Sorry, but the default view of members’ activities on the overview pages is out of date. I want to switch this off, but I do not know how. I want to be in control. Nothing worked so far.
How can I deactivate or deactivate the output of the contents of the classes “gp-loop-meta” => “activity”?
See: 
P.S.: Not a single code I found in this forum for the FUNCTIONS.PHP had worked.
Okay, here is my use-case. I am redesigning a Santa website for a local santa organization. One of the features of their old website was “Request a Santa/Mrs. Claus”, where when you filled out a forum, a bulk email would then go out to all of the members with the content of the contact form. That way people could request a Santa.
Well I have come along and am updating and overhauling the website, one of the things that I would like to do is something similar to above, but also have the contact form create a topic in a specific forum. This way all open requests can be housed in the same area. (Their current system relies on the email method only, if you miss the email, you miss out entirely.)
How might I go about this.
Using WordPress 5.2.4 (latest) with BuddyPress 5.0.0
Nevermind I just realised that it didn’t like me using my own forum plugin and wanted the bbpress forum attached…
Thanks anyway.
I having redirection issues, all profile, forum, group redirects to the homepage. I am not getting what has gone wrong if anyone could help me and try to sort what’s the issue it would be great.
Hi,
I installed BuddyPress Group Email Subscription. It works when there is a new activity but it doesn’t work when a new forum post is done. However, all the posts appear in the activity feed.
For information, I use Youzer.
Anyone would tell me is there is a parameter to change or if the feature doesn’t work with forum component.
Thanks in advance for you help, Nicolas.
Hi @mon2-
You’d have to write some custom code to add that functionality. (That’s beyond the scope of the support forum.) I’m guessing that you could add a WP Cron job that fetches old friendship requests and send the notifications again, but it would take some work on your part. You can see how the initial request email is sent here:
https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/master/src/bp-friends/bp-friends-functions.php#L825
If anyone has come up with the CSS rule to solve this issue, please share it for other forum users. Thanks!
Yeah. To make in even more confusing WP offers the ability to set the display_name to any of the other names (nickname, first name last name, username, and more) – I think it is username by default. Well I’ve learned something about WP’s and BP’s use of names, so maybe that will help me figure out what is going wrong with the xprofile function you sent me. It is failing to update the (apparently one single) display name. Maybe bbpress does NOT user display name for its “forum name”. Anyway, I’m missing something about the the BBPress/Buddypress integration with regard to names. Unfortunately, this is not the highest priority thing I’m working on….
@dcavins, when I say I removed the xprofile_sync function, that was part of your suggested code. More precisely, I removed the function from the action and then added your revised function. I guess that should not prevent the forum name from being set and yet it apparently does. Well, your bullet items are good info, especially that first one. I will look at this again.
What IS the BP nickname field, if it doesn’t use that? Maybe I’ll need to ask on the bbpress forum. Thanks again, I’ll see what I can do with this information. I’m starting to smell my theme being involved.
Hi @dcavins. Just @mentioning you in case you’re not subscribed. I think you code can work for me if we can just get the Forum name back to being savable.
After looking at the original function in the link you posted, I’m guessing that updating the nickname with $fullname is not wrong, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I notice that this function in the original code is attached to two actions that are different than the one you had me attach to. Could this be the problem? Remember, I have removed the original xprofile_sync function.
add_action( 'bp_core_signup_user', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile' );
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile' );
Thanks,
Tom
I upgraded and now i have huge problems…I understand the need for the forum but I never get any of my questions answered…please HELP!
Hi David,
I have tried out your code and there’s a problem. But first, to address your question about the “name” field, when I’m talking about Forum Name I am talking about the Group (which had been called Base Profile). That is what I changed to Name, for UX reasons. However, I see that the field I’m calling “Name” is field_1 so probably I did change it from Display Name to Name but, as I think you know, that is not the problem.
Regarding the code you gave me, that did solve the problem of not updating the WP First and Last name fields. However, it also prevented changes to the forum name or display name or whatever you want to call the name in the Forum Profile. I’m tempted to try commenting out the line:
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, 'nickname', $fullname );
but I’m working on a live site with quite a bit of action and got a little spooked that I might change everybody’s existing posts/names, so for now I’ve just removed all your code.
Thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom-
I’d guess that you (or the previous site admin) edited the Display Name field to be called “Name.” You can check by visiting this screen on your installation: /wp-admin/users.php?page=bp-profile-setup
“Display Name” is usually the first profile field created, so if you inspect the input, and it has the name=field_1, then you can guess that your “Name” field is the “Display Name” field I’m talking about, just renamed, similar to how you renamed the “Base profile.” It sounds like when you’re talking about “Forum Name” you’re talking about BP’s Base Profile > Display Name, but with your own naming convention.
I also was wrong about the synchronization between Display Name and First and Last name. If I update the Display Field to be “Too Slim”, the WP First Name will become “Too” and the WP Last Name will become “Slim,” assuming that “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” (s you said). The WordPress “Display Name” field will become “Too Slim.” The WP “Display Name” is also looks like what is used by bbPress in its loops.
So, if you want your users to be able to change the name used by the bbPress forums, you’ll need to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked. Then, the WP “Display Name” field is updated when the BP “Display Name” field is checked. If you want to leave WP’s First and Last Name fields to not be synced after sign-up, the following code could be added to your bp-custom.php file or wherever you keep your customization code:
// Remove BP's action because it syncs nickname, display_name, first_name and last_name.
remove_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'xprofile_sync_wp_profile_on_single_field_set' );
function my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set( $user_id = 0 ) {
// Bail if profile syncing is disabled.
if ( bp_disable_profile_sync() ) {
return true;
}
if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
}
if ( empty( $user_id ) ) {
return false;
}
$fullname = xprofile_get_field_data( bp_xprofile_fullname_field_id(), $user_id );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, 'nickname', $fullname );
wp_update_user( array( 'ID' => $user_id, 'display_name' => $fullname ) );
}
add_action( 'xprofile_data_after_save', 'my_custom_xprofile_sync_wp_display_name_only_on_single_field_set' );
It’s a modified version of this function, leaving the first and last name logic out: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/5.0.0/src/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php#L803
David (@dcavins), do you have any ideas why I wouldn’t be seeing the Display Name under Edit Profile, as you said it should? Or why Buddypress overrides important BBpress fields for editing the forum profile? I think there must be a way around this. I do not see that Memberpress is involved in this profile page at all (no apparent mepr classes or js shown in developer tools). Thanks very much for any help.
Hi !
I would try to deactivate BuddyPress from the Administration if you can still access to it. Otherwise using your FTP access I would remove the buddypress folder that should be into the /wp-content/plugins directory of your site. I would then go within the admin to switch to a “TwentySomething” WordPress theme, download a fresh version of BuddyPress, reactivate it. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue, then ask for help to the author of your theme. Otherwise, eventually redo previous steps to remove/re-download BuddyPress. Before reactivating BuddyPress, deactivate all other plugins. See what happens. If it’s fixing the issue reactivate the other plugins one by one until the bug is back. Once it’s back ask for help to the author of the plugin. Otherwise, try to find the error_log file with your host to see the potential error message.
I also advise you to read the Basic Trouble Shooting part of this forum topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/ (especially if you use bp-custom.php or the wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder.
FYI 4.4.0 just like 4.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.6, 5.0.0 requires at least WordPress 4.7
WP 5.2.3
WordPress as a directory install?
BP 5.0.0
Child theme of Virtue premium
My problem doesn’t seem to be an issue, by a fonctionnality which seems weird.
When a user wants to change his email adresse in his buddypress profile, then an activation mail is sent… to the old email that have been just changed, not on the new one. In case this user changes his adress because he doesn’t have any access to this old email, he is stuck.
But if he changes his email adress in the WP user admin (actually, he can’t do that because he doesn’t have this access, only buddypress profile. it’s me who can make the test), WP send an activation email to the new adress.
And I can see that the fist example is an activation mail sent by Buddypress (email layout of buddypress), and in the second, it’s sent by WordPress.
So, it seems obvious that it’s a Buddypress action. I would like so that Buddypress send the activation mail on the new email adress of the user not the old one.
But impossible to find any clue, or any option in the Buddypress setting, or any information in this forum or in the web. As if only me have this problem…
Somebody could help me ?
Thank you very much !
Laurent DAGANY
Ah, thanks for the response. The url I’m using is, for example, https://masteringid.com/members/testmember/profile/edit/group/1/, which produces the following form:
Edit Profile
Editing “Forum username” Profile Group
Name (required)
This field may be seen by: Everyone
Forum Signature
Note that I have changed “base profile” to “forum username” as it seemed more to the point. So I think this is the page you are referring to but there is no Display Name field shown. I don’t so much need the First and Last Name fields as the display name field, because, although changing the forum username will change the display name, it also changes the First and Last Name (through the “Sync with WP profile” checkbox.
BBpress alone shows First Name, Last Name, Nickname, and the Display Name dropdown. If I could have the Nickname and Display Name fields, or even just the Display Name field, I think I’d be okay.
Hi @tdurocher-
What screen are you using to change the bbPress “forum name”? (That’s unfamiliar to me.)
BuddyPress uses the user’s profile to manage names, and doesn’t generally interact with the First and Last name fields; it allows the user to manage the Display Name field. For instance, via http://bptest.local/members/admin/profile/edit/group/1/
Adding MemberPress to the mix complicates the issue somewhat, too.
I have registered and created a forum using the wpforo plugin while sign up, the name, email address and other stuffs do not have a border. It is better to have a look are the screenshot.
The link registration area do not have a border
Wow, I’ve just discovered that if I deactivate Buddypress, I can change all the account fields: first name, last name, nickname AND display name. This is what I want with Buddypress enabled and I see that it works this way on this forum here, but I can’t see what I have done in Buddypress to break this.
I’m using BBpress for forums and Buddypress for forum profile features and in future would like to use more BuddyPress features. My problem is that if a user changes their forum name, it is changes the first name account field to the forum name and clears out the last name account field. If I uncheck the Buddypress setting “Sync with profile fields” this does not occur but the forum name does not change at all. I don’t mind syncing forum name with “display name” but the first and last name fields can’t be wiped out. I know I must be doing something wrong but can’t find it. I’m also using Memberpress for registration.
Hi,
I need some help here. I have been searching on Documentation and Forums but nothing related to this. For now, I replace the template location to my plugin with this function bp_register_template_stack to bp_init hooks. So, when my site change to another theme it will not affect the template. I want to apply custom cover image to my template but it makes me confuse because there is no bp-parent-css on my site.
When i search i got some code that can create a custom cover image but the code is not work for me:
function cover_image_css( $settings = array() ) {
/**
* If you are using a child theme, use bp-child-css
* as the theme handle
*/
$settings['theme_handle'] = 'bp-parent-css';
// Adjust size
$settings['height'] = 300;
$settings['callback'] = 'cover_image_callback';
return $settings;
}
function cover_image_callback( $params = array() ) {
if ( empty( $params ) ) {
return;
}
return '#buddypress #header-cover-image {
height: ' . $params['height'] . 'px;
background-image: url(' . esc_url( $params['cover_image'] ) . ');
}';
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_xprofile_cover_image_settings_parse_args', 'cover_image_css', 10, 1 );
add_filter( 'bp_before_groups_cover_image_settings_parse_args', 'cover_image_css', 10, 1 );
I am not really experienced with BuddyPress so I would really appreciate some help.
Thank you
Hi everyone,
Here is my setup:
WordPress 5.2.3
Buddypress Version 4.4.0
Events Manager 5.9.5
@Localhost
I did search through the forum and a famous search tool but didn’t find it yet:
I would like to link, via the url and $_GET[‘r’] data, to the “compose buddypress profil page” with more than one recipient. Something like:
a href=”mysite.com/members/user/messages/compose/?r=user1…user2…user3″>link</a
Is it possible and what would be the semantic for?
If Not, what solution should I use to get the existing compose page with the field “to” containing “@user1 @user2 @user3”.
I can get the user with all data (name, login, id), as an array for exemple. And I don’t need to manage large list of user (mostly up to 5-10).
Thanks for helping.
We have set the setting to where there’s is no login needed. The engineers still can’t access my WP admin. Can you please help to solve this issue. I also having issues on the forum post I have added a contact form along with my post for the forum, however the coding for that form is showing in the web site itself when clicking on the forum menu page. I have done another post without adding a contact page and I am not able to see how other members can comment back. Please let me know what is the best way to have members to comment back. My web site is https://busspro.com
