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It’s hard to remove a post and let you see the response, so I’m closing this one. Please refrain from posting any further about this, it’s beginning to look like spam (this is the third post that I’m aware of, in the last few days). Heck, the title of this thread is the sort of thing Google’s going to pick up on, which I know is your intention.

In terms of people selling or advertising premium BuddyPress services on this site, there’s a balance between promoting your plugin in situations such as responding to a relevant topic, i.e. “how can I do x?” and you reply, “my premium plugin z can do that for you!” (which is okay), and outright advertising or spamming (which isn’t). Announcing a new premium plugin or theme is fine, but posting an announcement or advert each week isn’t — that’s spam.

Blatant advertising or spamming is not allowed; BuddyPress.org community support is about community support, it is not a free-for-all marketplace. This isn’t the place for that type of thing.

Specifically regarding your site, there are extra considerations. You appear to be re-selling GPL’d plugins and themes[1] (I have only taken a quick look at your site). As long as you had purchased these GPL’d themes or plugins originally, then you can turn around and give that theme or plugin to anybody you want. The GPL is about redistribution. My understanding is that this viewpoint is entirely correct.

However, I think you’re missing the big picture. It may not be illegal, but I don’t think it’s ethical. The authors of those works which you are profiting from worked hard to create something. By re-selling their works, I believe you are disrespecting those authors and the larger community. To me, it’s as simple as this: if this sort of behaviour discourages even one individual from creating a new BuddyPress plugin or a BuddyPress theme, because they’d like to try to make some money from it, then the community has been harmed by having one less choice.

I feel this threads falls between an announcement of a service and an advertisement for that service, considering your repeated posts, with debatable ethics. I apologise on behalf of our moderator team; we should have got in contact with you after your first post, and we’re sorry that it seemed we were picking on your posts. However, you could have posted another topic and asked what happened to your previous posts; we would have seen it.

I am paul@byotos.com if you would like to discuss further in private, or you’re welcome to start a new topic and start a discussion about the ethics of re-selling GPL plugins/themes, but maybe that sort of discussion would go best on the wordpress.org forums, rather than here, as it would be seen by a larger audience of WordPress plugin and theme authors (relevant, of course, because your site appears to have WP and BP-specific themes listed).

[1] This assumes that everything in those plugins/themes is covered by the GPL, such as images or any other files, as opposed to just the PHP source.

To prevent spam, the fonctionnality you want to use is not avaible. You can see tthe function in bp-messages-templatetags.php:522

Anyway you can add a button, which opens the send message page, but you need to add manually the user name.

Open from your_child_theme/groups/single/members.php
and add the function ` ` in the place you want.

You can also learn to your user to use the profile page of their contact to send them a private massage.
The number of click to do this is the same i think.

It’s your choice

Ok – so you’re going to your profile’s private message, compose; what type of search term do you enter in the name field? Do you get any autocompletion results (an AJAX script ought to be running)? Does the search term match up to a particular user?

Just trying to understand where it’s falling out. BuddyPress private messaging doesn’t use email addresses.

The private messaging doesn’t use the email addresses directly. I spent a bunch of hours this last weekend fixing problems with the private messaging system in certain situations involving differences between the user’s log in, and user nickname fields, and when the compat mode constant is set (I assume you have set this in your wp-config.php if you are logging in with email addresses — can you confirm?

Try adding `define( ‘BP_ENABLE_USERNAME_COMPATIBILITY_MODE’, true );` to your wp-config.php or bp-custom.php file.

Well that’s why I asked. Right now the logic tranlates to this:

“If this topic is not mine, or the user is not logged in, don’t show a link.”

You want it to say:

“If this post is mine, or the user is not logged in, don’t show a link.”

Here’s your new code:

`function bp_forum_send_private_message_link() {
echo bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link();
}
function bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link() {
global $bp, $topic_template;

if ( bp_get_the_topic_post_is_mine() || !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

return apply_filters( ‘bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link’, wp_nonce_url( $bp->loggedin_user->domain . $bp->messages->slug . ‘/compose/?r=’ . bp_core_get_username( $topic_template->post->poster_id, $topic_template->post->poster_nicename, $topic_template->post->poster_login ) ) );
}`

I just found the same error! I cannot send messages to users with a dash in their username. The error I am getting is when I try to select that user as the recipient, it shows there name but then also the following errors IN the dropdown:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 556

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 557

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/genesis-connect/lib/ajax.php:541) in /home/tr0421or/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-messages.php on line 558

I get the same error for other users but message will go thru.

are you using genesis connect by any chance? I have a post in to them about it…

Try the following:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-44616

Or:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-make-a-private-community/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-44729

Add the code to your theme’s functions.php.

You’d probably want to echo the result.

Use the following in topic.php:
`bp_forum_send_private_message_link()`

And not:
`bp_forum_get_send_private_message_link()`

Have you read over the FAQs here: (https://buddypress.org/community/groups/private-buddypress/)?

I have the same question