[Magic-Komplex]

Found the issue, thanks for pointing me at this way of troubleshooting. It’s the buddypress activity privacy plugin that causes the error, so I opened a support ticket at this forum now. 🙂

[Henry Wright]

Try opening a ticket on their support forum letting them know of the problem:

Forum – Posting Guidelines & Vanilla Help

Try including a screenshot or anything you can that’ll make it easier for them to investigate, that way there will more likely be a fix made available.

[Henry Wright]

The actual number of plugins won’t be the issue, you can install as many as you like. Instead the issue will likely be due to some rogue code inside of one of them. It’s pot luck as to which one is the culprit. My advice would be to switch to the Twenty Fifteen theme and then deactivate all of the plugins, one-by-one, checking each time if the problem has been resolved. Once you’ve identified a particular plugin then you could open a support ticket on the plugin author’s forum notifying them of the problem.

If you get to the point where you’re using Twenty Fifteen, with no plugins activated, and the problem remains, then let us know here.

Hope this helps!

[Magic-Komplex]

Theme: Weaver II

Plugin-list:

Agreeable
amr shortcode any widget
bbp Private Forums Visibility
bbPress
bbPress – Unerwünschte Inhalte melden
bbPress Advanced Capabilities
bbPress Direct Quotes
BbPress Notification
bbP Signature
Beautiful Widget CK
BuddyPress
BuddyPress – Private Aktivitäten
Facebook Like Box
GD bbPress Attachments
GD bbPress Widgets
Google XML Sitemaps
Invite Anyone
Login With Ajax
Page Links To
Page Restrict
PayPal Donations
Privates BuddyPress
Q and A FAQ and Knowledge Base for WordPress
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
Super Socializer
Use Google Libraries
Weaver II Theme Extras
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
wp-Monalisa

I know that’s quite a lot of plugins, but how can I reduce them, if I need the functionality? Is it possible that the problem comes from just too many plugins?

[Henry Wright]

I see what you mean about this possibly being confusing to the member. I think you should create a Trac ticket for this to see what the core developers think.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

You can use the exact same username and password you use here in the forums.

[milenushka]

Yes.

If the admin is creating the groups and forums there is no problem (well if he knows this is an issue),
but if the members are creating groups and later want to change groups settings to “private”, they have no control over the forums’ privacy. And that leaves them confused or if sensitive info was shared in the forums, upset too.

So, yeah, something needs to be done.

thank you for looking into this @henrywright.

[milenushka]

@melle328 I can confirm this,

see the thread I opened
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-private-group-forums-showing-up-in-activity/#post-234122

[Henry Wright]

Hi again @milenushka

So you’re saying if a public forum is added to a private group then you’d like that forum to automatically be made private?

[milenushka]

@henrywright

Ok, I can confirm the issue now.

If a group is created as private and a forum is created with it- it will be a private forum and its activity will remain invisible to non group members.

If a private group is created and an existed forum is added to it- this forum need to be changed to private- otherwise the forum will remain public, even though the group attached to it is private- and the activity of the forum will be public.

Same goes for a public group+ forum , that is created together and later group setting are set to private. Forum remains public- forum’s activity -too.

Is there something to be done with the buddypress-bbpress integration to make this work?
Creating a function that will make a forum private too- if the group it was attached to becomes private? @johnjamesjacoby
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bugs-between-bbpress-and-buddypress/

[danbp]

I published some BuddyPress use case, see here: http://bp-fr.net/realisations/
There is also a category called showcase with some other examples.
This will hopefully help you to see how BP is and can be used.

– separating users is now possible with member_type (see codex)
– scheduling is not avaible in BP, but thought there are some plugins for this (search on WP repo)
– conditionnal xprofile fields is a popular question on the forum. You’ll probably find some discussion here.

BuddyPress is first of all a great and awesome tool for building communities around the members.

[milenushka]

Hi @henrywright,

I am using buddyboss (child theme), tested it with default wp theme and buddyboss parent.

I also found this thread https://buddypress.org/support/topic/forum-in-private-groups/ started a few weeks ago, and I think @melle328 is right, this happens if the group is first set as public and later changed to private or as in my case- group forum is set to public first and then chosen as the private’s group forum.

So far it seems that if users create a group and a forum and later change their settings- the activity privacy is not updated. I keep testing different options as we speak, so I find something new, I will post it too.

[devbynature]

Thank you for your reply.

I figured that it would be the best place to ask prior to going down the rabbit hole with the BuddyPress documentation and website. It’s been labeled as rather archaic, cryptic, and unreadable by many people that I asked for advice. I contribute to several other open source projects and might jump in on your docs/forum if the platform seems like something that will be handy for me in the future.

As for the project being a copy, it’s really just identical in feature sets but not a literal copy of the site. Design is very different and it’s not dog sitters that are members. This site is for parents and babysitters which is highly similar to dogvacay.com in feature set. Yep, their site is built in Java. ::vomits a little::

The key features that need to be included:

– two member types (parents and babysitters)
– they should be able to message each other privately
– parents can schedule a date for the sitting to happen
– parents can browse babysitters
– custom profiles for each with different sets of information (based on a conditional of type)

It appears that I was able to answer my own question over the past few days by utilizing the codex and going through all of the code. BuddyPress looks to be the best option for handling all of this unless I was to custom code a plugin (I am actually a PHP developer NOT a wordpress dev). I was looking at utilizing BuddyPress for cutting down time by using the friend associations and messaging system.

BP might be a little much for this project but I can see value in several features that they might want in the future.

I apologize for posting this in err to this forum if it’s not really a good place for asking whether it’s a good platform for such a situation. All of the documentation/about is written in a fashion that presents it as useful in only one way. It made it rather difficult to decipher how I could rip the plugin apart to do what I need instead of using it as “out-of-the-box.”

Might there be some advance blogs out there where people have written about different ways to use the plugin? Just so that I can dig into the community a little more.

Have a nice day.

[danbp]

Activity feed for Members only or Friends only ?

Activity Loop

and pay attention to scope. As of BP 2.2.0, you can now use multiple scope.

if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&scope=friends,groups' ) ) :

You could also use bp_parse_args in a custom function or
search on forum for similar to your question, like this one.

[disha76]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-labs/ says :
This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
It is also buggy and does not work. Compatible up to: WordPress 3.5, BuddyPress 1.7

What you say is true but certain essential features need to be there. Again there can be debate what is essential to me is not essential to you. But “Likes” ( or any other name for it) is a core feature of Elgg, Drupal, Phpfox, Oxwall – name any paid or FREE scripts. It is sad that the “Likes” code of wordpress com has not been passed to wordpress org and more sad that it has not thus been incorporated into buddypress. Apparently there are lots of efforts at re-inventing wheels.

Please also understand that majority of users who are using BP
– are small to medium users, many are hobby users
– they cannot code a plugin but looks for readymade solution
– they have to customize their site which takes time and effort, get content and users

Just as developers are gracious and we are grateful to them, so are the users – if users never adopted and tested freely BP so much where it would have been?
I think we badly need a StackExchange type Q and A forum here that comes up with actual code or solutions, which can be rated and used instantly.

[danbp]

Styling the WP Toolbar is not directly related to BuddyPress and a bit out of the scope of this forum.
Please ask better on a specialized CSS forum. 😉

[danbp]

Another forum bug is related here.

[danbp]

My 2 cents about your question is it would be difficult to answer.

The site you mention is not a WordPress install.
Visually:
The used theme is nice and if you check what exist for WP, you’d probably find a similar one.

Functionnaly
as you say nothing about your project, it’s difficult to tell if BP is adapted.

Generally, imitating an existing site is not a good idea. WP and BP are powerfull enough to let you get unique.

Conclusion:
this is a firstly a support forum, with not much advices around pro and contras. There are many specialized sites around design and BP usage to let you make an opinion.

You can begin here by reading the about page, the blog and the whole forum.

Good luck ! 😉

[format19]

Hi Henry
Apologies I didnt realize they were different.

I have just posted into their forum

Thanks
M

[Henry Wright]

Hi @format19

You mention ‘the forum’. That’s bbPress and not BuddyPress functionality. Have you tried asking on their support forum?

[devbynature]

I apologize, thought that I had removed the other post. Was trying to change it to a more appropriate area in the forum. Can’t wait to hear some feedback from the community.

[Garrett Hyder]

Hi @henrywright, this occurred on these forums buddypress.org/support

[Henry Wright]

Hi @@garrett-eclipse

Is this something that happened on here in these forums, or did it happen on your own BuddyPress website?

[danbp]

Hi,

it’s not possible without heavy code modification. The usermenu is intended to be on the toolbar.

But you can give this a try. All items will be visible on the toolbar, instead under the howdy.

function laura() {
global $bp, $wp_admin_bar;
remove_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bp_members_admin_bar_my_account_menu',4);
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'laura', 4 );

Reference: /bp-members/bp-members-adminbar.php:74
WP Codex wp_admin_bar

[danbp]

Please don’t double post. Wait at least 24 hours before bumping…
This forum is maintained by volunteers, and we can only answer or help on our free time.

Closed your previous post.

[jeremy_LV]

Hi Henry,

I’m just new with wordpress and buddypress 🙂 it’s gonna be hard for me to start coding something.

As you said, i’m gonna try to open a topic in ideas forum.

thx for your support 🙂