Well, it looks like messaging and mentions default to the user who made the most recent blog post unless you have just visited other user’s profiles in which case it changes to the previous user you visited, not the one whose page you are on. I’ve deactivated all the plugins I installed recently and that doesn’t change anything.
Ok, I think I figured out that the user that mentions and private messages gets stuck on is the the user who wrote the most recent blog post. I checked in multiple browsers and they were all stuck on that user and then when another user submitted a new blog post, they got stuck on that user.
I’m pretty sure this is related to the problem I’m having that I posted here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/possible-bug-private-messages-being-sent-to-multiple-users/. For me it’s not stuck on one specific user, but it gets stuck on the user whose profile you just visited. I just installed BP a few weeks ago on a brand new installation of WP 2.9.2, so I have no way of rolling back to a previous version of the database. Is there any other possible solution to this problem? My site now has 500 registered users and it’s becoming a very big issue and I don’t know what to do about it.
BP-Gallery features
* User Galleries
o Unlimited Gallery
o Each gallery can have any number of media(Photos/audio/videos)
* Group Galleries
o Unlimited Gallery
o Any Member of group can upload
o Only group Admins can create Gallery
* Multiple types of media Supported
o Photo Gallery
o Audio gallery
o Video gallery
o Can be extended with few code to support any time of media you want
* Privacy
o Fine grained Privacy control for gallery/media
o User gallery/media can have the status private/public/friends only
o Group gallery can have status public/private
* Multiple Uploads
o Upload multiple files without any extra effort, just select and click upload
o There is no limit on upload size, It depends on the size you set in gallery settings and/or The maximum upload size allowed by your web host
* Uploading and Sharing from Activity stream
* Publishing to Activity stream or not is in your hands, you can publish multiple images/videos etc to the activity stream and it will appear as single entry
* Shortcode
o For embedding Gallery to your blog posts
o Embedding Photo/Audio/video to your blog
* Widgets
o Sitewide gallery widgets
o Sitewide media Widget
* Directory where all the public galleries are listed, you can search them, filter them by Audio/video/photo
* Security:- I can vouch for gallery being 99% secure, the rest one percent is always uncertain 
* Object caching: If you enable persistence object caching, you can reduce upto 90% database queries
* 100% Buddypress aware, disable Buddypress, the Gallery will not cause any issue/error.
* Modular and decoupled
o decoupled from Group(If group is disabled, gallery will still work)
o decoupled from Activity(If you disable activity, gallery will work, but support for commenting and publishing to activity stream will be no more available)
o decoupled from Friends(The privacy features will work even if you disable friends component)
* Extra addons
o WordPress Plugin for TinyMce to insert gallery/media to your post/page(Thanks to Phillip)
o Widget to show sitewide listing of gallery/images(Thanks to Phillip)
o Highslide Slideshow for showing Images (Thanks to Phillip, will be coming soon)
o jQZoom Plugin to show case site wide Public Photos
* Site Admin settings:
o Control which media types are allowed, enable/disable galley types,i.e you can enable/disable Photo Gallery/Video Gallery/Audio Gallery
o Set maximum upload space per user
o set maximum upload file size
o Enable Disable gallery Link
o Enable/disable upload from activity stream
o Show the remaining/used space to users
o got an issue, enable debug mode of gallery to see what’s going inside
o Set Image sizes for Thumbnail/medium/Full size
* What Is Coming In future:
o FFMPEG Support for Video Galleries
o Face Detection/Tagging(OpenCV extension will be required)
o Gallery from Youtube/picass/flickr/vimeo etc
o Various CDN Support
o Decoupling of Video Player to allow you use various players to choose from
* Upcoming Addons:- atleast 4-5 slideshow widgets to showcase the gallery media(Including supersized,mooflow and more)
Dear Toni,
don`t worry your community will survive 
Go into dashboard, on top of the left side you find buddypress/ installation or something similar (my version is in German).
There you may activate the options “FRIENDS” and “Private Messages” again.
Best, Andidi
PS: About the blogs – I am lost there too 
Thanks for the post here, I just noticed this “bug” as well!
I’m quite sure you can’t tack on just any component in the bp_is_active() function.
It should be like this:
if ( bp_is_active('profile') || bp_is_active('activity') || ... etc ) {
The easiest thing would be to list what you want publically available.
Here’s a function to build on:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616
more of general feedback – i think the new site is great and all the hard work that goes into something like this (especially pulling in the plugins to groups)
but i find myself a little distracted – i can’t put my finger on it (maybe since i’ve tweaked my own stuff to bring things more inline) but something with the disparity between sections (activity). i hate being vague though so I realize this is not helping
One weird bug – after sending a private message: my adminbar shows a new notification but obviously nothing is there as i sent one instead of receiving.
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Thanks for the link. I’m going to try that if my current changes don’t work. I changed the register slug and added more required fields to the signup page. I’ll let you know if it works.
PS
Looking at that code it seems it still let admins send PMs. If that’s true could it also be changed to allow other “ranks” such as authors, subscribers, etc.?
Try this until a more, full-featured privacy component is available.
Remove send private message button for non-friends:
http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/03/buddypress-hack-remove-send-private-message-for-non-friends/
Got my second spam message as well. It seems to be affecting multiple BP installs so I think it should be a high priority to do something about it.
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I’m getting these on my own site. These are spam bots and they found a way into BP. This should be a number one priority for BP. I’ve seen this stuff with phpbb and other CMS. It very easy for these people to bring down your site.
there is a plugin “BuddyPress Profile Privacy” which can make profils available only for friends
i’m alsa searching a plugin to filter member, activity etc to logged users…. but i didn’t find so far ..
Yeah I just got two spam private messages in the last two days. Here is the latest one:
Please reply back with my email (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk)
Dearest,
How are you over there?
I know that you would be excited for the fact that you do not know who is writing.
Actually my name is Mis. Anabel Awaza,Please my dear i will like us to hold a good long time relationship with real love.and I have something very important that I need to share with you. I am very serious; I shall tell you more about myself and send you my picture in my next mail.please reply back with my email address (anabel . awaza 01 @ yahoo . co . uk))
Hoping to hear from you soonest.
Yours Anabel.
View Spammer’s BuddyPress profile:
https://buddypress.org/community/members/anabel4you/
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I’d keep group types separate from your normal types (public, private, hidden). You’d still want a group of a certain type to be able to be either public, private or hidden…
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Message spam is getting out of hand.
yeah but whenever users create new groups I’ll have to add in a new group type like ( public, private, hidden, customgroup1 or whatever ). But I guess the reason for using group meta would be because it’s easier to cache?
I just got points, donate link and rank (if enabled) displaying on the BuddyPress Profile You’ll have to edit 1 file though. Here is the updated code.
So how it displays on mine is:
User @ user
1635 points [Donate Points] Expert
active 6 hours, 32 minutes ago
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Send Private Message
How would I incorporate this into my plugin though? I got this to show up on the profile. But it’s not where I want it, how would I control it without just editing the file directly.
I have found a solution to my problem – but don’t know exactly why these issues arose. I shall elaborate in case anyone else has similar problems:
I have also been experiencing problems with the themes for blogs being all messed up. Regardless of how they were activated – either globally or on a blog-by-blog basis, they never displayed properly. Possible an obscure redirect issue. At the same time I was experiencing the messaging issues for which I started this thread.
I think that these problems cropped up sometime between:
– upgrading from WP MU 2.9.1 > 2.9.2
– upgrading Buddypress 1.2.x > 1.2.3
which were both done manually AND
– trying out a whole buch of plugins that had not been tested (or verified) to work with my versions of BP and WPMU.
So I rolled the whole site back – files and mysql to about a month ago – before I upgraded and fucked up my database. Then copied any posts, files, members, activities etc from one database to the other…
So the lessons I learned from the sorry mess is:
– Backup regularly (this goes without saying)
– don’t try out spurious plugins that may damage your install (and lead to days of head-beating-on-wall WTF? moments)
Also – running the whole site on Amazon Web Services which gives you cheap access to ubiquitous storage (S3) at insanely low cost. So I run a script that backs up all files and mysql from the site daily and hang the GB that will accrue – because each GB cost something like $0.01 – or something….And this just saved my sanity.
Regards
Ajax
@vee_bee I’m using the BuddyPress Template Pack Plugin with my Single Install WP. So I updated my:
wp-content/themes/fusion/members/single/member-header.php file with this and it works great. Shows the points for the member your viewing at the moment. Tried to get the donate link to work as well. But no success just yet.
These forums don’t allow you to embed code like the wordpress.org forums I guess. In the echo’s I’m just surrounding it with a bold tag
<?php
// Cubepoints for current user
echo ““;
if(function_exists(‘cp_displayPoints’)){
global $bp;
cp_displayPoints($bp->displayed_user->id);
}
echo “
“;
// END Cubepoints
?>
So how it displays on mine is:
User @user
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hi @r-a-y is_site_admin() and is_admin() are very different. is_admin() checks whether you are inside wordpress admin or not.
@scotm
How about making the activity of admin user private
`add_filter(“bp_activity_hide_sitewide_before_save”,”make_admin_activity_private”,10,2);
function make_admin_activity_private($hide_sitewide,$activity){
//get the current activity
if(current_user_can(‘manage_options’))//user is admin
return 1;
else
return $hide_sitewide;
}
`
Hopefully the code goes through this forum.
Is this happening with all kinds of input? Forum posts, private messages, activity items? Also, what version of bp-tinymce are you using?
I haven’t been able to test this completely, but it seems like the automatic group adding isn’t working if the group isn’t set to a public group. If it’s set to private then it seems like it tries to make the request maybe, but isn’t finishing the process of adding the person to the group. I’ll look into this more as I have time unless you get a chance to look first.
