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Awesome, a post that isn’t years old that I may actually be able to help!

In functions.php add the following function:

function cg_current_user_notification_count() {
    $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user(bp_loggedin_user_id(), 'object');
    $count = !empty($notifications) ? count($notifications) : 0;

    return $count;
}

In frontend-noajax.inc.php (you can find this in plugins/bp-direct-menus/inc) add the following code around line 150 (near where all the counts are initialized):

$notifcount = cg_current_user_notification_count();
$item->title = str_ireplace("%notificationcount%", $notifcount, $item->title);
$item->title = str_ireplace("%(notificationcount)%", ($notifcount > 0) ? '('.$notifcount.')' : '', $item->title);

Hope that helps you, or if you already figured it out, helps somebody else.

Cheers,
Gabe

BP 1.9+

function custom_notification_menu_tabs(){
	global $bp;
	if ( bp_is_user() && bp_user_has_access() ) {
		$count    = bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_displayed_user_id() );
		$class    = ( 0 === $count ) ? 'no-count' : 'count';
		$bp->bp_nav['notifications']['name'] = sprintf( __( 'Alerts <span class="%s">%s</span>', 'buddypress' ), esc_attr( $class ), number_format_i18n( $count ) );
	} 

}
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'custom_notification_menu_tabs', 201);

Looks like 3 of them are from the same topic (15959). Go into the db and do a search on the activity table for secondary_item_id = 15959. That will give you a link to the topic. Go to it and 1: see if it exists still (probably does) and 2: see if there is something weird about it.

OH. Is bbpress up to date? Maybe there is a bbpress plugin causing issues?

I just tested this on my site. I created a topic as one user. I logged in as another and replied to the top. Notification was sent… no problem. I logged in as administrator and deleted the topic completely. The notification title still showed up, so I doubt deletions are your issue.

Sorry that I’m grabbing at straws. It would help if I was having this problem (glad I’m not) 🙂

That sounds like a better approach than mine. I just have a rather crude looking button which marks as read all unread notifications.

bp_notifications_mark_notifications_by_type is the function I’m using to do the marking. For example:

if ( bp_is_active( 'notifications' ) ) {
    bp_notifications_mark_notifications_by_type( bp_loggedin_user_id(), buddypress()->messages->id, 'new_message' );
    bp_notifications_mark_notifications_by_type( bp_loggedin_user_id(), buddypress()->activity->id, 'new_at_mention' );
}

Hi @transmission,

this is not the solution, but an example for your inspiration.
The below shows how the notification counter can be moved/implemented on the toolbar.

/* moving the notification counter from right to left */
remove_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'bp_members_admin_bar_notifications_menu', 90 );
function bpfr_notification_ontheleft() {
	global $wp_admin_bar;
	
	if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
	return false;
	
	$notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id(), 'object' );
	$count         = !empty( $notifications ) ? count( $notifications ) : 0;
	$alert_class   = (int) $count > 0 ? 'pending-count alert' : 'count no-alert';
	$menu_title    = '<span id="ab-pending-notifications" class="' . $alert_class . '">' . $count . '</span>';
	
	// Add the top-level Notifications button
	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
 /*'parent'    => 'top-secondary',*/  // this is the original position
	'id'        => 'bp-notifications',
	'title'     => $menu_title,
	'href'      => bp_loggedin_user_domain(),
	) );
	
	if ( !empty( $notifications ) ) {
		foreach ( (array) $notifications as $notification ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
			'parent' => 'bp-notifications',
			'id'     => 'notification-' . $notification->id,
			'title'  => $notification->content,
			'href'   => $notification->href
			) );
		}
	} else {
		$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
		'parent' => 'bp-notifications',
		'id'     => 'no-notifications',
		'title'  => __( 'No new notifications', 'buddypress' ),
		'href'   => bp_loggedin_user_domain()
		) );
	}
	
	return;
}
add_action( 'admin_bar_menu', 'bpfr_notification_ontheleft',30);
/* other position # are 10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 */

In your case, you also have to check this Codex page. And possibly do some research here.

Hi @oken

In BP 1.9 + you can now do

echo bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );

@xwafflecakes since BP 1.9, you should have dedicated notifications pages at members/username/notifications/ and members/username/notifications/read/

Do these help?

Regarding the notifications ‘bubble’ in the admin bar – you can output the number of notifications a user has like this

echo bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );

Ok, sorry, I didn’t read the whole topic !

Here is the solution for those who still have this double display on their notification TAB :

– Check that you do have Buddypress 1.9.1
– Seek in your child theme the file : /members/single/home.php
– Copy this code in it (say line 70 or close, you will see the same kind of code) :

elseif ( bp_is_user_notifications() ) : 
 	locate_template( array( 'members/single/notifications.php' ), true ); 
 

It does work, whatever your /settings/notification.php is customized.
Enjoy.

Alain

Team, please help! where should I add the following code in home.php file? what do you mean about the end of loop? Thank you!
elseif ( bp_is_user_notifications() ) :
bp_get_template_part( ‘members/single/notifications’ );

here is home.php
———–
<div id=”item-body”>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_member_body’ );

if ( bp_is_user_activity() || !bp_current_component() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/activity.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_blogs() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/blogs.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_friends() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/friends.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_groups() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/groups.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_messages() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/messages.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_profile() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/profile.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_forums() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/forums.php’ ), true );

elseif ( bp_is_user_settings() ) :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/settings.php’ ), true );

// If nothing sticks, load a generic template
else :
locate_template( array( ‘members/single/plugins.php’ ), true );

endif;

do_action( ‘bp_after_member_body’ ); ?>

</div><!– #item-body –>

@macpresss

Looks solid to me. If you wanted to condense the code into two lines you could use the logical operator &&

e.g.

if ( bp_has_notifications( 'user_id=' . bp_loggedin_user_id() ) && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    // ... here I've got the loop stuff ...
}

You could also append this bit which will let you output something to logged in users having no notifications:

else {
    // ... no notifications ...
}

Thanks @mercime for your quick answer.
But i’m a french novice and i’m not understanding very well what to do in the https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5299 topic.

Should I install thos patches:
5299.01.patch​ and 5299.02.patch​

or should I follow indications in lastest johnjamesjacoby’s comment:
In 7689:
Notifications:
Add templates and parts for bp-default theme. Also modify home.php to include notifications.php.

or should I do the both ?

Sorry for asking but no access to notfications is important for my users 😉
Alos do you have an idea when the next update will be released ?
Thanks.

@_dorsvenabili when adding custom functions to functions.php it might be a good idea to add a prefix to all of your function names. As you can see buddyboss has done it with buddyboss_childtheme_.

You could have used dorsvenabili_core_get_notifications_for_user or my_core_get_notifications_for_user

Saves conflicts from happening 🙂

You would need to add some sort of css to style the output

<?php 
    if ( $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) {

        if ( $notifications ) {
            echo '<div id="notifications-header"><ul>';
            for ( $i = 0; $i < count($notifications); $i++ ) {
                $badge = count($notifications);
                echo '<li>'.$notifications[$i].'</li>';
            }
            echo '</ul></div>';
            echo '<span id="notifications-badge">'.$badge.'</span>';
        }

    } 
?>

@pjbursnall yeah that code replicates the notification element only (the only part that is somewhat confusing to replicate) you place the code in the plugins directory in bp-custom.php you may have to create the file yourself.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9953482/how-to-make-a-pure-css-based-dropdown-menu – shows you how to create a drop down menu, https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo get the current users info so you can create links to their profile pages, etc.

Just a note, to add the notifcations to your custom bar your code will look something like <li><?php bp_notification_badge(); ?></li>

@pjbursnall Personally I think buddypress should disable admin access anyway as most users don’t want it but that is neither here nor there. Recreating the admin bar is pretty easy, you need to know some css, html and a few bp functions to get the current users details like username etc, as for the notifications @modemlooper or @mercime posted this a while back (my apologies for not remembering which).

function bp_notification_badge() {
	if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	global $current_user;
	get_currentuserinfo();
			$notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
				if ( empty($notifications)) {
				echo '<li class="li-first" id="li-first-right"><a href="' . get_home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '"><span class="circle-zero">0</span></a><ul class="second-level" id="second-level-right"><li class="li-second"><a href="' . get_home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '">No new notifications!</a></li></ul></li>';
				} else {
						echo '<ul class="second-level" id="second-level-right">';
					$counter = 0;
						for ( $i = 0; $i < count($notifications); $i++ ) {
						$badge = count($notifications);
						echo '<li class="li-third">'.$notifications[$i].'</li>';		
						}
				echo '</ul>';
				echo '<a href="' . get_home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '"><span class="circle-badge">'.$badge.'</span></a>';
			}
	}
}

As for actually disabling the admin bar + backend that can be done with a plugin, plenty of them just google.

I activated Twenty Thirteen theme and all appears to work ok EXCEPT after you perform different tasks within members, then at any type Click “All Members” it says “Sorry none found…” One time it displayed correctly with the 2 people that were actual members of the system — me and my 1 friend. That’s the last time I saw that display, except when you choose to sort by Last Active (the 2 appeared as active members). When I click “All Memebers” from here, it returns the 2 people in the member system (not users of the blog).

When I then clicked on Alphabetical display, it again pulled Most (not all) Users of the blog again with “Add Friend” buttons.
From there cilcking on the top menu tab “Members” returns the same thing again – the list of Most (not all) blog users with buttons.
Now, clicking on All Members” returns the same thing again – the list of Most (not all) blog users with buttons.

Now to My Friends, and the one friend I chose and accepted shows. Notification (a number) showed up next to my Display Name in the Dashboard – as did the message when it arrived. It emailed these notices as well. All Cool!

If this is all normal behavior, then it’s all the problem of an OLD THEME.

Thank you for looking this over. Knowing what reality should be is as important as what is happening in real time.

🙂

Thanks for pasting, @carco

Strangewise the issue remains, even with your entire script.
Still no entries for user_id in db
(which then might cause, that no notifs appear, probably?)
but “users-who-like” works again^^