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Comment notification emails are handled by WP, not by BP, so what you’re experiencing is by design. Check out Dashboard > Settings > Discussion, and look for the section that says “E-mail me whenever”.

Hey D,

I just added your plugin and it seems to be working well so far.

I love how on the Forum listing it adds a column that says “Follow” something I want to do is add that button to the Forum Topic itself so that when someone is reading the topic I add a button/link that says something to the effect of “Follow This Topic via Email” I want that in the topic itself in addition to the forum listing (I think it would be more intuitive for users that way.)

Also just to make sure I have it straight on definitions:

Subscribe – They subscribe only to be updated when new topics are started at any point

Subersubscribe – They subscribe to every single comment or post made within that group forum?

Thanks for your help, and the awesome plugn.

Hey D,

I just added your plugin and it seems to be working well so far.

I love how on the Forum listing it adds a column that says “Follow” something I want to do is add that button to the Forum Topic itself so that when someone is reading the topic I add a button/link that says something to the effect of “Follow This Topic via Email” I want that in the topic itself in addition to the forum listing (I think it would be more intuitive for users that way.)

Also just to make sure I have it straight on definitions:

Subscribe – They subscribe only to be updated when new topics are started at any point

Subersubscribe – They subscribe to every single comment or post made within that group forum?

Thanks for your help, and the awesome plugn.

Like in and of itself isn’t useful. What’s useful is what you then do with the data that people have liked. For example, you can send email notifications to people who have liked something that then gets commented on. You could show information in a feed based on previous likes. You can do lists of most liked items. etc.

This is a good baseline that can be built on. Plus, users for some reason like clicking the like button. It’s another form of communication without having to think of a comment.

What would be cool is to take it a step further and make the plugin agnostic and have multiple buttons. For example, I might want a like, dislike, and sarcastic like button (or whatever creative things people come up with).

Very promising plugin. A few issues I’ve found ….

The code to remove the “high-five” notification was commented out.

Gifts sent to my admin account don’t show under Gifts. This is happening for one of my users as well. Gifts sent to him or myself simply don’t show. It stills shows in the user activity stream who sent the gift however.

I’ve got the same problem.

I just recieved a notification of a reply from a ‘non-group-member’. The reply is in the notification mail, but not on the wire.

That’s really confusing for users !

Can I request that we move this discussion to my plugin homepage’s comments? It’s much easier to get notification everytime someone replies, and then other users of the plugin will be aware of it too

Yeah, it’s a bit of a change, isn’t it?

My strategy for making the transition easier for my users is two-fold:

1) Make the profile the default view for users (rather than activity), by adding

define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', $bp->default_component = 'profile' );

to wp-config.php

2) Adding the @mentions profile tab, plus some explanatory text, to the members/single/home.php template in my child theme. Thus, right below

<?php locate_template( array( 'members/single/profile.php' ), true ) ?>

I’m adding

<h4><?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>'s mentions</h4>

<p>Whenever anyone posts an update on this site containing <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>'s handle (<strong>@<?php bp_displayed_user_username() ?></strong>), it shows up as a public message below.</p>



<p>Want to leave your own public message for <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>?



<div class="generic-button" id="post-mention" >

<a href="<?php bp_send_public_message_link() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Mention this user in a new public message, this will send the user a notification to get their attention.', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Mention this User', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</div>

followed by the activity loop, taken right from bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php, but with the following relevant modification: the arguments for bp_has_activities are

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'scope=mentions' ) ) : ?>

(You’ll have to do some styling to make it look right, but you get the idea.)

It’s not an exact duplication of the Wire – I’ve tried to embrace the new @mention stuff, while still capturing the “leave a note for me” spirit of the Wire.

This is a good question. Here is my take on it.

bb forums are enclosed, stand-alone, old-school discussion boards that are traditionally organized according to “freshness” (ie, who commented last), which is supposed to tell you what threads are most active.

The activity stream is where it gets confusing. It is supposed to capture activity chronologically, regardless of where it happens in the group. So in the activity stream you will see forum posts, forum replies, group wire posts, and status notifications like “so-and-so just joined this group.” It gets blurry because you can also comment on activity stream items… so it’s not just a stream of activity, but another method for interacting.

In my limited experience, it is a little confusing to have both the activity stream and forum running at the same time. It’s especially confusing because by default, you can have a forum discussions ongoing, and have a parallel but completely separate discussion on the SAME posts in the activity stream. This can be disabled in the BuddyPress settings, but in my opinion, this should be off by default.

Are you able to receive emails regularly in WordPress?

eg. when someone posts a comment on your blog or when a new user registers for your site?

I say it again: GREAT plugin – thanks alot!!!

A couple suggestions/questions:

1. Do I get it right: I can set the default in the backend, but eyery user (not the group admin) sets/changes the notification for themselves?

2. Forum-Notification: I don’t want forums activated on my site, but I cannot get it off (no CSS classes for display:none). It is also not dynamically I guess, for I disabled forums in the backend, but still shows forum-notifications… Any solution to this?

3. What exactly means “added something new to the group”? Is that comments? Is that another plugin like gallery, group-documents etc?

4. Member must be registered for option: When I type 0 in the field, that would mean no delay, right?

5. “You can also specify a minimum gap in time between updates regarding group wiki page edits.” This sentence does not make sense to all the users who haven’t wikis installed. It’s hardcoded. Any solution to get rid of it?

6. Last but not least: Is it translatable??? I really would love to do that for german (at least try it as my first ) – could you provide a POT-File?

Thanks for all the work. This is REALLY IMPORTANT for us and well/simple made!

Ps: This is my test-install-site: http://wp.graphic-studio.ch/network – there I am testing your plugin

D – I was getting errors when I tried using the plugin the latest 1.2. Had to do with call to undeclared function get_group_member_ids in order to populate $user_ids. I commented it out and put in the following instead:

$thegroup = BP_Groups_Member::get_all_for_group( $group->id, false, false, false, true );

$user_ids = array();

foreach ( $thegroup['members'] as $member ) {

$user_ids[] = $member->user_id;

}

and it seems to be working now. Am I missing something?

I can understand the confusion with usernames and display names. This will be addressed, but not at the expense of not having this for 1.2.

I think there is still a lot of confusion around this, and where exactly messages end up when they are posted. I’ll try and clear it up.

Your activity stream displays your activity, everything you have done on the site. When I post a message, this is my activity, regardless of who it is aimed at. This is why @messages that you send display on your activity stream. You posted it, it’s your activity. The stream is not a wall, or status update history.

When you post an @message, the user you have mentioned will get an email notification of your activity with a link to take a look at it. They will come to your profile and read the message.

The user can reply to the message right there and then on your profile. You can have a complete discussion without having to @message each other or keep switching back and forth between profiles. Each time a reply is posted, this is activity for that particular user, which means any replies posted will appear on that user’s activity stream with a link back to the original thread.

It’s quite simple really, but you have to stop thinking about it in terms of how Facebook and Twitter work. It’s an activity stream with direct comments, not a wall or status update stream. Why would someone else’s activity display on your activity stream?

@Mike: I know there is the group blog plugin but it’s not deeply integrated into groups. I haven’t tried the new links plugin altho’ it sounds great. I’m not aware of any plugins to accomplish group notifications. bp-events shows great promise but needs some work. And there really is no way to have group documents that I know of (downloads or collaborative wiki pages). But I’m sure all of this will come in time. My main point is that out of the box… BuddyPress Groups are pretty limited. They basically just group people and allow them to make comments and forum posts.

Yes, the current group functionality is fairly limited. All you can really do is post comments and participate in forums. There’s no ability to create group content (posts, pages, videos, etc.) and very limited notification options. There used to be an option to post a wire update and notify all members of the post by email. Even this has now been removed in 1.2-bleeding… perhaps a casualty of the merging of the wire and update features. Hopefully it will come back. And hopefully bp-events will progress as well. It’s been very quiet lately.

That said, there is a good foundation in place that I’m sure will be built upon over time by the core team and by plugin developers.

As for the group blog plugin… I tried it but it didn’t do much for me since it doesn’t really integrate very deeply with the group. It’s basically a standalone blog that doesn’t live within the group context.

I’d ultimately love to see things go in that direction, and have been sifting through code the past few days thinking of how to get more red in the trac than green.

However, if this was the case, and activity had a component scope and a serialized array of return values, then you could replace private messaging with a threaded activity stream that only the users involved in that thread can view. You could send activity to multiple groups at a time, or only 1, or all of your groups, or the entire site, or any other registered components serialized set of values that mean whatever they mean.

You can almost replace the notifications class all together too, because if you take a count of the number of activities a user has directed at them and store it in usermeta, when the user returns if that number is higher, there’s your total notifications. Filter those new activities and now you can see how many of each. Actually, the code already exists within both WP and BP to do this.

In that regard, the activity stream does start to replace core communication components like forums, private messages, status updates, notifications, and the wire. At that same time, BuddyPress becomes less about separate components with their own API’s and classes and subsets of functions, but more about creating new methods for users to interact with each other in specific scopes of communication.

You could take things like twitter lists and make them work both ways, where you could send a message/comment/update/picture to only specific users instead of only viewing tweets from users. You could create an endless array of ways and names for collaborative tools to develop the platform from within the platform. It’s basically the blog post_types concept attached to people’s activity instead of re-categorizing blog posts.

The way to further develop groups would need a whole new topic, but I’ve got some ideas for that too.

@mrmaz, what you propose is the fundamentals of how I’ve approached my development before finding WP; start with small basic classes and work my up in functionality. There very easily could be a basic “bp_component” class where every new component just extends off of that, and sets the needed vars and assigns the needed functions accordingly.

I think I ended up commenting out the email notification before first activation on a live site. I then added it back. If I remember correctly you also have your activity stream somewhat spammed so that might be another thing to look at

Hello.

I do have spam user registrations even with registration option set to:

[*] Only logged in users can create new blogs.

I understand this option to say that new user registrations are DISABLED but registered users may create blogs. Unfortunatly the “Register”-Button appears in the welcome widget with that setting — even though clicking it will redirect back to the homepage.

To disable the above option also disables the blog creation — which I do NOT want.

For an unkown reason I do see spam registrations (a couple per week) but it seems those users are not able to login and create blogs (or comment). I also do NOT get the usual notification mails for new user registrations.

It seems like a bug to me.

Off the top of my head, I can’t remember where/if that used to go anywhere different. Can anyone else comment? Might be a new bug.

I literally have to go to work after this post but:

To fix your site, rename your plugins directory to anything else i.e. ‘aardvark’. Load admin again, it should load up OK. Rename ‘aardvark’ back to plugins. You’ll have to re-activate any existing plugins. Once those have been done, try activating BP site-wide again.

BP v1.0.3 tables are:

wp_bp_activity_sitewide,wp_bp_activity_user_activity,wp_bp_activity_user_activity_cached,wp_bp_friends, wp_bp_groups,wp_bp_groups_groupmeta,wp_bp_groups_members,wp_bp_groups_wire,wp_bp_messages_messages,wp_bp_messages_noticeswp_bp_messages_recipients,wp_bp_messages_threads,wp_bp_notifications,wp_bp_user_blogs,wp_bp_user_blogs_blogmeta, wp_bp_user_blogs_comments,wp_bp_user_blogs_posts,wp_bp_xprofile_data,wp_bp_xprofile_fields,wp_bp_xprofile_groups,wp_bp_xprofile_wire,

Safe to delete as you haven’t used BP yet. Also these records in wp_sitemeta:

Any “meta_key” beginning with “bp-” i.e. bp-core-db-version, bp-friends-db-version.

If you don’t remove those meta_key records, then BP will think it’s already installed and won’t install itself again.

Before you activate BP again, open up your web server error log in a window and see if you get any specific messages when you try to run.

Also, versions of WPMU and BP you are you trying to install here will help us help you.