Well, there are several Group chat rooms integrated well with BuddyPress.
When you choose, you need to consider the following:
1 – You can install one on your server, but if you have more than 10 chatters, that will probably load your server. Most shared hosting services, do not allow to install a chat on the server as it is high cpu/mem consumer. In addition, sharing files is dead slow.
2 – I recommend a group chat hosted service, it will offload all activity to a remote server, bandwidth is not a consideration. They work with CDN, so everything is pretty fast.
As for your question:
I am very much in favor of RumbleTalk chat plugin, works very well and integrate with your users base.
– Ability to send any files (anything from videos, photos, music, etc.)
Yes -You can upload files, pdf,excel..etc, I think any file, but they have size limit
– Ability to text chat
Yes
– Ability to video or voice call to a friend
Yes – they have private chat (you need to allow it in the settings), you must be in ssl to use it (WebRTC)
– (Optional) ability to add other friends or users to the chat
Yes – you can allow facebook/twitter friends
– (Optional) ability to screen share (desktop sharing)
No – no screen sharing
That is what I’m talking about:
Group roles
BuddyPress group members have three roles available to them.
Administrators: Administratorshave total control over the contents and settings of a group. That includes all the abilities of moderators, as well as the ability to:
Change group-wide settings (Admin > Settings). For instance, administrators can turn group forums on or off, change group status from public to private, and toggle on or off various other group functionality provided by plugins
Change the group avatar (Admin > Group Avatar)
Manage group members (Admin > Manage Members). More specifically, only group administrators have the power to promote members to moderators, or to ban individual users from the group
Delete the group (Admin > Delete)
The individual who creates the group is automatically the group’s first administrator. As a result, each group must have at least one administrator, though the first admin can choose to appoint others.
Contents
Privacy Options →
Group roles →
Create New Page
Are there any plans for the below:
– Official inclusion to Buddypress?
– Add the option so that when a user is blocked that only their private messages are blocked?
– Add the option so that when a user gets blocked they are not aware of it (shadow block)? In other words they will not receive any notification that they are being blocked.
Thanks a lot @berkelmudez!!
Accidentally I noticed that activation emails were not being sent. And neither were notification emails, like when receiving a private message. Switched to Postman and all was sweet again.
WordPress 4.4.2
BuddyPress 2.5.2
bbPress 2.5.8
Everything on the Main site is public. Everything on the Sub Site is private on only for members. I am using a Membership plugin to for the private site.
I don’t have BuddyPress activated via the Network. If I do that, then everything goes to the Main site, even though I have the root blog set at 2 for the subsite.
I only have BuddyPress activated on the Subsite and for the most part works great that way except for a couple of redirections to the Main site.
I can’t help you about confusion. What should be private and what should be public ?
BP handle with members, not with blog privacy.
I have only had BuddyPress on the Subsite and added ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id ) with the id of the subsite to the wp-config.php.
But when I change to network activation everything goes to the Main site. So, I am really confused about that now. Nothing with BuddyPress can show on the Main site because the subsite is all private.
Okay, that worked! Now I can see all my WP members on the BP Members page.
The functionality for some users still appears to be limited, however.
– no friend request button on the other members in the list.
– no private message button on the other members in the list.
– no ability to join groups.
– no access to activity stream.
etc.
-Brad
Paul – I’m having the same problem. I managed to install your PHP email debuger. I triggered a private DM in Buddypress and received “Email delivered – True”. However, there was no Buddypress notification email received on my inbox.
Anything else?
Hi @neijisly, I tried your updated code but had no success with it. Thank you for trying though!
Hi @shanebp, your code works great. Thank you! I don’t have any other plugins apart from BuddyBoss Global Search and BuddyBoss Edit Activity. So unless your code affects the functioning of another part of BuddyPress, then there shouldn’t be any conflicts.
While looking at messaging I have just noticed that Private Messages don’t send when you select a recipient via the autocomplete dropdown (get a failed message saying username is incorrect). However if you manually type out the same username, the message sends fine. I haven’t yet searched the forum on this matter though so there may already be a solution out there. I’ll have a look.
Thanks for the post, however since you are referencing forums, you should post on the bbPress support site.
Edit – I see that you’ve already posted on the bbPress forums:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-delete-remove-posts-andor-threads/
Just for reference:
* bbPress = forums
* BuddyPress = community (member profiles, groups, private messaging, etc.)
bbPress adds forum support to BuddyPress.
Thanks @shanebp. I have installed BP Simple Private and then i have checked the “friends” box. The page Friends in fact is not accessible because when i clicked on this page it redirects me on the home page but it remains on the menu. I would like that it disappears from the menu too.
I have the same problem with the sending of emails for notifications even though they are turned on the user settings. There are no emails sent for the actions listed below;
– Public messages using the @username feature
– Private messages
– Friend Requests
– Follow notification
Cheers
Hi @henrywright,
thank you for your answer. Please take a look to the screenvideo I made for you https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04CBuSaY-1iVFNHbUlmN2FRcHM/view
As you can see, a user tries to compose a private message and enter the first letter of a friend. The name appears and the user clicks on it. You will see a space between the name and the profile symbole. The message cannot be sent.
After this, the user visits the profile of the person he wants to send a private message and clicks on private message. Now the name appears right without any space between name and profile symbole and the message can be sent successfully.
Do you understand the issue better now?
I used the theme Twenty Fourteen for testing. And unfortunately the built-in Emails in BP v2.5.1 doesn’t work for me, but can’t say why. Before I updated to BP v2.5.x everything worked like a charme and updated because of the new features inBP v2.5.x
Best Regards,
Thorsten
How are you restricting access to those pages? If Google can see the content then those pages aren’t private. BuddyPress doesn’t make content private by default, neither does it try to.
In an effort to prevent spam I would like to hide the “private message” button only if you are not already friends with someone. Can anyone suggest any code to achieve this?
So wp_mail_from works for all email notifications aside from private message email notifications? If that’s the case then this is likely a bug. You could open a ticket for this on Trac.
I’m not aware of any plugin that controls 1-to-1 private messaging for BP.
You’ll most likely have to write it yourself or hire a developer.
BuddyPress can do all of these things right out of the box. Regarding point 5, you will need to disable both the private messaging and activity components. That can be done from the admin area in a few clicks.
On premises, private web server (Debian+Nginx in a OpenStack instance); email by Google for Education (using Easy WP SMTP plugin).
Is there a private method to provide a user/pw?
There is no PMing for this site.
But Dan has confirmed the issue with WP 2015, so it will be looked at.
Perhaps you could confirm that it does not occur with another WP theme, maybe try 2013?
And state which theme you are using?
@casiepa very recent behavior!
@shanebp switched to 2015 and the issue persisted. Is there a private method to provide a user/pw?
Thank you.
@djpaul Hi Paul,
I have no clue what that means! Will copy my details from this ticket into a bug report when I get a chance. It’s 3:22AM so I will do so probably tomorrow.
So I just pieced some code from Buddypress 2.5.0 (previously used code from 2.4.0 files during testing) files together using class-bp-core-whos-online-widget.php and bp-members-widgets.php to create a generic widget containing a generic loop in it. After putting that generic widget into a dynamic sidebar and then calling that sidebar above the cover image header the loop displays and doesn’t break the private message button. Weird way about getting my custom loop to display above the cover image header on a member’s profile but works for some reason. Thought I’d let you know just in case the info helps.
Not sure why the code I pieced together from Buddypress 2.4.0 (bp-members-widgets.php) didn’t work also when I first tried this random workaround. During that round of testing the loop displayed as intended but still broke the private message button. I’m not a coder so I have no clue what is happening, I just figured it was something to do with the loading of the code so I tried random things to try and get it to work. Noticed you no longer just use bp-members-widget.php for 2.5.0 so maybe that has something to do with my workaround working now. Weird.
Anyways, thanks for all your help. Will be great to have one of you experts take a look and remedy this quirk.
Have a great night.
Regards,
mark
