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Hi, @shanebp

Oh no, not all this is happening in the one customised plugin. I was simply describing what appears to be happening in the system as a whole when you hit the Submit button in the customised post. This thing is one tortured mass of plugins. 🙁

The Custom post page is generated by Gravity Forms. This is the plugin that handles creating a post & saving it.

The Add-a-Post-to-Activity-Stream-so-it-sends-an-Email-Like-an-Update is provided by a custom plugin that extends the functionality of BuddyPress Group Email Subscription.

It just seems that the timing’s out a bit.

If I can make the postmeta handling occur before the post is added to the Activity Stream, then all will be well, as my own trivial addition to this will be fine.

I’ll take a look at wp_mail. I thought that Buddypress may override what happens in there.

Thanks for that & apologies for posting in the wrong part of the forum. Just noticed that.

Any other suggestions???

Or is the only option to delete BuddyPress and all associated tables and reinstall it from scratch???

Cheers
Ben

I finally remembered having an issue similar with a non buddypress installation about a year and a half ago on another new server…..drumroll please…..you guessed it…gd library. The stackscript used on my new linode didn’t have gd library in the stack, so I just installed it, rebooted apache and blam…all is good. You may mark resolved @mercime

AHA! Found the problem. I thought I had to put bp-custom.php in the root of the BuddyPress plugin folder, but it should go in the WordPress plugins folder instead! Now it’s working!

Somehow missed this tutorial on how to use bp-custom.php, was only guessing based on threads I’ve found here. https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/bp-custom-php/

Hi bphelp,

Sorry, the first few lines of my code apparently got cut off! I do actually have the define BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT and tricks_change_bp_tag_position function in there. As far as I can tell I’m using exactly the same code that you’ve proposed. However, sadly, this hasn’t produced the effect I’m looking for.

Is there something else I should be including in bp-custom.php (aside from the opening/closing PHP brackets), or do I need to place bp-custom.php somewhere else other than the root of the Buddypress plugin folder?

Excellent. That pointed me in the right direction. I modified it slightly so it compares versions with the “beta” in version number also.

`if((version_compare(BP_VERSION, ‘1.7*’) == -1))`

Thanks Hugo! I woke up today realizing that I’m looking for the template hierarchy. Just like BBPress has:
‘plugin-bbpress.php’,
‘bbpress.php’,
‘forums.php’,
‘forum.php’,
‘generic.php’,
‘page.php’
Read that doc here.

Could I create a ‘bpress.php’ which will overrule BuddyPress’ usage of page.php as the template for members, groups and activity pages?

@mercime  Thanks! Events Manager is too convoluted and does not have basic features of an Event plugin ( who will attend/ not attend/may attend) – it is also not integrated with activity stream, that is, no comments can be made from activity stream to the event. In comparison – you can see oxwall.org which comes with integrated event (as well as photo)

BP Album is broken with BP 1.7 while BP Media is buggy with 1.7 and lacks tagging or marking directly on photo, a basic feature that is part of all real world social nets as well as scripts like elgg (free) or phpfox(paid).

@mercime, thank you for the advice. And for starters, I appreciate all of the time you’ve taken for this one thus far… I did, in fact, forget to do that, though in doing so I haven’t been able to produce any positive results, except I DID GET TO actually use the cropping tool this time, so I definitely got a feeling of momentum.

Here are the results from that…

With default bp theme activated, an image can be uploaded and taken to the “cropping tool”. The cropping tool seemed to function as per normal, though once I make my cropping selection I get this error…

“There was a problem cropping your avatar, please try uploading it again”

I get this in all browsers, with all plugins deactivated (besides buddypress, of course – even the coming soon plugin).

I’m starting to knock around the word “befuddled” in my head, as I haven’t been able to find anything that seems to work either.