@apeatling I’m trying to display 20+ groups, but no matter what the value it seems to be limited to 20. I did have a look at the code and found per_page=20.. Iv’e edited it to suit my needs though is there any specific reason for limiting it to 20 or is it just the default value to display?
While there’s a topic about the plug-in thought I should ask if you (@apeatling) are going to look into excluding private/hidden groups as it seems to include them but displays a blank item-avatar.
@meetsos, if you haven’t solved the problem yet:
I believe you should be able to create a functions.php file in the Randy Candy theme. (Or go one better and create your own child theme based on Randy Candy, so you can benefit from published updates without losing your modifications.)
@travel-junkie Method worked for me with 2.9.2, I just upgraded to 3.0.1 and now is not working. anyone experiencing the same?
Hi,
I modified my functions.php as @Travel-Junkie said. It works perfectly on my WP 3.0.1. but I want to go a little further.
I want the member home page only to be visible for the admin and for the registered member, not the others members of the BP.
for exemple, the http://mysite.com/members/angora/ should be visible only for the logged in user named angora
I’ve heard about bp_is_home, but no idea how to deal with…
Any idea would be helpfull ; thanks in advance
Hello,
I am interested in making it so that private groups require membership request to join, but the content can be viewed by all. I made the following changes in groups.php, but it didnt seen to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
// If this is a private or hidden group, does the user have access?
if ( ‘private’ == $bp->groups->current_group->status || ‘hidden’ == $bp->groups->current_group->status ) {
if ( $bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member && is_user_logged_in() || is_site_admin() )
$bp->groups->current_group->user_has_access = true;
else
$bp->groups->current_group->user_has_access = true;
} else {
$bp->groups->current_group->user_has_access = true;
}
I took one of my new users and requested to join something like 7 of 10 private groups. Then signed in with my admin account (who is also group admin for all groups), and I believe the notification said something like “7 people want to join [such & such] group” (instead of “[so & so] wants to join 7 groups” or an individual listing of the group requests).
Without an easy notification link, I had to dig around in each group to find the membership requests and, in a real-world scenario, might’ve missed them altogether, as I wouldn’t have known to look. (Even under admin, it didn’t show up as “Membership Requests (1)” for example, but just a plain “Membership Requests” option that I could as easily have overlooked.)
Is this normal behavior, or am I experiencing something extra buggy?
I am experiencing strange User Role behavior with Groupblog:
I created a private (or public) group and group blog (with links to the blogs front end) with default role pairings (user=author, mod=editor, admin=admin) — the blog was created successfully, and invitations were sent out.
But my subscriber had only a subscriber role on the MAIN BLOG — When they try access http://www.example.com/blog1/wp-admin they get sent to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/?c=1 (which incidentally kills my dashboard hide script…)
THEN, I changed the member/subscriber to moderator (by the groups admin page) and this gave them Author privileges… ON THE MAIN BLOG! No role for the group blog.
WP: 3.0.1
BP: 1.2.5.2
Groupblog: 1.4.4
(originally posted here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-buddypress-groupblog-two-error-reports?replies=3 but figured this might be a better area to seek help)
@jmarino:
Well, there’s a plugin to restrict group creation. I’d start there: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-restrict-group-creation/
In the settings, you can auto-demote group creators to mods, so that’s good for what you mention. You can also separately determine who can make a public, private or hidden group. It doesn’t have a setting to restrict somebody who meets the threshold from creating more than one group, though. You’d have to work around that. Also, it has settings like minimum number of days as a member (of your BP site in general) before qualifying to create a group, but nothing built in that’d handle maximum number of days as a mod and then demote automatically.
Honestly? You’re looking for very specific and limited functionality. Since you already plan to manually add any additional mods, I’d consider just getting the necessary info from the user when s/he signs up for VIP membership, manually creating the group in the first place (use the Restrict plugin to keep anybody but a site admin from being able to do so), inviting the VIP member to join, and then setting him/her (and any friends) as mod.
As for the 1 year demotion, I’d just use a good calendar and set up an electronic reminder.
Low tech and not very automated, but that really seems like the route you’ll end up needing to go, unless you (or someone else) wants to create a fair bit of custom code–something you probably won’t find people offering to do for free.
…
Not to be a total downer, but I’m having a bit of trouble imagining what enticement mod status would offer. Maybe I just haven’t toyed with it enough to see its utility in managing forums, but it doesn’t seem to provide much control over the group, at least…
I was going to do the remove thing, too–so thank you all for the tips–but then I decided I might as well just hide the admin bar from logged out users, as that was my bigger concern with the random visit.anyway. (I don’t think it’ll be especially useful, and our groups are mainly private, but I don’t have any other plans for the top right portion of the screen, so…might as well leave it for now.)
@intimez – good info – thanks.
I also came across this code: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/removing-members-ability-invite-others-to-a-group/#post-48304
Which promises to hide the “invite friend” links (haven’t had success yet…)–
Or you can create a child theme that removes the links from your template… Though really, I agree the system should be more set up like this:
Public — anything goes
Private — only mods and admins can INVITE (not just approve)
Hidden — same as private – only others can’t see
Cheers
@amahesh Set the group to private group and it will require approval first before become member
I’m building a private community network in the company I work for. I could really use some settings in Buddypress where I can order the members alphabetic by there real Last names.
I created a new (private) group (as just a subscriber). Then I requested membership for this group with another user and accepted that one.
After that I tried to ban that user, but i got the following message:
“There was an error when banning that user, please try again”
But the user was still indicated as banned (and the user couldn’t request again, but he could write his motivation, etc. After clicking the request button it showed the message: “There was an error sending your group membership request, please try again.”)
Am I the only one who gets this message?
I found that BP Ajax Chat was causing my the messages in BP not to work…………now can anyone tell us how to get both to work…so close to being a great thing
Anointed,
That’s exactly the idea. I’m going to launch a non-sports related one at http://www.givingsquare.com shortly. You could create a trip to Haiti group and have all the kids in church sign up for free. Then, they send out emails, post to twitter, facebook etc asking for people to support their trip. I’ve built it to track how much each person raises and report on all those details.
It would be hard to put what I’ve done into a plugin. Right now it’s a bunch of different plugins and customizations of some existing ones. Now, the idea of a plugin to just create the paywall to join any BP install could work. It’s the integration of that with the requesting tools which gets a bit tricky.
justbishop,
Yep, that’s the core. Tools to invite people to support you, track who supports who and then a private BP group for those who contributed.
Link to site doesn’t help a great deal as your groups are both ‘Private’ so can’t see anything.
Try setting up a fresh test group as ‘public’ and enabling forum on it and see if that works and allows topics to be created and listed.
How do I redirect to the wordpress login page and not the buddypress registration page? I want to create all the user accounts myself and prevent random people registering for my site. Thanks!
I agree it’s the wrong way around. I’m advertising my own plugin here, but what I have done on some sites is use the Welcome Message part of Welcome Pack to send a private message to the new user and to say hello and remind them to complete their profile / picture, etc.
For my PRIVATE groups, I did the following to enable forums.
First, I reinstalled the forums from the dashboard (superadmin )
Then, from the buddypress nav bar, I followed
My Account > Groups > Admin >
Under the Admin submenu, I selected Group Settings and did the following:
UNchecked the “Enable discussion forum” checkbox
Clicked save
Checked the “Enable discussion forum” box
Clicked save AGAIN
That enabled forums in the private groups.
Still trying to figure out why these posts are not showing up in the main forum tab though…. ((scratches head))
Hope this helps someone else.
EDITED: Duh! The forums of private groups do not show up in the general forums page! Related, the site Pressography.com posted the phpMyAdmin version of the fix I outlined above: http://pressography.com/wordpress/daily-tip-fix-for-buddypress-group-forums-error-when-creating-a-new-topic/
Cool. That leaves me with:
Buddypress My Friends (Sarah is checking…)
Buddypress Links
SEO for Buddypress (I think they are working on an update)
BP Member Filter (I think I’ll just delete it as it doesn’t do anything)
Buddypress Badge (I think @warut is working on it)
BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only
External Group Blogs
Facestream/Tweetstream
WP-FB Autoconnect
Now that WP 3.0.1 is out, I’m nearly brave enough to upgrade from 2.9.2. Problem is, quite a few of my plugins are still not showing as compatible. Can anyone confirm that these do or don’t work with WP3 and BP 1.2.5.2?
BP Disable Activation
Buddypress My Friends Widgets
Buddypress Links
Buddypress Group Email Subscription
SEO for Buddypress
BP Member Filter
BuddyPress Badge
BuddyPress Private Messages for Friends Only
External Group Blogs
Facestream
Invite Anyone
oEmbed for BuddyPress
Tweetstream
WP-FB-AutoConnect
If I view the members of a particular group: http://www.rocketmavericks.com/groups/mavericks-team/members/ (group_id=1) there are 4 members shown, which I believe to be the correct number of members.
If I query wp_bp_groups_members for user_id for group_id=1:
SELECT gm.user_id
FROM wp_bp_groups_members gm
WHERE gm.group_id=1
it returns 9 records. The group, which is private, belongs to me and I only invited 4 members.
If I query for more information:
SELECT g.ID, g.slug, gm.inviter_id, CONCAT( u.user_email, ‘ (‘, u.ID, ‘)’ )
FROM wp_bp_groups_members gm
LEFT JOIN wp_bp_groups g ON g.ID = gm.group_id
LEFT JOIN wp_users u ON u.ID = gm.user_id
WHERE g.ID =1
ORDER BY gm.inviter_id
I see that 5/9 users were not invited by me. The inviter_id for those 5 belongs to another site admin. But like I said, they don’t show up in the group members list.
I did not want to nag you personally – I just was not sure, where to post – seems like the group is not private I posted to. SORRY if you feel offended. I did not have time to check back on this, after a few days of no answer I gave up. Also I did not get notification emails. Maybe I will test your import script this week one more time, but to be honest, I would rather like to spend the time creating my own import script, so I do not have to spend additional time with debugging yours 
Anyway, I thank you very much for your effort.
@wandilly, Did you get your problem resolved yet? If not, I’d be glad to help do detective work on it. I’d need a login though, so if you feel comfortable giving me access, you’d want to share that by private email. You can contact me at marian@heartwoodwebdesign.com.
Marian
