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@johnjamesjacoby; Just a quick note, as I’m off out for a while. I noticed in the previous version of BP that the ‘?’ symbol on the profile age next to the avatar was reporting names wrongly. I hacked it in core, but now it’s back in the new version.

Eg., with a user ‘fred’, when logged in as fred the message is correct. But if I’m logged in as ‘admin’ I get this when looking at fred’s profile (notice ‘admin’ in second sentence);

@ fred is a unique identifier for admin that you can type into any message on this site. admin will be sent a notification and a link to your message any time you use it.

When I hacked it I removed the extra names, as they’re not required;

@ fred is a unique identifier for this person that you can type into any message. He/she will be sent a notification and a link to your message when you do this.

Btw, the correct username is @apeatling, not @andy (that poor guy is getting overloaded with a bunch of non-relevant notifications. )

Lots of previous threads for this. Even a recent one with a Trac ticket to make it so it doesn’t require lowercase:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/register-username-with-uppercase/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/allowing-users-to-type-in-uppercase-letters-for-the-username/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/username-starts-from-uppercase-letter/

I’m not sure if the lowercase does matter in other sections. You might add the question to the Trac ticket and see if the core developers can answer. This is something I’d like to fix too. The other solution I’ve considered is to have some javascript function that will check the username to make sure 1. it’s available and 2. that it’s lowercase and 3. Any other validation. At least a notification before they click submit would be sufficient.

Why not just leave it on the notification page? So far, you haven’t removed the functionality. You’ve just removed the navigation to see some of that functionality. So, if someone does the @username they’re going to get a notification unless you disable that also. Plus, not many people are going to look at the notifications page anyway;-)

To your question, I think you would have to remove the action and write another function that doesn’t display the mentions settings. You’d just need to test what happens when save is clicked and that setting isn’t passed. Maybe you pass it as a hidden variable or something.

Hey Simon,
Are you mentioning a user in a group forum?

Someone can correct me if I am wrong but you won’t receive a notification email or note in the user bar if that is the case. You will only receive an email if someone users your username @mention in a status update that then hits the activity stream.

Click on settings in your BP profile and look at notifications. It will list everything you get an email for. @mentions in forums isn’t one. I imagine if it was your inbox would be full of messages if you participate in a busy forum.

Simply click on the @mentions link in your BP profile when you first login to get upto speed with @mentions.

As I say, I’m sure a mod will correct me if I am wrong but you don’t get an email or notification in each instance when using @mentions.
Hope this helps mate,
Ross

If you put it in functions.php you’ll probably need to do something like this:
function auto_login_bp() {
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);
}

add_filter( ‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’, ‘auto_login_bp’ );

Although, even then it might not know the $user_id variable. So, you might have to add the code in my original post to the bp-auto-activate-user-and-blog plugin on line 170 or so. Although, that will cause the issues I mentioned above I think.

@mazen I just figured out the code to make it work on WP. I’ll add it to my plugin above soon. Here’s the code:
//Automatically log the user in
$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_signon’, $user_info->user_login);

I tried it a little with WPMU. It kind of works, but there’s some sequencing that needs to happen better. Cause it logs me in, but not before the login box appears in the sidebar. So, it looks like you’re not logged in, but you are. Which is weird, because it’s not happening to me on WP. Although, it’s likely cause on WP I’m hooking to bp_core_signup_user and in WPMU it hooks to wpmu_signup_user_notification.

Who’s for a unified signup process (WPMU and WP) now that they’re one?

Boone there is this plugin which is really for dev setups where passing emails through the dev network is awkward so allows you to register a user normally then go into backend and manually approve using the activation id

WPMU Manual Member Approve:
http://mattkern.com/wpmu-manually-approve-new-members-on-local-install/

Would you believe though I just tried to run it on my local site and it’s broken! at least it’s throwing an undefined function error bp_page_title()

Haven’t time to look into that but it doesn’t look to much of an issue.

Of course this doesn’t get round the issue of letting those users know they have been activated and not really sure one wants to simply activate a bunch of accounts when the users are never going to know about it.

Of course once activated and once you have established you are sending emails correctly you might be able to work some means of adding everyone to a group and posting an update to that group that will send a notification out to email addresses?

An quick update. The new version should not be used on live sites because we are currently re-doing the data structure, so any groups that users join now, they will have to re-join later.

About the follow topic link on the topic page, I forgot to put in the read me the instructions for adding the proper action hook into the buddypress code. I’ve added the request to trac, so it should eventually be in BP core.

Here you can see what needs to be added: https://trac.buddypress.org/attachment/ticket/2129/2129_forum_topic.diff
really it is just ` ` that needs to be added to bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum/topic.php before `

Hey mates, I’ve been trying to work this out as well.

Been trying Andy’s External Blogs RSS and Group Twitter Plugins

with WPmu 2.9.2

They work well within the Groups,

But they seem to have this feature of updating the Group Activity Feed every time a user visits the group.

So I get double / multiple posts.

+ with the Group Notifications Plugin, I get multiple emails

every time someone visits the group and refreshes the feed.

Any Ideas how I could at least shut off the refresh every time someone visits the group.

If this is manageable, they’re both great and very useful plugins.

Please let me know your thoughts and solutions.

– Jeff –

http://www.Vybee.com

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I didn’t try yet the” This is a notice to all users” yet, but I thought that that would send an email notifications to all the users (if they have email notifications on).

Selecting that checkbox, does it send only a site notification instead? I mean when users log in? No mail?

This is now officially a “Potential Future BuddyPress Feature” for BP 1.4+ (ie, after BP 1.3, which looks to be essentially the WP 3.0 compatibility release). Here is the short list:

A quick blog post form via the theme. (try plugin: BuddyPress QuickPress)

Privacy controls (try plugin: bp-authz)

Global content tagging

Inappropriate content flagging

Bulk accept/reject friendship requests

Grouping of similar activity stream items

Ability to block all communication from a user

Option to receive forum post notifications via email

Message file attachments

Structured profile fields (templates for address / phone number)

Profile field specific searching (try plugin: BP Member Filter)

AJAX live updating of site wide activity stream

Hey Erich,

That plugin you listed is considered “deprecated” by Boone.

He’s now working with David on the Group Activity Stream subscription plugin.

I am also very interested i this functionality. The ideal for me would be a sidebar widget with something like “suggested friends” or “people with similar interests” that lists a few links to people who’s profile info is similar. A weekly email notification of these people’s profiles would also be fantastic.

This has same great implications because it encourages users to interact with people they don’t know and they are (might be?) more likely to do so because of their self-described similarities.

for the whats new text u can try,

<?php if (is_user_logged_in() ) { //only logged in user can view this ?>

//place content here

<?php } ?>

u can use that to show something only to logged in users and:

<?php if (!is_user_logged_in() ) { //only non-logged in user can view this ?>

//place content here

<?php } ?>

to show something only to users who are not logged in

if u are using a text widget try use the widget logic plugin also

why not use the bp-notifications widget plugin and create a widget area where you would like in your template..

check your code for the login form because iv tried this and it goes once a user is logged in..

try this:

<?php if (!is_user_logged_in() ) { //only non-logged in user can view this ?>

<form name=”login-form” id=”login-form” class=”standard-form” action=”<?php echo site_url( ‘wp-login.php’, ‘login’ ) ?>” method=”post”>

<div style=”font-weight:bold; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;”><label>

<input type=”text” name=”log” id=”userbar_user_login” class=”input” value=”<?php echo attribute_escape(stripslashes($user_login)); ?>” /></label></div>

<label><?php _e( ‘Password’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?>

<input type=”password” name=”pwd” id=”userbar_user_pass” class=”input” value=”” /></label>

<p class=”forgetmenot”><label ><input name=”rememberme” type=”checkbox” id=”userbar_rememberme” value=”forever” /> <?php _e( ‘Remember Me’, ‘buddypress’ ) ?></label></p>

<input type=”submit” title=”Login” name=”wp-submit” id=”userbar_wp-submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Login’); ?>” tabindex=”100″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”redirect_to” value=”<?php bp_root_domain() ?>” />

<input type=”hidden” name=”testcookie” value=”1″ />

</form>

<?php } ?>