[littleplum]

Hi! I have a website with buddypress activated on it, and have just started setting up the forum.
I’d like to know how to hide the sub groups from showing on the main forum page, so that they are only visable once someone goes into each forum (state based mostly).

Forum

I’m a VERY new wordpress user, so be gentle haha!

Thanks for any help with this,
Kathy x

[xmginc]

@rhythmelody, in case you’re interested to vote up a request for this feature to be added to WPMU’s User Sync plugin, pls head over to their site here.

In the meantime, we have opted for a multisite ourselves.

[xmginc]

Update: I have tried as many methods found in this Support Forum including bp-custom.php, functions.php, different wp-config.php options.

The one that worked for us is via a wp-config.php modification with code from @boonebgorges here: buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4252

// This assumes that the blog in question is #1. If it's not, the path will 
// have blogs.dir in it
define( 'BP_AVATAR_UPLOAD_PATH', '/var/www/html/example/wp-content/uploads' );

// Again, assuming you're coming from #1. To pull from a different blog, 
// it'll be example.com/secondaryblog/files or something like that
define( 'BP_AVATAR_URL', 'http://example.com/wp-content/uploads' );

Also wanted to share that if we add bp-custom.php and add various fixes suggested by others it results in a fatal error with a call to undefined bp_core… perhaps there is a different issue causing other fixes to not work for us… Open to try other suggestions but so far so good with fix above.

[@mercime]

@mah184 I do not know how the “wordpress” stuff was supposed to be all gone” as BuddyPress is a plugin for WordPress. If by “Business Plan” you mean WordPress.com’s Business Plan, then please avail of the free support aka ‘real-time concierge support’ provided along with your plan. Aside from which, WordPress.com hosting is an entirely different scenario from a self-hosted solution which we usually help out in these forums, so the best support you’ll get is from WordPress.com. Good luck.

[@mercime]

If you’re referring to https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-simple-front-end-post/
– have you updated to the latest version that’s compatible with BP 2.9/1?
– have you tried asking at plugin developer’s forums? https://buddydev.com/support/forums/

[Henry Wright]

Try posting your requirements on the BP Jobs Board. There might be a developer there who’ll help you.

[sagraphics]

My client has informed me that it’s specifically bbpress that is affecting the feed. Disable this and the feeds work perfectly. Enable bbpress and the feeds to the newsletter show the full text rather than the summary. I will update on the bbpress forum post I opened previously.

[shanebp]

afaik, that is not standard BP behavior.
Your install has a plugin or custom code that generates that friendship request.
If it comes from ‘keymaster’, then it make be a bbPress feature – try asking on their support forums.

[r-a-y]

You mention forums specifically.

If that is the case, you should use bbPress conditional functions.

See this page for more details:

bbPress Conditional Tags

If you have more questions, post on the bbPress forums as BuddyPress is not bbPress:

– BuddyPress = community
– bbPress = forums

[celsosoares]

YES I KNOW how to use CSS and where it should go, the css was an example of something that would go into the “if then” section, there are many things I want to use the function for (as I explained in the part that said “VERY IMPORTANT NOTE”).

Can you give me a PRACTICAL example for how I could do this:
IF THIS IS PAGESLUG X
DO Y

For instance, using this from the link you provided:

function bp_is_forums_component() {
   return (bool) bp_is_current_component( 'forums' );
}

How do I convert this into something like..
if bp_is_current_component( ‘forums’ ) && the page slug is X {
do something
}

thanks in advance

[r-a-y]

You shouldn’t rely on PHP conditionals for CSS targeting.

Use your browser’s developer console and check the various body CSS classes and then target the ones you want to use in your CSS stylesheet.

Why not use something like?

body.forums .YOUR-SELECTOR {color:red !important;}

If you must use PHP conditionals, use the ones that BuddyPress provides:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-core/bp-core-template.php#L2034

View the list of functions in that file for all the ones you can use.

[shanebp]

bbPress is the only real option for forums.

Depending on what features you need, this may suffice: BuddyPress Simple Events

You can also get it here: PhiloPress – BuddyPress Simple Events

[PinkishHue]

Thanks for sharing this link, very helpful 🙂

It’s perhaps been discussed before but it seems like this should be a default feature for Buddypress/bbpress, including notifications for subscribed forums AND topics within the alert.

I need this function for new replies on topics and unfortunately this plugin doesn’t do that.

I will keep looking.

[shanebp]

This is the BuddyPress support site.
Try asking on the bbPress support site.

[Henry Wright]

Hi @tel-wright

Try asking over at bbPress. They handle forum-related questions.

[r-a-y]

bbPress handles its integration into BuddyPress, not the other way around.

You should look into what it would take in bbPress to alter the slugs for BuddyPress groups. I don’t believe this is possible at the moment from what I remember though.

You might want to check out the bbPress forums as well:
https://bbpress.org/forums/

[r-a-y]

I’m guessing you have disabled Search Engine Visibility in WordPress.

If you have, view the following:
https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription/wiki#1-bbpress-doesnt-record-its-forum-posts-into-the-group-activity-stream--why

[shanebp]

Did you try un-checking the ‘Blog & Forum Comments’ option
in wp-admin > Settings > BuddyPress > Options

[shanebp]

Have you tried asking on the bbPress support forum ?

[shanebp]

This is the BuddyPress support forum.
Have you tried asking on the bbPress support forum ?

[Oliver de la Rosa]

Hi! This evening I had the same problem about comments in BuddyPress. It took me a couple of hours to find the solution, but was in part thanks to this forum that I could do it. I wrote a post joining all the solutions that I found and applied together. I hope that you considerate this usefull, the post is this: Cómo evitar que se muestren todos los comentarios de WordPress en las páginas de BuddyPress. Thank you for this amazing forum.

¡Hola! Esta tarde tuve este mismo problema acerca de los comentarios en BuddyPress. Me llevó algunas horas dar con la solución, pero en parte gracias a este foro pude hacerlo. Escribí un artículo recopilando todas las soluciones que encontré y fuí aplicando. Espero que les sirva, el artículo es este: Cómo evitar que se muestren todos los comentarios de WordPress en las páginas de BuddyPress. Gracias por este maravilloso foro.

[Anonymous User 2132933]

I use BuddyPress with Varnish and everything works fine.
You can set “Cache-Control” to 0 maybe for forums ?

<?php header("Cache-Control: max-age=0"); ?>

[scorpnetwork]

Ok, solved it on my own.

Like almost everybody else on this forum and on other blogs I found, most people are using the same function to block specific users to access WP admin and redirect them to the frontpage f.e..

As stated above, the problem lies within the redirect. As far as I understood its because the admin_init hook is getting fired when admin-ajax.php gets loaded, which of course happens when you try to upload an avatar, which happens via AJAX by default.

So the solution is pretty simple – just check if the current request is trying to get admin-ajax.php and if not, do your redirect.

Maybe this post will help somebody with the same problem. If somebody has a smoother approach to this, ill be glad to know. 🙂

/// Block admin access
function psinside_no_admin_access(){
    $redirect = isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ) ? $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] : home_url( '/' );
    global $current_user;
    $user_roles = $current_user->roles;
    $user_role = array_shift($user_roles);
    if(
		($user_role != 'administrator' && $user_role != 'editor')
		&&
		($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] != '/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php')
	){
        exit( wp_redirect( $redirect ) );
    }
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'psinside_no_admin_access', 100 );

[porcusheep]

Are you logged in?

That link is to the home directory of your forums. You would need to select a section like general discussion to start a new thread. like here: http://freelanceppl.com/forum/?view=forum&id=2

From there, if you are logged in, there should be a button labeled “+ New Topic”

*Note* I registered a test account to look into this for you. Feel free to delete the account name “testtest”

[wci]

Hi support team,

I found out that the “(bbpress) Forum Search” widget which I was using seems not to work. By using the core “search” widget instead it was almost working with one exception. I am also using the LEADS plugin and when this is active then the core search widget also does not work.

Therefore I made now a helping request from LEADS support and may they will be able to help me to solve the issue finally.

BR, Alex