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i am not a programmer but i would think coding a simple favorite button into the page template wouldn’t be too tall an ask or require editing core. i also think if it was using the buddypress favoriting it would just be a stop gap until the feature is included in core compatibility wouldn’t be an issue as you you could just remove the extra code but hey what do i know anyway?

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If you need something done immediately then feel free to check out the BP Jobs Forum where you can hire the skills of a developer. Alternatively, BuddyPress has lots of great stuff in the pipeline (coded by volunteer developers) so if you wait for it you’ll get all that for free.

Hopefully this info helps you.

well it sounds like applying the patch is not a matter of skill at this point. this is an open source project, one which is just about to release a major revision so to expect this feature to see the light of day “immediately” is not realistic. the best thing you can do if you don’t want to give up on buddypress is to hire a developer to add the functionality into your theme or via a plugin.

Go to wp-admin/network/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings
Find:
Registration
Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.

Now create a New Page and save it with the name – register
and then choose it from the drop-down and save settings.

it would be wonderful, if the WPMUDEV team were to come out with its long awaited theme.

currently, i own “Terso Theme” and WPLMS.

you can buy premium wordpress themes that just plain break BuddyPress, so it is necessary to try things out.

i also run a BuddyPress site with the 2012 theme. i don’t know why, but the activity stream is actually nicely styled and works properly, whereas other themes simply turned the activity stream into an ugly mess.

one criteria for the theme is that certain key functionality has to work in a way that makes sense to users.

brought this up in the buddypress devchat today and will bring it up again when the 2.3 discussion starts 🙂 it does seem like this idea has been brought up in the past and it seems like there is some agreement that an improvement in this department would be worth looking into at least.

The pot file doesn’t contain the translation, only the strings you can translate.

The translation is done in po (not pot) file and compiled to a mo file. buddypress-de_DE.mo is the file you have to use.

there has been some discussion of media handling in core I’m not sure the exact status of it but you may want to show up for a dev chat to lobby for your request(s) theres one later today in fact:

Wednesdays at 20:00 UTC
#buddypress on Slack

https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/buddypress

@florangelie,

It’s possible to hide the toolbar for logged out users:

Settings>buddypress>[Settings Tab]

Uncheck “Show the Toolbar for logged out users”

The Toolbar belongs to WordPress. See WP Codex for how you can rearrange this.

So far i see, your register button is correctly linked to BuddyPress register page.

As you can see in the BP source (2.1),
$nav_name = sprintf( _x( 'Notifications <span class="%s">%s</span>', 'Profile screen nav', 'buddypress' ), esc_attr( $class ), number_format_i18n( $count ) );

This string in po. is outdated: Notifications <span class=\”count\”>%s</span>

You have to open your actual po file with poEdit (or similar translation tool) and update it with the pot file comming with latest BP version. (/buddypress/buddypress.pot)

Once updated the string to translate will be:
Notifications <span class=\"%s\">%s</span>
who should be translated to:
Benachrichtigung <span class=\"%s\">%s</span>

Be aware that poEdit uses different colors to indicate you the translated strings, the untranslated strings AND the fuzzy strings wich are approximative translation. These fuzzy strings must be double checked and validated or modified to work.

Example: difficult to see sometimes the subtle difference between “%s” and “count” when reading too fast ! 😉

I am guessing it would easy to add a function to one of the like / voter plugins mentioned above ( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-like/#post-231535 ) – that would also write something to the BP activity table – which would then show likes or votes on posts and such on the activity stream – if those like / vote buttons also work on media that is uploaded through rTmedia (or the new (beta) mediapress plugin) then that would be pulled into the activity feed.

The tricky part beyond that is that buddypress does not have an integrated media thing – so there would need to be some kind of bridge between rtmedia, or mediapress or whatever was handling the media to display “likes” somewhere on the profiles.

Maybe this is something the rtcamp or mediapress plugin guy can add that functionality or someone can create some kind of bridge / api thing to let the three seperate pieces all talk to each other – then you would need code in your theme to grab that database table and display numbers next to whatever…

I think rtmedia’s plugin displays a number next to the media tab in my bp-social theme (for number of pics / videos someone has uploaded) – I wonder where this “# of likes” is to be displayed? Just a total number of likes in the main profile fields area – or number of likes broken down by media uploaded, blog posts liked, activity updates liked, etc.

I like you thoughts on this @disha76 – I’d like to see this work – it sucks that BP does not have integrated media handling – it’s a major issue I have posted about in the past – brings us to this “4 separate things need to talk to each other” in order to get basic functions working / displayed.

it would be awesome if the mediapress guy would offer to give that code to core BP – but then again, it appears there is not much work going into updating / maintaining BP these days – so getting things updated seems to depend more on third parties doing code for side projects money from what I can tell. Which of course means paying for custom stuff today – a future WP or BP update could cause the voting / like plugin to break and need to be recoded (by a dev that may not be responsive) and the media plugins could break.. and your theme may not display correctly – so you may have to try to pay all those people to make updates to keep those functions working in the future – if you can get those people to come back to projects.

So – I hope it happens, but like many things buddypress – I would not hold my breath that something that can be modded to work today will not break in the future without a fix – I’ve had to let a previous buddypress like system go, and a few other plugins from around 1.5 that were nice.

@disha76

Even though Jetpack and BuddyPress and both projects under the WordPress ‘umbrella’, they are separate plugins and haven’t been designed to work in that way. That said, both should always be compatible. For example, if you find something stops working as a result of the plugins being installed together and conflicting then you could file a bug report.

Have you seen this?

NoMoreCaptchas may help. Anti bot technology. https://buddypress.org/extend/plugins/?ps=nomorecaptchas

Hi @christoph744

I’m sure there is a way to filter the members loop via BuddyPress but if you want a WordPress approach then check out the WP_User_Query class. Assuming that s2member uses custom fields to distinguish members (I may be wrong on that) you’d want to look at using the Custom Field Parameters

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query

@rizar9 – buddypress is a membership plugin (and more) – but you may not need that kind of community (that buddypress essentially creates) – you could use a regular ol’ wordpress site and something like s2member if you are set on a membership plugin.

If you find a way to encrypt all the data that gets stored in the database, please let me know – I have been trying to find a good secure contact form system that encrypts into sql and stuff – which I think would be needed for the hippa stuff with some of my clients..

“without a membership plugin, how am I able to keep a record of the past and pending appointment bookings that the person made?” = I am not sure on that really – but I was pointing you to a couple of plugins up above that seem to do some of what you are describing – so maybe you should install those and play with them – see what they report to you and perhaps some small mercenary (paid) modifications of those could piece together what you are describing(?)

rizar you don’t need a membership plugin for that- you needs a points for actions / karma type plugin and an appointment setting plugin. I have heard of one like that, I guess something similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/ and these https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+appointments&sort= . From my limited experience dealing with some in the medical field in the states, I am not sure what you are describing is technically ethical or legal – but I don’t know for sure, and I am sure those issues vary by region as well. Just a thought you might want to consider before putting too much into that.