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Okay, so while I’ve made some progress thanks to you two, I’m still missing something. I thought it was working tomorrow but the code wasn’t logical(I had to use author__not_in to display posts from all Spanish users but it didn’t work with other countries).

So first of all, this code gives me only the users from a given country:
<?php $Members = array((bp_has_members( my_custom_ids( 'country', 'Spain' ) )) ); ?>

I’ve used the example Here and it displays only those two users I have with Spain. When I change to France it displays only one user, which is correct. So this one is good to go.
I’m having trouble with the rest though.

<?php 
 $query = new WP_Query( array( 'author__in' =>array($Members)));
 if ($query->have_posts()) :
	// Start the Loop.
    query_posts($query);
   
	while ($query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();
   

		/*
		 * Include the post format-specific template for the content. If you want to
		 * use this in a child theme, then include a file called called content-___.php
		 * (where ___ is the post format) and that will be used instead.
		 */
         get_template_part( 'page-parts/post-content-small' ); 
         get_template_part( 'page-parts/posts-social-share' ); 
         
        ?>

        

        <?php if ( sq_option( 'page_comments', 0 ) == 1 ): ?>

            <!-- Begin Comments -->
            <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
            <!-- End Comments -->

        <?php endif; ?>

    <?php
 endwhile;

 endif;
?>

Is what I’ve been trying to do. Putting (bp_has_members( my_custom_ids( 'country', 'Spain' ) )) into an array like this:
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'author__in' =>array(bp_has_members( my_custom_ids( 'country', 'Spain' ) ))));
Didn’t give me the results I wanted. What am I doing wrong? Once when I put author__not_in it worked but only with Spain and no other country. Now it’s not working even with Spain.
Any suggestions? What should I do? Please help.

Regards

David

Okay, I’ve been trying this a bit and I still don’t get it.

I used 'who'=>'authors' to get all the authors’ posts displayed on a page. What I still can’t get is how to extract the data from wp_bp_xprofile_data. I tried putting that in an array

$country = array (
'key'=>'country',
'value'=>'Spain');

And then putting it like this
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'author__in' => $country ) );

But still nothing. Ive found also this piece of code:

$user_query = new WP_User_Query( array( 'meta_key' => 'country', 'meta_value' => 'Israel' ) );

Which is almost the same thing I want to do just that I want to filter posts by such users. Here they’re using meta_key and meta_value again and I’ve got no idea how to do the same with wp_bp_xprofile_data.

Am I getting close or am I still far from achieving what I want?

Thank you for your help

i found and solve the issue on my ownway.. This is the code for display posts count for individual users(members).. Hope it works….

<?php
$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
$query = new WP_Query( ‘author=’ . $user_id );

if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post();
//display title
/*the_title();*/
//display content
/*the_title();*/

}
}
echo ‘Number of posts published by user: ‘ . count_user_posts($user_id);
//reset for next member
wp_reset_postdata();
?>

Sorry I thought I was clear. I dont need an example of how to create the tab and the submenus.

What I did was write a class that creates a top level member area tab called Favorites that consolidates all types of favorites within a single tab. https://github.com/colabsadmin/bp-favorites/blob/master/bp-favorites.php

The submenus that have been created so far are Activity, Topics, Posts and a few more for some CPTs that I’ve written. This will make it easier for my users to find their favorites when they cant remember if it came from a topic, posts, activity, etc. Instead of jumping around from tab to tab, its all in one tab. The only submenu that doesnt work is Activity. The code, which I provided in my first question, was copied directly from Buddypress core code with one change to use ‘bp_core_new_subnav_item’. I used similar code to display content in all the other submenus. For example, the following shows the favorite topics

// Favorite topics
bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
		'name'            => __( 'Topics', 'kleo' ),
		'slug'            => "topics",
		'parent_url'      => $bp->displayed_user->domain . $bp->bp_nav['favorites']['slug'] . '/',
		'parent_slug'     => $bp->bp_nav['favorites']['slug'],
		'screen_function' => 'bbp_member_forums_screen_favorites',
		'position'        => 10,
		'item_css_id'     => 'favorites'
));

So, my question, does bp_activity_screen_favorites() only work within the context of /members/membername/activity action? Or can it be used elsewhere as in /members/membersname/favorites?

Hi.

The subnav item comes from the app ‘BP Posts on Profile‘. The theme is ‘X‘ by Theme Co.

Targetting the element with

#posts-personal-li {
display: none;
}

Removes it, but, of course, it removes it from ALL profiles. I need it on admin profiles only. It links to the author page, and other users can’t author posts anyway.

Here is my admin profile.

Thanks again Shane. I’ll try to explain again.

At high level, I want users, in their user profile, to be able to select one or more skills that they have. Skills are posts of a post type.

At lower level, I want, in a BP user profile, a field which is either a multi-select, or a set of checkboxes. The values selectable should be titles of posts from the “Skills” post type (I’ll actually save the IDs of the posts, but the titles should be displayed).

The user should be able to select these values both when registering and when editing their profile.

Possible implementations I can think of would be:
– Implement a new field TYPE called “skill”, create a field of that type in BuddyPress, and write some hooks that display and save the field.
– Add some custom code using action hooks to the bottom of the registration and edit profile screens.

I know it’s kinda hard to explain in a short forum post. There just doesn’t seem to be some simple, documented hooks that a plugin can use to extend the user profiles with new custom fields of new types and I was looking for some guidance/best practice for doing this.

Thanks again for your help.

Ross

@jconti – glad you jumped into this thread!

The simplest thing would be a basic report this button that could appear next to all content displayed with a buddypress install. As mentioned above sending an email to the superadmin with the referring url would be nice.. added functionality has been discussed up above that would make this even better.

I’d like to mention here, although it probably deserves it’s own thread, it would be a good idea to give users and option to ‘block user’ or auto-ignore / bozo other users.. this way people who may not get their account deleted for not violating rules after a report – could be blocked from having their pms show up, or activity show to the other user who wanted to block them.

Combining the “report this” with an option to further “block all content (pms, activity stream messages, group posts, etc) – from appearing while user A is logged in.. that would make buddypress much more professional and user friendly.

I’ve been reading a lot about this issue and it looks like BP is missing some very basic functionality. This is the first time using it and right out of the gate I see that there are some things that have me baffled.

1) No way to create conditional fields. I’ve tried using the Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On plugin but there is no way to map fields properly. For example, in Gravity Forms I have Country, State and City fields. If someone selects United States as a Country for example, the next field that the user sees is the State field, but then I run into a problem when someone selects a City. In order to use conditional fields with Gravity Forms, I need to create many City fields (alabama-cities, alaska-cities etc). One City field for each State. These City fields are conditional fields that displayed to the user Cities based on what the user selects in the State field.

The problem is that Gravity Forms wants me to first create User Profile Fields in BuddyPress. Then map each Gravity Forms field to the appropriate User Profile Field. Since I have many Gravity Forms cities field, there is no way I can tell Gravity Forms to use the City that the user selects and map it to a City User Profile field in BuddyPress.

I’ve read a lot of posts on this forum dating back 5 years and no one has offered a working solution.

2) Also, Why is there no option for an admin to be able to deny users from changing their Screenname? How about an option that prevents user from modifying a specific field such as Gender? All I see is havoc and chaos if you allow users to change certain fields.

3) Why doesn’t BuddyPress offer a way to have different registration fields based on the user? Teacher / Student Registration, Doctor / Patient etc? It doesn’t make sense. Look at the core of BuddyPress. It’s a social network plugin. In almost every circumstance you have a need for one user have certain fields and another to have other fields. Trying to figure out how to show certain profile fields for one user and not another should be at the core of this plugin. Not to mention making it easy for the site owner to layout those fields so that they look nice. For example something as easy as defining the length of the fields. You can’t make those modifications without Firebug and CSS and PHP experience, or worse yet another plugin. If you use a plugin, then you have to pray to God the author of that plugin not to fall off a cliff or pray that he / she keeps that plugin conducive with the latest version of BP.

I don’t mean to gripe but BuddyPress it seems to me that at it’s core, very little thought was given to how people would actually use it. Almost like it’s piecemealed together.

Another big complaint is that it’s not compatible with the best WordPress themes on the planet – StudioPress. Shouldn’t the contributors of BP make sure that BP and StudioPress be compatible?

I’m sorry if this sounds like a rant, it’s not. It’s just frustration. BP looks awesome but underneath the hood, there are a lot of obvious problems. My suggestion is to do what WooCommerce, StudioPress and others do. Sit down and figure out how to handle the big issues first. If need be, charge for BuddyPress. If the problem is that you have a bunch of contributors who work on things “they” deem important and at their own leisure, then the plugin suffers. Charge for it. Sit down and listen to the complaints and address them based on customer priority. Pay someone to reply to this forum so we’re not waiting days for a response. You’ll have much happier users and a much better plugin. Just my 2 cents worth. Honestly, since BP is virtually the only Plugin of it’s kind, not taking my advice will lead to someone creating a better wheel and that point, it’s only a matter of time before BP becomes obsolete.

It’s been close to 24 hours and no response to my original question. If ANYONE has an answer as to how I can get a user to simply select a Country, then State, then City based on previous fields, I’d greatly appreciate it. Also if someone could please tell me how to prevent users from modifying certain fields that would be appreciated as well.

Thanks

I couldn’t get any of those hooks to work. I ended up editing the members.php file in the profile progression plugin and that worked. Obviously not ideal for updating plugins but it’s working!

I also was then able to hide the progression bar from users who didn’t own that profile and hide it altogether once it was complete. Those features weren’t part of the original plugin.

Here’s the code if anybody wants it:

if (bp_is_my_profile()) {


    $percent = bppp_get_user_progression_percent();

    if ($percent == 100 && !current_user_can('edit_posts')) {
                my_update_profile_mark();
    }

    if ($percent == 100) {
       echo '<div class="bppp-stat-no-display">';

    } else {
        echo '<div class="bppp-stat">';
    }


            echo '<span class="bppp-stat-title">';
            bppp_title();
            echo '</span> ';
            
            echo '<div class="bppp-stat-block">';
                    echo '<div class="bppp-bar">';
            echo '<div class="bppp-bar-mask" style="width:';
            echo (int)(100-bppp_get_user_progression_percent());
            echo '%"></div>';
            echo '</div>';
                    
            echo '</div>';
            echo '<span class="bppp-stat-percent">';
            echo bppp_get_user_progression_percent();
            echo '%</span>';
            echo '</div>';

}

Here’s the function that’s referenced that I added to functions.php:

function my_update_profile_mark() {

   $user_ID = get_current_user_id();
   $power_level = 9001;
   update_user_meta( $user_ID, '_power_level', $power_level);
   
}

Oh and of course this got added to style.css:

.bppp-stat-no-display {
    display: none;
}

Now I just need to build a custom menu in the backend that queries users based on their role level and the custom user meta key that’s updated here. Hopefully it’s a smoother process!

Thanks all for your help!

Better customisation options of the activity stream: ie to be able to define a set of “or” filters for content type, and who. So (with plugin support) I can define a feed to include things from “me or friends or followers” showing “topics and topic replies and posts and new users” (and ideally be able to have a permalink to this with no other fluff on display). The current activity feed selectors are a mess and don’t provide what most people want to see.

There are about 50-75 Premium BuddyPress themes online for sale and 99% of them have the same activity stream page-layout. While all those premium theme developers can do lots of customization to all other pages the activity stream is like Twitter’s Bootstrap to BuddyPress it always tells you it’s a BuddyPress website without looking at the code.

The reason all those themes activity look alike is because previously it was a nightmare to create something that wasn’t derivative of bp-default and it’s heavy-handed javascript. This is not the case anymore.

In other words, this issue has already been fixed. Now it is upto the theme developers to customize the feed aesthetics to their hearts’ content.

Thanks Paul, I made it :), it’s something really rough, but if somebody needs it here it is:

<?php

// parametri del database
$db_host = "localhost";         //Your database host
$db_user = "database";          //Your database username
$db_password = "password";      //Your database password
$db_name = "database_01";       //Your database name

$db = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_password);
set_time_limit(0);

if ($db == FALSE)
die ("Connection Error.");

mysql_select_db($db_name, $db)
or die ("Database Error.");

$n = 0;
$query = "SELECT * FROM <code>wp_posts</code> WHERE post_type = 'topic' OR post_type = 'reply' ORDER BY post_date ASC";

$result = mysql_query($query, $db);

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))

	{
		unset($user_id);
		unset($reg);
		unset($guid);
		unset($id);
		unset($post_parent);
		unset($post_date);
		unset($nicename);
		unset($displayname);
		unset($title);
		unset($forum);
		unset($forumurl);
		unset($post_type);
		unset($forum_id);
		unset($acttype);
	
		$user_id = $row['post_author'];
		$guid = $row['guid'];
		$reg = $row['user_registered'];
		$id = $row['ID'];
		$post_parent = $row['post_parent'];
		$post_date = $row['post_date'];
		$title = $row['post_title'];
		$content = $row['post_content'];
		$post_type = $row['post_type'];
		$forum_id = $post_parent;
		
		$q1 = "SELECT * FROM <code>wp_users</code> WHERE ID = '$user_id'";
		$r1 = mysql_query($q1, $db);
		$e1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1);
		
		$nicename = $e1['user_nicename'];
		$displayname = $e1['display_name'];
		
		if ( $post_type == 'reply' ) {
			$q1 = "SELECT * FROM <code>wp_posts</code> WHERE ID = '$post_parent'";
			$r1 = mysql_query($q1, $db);
			$e1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1);
			
			$post_parent = $e1['post_parent'];
			$title = $e1['post_title'];
			$guid = $e1['guid'];
		}
		
		$q1 = "SELECT * FROM <code>wp_posts</code> WHERE ID = '$forum_id'";
		$r1 = mysql_query($q1, $db);
		$e1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1);
		
		$forum = $e1['post_title'];
		$forumurl = $e1['guid'];

		if ( $post_type == 'topic' ) {
			$action = mysql_real_escape_string('<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/users/' . $nicename . '/" rel="nofollow">' . $displayname . '</a> ha iniziato la discussione <a href="' . $guid . '">' . $title . '</a> nel forum <a href="' . $forumurl . '">' . $forum . '</a>');
			$acttype = 'bbp_topic_create';
		} else {
			$action = mysql_real_escape_string('<a href="http://www.yoursite.com/users/' . $nicename . '/" rel="nofollow">' . $displayname . '</a> ha risposto alla discussione <a href="' . $guid . '">' . $title . '</a> nel forum <a href="' . $forumurl . '">' . $forum . '</a>');
			$acttype = 'bbp_reply_create';
		}
		
		$content = mysql_real_escape_string( $content );

		if ( $user_id > 0 ) {
			$q1 = "SELECT COUNT(umeta_id) AS conto FROM <code>wp_usermeta</code> WHERE user_id = '$user_id' AND meta_key = 'last_activity'";
			$r1 = mysql_query($q1, $db);
			$e1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1);
			
			if ( $e1['conto'] > 0 ) {
				$q = "UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = '$post_date' WHERE user_id = '$user_id' AND meta_key = 'last_activity'";
				mysql_query($q, $db);
			} else {
				$q = "INSERT INTO <code>wp_usermeta</code> (<code>umeta_id</code>, <code>user_id</code>, <code>meta_key</code>, <code>meta_value</code> ) VALUES ( NULL, '$user_id', 'last_activity', '$post_date' );";
				mysql_query($q, $db);
			}
		}
		
		$q = "INSERT INTO <code>wp_bp_activity</code> (<code>id</code>, <code>user_id</code>, <code>component</code>, <code>type</code>, <code>action</code>, <code>content</code>, <code>primary_link</code>, <code>item_id</code>, <code>secondary_item_id</code>, <code>date_recorded</code>, <code>hide_sitewide</code>, <code>mptt_left</code>, <code>mptt_right</code>, <code>is_spam</code> ) VALUES ";
		$q .= "(NULL, '$user_id', 'bbpress', '$acttype', '$action', '$content', '$guid', '$id', '$post_parent', '$post_date', '0', '0', '0', '0')";
		mysql_query($q, $db);

                $n++;
	}

mysql_close($db);

echo "Done! inserted $n activity entries";
?>

The action is in italian, you can modify as you want

i think i remember what i did a few years back — i forced users to jump out to the posts themselves to make comments. i think i did this by just not displaying the comment buttons in the activity stream … something like that.