[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Calling out the core team of contributors or forum moderators is never likely to work at getting attention. We’re all busy and put as much time into the forums as possible for answering questions. 🙂

The invalid activation bug comes up every so often. Last I knew, we’ve not been able to track down why it sometimes doesn’t work.

[siteshack]

Hi Sundev

I realize that otherwise why would I ask the question. I’m asking for how to create more roles and privileges. I appreciate your participation but if you have nothing to add then why bother. Please do not take offence it’s just that why do people reply to forums all the time with no further input.

Have a great day

Danny 🙂

[Satyendra9717]

Yes, I want to have buddypress as a forum on a separate subdomain like forums.mysite.com. Lets say i created a subdomain from wordpress mu and installed wordpress on it. what should i do next?

Any link?

Thanks

[sundev]

Thanks @Henry for your reply. It works for my subnavs but did not for the navs, perhaps, I don’t know how to apply it. I used:

//hide navs
function my_setup_nav(){
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav[‘forums’]=false
add_action(‘bp_setup_nav’, ‘my_setup_nav’, 1000);

it works and is hidded but I used with

// rename tabs
function mb_profile_menu_tabs(){
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav[‘messages’][‘name’]=’Mails’;
add_action(‘bp_setup_nav’,’mb_profile_menu_tabs’,201);

to rename some tabs and it worked as well but the counting bubble in the fronts disappeared and a small space is left before the activity tab. Could it be my functions that is causing extra space? how can I still retain those bubbles after renamed, Any idea please? Sorry for bothering you so much.
Thanks in anticipation.

[shughey]

@buddyboss,

I’m having the same problem so I tried using your fix but something is wrong. I don’t have:

elseif ( bp_is_user_forums() ) : bp_get_template_part( 'members/single/forums' );

I have:

elseif ( bp_is_user_forums() ) : locate_template( array( 'members/single/forums.php' ), true );

Using WP 3.8.1 and Buddypress 1.9.2

[siteshack]

Hi

if you look here https://buddypress.org/community/members/siteshack/forums/

you will see three items dated 1 year 3 months ago. These were submitted at different times. If you look at the items they have the correct date. The issue is that these items appear in the full list as old items and not new

Cheers
Danny

[ufmobilehz]

I have encountered this problem, my website link：http://www.howmultimedia.com/forum/topic/what-is-jps-and-how-to-open-it,
If I click on /topic/ in the middle of this link, it will appear “Nothing found for Topic”, what is the problem? Please help me, thank you！

[Doremdou]

Hello, this is buddypress support forums here not bbpress ones 🙂
You should ask your questions here : https://bbpress.org/forums/ 🙂

[joshwinkles]

Thanks Henry. Quick question since I can’t seem to post the question (which is the problem). All of a sudden any new post I make shows up as if it was posted over a year ago, so no one sees it. Obviously support is through the forum, but I can’t post for anyone to see it (a vicious cycle). Any ideas?

[Jose C]

Wow, this was happening to me too and it turned out it was NextGen as well.

I thought everything was running just fine on front end and just for kicks I try a public forum account as a participant and try to edit profile in buddy press and it was redirecting the edit profile to a random post on my blog…. I couldn’t figure out where the redirect was coming from. Deactivated my redirection plugin, and that wasn’t it.

I had just installed next gen too and was really looking forward to using it. Never would have thought this created a conflict. And how could I have known? It would’ve continued being faulty like that for users!! Ahhh technicalities….

If anyone gets an update as to how this redirect is being made please let us know. Thank you @jslom for sharing this.

[colabsadmin]

If you can reproduce the blank condition every time when replying to forum topics, then I would focus on that for the time being. (The idea is to find something the fails EVERY TIME so you can troubleshoot it.) Start disabling plugins and revert back to a basic theme. If it’s stops happening, start re-enabling plugins one by one. That’s what I would do anyway.

[jakewho]

The fatal error is no longer generated in bbPress 2.5.1, so it looks like something new was introduced in bbPress 2.5.2.

Currently on my staging site I am running bbPress 2.5.1 and buddyPress 1.9.2, but unfortunately even though errors aren’t being generated anymore with this configuration, not all notifications are being displayed either. It looks like friend request notifications are working correctly, but user-to-user message notifications are not working. In addition, I am still getting “blank” notifications from the forum (even though I’m not seeing any fatal errors).

Any thoughts about next steps?

Thanks much

[jakewho]

I have done some additional investigation and it looks like the problem may be that when someone replies to a topic in a bbPress forum, they are receiving the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_notifications_add_notification() in /nas/wp/www/staging/cbblogers/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/notifications.php on line 124

I tried to revert to buddyPress 1.8.1 and bbPress 2.5.2, but unfortunately this didn’t resolve the issue.

Any thoughts about what I should try next?

Thanks much,

[jakewho]

I have taken a look at the data in the notifications table and it looks like all of the “blank” notifications (at least the first 5 or 6 of them) are of the type “bbp_new_reply”

here are a couple of rows from the database:

201438 2 15959 2483 forums bbp_new_reply 3/11/14 16:11 1
201443 2 1064 2101 forums bbp_new_reply 3/11/14 17:33 1
201464 2 15959 2347 forums bbp_new_reply 3/12/14 13:07 1
201468 2 15959 2494 forums bbp_new_reply 3/12/14 16:43 1

Any thoughts about what might be causing this or how to correct the issue?

Thanks much,

[Ben Hansen]

you can only have one theme active at a time. also i think personally, buddypress would make a bad alternative for google drive since its really not the same thing at all.

as for putting a menu item to take users to the main forum page that will not be a problem.

it sounds like you may want try using wordpress first and then add buddypress once you are a little more familiar with it before adding buddypress to the mix.

[modemlooper]

There is some information in codex, if you need more post a forum topic

[colabsadmin]

I’ve been playing around with the filtering aspect. Turns out Buddypress has a filter built in, so all you need to do is add a form (dropdown) to use it. I haven’t fully tested this but seems to work. I need a way to determine all possible notification component names and actions so it will autopopulate the dropdown when new plugins use notifications.

I copied /plugins/buddypress/bp-template/members/single/notifications.php to my child theme and added the following right below the bp_notifications_sort_order_form call

<li id="members-filter-select" class="last filter">
	<?php qd_notifications_filter_form(); ?>
</li>

Then in my functions.php file, I added the dropdown code (I basically stole this from the code that generates the sort by date dropdown.

function qd_notifications_filter_form() {

	// Setup local variables
        // Need to figure out a way to autopopulate this array
	$searchterms   = array( 'new_at_mention', 'bbp_new_reply','new_message','friendship_accepted','friendship_request','group_invite','localgroupnotifier','ac_notifier' );
	$selected = '';

	// Check for a custom sort_order
	if ( !empty( $_REQUEST['s'] ) ) {
		if ( in_array( $_REQUEST['s'], $searchterms ) ) {
			$selected = $_REQUEST['s'];
		}
	} ?>

	<form action="" method="get" id="notifications-filter">
		<label for="notifications-filter-list"><?php esc_html_e( 'Filter By:', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>

// need to loop through this instead of hardcoding the options.
		<select id="notifications-filter-list" name="s" onchange="this.form.submit();">
        	<option value="" <?php selected( $selected, '' ); ?>><?php _e( 'All', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
			<option value="new_at_mention" <?php selected( $selected, 'new_at_mention' ); ?>><?php _e( 'Mentions', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
			<option value="bbp_new_reply"  <?php selected( $selected, 'bbp_new_reply'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Forums', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
            <option value="new_message"  <?php selected( $selected, 'new_message'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Messages', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
            <option value="ac_notifier"  <?php selected( $selected, 'ac_notifier'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Activity', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
            <option value="localgroupnotifier"  <?php selected( $selected, 'localgroupnotifier'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Groups', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
            <option value="friendship_accepted"  <?php selected( $selected, 'friendship_accepted'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Friend Accepts', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
            <option value="friendship_request"  <?php selected( $selected, 'friendship_request'  ); ?>><?php _e( 'Friend Requests', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>
		</select>

		<noscript>
			<input id="submit" type="submit" name="form-submit" class="submit" value="<?php _e( 'Go', 'buddypress' ); ?>" />
		</noscript>
	</form>

<?php
}

[shanebp]

I’d use the approach @boonebgorges suggests – a custom table with these fields:
-user_id unique
-long
-lat

Then you don’t need any joins.

>individual forum posts are geo-tagged

Based on where they were created or based on the existing geo-tag for the user?
If the former, you can add a column to the custom table.
If the latter, you’re good to go.

[@mercime]

@neerajkumar2020 have you posted at plugin’s support forum as Henry suggested in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-ass_digest_items-in-usermeta-table/ ?

[godavid33]

I ended up just copying the function and renaming it and using that. but of course the code is not pasting… So i’ll just point you where I went:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/buddypress/nav.html?_functions/index.html

Line 840

Hope this helps someone.

Every post I look at seems to be ages old, so hopefully this forum is not dead. I shall take it upon myself to revitalize posting actually useful things.

[granville]

Hi @danbp

Thanks for the reply – sorry for my slow response; I hadn’t selected “notify” at the bottom of the page.

My main concern is that @megainfo is unwell – the support forum for the great plugin Buddypress Wall has been abandoned. It’s been 6 weeks and not a peep from megainfo. The support wall is here:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-wall

There are several problems now reported there – mine is there also, and the link is here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-on-another-members-wall-disappearing

If you are able to provide assistance, I would be very grateful

[Henry Wright]

Hi @neerajkumar2020

Ah right. So it’s this plugin you’re using:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

It’s very easy to update user meta in WordPress. See:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta

But the plugin uses the BP version of this function AND I see that there are conditions in place which govern when this particular meta value is updated.

Have you tried asking on the plugin’s support forum? That might be the best place to start as you’ll have people there far more familiar with the plugin’s code.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-group-email-subscription

[danbp]

Hi guys !

Most of the publishing stuff is regulated from within WordPress settings.
And allowing blog and forums activity comments is a setting of BuddyPress.

If you don’t want your users writing notices (what’s new ?), the only thing that is published by buddyPress, you can remove the notice form from the template or add a conditionnal if/else for the allowed members…

@boblebad, FYI buddypress is not a forum software. The forum plugin is bbPress.

[boblebad]

That’s something i would like to know too.

I need to have free “members” that can’t interact with the forum and groups, it’s okay that they can read/view them, but not answer or create new topics – that’s only for paying members.

It is actually weird that this feature isn’t in BuddyPress out-of-the-box, most other forum software has it.

All the best
Carsten

[BuddyBoss]

Ok so, first delete the image map.

Then in the file header.php in your theme, you can add this code:

<!-- Register/Login links for logged out users -->
<?php if ( !is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<div class="header-login">
<a href="<?php echo wp_login_url( $redirect ); ?>" class="button">Login</a>
<?php if ( bp_get_signup_allowed() ) : ?>
<a href="<?php echo bp_get_signup_page(); ?>">Register</a>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

Basically it first checks to see if the user is NOT logged in.
If that condition is met (user is logged out) then it displays a link to Login and then a link to Register (if registration is open).

I put the whole thing into a DIV element called .header-login which you can used to style the section via CSS. At first it may not look like much – just two links. You or your developer will need to edit the CSS. Maybe if you get it working correctly but it looks bad, you can come back to the forums here and post again about how to style it.