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OK problem solved. It wasn’t my setup after all, it was the spam filters my hosting company was using.

I found out thanks to this post here:

Invalid activation link fix?

I only wished I found it earlier.

I’ve got this running with a wordpress bridge, happy days..
All I need now is for BuddyPress to pull from our user tables.
I would be very grateful for some pointers.

For instance, can I instruct BP to pull from the Xenforo (XF) database, using these methods;

Member Types

many thanks

Now I have completely deleted the MySql database and all WordPress files. I did a completely clean install of WordPress 4.2.2 (without using Softaculous) and the only plugin I installed and activated is BuddyPress 2.2.3.1. Haven’t changed the language or anything else.

The problem is still there, exactly the same. The users get activated immediately after registration without clicking on the email link that is being sent to them.

First, @henrywright, I think you were right, that code was not creating the entry, it was created because I had add_post_type_support( 'alert', 'buddypress-activity' ); in bp-custom too. Thanks for making me think twice.

It’s amazing what you can learn in 12 hours. Not enough, but it’s a start. So I tossed the baby out with the bathwater, and read this about 15 times to get to a partial understanding of it. I am now using this:

// Don't forget to add the 'buddypress-activity' support!
add_post_type_support( 'alert', 'buddypress-activity' );
 
function customize_page_tracking_args() {
    // Check if the Activity component is active before using it.
    if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {
        return;
    }
 
    bp_activity_set_post_type_tracking_args( 'alert', array(
        /*'component_id'             => buddypress()->blogs->id,*/
        'action_id'                => 'new_alert',
        'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'Published a new alert', 'buddypress' ),
        'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Alerts', 'buddypress' ),
        'contexts'                 => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
        'activity_comment'         => true,
        'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s posted an important new <a href="%2$s">** Alert **</a>', 'buddypress' ),
        'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s posted a new <a href="%2$s">alert</a>, on the site %3$s', 'buddypress' ),
        'position'                 => 100,
    ) );
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'customize_page_tracking_args' );

After about 20 different mods, adding and deleting and changing, I got a CPT to take to the activity stream, with the (mostly) modified text I was looking for.

I actually don’t even know what some of the items in the array are, I just changed things until they worked. 🙂 In fact, I had to comment out component id, because I still haven’t figured out what goes there to keep from getting a WSOD.

The only main thing I’d really still like to accomplish is getting the Post Title in the link that is created here: '%1$s posted an important new <a href="%2$s">** Alert **</a>' — where it would be like “soandso posted an important new Alert:The Title of the CPT”

Any ideas out there?

If this is still not the right/best way to accomplish this, I’m open to suggestion. But I think I am at least stepping in the right direction.

Thanks.

I’ve tried AddToAny, Ultimate social media and icon plugin in buddy press theme. but it is not sharing image and correct title on facebook. Is this problem of buddypress theme?

@shanebp thank you for the reply.

I have researched the plugins that allow the searching for members and I found that this plugin is great but unfortunately the requirements of my client need a lot more customization and I find the documentation of buddypress much more helpful.

About the:
xprofile_get_field_data( $field, $user_id = 0, $multi_format = 'array' )
I think using that in a Query would be very expensive as it would require doing more database transaction over the search transaction. Am I right?

The wild card seems like a decent way to go with it, I think I will try that 🙂

Thank you.