BuddyPress.org

@danbp this is intentionally another reply. Again, this is likely to be lengthy. So, please bear with me.

Consider member1 is a member of private group PGA, and public group GB.

site.com/activity includes updates in GB, and updates by other members.
members/member1/activity/groups/ includes updates in PGA and GB.

I wanted to merge the two — without duplicating content from GB. Any way to achieve that? Its perfectly OK if we can get that feed at site.com/activity or some other URL.

On a side note, the advantages are:
An one place, member1 gets to see ALL updates (whether private or public) AND we avoid duplication (GB is displayed both at site.com/activity and members/member1/activity/groups).

Theme: Weaver II

Plugin-list:

Agreeable
amr shortcode any widget
bbp Private Forums Visibility
bbPress
bbPress – Unerwünschte Inhalte melden
bbPress Advanced Capabilities
bbPress Direct Quotes
BbPress Notification
bbP Signature
Beautiful Widget CK
BuddyPress
BuddyPress – Private Aktivitäten
Facebook Like Box
GD bbPress Attachments
GD bbPress Widgets
Google XML Sitemaps
Invite Anyone
Login With Ajax
Page Links To
Page Restrict
PayPal Donations
Privates BuddyPress
Q and A FAQ and Knowledge Base for WordPress
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
Super Socializer
Use Google Libraries
Weaver II Theme Extras
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
wp-Monalisa

I know that’s quite a lot of plugins, but how can I reduce them, if I need the functionality? Is it possible that the problem comes from just too many plugins?

Yes.

If the admin is creating the groups and forums there is no problem (well if he knows this is an issue),
but if the members are creating groups and later want to change groups settings to “private”, they have no control over the forums’ privacy. And that leaves them confused or if sensitive info was shared in the forums, upset too.

So, yeah, something needs to be done.

thank you for looking into this @henrywright.

@henrywright

Ok, I can confirm the issue now.

If a group is created as private and a forum is created with it- it will be a private forum and its activity will remain invisible to non group members.

If a private group is created and an existed forum is added to it- this forum need to be changed to private- otherwise the forum will remain public, even though the group attached to it is private- and the activity of the forum will be public.

Same goes for a public group+ forum , that is created together and later group setting are set to private. Forum remains public- forum’s activity -too.

Is there something to be done with the buddypress-bbpress integration to make this work?
Creating a function that will make a forum private too- if the group it was attached to becomes private? @johnjamesjacoby
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bugs-between-bbpress-and-buddypress/

Hi @henrywright,

I am using buddyboss (child theme), tested it with default wp theme and buddyboss parent.

I also found this thread https://buddypress.org/support/topic/forum-in-private-groups/ started a few weeks ago, and I think @melle328 is right, this happens if the group is first set as public and later changed to private or as in my case- group forum is set to public first and then chosen as the private’s group forum.

So far it seems that if users create a group and a forum and later change their settings- the activity privacy is not updated. I keep testing different options as we speak, so I find something new, I will post it too.

Thank you for your reply.

I figured that it would be the best place to ask prior to going down the rabbit hole with the BuddyPress documentation and website. It’s been labeled as rather archaic, cryptic, and unreadable by many people that I asked for advice. I contribute to several other open source projects and might jump in on your docs/forum if the platform seems like something that will be handy for me in the future.

As for the project being a copy, it’s really just identical in feature sets but not a literal copy of the site. Design is very different and it’s not dog sitters that are members. This site is for parents and babysitters which is highly similar to dogvacay.com in feature set. Yep, their site is built in Java. ::vomits a little::

The key features that need to be included:

– two member types (parents and babysitters)
– they should be able to message each other privately
– parents can schedule a date for the sitting to happen
– parents can browse babysitters
– custom profiles for each with different sets of information (based on a conditional of type)

It appears that I was able to answer my own question over the past few days by utilizing the codex and going through all of the code. BuddyPress looks to be the best option for handling all of this unless I was to custom code a plugin (I am actually a PHP developer NOT a wordpress dev). I was looking at utilizing BuddyPress for cutting down time by using the friend associations and messaging system.

BP might be a little much for this project but I can see value in several features that they might want in the future.

I apologize for posting this in err to this forum if it’s not really a good place for asking whether it’s a good platform for such a situation. All of the documentation/about is written in a fashion that presents it as useful in only one way. It made it rather difficult to decipher how I could rip the plugin apart to do what I need instead of using it as “out-of-the-box.”

Might there be some advance blogs out there where people have written about different ways to use the plugin? Just so that I can dig into the community a little more.

Have a nice day.

Thank you for your answers! Looks like that I did not describe clear what is my problem, because what I tried from you suggestions it did not work.

There is the code that I’m using to generate “Give a point” button”

function one_star_points() {
	if ( ! function_exists( 'mycred' ) ) return;
	$current_id = get_current_user_id();
	$profile_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
	if ( $current_id == $profile_id ) return;
	echo '<div class="award-star-rating-img">';
	echo do_shortcode( '[mycred_send to="' . $profile_id . '" amount="1" ref="tip" log="Tipping"]Give a point[/mycred_send]' );
	echo '</div>';
}
add_action( 'one_star_points_button', 'one_star_points' );

To give points in user profile I used $profile_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
To give points in forum I used $profile_user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id();

But i bumped into a problem when I want to give points to user in activity stream. I placed the button near every activity stream entry, so the user could give a point if the like what other user posted in activity stream. I used this code $profile_video_id = bp_get_activity_user_id(); There is no error or warning, but it’s not working, not giving points.

Also I would like to give a point if I like private message answer that other user send me. I used this $profile_message_id = bp_get_the_thread_message_sender_id() ;, but it says that “Missing the recipient for this shortcode.”.

Looks like that in the last two cases (activity stream and messages) something is wrong with indicating user id.
Any recommendations on this? I have tried many functions, but still can’t grab user ID in those last two..

@henrywright I do not want to ‘add’ new activity. I just want that when one visits example.com/activity, it displays all profile updates (these are displayed even now), all updates to public groups (these, too, are displayed currently) AND all updates in private/ hidden groups where the concerned person is a member (this is NOT displayed currently.) How do I do that?

Also, I understood the second part re threads with new comments coming to top. But could you please elaborate a bit? Do I need to add some code to bp-custom.php or mytheme/function.php? In this specific case, what code should I add?

I am sorry if my question appear to be basic. I am a newbie — I like to guess, like many others coming to forums 🙂

Also my site is private and can only be accessed when logged in, so I’m wondering if I can edit line line 47 in that same code to include the user check and simply display the “Invalid User ID specified.” If someone tries to view another user’s achievements list. That would be fine with me.

I’m still new to WP/BP and PHP in general if you haven’t noticed 😉

John, Thank you for the pointers.

I gave the Role bp_moderate but that did not solve the issue. There must be some other check that needs to be passed for these menu items to show up.

Maybe a compromise could be found and some new functionality for the front end could be introduced that allows you to assign someone as Group Admin. I think i am not the only one that sees value in that Role especially in a big community where you have the need to moderate but do not want to give people access to the backend or higher Administrative privileges.

I also don’t quite understand why a Group admin could not be derived from one of the Forum Roles. A forum Moderator or Keymaster should be able to moderate all Forums incl. the private group ones and could subsequently also be allowed to manage all groups.

Just my 2 cents. let me know what you think.

Hi,

i tried …and nothing change…

Any idea?
Thanks Nicola

if you think u can help me..we can private and let me know about your prices.