[danbp]

You certainly use the latest version.

BuddyPress 2.8.1 Maintenance Release was published on February 22nd, 2017

You may better refer to the readme.txt file content when you want to verify such information.

Here the header of 2.8.1

=== BuddyPress ===
Contributors: johnjamesjacoby, DJPaul, boonebgorges, r-a-y, imath, mercime, tw2113, dcavins, hnla
Tags: social networking, activity, profiles, messaging, friends, groups, forums, notifications, settings, social, community, networks, networking
Requires at least: 4.3
Tested up to: 4.7.2
Stable tag: 2.8.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Cheers ! 😉

[danbp]

Sorry, but this forum is for BuddyPress support.

We can’t assist you for premium theme. Please, ask on your theme support.

[alexlii]

I did not test W3, just as what @Paul Gibbs said:

I would not recommend W3TC. There is a specific bug with its Object Caching implementation that breaks password resets on BuddyPress for some obscure reason we weren’t able to track down.

You need an Object Cache plugin, which will be backed by a Memcached or Redis instance, or something.

I spend almost more that 3 months to setup cache for buddypress, and finally I agree that Redis object cache is really great for buddypress, including Woocommerce, and actually, I think it would be much great and very helpful to us if there is an instruction of caching setup for buddypress under documentation directory at http://www.buddypress.org, since there are still cache rules need to setup.

and I hope Redis cache experts can share their experience buddypress Forum.

Alex

[r-a-y]

This is a WordPress multisite issue. Use subdomain multisite and then look at various domain mapping plugins.

You should post on the wordpress.org support forums as you’ll likely get more eyes on this.

You might want to look into Mercator or the WPMU Domain Mapping plugin.

[danbp]

Hi,

sorry, but we can’t help you as you use a premium theme. And it looks like you have to adjust your CSS.

To do that, or a similar thing, like creating a child-theme, you need to read your theme documentation first. You have also to search on this forum for any topic related to “button not showing”.

And if you want a good advice, develop your site locally, so you can fearless do and undo while testing. You should also setup your BP properly with WP and a Twenty something theme first, before activating any other plugin…

All this is also documented on the codex, which you should read attentively (it seems to me you messed a little your install at the moment…).

[mrjarbenne]

If you have migrated to another solution, I would think that deactivating BP and BBpress would eliminate notifications entirely. Email notifications from old mentions would seem to indicate that those forums are still active, or you have something else running that sends additional notifications beyond the initial one triggered when activity occurs.

@r-a-y created this plugin to toggle off Email Notifications settings if users had not explicitly gone in already and changed those settings. It might help you somewhat (it won’t cover the bbPress notifications though)

https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/bp-no-notifications

[mrjarbenne]

I would suggest asking this question in the Studiopress forums. It could be that the Genesis Connect plugin was required before BP enhanced their theme compatibility. BP now works in any well designed WordPress Theme. You can read more about that here, along with instructions on building out your own child theme to tweak how BP renders within your selected theme:

BuddyPress Theme Development

[djsteveb]

@johanna75 – We do need some kind of universal “display public ok” field perhaps?

Some people have fields set to ‘friends only’ – so things in search should only display to them.

Bp has a thing in it when a user is marked as spam, then they are only visible to admins – so I think this kind of functioning is half in there already.

Would be nice for the buddyblock and rtmedia plugins to also consider this visibility thing, and for buddyblock to be able to conditionally affect that as well.

I could see the need for someone to hide certain things from the public and from specific people – what a nightmare it is when things that were assumed secret pop up in search results.. I had this happen with a wp install – pages published but password protected – well either the theme, or the post teaser plugin pulled data from those non public pages and put them smack in the public search results.

Luckily the bp profile search pluing (that I also use – it’s great!) – is under active development – (I see the author has responded to the support forum on wp repo saying it is an issue that is under consideration, but bp does the same thing – so it’s no different in the privacy regard) wonder if we could ping the other bp peeps and rtmedia and buddyblock peeps tp put some heads together on this..

I have a similar problem right now with rtmedia not meshing with buddyblock. When a user blocks and enemy on my site – that enemy can not message them or comment on their activity – but they can harass the sh*t out of them via comments on their media.

[danbp]

Hi,

you need a child theme and a small code modification.

The code is explained here.

if ( bp_has_members( bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) is to replace by something like (can be different)
if ( bp_has_members( 'type=random' ) )

In a “buddypress” folder of your child theme, you add a copy of this file:
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/members-loop.php

What ever you modify in that file while now be interpreted by BuddyPress. The advantage of this method is that BP can be updated while your modification in the child will always be save and taken in account over the current version.

You can also search the forum for members-loop to get other information.

[danbp]

You have already asked for this in the past 2 weeks!
How to add a tab or content (like user’s post) on a profile is explained in many topics if you would take a little while to search the forum.

You want to use a third party plugin, but we can’t help you for this as we are all volonteers here, who have enough to do with BuddyPress. It is to you to read the software documentation and built it in your site.

This topic is closed as duplicate. Conversation continues here.

[djsteveb]

@malaruban – did you search the forum for this? It’s answered like very month since the beginning I think..

everyone has different suggestions..

1 many suggest “wp spamshield”

2 I like “good question” plugin on one site, but use “buddypress humanity” on another..
one I’ve considered replacing those wit his “user registration aid”

3 I also use ip geo block – biggest help on most sites.

4 strongly suggest getting the “shield” firewall plugin and going into lockdown menu and disabling xmlrpc and rest api – but your situation may vary.

I use all four plus more on various sites (just one of them from step 2)

[djsteveb]

page titles for member profile pages and group pages are not easy to change up – I posted some info I got a while back on this, but before I go digging for that info, I wonder if you really mean groups like buddypress groups.. since your url fragment there has “forum” in it – you may be refering to page title for the forums which I think is more of a bbpress issue (?) –

[danbp]

This field is visible by default.

If not, so the problem might be with your theme.
For other what’s new form questions, search the forum.

Some answers here:

Height what’s new form

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-remove-textarea-resize-without-editing-the-js-script/

[charleswaud]

Thanks for the reply,

I’m afraid not – just threw the website off and had revert to a backup of the site.

Looking to start afresh, yet cant find much help out there regarding my issue.

Issue – I would like to set up an email notification that will send an email to every single member regardless of group/Forum etc informing them of a new post/comment.

So basically whenever there is activity amongst members within Buddy press I would like all members to know about it.

All the best

[Henry Wright]

You should try asking on the plugin’s support forum. Hopefully the author will be able to help.

[shanebp]

You didn’t do anything wrong. These forums are strictly volunteer. There is no guarantee that a question will be answered.

I don’t know what is generating that link. If I did, I’d suggest a way to remove it.
The only suggestion I can make is to check your permalink settings, and resave them.

[mikeboltonca]

Hi Slava,

I tested that code and got no visible effect, but I think we’re in the right territory here.
I explored both of these functions:

bp_group_is_member()
groups_is_user_member()

It helped me realize that the two specific problems I wanted to solve were as follows:
– Users can’t create topics in a BuddyPress group’s forum unless they join the group
– Users can’t reply to topic in a BuddyPress group’s forum unless they join the group

So I started on the page template itself (form-topic.php).
Before displaying the “Create a topic” form, the template does a check to see if the user is allowed to create topics:
if ( bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() ) : ?
This was coming back as false, so I checked through each possible path through the function.

Here’s the whole function for quick reference:

function bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() {

	// Users need to earn access
	$retval = false;

	// Always allow keymasters
	if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		$retval = true;

	// Looking at a single forum & forum is open
	} elseif ( ( bbp_is_single_forum() || is_page() || is_single() ) && bbp_is_forum_open() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics();

	// User can edit this topic
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) {
		$retval = current_user_can( 'edit_topic', bbp_get_topic_id() );
	}

	// Allow access to be filtered
	return (bool) apply_filters( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', (bool) $retval );
}

Every single path through that function was returning true.
If I removed the filter and replaced it with a hard-coded true as follows…
return (bool) true;
…then the user would have access to the group’s forum without joining the group.

That told me that something in BuddyPress was filtering the result of this function. It was checking whether the user was a member of the group, and if not, was forcing bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() to return 0.

I couldn’t find the portion of BuddyPress that was filtering the result, unfortunately.

I have a working solution now, but it’s not elegant. I created a plugin with two filters (one for creating topics, one for replying to topics). The content of those filters is identical to the original bbPress functions. Since the plugin is loaded last, it basically overrides whatever BuddyPress says and goes with the original functions instead.

Here it is:

/**************************************************
Part 1: Allow users to create topics
Allow anyone to create a topic in any forum, even if that forum is inside a group the user hasn't joined.
If the group is hidden (e.g. "Management"), they still won't have access because that check is done first.
***************************************************/
// define the bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form callback
function filter_bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form( $retval ) {
	// Users need to earn access
	$retval = false;

	// Always allow keymasters
	if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		$retval = true;

	// Looking at a single forum & forum is open
	} elseif ( ( bbp_is_single_forum() || is_page() || is_single() ) && bbp_is_forum_open() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_topics();

	// User can edit this topic
	} elseif ( bbp_is_topic_edit() ) {
		$retval = current_user_can( 'edit_topic', bbp_get_topic_id() );
	}
return (bool) $retval;
};

// add the filter
add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 'filter_bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form', 999, 1 );

/**************************************************
Part 2: Reply to comments
Allow anyone to reply to a comment in any forum, even if that forum is inside a group the user hasn't joined.
If the group is hidden (e.g. "Management"), they still won't have access because that check is done first.
***************************************************/
function filter_bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form( $retval ) {

	// Users need to earn access
	$retval = false;

	// Always allow keymasters
	if ( bbp_is_user_keymaster() ) {
		$retval = true;

	// Looking at a single topic, topic is open, and forum is open
	} elseif ( ( bbp_is_single_topic() || is_page() || is_single() ) && bbp_is_topic_open() && bbp_is_forum_open() ) {
		$retval = bbp_current_user_can_publish_replies();

	// User can edit this topic
	} elseif ( bbp_is_reply_edit() ) {
		$retval = current_user_can( 'edit_reply', bbp_get_reply_id() );
	}

return (bool) $retval;
};
// add the filter
add_filter( 'bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form', 'filter_bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form', 999, 1 );

If I can find where BuddyPress filters bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form() and bbp_current_user_can_access_create_reply_form(), I’ll write a more elegant plugin.

[danbp]

Bug confirmed! Open a ticket on the trac.

To login, use same credentials as for this forum.

[chirri97]

I get this error:
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: [] operator not supported for strings in /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/classes/class-bp-activity-component.php:281 Stack trace: #0 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(298): BP_Activity_Component->setup_admin_bar(”) #1 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #2 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/plugin.php(453): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #3 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-dependency.php(143): do_action(‘bp_setup_admin_…’) #4 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(298): bp_setup_admin_bar(Object(WP_Admin_Bar)) #5 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(323): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array) #6 /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-includes/plugin.php(515): WP_Hook->do_action(Array) #7 /custom in /***/**/**/**/chirri.dk/httpd.www/try/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/classes/class-bp-activity-component.php on line 281

Mod Edit: Server paths obscured – best not to reveal your server paths on a public forum.

[warezit]

To follow up…

I dug through the forums here a bit more, and re-checked my work (removing tables and keys from the database). I did not remove all settings from the database.

After disabling and removing the BuddyPress plugin, then backing up my database… I loaded up phpmyadmin > wp_options table > search for bp_ and bbp_ (I know “bbp_” if for bbPress, I just wanted a clean reset) and then removed all those settings from the database. Re-installed a fresh download of BuddyPress, and we’re all set. BuddyPress has been reset to “out-of-the-box” settings, and I am able to create groups again! Woohoo!

Hopefully this helps someone else! Thank you again for reaching out r-a-y. I am happy I didn’t have to bug anyone tremendously to get this resolved. 🙂

Cheers!

[charleswaud]

HI Slav,

Thank you for your patience,

Can the above code be adjusted for emailing all users whenever a new topic is posted in ant Forum?

If so can you please advise where i can implement this coding in the back end of my site.

Thanks again,

[Slava Abakumov]

That is not CSS, that is PHP.

And no, there is nothing to do with Forums in my code, as in your initial post you wrote this:

Is there a way to send a notification email EVERY time there is an update, regardless of whether or not they have been mentioned or have liked the post.

So my code will send an email (but you will need to write down its subject and message and get a user email to send to) on every activity added to Activity directory. If this is not what you want – you will need to filter it out properly and modify as you see fit.
I gave you the direction, not the final working solution for your seems changeable requirements.

[charleswaud]

Hi Slava,

Thanks for the reply

just to confirm using the above custom CSS should enable all Users of the site to receive an email every time a new topic is posted within all Forums.

Kind regards,

[rageshr007]

Hi Venutius….Thanks for your prompt reply….I had found root cause of the issue…in Buddy Press setting page Group Forums (Legacy one) was enabled e..When i disable that BBpress start to function fine….. :O)

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

The original reporter has submitted a bug report https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7436

The language used in that report is much more constructive than that of this forum thread, so I’m going to close this.