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When you have such basic question, please search first the forum and read the documentation.

https://buddypress.org/support/search/bp_get_displayed_user_nav/

Navigation API

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23041165/buddypress-custom-nav-and-page-template

Never heard about a dropdown option limit! What is the limit you reached ?

…nothing accurate in /bp-xprofile/classes/class-bp-xprofile-field-type-selectbox.php

…or on common forum question.

Plugin list and theme name could help to help you.

Please search the forum before asking questions! For ex. “allow html in description”

Allow HTML Attributes in Profile Description Field

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/allow-html-in-xprofile-field-description-boxes/

Hi @luisa227,

considering your questions, i would suggest you read attentively both WP and BP codex.

– child theme
– bp-custom

bp-custom.php goes to wp-content/plugins/ directory, not into the (child)theme folder.

such path members/single/swap is related to BP legacy by default.

But as swap is a custom folder, that custom path means in fact wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/members/single/swap.php, where /child-theme/buddypress/contains copies of all your customized legacy files and your own additionnal files you want to use.

Hopefully reading the codex will help you to understand a little better how all this works together.

You can create a job listing here.

If you do, you may want to include answers to the questions that danbp asked above.

1. Yes

2. You mean WP posts ? Yes, if you give them permissions.

3. They can ‘friend’ each other. There is a plugin re ‘Follow’.

4. Probably – but you’ll need to customize the Follow plugin.

You should install BP on a test site and start trying different settings and additional plugins.
After you have done that, you can ask more specific questions here.

You can modify the pagination (example – not tested). BP use the wordpress function paginate_link()

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_links

Is “xprofile component” the feature exposed in “Settings > BuddyPress” named “Extended Profiles” (at the very top of the config page)? (It probably is, but I just want to be sure, thanks.)

Yes it is !

it is possible […] to effect the change of either the email or password fields?

Yes it is ! from here: your-site.abc/members/USERNAME/settings/ – the link can be found under the top right usermenu on wp’s toolbar: username > settings > general OR/AND on the buddymenu, when you’re on your profile: Settings ! And that’s it !

For all other BP related questions, please read through the codex, i really have no time to (re)write all explanations. Sorry, hope you uderstand.

… and that questions related to bbPress can be asked on the bbPress support forum 🙂

You might want to take a look at my website. It’s for people just starting out with BuddyPress, it might give you some ideas.

http://buddyuser.com

There’s a plugin to force the user to select an Avatar before they user your site – http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-buddypress-force-profile-photo

Some of your questions you need to ask your theme creator, though if it’s not a BuddyPress theme they may not be much help.

Please do not call out people directly unless they have already responded to your thread.

You’re using a premium theme and one, maybe two, premium plugins.
Your questions should be directed to the support provided by your purchases.
You might find somebody here willing to help you.
And you have a better chance of getting help if you show what you’ve already tried.
( Please use a service like gist when sharing code. )

One resource I can suggest is my own site that I’ve been setting up for the last month, it tries to focus on using BuddyPress an at the moment covers some of the basics and reviews a lot of the plugins. Does not answer your specific questions right now though – http://buddyuser.com/

hi @davehakkens,

You use a standalone bbPress. Normally you have to ask on bbPress forum for such questions.

Add this to bp-custom.php or child theme functions.php and give a try.

i tested it with group forums only, so i couldn’t test all the filters.
You might to find/experiment others.

It’s a working example who fires the country value. But you’ll certainly have to complete it to get the flag image.

function country_flag() {
$user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id();
$country = xprofile_get_field_data( 'country', $user_id );

	echo '<div class="country">'. $country .'</div>';
	
}
add_filter( 'bbp_theme_after_reply_author_details', 'country_flag' );
//add_filter( 'bbp_theme_before_topic_author', 'country_flag' );

How do I add a new member to buddypress from the backend of WP?
They are the forum moderators and group admins.
So, how do I “activate” them?

What should be understood from your questions ?

Adding a new user from backend and/or promote it as mod or group admin ?
Adding a new user is not related to BuddyPress, but to WordPress.

To promote users as mod or admin or add new user to a group from back-end
dashboard > groups > select the group > edit > anything to do that is at the bottom of the screen.

Hi @danbp – Sorry to hear that you’re having issues with the Group Type functionality. Your posts contain a couple different comments and questions, which I’ll try to address separately.

First: An orderby=group_type parameter sounds like an interesting enhancement idea. It’d possibly be even more interesting if we could “group” results by type, but our group loops aren’t easily set up for that.

Group type data is stored in the WP taxonomy tables. This decision was made because groups are in are many-to-many correspondence with types: a group can have multiple types, and a type can have multiple groups. But it does make it difficult to sort by type, both technically and conceptually. Technically, WP itself doesn’t natively allow sorting by taxonomy term for posts. Conceptually, if a group belongs to more than one type – say, ‘aaa’ and ‘zzz’ – it’s not clear where in the alphabetical order it should go.

That said, if you really wanted to sort by type, you could do it by filtering the group query SQL, and joining against the term_relationships and term_taxonomy table. The query would have to look something like this:

SELECT ... JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships tr ON (tr.object_id = g.id) JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt ON (tt.term_taxonomy_id = tr.term_taxonomy_id) WHERE ... tt.taxonomy = 'bp_group_type' ... ORDER BY tt.name

> And when you click for example on All Groups (the default group directory page) you remain on /groups/groupname/type/typename/. Bad UX !

For 2.7, we’re disabling AJAX for these queries, because of these UX concerns. Thanks for reporting the issue.

> My feeling about group type, is that it is implemented to be used inside of group create step first and in a single group as second. In brief, it’s an information for single groups.

As I see it, the issue here is that you’re trying to combine grouping-by-type with the groups loop. Your use case is valid, but I don’t think it’s the only, or even the primary, use of group types. Just having the ability to filter by group type (example.com/groups/type/foo) is very useful for many implementations.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts – it’s really helpful as we continue to improve the group types feature.

As already said: it’s constructed.
The site url is defined in WP general settings and stored in wp_options table
The user name is stored in wp_users table
For the other questions about DB, read:

BuddyPress Database Diagram

WordPress database schema

I have moved my site from Ning to Wp/Buddypress with a bbpress integration a few weeks ago. I was able to import a lot of content except the forum topics/responses.

What I did was this:
– used the export tool from Ning
– used the import tool to import ning to Buddypress
All my members (not that many, around 34 at that time) and their profiles, usernames, etc were transferred. All blogposts from Ning were imported as well.
It was easy for members to activate their account on my new Wp/Buddypress site.

The only down thing was that I had to manually copy topics and responses from the forum since I was unable to import this due to an error in the json file. I tried to repair that file but with no succes.

I hope this helps, should you have any questions please let me know. Like you I browsed many old topics and was unable to find any recent topics, so I just started out with trail and error to do it all myself.

Karen

So just to be clear, my registration form does not ask for real name. It asks for username, email address, password, and then it proceeds to the extended profile questions. But it does NOT ask for “Display Name,” it just copies whatever the user typed for username into the “Display Name” field. A friend of mine created the function, and I am not extremely PHP literate, but this is working on my site.

I’m a little embarrassed, because I don’t know exactly where in the code is this function that my buddy created for me, so I will have to give you the URL to my register.php file, and then you can view it in it’s entirety. (Code view with your browser.)

Click here to see my register.php

Hi,

you’re on the BuddyPress support forum where we can’t help for third party plugins.
If you have questions related to bbPress (if you use this plugin), you have to ask on their support.

For BuddyPress for Sensei plugin or WC Sensei, you can check the doc and/or ask on the plugin support too.

I have no real idea for this. You have to code that as nothing ready to use exist. Similar question here.
Note also that BP pages are dynamic, so what ever you can built won’t, imo never, be exact.

Ie. user A is on a profile activity and another is on members directory. What would you get ? At best, only the /members/ page… that is a bit vague, no ? And who cares, outside evtl. you ?

Note also that the nav history is browser territory, and that each client has different settings, even deactivated history, so you can’t really trust user’s history…

My recommandation would be: don’t loose your time trying to do this. BP let members know about there activities, focus on this and encourage it, instead of tracking there navigation. 😉