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hi @vikingpoker,

I’m sorry to hear that BuddyPress has upset you.
Members are the heart of BuddyPress and the plugin comes with anything necessary to let you manage them.

We might be able to help, would you please let us know exactly which components you activated during the BP setup ?

BuddyPress use the WordPress page system for internal purpose only. Content is shown dynamically, depending the context. When you click on a username, BP calls the pre defined member page and use the appropriate template to show the profile.

BuddyPress has also his own menu, on which you’ll find activity, members, groups so far you have activate the respective component. To access this menu, go to dashboard > appearence > menu. If you don’t see it, go to the top right corner of the screen and open the sceen option, and check “buddypress”.

You’re using a framework theme, which is not the easiest to handle if you have not much experience with WP theing. I tested it a while ago and can understand your disapointment. You may probably find good advice about BuddyPress on the Hueman support forum.

I would recommend you to use 2015 or 14 theme during the time you familiarize yourself with BuddyPress.

I invite you to read also the Codex to start with your BuddyPress.

Oh, and if you don’t understand why this is not a #1 topic in this forum, it’s probably because a large majority of user haven’t this issue. And discover here all what you can do with BuddyPress. 😉

Why is there no page setup to show the profile information?

@vikingpoker You do that from the backend. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Did you try using the tools?
In wp-admin, Tools > BuddyPress

Wishlist Member is a premium plugin so we do not have access to debug the issue.

BuddyPress 2.2.0 did make a change to directory pages that probably caused this issue to occur.

hnla is correct that you should try patching the one line in a WordPress file to see if that fixes the issue:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/version-2-2-0-and-is_page/#post-234315

Please give that a shot first and report back.

The other thing I can think of is Wishlist Member is not properly doing redirects on the correct hook. They should use the 'template_redirect' hook at a priority less than 10 (preferably 0). This is just purely speculation at this point without looking at their code.

Did you look thru the files for BuddyPress Profile Search ?

Did you notice this action in bp-profile-search\bps-search.php ? And what it does?
add_action ('bp_after_members_loop', 'bps_remove_filter');

Might be a clue.

You don’t need to touch any core files to add an Order By.

Example for adding a Contributor option, put in bp-custom.php or theme/functions.php

// add order options to members loop
function ch_member_order_options() {
?>
   <option value="contributing"><?php _e( 'Contributing Members', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_members_directory_order_options', 'ch_member_order_options' );

// filter ajax members by contributing
function ch_filter_ajax_querystring( $querystring = '', $object = '' ) {

	if( $object != 'members' )
		return $querystring;

	$defaults = array(
		'type'            => 'active',
		'action'          => 'active',
		'scope'           => 'all',
		'page'            => 1,
		'user_id'         => 0,
		'search_terms'    => '',
		'exclude'         => false,
	);

	$ch_querystring = wp_parse_args( $querystring, $defaults );

	if( $ch_querystring['type'] == 'contributing' ) {
	
// to get members by xprofile field, you need some custom sql here
// here's an example: 
//https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/loops-reference/the-members-loop/#code-examples

		$users = get_users( array( 'fields' => array( 'ID' ), 'role' => 'contributor' ) );
		
		$users_str = '';
		foreach ( $users as $user ) {
	             $users_str .=  $user->ID . ',';
	        }
		$users_str = rtrim($users_str, ",");

		$ch_querystring['include'] = $users_str; 
		$ch_querystring['type'] = 'alphabetical'; 
		
		return $ch_querystring;
		
	}	
	
	else
		return $querystring;
			
}
add_filter( 'bp_ajax_querystring', 'ch_filter_ajax_querystring', 20, 2 );

Use this hook:
do_action_ref_array( 'messages_message_before_save', array( &$this ) );
In function send() in this file:
buddypress\bp-messages\bp-messages-classes.php

Hello,

read here please:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

hi @matthias70,

once BuddyPress is installed, you have to set pretty permalinks.
Syncing profiles with WP users is also recommended (in BP settings).

If you use a standalone bbpress forum, check also his settings.

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

Also, question related to bbpress have to be asked on the bbpress support forum

Hope is referring to the “Settings > BuddyPress > Pages” admin page.

The “Search” directory page is not a default BuddyPress component. What plugin are you using for BP search, Hope?

It is likely that the plugin will need to make some updates.

There have been some problems with the BuddyPress Links plugin post BP 2.2 release. Check of this thread for some more info on the problem. I’m not sure if the developer has managed to resolve yet, perhaps it’s worth opening a ticket on his support forum.

Thanks for the reports everyone.

I think this is related to a change we made for BuddyPress 2.2.0.

I’ve opened a ticket here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6226

I’ve also attached a potential fix for this bug here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6226/6226.01.patch

This bug is only applicable to multisite installs.

See also this discussion related to same question as yours
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/group-extension-api-display-under-admin/

Use the Group Extension API.

I was looking at this website some time ago and agree about some of the features that are listed on the website and a few of them would be “Handy” to have in buddypress, but i also believe most of the features listed can be added onto buddypress via plugins or by other means, i agree that the privacy between users and choosing if you would like to block other users etc from any contact whatsoever with you would be neat (users being able to block certain activity’s from showing in their stream altogether would be great too).

As for the media support…well, what can i say, after trying numerous solutions to get everything working right for what my site needs to do (paid and free), i have come to the conclusion that this area of buddypress is one of its biggest downfalls, you basically have limited choices from a media standpoint, meaning you can either choose from forks of outdated plugins for free that do let you have a few basic media options or you can go for plugins like rtmedia which to be honest is a really heavy plugin but works great at a performance cost! or you could opt for other paid media solutions which i have done and still found problems with etc, there is one promising plugin by buddydev which is mediapress that is still in beta and in my opinion has to much wrong with it to use in a live website yet even though it is alot less demanding than rtmedias plugin, so it becomes a waiting game or a case of settling for one of the other options.

hi @kimovic,

for sure you can do this ! 😉

See the new member-type API: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/member-types/
Types can be XBOX, PS3, PC for example. It’s a very robust and flexible solution.

An other option to do that is related here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/change-their-to-his-or-her-in-activity-stream/

@whoaloic,

guess it’s not implemented yet, at least for MS. See #5197

Read also here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/possible-to-upload-avatars-for-other-user-as-admin/