BuddyPress.org

I have bin looking at that page and it seems simple, but I still don’t understand what to do. Can you be more specific?

Thanks for the help, and please forgive me for my stupid questions

It’s a really tough question. And tough questions involve tough answers, and if someone who is reading doesn’t know or hasn’t done such a thing before, the likelihood of someone volunteering an hour of their own time to work out a solution is slim. I’ve replied to your more recent post, but I don’t know how this could be done.

You’ll want to use Paul Gibbs’ Welcome Pack plugin for new users to have a bunch of default friends :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/welcome-pack/

By default, Welcome Pack sends friend invites; to have the plugin auto-accept friend invitations, read this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/standard-group-for-new-users#post-69096

For your other questions, please post them on the forum.

Do not hijack threads please this practice is poor nettiquette. Problems may seem similar but often have different causes, having to answer two sets of questions in one thread can become confusing.

@tungjacob You have a highly customised theme, can you return to the Bp-default theme and test whether the issue is still apparent; also go to your permalink settings first and ensure that your .htaccess file is updating correctly by selecting an option and saving.

@jimboba much the same for you to; the lack of files is vague you either have the necessary BP files or not forget the lack of files for the moment BP wouldn’t be running if it were missing files. check whether you are able to update .htaccess file correctly

@mgelblum For BuddyPress features out of the box, see home page of buddypress.org which lists the major features including Groups, Profiles, Forums, Members, etc. For general guide/info: Check out https://codex.buddypress.org/home/ and test features further by logging in at http://testbp.org/ using your username and password here.

“how to get inexpensive support/wordpress developers “
If you have luxury of time, learn more about WordPress and BuddyPress, create site yourself, then use forums of WordPress.org and BuddyPress.org if you encounter bumps or challenges along the way with specific questions – e.g. how do I get the rating system/review system like the ones bp.org plugin groups have in my site

Not cheap, but reasonable prices from experienced developers who are competent professionals and who also help out in these forums
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/

I got into same situation and found solution based on @jotem ‘s filter
You can use bp_core_get_userlink($user->id) instead of bp_core_get_userurl($user->id). But its lil bit tricky.
bp_core_get_userlink ($user_id) function returns anchor tag and echo it on the screen. So the login redirection process is halted .

Instead of that,

---

function rt_login_redirect($redirect_to, $set_for, $user){
$redirect_to = bp_core_get_user_domain($user->id);
return $redirect_to;
}
add_filter(‘login_redirect’, ‘rt_login_redirect’, 20, 3);

---

bp_core_get_user_domain() function will give the profile url without echoing anything.
One more important thing is priority in add_filter of login_redirect. Make sure that your function executes @ the last.

One more tricky situation is many time business logic is such a that the redirection process must be done depending on the type of the user. In that case, you have $user->id in rt_login_redirect(). Once you get the user_id, you can put business logic and modify $redirect_to according to your need!

P.S. Trying to echo any value in this function will give u output but the redirection process will not complete.
@Life2000
@arxpoetica @damainman @hnla Are you looking for same???

Not necessarily, all depends, BP uses a stock install of WP so generally WP plugins will work on that part of the site that is WP, but won’t necessarily be BuddyPress aware. This is one of those suck it and see type questions.

You install the buddypress plugin from with in wordpress admin as buddypress needs wordpress 3.0 to work and add other buddypress plugins the same way.

@markhahnel – you should ask @sbrajesh at BuddydDev.com forums where he’s active in responding to questions about his plugins.

@pattiearnold – you’ve got a ‘hundred’ different questions in here – you will need to ask them all as separate threads

In general, to achieve this level of sophistication – You’ll need to create your own customised BuddyPress theme. You’ll need to have PHP, HTML and CSS skills to do this. You could do it yourself or hire a BuddyPress developer

I concur with most of what @paulhastings0 has to say (I was thinking the same thing just a few days ago). If only for the safety and security of the project, it needs more than one active core committer.

Additionally, I’d like to see:

– Someone giving clear lead & making decisions on features / future development – is that @johnjamesjacoby or @apeatling or someone else?
– Somewhere clear on the site to make and comment on feature requests

I’m on here everyday, an experienced BuddyPress developer, but still have to ask these questions. That they are not obvious is somewhat concerning.

Some ‘off track’ thoughts on improving the site: 1. make the documentation / guides more obvious to find (so many support questions are asked when people haven’t read the guides – it’s not necessarily their fault). Let’s have the site lead visitors where we want them 2. tidy up all the dead / out of date information and plugins 3. don’t close threads that are still active, or at least give the originator the opportunity to confirm they’ve received a satisfactory response before closing

I’m going to take a stab at answering this. John has been actively involved as a core developer for almost a year. The post which you refer to did not change that in any way. We all love John and the commitment that he shows to BuddyPress is without question.

I feel the communication has improved. We’ve more posts on the .org blog about BuddyPress and its future in the last three months than we did almost all of last year. We also have the biweekly development chat which all are welcome to attend. Not to mention the variety of support and “Can I use BuddyPress for x, y and z” questions that we get on this forums, and at WordCamps. I’d like to segue briefly about WordCamps.

WordCamps are fab! There’s a central list at WordCamp.org, and I’d urge you to attend one if there’s one near where you are. This year’s events which covered BuddyPress:

@boonebgorges presented at WordCamp Boston (slides).
@johnjamesjacoby organised or presented or both at WordCamp Miami.
I presented at WordCamp Ireland (slides) and twice at WordCamp UK (slides).
@matt mentioned and answered several BuddyPress questions during his keynote at WordCamp San Francisco.
Henrik Hammer Berthelsen presented at WordCamp Denmark.
Esteban Garcia Bianchi and Juan Manuel Olivares presented at WordCamp Argentina.
Paolo Maffei presented at WordCamp Milan.
Jimmy Ngu presented at WordCamp Malaysia
@lisasabinwilson presented at WordCamp Raleigh.
Mitsuhiro Suwa presented at WordCamp Japan.
@danmilward presented at WordCamp Chicago. @wpmuguru did, too!
Annie Vranizan presented at Reno Tahoe WordCamp.
@lisasabinwilson presented again at WordCamp Boulder.
@gigalinux presented at WordCamp Berlin.
Robert Popovic presented at WordCamp NZ.
@johnjamesjacoby is presenting again this weekend at WordCamp Savannah.

There are BuddyPress talks scheduled for more WordCamps this year (including at two different WordCamps this coming weekend); the list above is of events which have already happened. I sometimes forget how popular BuddyPress is, and putting this list together has reminded me how awesome the software and our community is.

I would not hold much stock in the dates on the Trac timeline; it is a rough guide, just like the roadmap page is. Personally, I’m thankful for the extra time we have for 1.2.6; we’ve had a number of bugs fixed and enhancements reported and added to core which we only discovered after weeks’ worth of testing.
The best way for people to contribute to BuddyPress is to reports bugs, write patches and to test and leave feedback on them. The danger of topics like this one is that they have a tendency to go around in circles, and produce lots of talk but little action.