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@xander206 Thanks for the response. 🙂

I had a quick look at the link your provided and I’m not really sure it’s quite what I am looking for.

At present there is already a ‘notifications’ area on the profile page (and on the ‘admin’ bar at the top of the page) and notifications for @ mentions on the profile itself are working and also notifications for friend requests are working too.

The only thing that isn’t working is notifications for @ mentions on comments on posts. Whenever someone replies to a comment on a post and starts it with @ username it is being linked to their profile but it is not sending a notification to that person that they have been mentioned.

Cheers

Okay so I realised that it would only send the activity to stream when you have the email option checked. I also noticed that upon doing that you post 2 pieces of information into the database that are exactly the same.. Well they are not structured the same but the information holds the same data.

This is inside bp_groups_groupmeta and bp_activity
So I have optimized my code to remove duplicate data, well just removed it from posting into groupsmeta really, as it doesn’t need to be in there… Maybe you can optimize your code to post the action in activity only and read from there, rather than have it posted in both. The system is great, don’t get me wrong I am just making suggestions.

So I have removed one of your functions on remove action and copied it into my own function with edits to that function. I have added 2 extra fields, drop down boxs to be exact.

Here is my code with a lot of comments as I was trying out many different things, then decided I don’t want it to do that lol. EDIT

<?php
// Add custom group fields.
// Removed the default add activity stream. file /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php for reference.
remove_action( 'groups_details_updated', 'bp_groups_group_details_updated_add_activity' );
// On group update.
add_action( 'groups_details_updated', 'group_details_update', 10, 3 );
// Updated group details.
// Updated group details.
function group_details_update( $group_id, $old_group, $notify_members ) {
	global $bp, $wpdb;
	// Custom fields.
	$plain_fields = array(
		'server',
		'country'
		//'activity'
	);
	foreach( $plain_fields as $field ) {
		$key = 'group-' . $field;
		$metakey = 'h1z1_' . $field;
		if ( isset( $_POST[$key] ) ) {
			$value = $_POST[$key];
			
			// Do they want the update notification posted on their activity stream?
			/*if ($value == '1')
				$post_activity = true;
			*/
			//Make sure they selected an item from the required dropdown boxs.
			if ($value == 'null')
				return bp_core_add_message( __( 'There was an error updating group details. Please try again.', 'buddypress' ), 'error' );
			else {
				// changed1 is empty by default, not declared. If empty, get groupmeta.
				if (empty($changed))
					$changed = groups_get_groupmeta( $group_id, $metakey );
				//if groupmeta(old value) == posted value changed is empty again, so we can check the next custom field to see if that also has the same old value.
				if ($changed == $value)
					$changed = '';
				else
					groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, $metakey, $value );
			}
 		}
	}
	// Optional removed checkbox for now.. Might use later
	/*if ($post_activity == false)
		return false;
	*/
	// Taken from /public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php
	// We removed the email notification check so that it will post an activity stream regardless.
	// Bail if Activity is not active.
	if ( ! bp_is_active( 'activity' ) )
		return false;

	if ( ! isset( $old_group->name ) || ! isset( $old_group->description ) )
		return false;

	// If the admin has opted not to notify members, don't post an activity item either
	// Removed, I want updated posted if it sends and email or not.
	/*if ( empty( $notify_members ) ) {
		return;
	}*/

	$group = groups_get_group( array(
		'group_id' => $group_id,
	) );

	/*
	 * Store the changed data, which will be used to generate the activity
	 * action. Since we haven't yet created the activity item, we store the
	 * old group data in groupmeta, keyed by the timestamp that we'll put
	 * on the activity item.
	 */
	
	if ( $group->name !== $old_group->name || $group->description !== $old_group->description )
		$changed = 'changed';

	// If there are no changes, don't post an activity item.
	if ( empty( $changed ) )
		return;

	$time = bp_core_current_time();
	// Don't want a long description of what has been changed inside the details. Also reduces information posted in groupmeta table.
	//groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, 'updated_details_' . $time, $changed );
	
	// And finally, update groups last activity.. Currently doesn't in standard.
	groups_update_groupmeta( $group_id, 'last_activity', $time );
	
	// Since we have removed the information from meta, we will record it directly into action on activity..
	// You do not need the same information recorded twice in the database. This needs optimizing. Hence removing update groupmeta..
	/*
	$user_link = bp_core_get_userlink( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
	$group_link = '<a href="' . esc_url( bp_get_group_permalink( $group ) ) . '">' . esc_html( $group->name ) . '</a>';
	$action = sprintf( __( '%1$s changed the description of the group %2$s from "%3$s" to "%4$s"', 'buddypress' ), $user_link, $group_link, esc_html( $changed['description']['old'] ), esc_html( $changed['description']['new'] ) );
	*/
	// Record in activity streams.
	return groups_record_activity( array(
		'type'          => 'group_details_updated',
		'item_id'       => $group_id,
		'user_id'       => bp_loggedin_user_id(),
		'recorded_time' => $time,
	) );
}

If there is bugs in any code, I will find them and fix them.. That’s one of the downsides to being a perfectionist..

I have not fixed the

A few bugs I have found.

From the first post yet, but will be doing after I have had my dinner 🙂
My idea is to have a notification saying that the user has left the group when they leave/kicked/banned/ obviously if its after the 5 minutes mark lol.

Hi @r-a-y
I have solved the problems with notifications toolbar derived from comments and groups.
The problem was that I used no plugin in order to send notifications… I’m a little silly … 😉
But now I continue with the problem about notifications derived from FORUM.
I have used three differents plugins but I continue with the same problem…
This is a bbPress problem… I understand that, but I have seen that in this web page (https://buddypress.org) notifications run very well, so my question is:
What is the plugin used in this page (https://buddypress.org) in order to send forum notifications in administration toolbar?
Can you reply me? Or can you indicate who can know that?
Thank’s very much.

@henrywright

Interface or UI
very lively, fresh and dedicated. Since this is qualitative, imho, you can test any bp site and ello-co

Discover feature
and from there you can have “Friend” or “Noise” and the very easy switching between the two

Privacy features
Muting prevents further email notifications from a user and removes their past activity from your feed. The user is still able to follow you and can still comment on your posts, but you will not receive any notifications.
Blocking mutes a user, and disables them from viewing your profile and posts.
BP do not have Blocking, and the premium plugin that is there probably no longer works

Excellent Media Support well integrated
In BP, its confusing : WP has its own media repo for the user, again BP plugins store media elsewhere

These are something that come just top off my head. You can see some more here https://ello.co/wtf/post/featurelist Its not to say Ello is better or BP is better : its just sharing something new with you all – Ello is not a script we can use, BP is a script we can use and customize.

@sebacar Maybe the documentation quoted above could be written better. You’ll notice comment replies do trigger a front-end notification if you use the @handle of the member you’re replying to.

@sebacar @mercime Hi Sebastien, from looking at replies to your Trac ticket, I think something is being lost in translation between ourselves and the devs.

To quote the official documentation :

Notifications are a central aspect of the user experience on a BuddyPress site. By default new notifications are displayed in the admin bar profile menu, right next to the navigation menus, some themes even integrate the notification counter in other places (like in the header or sidebar of a page).

Notifications are sent out to your community members as soon as one of the following things happen:

Activity

A member mentions you in an update @username”
A member replies to an update or comment you’ve posted

The activity in bold above definitely stopped triggering notifications on 3 different sites I was testing, where it had previously generated a notification (probably 4 months+ consistently). Quite simply, that notification trigger stopped working. This should not be a new feature, it was already there.

Thanks @henrywright

Here is the list:

Admin Tweaks
Advanced Excerpt
Antispam Bee
bbPress
Bowe Codes
BP Auto Activate Autologin Redirect To Profile On Signup
Bp Clear Notifications
BP Group Activities Notifier
Broken Link Checker
BuddyBlock
BuddyPress
Buddy Press Activity Ads
BuddyPress Activity as Wire
BuddyPress Activity Comment Notifier
BuddyPress Activity Privacy
BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types
BuddyPress Live Notification
BuddyPress Profile Visibility Manager
BuddyPress Security Check
BuddyPress Usernames Only
Delete Expired Transients
Duplicator
Email Login
Facebook Like User Activity Stream For BuddyPress
Google Analytics +
Imsanity
Infinite SEO
Insert Headers and Footers
Mailjet for WordPress
Menu Items Visibility Control
OPcache Dashboard
Post Voting
Pretty Link Lite
Query Monitor
Random Banner
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
rtMedia Pro
s2Member Framework
SearchWP
SearchWP bbPress Integration
Social Likes
Subscribe To Comments
User Activity
Wordfence Security
WordPress FAQ Manager
WP-DBManager
WP-Memory-Usage
wp-Monalisa
WPBakery Visual Composer
WP Better Emails
WP External Links
WP Maintenance Mode
WPMU DEV Dashboard
WP Widget Cache

Hi Henry

I went to ‘plugins’/buddypress/settings, and found the following (I note that “account settings” is not ticked – could this be it?)
I have bolded the ones that are ticked currently.

Settings:

Component Description
Component Description
Extended Profiles Customize your community with fully editable profile fields that allow your users to describe themselves.
Account Settings Allow your users to modify their account and notification settings directly from within their profiles.
Friend Connections Let your users make connections so they can track the activity of others and focus on the people they care about the most.
Private Messaging Allow your users to talk to each other directly and in private. Not just limited to one-on-one discussions, messages can be sent between any number of members.
Activity Streams Global, personal, and group activity streams with threaded commenting, direct posting, favoriting, and @mentions, all with full RSS feed and email notification support.
Notifications Notify members of relevant activity with a toolbar bubble and/or via email, and allow them to customize their notification settings.
User Groups Groups allow your users to organize themselves into specific public, private or hidden sections with separate activity streams and member listings.
Site Tracking Record activity for new posts and comments from your site.
BuddyPress Core It‘s what makes time travel BuddyPress possible!
Community Members Everything in a BuddyPress community revolves around its members.

Ok, so I just tried again with the Twenty Twelve theme and every single plugin (including Akismet) deactivated, except for Buddypress.

While logged in under a test user account, I left a new comment on a blog post, and still no comments showing up in the activity stream at all. (It shows up under the post itself, and I’m getting new comment notifications to my admin email, so the general commenting is working…just not in conjunction with the Activity stream.)

*sigh*

Are there any other settings elsewhere in WP that might be causing this? (I just LOVE when I am the one to discover problems that no one can seem to solve 🙂

Thanks so much for your advice!!

Ok, well I had to figure this one out. It’s a bit of a lengthy solution. I’m not going to explain everything, as I can’t for either lack of knowledge or fear of being incorrect. I’ll just give you the code, tell you what it does, and where it goes.

First, lets add the favorite button to the comments template. Find comment.php (in /activity) and add the code:

		<?php global $activities_template; ?>
		<?php if ( bp_activity_can_favorite() ) : ?>
			<?php
				$my_fav_count = bp_activity_get_meta( bp_get_activity_comment_id(), 'favorite_count' );
				
				$my_fav_count = "<span>".$my_fav_count."</span>";
				
				$is_favorite = apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_is_favorite', in_array( bp_get_activity_comment_id(), $activities_template->my_favs ) );
			?>

			<?php if ( !$is_favorite ) : ?>

				<a href="<?php echo apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_favorite_link', wp_nonce_url( home_url( bp_get_activity_root_slug() . '/favorite/' . bp_get_activity_comment_id() . '/' ), 'mark_favorite' ) ); ?>" class="tooltip-trigger fav bp-secondary-action bp-primary-action" title="<?php echo god_get_favorited_usernames(bp_get_activity_comment_id()); ?>" style="position:relative;"><?php _e( 'Like', 'buddypress' ); ?><?php echo $my_fav_count; ?></a>

			<?php else : ?>

				<a href="<?php echo apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_favorite_link', wp_nonce_url( home_url( bp_get_activity_root_slug() . '/favorite/' . bp_get_activity_comment_id() . '/' ), 'mark_favorite' ) ); ?>" class="tooltip-trigger unfav bp-secondary-action bp-primary-action" title="<?php echo god_get_favorited_usernames(bp_get_activity_comment_id()); ?>" style="position:relative;"><?php _e( 'Unlike', 'buddypress' ); ?><?php echo $my_fav_count; ?></a>

			<?php endif; ?>

		<?php endif; ?>	

This code simply adds the buttons, and gets all the necessary info and variables.

Then, you’re going to need to modify the buddypress javascript. I personally modified both global.js and buddypress.js (through overriding in my template, which is a topic for a whole other thread), though I might be wrong in this. At any rate, look for the line (around 264 in buddypress.js):

var parent = target.closest('.activity-item');

and change it to

var parent = target.closest('li');

The reason we changed this line is so that our custom favorite button doesn’t default to grabbing the top level activity id. Now you can actually favorite comments!

But wouldn’t it be nice if the user received a notification when someone favorited their activity? Add this bad boy to functions.php

add_action("bp_activity_add_user_favorite","favorite_notification", 10, 2);

function favorite_notification( $activity_id, $user_id = 0){
	// By type and item_id
	if($user_id != $activities["activities"][0]->user_id){
		$activities = bp_activity_get_specific( array( 'activity_ids' => $activity_id, 'display_comments' => true) );
		
		bp_core_add_notification( $activity_id, $activities["activities"][0]->user_id, "notifier", bp_core_get_username(bp_loggedin_user_id())." liked: '".substr($activities["activities"][0]->content,0,20)."...'", $activity_id ) ;		
	}
}

Hope this helped someone. It mostly works for me.

Bumping is usually when a topic has not been solved, but an answer is still needed (at least that has been my experience in every forum I’ve ever been in).

Yes, buddypress natively produces notifications for most things. I have never natively gotten a notification for activity comments/replies, and this is what I’m trying to accomplish (as well as notifications for favorites), and I can add the notification but I need to know how to add a URL with it as well.

Ok I just read modernloopers list of questions so I want to make this as clear as possible. First this problem is not a plugin problem. I disabled and deleted all and it didn’t fix the problem. I also tried a different theme and it didn’t fix the problem so it is not a theme problem. TJ at Buddyboss tried valiantly to figure out the problem to no avail.

Here are the questions that modernlooper wanted answered.

Please try to supply answers to the following questions.

1. Which version of WordPress are you running? 3.81

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install? directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory? root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version? every one for the last year

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting. Yes

6. Which version of BP are you running? 1.92

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version? Every one for the last year until 1.9 and then it broke. I just went back to my backup and waited. Upgraded to 1.92 and it is still broken. Went through all the normal troubleshooting processes until figuring out it was the notifications that is causing the error.

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?
Ads Manager WP/BB
Akismet
BBpress
BB Force Profile
BuddyPress Tiny group chat
BuddyPress Links
Easy Album
Facebook Friends Inviter
IFlyChat
Invite Anyone
Social Login
Wanguard

9. Are you using the standard BuddyPress themes or customized themes? BuddyBoss

10. Have you modified the core files in any way? No

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? No, or at least none I am aware of that was put in there personally

12. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in? 2.5.3

13. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

[Fri Feb 28 14:41:05 2014] [warn] [client xxx] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_notifications_toolbar_menu() in /var/www/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-members/bp-members-adminbar.php on line 148, referer: xxx/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bp-components

14. Which company provides your hosting? Media Temple

15. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else? Linux and Apache