[danbp]

Depends where you need that and what you exactly want as result. You can hardcode something into the child theme template or use some CSS trick like this one.
Or maybe you need something like this ?

That said, be default, when you mention a user within a blog post or any update, a class name is automatically added: “bp-suggestions-mention”.

When you mention a user in a bbPress topic, there is no class name. But that’s lazy bbPress mentioning, not BuddyPress. If so, ask for this on their support.

[danbp]

Hi,

please give more details… what kind of post ? Blog, update, forum….
By the way, BP doesn’t handle blog posts.
Read documentation about emails here:

emails: https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/
custom emails: https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/custom-emails/

[heytricia]

I asked a bit too soon… A little more searching and I found your explanation here. Setting the default component seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the code samples!

[danbp]

Sorry, i don’t act privately on user’s site.

If you’re unable to solve your issue, hire somebody who can help you on BP Job Board.

[danbp]

I mentionned “groups” because you asked about forum – usually bp+forum is group forum…

What have you entered as site url in WP settings and what do you have in htaccess file ?
Did you enabled pretty permalinks ?
What is the permalink of your members page ? (the one under the page title, when you’re on the WordPress page editor screen)

[danbp]

Check your forum settings and sync WP and BP users.

Usually on a local site, and standard setup, while you use BP group forum, the forum slug is:
http://localhost/groups/group_name/forum/
If you use wampp, you should have a list of virtual hosts (aka site names), where you installed wordpress. This means also that wp is at the site root. If your site is called mario, you install wp there and then you should have http://mario/ Once BP is activated, you’ll get http://mario/members/ or http://mario/groups/ and so on…

The link to the forum user/author/commenter is
http://localhost/members/member_name/

When you use bbPress as standalone forum (aside or without BuddyPress), the link looks like

http://localhost/root_forum/single_forum/forum_name/
Link to user is the same as the one indicated previously.

More details here

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

You can also follow the bbPress install guide if you use bbPress separately.

[danbp]

@mohamedouqas, @vidalpaulo

if you want to change the labels for you theme you can go to your theme directory and search for these words and replace them. That’s a rough, dirty trick to avoid. 😉

Much more simple, and best practice by the way, is to use the language file shipped with your theme.

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

But as we’re talking here about BuddyPress, most of the items are in the BP language file.

“Follower” sounds more like used by another plugin. But again, you’ll find it in that plugin language file.

2) There is a plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/

3) you’re right, this need some custom coding. Read here how to do that:

Navigation API

If you search the forum, you’ll find many examples too.

[danbp]

Hi @archie22is,

thank you for your report. But when you write such information, it is of your responsability to give correct information.

Such alarming title can confuse any user. It is unfair and to be honest, it is only concerning you (it’s your install who has that issue, not WordPress or BuddyPress, in their globality). Especially that the error message has nothing to do with BuddyPress.

In other words, you annonce 2 wrong information on the wrong forum.

The error is related to bbPress. And there is already a topic about this warning on WordPress support.

Read it and try to repair or add your own opinion to that topic.
Open also – if none exist – a topic on bbPress support.

[alliebells15]

..Right. It appears to be lazy programming to me. Instead of having Buddypress actually integrate with the website for the real page address, it creates its own links which is misleading. If Buddypress is just going to create its own pages, then why should I manually create pages that will not be used and offer no real utility?

I assume you meant to say this is a problem with Permalinks and not with ProfilePress, which is the link you sent me for support. Thank you for that piece of misinformation. I also presume that you are aware that Buddypress is creating its own links and this is why you presented those links to me as if resetting all my plugins actually achieved something…which it didn’t.

Well, this has been lovely. A person can learn to do anything courtesy of google and youtube. However, the ability to be respectful and considerate of other individuals doesn’t come as easily. You work for a support forum, honey. Be supportive.

[danbp]

Please be serious,

why do you use index.php (it is a file), when i give you the correct path in my previous answer ?
Such URL‘s can’t work: http://eltconjunction.com/index.php/groups/

You’re on buddypress support forum and your BP pages where correctly displayed, a few hours back when i visited your site.

The error you have now is related to ppress. If you have issue with it, you have to ask for help on the appropriate support.

I invite you to read any plugins documentation you want to use BEFORE using them. And encourage you to learn a bit about internet, wordpress and how to build a site…

[Venutius]

You should raise this on the BuddyDev forum over on their site.

[danbp]

@uscore713,

i’ll try to explain. You’re using WordPress and a plugin called BuddyPRess which add a community dimension to WP.

Members are the heart of BP. Anything done by the plugin will return something related to members: activities, friendships, dicussion and much more.

How is this possible ?
Because WP let you register members separately. To do this, WP ask for a username(pseudonym), a password and a valid email.

You cannot avoid this, whatever plugin you use. It is how it works.

Now, we have 2 different question in this topic.

1) how to restrict access to profile settings ?
2) do we need a plugin for that ?

About point 1
WordPress was designed to be a blog builder. A CMS with one blog author who was mainly also the site
owner/builder… This changed with the years and today, you can handle a multiauthor blog.

When you install BP, you can still handle a multiauthor blog (or even blogs) and also a big community of different users, whith different (wp) roles.

What hasn’t changed is the way WP handles authors(or members): from within the dashboard, whatever the role.

When BP is activated, and if you use the xprofile component, you can build a registration form who is added to the original wp registration form. This form is then available on each user profile and can be modified from there.

To restrict user access to wp-admin, you can use different technique. This depends of your coding knowledge or working philosophy, with custom code or applying some plugin solution.

This is independant of BuddyPress and out of the scope of this forum. Just remember that BP let you access to your credentials from front-end.

About point 2
– in theory, you don’t need a plugin
– you always need to read about a plugin before using it.
For example, the workaround mentionned in this topic about the usage of Profile Builder.
– here a recent tutorial – for beginners – you may found more advanced advice by googling about “wordpress restrict dashbord access”.

When you read the teaser on that plugin page, you already should have understand that you don’t need it !
Simple to use profile plugin allowing front-end login, user registration and edit profile by using shortcodes.

Astonishment ! BuddyPress offers exactly the same options (among others).

What ever plugin you use, the regiter process of WordPress won’t change, and the user list or the user data will always be at the same place. What plugins do (most of them), is to modify the appearance of that process.

What you can also do is to remove all WP related items from the toolbar, if you use it. This is widely documented and discussed on WP’s support and codex. It’s WP territory and has nothing to do with the fact you use BuddyPress.

Admitting you found a solution for the backend, you need to use BP’s login widget. From there, users can enter the site. And if they loosed their password, they can ask for a new one from there (usually the sidebar, on front-end).

[JeffWillia.ms]

Hello All!

Some interesting news with this. Per suggestions in other forums (i.e. Buddy-Trac, etc.), they thought the issue might be related to my host’s caching, so I wrote Site Ground Support and asked them to check into the problem. Her reply is below:

“I was able to load the page in Mozilla and Safari with no resolving errors. However, once I opened it with Google Chrome, the error appear. I have cleared the application cache and deactivated plugins, however, to no avail. The issue is not server related it is an issue with the code”

After receiving her reply, I went and tested her findings for myself. Indeed, she was right. However, the investigation with different browsers must have caused a “break thru” with Chrome, because it no longer shows the error. This is true for multiple sites I manage that had the same issue.

Not sure why that solved the problem, but thought I’d let you guys know about it.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Cheers.

[Hugo Ashmore]

This isn’t really a Trac ticket subject, and is best handled in a forum setting really, I did pass comment though on Trac.

On members loop last active simply states that when user last active the meta display is for last member status update not general site activity for a user id.

[Venutius]

You should raise this on the forum for that plugin, you probably won’t get many replies here.

[Venutius]

There will be, you can start by searching these forums.

[Venutius]

Yes it will allow this, you would need the Auto Group Join plugin to assign users to group and also be aware that it uses bbPress to create group specific forums.

[Venutius]

You could try that but be prepared for it failing again, if it does then you need to raise a ticket on the support forums for those plugins

[ryanrain]

Thanks @wordpressrene, I’m having a closely related issue. WP 4.6.1, BP 2.7.2.

Just to restate the issue for clarity, my client brought to my attention what she considers to be a bug: in places such as the members listing and individual profiles, no recent update is shown for some members who *have* been active.

looking around in the code, it appears that the bp_member_latest_update() function seems to not include forum replies or activity comments, just updates.

HOWEVER, the bp_member_last_active() function DOES include activity comments in its calculation of how much time has passed since the user interacted with the site. One sees that a person was active, but for some mysterious reason that activity isn’t shown. My personal opinion is that all activity, including activity comments, should be included in bp_member_latest_update() by default, but my guess is that this is by design.

Any advice as to how to print out a user’s most recent activity regardless of its type? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks everyone!

[danbp]

… and that questions related to bbPress can be asked on the bbPress support forum 🙂

[danbp]

Hi,

You have to install BP correctly on WordPress as very first.
This means particulary that you use WordPress with one of default’s Twenty theme.
– install BuddyPress
– activate the component you want to use
– ensure that each component has his own page
– pretty permalinks must be activated too.

To get a proper register page, allow user registration in WP settings and add manually, if not created automatically, a “register” page to BP.

NOTE: BP pages are not usual WP pages. They are only placeholder (a unique ID in the wp ecosystem) where BP will show dynamic content. These page must be unique and shouldn’t be asigned to any template or model. Give them a title and you’re done.

once WP+BP work correctly together and you can access to the register page without trouble, you can be sure that this couple is definetly OK.

No it’s time to activate a custom theme if you use one. An if something gooes wrong at this stage you’re sure it’s the new theme who is the culprit.

And if the new theme is working correctly with WP+BP, you can install plugins.

And again, WP+BP+Theme = OK, but what about the plugin ?

Easy to understand, easy to build, very annoying to write this for the 589 000 time, but still the only way to install BP.

On your side, you need to follow these steps, but also to read the documentation from codex and of course, from any additionnal plugin you want to use !

That said, be warned that we can’t assist you on this forum with third party premium theme or plugins as we have no free access to their code.

[Venutius]

You need to be clearer in what you are asking for, within Groups all forum new topics and replies will show in the groups activity feed so I’m not sure what you are asking for.

[danbp]

please use forum’s search before asking !
https://buddypress.org/support/search/private+message+button/

For example:

Disable or Hide Private Message Button

[dev grl]

The wordpress forum sent me back here.

[Venutius]

Have you tried asking on the WordPress forums? the activation email is a feature inherited from their so they might have an idea