Hi @meganelford,
basically, your developer is requesting information so that the app can authenticate with the BuddyPress site. Due to the fact users are authenticated, the app needs permission to authenticate using those keys you mentioned.
To make that happen you would need to have a token or oAuth plugin setup on your buddypress site. After that, create those API keys and provide to her.
Here are a few plugins you could try:
JWT Authentication for WP REST API
WordPress REST API Authentication
Application Passwords
https://github.com/WP-API/jwt-auth
Just be aware that whatever choice you make, there will be a learning curve.
Also, I’d recommend checking how the API will affect the intranet nature of your site. For example, if you intranet is private (the front-end of the site), current BuddyPress API is open. Meaning, some information is open to the public (not logged in information, of course).
Just something to keep in mind. Hope this answer your question, or at least, provides you with next steps (install the plugin and pass the keys information to her).
🙂
Hi!
I tried everything. I have all these plugins enabled on my BP Install:
Akismet Anti-Spam
Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
BuddyPress Auto Activate Autologin Redirect To Profile On Signup : I need to allow my user to use my network like every social network without waiting for any moderation and approbation.
No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA
Stop Spammers
Everyday, I have a lot of spam registration who send a lot of messages to all my members, so my network is not working now, my members cannot use it because they are all receiving a lot of e-mail notifications because of spam.
all messages are all the same:
“Hi dear,
how are you my dear I’m from UK, and
i have something important to disclose with you
if you don’t mind please contact me, through my private aminatadennis0@gmail.com
so that i can explain myself to you
Sincerely.”
It’s very very annoying.
Is there a solution without approving each member? Because we cannot approve hundred and hundred members each day, it’s impossible…
Thanks in advance for your help !
Thats weird. You should see on the left side a Log In and Register link and a search icon on the right.
And you are not using any other plugin or code snippet to modify the admin bar in some way or making your site private? You have the General setting of Anyone can register ticked?
what is your theme and what plugins do you have installed? when you say friends, is your site meant to be private? I don’t think there is a setting that would cause this. I’d think it would be a plugin or a customization made in the theme.
I thought Askimet was just for comments – can you also configure it for private messages? I do have it set up and running right now, along with Wordfence, a reCaptcha V2 on registration form (and for bbPress), and a BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter.
Right now I’m using these plugins:
– Askimet
– Wordfence
– Advanced noCaptcha & invisible Captcha (On registration form)
– Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
– BuddyPress Private Message Rate Limiter
It helps, but apparently not enough – just had a user sign up last night, receive a spam message, and request to have their account deleted this morning. It’s obviously frustrating, so if Askimet could be doing something extra that I just haven’t configured it for, that would be great…
But I’m not sure how it could even successfully flag the messages based on content? Some are very bland “Hi Dear, I like you profile and would love to talk, please contact me privately via e-mail at xxxxxxxx ” Which don’t seem that different from legitimate messages, except that they’re being sent out en masse from users with profiles that say they’re in US, but with IP’s in Africa, etc.
Does anyone know if these same bots would also send out mass friend requests? I remember seeing a mention of restricting private messaging to friends, which might be my next step… But I don’t want to implement an additional hurdle for users if the bots would also just abuse that. 🙁
Sorry for the long post, but thanks for any help!
That’s an interesting idea. What about using the Akismet anti-spam service to check the content of the message?
I’ve also had bots send spam messages via private messaging, and it’s a pain once it gets started.
Hello to all. I have stated that, for security reasons, the user name would remain private and different from the publicly displayed nickname, but now I realize that if a user wants to send a message to another user, he displays the @ symbol followed by the username I wanted to be remained reserved. How can I not have to disable the messaging function?
A solution for me?
Thanks in advance.
Claudio
Hi! I’ve had some spam users send out private messages. I’ve marked those users as spam and deleted them, BUT the private message content they’ve sent is still partly visible as the subject line and preview snippet in our member’s inbox. It’s pretty bad since for example some read: “Am Jane Robles From United State, I Lost My Parent At Car […]”, and if the user clicks on the message it just says [deleted]. Is there any was to pix this so that excerpt is no longer visible in the inbox? Thanks!
Hi Community,
I am from Germany and have an issue with Buddypress Integration on WPAdverts. I have a platform for a sprcific niche, providing a Mutivendor Marketplace (WCFM) for shop seller and a classified section (WPAverts) for private user. I integrated Buddypress on Adverts for communication (privat messages) without leaving the site, otherwise the communication would be via Email. Strangly the Buddypress enabled the vendors from WCFM for the function, but not the classified user. I know it is a setting problem, but I just seem not to find. I tried everything, and still it´s not working. Please help. I will soon launch the page.
HI,
Members of my community must be connected to my site to see the members list.
When I am connected, if I see someone connected (widget in sidebar), I click on his photo, I see his profile and “Private message” near the round photo.
I click on “Private message” and arrive on my profile.
I suppose that I only have to write the message. NO ! I must click on “Write a message”, search the name of the person (I was on his profile just before !) and then write the subject, and so on.
Is it the normal way or is there something wrong in my settings ?
Thanks in advance.
WP 5.2.4 with Twenty sixteen, Buddypress 5.0.0, https://www.alpes-spirit-chapter.com/
Regards.
Our site had some spammer send out massive amounts of private messages. I bulk deleted them directly out of the database table bp_messages_messages, marked the users as spam and deleted them… Then also deleted the bp notifications for messages. (We have a fairly low number of actual messages on the site so it didn’t seem like a big deal.) Unfortunately now on the front-end profile tabs it indicates the presence of messages with whatever # were deleted. I can’t figure out how to reset that – even resetting to 0 across the board would be fine, if there isn’t a recount/repair function somewhere…
Any suggestions for how I could fix this? And would deleting the users first have avoided this altogether by automatically cleaning up the messages and repairing the message counts?
Thank you!
When I receive an email notification to visit a profile user link (private message), it creates loop redirection error and user is not able to reach to the login page.
?bp-auth=1&action=bpnoaccess#login
How to fix that?
Ch
Hi,
I made a small dating site and since a few days, users can not send private message.
I use the last version of WP, BP and my theme is Gwangi.
https://www.icharme.fr
I do not known where is the issue as it works in the past.
Thanks.
Hi BuddyPress support community,
I am currently in the middle of a project for a client, I’ve never used BuddyPress before but heard many good things about it.
Here is what I’m trying to achieve:
2 types of users: 1. standard user (to browse user accounts), 2. paid user (to create paid to view galleries for standard users to view).
Each paid user will have a private pay-to-view gallery page. The paid user will determin the price to view the gallery. When a standard user wants to see the gallery, they pay the amount specified by the paid user and its split between the website owner and the paid user.
Can anyone suggest a method to achieve this?
Hi @imath,
How can I send the details requested on the link in your last post privately? I dom’t want to share all my server details and plugins publically?
Thanks
First, I’m not a developer.
I am attempting to add a private login to our existing WP site for use by staff and board members to access policy documents, etc.
BuddyPress was recommended. I’ve added the plugin and successfully added the login to our menu.
This is where I’m stuck.
Is there a way to set this up so that once a registered user logs in, he/she is directed to a private page on the WP site that shows links to the documents available to view?
Hi @warezit thank you for sharing this. I happen to have the same exact problem. I used WPOptimize plugin to delete unused tables in my database. I may have deleted the tables dedicated to store Buddypress messages. Users can’t send private messages and admins can’t send site-wise notices.
I wanted to confirm the steps to did to solve this. First you deleted the plugin, then backup database, then search and delete bp_ in wp_options table.
Last, you re-installed plugin.
Did you lose any data in the process. I have working site with many users.
Hello!
Is it possible to automatically send messages to new members via Private message? A welcome message for example, reassuring that I’m here if they need me!
Thanks,
– D
How is it possible for site users (customers) to only be able to message admins?
Thanks,
– D
I’d recommend this plugin:
http://buddyuser.com/plugin-bp-profile-shortcodes-extra
Once you have it installed, use the shortcode [bpps_profile_private_message_link] as your link. More shortcodes are offered within the plugin when you look at the following page:
BP Profile Shortcodes Extra
RE–Changing ‘Private Message’ to ‘Message’ throughout BuddyPress and bbPress
Would like to remove the word ‘private’ from anywhere ‘private message’ automatically appears, so that these always just say ‘message’, not ‘private message’.
The last answer here was 5+ years ago:
Topic: Private Message Button Label Change · BuddyPress.org
Is this still the last word? Any BuddyPress based themes, plugins, add-ons, or a way to do this simply? Considering using Front End PM to sidestep this issue.
Thanks for suggestions or help.
Hi @imath
Im a big fan! specially your work on BOWE-CODES
As for your suggestion as currently outlined on https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/ **IMHO –> I think is part of the problem..
1) I think the way the documentation works is a little confusing and are often no longer relevant
The documentation process of how its outlined, the submission process et al is not moving at the speed of the internet.. maybe a “stack exchange” style approach might work?
2) Helping out in the forums seems ideal -but- I feel the forum mechanism is also a little outdated
3) The nature of BP makes it a little hard to dial in how to respond to inquiries – simply because its not obvious to the hobbyist like myself to determine if its a template/theme issue, plugin issue or other various possible conflicts..
Anyway.. Im suggesting that perhaps BP.org should be change the approach to the community.. idk maybe something like a how CUNY Commons approached it? idk.. it maybe helpful to have an FAQ thats crossed linked to a forum discussion — it might also be helpful to change -or- update how the forum is organized? *it might also be helpful to somehow incentivize for-paid organizations like @buddyboss & @buddydev (I think a paradign shift is needed)
Theres a lot of great nuggets of information thats either SILO’d in private-for-paid-organizations, or buried somewhere in stackexchange, or somewhere in the internet (how do we herd-those-cats)
Suggestion: What if BP allows private companies to ‘sponsor’ this forum and what the companies will provide is basic quick easy answers and BP in return can have a VERIFIED badge on their profile and that company a section on a forum that is something like “ASK Company XYZ”
anyway.. idk.. I just feel that we’ve been doing the same thing for so many years and we arent getting any better at supporting the community
cheers
BuddyPress is not approaching EOL. As @sbrajesh noted above, BP is coming up on a 5.0 release that’ll include, among other improvements, REST API endpoints for our major content types. The development team believes this is going to be an important step in making BuddyPress more powerful as a foundation for community development.
I acknowledge that the amount of activity on the project has not been consistent over the last year or two. The BuddyPress project – the development of the plugin itself as well as the manning of these support forums – is 100% volunteer driven. BuddyPress is not a business, and as such, no one is paid by BP to work on BP. The central group of volunteers who work on BP development and support is pretty small, which means it’s quite sensitive to fluctuation in activity; if just one or two active members get busy with other work for a while, it can have a significant effect on the pace of the project. In contrast, Michael and Brajesh are both correct when they note that businesses with paid employees are able to devote a much more concentrated and consistent amount of effort to their products.
While it’s disappointing that the BuddyBoss team’s improvements haven’t been integrated into BP, I completely understand the reasons why their team has opted to fork rather than contribute. Personnel issues aside, the pace of development of a widely-used open source project, developed in a decentralized way with loose management, is necessarily going to be slower and more conservative than a private product. And it makes sense that a business owner would want 100% control over the direction of their core products. I respect the BuddyBoss folks and wish them the best of luck with their platform.
All this being said, I continue to believe that BuddyPress is the best community solution of its type, particularly for those users who need maximum flexibility and customizability. My limited experience with BP’s direct competitors in the WP market is that they work nicely for their central use case, but it’s extremely difficult to modify the default behavior.
As someone who’s been involved in BP for a long time and cares a great deal about the project, I must extend thanks to the folks in this thread who are here, demonstrating their concern for the well-being of BuddyPress 🙂
