[danbp]

Hi,

To get the link to a user profile:
$link = bp_get_loggedin_user_link();

Many use examples can be found on the forum. Ie:

[Resolved] BuddyPress Links URLs

Is it possible to make Activity and Forum profile tabs private?

[djsteveb]

@phound1

have you tried to see if bp emails work when the other plugins are disabled?

maybe some of things we posted about in the forums long ago may offer some clues as to where the hiccup is. I stiff refer to https://buddypress.org/support/topic/not-receiving-notification-of-new-user-registration/ on occasion.

[tizianopitisci]

Hello Henry, It seems to be a bug coming from 2.6 BP realise, as you can read from this topic: https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/error-404-for-non-logged-in-users/

What do you think about it?
Thanks

[giaschel]

Hi, thank you very much for your reply!

Both links bring me to an error page that says I’m not authorized (although I’m super-admin). I can’t see any buddypress tab in my Dashboard, apart from Forums, Topics and Replies.

Hoping you can still help.

Thanks again.

[danbp]

@fearthemoose, @rezbiz,

Here “the best guarded secret” finally revealed !
But it’s not a secret, is part of Codex and a multi handled topic subject on this forum.

What we want to do: remove access possibility.
Where: on BuddyBar navigation menu (the one below the profile header).
Specifics: make the activity and forum tabs only visible to the logged in user.

NOTE: The activity tab is shown by default when you visit a profile.

As we are going to hide/remove this tab to visitors, we need to define as first another default tab. If we won’t do that, the visitor will get a Page not found error. Which is not exactly the case here, the page exist but the visitor can’t access it.

Let’s define arbitrary Profile as the new default tab. You can of course define what ever other existing tab on your BuddyBar as default.

Add this line to bp-custom.php
define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT','profile' );

Now the mega “open secret” !

The folowing snippet contains almost any BP menu items you can have on a BuddyBar, and includes also the Forum item, in case you use bbPress.
You can remove or comment out those you don’t want to use.
Note also that it is only an example – you have to play with it to fit your need. But at least you have the right syntax to use.
Note also that some profile menu items are user only, such as message or notice. In other words, these are always private.

This function goes preferably to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_hide_tabs() {
global $bp;
	 /**
	 * class_exists() & bp_is_active are recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Component is deactivated
	 */

	if( class_exists( 'bbPress' ) || bp_is_active ( 'groups' ) ) :
        
        /** here we fix the conditions. 
        * Are we on a profile page ? | is user site admin ? | is user logged in ?
        */
	if ( bp_is_user() && !is_super_admin() && !is_user_logged_in() ) {

        /* and here we remove our stuff ! */
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' );
	}
	endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpfr_hide_tabs', 15 );

Some other hints for privacy
if you want to allow only the profile owner to view some tabs, replace
!is_user_logged_in by !bp_is_my_profile() – this scenario doesn’t need a check for logged in users as it is made by bp_is_my_profile.

If you want only to make a profile private, read here.

If you want to remove a sub-nav item (ie. View on Profile), you use something like:
bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'view' );

Many other possibilities for navigation are also available, including for groups. Several examples are given on Codex, here.

And if not enough, RTFM and search the forum ! 🙂

Have fun !

[danbp]

Ask on bbPress forum! 🙂
https://bbpress.org/forums/

[shanebp]

These forums are for BuddyPress.
Please contact me via the PhiloPress website.

[Julia_B]

Is there way to @mention all members?

This is something I’d like to be able to do on the bbpress forum on my buddypress site. I find forum mentions draw more site engagement than emailing all members, but filling a post with all members’ @ names detracts from the post content. So is there a function like @all or @everyone?

Thanks 🙂

[Venutius]

This seems to be more of a bbPress issue, since it is to do with the ordering of the forum. I would unload all other plugins and see if the problem persists, also switch to the 2016 Theme.

[Earl_D]

I believe this shows how to set up sitewide and groups forums together

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

[danbp]

Hi @jeremybivaud,

without seeing your custom code, it’s difficult to say if you have some issue or conflict with other plugins.

I can’t help you much for doing your stuff, but have you used the BP_Attachment API ? This can probably help you.

You may also find some related topics to attachment by searching the forum. 😉

[danbp]

Oh, i see what you mean now. You want to modify the page title. You used the word WEB in place of site name…. and activity meta title is something different.

You have to write a function to apply to bp_modify_page_title filter.

Reference
You’ll certainly find many snippet for this by searching the forum.

[themichaelglenn]

@r-a-y

I found out what was causing the problem for me. I don’t know if the cause is the same for the OP.

In forum settings, I had unchecked the “Forum Prefix” box (the one that prefixes all forum pages with the root slug “Forums.”) I also had the Search slug set to the default “search.”

This left the forum search results “script” if you can call it that, pointing to domain.com/search – which I gather is the default search URL for WordPress and BuddyPress?

Without BuddyPress installed, the forum search still worked, but with BuddyPress installed – nothing. And yet, it was NOT BuddyPress, it was my own lack of understanding. 🙁

I hadn’t realized that the root search slug, without forums in front of it, would cause a problem. But I did some digging around in all this and discovered that both the twentysixteen theme, and BuddyPress, have pages called “search.php” – so naturally, domain.com/search would point to one of those scripts, and not to bbPress search results. (bbPress does not have a search.php page)

Anwyay, when I check the Forums Prefix box, and search the forums, the results page loads at domain.com/<strong>forums</strong>/search and everything works perfectly.

Unforunately I’m using a plugin for bbPress that changes the URL structure and requires me to leave the Forum Prefix box unchecked. But, I found a way around that too – in Forum Settings, I simply changed the search slug to search-results and again, everything works perfectly (and the URL for search-results is now domain.com/search-results which in no way conflicts with domain.com/search)

I have to say, had you not mentioned the search slug in your response, it never would have occurred to me that it would be the cause of all my frustration. I’m glad to have this resolved, and hope that my explanation is enough that it will be able to help anyone else who might run into the same issue.

EDIT

I’ve also discovered that I can set the search slug to forums/search which effectively accomplished the same thing as leaving it on search whilst checking the Forum Prefix box. i.e. they both return the URL as domain.com/forums/search which may not be a huge deal, but it does seem to look prettier than any other URL…

[r-a-y]

I cannot duplicate your problem.

I’m trying the search form from example.com/forums. In the WP admin dashboard’s “Settings > Forums” page, I have “Allow forum wide search” checked as well.

You might want to refresh your permalinks at “Settings > Permalinks”. Sometimes that helps.

Also, check your search slug in “Settings > Forums” and make sure it has no spaces:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-search-function-doesnt-return-results-goes-to-home-page/#post-174545

[themichaelglenn]

When I try and search the forums I get no results and returned to the home page

I’m having this same problem and it is definitely an issue that is caused by BuddyPress. I’m using WordPress 4.6.1 with the TwentySixteen Theme, bbPress 2.5.10, and BuddyPress 2.6.2.

When I deactivate all bbPress related plugins, the search still sends me back to the home page. When I deactivate BuddyPress – the search works exactly the way it’s supposed to.

Is there a file in the BuddyPress theme that I can modify/remove/replace, that will correct this issue?

[bareguys]

Hey forum.

Does anyone know how this is done in a good way?

Any tips appreciated.

[danbp]

Hi!

Yes, bp_activity_entry_meta is the correct hook.

If you prefer to use JS, see an example here.

[karmatiger]

silly question – where does one find the forums?

[idichoo]

Hi,

Which one should i follow. A. Set Up Sitewide Forums only?
Can tell me which function will exactly remove bbpress from buddypress.

Thanks.

[danbp]

Yeah ! Tips and tricks is a wide subject.
We have unfortunately more people here who search for tricks as people who share them. And nothing to say about those volonteered to write codex articles.

With almost 4 updates/year, not all tricks are reusable from one BP version to another. So the only place to get some is the forum – with a preference for recent topics as first !

A few keywords and patience should be enough.
Not that i’m the only one who publish snippets here, but you can find some of mine by searching bpfr_
If it can help you ! 😉

[danbp]

Hi,

bbPress is a separate plugin. If you don’t want it “inside” BuddyPress, you have to install it as standalone forum. Follow these instructions.

[danbp]

kleo matches 175 times in search result on this forum… and only 55 times at 7thqueen support.

Despite we can’t help you with premium themes, as we have no access to the code, people constantly comes here to ask for help, solve issues or get advice for customizing their expensive theme.

That’s sad, a little unfair and may be just c’est la vie finally ?

Perhaps, when you are tempted to buy some novelty item – such as an awesome newest theme – try to visualize it in a pile of junk at a yard sale with a 50 cent price tag on it!

Did you ever asked you why WordPress comes with a new default theme each year since 2010 ?

Guess it’s time to say Hello Twenty Seventeen !

[danbp]

Hi @mohammad-sy,

thank you for your interest to BuddyPress.

You can suggest new features and improvement requests directly on Trac. BP devs are more there as on this forum. More to this here.

If you’re curious about next release and current works, you can follow the developments of the site on dev’s blog.

[danbp]

You’re refering to a premium add-on for witch only people who buyed the licence have access. You’ve better to ask on their support or at MyCred forum.

Personally i use Buddypress Social on SWA and Simple Share Buttons Adder for the blogs (multisite install).

[jbboro3]

That code is for plain text tinymce in “post form”.. This will render in the post form but not in the comment form (though without rich text editor you can implement it easily anywhere). The problem is only with rich text editor which you can insert images, bold font, italic etc without displaying codes (as in text form editor).. When you are on to threaded forum (multi-level commenting) you will have to figure out three things here.. 1st Post form (the one you posted above), 2nd comment form (replies to the original post) and the replies form (replies to the comments which is threaded in nature)..

The one I’m talking about is – I could able to implement first two steps i.e, post and comment form in rich text editor format, but still figuring out the last format i.e., replies which is messing up the things.. The thing is that buddypres is implementing both comment and replies in the same ids which needs to be corrected to be able to implement with tinymce and also the AJAX on the replies collapse behavior which doesn’t support with the buddypress right now