[danbp]

Now, it’s me who doesn’t understand ! What do you want to do finally ? What is not working for you ?

Or try to get some help on the italian WP forum.

Support Forums

or get in touch with one of BP’s italian translator for help or at least some explanation
Italian BP translators list

[shanebp]

Please use the support forum for BP Simple Events.

[danbp]

It’s a known bbPress issue.

Get more details here

Non-members can see child forums in groups

Closing this topic as duplicate of the above.

[sholis]

Hi,

i have been batling with this for months.

i had to suspend working on the site..

I have logged out and logged in several times..

I just join the forum to ask question…

please Assist o.. its getting really frustrating

[djsteveb]

disclaimer, I am not a bp dev, just a long time user, and my knowledge is far from complete.

1 -each Profile / Member offered a separate gallery or media library?
This was a problem from the very beginning, and perhaps the biggest problem for bp aside from lousy filter options for the activity stream. Initially it was handled by the ‘bp-album’ plugin – which was later abandoned amidst some drama – rtmedia is kind of the standard for handling this now – but it’s bloated, important functions have gotten expensive, and it’s not well supported in core or themes – it’s terrible at keeping things separated like comments on media and galleries –
There is a new bp media like experimental thing that looks promising, and some attempts at making placeholders for bp media have been made in the past year, new hooks for bp attachment, etc. Some code has appeared on github showing a great start at possible core bp media handling – but not enough devs on that.

if you must have media with bp I suggest getting the premium “press permit core” and ask for support in limiting what other users can see in the media library. God forbid you have a problem with users trolling other users – and you have media – as you can purchase the buddyblock plugin which will prevent most abuse user to user, but it does not hook into the separate commenting system that rt-media creates. I strongly encourage you to try the other media plugin and hope that works for what you need before getting stuck with rtmedia and no way to export it’s data to something else.

2 a cap on how many Mb’s a user is allowed to upload for the total amount of media space
Wordpress has a setting for this when using multi-site setup – but I think it affects only what gets posted to the user blogs aka sites. I think rtmedia has an optional purchase-able plugin for this if you use their system to allow for the media uploads – not sure if the other competing system has such functionality.

This is a problem, and a solution should include a way for admins to look at users who have uploaded media, not just by user and space taken up, but also by date. There should be more control for deleting content with various parameters as well. I pity you if you find one day a user has uploaded 100s of photos that violate… terms.. and you have to delete each one at a time. If you find a way to handle this better with rtmedia I’d love for you to share it.

Currently I have tons of photos and videos that users have uploaded and no good way to look at or remove, aside from going profile to profile and manually checking what shows up there. A better way may exist, I have not found it yet.

3 – Why do all members have to be Authors in order to be able to Post because this was the only method that worked for me.
When you say post, that sounds like posting a post to a blog – either their own multi-site blog, or perhaps to a group blog. This is how worpdress is and is great for controlling things with blogs. If you mean a user needs to be an author in order to add to thier “activity stream” aka wall or profile or whatever, I do not think they need to be a blog author in order to do so… “What’s new” activity posts work fine without being a blog author.

4 – BuddyPress and BB Press how should I set up my .htaccess file – this should be documented somewhere around here. Wish I could tell you, I don’t have any bb press running with any buddypress installs any longer.

If you don’t want robots to crawl your site, search for forums for making buddypress private – you’ll want to lock down your site with a password required to view anything – if you really want to block bots.. if it’s just the nicer bots you are referring to, like googlebot, yahoo and bigbots – then you can setup a robots.txt with something like

robots *
disallow /
allow index.php

but I don’t think having the main engines index your index.php is really helpful with most WP themes.. you’d probably be better with “allow /about-us/” for example.. as most wp sites I’ve worked with dont have a good ol’ index.html

your experiences may vary..

With BP you eaither have lots of time to code, or you take everything as is for the most part. Auttomatic has not funded bp well since the first dev Andy left – it’s basically abandoned like unwanted bastard child that gets (almost) no support – and has been for years. Instead depending mainly on volunteer contributors that obviously have to do other things like earn a living and pay bills.

Some great people do amazing things making bp better – I appreciate those that are making the documentation better and fighting the good fight of dealing with all the wp core changes and how they affect bp when it updates – and other work to make it better. However what is seemingly most important to many webmasters and end users may not be on the roadmap for future releases – and finding developers to mod up BP is not as easy as one may hope either.

custom fixes today may well be broken with future updates, and no one has thought about the laws in Europe for privacy and users being able to export data you have them.. all kinds of things..

consider bp a huge mix of free code that is very experimental, and in my humble opinion should be removed from the wp plugin repo if automattic is not going to fund it properly – it certainly should not be on the first page view of plugins – anyone installing it likely has no idea what can of worms they are getting into.

If you are thinking of the future and how you may need to moderate user’s uploads and such, I strongly encourage you to test out the mediapress alternative – but realize in order to get core functionality with bp right now you will have to add on a walled garden from one place or another.. without any import / export options – before you invest too much of your time and your user’s pictures and videos into silos you may never escape, you right as well look into and test out peepso (https://www.peepso.com )- as they seem to have more skin in the game and have made at least some import / export things if I remember correctly.

again, I am not a bp dev. also I have not used mediapress yet – although I would with a fresh install – rtmedia has not met my expectations, although not a total fail, it is only 60% of what it should be. I have not used peepso yet either. Just a guy that’s been running a few bp installs for a few years, and my knowledge is fuzzy at best. surely @ma.tt, others thoughts, and your mileage may vary.

[mychelle.blake]

Hi, how do I change the cover image for a group? I have BBPress and BuddyPress installed to work with LearnDash and I can’t seem to figure out how to add a photo, there doesn’t seem to be that option anywhere under Groups or Forums. The page for the group is here: http://worldteam.donate2dogsports.org/groups/world-team-training-course/

Using WordPress Version 4.7, BuddyPress Version 2.74, BBPress version 2.5.12 and the theme I was using was called Basic. I installed Twenty-Seventeen instead and I’m still having the same problem.

[shanebp]

You’re going to have to write a custom solution.
It’s doubtful anyone on these forums has needed such a front-end solution.
And your use of Ultimate Member with BP narrows the field even more.

A decent developer should be able to recreate the functionality on the front-end.

You can post a job here.

[shanebp]

For bbPress – please use the bbPress support forums.

[danbp]

Hi @froshdimeji,

the registration process is part of WordPress. Check on the codex or on the wp forum, but i doubt that a phone number can be used instead of an email. Perhaps it can be added to the mandatory username, password and email fields. But sorry, i have never heard about such.

Note that BP allows you to add fields to the register page, but these fields will never be part of the registration itself. So even if you add an xprofile phone type field, it won’t be considered (as first) as mandatory for registration.

[Jon Fergus]

Ok, I added the same question on their support forum:

Toggle open/close nested/threaded replies

[shanebp]

You need to provide a temporary login if you want people to look at your site.

You can check for theme problems by momentarily switching to a WP theme like 2015 and see if your issues still exist.

Your forum url is odd… Usually it would be something like this:
/groups/group-name/forum/

If you are running code that changes the url structure, try removing that code.

[shanebp]

Have you tried asking on the bbPress support forums?

[Laura N]

If you add in functions.php this code

function remove_nav_items() {
    bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'remove_nav_items',301);

You can remove the forum options in horizontal menu, but in vertical menu (profile user) no.

I am trying it with css, but it is impossible

li#wp-admin-bar-my-account-social-forums.menupop {display:none !important;}

[shanebp]

You can create a job listing here.

If you do, you may want to include answers to the questions that danbp asked above.

[neijisly]

Hi, I’m also looking for a way to hide “forum” but nothing. I have to build myself a function but still nothing. Best wishes to you.

[danbp]

You can use the same technique as the one given on your other topic.
Search the forum for examples or read on codex how to conditionally display a template.

[danbp]

Hi @mohamedalikortli,

thank you for the sharing, but I am afraid that your proposal is not acceptable in regard of coding best practice. I let your snippet in place, but i also warn all readers to use it, unless they know what they do.

This forum is public and most users coming here for help are querying at first for BuddyPress related issues solution, not third party plugin tricks like the one you share here. The majority is also not very comfortable with php or even site development.
This aspect is one of the main reason to provide usefull and safe code.
IT IS NOT THE CASE HERE – and i wouldn’t recommand it.

Not because it doesn’t or wouldn’t work ( and i haven’t tested it), but because it is not correctly written. Allowing such a snippet is like encouraging (and by the way perpetuating) bad practices. Hopefully you understand and agree that we don’t want this on the BuddyPress support forum.

@sbrajesh ‘s BuddyPress Clear Notification plugin was last updated in march 2016, which is pretty recent. I doubt that the bug is in his plugin and i expect more a menu related issue… but this is only an expectation of mine.

If you estimate that your workaround is helpfull for that plugin, get in touch with Brajesh or publish it on the plugin support.

By the way, next time you publish code on this form, use the code button available on the editor toolbar to insert it properly.

FYI about what you did wrong or not properly:
– hacking a core file. Notification template should be used, but from inside a child-theme, not directly from bp-legacy).
– comments should be in english (some in your example are in french)
– your recommendation is against all WP usage:

copy this script into ur document root where u have installed ur wordpress

– you can add custom code via bp-custom.php. There is also no need to go to wp root, when you can do the same thing from within your child-theme.
– why do you recall jquery ? It is already loaded when you run BP…
– i’m not a developer, but i’m pretty sure there are other things to mention about coding.

In regard of the script itself, BP provide much simplier way to delete notification or show a delete button: reference.
You’re also using french in that script.

Calling a file “test” is ok, but in that case you should provide some explanation on how to finally use your snippet. As already said, not everybody here is able to understand – and use raw code – when you provide a workaround. Providing code is fine, providing code+tutorial is always better.

Désolé d’être sévère et rien de personnel, mais juste une mise au point nécessaire.

[modlook] @jjj, @DJPaul, @boonebgorges, @mercime, @hnla, @shanebp, @henrywright

[danbp]

hi @tallerwp,

this is documented in Codex. Read here:

Navigation API

You can aso find other examples by searching the forum.

[danbp]

Group Forum use bbpress which has his own support. Ask there please.
BuddyPress doesn’t use roles outside what you setup in your WordPress settings.

[danbp]

Hi,

BuddyPress is a swissknife, when used out of the box, does a lot of things. But like a swissknife, you have to choose the knife or the tool you need precisely at the moment M. And like with the famous knife, you have to do this manually.

Filtering the general activity.
There is a default filter with several options,
You can modify the activity loop display via the template,
You can write some functions for more customization.

This is pretty much for a component, and almost available for all BP components. Not exactly what you could qualify as “not built-in”… But you’re right, it is not “ready to use” via a “clickodrome” or a press’n’play customizer (not yet).

If you search the forum, yo’ll find a lot of related topics, and some with working snippets.
On the codex, you have also many information. Ie. :

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

Activity dropdown filters in templates

[danbp]

Sorry, but you’re on a very specific wordpress plugin support. It is not the place for such basic question (what are the short codes). BuddyPress doesn’t provide shortcodes.

This plugin is not common, and not the most easiest to use. The forum is maintained by volonteers, and unfortunately not by profesional teachers. If you are very new to BuddyPress, and apparently to WordPress too, you have to do your homework.

You can get starter information on both codex. For BuddyPress you get access to appropriate documentation via the above menu bar.

For WordPress, and specifically your question, click here.

Thank you for your understanding.

[rageshr007]

Thanks Venutius…I was breaking my head for few days … looking all over for a solution.!!!…But your ticket is to hide the forum…I don’t want to hide…forum title has to be visible in index page ..Once a non-member user try to join the forum it should show a message as “you need to be member of the group…”

I was referring this

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/

Have to try if it help as a work around on my requirements..?

[danbp]

hi @intanmunirah,

please avoid directly addressing to mods. You’re on a public support forum maintained by volunteers.
If you need guidance about how BuddyPress works, i invite you to read the codex before asking:

Member Guide

[shanebp]

Your task can be accomplished, if you can write BP code.

Sounds like you will need to hire a developer.
You can create a listing here.

Instead of custom roles, you may want your developer to create member types.

[mikel1980pamplona]

First, thank you for responding.

Would you mind, please explain to me how I do it?
Would it be enough to add some line of code in the file functions.php of my child theme? So I did it with bbPress to customize the text editor of the forum. I followed the instructions that other users put in their codex, but from this I can not find anything.

Thanks