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Hi,

The button is in /bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php:19

Make a copy of that file to your child-theme. (child-theme/buddypress/groups/index.php)

Than you can remove the code or add a condition. For example, only the site admin will see All Groups.

<?php if ( is_site_admin() ): ?>
   <li class="selected" id="groups-all"><a href="<?php bp_groups_directory_permalink(); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'All Groups <span>%s</span>', 'buddypress' ), bp_get_total_group_count() ); ?></a></li>
<?php endif; ?>

@RussAdams What theme are you using? I haven’t figured out a solution to this problem yet so I had to turn off new member registration and created a Gravity Forms form for new users instead. Will have to manually register each user but my community is rather small so that shouldn’t be a huge problem. Will continue to search for a solution though.

Hi!

I recently upgraded my site with a new theme (BuddyBoss Boss. theme) and am running WP 4.1.1 and upgraded from BuddyPress 1.9.2 to 2.2.1.

I have a setup where I redirect the activation e-mail to the site admin to be able to manually control new members and verify their information before activating them and letting them log in. This is a cruical function for my site since it’s a private network.

After the upgrade I noticed that some spam users were automatically activated and able to log in without my manual activation. The users are automatically activated, the same issue as @RussAdams is experiencing. I’ve tried deactivating a few plugins (BuddyPress Pending Activations, BuddyPress Auto Group Join) but this issue persists. In BuddyPress 1.9.2, everything was working as expected.

Browser sessions doesn’t seem to be the issue since clearly people on other computers have been able to create accounts which were automatically activated as well.

This is a very serious issue for my site since I no longer have the control over new users and spam users can log in after activating. Did you get this sorted out?

@alice-kaye I see them now 🙂 You’d need to add the following to your theme or child theme’s stylesheet.

.widget div.item-avatar img {
  height: 40px;
  margin: 1px;
  width: 40px;
}

.widget div.item-avatar img.avatar {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 10px 15px 0;
}

@alice-kaye Unfortunately, the theme sidebar’s do not have the usual variables added for widget areas. That’s why you have an unstyled avatars in the “Who’s online” widget. Can you switch to another user so that another avatar would show up. I’d like to see if the div item-list shows up per avatar or for the whole list.

Firefox > View > Page style > No style – does show the Search box and I could search.
So it is a theme and css issue.
Other search box appears fine on that page.
Did you use mcpeanut’s code with success ?

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seach-box-for-members-does-not-appear-only-the-button?replies=3 – they have said its a BP thing. But they have not said why the BP thing is not being shown by their theme like other themes.

Please post if you solved this. BTW what is the left side bar widget named “Activity” in your site? Its nice. Thanks.

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@ktrides2 add this code to your child themes css

form#search-members-form input {
	display: inline-block !important;
	position: relative !important;
	top: 35px !important;
}

The 35px is a guess, so you may need to change this depending where it lands.

Hey @ktrides2

Try giving the theme author some details of the problem. Maybe they’ll be able to release a fix?

Add this to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_add_friend_button() {
$user_id = get_the_author_meta( 'ID' );
$mybutton = bp_add_friend_button( $user_id ); 

	if ( ( is_user_logged_in() && is_page( 'blog' ) ) ){
		echo $mybutton;
	}
} 
add_action( 'custom_zone', 'bpfr_add_friend_button' );

And this to your child-theme/single.php at the place you want the button to appear.
<?php do_action( 'custom_zone' ); ?>

Depending your theme, you have to adjust the output with CSS and additionnal divs.

What do you mean by custom login form ? How did you this form ? Do you use a child-thme ? What is your actual theme name ?

works the same way for me – you only get about 4 lines of the comment in the AS. I think only for Activity Updates there is a ‘More’ link.

True – I missed that. Long comments are truncated with […] at the end and that does not link to the original comment. W.r.t usability that is a critical bug for me. Thanks

activity entry for that comment does link directly to the post comment using the page anchor

It does not – default install of WP,BP latest versions, default theme – it does not for me. Any demo link with latest WP and BP that does this? Thanks

WAIT : […] does not link to, there is no ‘more’ link that does this BUT the time stamp does this. So I think UI and Userfriendiless tea should link […] to the same link as the time-stamp. Most users are accustomed with ‘more’ or ‘…’ – they won’t know they have to click time-stamp. Please submit an enhancement request. Thanks

If that be the case, may be the most appropriate thing will be to post your problem here : https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

Mention the WP, BP versions you use, your theme, settings etc
Steps to reproduce your problem
Any site where this problem can be see / tested

Thanks.

PS : Submitting your problem in the above link may or may not generate any corrective response, in that case maybe you have too look more around the net unless some mods/devs here get you the actual help or actual code.

Recently introduced function bp_parse_args allows since 2.0 to modify easely your templates. Faster and lighter than a plugin.

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

As example, show only updates on the SWA (add snippet to bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php)

function make_swa_show_notice_only( $retval ) {	
	
	if ( bp_is_page( 'activity' ) ) {
	$retval['action'] = 'activity_update';					
	}
	
	return $retval;
	
	}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'make_swa_show_notice_only' );

Sorry, for being here repeatedly. Mods delete if needed.

@statusselect
I downloaded Joomla to check out how things are as EasySocial will not run without it.
The initial experience is Joomla is as primitive compared to WP as is BP to Easysocial out-of-the-box. I installed with some default data options but settings and configs are too complex.
Maybe it works better for Joomla users but to me
– no default registration box so that users can sign up and comment (its there ..way hidden)
– no default out-of-the-box commenting ??
– what are the differences between plugins and modules?
– Last but not the least, how can I enable Joomla so that users can come to my site and have their own blogs with own themes, covers and own side-bars with own ability for comment moderation on their individual blogs?

Thanks.

And it seems, the two shall never meet ……

http://stackideas.com/forums/switched-from-joomla-to-wordpress-after-jreviews-port-wish-stackideas-would-consider-porting-easysocial-the-same-way

BTW @statusselect, have you been able to use https://www.corephp.com/joomla-products/wordpress-for-joomla with Easysocial with Likes/Favs comment sync between the two – stream to blog, blog to stream

The two things lacking in BP after I saw Easysocial in some details is the
– Sharebox – it comes with nice at mention and hashtag ( hashtag plugin in BP is not Unicode compliant)
– Album and photo – nicely built into core – something not in BP’s agenda with their own reasoning.

The Sharebox which Easysocial uses can be instantly done in BP by someone who has some coding skills and BP love using the plugins avaialble – buddypress activity plus, buddypress privacy, bp checkins, Event Manager and a Media plugin. But then ….

Easysocial theme is responsive in a fantastic way and similar BP theme like the Boss of Buddyboss costs $100+ while Easysocial, without the bbundle is $90 – so this may be another attractive point for those who need Social more than multiuser blogging. Easysocial is lesser known till now and probably they do not have a favorable stance towards WP.

And the two shall never meet ….
People shall choose whatever they want, and BP devs and debvelopment will follow the path that suits them best. One thing is true, if BP was something like Jetpack, things would have evolved faster, imho

Thanks.

Hi @statusselect Thanks.

http://stackideas.com/bundles cost $240 – Is EasySocial operable without the Blog and comments ? Please keep in mind that we, users of WP + BP, need both good blogging and commenting.

Is there Blog like WP MS/MU blogs integrated there ? I could not find in the demo.
By blog integration I mean each site member can have her own blog with own theme and widgets etc, nicely customizable as in WordPress Multisite. Blog posts can also be commented and “liked” from both the stream and the blog post itself. [ BP lacks both-way Liking]
In their demo site, I found “Blog” is an App which the user has to load, and for me it did not load actually but took time and more time with the loading icon going on for ever.
If the Multiuser Blog experience is more or less similar to WP, then yes, it is worth exploring EasySocial.

Other questions :
– Can Friends be stacked into various “workmate” “batchmate” etc like Elgg ?
– Can an user Block another user ?
– How does the script handle excerpts of blogs in stream, how does it handle toooo loooong names or words ? How does it handle Unicode?
– How easy is the theme to customize for a non-dev? Language can be changed easily?

I did not find any pre-sales forum there or any github repo. Which would be great. They also do not have a test-downloadable version like SocialEngine.

Thanks for your answers.

PS : BP devs have their own logic, priority, speed etc. Its more than six years I guess BP lacks 2 way favoriting and a standard status/whats new box. The moment you say “standard” you may hear what is standard to one is not standard to other. That way, EasySocial has very well understood the needs of “standard”. I can only wish if they integrated EasySocial with WP Multisite it would have been an unbeatablle product. Ideas have a very few or no pickers at all. Unless we can code for ourselves or have enough money to pay Devs to bring changes the way we want, posting in forum is really not going to change the evolution of BP. IMHO. Thanks.

The Sharebox or the equivalent of Whats New box in BP is fantastic. Its not “sophisticated” but integrates in a simple user friendly way that members need. – I agree.

But what are the pros and cons featurewise ? Resource-hungriness? Security ? Back-up ? Code cleaniless and less-bulikness?
Most importantly can each and every user have their own blog with own themes and widgets like WordPress Multisite ?

Personal reason I am using WordPress- BUddypress is for the seamless WordPress Integartion [ except Favorites/Likes] – if Elgg / Oxwall / Easysocial offered this WP integration things would have been different, probably.

Now, another important part Easyocial is $250, BP is free.. It follows a business model. [However anyone will love the approach at stackideas.com/support]. BP is developed out of free available time by Devs, and the Dev is not oriented so much towards Features out of box rather towards backend “geeky” things which is supposed to make it robust and less bulky for other devs who can produce feature-based plugin 🙂

Easysocial sharebox and some features are what BP ideally should push in overnight but that is really never going to happen in years. I suggest you please post a detailed review and please explain how multi-blogging (each user having own blog with own theme etc) is in Easysocial.

Thanks

I am also seeing the @mentions not working on my site.

BuddyPress 2.2.1 running on the Engine theme from Industrial Themes. Theme and WP both at latest versions.

Plugins (but I can’t see where any would cause a conflict):

Anti-spam by CleanTalk
Custom Login
Custom Permalinks
Gravity Forms (and PayPal and User Registration add-ons)
MailChimp Lite
Updraft
Use Google Libraries (maybe it’s that one?)
Yoast

And some admin plugins.