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EDIT: I checked your page again and saw that your registration fields now seem to be back on the page?

Did you find out what the problem was?
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@rightanglecreative90 ok, I would start asking several questions, many of which are included here

When Asking for Support

as Mathieu suggested.

Are you able to provide answers to those questions (e.g. not only WP and BP versions but also, did you upgrade from prior versions and which versions were they, do you have any other plugins, etc.) ?

Thanks for the reply @imath. I was simply implying to look and see what they are doing – SOME of what they are doing I think fits into general interest (look at how they deal with media). They are doing research and it would be foolish to ignore some parts, even if it in the end it leads to ways we can mold it more toward BuddyPress thinking.

Sometimes you can lead my example, other times you can lead by taking something and making it better in some way.

There’s a balance with addons – too many and a user can get overwhelmed with choices and research but overall I lean toward simple as possible. Perhaps it’s something that is simple for a niche purpuse that uses BuddyPress “under the hood”. It’s not a great example but thinking about “how can I spin up a special kind of to-do app that I can add my friends and share and collab with, while still owning my data, control, etc”. Thought of this today while my kid was showing me what she does in Notion today.

Ok, so if the WordPress repo is our advantage – then how do we use that advantage? how do we stand out (from member sites and other social plugins)? how do we feature BB plugins that are trust worthy and maintainable that avoid people having to dive into thousands of plugins in this “important advantage”? Good questions, looking forward to hearing more from people about them.

I don’t believe BuddyPress is missing THAT many features. Part of this is also changing with the times. Which means maybe thinking a little differently – even if it’s me thinking differently from how I look at BuddyPress when I started with it so many years ago. ☮️

Just my opinion and just an AI translation:

Where are the sticking points?

BP core:
After 9 months with BP and several free BP plugins, there are still a lot of questions. Group handling and invitation are too complex and partly illogical. (Example: Group Owner is allowed to remove himself and then the administrator has to ‘intervene’). Furthermore, internal e-mail, where you have to select users based on their usernames (@…). Also not visually appealing and sometimes rather confusing in use. Other BP features (sorting/displaying members within groups!) that don’t work even on a WP default theme (Twenty Twenty-Two). Just annoying!

In principle, the core plugin provides too little (in terms of functionality). Best example: Blogging and media. Something that defines WP at its core. In addition to two larger commercial “BP providers” and some ancient plugins in the WP repo, the selection and comparability is difficult if you want to use them for specific rights and groups. I understand that you want to offer an open and expandable system, but something “more” would be desirable or necessary.

BP mailing list:
Hardly any actions, but many (trivial) questions and no answers. On the other hand, technically interesting answers are often 10 years or more in the past (and unfortunately still up-to-date in principle), but where there is no attempt to test them in a current BP version.

ToDo (Plugins into Core):
Directory: Very important! Of course you can use “BP Custom Fields” but there’s no option to do a filter search, based on different fields to exclude displaying other profiles – or I just can’t find the options. Tried “BP Profile Search”

Why not just embed a few components “more tightly” into the core, why not simply take over the source code of others who simply “copy” BP themselves without returning anything to the community? There was an interesting discussion about this recently on another platform site.

Wishes:
– Rights management for pages/posts or for individual BP components (either private/public or at user level) – e.g. “User Access Manager”
– E-mail communication between each other without having to use the real e-mail address and being able to leave the borders of BP – e.g. “BP Reply By Email”

It’s a pity, but currently STILL not enough for uncomplicated use and sometimes stopped in development. In addition, commercial providers who copy BP as well as other WP Social Media Group solutions that are more complete and appear more self-contained.

To name a few plugins that could be partially included:

Theme: BuddyX (free)
BP 11 (dev) &
BP Attachments (dev) (what does it do? Substitution of BuddyDrive?)
– bbPress (smarter integration)
– BP Profile Search (no filter options found)
– BP Reply By Email (should be core as option)
– BuddyDrive (should be Core)
– Buddpress Docs
– BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types (should be core)
– BuddyPress Xprofile Conditional Fields (should be core)
– Rendez Vous (should be core as option)
– “BuddyPress XY Blog” (should be core)
– “BuddyPress XY Search”

Many thanks for the quick response. I’m not a developer so please excuse two clueless questions:
1) Do these snippets work on their own, or does your User Roles plugin need to be activated?
2) Do I insert both of the above snippets in the child theme, like this?
add_filter( ‘bp_get_group_join_button’, ‘venutius_restrict_group_join’, 10, 2 );

function venutius_restrict_group_join( $button, $group ) {
global $bp;
if ( current_user_can( ‘manage_options’ ) || $group->is_member ) {
return $button;
}

$membership_total = count( BP_Groups_Member::get_membership_ids_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) );

if ( $membership_total >= 1 ) {
return false;
}

return $button;
}
add_action( ‘groups_join_group’, ‘venutius_group_join_filter’, 10, 2 );

function venutius_group_join_filter( $group_id, $user_id ) {
global $bp;

if ( current_user_can( ‘manage_options’ ) ) {
return;
}

$membership_total = count( BP_Groups_Member::get_membership_ids_for_user( $user_id ) );

if ( $membership_total >= 4 ) {
groups_leave_group( $group_id, $user_id )
}

}

Some names are the same but the underlying code is different.
You need to ask BuddyBoss – they have a facebook page for questions.

You can not use/mention promotional stuff in your posts rather you can ask or answer someone’s questions. Promotional stuff can be like promoting your website, social account, or something else.

There is already a filter with that name:
apply_filters( 'bp_members_signup_error_message', '<div class="error">' . $error_message . '</div>' );
It passes only one argument. You need to write a custom filter hook with a different name.

also – these are the forums for BuddyPress.
Please contact BuddyBoss for questions specific to their codebase.
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Thanks @danbp for that toggle snippet, nearly five and a half years later and still works a treat!

Two questions if I may:

1 Is it possible to default to hidden?

2 Is it possible to move the button to another position?

I’m testing Youzify which may complicate things as it appears where I want to move it to is behind a Youzify component that only appears once a comment has been posted.

From what I understand (which in coding is very little sadly) your code searches for the “Comment” button and inserts the toggle button after it:

$(this).find('.button.acomment-reply').after(html);

I tried modifying that line in your code to target the Youzify component which has a div class of “youzify-post-comments-count”, but alas, no joy.

$(this).find('.youzify-post-comments-count').after(html);

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Regards

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