I have a marketplace where the users are private. I need to establish a way for the admin to force connections but the users do not have the ability.
How can I change the “friends” label to “connections” ?
thanks for your help. I”m very new to making these sort of changes. appreciate the help
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.
Hi, I am trying to make a my website where non-members can view the home page and news page, but not able to use the forums. I don’t know how to make the forums homepage private (by this, I mean it shows all the topics and number of comments). I want the forum homepage and the categories to be viewed only by members (I am using buddypress). Is there a way to make some sections of the website only accessible by buddypress members?
Read a number of posts on this topic. Just wondered if there are any plans in BuddyPress development to include the option of making private messaging between friends only and prevent users PM’ing anybody and everybody. Reasons being: 1. To reduce spamming, therefore not annoying users who will then enjoy using the site more & 2. reduced requests on servers and possibly getting blacklisted.
Are plugins the only route to accomplish this at the moment? If so any recommendations?
Many thanks
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 an issue where email notifications are not being sent/received even though they are turned on the user settings. There are no emails sent/received for the actions listed below;
– Public messages using the @username feature
– Private messages
– Friend Requests
– Follow notification
Cheers
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
Hi,
Updated to BP v2.5.1 and found a composing issue if I want to send private message to a user.
What I found:
1. If you want to compose a new message and search for a recipient with some letter you enter, after clicking on a name you found, the name is set with a space in front of the name and the message cannot be sent, see attached screen.
http://www.screencast.com/t/E27NTq3x8
2. Private messaging only works, if you visited a profile and click on private message, see the second attached screenshot.
http://www.screencast.com/t/JW9KzQfFfuFU
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Same if I use standard theme, see http://www.screencast.com/t/IroChWUr
Can you check this please?
And can I switch to the latest BuddyPress version before 2.5.0 without any problems – just overwriting the BuddyPress folder?
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.
Hello
I used a code in my child theme functions.php to change the code at registration and it worked, that code was:
//Change username and email at registration
// changing from name
function rv_mail_from_name($name) {
return 'Enter your Site Name Here';
}
// changing email
function rv_mail_from($content_type) {
return 'no-reply@Enter-your-domain-here.com';
}
add_filter('wp_mail_from','rv_mail_from');
add_filter('wp_mail_from_name','rv_mail_from_name');
Private messages notifications via email is still showing wordpress@domainname, to change this, I used:
function custom_wp_mail_from( $email ) {
$handle = 'no-reply';
$find = 'http://';
$replace = '';
$link = get_bloginfo( 'url' );
$domain = str_replace( $find, $replace, $link );
return $handle . '@' . $domain ;
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'custom_wp_mail_from' );
This still doesn’t work, I appreciate any help to change the notifications email through a child theme functions.php.
Regards
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.
Hi there,
I need help 🙂
My educational website overview – it’s an online tutor/student collaboration system. Students can register with many tutors, and tutors can have many students. However, this collaboration is limited to 1 to 1 (i.e. no classroom style), more grind style.
I’m looking for a wordpress plugin for my website where I can do the communication part of this. It needs to be able to do the following;
– If a student signs up with a tutor, a messaging system is created between the student and teacher (i.e. student and tutor can send messages to each other)
– Files, pictures, etc. can be sent during this messaging
– Once a message is sent an email is sent
– All these messages are private
– Once the students unregisters from the tutor, the communication stream is closed and deleted.
Does anyone know of a wordpress plugin I can use for this? I cant seem to find one anywhere 🙁
Any help or guidance will be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
GBB
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
