@Hempsworth: first of all, great job! The plugin is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I have 1 feature request: I would like to be able to choose what activities the members are allowed to like. For example: they can only like forum posts and group creations.
Regarding limiting the likers to just friends, as long as you make it an option, I bet there’s a lot of people who might find that useful.
I definitely see 4 different usage scenarios for this:
1 – “open”: you can see the name of everyone who liked it;
2 – “mixed”: you can only see the names of your friends (” and x others” just like your example above);
3 – “closed”: you can only see numbers (total of people who like it)
4 – “private mode” (more a privacy setting than a real scenario): no one sees what you like except you.
Ricardo
I had something like this working before in BP 1.1.3.
You’ll have to modify the /bp-default/members/single/member-header.php file. If you have a child theme, copy this file over and make adjustments.
I am also interested in this type of private messaging.
@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)
I wonder where the spammers get the time to figure out ways to spam sites is there like a spam university or something lol
On my site I even disabled registrations and I still two splogs appear after that, which is very confusing for me indeed.
I can see one problem with sharing info on this forum about fighting spam, and that is that it will give the spammers the info they need to come up with counter attacks. I propose we start a spam eater group where we can share spam info behind the scenes, in fact I am going to start it now, not a perfect solution but still one that could work. What do you guys think?
https://buddypress.org/groups/spam-eater
Its a private group but anyone is welcome to join.
Sounds great ray – would very much appreciate that (if it helps, I could also give you access)
I’m going to flag this for later reading.
I’ll try to reproduce the problem when I have some time.
Theme – same with Bp default
DB – hmm, two different installs, with different DBs on two different servers… sounds strange, but could be.
Anyone else…? PLEASE CHECK your hidden and private groups which had content prior to 1.2… I think it is easy to oversee… but would narrow the stuff down, if everybody else confirms it really is fine on there install. So please post, if it’s REALLY (checked) fine with you…
Thanks!
Is anyone else having this problem? I’ve not seen any other reports which makes me think it might be your theme, or something wrong with your DB.
@andy
I installed 1.2.1., I deactivated every Plugin and every Mu-Plugin – still the same “emptiness” in those groups. I did the same in the other install (the second one, that has that problem – it’s a subdomain-install) and there the problem is also still there… 
You stil have access to my install – you can use it and check it – maybe it helps you debug, like the last bug…
Hi Andrea. Yes, that 1st part is quite easy with BP 
the 2nd part is tougher though, as far as I know:
“- the opportunity to manually approve/delete sign-ups based on their answer, at least blocking the unapproved from appearing in blog lists, sidewide activity etc, basically making it 100% private (only vsible for admins) until approved.”
I am running BP 1.2.1.
I read the other threads – and hoped that 1.2.1 would solve the case. But it didn’t…
I deactived all other plugins – but when I register a new test user all the time “my blogs” remains empty – no matter if the blog ist public or private.
Is there a way to reset the table wp_bp_user_blogs. I once changed an entry by hand, maybe that corrupted the system?!?
I don’t think anybody can stop you from posting a file on your server with domains and IP’s which you advise to be blocked… I actually think it would be a good idea to have this info centralized, an Akismet for sign-ups if you please, would save a lot of effort.
Just checked wp-ban’s stats and 4 IP’s were blocked over 1000 times. Though it does not stop splogs, it serves as a good example that sharing info might help, especially if the signup page can check a database of known sploggers or words in blog titles.
A nice feature would be (plugin request!) to have:
– an extra field on signup. Skip all the usless and annoying captcha’s, just a simple question: “why you want a blog?” or more specifically: “what are you going tor write about?”
– the opportunity to manually approve/delete sign-ups based on their answer, at least blocking the unapproved from appearing in blog lists, sidewide activity etc, basically making it 100% private (only vsible for admins) until approved.
Before you ask: I cannot make this, but I will be happy to test if some more skilled person can!
I can’t seem to reproduce this, maybe try disabling all the plugins except the essential ones to see if there is a conflict?
Thanks, David. I’ll pursue these options then let you know what happens.
As for login, Id like to use the “Login with Ajax” widget because it has a “Forgot password” option and it allows for redirects to custom URL on login and/or logout. I’d like to stay away from the WP screen, if possible.
In fact, that’s yet another challenge: how to give them access to create Posts without seeing the WP-admin screens — especially since I want any profile changes to be done via BP (so they’ll see their xprofile fields) rather than the more simplistic WP fields. alas… for now, i need to get some of them started and I’ll have to save that battle for another day.
This blog is for a private group of about 20 people.
@Xevo,
no, I am not talking as “Polls” being a plugin. There have been user-polls in the past at this very Forum, at which everyone could vote on features they would like to see in the future-versions of BuddyPress.
In general, all I want to say with my initial post is that we should not loose sight of what kind of features are really important.
Everybody has different priorities and everybody needs a certain feature, but we should not loose sight that certainly everybody will need “Privacy Features”.
Privacy might not be very important in the USA, but I can tell you gonna have quite big troubles in running a Social-Network in many countries in Europe, without providing User-Privacy.
There is a good chance you gonna run into legal troubles – which is quite critical, besides that users will complain about finding their private information on Search-Engines like Google. Just think about running a Dating-website, where users post lots of private information, but literally its not safe for them to use your website.
The other feature of “Advanced Search & X-Profile Fields” should be also within Core-Code and will definitely enhance every website being run on BP, no matter your niche. Think about -for example- performing a search for the users at your website being “male” and at an age-range between “20 and 30 years of age”. This is currently not possible.
The necessity of the feature of “User-Blogs-Posts from Front-end” is debateable, most probably not being used by everyone. But did you ever go into the “backend” of Facebook in order to write a post ?
Anyhow, just wanted to highlight to make sure you still see the forest in a clutter of trees…..
yes – I logged in as that user – doesn’t see it. I will try again with the branch… (by the way – any more ideas on this very strange issue: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/after-update-private-hidden-groups-empty – sorry to use this thread, but it’s important to me )
Please… I went live with the update without knowing that could happen. Could someone point me in the right direction?!
Just installed it. But it didn’t do anything. Still no content shown…
Any more help, suggestions?
Anyone else having that (I think I cannot be the only one, since it is on two totally different installations)?
No, do I have to do that? I thought this would be just, if I still want old features like wire etc…
oEmbed for BP does one thing very simple – it utilizes WordPress’ own oEmbed class — type in a plain-text oEmbeddable URL and voila! — there are no plans to do anything special in the future (like categorization, etc).
I wholeheartedly endorse MrMaz’s BP Links plugin; I have stated this in other posts and I”ll say it again – BP-Links will be the definitive rich embedding plugin for BP.
We have briefly talked privately about manipulating the activity stream for embedding content (btw MrMaz, let me know if you need a sounding board for the next version of BP-Links!).
He has some neat things planned including plugging into the “What’s New” box, which will solve the “quick and easy embedding” issue Mike has talked about above.
At the end of the day, the cool thing is you have choices!
it all depends on your BP network’s needs.
Are you running the backwards compatibility plugin?
Some further Infos: in my other install ( subdirectories) exactly the same…
Strange: some don’t Show content & activity at all but some Show just a few items from a long time ago ( like 9+ months). But there would Be alot more content in the months between!
Argh!
I am not trying to compare facebook or ning to BP. I am merely trying to highlight that users will ultimately make comparisons, whether webmasters or developers like it or not.
Most casual users of the internet are you used to the facebook experience where you do everything from the front end. Lets say if i want to use Buddypress to set up an organic farming community for example I am going to have many of my users getting confused with having a backend and a front end and all of the options and admin stuff in the backend.
Most of my users of my hypothetical site are 40 to 50 somethings who hardly know the difference between the front end and the back end and have only recently discovered Facebook. So I will find them struggling and complaining with using the site. So I will have to set up my network on Ning instead, where so many other 40 to 50 somethings have setup groups. It would be better for me to have my own private site but what choice do I have.
Buddypress is an excellent idea but having it religiously follow the dogma of wordpress when its aimed at being a platform for community sites, is ultimately going to cause some issues. All I am merely suggesting is tailoring WP to make it fit to the requirements of users.
Obviously human politics creep in everywhere and as a result this as well as technicalities Andy has his hands tied when it comes to forking WP for example. So why not turn BP into a separate project all together by integrating BP and WPMU into one package and stripping out some of the WP centric things like most of the backend. It can still say based on WPMU on the box but it won’t look and feel so much like WP to the end user if you see where I am getting at.
After all how many people who use BP will also want to use the WPMU only features on their site. Once you set up a social network you can’t go back to just being a multi-user blogging site. So stripping out the WP centric features surely won’t be an issue in the context of running a social network.
I’ve installed Cimy User Extra Fields plugin. Pluses and minuses.
