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@rebekahmeuir – this has just started happening to me too. All plugins, BP and themes up to date (with theme that’s specifically designed to work with BP).

On tesing the messaging works if you send it to a member by clicking on the ‘send private message’ in the All members section, but NOT when you compose a message in your own p[rofile section – with subjest line completed, and tested using the memebers’ Name and username. It shows an error message that the message can’t be sent.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I’ll check with other plugins and the theme and will update here if I find anything, but any info would be really useful!

Cheers.

That particular notification is for a private message. See where it says component_name. Post IDs won’t relate to messages

DanBp,
this helped me too. Thank you very much!

Is it possible to have something like that to put a “send private message” on product page (whoocommerce) to private message the User who upload product?
thank you!

Would it work if I would not connect the “members” page with BuddyPress in the settings, set the page to private and pull the dynamic content for the members list by a stortcode?

No, no, no. That page is core, must exist and should be blank. Just a (custom) title.

Do I need to learn to code to use BuddyPress?
No, but it’s better if you know some basics.

To make the member directory for loggedin users only, you have to:
– create a child-theme (is explained on WP and BP codex)
– copy/paste index.php from wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/index.php
to
/wp-content/themes/your_child/buddypress/members/index.php

In this copy, right after <div id="buddypress">, in the existing php opening tag just after, you add if(is_user_logged_in() ):

At the end of the file, you’ll find the closing div tag of #buddypress.
Just before this closing tag, again an opening php tag, you add endif; before the do_action you’ll see there.

If you did it correctly, the directory is now only be visible for loggedin users.

Some basics:

open php tag <?php
closing php tag ?>

open html tag <div>
closing html tag </div>

Hi @nmschaller,

bbPress is a separate plugin and BuddyPress doesn’t manage bbPress. For questions about forum settings, you can use the bbPress support.

When you use BP groups component, you can add a forum to each of them. In this case only, you have to install bbPress. Of course you can also use bbPress as standalone on a BP install, or use bbPress with WordPress, without BP.

BP doesn’t use “pages” but templates, and the only pages created during installation are in for internal purpose. The “member” page is used to show the member directory, but also profiles or members activities. This dynamic content is displayed on different templates, depending the context, and using WP’s page system to fire all that via a same page slug (aka internal path).

your-site/members/some/thing/ where /some/thing/ is using his own template part displayed on “members page”.

So far i understand you use bbPress and now you want a members directory, and eventually some additionnal fields on user’s profiles. And most of this should be private or “members only”, right ?

The main problem is that you want some custom behave that need some knowledge (you seem to have), but you cannot edit functions.php Unfortunately, this is the place where to add customisation. And what to tell about bp-custom, which is another crucial cusmisation file.

You want to drive and have no steering wheel ! Annoying… 😉

The question is Do you need BuddyPress or can you use another solution ? 🙂

Depends your project, really. Members directory or extended profiles can be done with separate plugins.

Read here:
http://chrislema.com/best-wordpress-membership-plugin-2014/

Or digg into the Codex if you decide to use BuddyPress.

bbpress is the plugin, by type was meant site wide forum or group forum.

can I provide you a link via pm or mail?

No ! You’re on a free help support, maintained by volonteers.

If you want private assistance, use the job board forum where you can hire a freelancer or a dev, but probably not for free.

Which result when you use Twenty Fifteen theme ?
Do you use some custom functions on group page ?

Also, as of Codex https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/groups/
This is a private group

Options

Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.

The messages_mark_thread_read() function will mark a message thread as read. It accepts the thread ID. So, to mark read all new private messages if they have a given subject, you could do this:

function creativesinside_mark_read( $message ) {

    // Be sure we're working with an array.
    if ( is_object( $message ) ) {
        $args = (array) $message;
    } else {
        $args = $message;
    }

    // Mark as read.
    if ( $args['subject'] == 'comment on your post' ) {
        messages_mark_thread_read( $args['thread_id'] );
    }
}
add_action( 'messages_message_sent', 'creativesinside_mark_read' );