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Hello,

I am new to BuddyPress.
But, as far as I understand most of the user activity is done via front end.

My questions:

1. What should I do to have the user login via front end. What is the login page?
2. At log out the users must be redirected to one of the pages of the website. Preferably a log out page. How can I do this.

Thanks !

Hi there,

I would like to have an individual title and meta description for each activity post.
How can I get an excerpt of the first 7 words of the activity post as title and also as meta description (in best case also the first 7 words comma separated as meta keywords)
I refer to posts like this http://www.buddyboss.com/demo/buddyboss/members/guest/activity/12317/ – in the title and meta should then appear “will this go into the photo gallery”

I found this on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13302874/adding-custom-activity-stream-on-buddypress – does this help for getting a detailed explanation how to use it?

pls. can somebody help me to get this work!!

WordPress 4.1
BuddyPress 2.1.1

I am evaluating WordPress and BuddyPress for a website that should consist of a public area and a member area. For non-WP sites, I used to have all the members-only content in a single directory (example.com/member-area/index.html) adding HTTP Basic Authentication by means of an htaccess and a htpasswd file.

As a trial, I installed WP and BP but realised that by default the whole site is password protected except the homepage and the registration page.

– What’s the concept for such an area with WP+BP: Do you do it with a separate directory too or a subdomain?
– How do you define the location of the members area or declare the content as protected in WordPress/BuddyPress?
– How do you make members-only pages/subpages appear in the navigation menu after login only?

I found no instructions in the documentation or the forum and hope you can help me with these basic questions. Thanks!

WordPress Version 4.1
BuddyPress Version Version 2.1.1

I am new to buddypress and i am using the latest version. I have a custom post type called rewards and it has a custom taxonomy with it. I have created groups which matching names respective to the rewards taxonomy. Every time a new reward is create it will have one or more “groups” associated with them.

Now the following code works on the member’s main activity feed.

/* Tell Buddypress to add Rewards to activity stream */
function activity_publish_custom_post_types($post_types)
{
    $post_types[] = 'rewards';
    return $post_types;
    
}
add_filter('bp_blogs_record_post_post_types', 'activity_publish_custom_post_types',1);

/* Filter for action for post type reward*/
function rewards_activity_action($activity_action, $post, $post_permalink)
{
    global $bp;
    if ($post->post_type == 'rewards') {
        
        $activity_action = sprintf(__('%1$s posted a new reward : %2$s', 'buddypress'), bp_core_get_userlink((int) $post->post_author), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>');
       return $activity_action; 
    }
   
}

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action', 'rewards_activity_action', 1, 3);
add_filter('bp_activity_before_save', 'rewards_activity_content', 3);

/* Filter for content for post type reward before saved to database */
function rewards_activity_content($activity){

    global $post;

    if ($post->post_type == 'rewards') {

        $activity_id = (int) $activity->id;
        $post_id = (int) $activity->secondary_item_id;
        $user_id = (int) $activity->user_id;
      
        $post_type = get_post_type( $post_id );
        $thumbnail = get_the_post_thumbnail($post_id);

        
        $activity_content  = "<div class='post-id'>The post ID : {$post_id}</div>\n";
        $activity_content = "<div class='thumbnail'>{$thumbnail}</div>\n";
        $activity->content = $activity_content;

    }
}

My questions :-

1. within the rewards_activity_content function I cannot add the custom activity action name as such shown below

$activity->action = sprintf(__('%1$s posted a new reward : %2$s', 'buddypress'), bp_core_get_userlink((int) $post->post_author), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>');

hence why i have created the rewards_activity_action function.

2. Based on the custom taxonomies that have been selected every time a new reward is created this needs to match the groups activity stream and a record needs to go in there for that particular group with the same
action and content name

Please tell me how I can acheive this

It will be great to know what success fellow BP users have had or what tweaks or what free-paid combo they are using to active this? Social Net is much about photos and Likes these days though there can be argument this is not the use-case for all.

I have looked at rtcamp’s theme-and-Media solution as well as Buddyboss’s theme-and-media solution, and have arrived at the following questions:

• How does the interface look like when one submits a blog – is he thrown out of the theme?
• How does the theme behaves in WP Multisite set up and/or with a standard 3rd party plugin eg buddypress-activity-privacy.1.3.3?
• Can I “Like” a blog or photo from the post page itself as well as the activity stream?
• Does the User Profile others’ view shows the Likes also ? [ for example, Demo of buddyboss shows only Wall tab, no Likes tab ]
• Can users have mutiple Albums, multiple upload at the same time and on-photo tagging? Can they “Like” a photo in the photo page itself?
• Can the admin determine how many thumbnails to show when there are multiple photo uploads at the same time and can the admin restrict such number?
• Media – is it integrated to WP media ?

rtcamp’s theme-and-Media solution is probably $200 + altogether but does not solve above problems, buddyboss theme-wall-media is probably $120+ but very incomplete Media and Like solutions. The free Media plugins rtcamp does not provide “Like” (it has Likes separate from BP favorit and is confusing), modemloopers Buddypics has no albums and buddyboss media is very incomplete imho – none of the paid or free are integrated into WP media. Please correct me.

PS : Has rtcamp and buddyboss guys abandoned this forum?

I have a new project in mind I’m experimenting WordPress with a few plugins to achieve what I desire. However, I haven’t been able to achieve everything exactly as I want, so your feedback is much appreciated since I am new to WordPress.

I’m building up a blog with 4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

bbPress
BuddyPress
bbPress Topics for Posts -> Allows me to automatically create a new Topic in the forum for each newly published Post. This is how the Author will interact with the participants.
BP Blog Author Profile Link -> When clicking the Author’s name, redirects to its BuddyPress member’s page.
BuddyPress Follow -> I only need a few components of BudyPress’s social capacities… Friendship is not one of them. I just want participants to follow their desired Author and be notified of his/her new blog post. This plugin allows members to just follow other members without Friendship requests.

These set of plugins solves *almost* every problem. However, I still need to change a few things like:

the ability to Allow members to follow Authors and be notified of their new posts: so far, members can only check if a member has published something by accessing its Activity tab under his/her profile page. The member is not notified of this activity…
disable the “Activity” part of BudyPress: I don’t want this on every member’s profile, but if I disable this component, members can not check for Authors’ latest blog posts…

There are others thing I must change, but these are the most important ones. How can achieve such a thing? Should I not use BuddyPress at all (and loose its bbPress nice integration)? How can I improve its notification system while still not allowing them exchange messages (public or private) and activity statuses?

I’ve search for a few plugins that could improve BuddyPress to work as I need, but could not found any. I’m not a PHP programmer neither I know how WordPress works, but, if needed, I can try to do some coding on BuddyPress… I want to avoid that, if possible, though, as it would cost me time and the solution might not really work properly…

ANY help is much appreciated! Let me know if you need more information. Thank you, in advance.

Regards,
Pedro