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Hi @statusselect Thanks.

http://stackideas.com/bundles cost $240 – Is EasySocial operable without the Blog and comments ? Please keep in mind that we, users of WP + BP, need both good blogging and commenting.

Is there Blog like WP MS/MU blogs integrated there ? I could not find in the demo.
By blog integration I mean each site member can have her own blog with own theme and widgets etc, nicely customizable as in WordPress Multisite. Blog posts can also be commented and “liked” from both the stream and the blog post itself. [ BP lacks both-way Liking]
In their demo site, I found “Blog” is an App which the user has to load, and for me it did not load actually but took time and more time with the loading icon going on for ever.
If the Multiuser Blog experience is more or less similar to WP, then yes, it is worth exploring EasySocial.

Other questions :
– Can Friends be stacked into various “workmate” “batchmate” etc like Elgg ?
– Can an user Block another user ?
– How does the script handle excerpts of blogs in stream, how does it handle toooo loooong names or words ? How does it handle Unicode?
– How easy is the theme to customize for a non-dev? Language can be changed easily?

I did not find any pre-sales forum there or any github repo. Which would be great. They also do not have a test-downloadable version like SocialEngine.

Thanks for your answers.

PS : BP devs have their own logic, priority, speed etc. Its more than six years I guess BP lacks 2 way favoriting and a standard status/whats new box. The moment you say “standard” you may hear what is standard to one is not standard to other. That way, EasySocial has very well understood the needs of “standard”. I can only wish if they integrated EasySocial with WP Multisite it would have been an unbeatablle product. Ideas have a very few or no pickers at all. Unless we can code for ourselves or have enough money to pay Devs to bring changes the way we want, posting in forum is really not going to change the evolution of BP. IMHO. Thanks.

OMG! Thanks soooo much for this! I’ve been trying to find ways of doing exactly this for a long time!

Any chance that this can also do the same thing for the “buddypress groups” gravatars?

For me, the plugin “good question” fixed 95% of spam regs.. similar to “buddypress humanity”…

I use that plugin, and in the settings (superadmin dashboard -> buddypress tab -> Activyt block

I have this in the box for “blocked activity types”
deleted_group_document, new_blog, new_member, joined_group, friendship_created, activity_liked

works for me for now.. even though there is an error with that plugin…
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in wp-content/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/admin/bp-activity-block-admin.php on line 6 and defined in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1154

Someone did a fork / update of that plugin which fixes some things, but last I checked it was on github and not the official wp repo – (post here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/which-file-and-how-to-sort/#post-231515 )

The Sharebox or the equivalent of Whats New box in BP is fantastic. Its not “sophisticated” but integrates in a simple user friendly way that members need. – I agree.

But what are the pros and cons featurewise ? Resource-hungriness? Security ? Back-up ? Code cleaniless and less-bulikness?
Most importantly can each and every user have their own blog with own themes and widgets like WordPress Multisite ?

Personal reason I am using WordPress- BUddypress is for the seamless WordPress Integartion [ except Favorites/Likes] – if Elgg / Oxwall / Easysocial offered this WP integration things would have been different, probably.

Now, another important part Easyocial is $250, BP is free.. It follows a business model. [However anyone will love the approach at stackideas.com/support]. BP is developed out of free available time by Devs, and the Dev is not oriented so much towards Features out of box rather towards backend “geeky” things which is supposed to make it robust and less bulky for other devs who can produce feature-based plugin 🙂

Easysocial sharebox and some features are what BP ideally should push in overnight but that is really never going to happen in years. I suggest you please post a detailed review and please explain how multi-blogging (each user having own blog with own theme etc) is in Easysocial.

Thanks

I am also seeing the @mentions not working on my site.

BuddyPress 2.2.1 running on the Engine theme from Industrial Themes. Theme and WP both at latest versions.

Plugins (but I can’t see where any would cause a conflict):

Anti-spam by CleanTalk
Custom Login
Custom Permalinks
Gravity Forms (and PayPal and User Registration add-ons)
MailChimp Lite
Updraft
Use Google Libraries (maybe it’s that one?)
Yoast

And some admin plugins.

It’s possible, but not easy.

You’ll have to start by changing the form action on this template:
bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\settings\delete-account.php

And then write a function to handle your new action.

Hi found two links related to the issue may be these may prove helpful as far as i remember latest version of buddypress now supports functions for multiple role on registration
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-bp_set_member_type/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/
Thanks

Hi @dleit may be you should visit the sites such as cunny commons academy(google it) which is built using buddypress to have a small idea bout how you should place your stuff and other links,the next step would be to add the activity link where you and other people can post updates as is done in facebook cos it is updates which is going to bring some engagement on your sie and its users add members link to list all your members so that people can find each other and get connected rest will come automatically as you start doing all the best
Thanks

Hi found two links related to the issue may be these may prove helpful as far as i remember latest version of buddypress now supports functions for multiple role on registration
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-bp_set_member_type/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/
Thanks

Hi @nkeatign

BuddyPress ‘members’ and WordPress ‘authors’ share the same ID, therefore are the same entity. A post that belongs to WordPress author with ID 286 belongs to a BuddyPress member with ID 286 (because, again, they’re the same). If something isn’t displaying as you’d expect, then it’s likely to be a theme issue.

Which theme are you using?

Hi @olaska
you need to add some more validations to your registration page read this post for more info
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/registration-validation/#post-235934
plus install bp-security question plugin which throws a math challenge on registration page this will help you keep out few more bots
Thanks

Hi @ar2015
Actually i wrote a post on this few days back may be you would like to have a look

@minglonaire you can also try https://bp-tricks.com/design/easily-hide-specific-tabs-on-buddypress-member-and-group-pages/ AND remove Activity from Themes > Menu in your wordpress admin dashboard

Both snippets are working. If really not for you, double-check that bp-custom.php is correctly using open/close php tags and if your theme doesn’t use some custom rss functions.

To remove the All members button :
remove line 19 in buddypress/activity/index.php from within your child theme.

<li class="selected" id="activity-all"><a href="<?php bp_activity_directory_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'The public activity for everyone on this site.', 'buddypress' ); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'All Members <span>%s</span>', 'buddypress' ), bp_get_total_member_count() ); ?></a></li>

and add class='selected' to the li containing friends item

If you remove the feeds display using the snippet, people won’t see anything even if they know the page url. And if this is not satisfying for you, you can write a rewrite rule to add to htaccess.

Yes, probably will require some custom code.

Use the Group Extension API and one of the Google Map APIs.

@jasonaring
Untested but place the below code in bp-custom.php

function bp_help_redirect_to_members_page(){
if( !is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_register_page() && !bp_is_activation_page() ) {
bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . '/members/' );
}
}

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'bp_help_redirect_to_members_page',1);

Good luck!

Try this to remove ALL activity feeds

function bpfr_hide_rss_feeds() {	
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_personal_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_friends_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_mentions_feed' );
   remove_action( 'bp_actions', 'bp_activity_action_favorites_feed' );
   remove_action( 'groups_action_group_feed', 'groups_action_group_feed' );    
}
add_action('init', 'bpfr_hide_rss_feeds');

This snippet will only show logged in users friends activities (on all activity pages of the site)

function bpfr_filtering_activity( $retval ) {
	$retval['scope'] = 'friends';		
		return $retval;
	}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'bpfr_filtering_activity' );

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

More details about this on Codex