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i did something like this in a real round about way using the Buddypress Followers plugin. I was able to modify to only show the Follow Button on profiles if the profile owned a blog — Note* this will only work where members are only able to have 1 blog. It will not work in case of an admin that has various blogs — I was also able to modify the plugin to only show Blog Posts in the Users “Following” tab activity stream. And finally I was able to put the Follow button in the user blog sidebar. I had to disable the Follow/Following buttons everywhere except for the member profile and their blog.

I like you all have been looking for something like this too. I like the idea of adding notifications for bp and email when someone you follow has added a blog post.

I have 1.2.8 and having the same issue, i took a look into pb-friends.php and the code seems correct…
global $bp;

if ( isset( $_GET ) )
bp_core_delete_notifications_for_user_by_type( $bp->loggedin_user->id, $bp->friends->id, ‘friendship_accepted’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_activity_screen_my_activity’, ‘friends_clear_friend_notifications’ );

@r-a-y @DJPaul?????

There’s a `do_action` hook you can use:
`xprofile_updated_profile` (located in /buddypress/bp-xprofile.php.)

You could potentially use the wp_mail() function to send an email to the admin with this hook.

Don’t know what a `do_action` is and how to make use of it?

If you’re familiar with a tiny bit of PHP, here’s some articles that will help:
http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/an-introduction-to-wordpress-action-hooks/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API#Actions

Here’s something quick you can try:

`function my_update_profile_send( $id ) {
$text = bp_core_get_user_domain( $id );
wp_mail( ‘YOUR ADMIN EMAIL ADDRESS’, ‘Profile Updated’, $text );
}
add_action( ‘xprofile_updated_profile’, ‘my_update_profile_send’ );`

Put the code snippet in your theme’s functions.php.

I am having this same issue. I get the email fine if the new user is created on the WordPress side, but if it is done through BuddyPress I do not get a notification. Any other ideas on this?

Thanks for this — a very good idea. Questions:

Does setting various email notifications to disabled just a) set a default for all users or b) make it impossible for them to enable them? If (b), does it hide the option in the user-facing UI?

@linkyou, add this to your theme’s css:

`
/* Inherit the default theme styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css );

/* Inherit the default theme adminbar styles */
@import url( ../../plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css );
`

And put this in your functions.php

`// Load the AJAX functions for the theme
require_once( TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/_inc/ajax.php’ );

// Load the javascript for the theme
wp_enqueue_script( ‘dtheme-ajax-js’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/_inc/global.js’, array( ‘jquery’ ) );

// Add words that we need to use in JS to the end of the page so they can be translated and still used.
$params = array(
‘my_favs’ => __( ‘My Favorites’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘accepted’ => __( ‘Accepted’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘rejected’ => __( ‘Rejected’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘show_all_comments’ => __( ‘Show all comments for this thread’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘show_all’ => __( ‘Show all’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘comments’ => __( ‘comments’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘close’ => __( ‘Close’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘mention_explain’ => sprintf( __( “%s is a unique identifier for %s that you can type into any message on this site. %s will be sent a notification and a link to your message any time you use it.”, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘@’ . bp_get_displayed_user_username(), bp_get_user_firstname( bp_get_displayed_user_fullname() ), bp_get_user_firstname( bp_get_displayed_user_fullname() ) )
);
wp_localize_script( ‘dtheme-ajax-js’, ‘BP_DTheme’, $params );`

Should put styles of the buddypress default theme into your theme. I would go into plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/default.css and remove all the contents of:

`/* > Global Elements

---

*/
/* > Admin Bar

---

*/
/* > Header

---

*/
/* > Navigation

---

*/
/* > Container

---

*/
/* > Sidebar

---

*/
/* > Content

---

*/`

@jordynn

To remove the notifications subnav item, add the following snippet to your functions.php file:

`function remove_notifications_subnav(){
global $bp;
if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->settings->slug ) {
bp_core_remove_subnav_item($bp->settings->slug, ‘notifications’);
}
}
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘remove_notifications_subnav’, 2 );`

This is a simple function taken from this post by @mariochampion
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-remove-and-add-items-in-bp_get_displayed_user_nav/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-71265

Hope this helps!

You need to override the new user admin email function:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_new_user_notification

Then you need to call on some BuddyPress functions to grab the xprofile data.

xprofile_get_field_data() (located in bp-xprofile.php) will help.

—

If all this is foreign to you, short answer is “it’s possible, but requires coding”

@acaps2007
What I’ve found finally:

(It’s based on this article:
http://easyoutsource.com/blog/how-to-code-a-custom-adminbar-in-buddypress/)

So if you just set your adminbar to be hidden in css rather than completely disable it in the wp-config.php, you could use to call the notification menu.

If you’ve completely disabled adminbar, then use the following code instead(it’s copied from bp-core-adminbar.php):

<?php
global $bp;

if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

echo '<li id="bp-adminbar-notifications-menu"><a>loggedin_user->domain . '">';
_e( 'Notifications', 'buddypress' );

if ( $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) { ?>
<span></span>
<?php
}

echo '</a>';
echo '<ul>';

if ( $notifications ) {
$counter = 0;
for ( $i = 0; $i < count($notifications); $i++ ) {
$alt = ( 0 == $counter % 2 ) ? ' class="alt"' : ''; ?>

<li></li>

<?php $counter++;
}
} else { ?>

<li><a href=&quot;loggedin_user->domain ?>"></a></li>

<?php
}

echo '</ul>';
echo '</li>';
?>

And as I have found out, the js effect (what you called the “mouse over” effect) is dealt automatically by bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/global.js

In my case, I’m building a child theme of bp-default, so I don’t have to worry about js, just copy and paste css codes from bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css and adjust selectors accordingly.

If you are not building a child theme of bp-default, then maybe you can try search in the global.js and make some copy and past.

Good luck !

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`function ray_bp_remove_settings() {
global $bp;

// removing the existing settings tab
bp_core_remove_nav_item( $bp->settings->slug );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘ray_bp_remove_settings’, 0 );

function ray_bp_readd_settings() {
global $bp;

// add a new settings tab to use notifications as default tab
bp_core_new_nav_item( array( ‘name’ => __(‘Settings’, ‘buddypress’), ‘slug’ => $bp->settings->slug, ‘position’ => 100, ‘show_for_displayed_user’ => false, ‘screen_function’ => ‘bp_core_screen_notification_settings’, ‘default_subnav_slug’ => ‘notifications’ ) );

// bug in bp_core_remove_subnav_item(), we have to hack the screen function so it displays the notifications screen when you land on /settings/
if ( $bp->current_component == $bp->settings->slug && $bp->current_action == ‘general’ )
add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_core_screen_notification_settings’, 3 );

// add back the subnav notifications tab
$settings_link = $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->settings->slug . ‘/’;

bp_core_new_subnav_item( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Notifications’, ‘buddypress’ ), ‘slug’ => ‘notifications’, ‘parent_url’ => $settings_link, ‘parent_slug’ => $bp->settings->slug, ‘screen_function’ => ‘bp_core_screen_notification_settings’, ‘position’ => 20, ‘user_has_access’ => bp_is_my_profile() ) );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘ray_bp_readd_settings’ );`

Tested lightly. Encountered a few bugs, but this will work…

— if you want just a nav item for <i>inbox messages</i>, than a simple slug would be easy to add.

If you want the entire notification tab there… same type of thing as before,

function bp_adminbar_notifications_menu() {
global $bp;

if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

echo '<li id="bp-adminbar-notifications-menu"><a>loggedin_user->domain . '">';
_e( 'Notifications', 'buddypress' );

if ( $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) { ?>
<span></span>
<?php

The next thing I’d do is deactivate BuddyPress to see if you’re still not getting new user notifications. If you can’t do this on your live site maybe create a test install in a subdirectory. This would help isolate whether it’s a BP or WP thing. You might want to check out the WordPress forums, too – https://wordpress.org/search/new+user+notification?forums=1

Did you ever get these new user notifications? Or is it something that just started happening recently? Maybe it’s a plugin or customization issue specific to your setup.

hi Avi M,

I am having the same problem. Also with Bluehost and initially I had a problem with activation e-mails. Nothing was sent and the new user could not activate the account as there were no e-mail of notification. Then I was advised to set up an e-mail account with them and still the problem persisted. After that I had install the Configure SMTP plugin which solved the activation e-mail problem only. Still there are no e-mails/notifications being sent sitewide. Can not figure out what I should do.
Can you tell me if you installed any additional plugin for this at all? How did you set up an e-mail address from Bluehost. Before I set an e-mail address and started using the Configure SMTP plugin, the general @box…bluhost.com e-mail was used which apparently was the default address.

Please share with us what you have done with bluehost.
thanks in advance.