[Hugo Ashmore]

@1a-spielwiese if you are saying people should reply to old threads then no they shouldn’t and that is not a convention of this help forum but in general. Resurecting of threads is considered bad form especially on web tech forums, old threads are an archive for referring to and that may contain useful information and thus no they are never generally removed from search results but do not serve in being brought back into the main stream of current threads. A lot of forum apps can actually close them automatically after a set period of time sadly we can’t here.

[danbp]

@solosails

have you searched/asked first on PageLines forum ?

Sounds more like a theme issue, when reading such answer:
What you need to do is replace the 404 section with the Content/PostLoop section. This will display your Members profile.

Ouille !

[bp-help]

@rubyji
Please don’t reply to threads going on 4 years old as it clutters the forum and bumps a thread that is ancient. You also replied on an almost 2 year old thread here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/export-users-and-xprofile-data/
I can respect you wanting to help and inform users that this can be accomplished with the plugin you linked too but one reply to the most recent thread is plenty enough.

[solosails]

This is causing me a massive issue too.

I am using dms2 mostly it works but there are many 404 page errors. Pagelines forum have taken this up as a bug, but it does seem that this error happens on many other themes, so perhaps a different approach needs to be taken from buddypress?

I hope this gets taken up! Thanks

[m@rk]

Hi again,

you may follow these summarized steps to enable suggestions for @-mentions in the groups component, furthermore for group forums:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5934#comment:description

Assume all will make it to the next release.

Best regards.

[Julia_B]

I’ve ironed out most of the kinks on my website now and most of the members have made the transition from the old Facebook group without too many problems – although, I won’t lie, there have been complaints from a fair few!

The main thing a lot of them miss is ease of access/use on mobile phones. The biggest factor seems to be that they could access the Facebook group via the app rather than needing to use a browser and the instant notifications of mentions to their phones helped keep them feeling involved. I’m not a developer, so there’s only so much I can do, but is it possible to have buddypress site (with busy bbpress forums) running as a mobile app at the same time?

Or is there some other solution I can offer? I’ve explained about email notifications, but members don’t feel like that’s the same.

The other issue is that members are saying it’s difficult to follow threads because on Facebook the original post will appear at the top with replies below and it gets bumped up the page each time anyone replies. I know Buddypress activity posts work a bit like that, but most of the activity appearing on my homepage activity feed is from the forums. Any suggestions?

Thanks guys. 🙂

[danbp]

No you can’t.

Activity comments are not forum discussions. They have not the same post type and are not stored in the same DB table.

If you have a very active forum, it would be preferable that you deactivate the activity commenting for forum activities.

In the same way, for example if your members often use the group notices to discuss instead of the group forum, you can remove the post-form template from the group to avoid this.

[danbp]

@shpitzyl,

buddypress comes without theme. BP Default is the old theming method used before 1.7/1.9 and bp-legacy is the template system needed by BP to show his stuff. This part is more or less used (depending the project) to work together with almost any theme.

2013 or 2014 are the themes coming by default with WordPress (it’s easier to write 2014 than Twenty Fourteen)…. These themes are known to work with BuddyPress, and that’s why you constantly see on this forum some advice to activate one of them for debugging.

Hueman is a free responsive wordpress theme, with several internal settings which are, for the most of them, deactivated out of the box. If you never worked with such sort of theme, it can be a little complicated to get it to work right with BuddyPress.

If you use a child-theme, read attentively the theme and BP documentation about child theming, you probably missed something. I use it on a test site and have no counting issues.

If the issue still remain, you have to follow the usual debug cycle: deactivate all your plugins except BP and track the culprit.

And if you use some custom code in functions.php or /plugins/bp-custom.php, remove them, so you can test your install without any external influence. Pure WP+BP code only while debugging ! 😉

[1a-spielwiese]

Yes, there should be a way, but I was not able to follow the instructions / to realise that way.

The basic idea is:

• Create two (or more) new WordPress user roles, e.g.: Users-UK and Users-USA.
• Then you can assign one xProfile-field, ‘In which [federal] state do you live?’, exclusively to your users with the user role Users-USA; and another x-Profile, ‘In which county do you live?’, to your users with the user role Users-UK.

—

The instructions for that solution you find there:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles/

(The user roles there are ‘bands’ and ‘fans’).

And my report about my attempt to apply that instructions you find there:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/different-profile-types-and-different-user-roles-part-ii/

My user roles are (sport) ‘teams’ and ‘fans’.

—

But unfortunately, I was not able to hinder, that ‘fans’ get displayed the questions (xProfile-fields) for ‘teams’ was well; and the ‘teams’ the questions for ‘fans’…

—

Further problem:

Even if there is a solution regarding later profile edits – even complicate seems to be, to make already the registration page “input senstive”, because during registration the new user isn’t yet registered (i.e.: has no user role yet).

Cfr. there:

http://forum.wpde.org/buddypress/133961-registrierungsseite-umgestalten-anleitung-und-fragen.html (section 4. – unfortunately in German).

[barchiola]

here’s a question, we already have a them and we’re also running an additional forum plugin. so right off the bat we have ClassiPress and SimplePress. It appears that what I’m following here is to make BuddyPress the site’s overall theme which isn’t the case. I just want to be able to edit the .css elelments that BuddyPress is calling on for forms and windows that are exclusive to buddypress on the site.
I’ve fixed a couple of things so far, I’ve made the style.css file from a blank document following the directions more closely. I’ve also copied all of the contents of the default BP theme into my child theme folder.
WordPress is recognizing the child theme in my Appearance>>Themes window of the WP Dashboard but it’s attempting to override the ClassiPress Child Theme that we have.
Is any of this understandable? I feel like I”m getting close, any help would be appreciated to make this plugin work correctly for us.
Thanks,
Bart

[danbp]

hi junior 😉 @spymasterhugh009

i changed your topic title to something more accurate, because “Help” isn’t a support forum subject.

For basic start question, please read the Codex.

Getting Started

Configure BuddyPress

Register and Activation Pages

Good luck with BuddyPress.

[bp-help]

@summersoul
Have you considered hiring a pro? Try posting:

BP Jobs Board

or:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[shanebp]

BuddyPress does not provide forums.
It will work together with bbPress to provide forums.

Get BP working first.

To set-up BP read: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/

[ideasdesigninc]

UPDATE: I’ve figured out how to change the “/activity/friends/” friendly URL to “/activity/connections/”. I’ve simply uploaded a bp-custom.php file to my “/wp-content/plugins/” folder and added the following line to it:

define ( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘connections’ );

I now just need to figure out how to change “Friends” to “Connections”. I’ve searched through these forums, but all of the instructions I’ve been able to find so far seem to pertain to 1.x versions of BuddyPress, and involve the modifying of language files (which doesn’t seem to apply to version 2.1.1 of BuddyPress). Can anyone here give me some pointers on how I’d do this in BuddyPress v2.1.1 ?

Thanks!
– Yvan

[bonnsaikitty]

@hnla

I did try to ask the theme maker, they keep telling all of us to wait for the Buddypress update.

I don’t think they really know what’s going wrong also.

That’s why I opt for this forum directly, but who knows either that this problem does not come from Buddypress. That’s why I “asked” ^______^

About your questions, will come back to you soon. Thanks !

[Halo Diehard]

Kk, sorry it took so long to get back to this; I had to walk away from it all for a bit as my whole setup is taking more of my time than I am able to produce any content, and I’m ready to throw in the towel.

I just took a peek in my database and it looks like the plugin just takes the person’s account name from whatever account they log into and uses that for everything, the login, nicename and display/nickname, so no way of knowing which one it pulls the @mention from.

I’m assuming in a normal registration it takes it from the person’s first and last name, though? This probably works on a lot of “business”-types sites, where people use their birth-names anyway, but the vast majority of forums I’ve visted show that people prefer to use quirky, expressive names that reflect their personalities. For this reason, I think BuddyPress would better serve a lot of forums with the @mentions if there were at least an option to use the nicename instead of the username.

I understand it gets really complicated with people being able to change their nicename, but on most forums people don’t get to do that, only Admins can do that for them, because it confuses the other membership; they don’t know who’s “talking”.

So for a ton of people who are used to phpbb3-type forums, it would be great to turn off the ability to change nicenames and have nicenames be @mentions. Or even have nicenames be @mentions, and if you change your nicename, your @mention just has to stay the same, because it’s just too complicated to get the coding to do that, but still, nicename over “real name”, because when you put your real name in a forum you don’t expect it to be used as your forum name, you just don’t. And hand-holding or no, it *will* discourage people from using a forum.

There’s mah feedbacks, lemmie know if there’s anymore database peeking you’d like me to do, and thanks for trying to help 🙂

[Henry Wright]

Try this function:

function bp_set_notification_default( $user_id ) {
    $keys = array( 'notification_activity_new_mention', 'notification_activity_new_reply', 'notification_friends_friendship_accepted', 'notification_friends_friendship_request', 'notification_groups_admin_promotion', 'notification_groups_group_updated', 'notification_groups_invite', 'notification_groups_membership_request', 'notification_messages_new_message', 'notification_messages_new_notice' );

    foreach ( $keys as $key ) {
        update_user_meta( $user_id, $key, 'no' );
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'bp_set_notification_default', 100, 1 );

Ref: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/how-can-i-disable-buddypress-notification-email

[1a-spielwiese]

@danbp / https://buddypress.org/support/topic/which-files-create-the-page-titles-site-wide-activity-members-and-groups/#post-203971:

Nobody told you to put bp-loader in the child theme !

My question was:

Where I would have to place my bp-activity-loader.php-Copy?

And your answer was:

If you want to modify template files, you do that with a child-theme and by respecting the same directory structure

So, if your answer was not an answer on my question – what would be then the answer on my question?

—–

However:

Changing words with the translation file is best practice, so you haven’t to modify anything in a core file.

Of course, this would work; but I would not call this a ‘best practice’ – because ‘Neuigkeiten aus dem 1a-Spielwiese-Netzwerk’ is clearly not an a translation of ‘activity’.

And anyway: The page title ‘Members’ and ‘Groups’ are correctly translate within the Decker-translation, which I use:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Members-Page-Title_translated.jpg
and
http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Groups-Page-Title_translated.jpg

Nevertheless I got displayed in the Frontend ‘Members’ (not: ‘Mitglieder’) and ‘Groups’ (not: ‘Gruppen’), before I changed the core files today:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Page-Titles.jpg

And other users have the same problem:

Ich möchte die Seite gerne komplett in deutsch gestalten, aber egal welche “.mo” Dateien ich ins buddypress/plugin/language Verzeichnis lade, alles ist auf deutsch, nur nicht die Überschriften “Sitewide Activity” “Members” etc.

http://forum.wpde.org/buddypress/58502-bp-1-1-sprache-nicht-komplett-deutsch-2.html#post575160 (09.09.2014, 20:52 h)

[danbp]

Changing words with the translation file is best practice, so you haven’t to modify anything in a core file.

If you want to modify template files, you do that with a child-theme and by respecting the same directory structure as in bp-legacy/buddypress/…/file_name.php:

wp-content/themes/your_child_theme/buddypress/…/file_name.php

1000 times explained and detailed on this forum and documented on Codex.

[Dono12]

I have a problem, I found this snippet of code in the forum:
<?php if ( bp_displayed_user_is_friend() ) : ?>
<?php locate_template( array( ‘members/single/not-friend’ ), true ) ?>
<?php else : ?>

figured out the problem, for some reason the external message was not loading so I placed this simple message inside like so wrapped in that div:

<?php if ( bp_displayed_user_is_friend() ) : ?>
<div class=”info” id=”message”>
<p>You must be friends in order to access users activity.</p>
</div>

<?php else : ?>

Body

<?php endif; ?>

[danbp]

Have you allowed user comments on blog and forums in the bp settings ?

[Halo Diehard]

I don’t know, but it sure would be cool if someone who has done it could verify. I’ve not done a lot of playing around with filters, either in WP or BuddyPress, and it’s overwhelming and makes me nervous.

I’ll contact the plugin creator on the issue of the automatic user_login name, but there are a lot of posts dating back quite a few years with forum owners crying out how confusing it is for their members when their members can change their nicename but the @mention is something else; sure would be nice if the option to synchronize them were part of the core BuddyPress functionality.

[r-a-y]

This might not answer your question, but try BP’s built-in activity comment / blog comment synchronization feature.

To try this, login to your WP admin dashboard. Navigate to “Settings > BuddyPress”.

Click on the “Settings” tab. Check “Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts” and save.

Now make a blog post and comment from the activity stream or from the blog post. Activity comments and blog comments should now be synched.

—

The alternative is this older plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-as-blog-comments/

It used to replace the WP comments section with the BP activity reply system, but it’s been awhile since I’ve tested this one so it might not work any more.

[danbp]

Thank you for the information.
I removed the dead link from codex page.

Feel free to add your own tip or how-to to the codex. Anybody can contribute to it !
Login credential is the same as for the forum. 😉

[danbp]

@mcpeanut,

apologize if i don’t remember what i answered to you when i’m answering to somebody else in a different topic.

I can’t answer in name of the devs, but i can tell you that i’m testing on a fresh vanilla install mostly everything before answering or giving some advice here. And if i’m (we’re) asking for theme name, it is to use it eventually to reproduce an issue to the closest of the user environment.

As BP contributor, i’m also using a trunk install and i’m pretty sure that any dev do the same.
Aside, i have several other install, locally and online, with different themes and plugin.

About SWA now or group activities.
By default, BP allows users to comment almost each activity type. But every site doesn’t need to use this oportunity.

By default, the load more button paginates the content after 50 activities, and also by default, an activity feed can be very long if you use “load more” till the end of your activities history.

If you haven’t receive the answer you expected, it’s because the described issue is not a issue, but how it works globally. And if you consider that your comments should be nested or hidden with a toggle button, you can add it. Understand also that it is not a default feature. It maybe annoying for YOUR project, and absolutely uninteresting for others. C’est la vie ! And in any case you’re free to use and tweak BP to your convenience.

Another important thing is that status updates are not topics or treads, but firstly thinked for short messages to others. That is also the reason why you have no text editor for activity comments.

Using status updates for conversations maybe convenient in groups, when not using a group forum. And even in this case, the activity layout and the possible length of answers can rapidly bring to reading difficulties. A little inconvenient that explain the success of P2 theme, imho.

Personally i prefer to open a group forum, if group members are great talker, as let them spill over an cheap ajaxified textarea between many other unrelated activity stuff.

There is no ideal handling (meaning adaptable to each case) of such by default. BP is made for the most common general usage first, but fortunately comes with hundreds of filters and hooks who let each owner add and remove what he want. All these had to be customized and tailored for each project.