Thank you for all your great work!
I think the number one problem is the UI. Most people install BuddyPress on their or a default theme and the result is not pretty.
This deters most people and makes them look for other solutions.
A BuddyPress theme that looks modern and nice would be a great addition. If it is too much trouble, it might even be a list of 3rd party themes endorsed by BuddyPress.
A notice for users to use a BuddyPress endorsed theme after they install the plugin would solve that problem.
Statistics
Most community owners need data for their communities. Having analytics on their member engagement and other statistics would be of huge value to them.
Plugin Directory
Furthermore, I would like a plugin directory for BuddyPress related plugins. Us BuddyPress developers would love to have a place to showcase our plugins, and also, the users would have a place to look for extensions easier.
BuddyPress developers/agencies
Many times users need help with their sites, but they do not know where to turn to. Having a list of approved/certified BuddyPress developers/agencies would be a big help to them.
Thanks again.
I use the pro version of Astra, with a child theme, on my site.
Something in the astra setup causes any attempt to navigate to a member’s personal page to throw a 404 error.
When I switch to, say, the default 2022 theme the problem goes away and the member’s page shows up.
Has anyone else run into this? How do I fix it?
– Mark
WP Version 6.0.2
BuddyPress Version 10.4.0
Astra Pro Version 3.9.2
I need a “Temporal Latest Activity and Profile Activity Feed” for Buddypress plugin. For now Buddypress Activity public Feed is so annoying with so many activities. We need to manage activities on public Feed and Profile Feed for a month, a week, a day or less.
Temporal Latest Activity Feed. Please. @imath
Mobile app.
Browser only websites are dying, slowly. Can you imagine discord, telegram etc without a mobile app?
I am working on a wordpress theme that focuses on being a bridge for headless wordpress + https://quasar.dev
I believe BuddyPress can be ground breaking for any mobile app that built with WordPress.
During office work in lockdown of covid, buddypress not give proper support. In modern time there have revolutionary change in social media. Reaction, activities variation,etc. Suddenly chating programmes become more popular than email & social media post. WhatsApp, instagram, Twitter, tiktok give some extra experience than buddypress. In present time facebook, instagram, WhatsApp try to make many change to stay stable. Youtube start short video after popularity of tiktak. We should depend on many more plugins for design the buddypress based community. So reduce dependency on them. Without theme you should develop moser buddypress template, which is suitable for modern time in all device. Hashtags also.
I have set buddypress to allow all users to create groups, however no option is showing under groups for users to be able to create groups. As admin I can only create groups from the dashboard.
Any ideas ?
I’ve been running into an issue where I can’t compose a message with an admin account. However, with a non-admin account, I’m able to compose and send messages. My WordPress version is 6.0.2, and BuddyPress is version is 10.4.0. I tried deactivating plugins and that didn’t work. The link to my site is https://clcboats3dev.wpengine.com/.
Hello dear Buddypress team,
I need to make the groups directory show each group’s main forum url (/forum/), instead of its home (showing members) so, clicking the group link in the directory page , it would send directly to the forum.
I realize this may require more abilities than I have, but is it even possible? I searched through the Buddypress plugin files (specifically bp-groups/screens/directory.php, but I have to say I hit a wall. I was thinking of adding /forum/ somewhere and here it is :’)
The url concerned is https://freefullpdf.com/wordpress/groups/ (work in progress), with WordPress 6.0.2, Buddypress 10.4.0 and bbpress 2.6.9 (for the forum part).
Thank you very much for any response
This is Buddypres 7.2.1 btw
Any ideas where this is being called and any way to tweak it to force it to use another index?
For some reason, it’s using date_recorded as the index, thus causing these 1,2,3+ second queries.
They look like this:
SELECT DISTINCT a.id FROM wp_bp_activity a WHERE
(
(
a.user_id IN ( 457,4233,6113,4562,47,5954,5530,5149,5160,5500,6436 )
AND
a.hide_sitewide = 0
)
)
AND a.is_spam = 0 AND a.type NOT IN ('activity_comment', 'last_activity') ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC, a.id DESC LIMIT 15, 16;
///////////////
SELECT DISTINCT a.id FROM wp_bp_activity a WHERE
(
(
a.user_id IN ( 5137,4581 )
AND
a.hide_sitewide = 0
)
)
AND a.is_spam = 0 AND a.type NOT IN ('activity_comment', 'last_activity') ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC, a.id DESC LIMIT 0, 16;
///////////////
SELECT DISTINCT a.id FROM wp_bp_activity a WHERE
(
(
a.user_id IN ( 34806 )
AND
a.hide_sitewide = 0
)
)
AND a.is_spam = 0 AND a.type NOT IN ('activity_comment', 'last_activity') ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC, a.id DESC LIMIT 60, 16;
Hi Forum
I need to offer each user a document that is unique to them and can only be accessed by them.
Is BuddyPress a neat solution?
Thanks
With bbPress you can create two types of a forum in a BuddyPress context .
The most important thing BuddyPress is missing is social engagement. BuddyPress lacks a lot of features that makes a social network. Likes / Reactions, media posting, hashtags, user activity as main activity page, suggestions like who to befriend and what groups to join, and many more.
Yes, these features are present with the help of other BuddyPress plugins, but why? Why not make them part of the core? These are generic social networking features that all other social platforms have.
Or at least make them add-ons. The theme is my last suggestion. Make a simple theme for BP so that developers can modify it as they please. Install the theme when BP is installed. Or maybe suggest to install the theme after.
The reason why developers prefer different platform is because doing new type of theme based on js framework and not on general wp template files and learn new js framework require a lot of time.
Another reason is lack of ducumentation for developers and code examples. Codex must be improved.
If Woocommerce has theme storefront for using features of woo and has also open source woocommerce mobile app, bouddypress can have the same. Dedicated theme wich gonna be very easily customized with blocks and template tags. Source code for customizing buddypress mobile app.
I love š buddypress.
Since this appears to be a bug and have yet to get a response here, I have created a ticket (https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8752)
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I would also like info about loading times etc. with Buddypress.
For example, my site is on shared hosting $35/month, when logged out then pages load super quick, approx. one second, when logged-in then significantly slower between two and three seconds.
I am using BuddyPress intergrated with memberpress btw!
I am creating a fitness courses website integrated with BuddyPress. Under the profile page we can currently see the % of the course that has been completed.
This information is only available to the user and I would like to make it so that everyone who is friends with said user can see their progress on the course that they have started. Is this possible?
TIA
Have traced the issue to line 89 of /buddypress/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/common/js-templates/group-members/index.php
88 <# if ( ! data.editing && ! data.managingBan && ! data.removing ) { #>
89 {{data.role.name}}
90 <#} else {
If I remove {{data.role.name}} the list of members is restored in both the front and back end. I have restored the code for now since it is this block of code that lists the members’ role in the group when viewing the group member list.
Please take a look at this plugin. It might work even with php 8.1!!!
buddypress profile which is not updated at WCFM profile
I think it’s worth considering turning optional components into plugins as long as discovery and onboarding are done REAL well. The plugin directory is definitely a way, but i’ve seen companies do one-click installs from inside the settings screens of the plugins themselves.
Also another subject – how often do we (the collective we) feature prominent, large, special, or niche BuddyPress powered sites? If developers see potential that might get them more involved in testing, etc. Problem is how to discover or find them on a constant basis. This goes back to a mention of mine of “marketing” earlier.
You’re welcome @dimensionmedia. No worries I understood your point š. I won’t talk more about this subject here and focus on BuddyPress instead. You made a very good point about the WordPress Plugins directory:
Ok, so if the WordPress repo is our advantage ā then how do we use that advantage? how do we stand out (from member sites and other social plugins)? how do we feature BB plugins that are trust worthy and maintainable that avoid people having to dive into thousands of plugins in this āimportant advantageā? Good questions, looking forward to hearing more from people about them.
You’re right, I believe we can try to help Users with this kind of shortcuts:
But we’d need more contributors to test/review BuddyPress plugins, which is maybe a too big dream I’m doing, I agree š
What I was meaning, was: It’s possible to transform optional components into plugins and preserve the current user experience and only install what they need, thanks to the WordPress.org API.
Another advantage of being into WordPress.org plugins directory are updates (semi or fully automatic). The Plugin team is also doing a great job to eventually “suspend” plugins in case of security issues or wrong behaviors.
Thanks for the reply @imath. I was simply implying to look and see what they are doing – SOME of what they are doing I think fits into general interest (look at how they deal with media). They are doing research and it would be foolish to ignore some parts, even if it in the end it leads to ways we can mold it more toward BuddyPress thinking.
Sometimes you can lead my example, other times you can lead by taking something and making it better in some way.
There’s a balance with addons – too many and a user can get overwhelmed with choices and research but overall I lean toward simple as possible. Perhaps it’s something that is simple for a niche purpuse that uses BuddyPress “under the hood”. It’s not a great example but thinking about “how can I spin up a special kind of to-do app that I can add my friends and share and collab with, while still owning my data, control, etc”. Thought of this today while my kid was showing me what she does in Notion today.
Ok, so if the WordPress repo is our advantage – then how do we use that advantage? how do we stand out (from member sites and other social plugins)? how do we feature BB plugins that are trust worthy and maintainable that avoid people having to dive into thousands of plugins in this “important advantage”? Good questions, looking forward to hearing more from people about them.
I don’t believe BuddyPress is missing THAT many features. Part of this is also changing with the times. Which means maybe thinking a little differently – even if it’s me thinking differently from how I look at BuddyPress when I started with it so many years ago. ā®ļø
Hi @dimensionmedia & @sunsetcowboy
Thanks a lot for your very interesting feedbacks š.
I think weāve deliberately avoid the buddyboss subject because it has been talked a lot here https://wptavern.com/buddypress-plugin-usage-declining-remaining-contributors-discuss-path-forward and we end up talking more about this fork than BuddyPress š.
I believe we shouldnāt try to do features the same way theyāre doing. We need to lead by example, to innovate, to carry on being good citizens of the open source and being supportive about WordPress choices (eg: going into blocks as much as we can).
I donāt think Ā«Ā customersĀ Ā» are into the BuddyPress Ā«Ā targetsĀ Ā». We want to provide totally free, open source & secure community features to WordPress sites and every human being. Weāre trying to make wise & Ā«Ā general interestĀ Ā» oriented choices.
We have a very important advantage : we are into the WordPress Official Plugins directory, we should really use this advantage and split BuddyPress into smaller parts as it will always be easier to install Addons hosted on the WordPress Plugins directory.
The Ā«Ā liteĀ Ā» featured Buddypress idea is very interesting, it could be BP Core + BP Members, the only 2 required components.
And David, we really need to organize this Ā«Ā Buddy-World-CampĀ Ā» šš
. We also need to get together š
