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Thank you @tolusage, it was very helpful, first I installed “buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type.1.5.8.4” plugin then “bp-xprofile-wp-user-sync” as you said. Some works now, except the profile page tabs and Signup module. Registration form all ok there are first name and last name boxes there.
1-But on profile page there are about me and Looking for tabs. Ans I see the same data in both tabs. Looking for has the same info as About me. Basically the name, age, height, weight etc all base info appears in looking for tab too except in quotes in Looking for css design.
2-And signup module doesnt show first and last name boxes
As you know on signup box there are these element boxes:
.User name
.Your full name
.Your email
.Desired password
.Confirm password
So I want to get rid off that “Your full name” and put “First name” and “Last name” boxes there. So what file do I need to modify? And how, with what coding?
3-And on admin panel as admin I want to be able to edit user data, at the moment I can edit only the names, email, password. But I want to be able to edit the age, height, weight, country, city thinks like that I have in the main registration form already exist. But on admin panel I cant see them for users to edit. How can I put them in users edit page?
Could you please help out, thanx @tolusage

hmm nevermind the above post after re-reading it i have realised that line 62 is to reflect the name i give the function, but i still cant get it to work, i will explain what steps ive taken please tell me if im doing it wrong…

i have renamed this bit at the top

// begin record products to BP activity stream
function product_record_activity( $post_id, $post, $user_id = false ) {

renamed it from…. function product_record_activity …. to this…… function test_test_test

am i right so far?

next i have renamed this on line 19…

/* Don’t record this if it’s a regular post */
if ( $post->post_type != ‘product’ ) return false;

and where it says ‘product’ i added my custom post type name…… am i still right?

then on line 28 this bit…

$activity_action = sprintf( __( ‘%1$s added or updated the product %2$s, in the store:

i change the added or updated the product and in the store to whatever text i want……. am i still doing it right?

then the last step at the bottom i change line 62 to the name i made earlier which was function test_test_test

so am i still right?

then i upload the buddypress custom php to my plugins folder via my ft p….. i then go and check my site and post something in my custom post and guess what? nothing happens!

now i dont understand what im doing wrong and if this code still works or not? if it doesnt could you please give us your current solution please prometheus? or if im doing something wrong will someone please tell me? because i can get the code @neo-tronic pasted above to work perfectly and show custom post types fine in the activity stream when posting in my custom posts…but the thing is with that code is it does’nt let users comment on the post from the activity stream?

can someone please help me out here ….ty 🙂

@oscar582234,

Try the above combination of tips by @henrywright and mine…

Additionally, use the following plugin to create your First Name and Last Name fields as XProfile Fields:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/

Then use the above plugin to sync them as necessary!

@boblebad,

What you trying to create is a bit interesting and it might take about 3 or 4 plugins to manage fully… So follow the steps below and you’re well on your way:

Foremost, Install this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/
(NB: That is for the More Profile Fields Option)

Step 2:
Install this plugin to achieve the “ticking off boxes, and also make them searchable, like vegetarian, vegan, smoking a.s.o. ?” that you asked:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-better-directories/
(Although the plugin is a little old, the author is a BuddyPress core developer – see if you can work something out with him)

Step 3:
The 4 Membership Plans Stuff is best handled by the free version of the plugin below,
https://wordpress.org/plugins/s2member/

Step 4:
About the Profiles Completion Meter (35% Completed and so forth, but without the quality stamp!)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profile-progression/

The quality stamp part is best worked out with the developer of Sweet Date. Just request custom development services from him and you’re good to go.

Hello, I have the same question. Could somebody explain where to put that code ?

Best regards,

I have the exact same problem but I am using the Buddypress Default theme – and I have never tinkered with the code.

I would be very grateful if anyone could give me an idea of what might be going on and how to fix it.

buddypress.php placed in the root of a newly created directory ‘buddypress/’ or ‘community/’ will act as the main template file for all BP screens whether directory or account screens, group screens, it’s the wrapper as it were that provides the main header, sidebar,footer includes and main markup your chosen theme needs, essentially it is a replica of page.php from your main theme, having buddypress.php means you can make changes to that file that will only affect BP screens e.g get_sidebar(‘buddypress’).

when your happy with the basics then read the extended guide which explains further means of creating custom bp templates.

This is very helpful, but the counts for active members on the Member Directory page are still incorrect. I copied the members-loop.php into a buddypress/members directory in my child theme and added the code where you described, but obviously the count for “All Members” and “Viewing x of x members” are coming from somewhere else.

Rick, glad that we’re clearing up some confusion. To confirm, yes, messaging is totally different than posts. Please read the codex links provided. Also, if you really want to take buddypress for a test drive, set up a development site either on a live site or right on your own computer using http://www.instantwp.com/ and then add some “fake” users and messages, and data using this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/

And then jump in there and click around like crazy, edit, message, post, and see what happens! this is the best way to really check things out without doing any damage to your own site. Nothing compares to getting your hands dirty and mucking about (in a safe test environment).

This way you can really understand what messaging is, what private messaging is, broadcasting from admin to all members, etc. You can also add/remove plugins and check out their functionality, all in the comfort of your own computer’s hard drive or a test environment set up at a test domain/host that you control/own.

Also, keep in mind that buddypress has many features but you do not have to enable them! for example, there is a feature for groups. But you don’t have to enable it! you can add a forum (using bbPress) but you don’t have to! you can have private messaging so members can send private messages to each other… but, you guessed it, you don’t have to enable this feature. Also, another powerful feature is that you can give members of your site the ability to start their own blogs! this is called “multisite” but you can choose to enable this or not. Same goes for “friend connections” feature… etc.

My suggestion is to start with a very simple starting point and then as your community grows, add features that they require or need. It is a far too common mistake for new buddypress users to just turn everything on at the start.

If you don’t want to restrict your membership in any way or to collect money online from them then you don’t need anything else other than buddypress and wordpress. But look through the membership plugin links I provided to familiarize yourself with them and their features just in case. A few are completely free and still have tonnes of features.

Finally, keep in mind that spam registrations do happen. There are many guides and tools to mitigate spam membership registrations. Here’s a good start:

Preventing Spammer Registration

Google is your friend for more info on spam fighting.

You can put this function in your theme functions.php or bp-custom.php

It will prevent the creation of activity entries for the items in $exclude
It will only do that going forward – it won’t remove existing entries.

You need to find out what the activity type(s) is for achievements and add it to the exclude array.

function dont_save_various_activities( $activity_object ) {
 
    $exclude = array( 'friendship_created', 'new_member' );

    if( in_array( $activity_object->type, $exclude ) )
        $activity_object->type = false;
 
}
add_action('bp_activity_before_save', 'dont_save_various_activities', 1, 1 );

You can read more on this great codex page by imath
https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp_activity_add-2/

The first thing to do is always check the BP Codex we write guides to try and help people with aspects like this.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

And related pages under ‘Theming’

Template compatibility just runs under any theme you choose to run (in the majority of cases) you don’t create a child theme based on a parent ‘bp-legacy’ choose or create a theme, then if you need to customise BP templates or CSS you overload (copy) the template files required to the theme or child theme as described in those guides.

oops, looks like I linked to the wrong url for the broadcast message plugin (from admin to all members)

:/

this is the right plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/mass-messaging-in-buddypress/

ok, let me see if I understand you — if not, correct me 🙂

1) you have a website at: http://www.betterpresenting.com/
2) you have created another separate website at http://www.summitcommunity.org/ where you want to install buddypress and create a community website for a conference

ok I think before we even get to the ‘messaging’ or ‘post’ issue, we have to clarify something.

As of now, http://www.summitcommunity.org/ forwards to http://www.betterpresenting.com/community/

Buddypress automagically works seamlessly with your existing theme so it looks good… this wasn’t always the case so thank the developers who added this feature just a few months ago! moving on from minor digression…

So it looks like you don’t have two separate sites but your domain at summitcommunity.org is 301 redirecting to http://www.betterpresenting.com/community/ and this is where you have installed buddypress.

Is that correct?

If this is correct, then we can move on to the other question you posed.

I went back and read you original post that you referenced above:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/installing-bp-into-a-portion-of-a-site/

In that message you write:

“If I understand correctly (a reach at best), posts become messages. But I post at betterpresenting.com about a great many things, not just ones that would be for the conference community.”

Posts do not become messages. Posts and messages are separate things. ok?

A post is well, a blog post. I’m sure you know what that is.

A message is an internal message sent from one member to another (if you have enabled this feature of buddypress – you don’t necessarily have to! or from admin to members)

https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/messages/
https://codex.buddypress.org/component/private-messages/

Also, admin can send a ‘broadcast’ message to all members with this plugin:

BuddyPress Live Notification

Hope that clarifies words and definitions so we have a standard vocabulary with which to communicate!

Now, if I understand the rest of your original message accurately, what you’re saying is that you run a website and have an annual conference and would like to know how buddypress can help you with both. And you want to make sure there is a way to keep the conference ‘stuff’ separate from the other regular website ‘stuff’.

To solve this, you don’t need subdomains or extra installs of wordpress or any of that. Here’s what I would do:

I would install buddypress as a plugin in your existing wordpress blog (the ‘main’ site). Then I would use the buddypress features to run your annual conference by also enabling a membership plugin.

Using the membership plugin you can post ‘conference’ related material and pages which ONLY THE MEMBERS SEE and interact with. To someone who just comes to your site, all they see is your regular blog/site… until or if they ‘login’ and have paid or are accepted as ‘conference’ participants.

People who are members of the conference (aka buddypress + membership powered) site can see and interact with both the conference portion of your site as well as the regular part of the site.

If I have hit the nail on the head and accurately understood your needs, here are some reference material:

http://chrislema.com/comparing-wordpress-membership-plugins/

How to choose a WordPress membership plugin

If not, let me know!

Hi Rick, I think you need to clarify exactly what you’re trying to do. What you write is very confusing and may have lead to your and others’ frustration in attempting to help you:

“But our main site has an active blog and I don’t know how to separate posts that are intended to be read by the entire world and shown across the entire site from messages that are intended to go just to the Summit community.”

Are we talking about messaging? as in private and internal messaging between members and between admin and members? or are we talking about blog posts that are read by all or some parts of the community?

If you want to restrict blog posts to just members, this is extremely easy and there are many plugins that handle this.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/

as well as s2member and other ‘membership’ plugins which work with buddypress to create tiers to separate content (pages, posts) so that you have control over who sees or reads what.

So please clarify EXACTLY what you are trying to accomplish and hopefully the community here can help you.

@chefbt you can also change the ‘buddypress’ slug to something else, like ‘community’ so that the URL structure is:

http://example.com/community/members

this is what this website’s configuration does, like so:

https://buddypress.org/community/members/chefbt/

for more, scroll down to slugs part here:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

@chefbt my time to shine (even though I’m not a coder!)

to put profiles in the root — http://example.org/username/ add the code snippet below to your wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file:

define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );

yay! hope that fixes it for you. In the future, google is your friend. So is the codex where this came from:

Changing Internal Configuration Settings

Hi Philip
Thanx for your reply. Where is your plugin please?
I just need exactly something like this, pls tell me whether your plugin can help me to achieve this, or do I need to modify some files as well, please help I m stuck here, thanx:
On the small signup form and on the registration form I want 2 form boxes, 1. First Name 2. Last name instead of Full name.
And also in admin panel in users page, add new user form needs to be like that too (so admin can create some users with First Names and Last Names too.
And obviously on frontend profile page there should be First Name and Last name boxes should be seperately. Also on search members page there should be option First Name and Last name (obviously on BuddyPress admin page search form elements to choose to there should be first name and last name). Basically in whole site I need First Name and Last name issues. I use the latest WP and BP.
Thanx.

I totally agree with @peterverkooijen and @codeispoetry
Keymaster @johnjamesjacoby (John James Jacoby) is clearly in another world mushrooming, because of his lack of PHP coding knowledge and world culture giving false arguments. BuddyPress developers years ago came up with this stupid ida of one full name and their DB structure is so messy that they cant be now bothered to change it. on DB structure the user name is not in user column, is just a value like any other form input values. So their change the fullname to firstname+lastname will be a BIG development deal, therefore they cant be bothered with it, so left it as it is. And on support forums like this, they keep defending this silliness by fake arguements like “some cultures use 4 names etc !!!” I guess they are talking about Mexican people have 4-5 names. But their lack of world culture makes them think like it. Mexican, Spanish people has 2-3 first name and then 1-2 last names (surnames), or in Europe some women carry their surnames and as well as their husband’s surname too, so they have 1 or 2 first names and 1-2 surnames. Birth given names are called FIRST NAMES anywhere in the world, and family given or marriage given names are LAST NAMES anywhere in the world. So what BuddyPress could do: Could create 2 name boxes and relevant DB structure, one saying first name (people can enter 1 or 2 or 3 names all around the world people know which ones are their first names and which ones are their surnames unlike the Keymaster @johnjamesjacoby John James Jacoby)) and on the second box they can enter their surname or surnames, thats all. So BuddyPress data would be compatible with all newsletter, emailing softwares and people can search first names or last names etc.. can normalize itself to the world web technology. So if some people dont want to display last names they can, if they want to display the whole full name they can, give people felexibility, instead what they do they behave like dictatorian attitude, they say “take it or leave it” arrogantly, and they keep arguing here with all participants who made BuddyPress this popular, although the popularity fastly going down because of this techology lackings. More importantly culture and attitude and support lackings.

Hi,

You can install WordPress via Softaculous and then you can install BuddyPress plugin or any other plugin from WordPress admin panel.

This is a solution I came up with, for me it works because it works more like Facebook.

In plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/comment.php

I changed the href on line 37 to
<?php bp_activity_comment_link(); ?>

When a user clicks Reply on a comment, it replies the same way it would if you clicked the Comment button.

Buddypress 1.9