[Helani De SIlva]

Hello,

First of all, this plugin is pretty cool. But I’m stuck on a problem. That’s I create forum using bbpress. I gave the registered visiters the Moderator forum role. But I tested it as a user(like visitor), when I submit it, that forum showing in the site without approving admin. And also the new user role in site as Contributor. So I want a help from you to solve this issue. Please reply as soon as possible.

Thank you & Best regards,
Helani

[Anonymous User 18187419]

And if that does not help, probably best to try the deactivate/reactivate plugins one by one method, as suggested elsewhere.

Btw, what message do registered users get when viewing forums? Any info?

[Anonymous User 18187419]

You can try this repair tool:

WP Admin -> Tools -> Forums

then choose the option at the bottom of list:

“Remap all users to default forum roles”

IMPORTANT: if your site is live, do a DB backup before you run these repair tools.

[clicksnlikes]

Yes, it’s still the same. Changed forum roles to check if it will work but same issue.

[Anonymous User 18187419]

ok, if you go to WP Admin -> Users -> All Users , you should see a column headed “Forum Role”.
The users who are unable to create new topics, do they all have “Participant” showing in this column?

[clicksnlikes]

Automatically give registered visitors the
Participant forum role
Uncheck this to manually assign all user access to your forums.(This is checked).

ps: I can give you assess for a while, if you’d want to check it out.

[Anonymous User 18187419]

On Forum Settings page, alongside “Roles”, what info is showing?

[Anonymous User 18187419]

What forum software are you using?
bbpress?

[exnihilodesigns]

Has anyone been able to solve this issue with only 20 members showing per page? I’ve tried every bit of code and file change that I’ve found on the help forum and so far nothing has altered it. I’m using the Legacy theme if that helps.

[Pynet]

Hello again,
My customer now wants to filter members by zones, so I have created two different profile fields: for suppliers Zone1, for customers Zone2.
Suppliers may have one or more zones, customers only one (that’s why creating two different profiles).
I have tried to combine the code here https://buddydev.com/show-only-users-of-opposite-genders-on-buddypress-site/ with this other https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/filter-the-buddypress-members-in-the-list-of-members/, but I can’t find the way to make it work, neither including it inside the class nor from outside.
Any idea?
Thank you very much.
Greetings and happy holidays!

[fawp]

hi @imath – I wanted to offer to moderate the support forums given there seems to be spam almost every day.

I moderate a separate community so it would be no burden to me to help keep BP Support Forums spam free.

[ottomam]

I want to set the group ID to “group name slug” by default.

Is there a good way to override the function “groups_create_group()” in “bp-groups/bp-groups-functions.php”?

I would like to specify an id for the slug as shown below, but do not want to modify the core file. It would be helpful if I could override it in “bp-custom.php”.

$args = bp_parse_args(
	$args,
	array(
		'group_id'     => 0,
		'creator_id'   => 0,
		'name'         => '',
		'description'  => '',
		'slug'         => bp_get_current_group_id(),
		'status'       => null,
		'parent_id'    => null,
		'enable_forum' => null,
		'date_created' => null,
	),
	'groups_create_group'
);

[cassel]

I ended up postponing this issue since there is a plan to switch forum platforms for 2023 (after using it for 11 years) so I didn’t check further.

[imFiles]

I noticed that when you go to a user profile and click on the forum tab “/members/user/forums/” that works well, but if you click on page 2 and up you get 404 page not found error and it’s missing “/forums/topics/” before the “page/2/” ect url. This is even occuring in this site if you check the profile of https://buddypress.org/members/imath/forums/

[Sebastian]

Hello,

we use the email-notification to inform all of our employees (over 200) about new posts in the forum. It takes a while till the post is shown. That was no problem so far but since 2 days we get a time out when we post something and then the post is only shown for admins and the mails were only sent to admins as well.
Is there a limit for “New Topic Email Addresses” (is it only meant to be for admins and few important persons) or could the problem be caused by our plugin “Post SMTP” which sends the mails? Settings were no changed.
Wordpress Version 6.1.1
BuddyPress Version 10.6.0
(A link to our site would make no sense cause it is just for members visible)

Best regards
Sebastian

[cassel]

I get a ton of notifications for replies to forum posts. Is there a way to select all those notifications and mark them as read OR delete them? I have thousands and clicking them one by one when deleting them is not effective.

Thank you.

[Anonymous User 18187419]

hi sonetian:

tested on default WP theme (Twenty Sixteen) and seems to work ok.
Added code using the Code Snippets plugin.
If it’s not working for you, then please ask for advice in the Forum on the BuddyDev website, they will assist you.

[Anonymous User 18187419]

Contact Andrea the dev. of BP Profile Search, his website has a good forum, he will advise.

dontdream.it

[t.schwarz]

Hi,

I have a custom email notification with a custom action (based on this article – https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/custom-emails/ ), and it’s working, but it doesn’t currently allow the user to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the custom email nortification.

I would like to add this custom notification as an option in the email notification settings form in the member profile, and I would then want to use those settings in the send-function of the email.

I’ve been searching the web and forums forever and couldn’t find much helpful information about how to achieve this.

It seems there is a registration mechanism, as there are plugins that offer to override user preferences, and there are functions that sound like they have something to do with this mechanism, like – bp_nouveau_member_email_notice_settings(). But I couldn’t find any document that actually helped me register the custom email notification or explain how to access that information prior to sending the mail.

Maybe someone here can help? Thanks a lot for any idea!

[hugo]

Heyo everybody!

I think the issue with buddypress is the same it always had, you had 2 choices, make a rock solid basic social framework (like wordpress is for blogs) and then expand with plugins, or make a solid all in one product that can be extended with plugins, the problem is that buddypress was never one or the other, it was always a mix of the basic, with lots of holes in the feature set with some extended stuff that no one needs.

Besides that the basic social network features NEVER realized to this day, ive tried buddypress several times and its always lacking the most basic features that social networks all have as well as most competing social network software always has, but in buddypress its, oh no use this broken plugin and of course that breaks or its also janky, like the whole image posting on buddypress, its ridiculous and a broken system, im sure it has improved a lot over the years, but my impression comparing with something like wordpress, is that buddypress is always launching optimizations and improvements and never new features and never good social features… like im not a super fan of wordpress blocks, to this day its pretty broken to me but at least they are trying new things and making improvements, buddypress is stuck on myspace era social networks but doesnt even deliver on those…

You should install buddypress and get old school facebook, thats it, member pages, a feed you can tweak, make connections, post stuff… can buddypress do this? kinda? maybe? if you install some plugins… almost…

And to that point and i know some people on this tread went about lots of features they want, but look at your competition, tiktok, discord, reddit, they are not facebook with 1 billion features, they are way more streamlined and sometimes very simplistic social networks, personal page feed, main page feed thats pretty much it, you dont need a million features to have a great social network, but you need solid basics with as many points of interaction possible (share, text, images, videos, like, subscribe, swipe left, star, heart, join, chat, message) and even today buddypress lacks… lacks so much on the very basic social stuff.

Today, a basic vanila forum soft is more social and expandable than buddypress, its not that buddypress hasnt moved with the times, its that it never moved in the first place and im your market, i run a lot of sites, a lot of communities, small and large, lots of it on wordpress, if buddypress was good, not even great i would use it and i would extend it…

Now regarding the original news about the low usage of buddypress, im impressed you had that many, and im kinda on the side of hummm after this many years of meh, the only way i would try and care again about buddypress is if you completely revamped the whole thing, doesnt need to be what im talking about here, but you need to start from scratch, because what you build clearly is not working, optimizing this or improving that feature wont change my mind, just look at the 10.0 release changelog, its like… the same as a good maintenance release… but i dont think you can, because there are still 100k using it… so you are stuck… i would say drop those people, give it a year or two of life support and just start over…

And i dont think social networks are going away anytime soon, sure a lot of it moved for mobile, but that doesnt mean you cant run your mobile social app on wordpress/buddypress, i do, most of my sites are if not available on mobile, they do have some mobile integration, so buddypress could have lots of value, and it could be much more, but as of today im pretty sure it wont amount to anything, im your target audience, buddypress has pretty much burned all its bridges with me, like a lot of users, I posted here and on wordpress.org the issues, the recommendations, or views of whats wrong, and there were no replies or replies like this plugin solves it, or that’s how it works, i remember one of those comments got me mad enough that on that day i restarted one of my sites from buddypress to elgg, freaking elgg its an atrocious social network software, but it was still better than buddypress, at least it had the most basic social features, like posting a picture, i really don’t see anything coming from this, i hope im wrong but, well… look where i am writing this… this is the main buddypress site, it should be a showcase of a social network on wordpress, but no, we are all writing on bbpress, the only really social part of your entire site.

[staion]

@rightanglecreative90 Please don’t highjack this thread with support request, you can post your requests here: https://buddypress.org/support/forum/how-to/

[Carsten Lund]

I can only agree, this forum seems abandoned even though there are +200.000 users of BP, it’s a shame that the forum is not more active.

[dmmclan]

I have a new Site
Wordpress 6.0.3
WPBakery 6.9.0
BuddyPress 10.4.0

I have 4 top level forums
only 3 will display, the 4th will show up in a menu, but not in the static display on the forums front page.
I have been through all settings but do not find anything that would effect this display

[Gomle]

Hello, and thank you for all the great work!

I have been using WordPress for about 15 years. I started my first online community in 2008.
I then chose not to use Buddypress, because at the time it was fine with a forum. Facebook hadn’t invented its activity wall yet, and people didn’t expect too much.

Now in 2022 I am in the process of re-launching this old online community again, after it has been dead for a number of years. (Mostly because Facebook arrived)
Meanwhile, I’ve been using WordPress & Woocommerce a lot – last couple of years – with Gutenberg and Blocks. An absolutely fantastic solution to a lot of problems!

If you use WordPress, it’s because you can do something yourself, but you can’t do everything.

I was therefore really looking forward to getting started with Buddypress in relation to the relaunch I’m about to start, but I was a little disappointed when I saw that it is not at all possible to use gutenberg to style the absolutely required pages. For example Register, Profile, Members, Activity etc.

I think many who now use WordPress are people who want to own their own information, have 100% control, and to shape something themselves out of their own creativity. They may have some knowledge, but not always enough to do programming, or to go deep into css and theme design etc. They don’t have time for that either.

Gutenberg blocks are therefore the perfect bridge between those who know a LITTLE, but need the help of software to do the rest, and who want to create something quickly.
I think there are many of us..

Wordpress scores highly here with blocks and easy solutions.

You can now use Kadence Theme + Gutenberg blocks to create almost anything you want.

I’m not a programmer myself, but I own a couple of companies. Much of the joy is being able to create something, see it being used, make it work – and I can do that by using blocks.

I’ve gone back and forth between Buddypress and Buddyboss, after I realized that Buddypress doesn’t yet have this functionality and tried to think what I really want.
With Buddyboss, I get a great theme, and it has all the functionality I need – but I’m completely locked into just that. Also, I’m not very impressed with companies that take credit for a product that was originally created by someone else. That is why I prefer to use Buddypress, and I also see Buddypress as the authority here.

I think you Buddypress developers will be able to deliver something more in the future, than what I expect from a company working with a product not originally made by themselves.

But still I see it difficult using Buddypress as it would turn out to be much more expensive, since I have to contact someone at upWork to do it the way I want it.
To many people it would be more logical to pay a couple of hundred dollars to be able to start tomorrow.

So my contribution to the discussion is perhaps not a secret: Make buddypress elements ready to use as blocks. And make sure to market it as a “point and click system with Gutenberg”

Additionally, specifically for my online community, I will need:
– Forums
– Private messaging
– Notification system
– Nice looking user profiles
– Speedy site
– Friends
– Follow friends
– Moderation system for both community and forums.

[sophiaknows]

Hello dear Buddypress team,
I need to make the groups directory show each group’s main forum url (/forum/), instead of its home (showing members) so, clicking the group link in the directory page , it would send directly to the forum.
I realize this may require more abilities than I have, but is it even possible? I searched through the Buddypress plugin files (specifically bp-groups/screens/directory.php, but I have to say I hit a wall. I was thinking of adding /forum/ somewhere and here it is :’)
The url concerned is https://freefullpdf.com/wordpress/groups/ (work in progress), with WordPress 6.0.2, Buddypress 10.4.0 and bbpress 2.6.9 (for the forum part).
Thank you very much for any response