BuddyPress.org

1) users can edit their own profile link is below the profile tab
2) post this topic in the followers plugin forum
3) when you create a user it bypasses the WordPress activation sequence. You will need to create a custom solution. An easy way is to use the BuddyPress notification system and send a site wide message telling all users to change their password.

Go to admin dashboard menu BuddyPress > Components > Account Settings – should be checked to avoid errors in the meantime – Allow your users to modify their account and notification settings directly from within their profiles.

This has been fixed in trunk as a solution to a different issue but involving bp_get_settings_slug as well.

Of course, just looking at things from the hosting side of things.

If you create 300+ accounts for use as ‘products’ and any of them are even slightly active, notifications will be generated which will in turn send e-mail to the fake e-mail address. Unless the web host in question has it set to blackhole all failed e-mail attempts, there’s going to be quite a backlog in the mail queue.

Using the plugin to allow multiple e-mail addresses for a specific @domain.ext would allow the user to use the same e-mail for all accounts and simply receive the mail instead of loading up the mail queue. If the mail queue is setup to simply drop the mail after one attempt, it may not be that big of a deal, but most are not and continue to try for 24-48 hours.

Hi

Just saw this today. I would suggest (and I am no legal expert so you would have to get these opinions confirmed by an appropriate person/organisation) that the limits to the application of the DPA depend very much on both the purpose of your site, the nature of the personal information you are gathering and the subsequent purposes to which you will put the data.

Classically I understand that if you were to request core personal demographic data (i.e. age, dob, income rations and all that malarkey) for a “Social Connections” site then you would need to ensure the elements of both your security and PURPOSE are clear to the users.

Data Protection is largely concerned with the false gathering and/or use of data i.e. asking for it for one purpose and using it for another – selling it on to a third party without notification. Essentially it aims to protect people from having their personal information willfully (or negligibly I think) shared with third parties.

So essentially you’d need to be clear for WHAT purpose you were gathering the information, what it would be used for, who it would intentionally be shared with and crucially, that the user provides the information of their own free will in clear knowledge of the above.

You also need to have a robust procedure in place for gathering, securing and deleting personal information.

That said, I do not think that individual websites have to register with the DPA unless certain thresh holds are met which I am unaware of. If you are seriously concerned that you might need to engage more fully with the DPA then, check out the following websites at:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/
http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection.aspx (Good publications here)
and
http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electronic_communications.aspx

There was also some recent EU stuff on cookies used on websites which might be worth digging into.

Hope that helps!

First thanks to Boone Gorges for the direction on how to get started with this. And for those looking for a complete answer. Add this code (or similar) to your Theme functions.php file (my apologies if there is a better way to paste code…first time posting here):

function set_default_notifications($user_id, $key, $user) {
$valueyes = 'yes';
$valueno = 'no';

$new_messages = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_messages_new_message' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $new_messages, $valueyes );

$new_notices = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_messages_new_notice' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $new_notices, $valueno );

$group_invite = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_groups_invite' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $group_invite, $valueyes );

$group_update = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_groups_group_updated' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $group_update, $valueno );

$group_promo = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_groups_admin_promotion' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $group_promo, $valueyes );

$group_request = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_groups_membership_request' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $group_request, $valueyes );

$mention = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_activity_new_mention' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $mention, $valueyes );

$reply = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_activity_new_reply' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $reply, $valueyes );

$send_requests = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_friends_friendship_request' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $send_requests, $valueyes );

$accept_requests = bp_get_user_meta_key('notification_friends_friendship_accepted' );
bp_update_user_meta( $user_id, $accept_requests, $valueno );
do_action( 'bp_core_notification_settings_after_save' );

}
add_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'set_default_notifications', 10, 3);

Invite Anyone does have email functionality, but one of it’s key features is exactly what you are looking for. As the admin of a group (hidden or otherwise), you will see an invite members button that allows you to comb through and checkmark a list of users, or start typing their username in an autocomplete textfield to send invitations. Users receive a notification when they have been invited.

I use this with Friends turned off (I use BP-Followers instead)

I tried xprofile_get_field_data() but it didn’t work, maybe I’m just too dumb..

So I tried it using MySQL, here is my function wp_new_user_notification, I edit wp-includes/pluggable.php

function wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $plaintext_pass = ”) {
$user = new WP_User($user_id);

$user_login = stripslashes($user->user_login);
$user_email = stripslashes($user->user_email);
$buddypress_fields = $user_id;

// The blogname option is escaped with esc_html on the way into the database in sanitize_option
// we want to reverse this for the plain text arena of emails.
$blogname = wp_specialchars_decode(get_option(‘blogname’), ENT_QUOTES);

$message = sprintf(__(‘New user registration on your site %s:’), $blogname) . “rnrn”;
$message .= sprintf(__(‘Username: %s’), $user_login) . “rnrn”;
$message .= sprintf(__(‘E-mail: %s’), $user_email) . “rnrn”;

// Add Custom Fields from buddypress table to admin email – Start

$buddypress_result_ = mysql_query(“SELECT
wp_bp_xprofile_fields.name,
wp_bp_xprofile_data.value
FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields, wp_bp_xprofile_data
WHERE
wp_bp_xprofile_data.user_id = $user_id
AND
wp_bp_xprofile_fields.id = wp_bp_xprofile_data.field_id
ORDER BY
wp_bp_xprofile_data.field_id”);

while($buddypress_row = mysql_fetch_array($buddypress_result_))
{
$fields = $buddypress_row;
$fields_value = $buddypress_row;
$message .= $fields . “: rn”;
$message .= $fields_value . “rnrn”;
}

// Add Custom Fields from buddypress table to admin email – End

@wp_mail(get_option(‘admin_email’), sprintf(__(‘[%s] New User Registration’), $blogname), $message);

if ( empty($plaintext_pass) )
return;

$message = sprintf(__(‘Username: %s’), $user_login) . “rn”;
$message .= sprintf(__(‘Password: %s’), $plaintext_pass) . “rn”;
$message .= wp_login_url() . “rn”;

wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__(‘[%s] Your username and password’), $blogname), $message);

}

Hey folks, I’m lost here. I have Fishbook installed with BuddyPress, and the only time I can see the admin bar (whatever menu name you want to give it, the one with My Account, Dashboard & Notifications) only shows up when I scroll down.

preview: http://myfilmnetwork.com/sample-page/
username: mfn
password: future

Currently, 0 plugins installed, I reinstalled WordPress, then BuddyPress then Fishbook, and the issue remains. I did the trick of moving the header.php file from the BP Default folder into the Fishbook folder (by the way the above file names are no longer correct since BP 1.5) but with or without the header file, the issue remains. I remember testing out BP several months ago, and I didn’t have this menu problem with Fishbook then. I vaguely remember having to install a plugin to customize the menu buttons, specifically for Fishbook, but I can no longer find that plugin.

Let me know your thoughts, thanks a lot.