[cyndimarie]

I have enabled debug mode and found some errors on the activation page: see this forum post.

[godavid33]

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.

[julianprice]

@bp-help I guess form this previous forum topic he’s wanting to create just utilize private messages https://buddypress.org/support/topic/using-buddypress-messaging-in-a-unique-way/

@sparkingproducts Can you gives us more detail of what you trying to accomplish because it could be as simple as deactivating a component or styling CSS elements to be hidden

[julianprice]

@godavid33 Just thought I would comment because you bumped your post. What I understanding bumping a post shows topics have been respond too.

Unfortunately, I am unable to help you because completely out of beginner knowledge but I did go back & look at all your post on the forum. I am trying to understand the logic in all the customization when BuddyPress natively provides notifications.

[bp-help]

@julianprice
I believe the codex itself provides a lot of info for beginners to intermediate BP users, thanks to all the BP codex contributors. I agree with @danbp on a lot of his points. Every individuals needs are totally different and there is really no way to generalize every ones specific needs and that is where the forums come in handy because then they can voice specifically their requirements and hopefully someone who has had the same requirements can help them out. Anyway that is my 2 cents worth.
Sincerely,
bphelp

[danbp]

Hi @julianprice,

Your proposal is respectable, but unfortunately I do not think it will have a big impact on visitors to this forum. Most of them just ask for help, not for explanations and certainly not to take lessons! The explanations are (mostly) on Codex (thxs @mercime, @hnla) and the plasters for big and little sores are (sometimes, thxs contributors) on the forum.

I reply to your message because this is the second time you propose this type of approach and this is obviously a topic that you would like to heart. But this is about you, your views and your motivation. In front you have a diverse audience, ranging from amateur to pro, between noobs and specialists, from many different countries, with very different mentalities and very different social behaviors. And as you can see by browsing the forum, topics are usually short, sometimes poorly worded and often unanswered. Hard to read ? No, it is only the BP audience in his whole variety !

The reasons are multiple, irrespective of audience: lack of product knowledge, panic facing an unidentified problem and therefore inability to articulate, language barrier, and much more serious, lack of time, real or perceived problem, given to the treatment of a case. We are in 2014 and on the Internet, where each ms. count !

As already said, the helpers community is small, very small compared to buddypress downloads ! Personally I would have difficulty establishing a Helpers Top 50, despite my six years of attendance in this forum.

Anyway, all of this is common to any support forum, at least I observed. This support forum is not a discussion forum, is not a course forum, is not a philosophy forum. And IMO, it is allright so.

You want to educate ? Ok ! But does the BP audience want to learn ?
Learning is a complex process, on an individdual and collective point of view.
Learning suppose some basics, such as a thematic unicity, volonty, curiosity, motivation and, at least, a handfull of humility.

Educating. Wow ! There is so much to say about that… Ok. Let us talk about educating over BuddyPress… What part we address first ? PHP ? HTML ? CSS ? MySql ? Server administration ? SEO ? Usage ? BP is only a shell, not a unic thematic like a math course.
Ideally, educating needs some talents, a robust knowledge of a subject, a natural disposition to teach and a lot of time and disponibility without any guarantee of results. You certainly need also a good dose of self-denial and a large space behind you to be able to step back in any circumstance. And a handfull of humility. Too !

Now, let us consider John Doe. The supposed to be educated user.

The majority struggles when asking for help to strangers. Asking a question on a forum is more like a message in a bottle as a grammatical demand between four eyes to your English teacher. How many people read only on forums but never ask anything because of this feeling?
And which attitude to adopt when we receive a response, good or bad? Must we say thank you if the help doesn’t match our goal? Should we rephrase with the risk to be considered as a profiteer? Should we hook in a topic believed to be identical to our problem and already written (time spare is time spare!!!) or open a new tread? This are so commonly questions, that the world wide forumers needed to create from scratch a web specific phenomenon: the troll!

Askink for help under these conditions and with such uncertain issues is not easy at all.
Receiving any kind of answer is not easy, too.
Receiving a circonstanciated answer, with various explanation, examples, links and tutti quanti, from an unknowed person, personally, voluntarily and without consideration, is very very stressfull and really difficult to accept. Take a minute to consider this point, because we are all, and all over the world, habituate to handle such a situation with money, not (no more or not yet) with our felling. Consider also that we are all dependent and in varying degrees of mood, touchy, selfish, proud. This is more or less our daily reality who, when on a forum page, we opposite to a disembodied screen readed text. It’s very unnatural, no ? And so difficult to digest for any normally constituted human for sure ! Affect against computer. EOL.

Do you really want to <i>Educate the General Public</i> about BuddyPress ? Do you want to proselytize or advertize ? Create a dedicated site, do your stuff, and maybe with a few chance, great patience and a lot of perseverance, you will come to aggregate in a few years a cute pretty lttle buddypresser community.

Dan. Paris. France.

[Giacomo]

Forum functionality is provided by bbPress. You should ask in the forum over there you’ll get better support: https://bbpress.org/forums/
Anyway with some custom coding it shouldn’t be a problem to meet those requirements.

[julianprice]

@robertnorcross Just to let you know I am just learning to figure so of these out. So this is what I think I understand it works:

multisite install by default allows users to login with same info.

you may also want to post over on wordpress support forum for multisite.

I was reading so article & now don’t remember that subscriber on multisite don’t automatically become members which confuse me know.

I am pretty sure there is probably login redirect plugin but haven’t used any to recommend.

I am also unfamiliar with commerce sites but do you want to redirect someone before they complete their purchase to buddypress.

I think multisite forum may be could more helpful and to be honest I thinking of just going back to single installs & migrate later. I have multiple sites like you too with various focused it has been challenge wrapping my head around it all.

[julianprice]

@jacqueschoquette Buddypress does not utilize it own forums but uses bbpress.org for them.

The bbpress.org support would be the best resource to help you on the display order of your forum topics. You can find more info here: https://bbpress.org/forums/

[robertnorcross]

Good note. http://www.example1.com is an online book store and it uses the WooCommerce plugin. http://www.example2.com is a website for prayer leaders, specific to a denomination of religion and
http://www.example3.com (this one has buddy press) is a website for prayer leaders, that is not specific to a denomination.

The idea is that the user will have one login – so that when they check their orders on http://www.example1.com (online book store) they have the same login as http://www.example2.com and http://www.example3.com. The other idea, and the main one of all, is that http://www.example2.com (a website for prayer leaders, specific to a denomination of religion) and http://www.example3.com (this one has buddy press) [website for prayer leaders, that is not specific to a denomination] – these two, when a user logs in, would both feed into the website that has BuddyPress. So, one login overall on the entire network and one BuddyPress location. I don’t need any separation on the websites like, accounts or separate forums, BuddyPress profiles, etc.

I’m looking for one login. I’m looking also for a way that if a user logs into http://www.example1.com (online book store) or http://www.example2.com and they are trying to access anything involving BuddyPress (which is on http://www.example3.com), that they are sent to that site. Right now when if I network activate BuddyPress they can use the same login no matter what website they are on, but if they click on their profile or anything like that they stay on the current website and BuddyPress takes the face of that website. However, If they do that on mine I want them taken from one of the sites and sent to http://www.example3.com (this one has buddy press).

Is this possible?

[shanebp]

@aronprins

Nice.

There is definitely a need for BP Themes aka Template Packages.

When the upper right mobile-mode nav is clicked, the layout is rather awkward.

Please keep these forums informed of your progress.
This will be a premium theme?
There are some good testers here that might be willing to take a look: hnla, mercime

[julianprice]

Thanks @henry for referencing… I had thought to refer to something but was cautious on my experience; further, replying just via mobile phone.

I would refer to Henry because I have seen his continuous engagement on the buddypress forums. I appreciate Henry

[firewire]

Thank you very much, it works perfectly…
Hmm, you are very smart, so can I ask you another question?

Do you know, how I can get a “Tags” textfield for my buddypress activation stream? So people can use Tags for theirs posts.
Like this tags textfield here in the buddypress support forum.

(Sorry for my English 😉 )

[r-a-y]

#4357 – I agree that something needs to be done. bbPress already adds a “Forums” section on a BP profile, so perhaps bbPress can simply redirect /forums/users/USERNAME/ to BP’s /members/USERNAME/forums. I would say this is more a bbPress issue than a BuddyPress one. Please add a ticket to bbPress Trac about this. (Use the same credentials you use on buddypress.org to create a new ticket.)

#3335 already has comments on it regarding why WP’s profile is not included with BuddyPress. I do find it odd that bbPress allows users to edit WordPress’ user profile though… I’ve created a new ticket with some further thoughts – #5619

[tunjic]

OK, Looks like this is a problem caused by NextGen Gallery. Noted here:

Redirects to forum from group home (BuddyPress)

But still not fixed with NextGen Gallery V2.0.63 – 04.29.2014

[localiseorg]

@jconti – probably best as a separate plugin rather than bundling too much in to WangGuard.

A modernised version of https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-moderation/ would be ideal, as that plugin already does most of what’s required – it just needs lots of cleanup.

Admin settings interface:

Choose which content types should get a report/flag link (including things like status updates, comments, groups, forums, members, posts, articles, etc).

Customise link text, eg. “Report %username%” or “Flag %contenttype%” etc.

Decide how many reports something needs before an automatic response is triggered. Eg. if 5 people have flagged a comment as bad, person who made that comment should get a customised message and the message should optionally be forwarded to an admin.

The message I’ve set up in BP Moderation plugin looks like this:

%AUTHORNAME%,

Several users reported your content as inappropriate:
%CONTENTURL%.

A community moderator has been notified and will review the content. If it is found to be in violation of our site terms of use, your account will be removed.

%SITENAME%

Front-end UI:

Make HTML as consistent as possible, but compatible with the UI found for the specific type of content.

Ensure there is a specific class on all flag/report links, eg. class=”abuse-button”

Ensure there is a content type specific class on each flag link, eg. class=”abuse-type-comment”

Ensure there is a state specific class on all links, eg: class=”not-flagged” or class=”is-flagged” as applicable.

Use AJAX when user flags/unflags something to avoid page refresh.

Management Interface:

There should perhaps be two management interfaces, one for site admins in the WP backend, and one for forum/group mods in the front-end.

In the backend, see BP Moderation plugin for an example.

In the front-end, it would be nice if say a group admin/moderator would get messages about problem users in their group and be able to deal with it themselves (via front-end UI, I don’t want normal users of my site going in to WP backend). This would reduce workload of WP site admins.

Spam integration:

I assume this is something native to WP but it might be from a plugin, not sure. Anyway, in admin area when you go in to Comments or Topics, etc., and hover over content items you get a spam link in the links that appear:

It would be nice if when the auto-response message is triggered (as mentioned earlier – for example after 5 people report something) it could be marked as spam. When marked as spam, content is hidden from the front-end and moved to a ‘spam’ folder on the backend. This would mean if several people report something it is temporarily hidden while an admin looks in to it – if the admin thinks it’s ok they can un-spam it, otherwise they can delete it.

I have no idea which content types / reply types support this spam thing. It would also be worth checking with whoever implemented the spam thing to see what their future plans are?

Other Notes:

If the new plugin could provide hooks so that other plugins such as WangGuard could hook in to it, that would be ideal. For example, if WangGuard sees a blacklisted word in a comment it could automatically flag it or something like that.

It would be useful if there was a record kept of how many times a user’s content has been flagged enough times to trigger auto-responses. This would enable admins to spot repeat-offenders who are regularly annoying other end-users and factor that in to any subsequent decision making (eg. should I ban that user?).

It would be nice if there was a way to auto-suspend a member account if lots of their content is getting reported/flagged. This ties in with the count thing mentioned above. So if they’ve spammed groups and forums with spammy adverts, etc., and as a result other members have reported those things several times, the offending user would be auto-suspended if they have more than say 3 items moved to spam at any given time.

[Mr-B]

Nice site.
Where did you get the skin for the forum, especially the main list, it looks great. Is that default bbPress page within Sweetdate?

[bitpath]

I think it mostly comes down to a few well placed links where you get all those “nothing matches that filter” message so people can find what would go there and fill those empty filter results. This site is so much more user friendly than the default buddypress install it seems, so it must be able to do this somehow. Maybe it just take a lot more work after installing to make it similar to this. Mostly it’s the dead end links I’m worried about. Most people don’t understand getting a lot of “nothing matches that filter” error messages with no direction on how to add groups, forums, friends, topics, etc.

[nirgalo]

ahhh found the solution through bbPress forums: search engine indexing must be enabled in the WordPress settings for this to work! This is quite problematic for private sites (well that not much as those use authentication to get into content). Any plan to address this?

[Mathieu Viet]

Hi @localiseorg

Socialise (sitewide activity assigned to this)
– Members (members directory assigned to this)
– Groups (groups directory assigned to this)
– Forums (bbPress forum root assigned to this)

Have you tried using a wp_nav_menu instead ?

I think, if i was in your situation, i’d make a wp_nav_menu with your different pages.. It could be “home”, “blog”, “socialise” for instance. And from the wp_nav_menu WordPress UI, i’d attach the Members/Groups and forums as submenus of Socialise.

Then concerning the Socialise title that is “Sitewide Activity”, i’ll begin to edit the activity page changing the title from Activity to Socialise and use a little code like the following:

function change_activity_directory_title() {
	buddypress()->activity->directory_title = buddypress()->pages->activity->title;
}
add_action( 'bp_activity_setup_globals', 'change_activity_directory_title' );

[critta10]

I went through all the files and deleted out the “&” sign as the fatal error called for and then when finished this popped up:

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/by-email/by-email.php on line 51

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 101

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 114

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 160

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core.php on line 177

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 79

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-blogs.php on line 69

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums.php on line 20

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-friends.php on line 39

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-groups.php on line 75

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 72

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-xprofile.php on line 105

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-settings.php on line 10

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 980

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 980

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 980

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 980

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity.php on line 980

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home4/unione/public_html/wp-content/plugins/invite-anyone/by-email/by-email.php:51) in /home4/unione/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876

Recommendations?

[localiseorg]

This sort of functionality is something that’s definitely required for BP – there’s no way an admin can go round reading everything on a busy site, abuse monitoring has to be crowdsourced to the members.

The plugin I’ve been testing, which was last updated in 2013, is this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-moderation/

Interestingly it covers just about everything – from members, private messages & their senders, statuses, activity comments, topics, forums, groups, posts, pages, blog comments, and probably a whole bunch of other things. I have a hunch they are hard-coded though.

It works to an extent, but glitches I’ve found so far include:

* Setting to define what text appears on the ‘Flag’ links don’t get applied to all links
* Flag link text for things like posts (and possibly pages) starts appearing in excerpts
* It’s using images rather than FontAwesome / Fontello via CSS = ugly and slow
* The admin menu icon is broken somewhat (looks ugly) but that’s minor thing

IMHO if the UI could be cleaned up, images replaced with icon fonts, and somewhat improved control over link text implemented, this plugin would be pretty much there and would cover just about all aspects of WP, BP and (with some extra coding) probably even bbPress.

Unfortunately I’m pants when it comes to PHP so can’t help with this task 🙁

[Mathieu Viet]

Hi,

In the BuddyPress settings, you can deactivate the activity comment feature for blog/forum posts
see https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/#settings-buddypress-settings

There’s a setting called “Blog & forum comments”, simply make sure it’s not checked.

[kalico]

I ended up (mostly) resolving this issue by using the Commons in a Box plugin. It has two checkboxes in the “Settings” area that allow you to set the Group and Member default tabs to “Forums” and “Profile”, respectively. Lifesaver.

[Kriss Kellino]

That is the problem I found that and didn’t understand where I had to put it as I know nothing about .php…

After abut 2hrs of looking on the internet I finally find out how to do it and where to put it. I have only just managed to do it though…

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/reduce-number-of-statuses-statii-on-activity-stream

Even though this was slightly wrong. 😀

Kriss 🙂