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Hi @caniwigirl

Yes, i tried it from the back-end. The only way I can get a forum to display with a group is if I make the forum public. It will not work for either private or hidden :(.

I have two such groups – both with different memberships.

I have provided the users with the URL but that relies upon them either remembering it or constantly referring to their email.

I have looked at using a further plugin but I have about 9 already for the forum functionality alone, and the more php functions I call during a page load the slower my site becomes (because of the set up of my site at the host level – something I have no control over).

I have also used all the widget slots that I feel comfortable with (about 5 on the page) in order to ensure that the layout is neither too cluttered nor too messy (I find the more stuff you use the less pleasant the site is to look at) – I work for a charity for the visually impaired and one thing we discovered was that users – no matter what their visual capabilities – didn’t like a cluttered page.

I will continue to look, but really my point is that if there is a piece of functionality in something then it should work – UAT isn’t hugely expensive (part of my professional job as it happens) and that is something which would have failed it – it would be nice if there were clear guidelines on which templates (including the core ones) worked with the hidden/private group settings before they were used – I have spent so many hours mucking around with templates only for them to fail at that last hurdle (the groups not appearing) it’s getting rather frustrating.

I am finding if i add a public/private forum to a group it will work fine. If i change the forum status to hidden it is no longer available to the group. If i set the forum back to private/public, it is still not part of the forum. The only way I can assign a forum to this group is to create a new one. Less than ideal.

Hey @danbp,

WordPress provides a function for that. Check out wp_filter_nohtml_kses(). It strips all HTML from the string you provide so there’s no need to use preg_replace().

function hellowed_remove_html_private_messages( $message ) {

    $message = wp_filter_nohtml_kses( $message );
    return $message;
}
add_filter( 'messages_message_content_before_save', 'hellowed_remove_html_private_messages' );

hi @hellowed,

try this (add to child theme functions.php or better, bp-custom.php) It will remove a and span and h1 html tag

function bpfr_remove_html_from_private_msg($message){
		$replacement = ''; 
return preg_replace( "/ <(span|a|h1)[^>]*>/", $replacement, $message);
	
}
add_filter('messages_message_content_before_save', 'bpfr_remove_html_from_private_msg');

Sorry, but I think this is broken. Everytime a user sends a private message to another user an email is being sent to that user and the site admin containing a copy of the private message. Please check this.

So what op is saying, is that basically taking the notifications from the top right and putting “inbox notifications” on the bottom right of the screen, and when hover / clicked would bring up latest messages, and instead of clicking those bring you to a new bp page, it could ajax load your private messages – and allow for image uploads.. would kind of do what you are talking about.. no fancy chat required.. kind of I guess?

I use quick chat on one site with a dedicated server, and only enable it to work on one page, not show up on every page of the site.. I use av-chat (from nusoft I think) on a busier site.. but with my sites I am not using them in the way the OP is asking about, a mini chat tab on each page.. I just use them as chat rooms on a single page.

Tried many other solutions, paid for many, most fail miserably starting around 20 users.

/random thoughts at 2am

@leanneoleary,

BuddyPress doesn’t handle the Media Library.
BuddyPress doesn’t handle registration.

It’s a bad practice to allow users to upload something to your site until they’re not fully registered. When a user register, WP considers this new account as pending. As long as the user hasn’t activate his account with the activation key, he can only visit the site.

As you installed BuddyPress, i suggest you use your site à la BuddyPress.
If you want your members be able to upload files, use BuddyDrive. Each user can upload files from within his profile page and can share them on different levels (public, private, friends only). And much better as the Media Library default behave, each document belong to his user. BuddyDrive attributes a folder to each user who upload a document.

This is much simplier, well integrated and efficient in a members community as strugling with custom code (and potential errors and security issues).

Hey @mcpeanut,

AWS Pro will do exactly what you are after out of the box, it returns you to exactly where you were on the page, but you might find that you want to disable that as it can be a bit confusing for people. If they click on a link for a blog post for example, it will load the new page but not from the top if that makes sense, so you see the blog post but you may already be halfway down the page and need to scroll back up to read it from the start. This can be fixed with the inbuilt “scroll-to-top” feature though, which is what I use but I’ve removed the hard coded jQuery animation that comes with it.

The messaging issue is that at the moment with AWS Pro activated, the dropdown list of members isn’t firing when you start typing somebody’s name in a private message. I notified the dev about it and he is fixing it for the next update though.

There’s private messages built in, but this is rather old school. You can’t leave the conversation as you can on FB, you can’t upload files to the conversation etc. I am after something like Facebook chat/messaging system.

Personally I would like PM and chat to be separate. But then, things may change also – who can say – please submit issues with lots of real world example at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

Some chat solutions worth looking may be https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+chat