[r-a-y]

I’m in favour of it. Makes sense from an usability perspective and it doesn’t alienate the forums as you mentioned.

[@mercime]

I am enjoying it! I will be changing icon colors to RED though, didn’t see the icons at first in my custom theme Thank you.

edit – Just to add that I also enjoy the fact that Site Admins can rate as much as they want, hehehe.

[Andy Peatling]

Nevermind – I re-read what you said in the first line.

[Andy Peatling]

Nice – can you add it to the plugin repo?

[David Lewis]

Not sure if this answers the question or not:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/make-your-own-custom-buddypress-page

[peterverkooijen]

Why would a user have a @ in their username?!

I’m very much in favor of using the email address as username, but there are better ways to deal with the member slug.

[kharla]

Okay, I’ve been able to correct most of the problems like the avatar achievement, blog creation achievement, account activation achievement, etc by correcting the code in the dp-achievements-defaultachievements.php file.

However, there are two sets of achievements that are still not working.

Starting A Forum Topic (one, thirty, and 100) – this hooks into action – bp_forums_new_topic

function dpa_register_forumranked() { add_action( ‘bp_forums_new_topic’, ‘dpa_handle_forumranked’, 10, 0 ); }

Replying To A Forum Topic (one, thirty, and 100) – this hooks into action – bp_forums_new_post

function dpa_register_replyranked() { add_action( ‘bp_forums_new_post’, ‘dpa_handle_replyranked’, 10, 0 ); }

I’ve been checking all of the code both in this file and in the bp-forums.php file and cannot see why it’s not working. The actions are correct, I can’t find any typos, why is it not unlocking the achievements?

function dpa_handle_forumranked() {

global $bp;

if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_forums_is_installed_correctly’ ) || !bp_forums_is_installed_correctly() || defined( ‘DPA_CHECKING’ ) )

return;

$user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->id;

$one = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘forumranked_1’, ‘counter’ => true ) );

$thirty = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘forumranked_30’ ) );

$hundred = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘forumranked_100’ ) );

if ( $hundred->is_unlocked() )

return;

$one->increment_counter();

if ( $one->counter >= 1 && !$one->is_unlocked() ) { $one->unlock_achievement(); }

if ( $one->counter >= 30 && !$thirty->is_unlocked() ) { $thirty->unlock_achievement(); }

if ( $one->counter >= 100 && !$hundred->is_unlocked() ) { $hundred->unlock_achievement(); }

}

function dpa_handle_replyranked() {

global $bp;

if ( !function_exists( ‘bp_forums_is_installed_correctly’ ) || !bp_forums_is_installed_correctly() || defined( ‘DPA_CHECKING’ ) )

return;

$user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->id;

$one = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘replyranked_1’, ‘counter’ => true ) );

$thirty = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘replyranked_30’ ) );

$hundred = new dpa_achievement( array( ‘user_id’ => $user_id, ‘name’ => ‘replyranked_100’ ) );

if ( $hundred->is_unlocked() )

return;

$one->increment_counter();

if ( $one->counter >= 1 && !$one->is_unlocked() ) { $one->unlock_achievement(); }

if ( $one->counter >= 30 && !$thirty->is_unlocked() ) { $thirty->unlock_achievement(); }

if ( $one->counter >= 100 && !$hundred->is_unlocked() ) { $hundred->unlock_achievement(); }

}

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Sven Lehnert]

Hi D Cartwright,

I tried it with the $db variable, but I couldn’t figure out a way. See this post please

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-get-all-group-nav-items

[Erin Bell]

I had this same issue. Check your error logs to see if it is a memory issue. My hosting provider changed my PHP limit from 32 to 64 and that solved the blank page problem (or so it appeared). However, even though the page now displays, I still have an issue with the forums not working correctly so maybe this doesn’t help at all.

[r-a-y]

Create a group, then create a forum for that group.

The forums directory should be available at example.com/forums.

[sawyerh]

Update:

It seems to only take effect on new activity. However, the links in the forum topics are still going to the wrong page.

[peterverkooijen]

Marius Ooms posted an update about the bp-groupblog plugin here.

Per definition what works within your blog should also work on your groupblog. All you need is the blog id that belongs to the group. If you look at the template files you’ll see how we set the blog id and use switch blog to change blog id’s.

That’s probably what I should focus on to fix my problem!

Looking ahead we are even going further and reversing the concept of pulling in specific blog content into the group, but let the blog be the group and pull in buddypress information to the blog itself. … The main group slug would just forward to the blog home page.

I had thought about that as possible solution to the referrer check mismatch problem; just make the blog homepage, where P2 does work, the group homepage.

But I think it would create more confusion. In my theme I want to keep blogs looking like blogs and turn the group homepages into the centers for social networking activity.

So the group blog homepage would display the same posts as on the group homepage, but in a traditional blog view. Most users would see the group blog posts on the group home page or in the single.php view.

Forwarding the group slug to a blog and then make the blog look like a group home page breaks the logic of the site.

EDIT:

I still think that, atm, posting from the front-end is not developed far enough yet … It is fine for micro-blogging, but I don’t think there are option to include image/video/media uploading, tagging, and categories

There is in P2, leveraging WordPress media buttons. It’s very slick, with lightbox etc. (I see they’re missing from the version I had in my zip…)

In my setup I’m trying to get simple, stripped down microblogging front-end posting on the group homepage, with a traditional blog view on the blog homepage. So more advanced users can still go from the regular blog homepage into the wp-admin backend if they want to do more complicated post editing.

P2 has different tabs for Status Update and Blog Post on the post-form. I’d like to have those options in the group homepage if I can get it to work, but the stripped down Status Update would be priority there.

[finni3]

Ok, obviously there are the possibilitiy of information overflow, but that does not mean you shouldn´t have the option of turning notifications on. In Cartwrights plugin you can choose what you want the users to be notified of. For some bbpress installations, being notified of e.g. forum replies to a topic you started, is feasible – for larger ones they may not be.

Let´s take facebook as an example:

You don´t get notified of every wallpost in a group. Why not? Because you would have 200 new notifications every day if you are a member of a popular group.

But you do get notified if a friends comments on your wall, or if someone comments on a post that you also commented on. This keeps the conversation going and is a good way of keeping up with things you find interesting etc.

Apparantly, notifcations in the buddybar can be done with a plugin, since Andy has made it possible for plugins to plug in to the notifications area. In light of this information I am not advocating this having to be in core. If it where to be in core, I can understand only wanting the notifications to be “citical only”. But as a plugin I don´t see a problem with having the option to allow notifications of comment replies, forum replies etc. An option regarding forum replies could be to have a “do not notify me of furter updates” link if you are not interested in the forumpost anymore.

There is always a fine line with giving people enough info and too much info, but I suggest that it should be up to each admin to decide what works best for his community.

Any more thoughts?

[Mike Pratt]

@finni3 I must agree with @D Cartwright and @Michael here. CInsider the los of utility if your notifications menu all of a suden gives word of every forum posting of every topic you were involved in? Imagine if you posted once and then left for awhile and saw that you had 214 forum replies? What would you do with that?

In general, I think it’s safe to keep screen notifications to those items that post heads ups infrequently but when they do , it’s very important (hence the real need for the heads up) ex a Private Message, Friend Request. Another criterion would be the kind of action required (in the case of a forum reply, the only required action is to read it (not critical, obviously)

[Windhamdavid]

you might try this. https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/registration-link-redirects-to-home-page

[zageek]

I wonder where the spammers get the time to figure out ways to spam sites is there like a spam university or something lol

On my site I even disabled registrations and I still two splogs appear after that, which is very confusing for me indeed.

I can see one problem with sharing info on this forum about fighting spam, and that is that it will give the spammers the info they need to come up with counter attacks. I propose we start a spam eater group where we can share spam info behind the scenes, in fact I am going to start it now, not a perfect solution but still one that could work. What do you guys think?

https://buddypress.org/groups/spam-eater

Its a private group but anyone is welcome to join.

[sakthig]

I don’t think they are competitors

Because Buddypress links is an dedicated links channel power the community with rich media links that won’t touch other component like forum ,groups and other components . Buddypress link can considered as separate channel for buddypress

oEbmed will brings rich media embedding with buddypress components and making sharing easy with every components

I love these two releases and thanks to r-a-y and Marshal

[still giving]

It seems to be *if* one posts as “not a support question” somehow it is locked and left uneditable and unrepliable.

Even if one changes it to “not resolved” the Reply window does not appear.

It is strange *why* when one tries to # Edit one is forwarded back to the forum front page.

[steven_hodson]

thanks Ray the pathing solved the integration (?) problem but I have to admit this is now getting confusing:)

What I was *expecting* was that the data from my current bbPress would basically be repurposed into BP style/version of bbPress forums.

What I am hearing though is that instead of being a wrapper like BP is around WP I am going to have to maintain two sets of forums?

[still giving]

Excuse my ignorance and ability to voice it but …

Where is there more detailed discussion of the philosophy and direction behind the new integrated forum design than, here, say, https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-discussions/buddypress-forum/

Will an admin dashboard, plugin-ability re-appear or be integrated with WPMU/BP in the future?

(I must test markup code …)

Is it meant to be so basic, or is it a “proof of concept” kept a simple as possible to avoid as many screw ups as possible?

I am very keen to be ‘loyal to the platform’ and am encouraged to see BBpress embedded so simply and well but, at the same time, some basic functionality would be good.

Thanks.

[sawyerh]

Hi Guys,

Still haven’t been able to find a solution to this problem and would love to figure this out.

Here’s an update on the what’s working and what is not:

The initial problem was the username wasn’t being displayed at the end of the member’s links which was causing the links to redirect to the homepage. This problem was sitewide EXCEPT when on the forum topics (weird). By adding define( 'BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE', true ); to /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php, I was able to get the username to display at the end of the member’s links inside the Member’s list, but by doing so, it is now causing the problem to occur on member’s links on forum topics. The problem is also still occurring in the activity streams.

Any help?

Thanks!

[abcde666]

what about upgrading to latest-version BP 1.2.1 ?

Release History

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/upgrading-from-12-to-121

[r-a-y]

I have tried both http://www.winextra.com/forums/ and http://www.winextra.com/forums/bb-config.php with the same result – can’t find the file.

If I’m not mistaken, I think you have to put in the absolute file path to bb-config.php (eg. /var/www/forums/bb-config.php).

—

1) bbPress plugins in BuddyPress will require porting to a WP plugin so BuddyPress can detect it. Depending on the complexity of your bbPress plugins, this might be complicated.

2) You’ll basically have two sets of forums – BP group forums and your external install of bbPress. Your external install of bbPress will need to be themed if you want it to match your WP/BP site.

3) BP forums are powered by groups. You need to create a “group” in order to create a forum in BuddyPress. If you choose to integrate an external install of bbPress with BP, your BuddyPress forums will show up in your external install by default as well. To avoid duplication in your external bbPress install, read this thread.

—

Re: long range question. Not sure what is going to happen.

[peterverkooijen]

@Noel and Mike Pratt, it’s relatively easy to integrate P2, Posthaste etc. into BP themes. They work fine, as long as you use them what they were developed for, on blog index/home pages.

The problem that is the subject of this thread is that P2, Posthaste etc. break when you use them on a group home page, in combination with the group blog plugin. BTW, that’s the only place where I want front-end posting, so I’m not even that interested in how P2 is or will be integrated in BP’s default theme.

The zip I posted is NOT my theme; it’s the bp-groupblog plugin with P2 integrated, for as far as I could figure it out. I plan to post a zip with my bp-groupblog+posthaste attempt later. I have no idea what a diff is.

I have done more than a little investigation and reported here and at the top of this thread in some detail what isn’t happening and my attempts to figure out why.

In the P2 case the problem must be in the javascript somewhere and may have something to do with referrer check. Anyway, when you turn on the javascript, P2 gets the wrong blog and post IDs. I have no idea why, how to fix it or even what to focus on.

Noel’s answer was basically “Buddypress is awesome and does everything you need”. I don’t pay Noel and Noel owes me nothing, so that sounds like a dead end to me. I do appreciate he even bothered to return my email.

I posted my zip in case anyone agrees this would be a useful feature to have and wants to take a stab at it. If not, fine also. See if I care.

I’ll return to this probably in a week from now, after a day job deadline.

[r-a-y]

For those who might not be aware, Buddydev.com’s BP-Gallery is a paid plugin. I think the baseline cost is $30 for 3 months access to the entire buddydev.com site (themes, plugins, forums).