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@quinngoldwin – bp profiles already already come with a “friends” tab – which would do essentially what you are describing if the others have a profile in the system and they have accepted as friends. Then everything you are asking is already done with a default install.

If others are not in the system, I guess they could upload a buddypress docs file with a list or something.

Your best bet is probably to look at this from the s2member side.
There is lots of info available, such as

s2Member + BuddyPress

I have not used it for anything like that, but s2member works with BuddyPress, allows you to restrict content, and supports dripping content:

Home

It is possible that it might work out for you. There is a free version that is likely sufficient.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

It integrates with WP Courseware, if that is what you are using for your courses.

Good luck. Have fun.

Is there a way to connect my lessons to BuddyPRess?

Probably, but there are too variables in your questions:
– what does ‘connect’ my lessons mean?
– what is a gamification plugin?
– how are you dripping?

btw – Those questions are rhetorical.

Unless somebody here has the same theme / plugin setup as you ( doubtful ), your chances of getting answers are slim to none.

Unless you are a developer, you’ll probably need to hire one to create the experience you desire.
And it sounds like a fairly large job.
You can post job listings here.

Google: buddypress hide admin from members list

I still have the problem reported here with the last buddypress version 2.3.2.1.

If I download the profile photo from my buddypress instance (150x150px) and than re-upload it to buddypress, resize it the the fullsize the following error message will be displayed:

“There was a problem with cropping the profile photo.”

they sound as helpful as a chocolate watch at buddyboss.

I dont use/like their plugins so can not help on that, but there is a very good plugin called “BuddyPress Like” which is brilliant and easy to use.

@rollercoasterider – so you created a new “page” and that page’s title is “Home”
maybe you created a second “page” and called tha “blog”
You went to: Settings -> reading and selected static front page to show the “page” Home ?
Perhaps blog to the “blog” page)

I assume you did the confige bp pages thing ( https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/ )

maybe assigning ( https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/ )

and you are using a default theme like 2014 ?

and when you click on members it goes to home?

Is this the same with all the other plugins deactivated?

Set your permalinks to pretty urls?

re check all your settings, permalinks and htaccess

You may have a redirect problem because you installed WP/BP in /voyages/ directory

read also this and follow the links for more information:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/unable-to-register-users-2/#post-241704

This article helped me solve a similar issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19976038/buddypress-registration-page-is-not-working

I don’t know if this is any indication of the issue but no pages were generated during the installation of the plugin, I had to set them all up manually.

The answer is in your first topic:
I have deleted the original copy of BuddyPress from my site and the associated pages.

If you haven’t removed BP from DB, via plugins dashboard > delete before reuploading a new copy it’s normal that you have to recreate the pages manually.

The adventure starts here:

Installation in WordPress Multisite

Most of the time BP will use page.php since that template file exists in the majority of WordPress themes. However, if you wanted to style BuddyPress pages differently than a regular WordPress page, you could add a template file named buddypress.php to your theme’s directory and BP would use that template instead since that file is ahead of page.php in the hierarchy above.

That’s a recent function i didn’t know ! It’s filtrable, so you haven’t to hack that core file.

See also in same file member_can_edit function, related to bp_moderate capability, used for group admins, but i doubt you can apply it to “editor”…

FYI: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp_moderate-capability/

Additionnally, see this snippet written for WP only, if you can combine something:

Let Editor Manage Users in WordPress

I’ve already tested all this, but i got the same result as you. But i’m not a dev. 🙂

Good luck !

This is actually not possible. Is a work on progress: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5121

hi @billmann,

to remove only last activity date from profile header:

function bpfr_core_get_last_activity( $last_activity_date ) {
   if ( empty( $last_activity_date ) )
      // we do nothing
         $last_active = '';
   else
   $last_active = sprintf( $string, bp_core_time_since( $last_activity_date ) );
 }
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bpfr_core_get_last_activity' );

To remove all last active instance (profile, group & member directory,…), you simply remove the filter

function bpfr_remove_last_activity_filter() {
    remove_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', $last_active, $last_activity_date, $string );
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bpfr_remove_last_activity_filter' );

Add to your child-theme functions.php or to bp-custom.php

bp_core_get_last_activity function is in buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php:1418

Note that site wide activity is not affected by these functions.

@rollercoasteride

disable all plugins except buddypress and twenty-something theme – does it work?

My guess is your wp / BP may work fine without the zippy courses plugin – if it works fine with no other plugins – then your issue is with those plugins, not a BP issue per se.

No WP and BP do not work with default theme and all other plugins disabled?

yes you need permalinks pretty – I think.. when you set that does it actually write to your htaccess file? or is there some text that appears at bottom of screen (below scroll view sometimes) that tells you need to manually add the new htaccess code?

still not work? you may…

Looks like you may have some corrupted files somewhere – I would make a backup of your databases and zip up your files for a backup (there is a reasonable backup thing in softalicious backend) – remove the wp installation through softalicious – remove the whole wp / bp setup – start fresh.

If exporting your database through phpmyadmin, click advanced / add / drop table or something (directions in wp codex)

You can install WP through softalicious and then add BP no problem in my experiences.
(I would not count on softalicious to do your updates, gosh fantistico was horrible at that, and WP has it’s own auto-update thing going on these days anyway)

/random thoughts from a user, not a BP dev or anything – other advice may be better.

@eskymo – if you have the money to burn get a basic vps somewhere and get it started.

my past experiences with “cloud hosting” did not work out – other hosts may differ.

If you have not even started I would not worry about bandwidth or the network growth – sure if you are going to run TV commercials saying join my social network and get free gold bars – then you probably want to worry about that..

I have a solid buddypress site running on a basic shared hosting environment (reseller package they call it I think – gives a little more resources)

I have one running on a VPS, and another on a dedicated server. Even if you get 10,000 members sharing pics and uploading vids I don’t think you will hit bandwidth and growth issues.

You can always copy your database and zip your files to a new host or larger plan at same host if you run into limits.. and of course also look at things to do that would minimize things (block bad robots indexing, cache plugins, etc)

Not sure why you would stick with looking in london hoping to get support on the phone during daytime hours – if I have a host that can’t answer me with support at 2am I move on (and have) to the next one.

With a reasonable host I think you could start at $10 a month.. if can afford get a VPS ~50 a month – dedicated shared resources – better if you are going to setup your BP to also be WP-MS (multi-site / multi-blog (giving users their own “tumblr” type blogs on top of the social networking stuff)

If you grow out of it – great – you can likely afford to go dedicated and look into tuning thing..

/random opinion \ thoughts