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Hi @jeremy_lv

Unfortunately, the functionality you describe isn’t available in BuddyPress currently. You could try opening a topic in the Ideas forum. Alternatively, you could attempt coding it yourself or perhaps search for a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory.

If you decide to go-it-alone and code yourself, then feel free to open a new topic here for each specific question you may have.

Hope this info helps!

Hi @scaffies

Thanks for the report. Whilst this won’t resolve the issue, it might be worth mentioning that the BuddyPress team don’t reach out directly to plugin developers before each update. However, developers that choose to integrate their plugin with BuddyPress are urged to check the blog for important updates on upcoming releases. Beta versions and release candidates are made available which allow for some testing time before ‘go live’.

Hope this info helps.

Now, on to the issues at hand. Is it possible to provide a link to the Chat and Messenger plugins? I’ll try to take a look to see what the issue could be.

In the mean time, please try to let these developers know (via their support channels) there’s an issue and hopefully they’ll be able to look into a hotfix if one is needed.

@agentswall You’re welcome. Marking this as resolved.

The Create Groups link has always been in the Groups Directory page, not in the individual groups page. There is also a Create Groups link in the BuddyPress section in the Admin Toolbar which I see you have disabled. You could add the link if you want in the menu you added for logged in users if you need a way for users to find that link if they are not in the groups directory page.

@nomad48 what theme are you using? There is an outstanding issue with themes which use the new title feature. Have you you updated that SEO plugin? https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107

Just tested on a fresh install, i’m not able to reproduce, that’s why i’ve asked you about a specific config.

When you say “Register and Activate pages cannot be created” Have you created the pages from the Add new page WordPress menu. You need to create 2 pages there and then come back to the BuddyPress settings > Page to set for Register and Activate one of the pages you’ve created.

Hi Brandon,

I’m really sorry about the inconvenience.

I think this is very specific to the way the BuddyPress links plugin is built. Maybe the plugin developer will be able to find a quick fix.

In the meantime, @venutius @scaffies you can use a bp-custom.php file and paste in it this temporary fix :
https://gist.github.com/imath/ef0d44e21bd2dd195147

I really suggest you to remove the code as soon as the plugin author fixed the trouble.

this was the issue before (quotes from our change log)
NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/change-log-nl/
.. and it took from SEP/OCT 2014 to now you get it sorted in this 2.2.0 release.

07 OCT 2014 – Tuesday
☠ [10:35 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Dumb: the previous BuxFix (known BP 2.1 issues) a few days (Oct 1st) ago, which solved a bug we had reported (GitHub), was NOT included in today’s bugfix update. Manually restored it. Hmmmpf!
☠ [09:00 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Updated 1 Plug-In: BuddyPress BugFix Release v2.1.1

this referred to the “enqueue” bug, which was previously discovered, and manually fixed
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5889/5889.01.patch

☠ [14:35 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] BuxFix (known BP 2.1 issues) received: The BuddyPress people found a bug we had reported (GitHub)- some of the broken functions are now restored!

23 SEP 2014 – Tuesday
☠ [18:30 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Upgrading to WordPress 4 and BuddyPress 2.1 unfortunately broke some things – we reported it upstream, and hope for a solution soon.

hi @chlab,

if you read code documentation in /bp-legacy/buddypress-functions.php

// Only hook the 'sitewide_notices' overlay if the Sitewide
// Notices widget is not in use (to avoid duplicate content).
if ( bp_is_active( 'messages' ) && ! is_active_widget( false, false, 'bp_messages_sitewide_notices_widget', true ) ) {
add_action( 'wp_footer', array( $this, 'sitewide_notices' ), 9999 );
}

I guess you have to modify your custom code accordingly. 😉

@gatelli yoursite > Groups > nameofgroup > Forum pages use the page layout of the the groups page template as it is integrated with that BuddyPress group. WP/BP versions? What theme are you using?

Same problem here .. pretty annoying, to be honest:

NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BuddyPress-Links-gone.png

“☠ [16:50 GMT – @scaffiesadmin ] Through the BuddyPress Update the page “Links Elsewhere” was broken – all Links disappeared. Hmph! Removed t from the menu.”

We had lots (!) of links entered on the page(s) under “Links” and many ‘up’ and ‘down’ votes. ALL are lost, it is now completely empty and I had to remove the page from the menu.

When I stated on our change log I had upgraded Buddypress to the latest version, I added “let’s see what it fixed and what it broke” .. something always seems to go wrong, and with over 260,000 users, it is a bummer.
NSFW: http://scaffies.nl/change-log-2015/
Sadly, I was proven right 🙁

This is a bad day for open source development.

We (all the admins) are clueless about “classes” and “skeleton components” – we just use the software, pay / donate for what we do use, and hope it works … and does not render the work and efforts of thousands worthless in a single, badly tested software update.

I am afraid to install updates – the last one required some code changes do be done manually to fix something else which was broken – yet have to, in order to avoid security problems.

We are not using Multi-Site (i.e. single site, WP 4.1, and all plugins in their latest revisions).

Brandon, London

Hi @nopartysystem,

Can somebody please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

in brief: all ! 😉

After you create a child theme, you’ll have a folder ‘my_child_theme’ and a unique file in it ‘style.css’

If you want to modify BuddyPress, you create a folder named ‘buddypress‘ into your child-theme folder, and in this bp folder, you copy /folder/file/ you want to modify from /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Read here for more details

In your case, you use /child_theme/buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php

Than you modify the code to reflect if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring....
(read here)

Another method to filter your activities is to use bp_parse_args (also explained on the codex)

Thank you. Are you using a Multisite config or a specific config like BuddyPress activated on a subsite of a network ?

Hi,

Could you describe your configuration :
– Multisite ?
– WordPress version 4.1 ?
– Any BuddyPress plugin activated ?

hi @venutius

Sorry something went wrong with BuddyPress Links.

It appears this plugin has a specific way to build its component. It’s actually not using the BP_Component class.

I’ve run some test with branch 1.7 of the BuddyPress skeleton component (https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-skeleton-component/tree/1.7) which is using the BP_Component class to set its example component. With this plugin, the directory page issue is not happening.

So i’d recommand the author of the plugin to use the BP_Component class making sure the Links component is set as active using this kind of code https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-skeleton-component/blob/1.7/includes/bp-example-loader.php#L64

In 2.2 we’ve introduced a bp_is_active() check in the function bp_core_get_directory_page_ids(), i think it’s the reason why this problem has occured with this plugin. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.0/src/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php#L439

Take a look here for how it’s done in the default template.

Hi @mrjarbenne

Using Twenty Fifteen with just BuddyPress and BuddyPress follow activated, I can’t seem to reproduce the problem. Can you provide some details of your set-up and open a Trac ticket so that it can be investigated? With the default theme and no plugins things should work so I’m a little puzzled. The core dev team will know more.

…as I don’ know diddly about php… where do I place it?

Ah OK. Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article which should explain how templates work in BP. You’ll need to create your own templates if your theme doesn’t already have them.