I finally figured this out. I am using Gravity Forms user registration plugin to work with my Buddypress theme. My field names varied slightly between the custom profile field name and what I put on the user registration form. I realized that I must use field name as it is entered in the WordPress Custom Profile Field.
I do have one question…I would like to display the field name as well as what was entered in that field. For example, this site is a cancer site and users will enter their type of cancer. I would like it to read “Type of Cancer: Breast” rather than “Breast”
Any suggestions?
Okay, I feel like this one should work, but it’s showing not really making anything happen…
in my bp-custom file (lifted heavily from John James Jacoby’s informative post here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/calling-specific-profile-fields-individually/#post-55905):
http://pastebin.com/UQNYWcax
In my edit.php file, I replaced “bp_get_current_profile_group_id()” with the custom_position function
Thanks again!
Wound up reinstalling. Big pain in the neck.
Lunchgirl did you ever resolve this issue. every since I upgraded to 1.6.4 the same happened to me, all the sudden my registration page just reloads and clears the password fields and the user is not added. ;(
You don’t need to copy the entire theme. If you are talking BP-Default you can simply create a child theme and do your changes there.
https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/ is a great start to learn about this.
Just as a check have you turned on forums and installed BBPress? Or is this the only step you have done?
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/ may help you with this if you’ve not followed all the steps.
@lynneab you would want to go multisite with a subdomain or subdirectory. Just define that your BP will run on the subsite/secondary blog https://codex.buddypress.org/user/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/
can you have only friends online option to increase the privacy to users
@fordp The @DCraft11 account looks like it has all the proper capabilities. Are you able to log into Freenode server in IRC and join #buddypress-dev to privately message more information back and forth?
Update:
After looking at the skeleton component, I essentially just copied all of the files in buddypress/bp-groups/ and did a find and replace of “group” to “vehicle” and worked through the errors. But in the end, I’ve ended up with multiple group components.
@jwf3773 – Howdy. I know you’re new here, and we’re happy to have you around, but… you’re doing it wrong. 🙂
Boone is a core BuddyPress developer, but his plugins aren’t indicative of the BuddyPress project as a whole. If you’re trying to get a hold of Boone, there are way better ways to do that than claiming the sky is falling everywhere.
Going to close this topic, since it’s unlikely to go very far from here. Hope you have a great rest of your stay here at BuddyPress.org. 🙂
Hi @mercime
We went through the steps again and same confusion. My suggestion to them was to skip the instructions here on buddypress for the time being until I can clear it up in this post.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but from what you are saying it should be something like this:
-Follow the steps here: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/ and make sure “Discussion Forums” component is not selected
-Once the installation is completed, go to Plugins > Add New > and type in bbpress and then click on Install Now
After that, where is the choice to select site wide or group forum since the buddypress component is marked as inactive?
No one using this plugin?
@mgkoller – Thanks for adding your comments / helping me out.
Whey you say that you got the times working using the BBpress forum running alongside BuddyPress, do you mean the times in the forum itself, or the times in the BP Activity Stream that reference what was posted in the Forum? i.e. ” posted an update in the ..blah blah… hours ago”?
For me, the time in the actual forum works fine. i.e If I created a new topic right now it would say ” said 1 second ago”. But if I immediately go to the BP Activity Stream, it says that I started a new topic 5 hours and 1 second ago.
.. and then of course I have the problem as everyone else in WP Admin Activity where the same activity as above is 5 hours ahead.
Thanks!
Mike.
@JJJ , please look at this post, could these two problems be connected somehow?
Ah okay, I had been confusing the first one with the second. The BuddyPress Skeleton Component looks like the perfect starting place.
Edit: looked through it some more. THANKS! This is perfect (just needs some updating).
I have a lot of experience with custom post types, but within BuddyPress I believe the group functionality would be better.
Here is an example mockup:
For the above functionality, it would make sense to use a custom post type and a custom post screen within a users profile. However, using a variation of groups would instantly give me:
- Ability for users to follow the vehicle (change members to followers)
- A blog for the vehicle (using group blog)
- Easy interface for users to manage their vehicles, I could quickly create admin pages for specifics (a page to specify capabilities, like range and speed, which would be used in the group listing page to filter vehicles)
- If a vehicle were a university project, multiple “owners” could be specified.
- I could use a task management plugin for vehicles
I’m not doing anything with vehicles, but I thought this would be a great example of using a variation of groups. I could also get this functionality through multisite and user blogs, with each vehicle being a blog with integrated theme and custom admin panel to match the user profile, but that is much, much more work and a really heavy implementation. It would allow each vehicle to be a powerful hub, but that’s beyond what I need.
Beyond that, I would also want to have groups used like on BuddyPress.org (Plugins vs themes), but I don’t want them to share a slug (/extend/plugins/ vs /extend/themes/).
Sounds like your role wasn’t being automatically set correctly here on buddypress.org. Both of your accounts are set correctly now, and I didn’t make any changes. This isn’t cookie or cache related, it’s bbPress (what powers our forums) not behaving the way it’s supposed to.
It’s not the first time I’ve heard of this, but it’s something I haven’t been able to duplicate with new accounts. If anyone else has this problem, and reads this, drop into #buddypress on Freenode/IRC, and ping user ‘jjj’ so I can look at your account in real time when it’s happening.
bp_core_redirect calls wp_safe_redirect which is pluggable, meaning you can replace it with a function that includes a check for the component and action within the redirect url.
I had a problem for over a week to login to BP forum (!!!??). Please check the post on the WP support forum about it.
The problem was (is?):
If I’m NOT logged in, I can open the Buddypress forum and find and read my topic.
Of course, I can’t post on the forum if I’m not logged in. So when I log in, and click on “Support” in order to open the forum I got “Error 404 – Destination Not Found” (Buddypress.org page with menus and all other elements but in the middle it says: “Error 404 – Destination Not Found”).
If I go under my account settings, I can see my topic under “my activities” > “my mentions”, but when I click on the link I got “Error 404 – Destination Not Found”.
I emptied all cache and cookies and I tried from different browsers, machines, networks, I even created and tested with new user account, but it is always the same. I have NO CLUE what to do!
Today somebody suggested that he had the same problem, and the solution was to click on all the menu items ones first before clicking on the forum (??). So I did, and it worked (??????) – I could finally open the forum.
Please guys, what is it? If I’m to use BP I want to be sure that I can use the forum, and that this whole thing is working.
Thank you in advance!
I sent theme to theme review:
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10967
I hope it will get accepted 🙂
@resom – BuddyPress doesn’t properly support capabilities (in the current release) except for some basic is_super_admin checking.
The moderator/keymaster/forum roles are from BBpress. And currently have no uses inside buddypress.
In 1.7 (the next release) the core devs have been working on making this better – See: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2348 for developer discussions on this.
