[johnsag]

I’m back to exploring Buddypress, and I am experimenting with an install. I’d like to have a linkable public profile for the members without all this sort of information:

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But only select fields (description, publications etc). I see a lot of technical info about customizing files etc when I search for this, some of it rather old. Is there perhaps a plugin that allow me to remove all this (to me) irrelevant information for non-logged-in users? It may well be there for the users when they are logged in. Perhaps it might be easier to simply create ordinary text-files for each user presentation that they can edit themselves.

[Henry Wright]

I’m going to post this thread in BuddyPress forums to see if they are aware of what’s going on but any help here would be greatly appreciated.

This is the BuddyPress forum?

Regarding root profiles, there may be a problem with certain logic working in 1.9.2 if root profiles are enabled. Root profiles are enabled if your links look like this:

example.com/username

rather than:

example.com/members/username

[MBonner]

ok, so I did a fresh install of wordpress and began to install each plugin one-by-one. Here’s an update on what’s happening:

– Buddypress released a new version Feb 5th (yesterday) with a new component or something.
– I get a blank page as soon as I activate Buddypress with bbpress (no other plugins or themes installed).
– WooCommerce works with bbpress until I install a specific theme but I will take that up with the theme.

I’m going to post this thread in BuddyPress forums to see if they are aware of what’s going on but any help here would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[gottasmile]

I figured out that it was because I had a bbpress forum menu item, but I had deactivated bbpress when trying to figure out why the log in for buddy press wasn’t working. This error disappeared as soon as I reactivated bbpress.

[Biswadip]

The filter in the link posted by @mercime writes the forum data from the wp_posts table to the bp_activity table.

So I suppose legacy posts could be transferred from one table to the other by writing the values from the columns of one table to the columns of the other.

But the id of the same entry in the two tables are different so you would need to get the id of the last item in the bp_activity table and then increment the id’s for each new row added from the wp_posts table. I am not experienced enough to be able to estimate the difficulty of this task – does anyone else have any idea?

[Hugo Ashmore]

It’s going to be a matter of understanding how themes & templates work in, in that respect the BP codex is your friend, I encourage you to read as many of the pages in there relating to BP themeing.

>does this mean i can build a theme on bp-default without creating a child theme… …without it being overwritten when i update after 1.9.1

No, and you never could, if you wanted anything other than the stock display produced by bp-default you had to create a child theme to carry your styles or template overrides.

I noticed your other thread, firstly you asked the same question on the plugins support forum, but haven’t really left sufficient time for the author to respond, asking the same question here will probably not get any quicker a response or solution as this is a third party plugin issue.

Having said that you mentioning you have copied /bp-default/ to your theme doesn’t sound right, to overload bp-default templates in a child theme you copy the folders and templates that exist under the bp-default folder; think of the folder name ‘bp-default’ as being translated to or being the equivalent of your theme folders name.

One last point, best advice is really to try and work your theme using theme compatibility, the general encouragement is to try and use theme compatibility rather than the older process, that eventually won’t get any significant updates or support and will only exist in a backwards compatible manner to ensure themes previously built on it continue to work.

[mdpane]

@Oken There actually has been! What I wrote up there was just a quick workaround, I would disregard it now. This is their solution:

https://rtcamp.com/rtmedia/docs/developer/templating-system/theme-media-tab/

I have to applaud rtCamp, they’ve been updating rtMedia and rtMedia Pro with new features and bug fixes nearly every other day. And if you go on their own forum, they’re incredibly quick to reply.

[meg@info]

Hi @dtc7240,

Thank you very mutch for reporting bugs.

i have added fix on the last version (1.3).
I just want to mention that i keeped the ability to members to change the visibility of no threaded comment( join group, leave group, ..etc) since this activities concerns it.

be cargful when you add this tests on your version:
if( bp_activity_user_can_delete() && bp_get_activity_type() == 'activity_update' ) {

it’s can stop the plugin to work for others plugins like buddydrive or others ( they use others activity type other than ‘activity_update’).

I invite you to join the support forum of the plugin for more enhancement and suggestions.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-activity-privacy

Thanks again for the fix.

Regards,
Mounir

[Biswadip]

While I am sorry that @polokina never got an answer I would like to resurrect this thread as I have pretty much got stuck at the same dead end – bp_get_activity_action().

I am trying, in my child theme, to i) store the activity feed (i.e. avatar, date, content, action, content body, comment/favourite/delete buttons) for a group in an array, in order to then ii) merge the array with another feed from a forum and iii) display the merged feed sorted by date. I think I should be able to do ii) and iii) but I don’t seem to be able to manage i).

I believe what I should be doing in order to accomplish i) is to filter bp_get_activity_action() but I am not sure what the filter function to hook in should look like. Ideally I would like the function to take the activity feed as input and save that input in an array which I can then manipulate along the lines of ii) and iii).

So what I would like (in pseudo-code) to insert into my functions.php file is something like:

‘add_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_action’, ‘new_activity_array’ );
function new_activity_array(){
// i) save the activity feed in an array
// ii) manipulate the array
// iii) output the modified array
}
‘

As I said I think I can accomplish ii) and iii) so any kind pointers as how to go about accomplishing i) would be gratefully accepted.

Thank you

[webauthor]

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

[xjamesb]

Dear Judith,

see here

http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-change-a-buddypress-group-avatar?replies=3#post-595293

You can update it through the Group Admin menu in WordPress site itself but you must have upload Avatars ticked in the dashboard.

[Ben Hansen]

i don’t think you understood what i was trying to say, bbpress is the forum software which integrates most tightly with buddypress.

[pombonted]

Thnx, I can’t believe I wasted all that time on it. From what I saw on a Youtube video there seems to be a lot of stuffing around trying to build a forum. It looks far easier to build one on Mybb or phpbb or as they have most of it done, u just select options and build ur forum. They also look more like a proper forum where everything is structured & very clear on where to find things and the format is very clean. What do u think the best forum plug-in would be? Thnx in advance.

[Ben Hansen]

forums are bbpress which is a separate plugin.

[Melle328]

I’m experiencing a simular problem with bp groups and bbpress. If my group admins change their group settings from public to private, the forum type doesn’t. The forum tools doesn’t fix it.

WP 3.8
BP 1.8.1
BBPRESS 2.5.2

Thanks!
Daniel

[Henry Wright]

You could try posting a link to a demo of your theme in https://buddypress.org/support/forum/your-buddypress/ asking anyone to provide you with some feedback…

[@mercime]

@quince85 http://www.themehorse.com/support-forum/topic/buddypress-not-working-with-attitude-theme/

[Marcella]

Thanks Hugo.

I’ll head over to their forums and see what turns up.

[Hugo Ashmore]

These are probably questions better asked on bbPress forum – remember although bbPress integrates with buddyPress it is a standalone plugin.

I doubt however you need to overload all the files as above.

[Hugo Ashmore]

I would strongly urge you to first have a good read through what articles we currently have in the codex to familiarise yourself with basic setup & operation:

Getting Started

Then if you have further questions post back with a full outline of your setup – check the forum stickies which tell you what information to provide in order to gain help here.

[Tecca]

Put the bbPress theme files into your WordPress theme directory:

wp-content/themes/yourtheme

In yourtheme/css place the bbpress.css file
In yourtheme/bbpress, place all of the files you need to edit. Most of them (I believe):

bbpress/content-archive-forum.php
bbpress/content-archive-topic.php
bbpress/content-search.php
bbpress/content-single-forum.php
bbpress/content-single-reply.php
bbpress/content-single-topic-lead.php
bbpress/content-single-topic.php
bbpress/content-single-user.php
bbpress/content-single-view.php
bbpress/content-statistics.php
bbpress/content-topic-tag-edit.php
bbpress/feedback-logged-in.php
bbpress/feedback-no-access.php
bbpress/feedback-no-forums.php
bbpress/feedback-no-replies.php
bbpress/feedback-no-search.php
bbpress/feedback-no-topics.php
bbpress/form-anonymous.php
bbpress/form-forum.php
bbpress/form-protected.php
bbpress/form-reply-move.php
bbpress/form-reply.php
bbpress/form-search.php
bbpress/form-topic-merge.php
bbpress/form-topic-split.php
bbpress/form-topic-tag.php
bbpress/form-topic.php
bbpress/form-user-edit.php
bbpress/form-user-login.php
bbpress/form-user-lost-pass.php
bbpress/form-user-register.php
bbpress/form-user-roles.php
bbpress/loop-forums.php
bbpress/loop-mysingle-topic.php
bbpress/loop-mytopics.php
bbpress/loop-replies.php
bbpress/loop-search-forum.php
bbpress/loop-search-reply.php
bbpress/loop-search-topic.php
bbpress/loop-search.php
bbpress/loop-single-forum.php
bbpress/loop-single-reply.php
bbpress/loop-single-topic.php
bbpress/loop-topics.php
bbpress/pagination-replies.php
bbpress/pagination-search.php
bbpress/pagination-topics.php
bbpress/user-details.php
bbpress/user-favorites.php
bbpress/user-profile.php
bbpress/user-replies-created.php
bbpress/user-subscriptions.php
bbpress/user-topics-created.php

[shanebp]

Also make sure that your single forum slug is ‘forum’
The settings are in Dashboard > Settings > Forums > Single Forum Slugs > Forum.

If it isn’t ‘forum’, before changing the slug, trying changing your ‘define’ to use your current slug.

[shanebp]

This works fine on my basic test install
define( 'BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION', 'forum' );

Make sure that the quotes are straight verticals – not slanted or curved.

Otherwise, it’s something about your install.
Are you positive that your group(s) have forums ?

[jameat]

Thanks shane.

I took a look at that doc you link but feel this is a little beyond my capabilities!
Looking around the bbpress documentation I found this

They tell me to add
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION’, ‘members’ );
to my wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file. But that doesn’t seem to work.

This is what I wrote in the bp-custom.php file:

<?php
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION’, ‘forum’ );
?>

Is there anything obviously wrong with this which may explain it not working?

Thanks again.

[shanebp]

Over-ride this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\groups\single\home.php

And adjust it to make forums the default rather than activity.

Over-riding BP templates:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/