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What I mean is this: Right now, it seems users can only send “standard” messages through the wordpress/buddypress messages system, or chat through for example arrow chat or Cometchat.

To be able to view all messages (chat messages and “standard” messages between users) in the same place (like in FB or any other modern platform) would be a good improvement. Or perhaps simply throw out the regular messaging system and be able to add the chat to the profile?

@bphelp as for expertise, there is none! I’m here because I’d like to learn BuddyPress, and I figured by helping, preferably by documenting, I’d learn, and possibly even help.

@danbp I’ve visited the Codex Standards & Guidelines. However, one issue I’m immediately finding is that I don’t have the ability to create or modify.

The reason I dropped the request in this forum is because I read the topic This is why we can’t have nice things @johnjamesjacoby. I figured this was the current SOP for volunteering.

Thanks to all, and I’m looking forward becoming and active member of the community.

1- WordPress 4.1
2- install directory
3- subdirectory
4- wordpress upgrade 4.1.1
6-BuddyPress 2.2.1
7- last version
8- yes i have many plugins

8.1-Advanced Custom Fields
8.2-bbPress
8.3-BP Login Redirect
8.4-BP Profile Search
8.5-BP Profile Widgets
8.6-BuddyPress
8.7-BuddyPress cover
8.8-BuddyPress Edit Activity
8.9-BuddyPress Follow
8.10-BuddyPress Security Check
8.11-Buddypress Social
8.12-BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Fields Type
8.13-Email newsletter
8.14-Facebook Friends Inviter
8.15-HashBuddy
8.16-rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
8.17-Social Login
8.18-User Name Availability Checker for wordpress/buddypress
8.19-Wordpress Social Invitations – Lite

Hi Julian,
Yes, this is a cool plugin, but I’m after something where you can write a message from the BuddyPress profile to another user and then it kind of is already a chat – like on Facebook.

Thank you, I think that answers one of my questions: notification does not go far beyond indicating that there has been activity. What I’m hoping to do is breathe more life into a community by improving communication, and the more action is required from users the less likely that is to happen. At present we correspond by exchanging emails to group addresses manually compiled in Notepad, with no two people having the same list! A Yahoo group would work much better. At present it looks to me as if people would find the bbpress / buddypress solutions more laborious.

Two things about Yahoo groups: 1. The incoming email gives you all the content, without your having to do a second click and go and find it, and 2. you get emails on all contributions to the group you’ve subscribed to, not just when someone specifically targets you. Those limitations in buddypress look to me like killers, but maybe I haven’t understood everything yet.

I hope not, because full and easy integration of communication into a website would make it such a powerful tool.

I found the solution to changing the title here – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/customizing-buddypress-activity-wall/#post-237312 – but now none of my posts are showing… What did I do wrong? Is there another file I have to change?

Thanks bro, had a look at that plug in but it hasn’t been updated since 2013 and isn’t compatible with my version of WordPress.

Sounds like a great plug-in though, if it works (haha).

Hope you get it fixed.

Still gonna try to do with without a plug-in though as i’ve done all the legwork manually already, just need to stop buddypress from enqueuing the original files (or at very least dequeue them in my functions.php). Just can’t find the functions in BP that are loading them originally.

Brilliant! It worked a treat, and I used the ‘user_register’ as suggested. So for anyone else looking for this solution, this is the code i used to turn some on and some off by default on new user registration:

add_action( 'user_register', 'bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference');
function bpdev_set_email_notifications_preference( $user_id ) {
//I am putting some notifications to no by default and the common ones to yes to enable it.
//ref. https://bp-tricks.com/snippets/changing-default-buddypress-notifications-settings and BP forum
$settings_keys = array(
'notification_activity_new_mention' => 'yes',
'notification_activity_new_reply' => 'yes',
'notification_friends_friendship_request' => 'no',
'notification_friends_friendship_accepted' => 'no',
'notification_groups_invite' => 'no',
'notification_groups_group_updated' => 'no',
'notification_groups_admin_promotion' => 'no',
'notification_groups_membership_request' => 'no',
'notification_messages_new_message' => 'yes',
);
foreach( $settings_keys as $setting => $preference ) {
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $setting, $preference );
}
}

and this went in my child theme functions.php file.
Hooray! Thanks so much again – it will make a big different to our users experience.
Cheers 🙂

Thank. I did added custom menu item. But i try load custom template when open ,y custom page on member profile. I use this code

function bp_gf_ua_profile_nav_add()
{
    bp_core_new_nav_item(
        array(
            'name' => __('Email preferences', 'buddypress'),
            'slug' => 'email-preferences',
            'position' => 3,
            'show_for_displayed_user' => true,
            'screen_function' => 'bp_gf_ua_profile_load_template',
            'item_css_id' => 'all-conversations'
        )
    );
}

function mb_show_posts2() {
    echo "Test Text";
}

function bp_gf_ua_profile_load_template()
{
    add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'mb_show_posts2' );
    bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/email-preferences/preferences' ));
}

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bp_gf_ua_profile_nav_add' );

But always display memeber-loop template. What i doing wrong?

Thanks!