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Yeah, it’s a bit of a change, isn’t it?

My strategy for making the transition easier for my users is two-fold:

1) Make the profile the default view for users (rather than activity), by adding

define( 'BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', $bp->default_component = 'profile' );

to wp-config.php

2) Adding the @mentions profile tab, plus some explanatory text, to the members/single/home.php template in my child theme. Thus, right below

<?php locate_template( array( 'members/single/profile.php' ), true ) ?>

I’m adding

<h4><?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>'s mentions</h4>

<p>Whenever anyone posts an update on this site containing <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>'s handle (<strong>@<?php bp_displayed_user_username() ?></strong>), it shows up as a public message below.</p>



<p>Want to leave your own public message for <?php bp_displayed_user_fullname(); ?>?



<div class="generic-button" id="post-mention" >

<a href="<?php bp_send_public_message_link() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Mention this user in a new public message, this will send the user a notification to get their attention.', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php _e( 'Mention this User', 'buddypress' ) ?></a>

</div>

followed by the activity loop, taken right from bp-default/activity/activity-loop.php, but with the following relevant modification: the arguments for bp_has_activities are

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'scope=mentions' ) ) : ?>

(You’ll have to do some styling to make it look right, but you get the idea.)

It’s not an exact duplication of the Wire – I’ve tried to embrace the new @mention stuff, while still capturing the “leave a note for me” spirit of the Wire.

The irrationalgames.com example is exactly what I was thinking of. It seems to me that sites that incorporate some kind of graphic badge into their achievements systems get far more adoption than sites that do it with just text/email notifications. FourSquare, Hollrr, etc

I like @modemlooper’s idea to put the badges under a profile tab. I would also love to come up with a way to tap into this for my blog themes — so that users who have achieved different achievements would have those badges displayed with their avatar (a kind of way to display their authority and credibility).

I assume you are having issues getting the count of unread notifications a user has. Try this:

if ( $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) { ?>

<span><?php echo count($notifications) ?></span>

<?php

}

@r-a-y

– I ticked the Send e-mail via GMail

– SMTP host was then automatically set as smtp.gmail.com

– port set automatically to 465

– Use SMTPAUTH ticked

– Username and passwd filled in.

It does not work. I looked at the link you provided and tried to untick the “send e-mail via Gmail”, did not help…

Unfortunately I have the same problem as the two of you. I am running fresh installations – newest WPMU and BP.

It was running all fine.

Now I (admin) get no email notifications at all – users do not receive any either. The activation emails are not being sent. The WPMU ones are not sent out either.

I am using a catch-all email on my email host to be able to sign up with different emails on the same domain.

First thing I was thinking was whether BP or WP was thinking all this signup from the same email domain was SPAM and therefore closing down signups from my IP or whatever.

I have searched for answers and found this: https://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/13039

Apparently some hosts do not allow automated emails to be sent out.

(However, if my host do not allow this, how come it worked fine for two weeks?)

Only plugin I have installed is the cets-blog-defaults. I have tried to deactivate it, but it does not help.

This is really frustrating

ok, I have identified the culprit – the install giving me problems is one that I did the one-step install from my hosting admin that uses SimpleScript. I just did another test install manually, and everything works as it should.

but this creates a new problem: I have a live site w/ over 350 users, and that too was originally installed last September w/ SimpleScript. Those initial users were able to sign up, but somewhere along the way, that process broke.

So the question is this:

Can I do a manual re-install of WPMU over an existing install from SimpleScript? is it just a matter of uploading/over-writing the WPMU files? I’ll replicate my live site & database in a test directory, disable all plugins, and give it a whirl, and post my results here.

oh, btw, incase you’re wondering, I’m hosting on BlueHost. Their supprt is usually really good until it comes to WP and SimpleScript stuff, even though they’ve integrated it into their control panel.

This is more of a teaser than an explanation

ah yes, i tend to post in quick theory

I don’t know if it would work but essentially;

you would need to write your own action function that hooks on bp_activity_posted_update that mimics the logic of bp_activity_at_message_notification (where it looks for an username match in the content – then on the match issue the notification. have to figure out a way to delete the notification though)

function bp_core_add_notification( $item_id, $user_id, $component_name, $component_action, $secondary_item_id = false, $date_notified = false ) { (located in bp-core-notifications.php)

I wouldn’t know what the proper component name/type in this case would be

i did submit a trac ticket enhancement for this though

Just a little WARNING:

Do NOT use

“External Group Blogs” together with

“Group activity stream subscription”

They don’t like each other.

Your users will be spammed with dozens of Emails a couple times a day.

I think this is why the notifications plugin just picks up everything and the “external groups” fetches articles a couple times. Averytime stuff gets fetched, notifications for all the items (not just the new ones) gets sended out. So far my guess.

I wrote the plugin-creators about it. hopefully they find a solution.

BUT the plugins for themselves are GREAT!!! THX!

Sounds very interesting I would have no problem with you getting involved in improving it. I’ll drop you a message on namoo as it’s easier to keep track of things there (for me, at least) and we can discuss things further. I’m ultra busy tonight though, so it’ll probably be sometime over the weekend

Very interesting thread. Myself, I’m very interested in helping further develop the group to email functionality. Having notifications in the buddybar would be a bonus.

My question is, does anyone have an idea when email notifications will be in core? I thought it was planned for 1.3, but lots is planned for 1.3 and I see the roadmap does not include email notifications.

If it’s not planned for a while, then I’d like to help further refine the group activity stream subscription plugin. I need digest support as well I think I can improve the usability a bit. (@aekeron) any thoughts on any of this?

@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)

Yes – i think a mail is enough for groups… (digests will be awesome! )

yep! so far it works pretty darn well.. For certain social networks it imports photos and basic info.. I’ve integrated it with my custom login widget and so far I haven’t seen any major problems besides not storing the user his email, which makes receiving updates/notifications through email impossible… I need to think of a way to solve that problem..

I say it again: GREAT plugin – thanks alot!!!

A couple suggestions/questions:

1. Do I get it right: I can set the default in the backend, but eyery user (not the group admin) sets/changes the notification for themselves?

2. Forum-Notification: I don’t want forums activated on my site, but I cannot get it off (no CSS classes for display:none). It is also not dynamically I guess, for I disabled forums in the backend, but still shows forum-notifications… Any solution to this?

3. What exactly means “added something new to the group”? Is that comments? Is that another plugin like gallery, group-documents etc?

4. Member must be registered for option: When I type 0 in the field, that would mean no delay, right?

5. “You can also specify a minimum gap in time between updates regarding group wiki page edits.” This sentence does not make sense to all the users who haven’t wikis installed. It’s hardcoded. Any solution to get rid of it?

6. Last but not least: Is it translatable??? I really would love to do that for german (at least try it as my first ) – could you provide a POT-File?

Thanks for all the work. This is REALLY IMPORTANT for us and well/simple made!

Ps: This is my test-install-site: http://wp.graphic-studio.ch/network – there I am testing your plugin

D – I was getting errors when I tried using the plugin the latest 1.2. Had to do with call to undeclared function get_group_member_ids in order to populate $user_ids. I commented it out and put in the following instead:

$thegroup = BP_Groups_Member::get_all_for_group( $group->id, false, false, false, true );

$user_ids = array();

foreach ( $thegroup['members'] as $member ) {

$user_ids[] = $member->user_id;

}

and it seems to be working now. Am I missing something?

@snark didn’t realize you are single user WP so no activation email

@snark You forgot to mention the Activation email. Is your new user not receiving one? I just did a test registration and immediately received an email. While I agree with @Peter that plain text isn’t so bad but I also think it’s not so necessary to send the password the person literally just chose. The always have the Forgot Password link if they forgo it seconds after the fact. No real need as I see it to add a filter.

Here’s the rationale behind disabling the welcome email as quoted in bp-core-activation.php:

* Since the user now chooses their password, sending it over clear-text to an email address is no longer necessary. It’s also a terrible idea security wise.

I’m going to sway a little to Peter’s side and say that BP should leave this option to the site admins. I actually think there should be more options for the administrator on a fresh install.