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Hi @danbp,

I’m familiar with how BuddyPress tests work in general, and so I’ve read https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/automated-testing/ and https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/automated-testing/writing-automated-tests-for-buddypress-dependent-plugins/, but what I’m asking is, what’s the best-practices way of writing an automated setup for automated tests, in the style of install-wp-tests.sh, so that tests will run on any machine, and not just my own development box (i.e. Travis, etc.)? If you look at that file, you’ll see that it installs WordPress in /tmp so that it can test against it, using the function install_wp(). I figure I also need a function install_bp() that would do something similar with BuddyPress. Simple enough. But I was wondering whether someone already has a setup like this in their install-wp-tests.sh, so that a) I didn’t have to go about the process of writing my own, and b) I can take advantage of whatever optimizations experienced BP developers may have made in this process, which I might be unaware of. Do you know of a setup like that? For instance, what do you use to set up your Travis box so that it can automatically run tests for your plugins?

Added https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6281#ticket.

I’m using a child of the bp-default theme, and I haven’t overridden the activity template.

A search of the files in the buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default folder turns up nothing, so I’m guessing not.

@rosyteddy,

But sigh! This is one area no php scripts have ever thought or coded, as far as I know. (If they did, FB would not have this ugly monopoly). There may be workarounds with the codes and protocols already available in wordpress (or for that matter in other scripts) but I am afraid there is no ready-made plugin available.

It is possible, and I am close to it using /wp-admin/press-this.php. But the issues are that press-this.php places posts on wordpress sites and it grants users admin dashboard. My site uses buddypress and “BuddyPress Activity Plus” plugin to post pictures on front-end.

What I want now is the .php file like press-this.php that handles the posting of updates on front-end without granting users access to admin dashboard.

@hugo
Thank you for taking the time to respond. The advice on changing the name in the plugin folder allowed me to get back into the wp-admin log in. After reading what you said about I looked at the ‘Activation’ drop down and it was set to login so I think that is where I went wrong. When I change it to none buddypress informs me ‘The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activate. Repair’ what kind of page so I have set for that drop down menu? Do I need an additional plug in or do I just make a new page for it? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you again!

I use “BuddyPress Activity Plus” plugin. This plugin allows user to post pictures on activity streams as update.

The excart .php file that handles the picture publishing is what I can not figure out.

Plugin: BuddyPress Activity Plus – Version 1.6.1

Thanks.
You’re wright, “mediapress” has this ability but some plugins (such as BuddyPress Cover and buddypics) don’t have it.

I can use following codes in a “php.ini” and put it in that plugins but it isn’t very useful…
(
wp_memory_limit=128M;
upload_max_filesize=128M;
post_max_size=20M;
) (reference:https://buddypress.org/support/topic/upload-size-limits/)

Thanks again!

Sorry about the line suggesting that there wasn’t much feedback. I had originally posted on the BuddyPress thread on the WP support site which didn’t have too much happening. Here on the BP support it seems to be thriving…which makes me feel better because I’m really been impressed with the script.

Thanks for taking the time to suggest a few key plugins. 🙂

@danbp Sorry If I’m blurry, been sitting on and of with this since yesterday 🙂

1. I have 90 users/subscribers.

2. All users are forced to write a number when they registerer. This I force them to do with BuddyPress Profile Fields. This field have the id 2, xprofile_get_field_data(2)

2. I have a plugin “WP Excel CMS” were I render out a excel-document with information on a page. Here I also have numbers. And the value of this cells are $entry[1]

3. Now when I have xprofile_get_field_data(2) and $entry[1] I want to echo get_avatar() of the $user_id in the database who have this number match.