BuddyPress.org

After removing BuddyPress and bbPress then disabling all of the plugins on the website. I reinstalled BuddyPress and bbPress. Then activated the plugins one by one. Now BuddyPress works better (partially works). I can now send Friendship Requests. However, when a person receives the request they can not ACCEPT the request. Are there any features that I should be aware of in BuddyPress that should be reset.

Also I noticed that BuddyPress and bbPress still referenced old messages and group names after i reinstalled the plugins. My thoughts would be to start over from the beginning. With clean install and not reference to previous data. I am not sure how to modify anything in the database or if this can all be done outside the database. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Basically Ive been asked to fix this field problem on someone elses website, Ive just been given access to FTP so can now make changes to the server files.

They are using a theme called Huddle and have BuddyPress install on the latest version:
http://themeforest.net/item/huddle-wordpress-buddypress-community-theme/835549

The theme folder has a members folder in for BuddyPress, which i assumed was the standard for BuddyPress. I have overridden the templates you suggested in /themes/huddle/members/single and the issue is still present.

I switched to a default WordPress theme to test compatibility and the fields are working like normal. So the issues is with the Huddle theme, now that its using the correct profile-loop and edit templates im not sure what the problem can be?

Hi @mercime
I have seen the topic “How to disable Group Activity updates?” in the following link:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-group-activity-updates/
This is a topic created 3 yars ago.
But I don’t understand if I need remove or add the codec.
Can you explain me?
How must to do in order to disable comments and replies in a group, and let at the administrator of the group to be able to do comments and replies in the group.
Thank’s very much.

Hey, I could be using the wrong view and edit templates as they do not look the same as the profile pages on buddypress.org.

I do not have full access to replace files on the server manually, I have updated WordPress and BuddyPress to the latest versions.

Do I need to manually replace the legacy files on the server with these files?
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/tree/master/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress

I thought this would correct itself when the plugin is updated.

Found it, Jetpack and specifically the photon module within jetpack was causing a dynamic resize of the generated thumbnails that failed.

Thanks for your consideration, I hope this helps someone else down the line.

Same solution as given here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/avatar-cropping-errors/

Thanks for your reply @hnla.

I’ve read through some of the codex and form what I understand I need to make a buddypress folder in my child theme and then add the files I want to edit into this so it loads first – all good there. OR that I cam edit BP actions by putting edits in a newly created bp-custom.php – which I’ve done and added into the root folder for the main plugins (/wp-content/plugins) ready for any customizations.

I’ve searched extensively in the BP files on my server including:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-activity.php
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress-functions.php
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/index.php
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/activity.php
… but can’t find the “whats-new-form” referenced there.

I’ve found some info re. “whats-new-form” in a couple of files:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php
…both of which seem to relate to the role=”complementary”, so not related to the member activity only section that I’m after (role=main).

And the activity index file you mentioned:
/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/activity.php
…did contain role=main but not the “whats-new-form”.

My grasp of php is limited and I can’t for the life of me work out what to do with all this!

Your suggestions would be appreciated – or links to info for this instead.

many thanks.

@hnla thank you for the guidance. FWIW, I did try doing as much research as possible (and trying out a few things) before posting my question here.

I reviewed the information contained in the link you provided. Thanks for that. But after reading through that information, what I’m still unclear about is how/what template I should modify in order to affect ONLY the BP Registration page. (FYI, I’m not a php developer, so I do need a bit of hand holding for some of this kinda stuff.)

I read through the info on how to “Customize the layouts of BuddyPress pages within the WordPress Default Themes”. However, the instructions provided there seem to apply to scenarios where a site admin is wanting to make page template changes that apply to all BP pages on a site (i.e., by placing a customized buddypress.php file in the child theme folder).

In my case, I’m only wanting to change a single page (the Registration page) to remove the headers and footers. So I’m still unsure how I would go about doing that (even after reading through the info). Thank you very much for any specific guidance you can provide me with to accomplish this.

Thanks for your help with this but I am still not sure what I need to do. The function I posted was just an example that I had found from an earlier forum, I do not need to add videos and pictures to the activity stream.

I need to add details of a custom post type every time a custom form is submitted from the frontend by a user. The custom post type is “Files”. Below is a class for the form and it is within the CMB (custom meta boxes) plugin folder. Can you advise on how to implement the code to record these forms posts in the activity stream?

class uploadForm {

    // Set prefix
    public $prefix = '_cmb_'; 

    /**
     * Construct the class.
     */
    public function __construct() {
        add_filter( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array( $this, 'cmb_metaboxes' ) );
        add_shortcode( 'cmb-form', array( $this, 'do_frontend_form' ) );
        add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'initialize_cmb_meta_boxes' ), 9 );
       /* add_action( 'cmb_save_post_fields', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );*/
        add_action( 'save_post', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );
       /*add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'add_activity' );   IS THIS CORRECT?  */ 
    }

    /**
     * Define the metabox and field configurations.
     */
    public function cmb_metaboxes( array $meta_boxes ) {

        /**
         * Metabox for the "Memorials" front-end submission form
         */
        $meta_boxes['upload_files_metabox'] = array(
            'id'         => 'files',
            'title'      => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
            'pages'      => array( 'Files' ), // Post type
            'context'    => 'normal',
            'priority'   => 'high',
            'show_names' => true, // Show field names on the left
            'fields'     => array(
                array(
                    'name'       => __( 'File description', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'       => __( 'File title or description', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'         => $this->prefix . 'title',
                    'type'       => 'text',
                ),
                array(
                    'name'     => __( 'Project stage', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'     => __( 'select stage (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'       => $this->prefix . 'category',
                    'type'     => 'taxonomy_select',
                    'taxonomy' => 'stages', // Taxonomy Slug
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => __( 'Link to website', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Add url to website (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'url',
                    'type' => 'text_url',
                    'protocols' => array('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet'), // Array of allowed protocols
                    // 'repeatable' => true,
                ),
               array(
                    'name' => __( 'Upload image', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Upload an image or enter a URL.', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'image',
                    'type' => 'file',
                ),

              array(
                  'name'         => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
                  'desc'         => __( 'Upload or add multiple images/attachments.', 'cmb' ),
                  'id'           => $this->prefix . 'file_list',
                  'type'         => 'file_list',
              ),
              array(
                'name' => __( 'oEmbed', 'cmb' ),
                'desc' => __( 'Enter a youtube, twitter, or instagram URL. Supports services listed at <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds">https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds</a>.', 'cmb' ),
                'id'   => $this->prefix . 'embed',
                'type' => 'oembed',
             ), 
            ),
        );

        return $meta_boxes;
    }

    /**
     * Shortcode to display a CMB form for a post ID.
     */
    public function do_frontend_form() {

        // Default metabox ID
        $metabox_id = 'upload_files_metabox';

        // Get all metaboxes
        $meta_boxes = apply_filters( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array() );

        // If the metabox specified doesn't exist, yell about it.
        if ( ! isset( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ] ) ) {
            return __( "A metabox with the specified 'metabox_id' doesn't exist.", 'cmb' );
        }

        // This is the WordPress post ID where the data should be stored/displayed.
        $post_id = 0;

        if ( $new_id = $this->intercept_post_id() ) {
            $post_id = $new_id;
            echo 'Thank You for your submission.';
        } 

        // Shortcodes need to return their data, not echo it.
        $echo = false;

        // Get our form
        $form = cmb_metabox_form( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ], $post_id, $echo );

        return $form;
    }

    /**
     * Get data before saving to CMB.
     */
    public function intercept_post_id() {

        // Check for $_POST data
        if ( empty( $_POST ) ) {
            return false;
        } 
         
        

        // Check nonce
        if ( ! ( isset( $_POST['submit-cmb'], $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'] ) && wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'], cmb_Meta_Box::nonce() ) ) ) {
            return;
        }
        
        // Setup and sanitize data
        if ( isset( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ) ) {
                       
          
            //add post data to database    
            $this->new_submission = wp_insert_post( array(
                'post_title'            => sanitize_text_field( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ),
                'post_author'           => get_current_user_id(),
                'post_status'           => 'publish', // Set to draft so we can review first
                'post_type'             => 'file',
            ), true );

            // If no errors, save the data into a new post draft
            if ( ! is_wp_error( $this->new_submission ) ) {
                
                return $this->new_submission;
                
               
            } 

        }

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Grant temporary permissions to subscribers.
     */
    public function grant_publish_caps( $caps, $cap, $args ) {

        if ( 'edit_post'  == $args[0] ) {
            $caps[$cap[0]] = true;
        }

        return $caps;
    }
    
   
    

    /**
     * Save custom fields and uploaded files 
     */
    public function save_fields( $post_id, $post  ) {

            if($_POST['_cmb_category'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_category', $_POST['_cmb_category'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_url'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_url', $_POST['_cmb_url]'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image', $_POST['_cmb_image'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image_id'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image_id', $_POST['_cmb_image_id'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_file_list'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_file_list', $_POST['_cmb__file_list'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_embed'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_embed', $_POST['_cmb_embed'], true );
            }
       

    }

    /**
     * Initialize CMB.
     */
    public function initialize_cmb_meta_boxes() {

        if ( ! class_exists( 'cmb_Meta_Box' ) ) {
            require_once 'init.php';
        }

    }
    
    /**
     * Add to buddypress activity timeline. - HOW???
     */
    public function add_activity($post_types) {

       /* $activity_id = bp_activity_add( $args );
        
        return $activity_id;*/

       /*   $post_types[] = 'file'; 
          return $post_types;*/
    }  
    

} // end class

$uploadForm = new uploadForm();