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@brashell61 as posted in WP Forums, You’d have to make the group private. Then you would need a custom plugin created for joining a group via password.

Where do you put the actual ID number?

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https://buddypress.org/support/topic/downsidespotential-risks-for-not-updating-buddypress/

Three threads on what is clearly the same overall general question is a bit fractured. Explain what you are trying to do in a little detail and people may suggest a better course of action than that which you tend to be suggesting?.

You are sort of splitting what is the same question across different threads – not a lot of point really, stick to one please it’s a lot easier :

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/downsidespotential-risks-for-not-updating-buddypress/

Closing.

interesting question, I’ve often wondered this myself

The most fundamental thing to correct is the notion that you edit any files that comprise the core, you never ever do this in WP , BP, or any other OS  or otherwise app.

Do so and then never update core for fear of losing those changes will potentially be a disaster. BP is a young and rapidly developing, changing project it must be kept up to date.

WP has a system API that allows you to filter  and hook into functions, BP enables this ability where practical and this ought to be the way you approach customizations.

What exactly are you attempting to change that requires editing of core files?

Which version do you try to install ?

Read here if 1.6.4 https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

And here if 1.7 beta: https://codex.buddypress.org/group-forums/
If you use bp beta use also bbPress 2.3beta2

Thank you so much. I did it and it is gone now. It’s a creepy plugin.

BP ver 1.7 does away with group forums

Funny that, I’ve just set up group forums on a 1.7 beta test site, think maybe what you meant to say is that BP as of 1.7 does not bundle the older bbpress that was packaged along with BP core. From 1.7 on you need to install the standalone bbPress plugin if you want forums period, but having done so bbPress will allow you to create group forums if you wish and also to import existing group forums if on an older install being upgraded.

WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).

#1 cms is an opinion and regardless WP is a blogging platform trying to move processes into a more CMS like app but it’s not there yet.

No it’s utterly intuitive (in fact that’s not really a great description)  when you get deep into certain aspects, yes it’s quite well documented but is still lacking detail in some areas, and just cos there’s a page on something doesn’t mean it’s all good info. Joomla has never been worth passing comment on, comparisons between Drupal and WP erroneous they are two different platforms, Drupal is a CMS built to be as such and Druapl is not and never was designed for non coders it’s a developers platform.

Despite all that and reservations about various parts of the WP API it’s still essentially a nice platform to develop on and it’s primary feature/role as a blog blows all competition out of the water.

Buddypress will likely be a whole lot easier to use for non coders with 1.7 now but still they will imagine the earth and want to have it but realise it’s not that simple and BP does require coding skills if you want to progress beyond simple out of the box installs into whatever theme you’re running.

As for documentation get in there and help write some please – it’s an aspect few want to get involved with, not enough glory I suppose?

@Chouf1 for someone who is upset I’m complaining – all you really did is complain that I was complaining. I didn’t give any details, because mine were the same as the OP’s. In addition, I was talking about a base install – and the groups/forums issue is the same no matter what the theme.

I have since found a few tidbits of information that were helpful.

1. BP ver 1.7 does away with group forums
2. BP ver 1.7 is in beta 2 and almost ready for release
3. moving forward forums should be integrated using bbpress (which you have to install separately)
4. you only get the “create” a group button from the master root /user-groups BP URL
5. profile BP links like /members/username/groups are different than the master root pages
6. to manage a group after creation before BP 1.7 you have to actually visit the groups page in question (/user-groups/groupname) and the click “admin” to make changes – there is no master groups editing page
7. in BP 1.7 there is actually a new “groups” section in the wp-admin sidebar where you can (for the first time) have group management capabilities on the backend (edit / delete)

I stick by the fact that there is very little documentation on how to use BuddyPress after first install. I have been using WordPress since 2004 and have created and hacked hundreds of plugins and themes. I have written thousands of blog posts and articles / tutorials on WordPress. From that background, having installed BuddyPress I can quite easily say that it’s not intuitive to use, it’s difficult to figure out the integration points, and many things that should be easy are just plain hard.

WordPress is the #1 CMS in the world because of the low technical point of entry. It’s intuitive, easy to use, easy to install, well documented, and quite easy to hack. It’s usage has eclipsed both Joomla and Drupal because they are not. I think many people think BuddyPress will be as easy to install and use as WordPress itself, and it’s just not (yet).

I’m definitely figuring out where everything is, and how to get going after first install. I didn’t find much here in these forums or the Codex in that overall regard. Even external blog tutorials are a little sparse on the subject – most information you find is just severely dated.

Am I willing to contribute to the documentation? Certainly. I’m in the process of writing up my findings now – but I was looking for answers first…and all I was finding were others with similar unanswered questions.

hi @umagokhale,

thank you for this sharing ! 😉

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/buddypress/trigger/do_action/bp_activity_delete/

Grab it an do what? You haven’t explained what you wanna do after it is fetched.
You can try:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/

@panthony54 Did you create a page to post the shortcode per installation page I see in WP extend? Go to Pages > All Pages and delete that page.

I installed on a website I am setting up and decided to delete it as I was more happy with BuddyPress so I deleted the plug in but the link to GRA4 is still on my site. Anybody an idea for this beginner techie to get rid of it? See http://www.happinesz.com

Hi Brendino,

I think it’s a bug in the function xprofile_format_profile_field as it’s working great when seeing the birthday in the profile of the user. I’ve just posted this ticket on the dev trac.

While waiting for core developers review / patch, i suggest you to use this little hack to achieve what you’re trying to do. Adapt your snippet this way :

if ( bp_has_members() ) :
    while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member();

        echo bp_member_name();
        echo ': ';
        /* this functions is detailed after */
        xprofile_birthday_patch();
        echo '<br />';

    endwhile;
endif;

Now in the functions.php of your active theme, paste the content of the xprofile_birthday_patch() function :

function xprofile_birthday_patch() {
	$birthday = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Birthday', bp_get_member_user_id() );
	
	if ( is_numeric( $birthday ) )
		$birthday = bp_format_time( $birthday, true, false );
	
	else
		$birthday = bp_format_time( strtotime( $birthday ), true, false );
	
	echo $birthday;
}

Are that tricky to sort out these notifications? I’m not sure what to suggest without running code and playing around with it which I’m not sure I have time for at the moment, but try and get your working code up in a copyable form on pastebin/github so we can, if necessary, download and play around with.