purpose/, in which he also promises a new user-focused direction for BuddyPress.

That all sounds fantastic. The “big change” introduced in 12.0.0 is quite welcome. And I welcome the change of heart from https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6345 “We don’t have — and should never have — enough settings to warrant creating separate screens for them.” to what we now have – multiple tabs for BuddyPress settings.

But, and I am sorry to say, and believe me I say it out of love, BuddyPress is still living in the early naughties. When setting up any community, the biggest CSF is signup and onboarding. A signup such as https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4132 is absolutely essential for any self-respecting community software. If anything, I would remove the need to signup with a password – modern applications increasingly use “magic links”, rather than ask for a password during signup.

Another crucial one is admin control over what is shown in group/member lists https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4126, https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4131 and https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4683

Not including basic Group Management in the core also doesn’t make a lot of sense https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4540

Another one is to take advantage of and approximate the behaviour of WordPress https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4569 or https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4017
In the last 12-13 years, I may have missed if there have been developments in this direction, but seems to like there haven’t.

I’m using WordPress 6.8.1 and Buddypress 14.3.4 on a subdomain multisite installation. Everything is working just fine except for one thing: when a member clicks ‘My sites’ nothing shows up. I’m a member of two sites and I signed up with a test account and still nothing.

I’m wondering if it’s because I created the sites before I actually installed Buddypress? There doesn’t appear to be an option in the Buddypress network tools to recalculate the sites.

Thanks for any help.

Hi,

I love buddypress and wpjm combo. Its free and helps people get jobs, which is my private project.

However I am not so tech savy and not any real coding.

My question is if its possible, within reason, to add two choices on the member page, to filter out two user classes/types (wpjm candidates and employers).

Today I have active members and “my friends” as tabs and also a search member field under that. I would like to add candidates and employers, to filter out those users. Mainly employers – since it woud be nice for candidates to reach out if it seems good match.

I guess find the teamplate for members, add it to my child theme and ad buttons, and then connect the buttons with a filter option in the child theme function file?

Best regards,

Flamur