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* Please refrain from @ mentioning specific users in the topics.

Most of these are plugin territory. The great thing about WordPress and BuddyPress is the nature of plugins and being able to choose the functionality you need to create a custom user experience.

Ran into this issue recently regarding getting TinyMCE to work on BP group forum pages.

The following code fixes this:

/**
 * Enable at-mention autocomplete on BuddyPress group forum textareas.
 */
function my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_textareas( $retval ) {
	$bbpress = false;

	// Group forum reply.
	if ( bp_is_group() && 'topic' === bp_action_variable() && bp_action_variable( 1 ) ) {
		$bbpress = true;
	}

	// Group forum topic.
	if ( bp_is_group() && bp_is_current_action( 'forum' ) ) {
		$bbpress = true;
	}

	// Do stuff when on a group forum page.
	if ( true === $bbpress ) {
		$retval = true;
		
		// Ensure at-mentions autocomplete works with TinyMCE for bbPress.
		add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'cac_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce', 10, 2 );
	}

	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_maybe_load_mentions_scripts', 'my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_textareas' );

/**
 * Ensure at-mentions autocomplete works with TinyMCE for bbPress.
 *
 * @param array  $settings   An array with TinyMCE config.
 * @param string $editor_id Unique editor identifier, e.g. 'content'.
 * @return array  $mceInit   An array with TinyMCE config.
 */
function my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce( $settings, $editor_id ) {
	// Add bbPress' editor IDs to enable BP mention autocomplete.
	if ( 'bbp_topic_content' === $editor_id || 'bbp_reply_content' === $editor_id ) {
		$settings['init_instance_callback'] = 'window.bp.mentions.tinyMCEinit';
	}

	return $settings;
}

Hello Scott,

My site is not really focused on images and videos so I did not have to export/import a lot of this, but the media I did import went well.

Comments on blogs (from Ning) were imported so I guess this could work out well for comments on photos/videos as well. The only thing is whenever you have a lot of media content it will take some time to export.

You just would give it a try to see how it works out. I took the following steps:
Installed WP
Installed Buddypress
Installed BBPress
Downloaded the Ning Export tool (http://www.ning.com/help/?p=5219) and started exporting
Downloaded and installed Import from Ning tool https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-from-ning/

I used ftp to upload the Ning files, to avoid errors I did this step by step (not all content at once).

Good luck with it!

A partial explanation about “why”can be found here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6230#comment:11

The id is zero due to the way BP constructs those pages.
The how and why is a long answer – you may want to look at the codebase to see the how.

In any event, you will not be able to change that.
Your best bet is to add to the display conditions the user has set.

Perhaps…

Give them an option to select the Groups Directory page.
Then use bp_is_groups_directory() to check if they are on that page.

Or maybe specific single groups.
Then check to see if they are on a single group page by using groups_get_current_group().

So the basic approach is to use template tags to find out where the user is and then show or not show an ad based on the the display conditions the user has set.

I know that Buddypress is a good growing project, but, needs very Important Native (by Default) features.

Not everyone will want the features you mention. The idea is to keep things as simple and bloat-free as possible. The plugin system will allow you to add features specific to your business needs.

You mean you’re using this [bp_members] as a shortcode?
BuddyPress does not provide that shortcode, afaik.
So, you are using some plugin that provides that shortcode.
You need to pose your question the the author of that plugin.

You can add such a link very simply to your main menu by using the menu customizer:
http://example.com/members/me/

Read: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/dynamic-profil-link/#post-259834

bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) will output something like http://example.com/members/andy/

Note:

1. You will need to get $user_id before hand. How you get that will depend on the page you’re viewing on the site. This article will explain more:

Playing with the user’s ID in different contexts

2. To append ‘activity’ to the URL, you can use a period .

For example bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) . 'activity' will output something like http://example.com/members/andy/activity

3. To wrap that URL in mark up

<a href="<?php echo esc_url( bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) ); ?>"><?php esc_html_e( 'Text', 'text-domain' ); ?></a>

Instead of filtering ajax_querystring, how about using bp_parse_args()?

Ref https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.1/src/bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php#L431

As already said: it’s constructed.
The site url is defined in WP general settings and stored in wp_options table
The user name is stored in wp_users table
For the other questions about DB, read:

BuddyPress Database Diagram

WordPress database schema

I’m working on something very similar to the scenario you just described. Here is an idea it might work for you:

You could add/associate the contractors/user IDs with the WooCommerce cart. It would allow severals contractors to be associated with the same WooCommerce order/cart.

Here is a possible workable model.

– Add a project as a product;
– Add BuddyPress profile users IDs to the product in the cart;
– With the user IDs, you would fetch the users information to show their details;
– Go to the cart/checkout process as normally you would;
– Hook in WooCommerce to send the order but not charge it yet;
– Send the job to the contractor/user;
– Contractor accepts the job, hook in your payment gateway to perform the charge;
– Contractor performs the job as suggested/described by you;
– After job delivered by the contractor and accepted by the customer.

A friend suggested I should consider using WooCommerce Pre-Orders.

Usually, when the BP pages are “empty” it’s because you omitted to set the permalinks or because you assigned them a template model. BP pages shoud stay empty ! Just a title and nothing else.

Getting Started

I have moved my site from Ning to Wp/Buddypress with a bbpress integration a few weeks ago. I was able to import a lot of content except the forum topics/responses.

What I did was this:
– used the export tool from Ning
– used the import tool to import ning to Buddypress
All my members (not that many, around 34 at that time) and their profiles, usernames, etc were transferred. All blogposts from Ning were imported as well.
It was easy for members to activate their account on my new Wp/Buddypress site.

The only down thing was that I had to manually copy topics and responses from the forum since I was unable to import this due to an error in the json file. I tried to repair that file but with no succes.

I hope this helps, should you have any questions please let me know. Like you I browsed many old topics and was unable to find any recent topics, so I just started out with trail and error to do it all myself.

Karen