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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. 😉

Hi,

you are on the BuddyPress support.
bbpress questions should be asked on bbpress support.
And as you use Loco Translate plugin, and apparently have an issue with it, you have to ask on the LT plugin support.

To get more about chinese translation, help and much more, please read the Polyglots blog.

Hi,

color scheme’s are usually defined by the theme. Positioning elements needs some ID’s or class correctly defined and a medium knowledge for HTML & CSS handling.

if you create a child theme, you can change a lot of things related to BuddyPress, including CSS.

Read through the theme guidelines on BP Codex to get a general overview and check also the documentation of your theme.

Unfortunately, you use a premium theme and, as we have no access to his code, we can’t assist you more for it. Any questions related to it should be asked on your theme support.

But don’t hesitate to search the BuddyPress forum using keywords like css, template and so on…

Hi,

a mysql error has nothing to do with BuddyPress.
#1062 – duplicate entry ‘190’
Normally you re-import datas in empty tables when you restore. In your case it seems that an entry with an ID ‘190’ was already in bp_activities table…

More details here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29545733/error-1062-duplicate-entry-in-mysql

http://www.w3resource.com/mysql/administration-tools/phpmyadmin-tutorial.php