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I came across the topic of someone asking about 123flashchat by TOPCMM and felt I should share with you what my experience is so that others don’t get caught.

Anyone considering any of TOPCMM software should spend a lot of time asking questions. I lost $1300.00 plus thousands of dollars in advertising, hardware and other software because TOPCMM was never able to make this software work right.

After only a few months of owning it, I started begging for a refund which never came. When they found my review, they said in public that they were happy to offer me a refund but in email, the keep telling me it’s not possible and that will not happen.

Support is almost nonexistent and they will make you nearly crazy with delays. No matter what ticket type you use, low priority or critical, you still will receive the same support no matter what. You might get lucky and someone will respond in a day, maybe two and often, a week. By then, you will have lost many customers and money if you are advertising as I was.

They also take countless holidays and leave you hanging during those and only sales is on staff during weekends. Their forums are useless and they never give any real answers other than ‘give us your login details and we’ll fix it’. This means you’ll never learn about your server and will always be dependent on them, just how they like it.

From what I can tell, they are on their knees after abusing countless customers and their future is unsure. Be very careful!

I could go on and on and would be happy to share more horrors if anyone is considering this software. Just PM me.

Good luck… now… on to more positive things

Please check the codex first:

Groups Loop

Same issue here! Does nobody knows how to calculate the buddypress avatar’s filename? I need to access the avatars’s urls to show in an external non-wordpress website the members!
Waiting..

Hey, nit3watch,

I’m running your plugin and there is a formatting problem when sharing to Facebook and Google+ — instead of labeling the post being shared as itself (as it does when sharing to Twitter or email), it labels it as just the members page.

Here is a screenshot of what I’m seeing when I share to Facebook.

I like the idea of a premium version — and I’d pay a lot more than $3.00. But it would have to resolve these types of issues.

Thanks for a great plugin and let me know what you can do about Facebook and Google+.

Rob

So you want to block
yoursite.com/members/
and
yoursite.com/activity/
from users who aren’t admins or editors ?

But allow everyone to view
yoursite.com/members/my-profile?

Then you might try putting a current_user_can conditional directly in the over-ride templates for those two pages.

[there surely is a way to write a function to do this, but it escapes me at the moment]

Perhaps a simpler way, given that she wants to check for both admin and editor, is to test against a cap that both admin and editor have.

Something like: `function bp_my_restrict() {

if ( !current_user_can(‘edit_posts’) ) {

if ( bp_is_current_component(‘members’) || bp_is_current_component(‘activity’) ) {

bp_core_redirect( home_url() );

}
}
}
add_action(‘wp’,’bp_my_restrict’);`

Hi @mossyoak

I’ve run a few tests and made some slight changes to that code. Try this

function bp_my_restrict() {
   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
	
      

         if ( ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) ) {
		 
		 if ( bp_is_current_component('members') || bp_is_current_component('activity')  ) {
            wp_redirect( home_url() );
	    exit();
	 }
      }
}
add_action('wp','bp_my_restrict');

@eflouret
>Do you think that moving the templates to the main theme is wrong?

No, it’s what you should do when you want to customize templates.
I thought you did it solely as part of your attempt to get the new nav item working.

If you want, you can add new templates to that dir.
And call a template from your show_content function:

function show_content() { 
	locate_template( array( 'buddypress/members/single/my-trips.php' ), true );
}

Just read through your original question. The code snippet you’d want to add to your theme’s functions.php is something like this:

function bp_my_restrict() {
   global $bp;
   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
	
      if ( bp_is_current_component('members') || bp_is_current_component('activity') ) {

         if ( ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) ) {
            wp_redirect( $bp->loggedin_user->domain );
	    exit();
	 }
      }
}
add_action('wp','bp_my_restrict');

Try this

<?php

   $user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id(); 
   $user = new WP_User( $user_id );
   
   if ( $user->roles[0] != 'administrator' ) {
     // your code
   }

?>

You could use the WordPress conditional is_page() to check if the user is on the activity or members page:

if ( is_page('members') || is_page('activity') ) {

} else {

}

Note: I’m assuming you haven’t changed the default slugs

It is easily done. You’d need to create a new page template:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates

You can then use a modified members loop inside the page template you create:

Members Loop

Duplicate of other thread: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/hide-the-followingfollowers-tabs-from-non-profile-owners/

Your theme’s functions.php file wouldn’t get overwritten with each update. The changes you make to this file will be safe going forward.

A great place to hire a BuddyPress developer would be the BP Jobs Board:

BP Jobs Board

Please do not make duplicate topics that regards the same subject matter as it clutters the forum. @mercime and @modemlooper has already responded on the first topic here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/charge-a-fee-to-upload-media/
If their suggestions doesn’t work the only options you have is build this functionality yourself or hire a developer to do it for you. You may want to post on the jobs board:

BP Jobs Board

or here:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Good luck!