BuddyPress.org

Need to build a site for 1000+ members with profile pages. Imagine a company where each salesman has their own page. The profile pages will allow them to post information, links, videos, etc. on a single page with their own url off the site.

BuddyPress could be used for this, with some customizing. You’ll have to elaborate on what you mean by “with their own url off the site”.

I also need logged in members to have access to other areas of the site based on their membership level.

A membership plugin will be necessary for this.

Need this to be responsive, and I need to be able to style.

That all comes down to the theme you pick. Whether you use BuddyPress or a membership plugin or neither makes very little difference. Responsive layout is all determined by the theme.

A 404 error is when the server cannot access a link. Usually a broken or dead link. WordPress uses “pretty permalinks” which basically means it creates virtual links for your site using a structure that you assign to it. If this system is messed up you may get 404 errors all over the place.

First idea: Go to Settings > Permalinks and set the Permalinks to default. Test your site, and then set Permalinks back to whatever custom structure you had set up. Might fix it.

Second idea: Make sure you have a page assigned to each BuddyPress component, at Settings > BuddyPress. If not, WordPress may not know where to access the BuddyPress pages and may return 404 errors.

Look in your themes for the template file:

wp-content/themes/[theme-name]/buddypress/members/single/home.php

If that exists, and is from an older theme, look for a “notification” section in there. If it’s missing this will break the loading of your notifications page.

In this section:

do_action( 'bp_before_member_body' );

After this line:

elseif ( bp_is_user_forums() ) : bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/forums' );

Add:

elseif ( function_exists('bp_is_user_notifications') && bp_is_user_notifications() ) : bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/notifications' );

That allows the profile to load the notification template.

Just a heads up, because I know a lot of people have asked and not gotten anywhere, but you can use this feature + Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type plugin to create a forum badges feature. That was my goal with this and it works. You just need to display:none; the field# class so that users dont see it as an option to edit in their profile. Then you have complete control and can give users badges that show up in the forums 😀

*flys away*

Template overloads

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

You’d change $avatar_size = ( ‘full’ == $type ) ? ‘-bpfull’ : ‘-bpthumb; to:

if ($type == 'full' ) {
    $avatar_size = '-bpfull';
} elseif ($type == 'thumb' ) {
    $avatar_size = '-bpthumb';
} else {
    $avatar_size = '-bptinythumb';
}

But that approach wouldn’t be recommended because when you upgrade buddypress your changes will be lost.

The tiny thumb will be the default avatar size. If you wanted to use the thumb or full versions then you’d need to pass thumb or full to bp_core_fetch_avatar

> exclude creation of public groups and comments posted in them from displaying in the activity stream.

Changing to $hide_sitewide will prevent it from appearing anywhere ( including the group activity stream ) except the activity stream for the person who created the item.

You probably want items to appear in the group stream, so try this in bp-custom.php or your theme functions.php

function remove_groups_from_activity( $activity ) { 
  if( $activity->component == 'groups' )
    $activity->hide_sitewide = true; 
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_before_save', 'remove_groups_from_activity', 1, 1); 

Of course, this will only apply to new activity items.

Then you need to ‘reveal’ those hidden items in a group stream…

Create a template overload of this file:
\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\activity\activity-loop.php

Then before the loop, check if you’re viewing a group and if so, then change the
bp_has_activities call to:

if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&show_hidden=true') ) :

The activity stream is quite flexible:

Activity Loop

hi matthew, maybee you could you explain a little more?

All my pages are messed up, the links are all screwy and bunch of other stuff.

ive looked at your link and everything seems perfectly normal on the twenty fourteen theme, i notice you havent got buddypress installed?
go to plugins and click add plugins and search for buddypress, then go to buddypress settings and tick what you will want to be using within your website, i would also suggest doing a search for rtmedia plugin for your photos. dunno if this helps as i cant see what you mean with all the links being screwy etc when buddypress isnt even installed?

Hi, my buddypress notifications template is missing. Please tell me how to create a simple notifications template. thanks

Hi, please tell me how to create buddypress notifications template as it is also missing in my theme ? thanks

here is doc on filtering bp template parts

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/function-examples/bp_get_template_part

Have you activated groups via the checkbox on this screen?
/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bp-components

Have you assigned a page to Groups via this screen?
/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-page-settings

The same and more info:

Configure BuddyPress

It is simple, if you use the correct parameter, anyway…

Create a template overload of this file:
\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\activity\activity-loop.php

Then change this:
<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ) : ?>

To this:

<?php
$friends = friends_get_friend_user_ids( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
$friends[] = bp_loggedin_user_id();
$friends_and_me = implode( ',', (array) $friends );
$friends_and_me =  '&user_id=' . $friends_and_me;
?>

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . $friends_and_me) ) :  ?>

Creating a template overload:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Not sure why it’s not working.

For alternative spam plugins/solutions, there’s another more active thread going on here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/stop-buddypress-spam/

Two more methods that help. I recently had a crazy spam attack – probably 300 fake signups per day. I implemented these two methods and it dropped to near 0.

1. Change the /register/ slug to something unique. An example would be /create-your-account/, or something of that nature. It just needs to be unique and also make sense in a URL for your user. Spammers targeting BuddyPress look for /register/ as the signup page. It’s all automated so you want to filter them out at the first step.

2. Add this to your functions.php file in your theme or child theme.

It presents a dummy field that humans don’t see. Spambots will fill it out, and if the field captures a value it will reject the signup.

// BuddyPress Honeypot
function add_honeypot() {
    echo '';
}
add_action('bp_after_signup_profile_fields','add_honeypot');
function check_honeypot() {
    if (!empty($_POST['system55'])) {
        global $bp;
        wp_redirect(home_url());
        exit;
    }
}
add_filter('bp_core_validate_user_signup','check_honeypot');

Credits for #2 go to:
http://mattts.net/development-stuff/web-development-stuff/wordpress/buddypress/anti-spam-techniques/registration-honeypot/

I edited it slightly to remove the required redirect. Add that back from his tutorial if you want to. It requires that you make an extra page to send the spammer to, and I personally think that’s not necessary. I actually want them to have no indication their signup failed.

Hello 🙂
If you uncheck the User Groups in Buddypress settings (first tab) you disable all the Group system that is why all your groups disappeared.

I guess you are talking about the checking box on the FIRST tab of the buddypress settings, did you see the other one on the THIRD tab (called settings, just after the “Pages” tab) ? (at the top of the page)
You have a box to check to allow/disallow users to create groups.
Hope you are talking about that 😉

Read here exclude_admins_mods