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Buddypress 1.6, using the BuddyPress Default theme. The user is shown as banned in the Admin > Members list. The user cannot create forum topics, forum replies, or write new updates in the group. In a green box underneath the group description it states “You have been banned from this group.” when that user visits the group. It’s a public group. The banned user can still read everything, and he can reply to activity feed entries.

This was possible on previous versions of buddypress (1.5.6 i think) and I was wiping and re-installing wordpress and buddypress on two different servers (local and online) both producing the same results with fresh installs. I really had nothing to do that day… My site ended up only using private groups and I thought this was intended so I didnt mention it before.

I mean the notifications that appear on the buddypress bar. When someone comments/replies to my status updates on activity I do not get a notification. However I do get notifications for private messages, friendship requests and mentions.

Hopefully that made it clearer to understand my problem.

Hi, I managed to recreate the problem on a new install.

This happens when commenting on updates of a private group in the activity stream. It does not affect hidden groups updates though.

Should I submit a bug report?

Hi, I disabled all my plugins but the same thing still happens.

BUT, I managed to find more information. This happens only on status updates on Private Group.

So is it possible that it’s something like, the BuddyPress didn’t check for the user’s permission when the ajax comment is posted, so when the comments are posted it is treated as “hidden/private” to the person posting it?

It’s a wild guess, but can someone with private groups & BuddyPress 1.6 help confirm this? I’m wondering if it’s just me or does it affect everyone.

Sure @karmatosed – http://wisdomsistercircles.com/family/groups/piggyback-oprahs-lifeclass/
Username/PW: tester
Yes I do have other plugins active. The only BP one is Private BuddyPress.

they appear unused and not working.

right. One way they’re not working is that they don’t even report the right info. I don’t recall which it was, but I ran one of those functions, and it was printing Private in a public group.

I’m not sure what you mean “are you sure you’ve setup your $group variable correctly?”. In my thinking, BuddyPress sets it up, not me; I’m just trying to reference it. I copied that $group->status setup out of the definition for bp_get_group_type() in bp-groups-template.php.

I’ll give a whirl to the `bp_get_group_type()`, since that demonstrably at least produces the correct group visibility level; my trick will be to use its output in a conditional.

Ok, so `bp_group_type` is what prints text to the page, `bp_get_group_type` seems to summon the text as a returned value (which bp_group_type() uses for its printing)

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SUCCESS!

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`<?php if (bp_get_group_type()== "Public Group")
print “foo”
?>
<?php if (bp_get_group_type()== "Private Group")
print “bar”
?>`

On a private group, I saw foo outputted and no bar. So it works.

It feels less than elegant. It would be more elegant to just use the variables that bp_get_group_type() calls. But for now, it works.

Thanks, @RogerCoathup, for the guidance

Hi Paul, yes they’re all up-to-date:

– Akismet (2.5.6)
– bAll-in-One Event Calendar (1.
– BP Labs (1.2.2)
– BuddyPress Group Email Subscription (deleted)
– BuddyPress Twitter (1.2)
– Easy Contact Forms (1.4)
– Featured articles Lite (2.4.9.1)
– Google Analytics for WordPress (deleted)
– HL Twitter (2011.7.30)
– jQuery Colorbox (4.4.1)
– KK I Like It (1.4.1)
– Private WordPress (1.3.4)
– Section Widget (3.1)
– U BuddyPress Forum Attachment (1.2.1)
– WP Live Stream (1.2.1)
– WP User Frontend (1.1)

Could these have anything to do with the problem? I tried deleting/deactivating them all but those problems still exist.

you know the check boxes let me post a screen shot from image shack. I am referring to this picture it is your plugin. You have the “let the user decide” drop down option but if you could just please add the default “friends only” check boxes and add the private messaging it would be superb. I would personally greatly appreciated thanks. I tried others but it was too much of hassle for user if they would want to go that deep I want something simple as yours so even my grandpa would be able to set his privacy settings thanks again.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/17/thisap.jpg/

Ughh…excuse my frustration.

Scope and Objective: to enable the Admin (me) to create user accounts. To capture the username created and pro grammatically write to an external file in order to allow user to authenticate though our private authentication method. And to enable new user to receive a welcome email at time they get setup.

I do not care anything about when/how/why/or where they login or activate themselves so as to appear in BuddyPress. That is all down stream stuff that has nothing to do with my process.

The only effective hook I have found is the `add_action(‘user_register’, ”);` Works like a charm.

However, in order to get the user to be seen by BuddyPress I need to go through step #2 and Add New User in the Buddypress Admin page. That is where I tell WP/BP they are allowed access to the “site” and it is also where they get their role assigned.

I have over 200 users to setup in the next week. If I could just cut down my process time by 50% — that is to eliminate the 2 step process and make it a 1 step process — I would be a little happier.

I need to get the Buddypress equivalent hook to WP’s `add_action(‘user_register’, ”);`

That is why I am asking for an enhancement to BP to get an equivalent hook. Down the road it will make my setup life easier.

ok – so here is what was missing – there needs to be an ajax call that has to be made when the button is clicked that is what actually does the trick

`
$j(“div.signupbutton a”).live(‘click’, function() {
var gid = $j(this).parent().attr(‘id’);
gid = gid.split(‘-‘);
gid = gid[1];

var nonce = $j(this).attr(‘href’);
nonce = nonce.split(‘?_wpnonce=’);
nonce = nonce[1].split(‘&’);
nonce = nonce[0];

var thelink = $j(this);

$j.post( ajaxurl, {
action: ‘joinleave_group’,
‘cookie’: encodeURIComponent(document.cookie),
‘gid’: gid,
‘_wpnonce’: nonce
},
function(response)
{
var parentdiv = thelink.parent();

if ( !$j(‘body.directory’).length ) {
location.href = location.href;
//do stuff that you want to do on successful request send
parentdiv.fadeIn(200).html(“Thanks for signing up”);
}
else {
$j(parentdiv).fadeOut(200,
function() {
parentdiv.fadeIn(200).html(response);
}
);
}
});
return false;
});
`

false positive. The button does not seem to work on another page even though it has the right link. I am looking for the related form now

earlier post – Ok I am guessing that I need to pass a group object to the bp_get_group_join_button function and not the name of the group. So my next question is – is there a way to get a group object if I know a group name?

Managed to get it done finally.

`
<?php
global $wpdb;
$mgroup_name = “mygroupname”;
$myrows = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM wp_bp_groups where slug=’$mgroup_name’;”, OBJECT);
if (count($myrows)>0) {
$group1 = $myrows[0];
$buttondata=bp_get_group_join_button($group1);
}

?>

var registrationbutton = “”;
`

Would this code work “ to get the registration button for the group?

Update – I tried using the link /groups/group_name/request-membership/ but that is not working