[jen000]

Thanks to the member who got in touch recently offering to help. Unfortunately we had to give up on Buddypress and went ahead with WP Symposium. Not impressed with their support and we won’t use them again. If we have to use Listify and social networking again I will be back to Buddypress!

By the way if anyone is thinking of using WP Symposium I would say don’t bother. The software itself is ok but looks basic and there are no demo sites (only their own which is on a basic free theme with no other major plugins and probably on a dedicated server). We’ve had to move to a dedicated server as it was so slow and we had big problems getting it to work with other aspects of our site. The support forum is closed so you cant actually see other people’s responses which would save time. Instead you just have to deal with one stroppy support guy who blames your other plugins rather than helping to resolve issues. We had to spend a fortune getting glitches in the coding repaired. Never again!

[danbp]

Once registered you have no other choice as to remove them manually.
To retain spammers, there many plugins and methods. Afaik none is the perfect solution and in many situation, you’ll need to use a mixed protection.

There many topics on the forum about spam… Search them and make your opinion.
That said, you might follow some basics to harden WordPress, which is a good debut (table renaming, ban “admin” as username, etc). After that, a bunch of anti-spam plugins will calm down their activity on the site. (ban-hammer, buddypress honeypot, etc) Also keep in mind that you won’t probably never avoid spammers. But there is a big difference between 2 spam/day and 1000/per day. 😉

[danbp]

As site admin you can create new users and give same a low strength password. This is basic WP management. You already have a link for this part of the work.
If you have “hundreds” of friends to add it is of course a bit different – meaning it will not be done in 5mn. But it is not to me to tell you how to do this and where to find any knowledge document to achieve it. Codex are made for this – but sorry, i can’t sytematically lead any question asked on this forum to the appropriate page. My brain is not a codex summary ! Hope you understand. 😉

You have to search on WP Codex and eventually on BP Codex. Essentially because of the phone number field, which is a custom field. You can do that with or without BP – and that’s why i said it’s not a BP question.

If you want to take the BP route, you might check the code from BP Default Data, to understand how this plugin insert fake content to BuddyPress.

[danbp]

Sorry for the outdated trick.
bp_is_profile_edit is deprecated in favor of bp_is_user_profile_edit.

Check for the outdated fn in the plugin mentionned in the error msg.
In case of, here a tutorial with more options.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

So… you CAN log into WordPress with your email address and password. On example.com/wp-login.php, it even says “Username or Email” and “Password”. Is this the main log in that you are talking about?

I have just tested the BuddyPress log in widget and I can log in using the email address.

I am a bit baffled why this doesn’t work for you. Please can you remove any relevant code customisations, and just test it again?

If you can’t log into /wp-login.php using an email address and password, you should try the WordPress.org support forums first and get that fixed, because that’s how it should be working.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

@dioniq Did this work with a previous version of BuddyPress? If so, what version?

While the developers of that plugin are contributors to BuddyPress, you’re best to try requesting support via that plugin’s forums: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-docs

[Venutius]

Hi there,

Regarding question 2, I think that you need to set up a custom home page for your groups using BP Group Extras. That way you get to have the intro text as long as you like without it encroaching on the group cover image. you can also add some other cool features is you do this such as adding extra images and video’s into the group description, you can even add short codes to display group comments and forum entries on the same page.

I’ve written a guide as to how you can do this here:

http://buddyuser.com/creating-great-group-home-pages-with-buddypress-group-extras

[danbp]

You wanted code ? Here it is, but no need to get rude by using uppercase ! Searching the forum brings some topics about “notification”

See if it still works:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/notifications-template/

[wolfpup64]

Ah! It lives. I must’ve been looking at the wrong codex page, either way I would’ve been struggling with the whole redirect thing for a while haha. Thanks so much for your help man, I’ve been trying to figure this stuff out for a couple weeks now. These support forums really need a buy a beer button.

[phucitol]

@r-a-y

Thanks for the code. I had gotten this working by adding this really gross javascript:

	window.onload = function() { 
	      my_timing = setInterval(function(){myTimer();},1000);
	      function myTimer() {
	        if (typeof window.tinyMCE !== 'undefined' && window.tinyMCE.activeEditor !== null && typeof window.tinyMCE.activeEditor !== 'undefined') {  
		        $( window.tinyMCE.activeEditor.contentDocument.activeElement )
					.atwho( 'setIframe', $( '.wp-editor-wrap iframe' )[0] )
					.bp_mentions( bp.mentions.users );
				 window.clearInterval(my_timing);
		    }
	      }
	      myTimer();
	};

ONE question. Shouldn’t this line of code:
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'cac_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce', 10, 2 );

be

add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce', 10, 2 );
?

[r-a-y]

Ran into this issue recently regarding getting TinyMCE to work on BP group forum pages.

The following code fixes this:

/**
 * Enable at-mention autocomplete on BuddyPress group forum textareas.
 */
function my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_textareas( $retval ) {
	$bbpress = false;

	// Group forum reply.
	if ( bp_is_group() && 'topic' === bp_action_variable() && bp_action_variable( 1 ) ) {
		$bbpress = true;
	}

	// Group forum topic.
	if ( bp_is_group() && bp_is_current_action( 'forum' ) ) {
		$bbpress = true;
	}

	// Do stuff when on a group forum page.
	if ( true === $bbpress ) {
		$retval = true;
		
		// Ensure at-mentions autocomplete works with TinyMCE for bbPress.
		add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'cac_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce', 10, 2 );
	}

	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_maybe_load_mentions_scripts', 'my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_textareas' );

/**
 * Ensure at-mentions autocomplete works with TinyMCE for bbPress.
 *
 * @param array  $settings   An array with TinyMCE config.
 * @param string $editor_id Unique editor identifier, e.g. 'content'.
 * @return array  $mceInit   An array with TinyMCE config.
 */
function my_enable_mentions_in_group_forum_tinymce( $settings, $editor_id ) {
	// Add bbPress' editor IDs to enable BP mention autocomplete.
	if ( 'bbp_topic_content' === $editor_id || 'bbp_reply_content' === $editor_id ) {
		$settings['init_instance_callback'] = 'window.bp.mentions.tinyMCEinit';
	}

	return $settings;
}

[karennadine]

I have moved my site from Ning to Wp/Buddypress with a bbpress integration a few weeks ago. I was able to import a lot of content except the forum topics/responses.

What I did was this:
– used the export tool from Ning
– used the import tool to import ning to Buddypress
All my members (not that many, around 34 at that time) and their profiles, usernames, etc were transferred. All blogposts from Ning were imported as well.
It was easy for members to activate their account on my new Wp/Buddypress site.

The only down thing was that I had to manually copy topics and responses from the forum since I was unable to import this due to an error in the json file. I tried to repair that file but with no succes.

I hope this helps, should you have any questions please let me know. Like you I browsed many old topics and was unable to find any recent topics, so I just started out with trail and error to do it all myself.

Karen

[Jon Fergus]

Thanks r-a-y. I’ll just add this to close this topic. Solution to the issue is now on the bbpress support thread, along with a custom bbpress-fuctions.php file that provides the fix when added to a child theme: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-create-dynamic-reply-box/#post-178454

[Jon Fergus]

Note: On my staging site I have two topics: one within a buddypress group forum and one in a regular bbpress forum. The reply.js functionality works in the topic within the regular forum, but does not work in the topic that’s in the Buddypress group forum. To see the functionality, here are the two topics:

test-topic

http://staging-nexus.universaltheosophy.com/groups/test-group/forum/topic/test-group-topic/

[Henry Wright]

Try asking on the BP Profile Search support forum. Support is very good.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-profile-search

[Venutius]

There’s no plugins that would do that for you, one option would be to register a username with the same name as the forum and use that to post as an official voice I guess.

[danbp]

I hope so ! FYI, we all here learned by making mistakes, errors and asking around 🙂 :
Check the history !
JJJ, Boone & Ray, djpaul, mercime, hnla, shanebp, henrywright, me

[metalhead]

I understand. This topic belongs in one of the plugin forums. I will figure out which plugin it is and ask in the appropriate forum. Thanks anyway!

[danbp]

You posted another question on Buddypress Profile Search support, where it appears that you try to remove the member search form.

In regard of the BuddyPress support forum, you use at least two third party plugins aside BP and perhaps proceeded to template customization !

You have to isolate the culprit: one of your plugins or your theme customization. BuddyPress is not concerned. Sorry.

[danbp]

@magicalworlddolls,

Read codex page about bp-custom and my answer. You need an opening php tag at the first line of the file.

@lesanis,

what you’re asking for is in the snippet. Read the comments (lines starting by //).
The restriction for logged-in users is already deactivated. So by default, the function run’s for ALL visitors.
To get dynamic links to friends, search the forum, you have many topics to find containing the right solution. Search for bpfr_, it will bring up a lot results containing snippets. And if not enough, check in Codex.

[danbp]

Hi,

that’s a wordpress question (related to wp_nav_menu_items).

See WP Codex for answers:

wp_nav_menu_items

wp_get_nav_menu_items()

wp_nav_menu_objects

Many similar related topics also on BuddyPress forum. Ie. :
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-notification-count-code/

[danbp]

[Moved to another forum by OP request]

You can try this snippet which will add the link to main menu (aside About, Home etc):

function my_nav_menu_profile_link($menu) {      
        if (!is_user_logged_in())
                return $menu;
        else
                $profilelink = '<li><a href="' . bp_loggedin_user_domain( '/' ) . '">' . __('My Awesome Profile') . '</a></li>';
                $menu = $menu . $profilelink;
                return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_profile_link' );

Another way to do this is explained in this topic.

[prakharmonga]

i think i posted in the wrong forum
sorry

[tronix-ex]

Hi Danbp,

You are simply awesome it worked, now all I need is to show 50 activities per page. I’ve used the below code but it still showing 20 activities.

function bpfr_filtering_activity( $retval ) {
if ( bp_is_page( 'activity' ) ) {
	// activities to filter on, comma separated
	$retval['action'] = 'new_forum_post, new_forum_topic';
	$retval['max'] = '50';
}		
		return $retval;
	}	
add_filter( 'bp_before_has_activities_parse_args', 'bpfr_filtering_activity' );

Thanks,

[danbp]

Hallo,

i guess you need to test a new activity first before saying it doesn’t work.
Now that you changed the topic slug, publish a new topic and see if it comes up on SWA.

Activities are registered in real time. It’s an history and in this, it is not refreshed recursively.
You can test this also by reverting the site language to english. Publish something in english and this publication will appear in english on SWA.
Revert back to german, publish something in german. It will appear in german and the previous activity will remain in english. 🙂
Same behave when you use a plugin which generate an activity. You will see it on SWA. Uninstall the plugin and his activity will still be in.

As you mentionned topics, you could try the forum repair tool ?
wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-repair