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October 16, 2013 at 3:28 am #172915

In reply to: New to BuddyPress – introductory questions

bp-help
Participant

@jiminps
Even though the first question deals with bbPress the answer is it depends on what you mean by capabilities. You can can assign user roles like keymaster, moderator, participant, spectator, or blocked.
Yes, private messages can be sent and received. If you only want messages to be sent between a member and the admin that would require use of a plugin, or some custom code but it can be done!
Hope that answers your questions!

October 16, 2013 at 2:30 am #172912

Topic: New to BuddyPress – introductory questions

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

jiminps
Participant

Greetings!

I have a potential new client who inquires about some of the capability of BuddyPress. Here’s his questions:

Does the forum set-up from BuddyPress offer the capability for the admin to give or restrict permissions for members?

Can private messages be sent and received? I think that I would want to restrict so that private messages can only be sent between a member and the admins.

Thanks for answering these two questions in advance.

Jim (In Los Angeles)

October 15, 2013 at 1:31 am #172806

Topic: Login and Password reset link question

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

nodeadbunnies
Participant

Hi,

I’ve just installed WP and BP (it was a couple of days ago so I believe I have the latest version of both.

I have a couple of newbie questions, which I can’t seem to find answers to anywhere. I’d appreciate any help you can give me.

1. I managed to create a registration page, by following instructions i found on the internet. I set my WP settings to allow anyone to register. While this did what I wanted, which is to allow anyone to register through my custom page, it also now allows users to create a WP account, which was NOT what i wanted to do. So, my first question is, how do I keep the BP registration page open, and hide access to register for a WP account on my site at the same time? It seems I need to enable “allow anyone to register” in WP to let users subscribe to BP, but I only want them to sign up through BP, not WP, and can’t figure out how to turn the WP registration off, or hide it.

2. I also installed BBPress, and i have a login widget I’ve added to my sidebar. I’ve managed to figure out the registration URL, but can’t find the password reset URL. Is this something which is enabled by default with BP, or do I need to do something to create a lost password page?

3. While I’m at it, I ran across another problem. I tried registering as a BP user, and never received an activation email. Is there a way I can create a link to allow a user to re-request this?

Thanks in advance for your help. Sorry if these are dumb questions. I’m loving BP so far, but I’m a little out of my comfort zone with it.

October 12, 2013 at 9:43 pm #172749

In reply to: 'Survey' Project

@mercime
Participant

I would like to create a section where people can sign in and answer questions and add their image and then have people see their answers.

@cortttt Sure. Use BuddyPress Extended Profile Fields to highlight the best of your community https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/extended-profiles/
Make sure that Extended Profiles is checked in wp-admin Settings > BuddyPress > Components

At the top of the sections would be a running total…total years lost to illness

Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ and then customize the plugin to include the running total years lost to illness or use/rename birthday field

October 12, 2013 at 2:40 am #172723

In reply to: Two usability questions

@mercime
Participant

@zane 1a.) There is a reply link in every topic post if you’re using default bbPress forums in your installation.

e.g.1. In this topic you started, when you hover a post a line shows up on the bottom right corner of each post with different links including the “Reply” link which will bring you to the reply form at the bottom.

e.g.2. In this screenshot of a default forum topic layout you’ll see the “Reply” link along with other links are shown at the top of every post in that page.

Please check with your theme author why you’re not seeing the Reply link in your theme.

October 12, 2013 at 1:04 am #172716

In reply to: Two usability questions

Zane
Participant

Hey Mercime,

1a. Forum. It is not very intuitive to scroll to the bottom to make a new post.
1b. http://themeforest.net/item/cinematix-buddypress-theme/4959387 – Love this theme 🙂

2. Thanks! I knew I saw this somewhere. I even checked there (doh!). Worked like a charm. Thanks!

October 11, 2013 at 7:42 pm #172704

Topic: 'Survey' Project

in forum Creating & Extending

cortttt
Participant

I would like to create a section where people can sign in and answer questions and add their image and then have people see their answers.

My idea at this point is to simply show a list with images where you would click on a person’s image to see what their answers were.

I would ask questions like what where you doing before you were ill; what job did you have, how much money were you making, how many hours did you work. There would also be a place for comments.

There would be a US Section, a UK section etc.

(At the top of the sections would be a running total…total years lost to illness)

Any ideas what plugins/programs I could use to accomplish everything but the last part. I assume I would have to hire someone to do that.

October 11, 2013 at 7:40 am #172652

In reply to: Two usability questions

@mercime
Participant

@zane

1) Reply button on what page exactly? Forum post or blog post? What theme are you using?

2) Group Forum posts do appear in that Group’s Activity Stream. If you want to disable forum/blog post commenting in the Activity Stream to prevent confusion and to have all the forum/blog post comments in one location, then go to Settings > BuddyPress > Settings – Activity Settings, and make sure that Blog & Forum Comments are not enabled (not checked).

October 10, 2013 at 4:40 pm #172622

Topic: Two usability questions

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

Zane
Participant

Hey guys,

I have two questions. My wife has identified two usability issues that I am trying to investigate resolution to.

1. She didn’t see that the reply box was at the bottom of the page. Is there any way to create a Reply button that would either push people to the bottom of the page or open a reply box in its own page?

2. The concept of the Group stream (not sure if that is what it is called. The facebook like stream on a groups homepage.) and the forum is confusing. Specifically, when she made a post and then someone made a comment on the notification of the post on the Group stream she was confused and couldn’t find the comment (of course, she went to the forum to see the reply). Is there any way to turn off reply’s to forum notifications on the Group stream? This is preferred to force forum conversations into the forum. If not, any other way to aid users with understanding these concepts? I had a hard time explaining the concept verbally to my wife. Not sure how to get the rest of the group on board.

I appreciate any feedback! Thanks!

October 3, 2013 at 6:27 pm #172269

In reply to: Buddypress registration

martinbeaulne
Participant

I have the same question as Ben.

I know we shouldn’t modify core files. I know there are .po and .mo files for translations. But creating an entire .mo file for only one ( 1 ) more translation is overkill ( since poedit doesn’t let you just “add” an entry to an existing .po file ). ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7680021/how-to-add-a-new-string-to-a-po-file-w-a-po-editor )

I have a third-party theme, and I’ve copied the buddypress folder in it. In members/ there is an “activate.php” file where I changed some text.

But the “Check Your Email To Activate Your Account!” is not in activate.php, nor register.php, nor anywhere else.

So, the question is simple: where is located the string “Check Your Email To Activate Your Account!” ?

( Let me guess something else: there is no translation in the official translation files for this specific string, maybe, because it just isn’t in the registration php files ? )

I think that’s what Ben wanted too.

October 1, 2013 at 1:04 pm #172104

In reply to: Function to update databse fields

xKroniK13x
Participant

I wrote this while I was tired last night, you should cleanse the input on line 15 with:
$input = htmlspecialchars($_POST['input']);

That should prevent SQL injections by converting quotes and other special characters into their HTML values… See here for more details.

Any questions, feel free to ask, I’ll keep an eye on this thread for ya.

September 30, 2013 at 3:30 pm #172038

Topic: Facebook Like, site-wide, and server stress

in forum Creating & Extending

Nate
Participant

Hi all,

Looking for some good feedback on implementing a social sharing option within site-wide forum posts. I guess I have two questions. The first: Is this available? The second: Would you recommend it?

I’m using a shared server right now (looking for dedicated at the moment) but I know that with some plug-ins, your server can slow waaaaaaaay down depending on a lot of things.

Is this something that would cause a high server load?

Thanks!

September 30, 2013 at 3:12 am #172005

In reply to: Function to update databse fields
martinbeaulne
Participant
By “easy”, I meant “There must be simple functions for posting things to the database; but I don’t know them”. I often see people answering to questions with pages and pages of code from outer space, so I thought my little question would be a very simple one….

Well.. Let’s make my question “less general”.

I want to get rid of the bottom tabs of the member profile page. Still, I want the members to be able to edit their profile. I want to style that directly in the member-header.php page.

I want that kind of thing:
```
<div><?php 
if ( bp_is_my_profile() )
  echo "Hi there, since it's your profile, you can edit the value of field number 46";
  echo '<form id="formtochangefield46" name="updatefield46" onSubmit=" " action=" "  method="post" >
  <div>New value</p></div>
  <div><input type="text" id="updatefield46" name="field46" size="20" style="width:150px;"   maxlength="150" value="">
  </div>
  <div><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"></div>
  </form>';
endif;
$embed = wp_oembed_get( xprofile_get_field_data('46'), array( ‘width’ => 400 ) );
echo $embed;
?><br></div>
```
I guess there must already exist wp functions to… call the database and update a field from a form’s submitted values… I mean, how does one creates a custom register page ? It must be the same functions after all…

I hope my question is more precise… And sorry for my english, I don’t really speak it.
September 30, 2013 at 2:40 am #171997

In reply to: The Best Cache'ing solution for BP?

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

Those two questions aren’t really relevant here. A quick Google search will suggest object caching solutions for WordPress:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/apc/ is one of them, if your web host is using APC. You’ll have to ask them to find this out.

September 28, 2013 at 5:33 pm #171938

Topic: considering BuddyPress

in group forum Requests & Feedback

gdecuir
Participant

Hello,

I’m trying to determine which social networking plug-in will work best for my site needs.
I didn’t find a clear answer to some of the questions I have while searching the support forum or on the site.

1. members directory: I need members to be able to search for other members by hobbies or interest, etc. For example I would like to search for all members who like “bike riding” or “reading”. This way I can start a group for bike riders.

2. Profiles: Could I add additioanl profile fields for members to fill-in

2. Events calender: Can members or groups start there own event. It would be great if they can sell tickets on our site and we’ll get a small precentage over the sale. This would help support the site.

3. Can groups be private. By invite only

4. geo location: looking for members/groups with like intrest in a certain area.

5. Number of members limited. Is there a limit to the number of members that could sign up?

I’m more than happy to add extra plug-ins to make this happen. Thanks

September 23, 2013 at 3:41 pm #171713

Topic: Xprofile check if user can view field

in forum Creating & Extending
Remco Beugels
Participant
I use the following code to get a custom BuddyPress Xprofile field:
```
<?php if($field = bp_get_profile_field_data('field=field_name')) : ?>
<p><?php echo $field; ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
```
But how can I check if the current viewer has the permission to view the field (from the visibility setting who the user can set)?

(Is also asked this question on WordPress Answers but I didn’t get a answer there)
September 23, 2013 at 2:56 pm #171709

In reply to: Email Activation

@mercime
Participant

Can you receive an activation mail if you deactivate BuddyPress? Where are you hosted? Have you checked out possible solutions at https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/frequently-asked-questions/ ?

September 19, 2013 at 12:28 pm #171540

Topic: BuddyPress Layout Issues & Questions.

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

AaronLeigh
Participant

Hey Everybody,

You know the deal, I’m a BuddyPress newb… no idea what I’m doing, just fumbling my way through it so on and so forth. You’ve heard it all before.

I have recently added BuddyPress and bbPress to my gaming website: http://www.deadpixelnetwork.com

I’m having a few slight issues and not really sure where to go about fixing them. Let’s see if I can explain them properly.

1) On the User Profile Page, Members List (under Forums button) a “Show” filter drop down menu overlaps my widgets on the right hand side of the website. I would like to move it to the other side out of the way. Here’s an example page: http://deadpixelnetwork.com/members/aaronleigh/ and here: http://deadpixelnetwork.com/members/

2) Using the same profile example link above, you will see that the users name shows up twice. i.e. AaronLeigh”>AaronLeigh I can’t see anything in the settings that will change that so it only appears once.

3) Is there a way to sync the “default” display picture from WordPress to BuddyP? For example in the Members list, some users profiles show up as a broken image icon. These members haven’t added a custom picture. But throughout our website comments are shown up as our mascot “Pixel Pete” the “DeadPixel”… except for buddy press.

Hopefully this all makes sense.

Honestly to all the people out there who know how to really work WordPress I tip my hat to you!

I’m proud of the work I’ve done so far (all by myself *puffs chest*) but I find myself constantly lost and would much rather pay someone else to get the website in working order. But not really sure how to go about that haha.

Thanks for what ever help you guys can give. If you can’t, no biggy…I will just keep walking aimlessly throughout the internet.

Peace!

AaronLeigh.

September 10, 2013 at 4:04 pm #171097

Topic: safe to remove old bbpress tables?

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

Amin
Participant

Hi,
I’ve converted my forum from bbpress1 to bbpres2 plugin. It was all about 14000 replies.
now is it safe to remove old bbpress tables from database? I mean those starting with wp_bb

and, could you please answer to these questions?
1- how can I add a hint above text editor, below “Create New Topic in…”? just like here, which is: “If asking for help, please include your WordPress version…”

2- Users must first join a group to be able to post replies. is it possible to post replies without joining the groups first? just like the old way, so users become a member of that group after they post a reply.

Thank you in advance

September 9, 2013 at 5:18 pm #171044

Topic: How to make announcement and wall post in group?

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

jeffp808
Participant

I am new to buddypress and have setup several groups and have two questions.

1. I wanted to ask how does someone go about making an announcement? Under the announcement tab it does not have a post box and when you post under What’s New in the recent activity it shows up under the activity stream. http://screencast.com/t/rUWwfhwhFI

2. Is there a way for someone to post to the group’s wall directly on the group page instead of going to Recent Activity then clicking the Post To: dropdown? There is no What’s New box on the groups page. http://screencast.com/t/qyC8xZQp

Thank you in advance!!
Jeff

September 9, 2013 at 3:19 pm #171042

Topic: create groups from csv import members from users

in forum Creating & Extending

queengab
Participant

Hi to all,

for the first time i’ve installed buddypress with a wordpress installation.
It’s an impressive plugin/framework that do many things.
Now i have some questions…
There is a plugin for buddypress that gave the opportunity to create groups from an excel/csv file with the standard fields of buddypress? How can i do this?
Can I associate wordpress users with buddypress members and then point them to a specific group?

Uaing wordpress 3.6 and buddypress 1.8.1

Thanks very much!
Gabriele

September 9, 2013 at 3:15 pm #171041

Topic: Create groups from csv and import members from wp users

in forum Creating & Extending

queengab
Participant

Hi to all,

for the first time i’ve installed buddypress with a wordpress installation.
It’s an impressive plugin/framework that do many things.
Now i have some questions…
There is a plugin for buddypress that gave the opportunity to create groups from an excel/csv file with the standard fields of buddypress? How can i do this?
Can I associate wordpress users with buddypress members and then point them to a specific group?

Thanks very much!
Gabriele

September 6, 2013 at 4:39 pm #170964

Topic: Bugs between bbpress and Buddypress

in forum How-to & Troubleshooting

jboye
Participant

Hi,

I’m not sure that I am in the right category to ask my questions. So forgive me if it is not the case.

I’m on :
– WordPress 3.5.1.
– bbpress Version 2.3.2
– Buddypress Version 1.8.1

I need to create a site with separate groups in witch you can find dedicated forums. Some groups and forums are restricted and other are public.

Groups can’t see what happen in other groups even if they are logged in the blog.

Is that possible ?

I ask that question because I’ve made a tonne of tests and get lots of bugs. Groups and forums are all public. Everyone can see and share/comments what they want…

It make me crazy or I really do not understand anything.

September 2, 2013 at 7:52 am #170746

In reply to: New to buddypress – got lots of questions :-)

fideldonson
Participant

Hi @mercime
Thanks. – i just downloaded the db via phpmyadmin

We are running a BP default child theme – would i simply remove it from the theme files?

How about the link to ‘read more’ for a forum post showing up in the activity stream. Is that also done in the theme files – as opposed to settings?

Best regards

September 1, 2013 at 2:39 pm #170718

In reply to: New to buddypress – got lots of questions :-)

@mercime
Participant

@fideldonson no problem

Backup all tables in site’s database and you’re fine. But also check if there’s a bp-custom.php file in wp-content/plugins/ in server, and back that up if there’s one.

You can remove the status update box in different ways. It just depends on whether you’re using a WordPress theme or BP Default child theme.
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