[danbp]

Try this:

function bpfr_filtering_activity( $retval ) {

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

[danbp]

Is it possible to have the contents of the Email tab load automatically?

Afaik no. While testing the snippets, i discovered that none of the tab show his content when you remove the General tab. I ignore if it is a bug (and doubt it is one) or intended so. In fact, profile settings are not intented to be removed, but that’s pure theory. 🙂
The funny news is that i can display the content of third party plugins who share the profile settings tab with BP. Conclusion: BP hide the whole settings content, but other plugins can still use it.
Strange and not user friendly – and never mentionned on this forum so far i know. But i must admit it is an exceptionnal case.

Maybe calling @djpaul or @dcavins to this topic can bring another opinion ? I go to mention this on Slack immediatly, so hopefully we will be quicly fixed.

Wait and see ! 🙂

[danbp]

Hi,

you’re on the BuddyPress support forum where we can’t help for third party plugins.
If you have questions related to bbPress (if you use this plugin), you have to ask on their support.

For BuddyPress for Sensei plugin or WC Sensei, you can check the doc and/or ask on the plugin support too.

[danbp]

Hi,

by reading the first topic, it sounds like you try to use more than one child theme !

I already have activated my other child theme

If it is the case, it’s not the way to proceed. 😉

1) You should have only one child-theme activated.
2) in this child, you add a folder called buddypress.
3) if you need to modify some BP templates, you copy the original from wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ into the child BP folder.

Example of what you should have:
wp-content/themes/XYZ theme
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/

Let’s say you want to modify BP’s register page.
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/buddypress/members/register.php
or you want to modify the profile header template
wp-content/themes/XYZ-child/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php

And that’s it ! The only thing you have to do is to pick the right file and add it to the child by respecting the original path who starts at: /buddypress/path/to/file.php

Inside the template file, yo can manipulate html tags and find different action hooks ( do_action( 'something' ); ). Take care to not rename or remove the existing class/ID names whithout knowing what you do.

In bp-custom.php, you can manipulate BP’s behave by adding custom functions.

In the child-theme style.css, you manipulate whatever related to your theme layout – for the entire site, including BP or other plugins.

And as all this is done via the child, anything will remain after any update of BuddyPress, your original theme, WordPress or plugins.

Reading actively the forum will bring you other answers, tips and tricks.

[danbp]

[Mod] changed title to something more explicit as a useless “Please Help…….Urgent !!!!” on a support forum.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

The urgent is done, the indispensable is under way. For miracles, allow time.

Please wait, I think.

[danbp]

Hi,
Shane’s answer is related to the BP way to get a user name inside a redirection. wpF use probably a similar method, but certainly also his own function(s) for that. You have to find out how it does. Unfortunately, this plugin doesn’t provide documentation at the moment.

Accordingly to wpForum support, there is still a button to wpforum on each profile. If you have difficulties to tweak the default behave, you have to ask for on their support.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/buddypress-compatibility-plans/

[metalhead]

Thanks, and I went through the process, and then I re-installed Buddypress, but I’m still having the same problem. It’s when I click the button to save the new user info, and instead of proceeding to the next step (“Check your email for verification,” it’s just refreshing the new user registration form. It won’t let a new user get passed that screen.

I read about someone else having the same problem, in this forum, but he never did describe how he overcame the problem. I’ve tried deactivating all buddypress related plugins, but no luck.

I think the best thing for me to do is going to be to re-install WordPress from scratch, but do you have any other recommendations before I do that?

Thanks.

[danbp]

It is possible because it doesn’t exist and you never noticed his mention in many topics of this forum, and perhaps never read the codex. 🙂

Read here please:

bp-custom.php

[danbp]

Hi guys,

you should read topics completely! 👿
In one of my answer to the above mentionned, you have the necessary information to get it to work for replies. I tested it today and it works for me.

Now I repeat it again, it’s not done to add wp_editor to a textarea which was never intented to be a post editor. It’s a simple message composer ! Do you write MMS with Word ?

By adding wp_editor to this composer, you can only add the the HTML editor, like the one you have on this forum. The visual tab won’t work because of numerous filters and the way wp_editor is working. Activating the visual tab on the compose screen will also break your theme, in 99% of cases.

Once you have it correctly displayed, you will see that most of the tags will be striped. This can be avoided by defining $allowedtags in wp_kses filter. The inconvenient of this is that it will also be available on what’s new form and any other form you use on your site. So, you’re warned.

The code i used today, including allowed tags i had to activate.

function bpfr_compose_msg_tiny_editor() {
add_filter ( 'user_can_richedit' , create_function ( '$a' , 'return false;' ) , 50 );

$content = "";
	
	if ( isset( $_GET['r'] ) ) :
	$content = esc_textarea( $_GET['r'] ); 
	endif;

	$editor_settings = array(
		'content' => bp_messages_content_value(),
		'textarea_name' => 'content',
		'editor_id' => 'message_content',
		'teeny'=>true,
		'media_buttons'=>false,
		'quicktags' => array(
			'buttons' => 'strong,em,link,img,block,del,ul,ol,li,code,close'
	) ); 

	wp_editor( bp_messages_content_value(), 'message_content', $editor_settings); 

}
add_action( 'compose_edit_tools', 'bpfr_compose_msg_tiny_editor' );

function bpex_allowed_tags() {
	global $allowedtags;
	$allowedtags['img']		= array( 'src' => array () );
	$allowedtags['ul']		= array();
	$allowedtags['ol']		= array();
	$allowedtags['li']		= array();	
}
add_action('init', 'bpex_allowed_tags', 10);

How-to is explained on the other topic.

[Venutius]

For myself I think I’m getting close to having a pretty decent home page for my groups, there’s just a few bugs to iron out before I can go live.

What I am doing is using Extras to create a new default landing page that have extended group info in it, and then adding to this a bbpress Shortcode and an activity shortcode to display summaries of the groups forum, activity and comments, with a comment entry box on the same page. If I could move the groups activity feed into the widget area that would be better.

One of the key things for me however is that this stuff needs to be able to be done by users, by ordinary Joe’s who just joined the site to set up their special interest group, there should be no need to Admin intervention as that’s a none scaleable resource.

[danbp]

Hi @dphelun,

– 1) no idea ! It depends of what you know about WP and BP, coding and templating
– 2) see 1…
– 3) in theorie yes. In real life… check the forum… and point 1.

Don’t buy a theme before you tested your project with all plugins and fonctionalities correctly working on a WP+BP default install. Use one of WP’s default theme, ie. Twenty Sixteen or Fifteen. Or even all coming with WP

This tests should be done on a test site (locally or online, but not on a production site)
Default install, because it’s the only waranty for you and the project to work properly in a respecfull environment of WP standarts. Once ok you can jump to a premium theme if you estimate it is worth. That said many free themes are just ideal too.
I would just warn you to avoid frameworks and page builders- specially because BP doesn’t use WP pages like WP does. Focus on the theme itself, and not on plethoric theme functionnalities. Theme is for layout. Plugin is for functionnality.

About Themes
you will find a lot of themes on the net. Most with nice pictures and impressive list of functionnalities and prices. Problem is that this marketing arguments rarely fit with a project. And if you’re unable to customize it, you go towards weird issues and will be lost in no time.

About plugins
Like for themes and of course your technical level.

From what you tell, i would consider WP Job Manager and his (premium) add-on for BuddyPress.
Messaging is included in BuddyPress, even if it is not exactly meant as instant messaging.

But test the message component first as is before going further. And keep in mind that less is more.

[danbp]

Hi,

you are on the BuddyPress support.
bbpress questions should be asked on bbpress support.
And as you use Loco Translate plugin, and apparently have an issue with it, you have to ask on the LT plugin support.

To get more about chinese translation, help and much more, please read the Polyglots blog.

[danbp]

Hi,

you read the wrong article.
You say that you installed bbPress 2.5.10 plugin today. So reading about forum migration is useless ! 😉

Better try to follow what’s explained here.

[danbp]

– If you want to exclude user group forums from the directory, you alter the group loop.
– If you want to modify the way forum (whatever the type) works internally, you alter the bbpress code.

Forums are handled by bbPress, BuddyPress only show them up and add user management.

When you set up group forums, you create a new forum in bbPress and give it a type of “category”. Which is not the case when you create a site wide forum and use “forum” as type. This is the only difference for bbPress.

[Venutius]

Would it not be a forum loop hack I’d be looking for?

[danbp]

Sorry, this latest question is really out of the scope of this support forum. I give you some indication for an API tool and a ready to use plugin for BP. If it is not what you want to use, what i understand, you have to search elsewhere or wait for somebody else’s answer. 🙂

[danbp]

Hi,

here a CSS trick which let you wrap the whole fields into 1 column:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/buddypress-registration-page-1-column-layout

Or
could be made with this premium plugin: https://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-ajax-registration/

Or
manually by coding your own reg template
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/changing-the-layout-of-the-registration-page/

[Venutius]

There’s not really that much available. in terms of relating blogs to groups there’s really two options, for a single site you can use the combination of relate blog categories for groups, which you have already tried, and use this with bbPress Topics for Post which will allow you to have comments for that post appear within the group forum.

The other option is to use BuddyPress GroupBlog, but that only works in a multisite environment.

There are other plugins such as BP Group Docs, Buddypress group Extras and BuddyPress Group Documents that you may like to look at but none of these really gives you the type of group homepage customisation that is required.

I did try to do a template overload of the group home page but I found that the way the Forum works interferes with this so it is not trivial and beyond my capabilities for the moment. If you can, hire a developer is all I can suggest.

[danbp]

Hi,

you have better chance to get an answer on bbPress support.

Also, updating BP to 2.6.2 would be a good idea, as some email bugs have been solved since 2.5.1

[danbp]

Hi,

color scheme’s are usually defined by the theme. Positioning elements needs some ID’s or class correctly defined and a medium knowledge for HTML & CSS handling.

if you create a child theme, you can change a lot of things related to BuddyPress, including CSS.

Read through the theme guidelines on BP Codex to get a general overview and check also the documentation of your theme.

Unfortunately, you use a premium theme and, as we have no access to his code, we can’t assist you more for it. Any questions related to it should be asked on your theme support.

But don’t hesitate to search the BuddyPress forum using keywords like css, template and so on…

[danbp]

Hi,

Which group menu are you talking about ?
How do you add the link ? And why ? Because, you haven’t to do that on a standard MS install, even for private groups. Sorry, but this point is a bit unclear.

Review your forum settings:

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

Group Settings and Roles

[danbp]

Hi,

your question relates to bbPress. You’ve better chance to get answers by asking on bbpress forum.

Note: linking to sites requiring registration to see comment forms to illustrate what you want is not cool at all. You’ve better to make screenshots.

[Henry Wright]

Hi,

bbp_new_reply is a bbPress action? You should try asking the guys over at bbPress.

[lackattoryox]

bump (Is my issue really obscure or is the Buddy Press Support Forums dead?)

[tronix-ex]

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