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@wayneg03

yeah… its tough going here – in these parts of the internet..

To try to answer some of your questions..

— for testing purpose.. try using the twentytwenty theme..
— #2 YOURDOMAIN_NAME/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bp-components
**make sure “USER-GROUPS” is selected..
then go to YOURDOMAIN__NAME/wp-admin/admin.php?page=bp-groups
or try going to YOURDOMAIN_NAME/groups/create/step/group-details/

— #3 Try going to YOURDOMAIN_NAME/wp-admin/nav-menus.php

@fabrizio1407

I suggest creating a child-theme that targets the specific BP pages.

If you just want to add background images – i think you can do that via CSS

You can get away with a lot of look&feel by just doing a default cover image

BuddyPress Default Cover Photo

Hey there.. @mizschmitty

What theme are you using?

Try rebuilding..
Tools -> buddypress -> repopulate

A newbie here chiming in,

Buddyboss looks promising. I bought a license for the boss theme to use with their fork of the platform. Some observational points:

The boss theme is nice, but is missing some very basic functions on the mobile version (search being one). Support would not say when it would be implemented, just that it is “on the todo list”

There is no dedicated support forum for buddyboss (at least that I can find). As a paying user, you do get access to the support ticketing system. But a forum for (even paying) users would be nice.

Their feature “roadmap” is “coming soon” and has been for at least a month

Their ‘Get Support’ is also “coming soon”

Their “Contribute’ is also coming soon

At this time they are giving a hard sell on their product licenses. Including a “lifetime deal” for $1000.

Don’t get me wrong, as a developer I am happy to pay for features that will serve my customers, but without the above items (especially the feature roadmap), I am very reluctant to shell out more cash for something that “might (never) be”.

So for now it is a waiting game with a periodic pinging of their website to see when and if anything changes.

I cleared up the errors and got an email to send.

Question:

Is it possible to create a new template for certain emails? If I create a new template called single-bp-email-custom-2.php and put that in my /MY-THEME/buddypress/assets/emails folder. How do I tell bp_send_email() function to use it?

Here’s 2 cents of input from a new comer…

It’s great that BuddyPress is free, that’s certainly an important part of the market to serve, and I applaud members for doing so. Truly.

However, there’s a downside to free too, nobody is obligated to the user, as is the case with paid software. So for example, if I were to succeed in my goals I’d have a social site full of serious professional people, who aren’t going to be easy for me to attract as they are already quite busy. I can’t afford to invest tons of time in winning them over, and then have some software let me down.

So I’m looking for some situation such as I have with a WordPress.com paid account, where if something technical goes wrong they jump on it immediately and fix it, and I can stay focused on content, marketing, networking etc. The WordPress support team says they would help me with BuddyPress if they could, but it’s not their software so there’s only so much help I can expect, which seems entirely reasonable to me.

I could come here for assistance, but I would have paid the BuddyPress team nothing, so it wouldn’t be reasonable for me to expect help unless somebody just happens to feel like it on that particular day.

So as seen from here, BuddyBoss is not really competing with BuddyPress, but providing a different kind of service, a commercial service. The downside with BuddyBoss, best I can tell, is that BuddyBoss isn’t really up and running yet. You know, they’ve been unable to point me to a single one of their client’s sites, a limitation they explained to me quite promptly and politely.

Wordpress.com has a theme which offers some level of social site features, but so far I’ve been unable to make any sense of it. If it’s confusing to me, it will likely also be to any new users I am able to attract.

So my first impression is that BuddyPress appears to be interesting hobby software generously provided for free, but if I want a more serious setup I’ll have to start looking beyond the WordPress environment.

UPDATE: GETTING CLOSER… I think

So it’s confusing…. I changed the terms to aa_site_expired instead of “your-agentassets-pro…” etc.
I changed it to the “situation” slug instead of the “email” slug.

Question: How do I tell it that I want to send that particular email that I created. Multiple emails can have the same “situation” selected. So how do you tell it WHICH email you want to send? Seems confusing. However, changing it now let me past the “missing_email” error and now gives me a fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_address() on null in /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php:3218 

Stack trace: 
#0 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/agentassets-site-manager/includes/aa-agentassets-class.php(421): bp_send_email('aa_site_expired', NULL, Array) 
#1 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/agentassets-site-manager/includes/aa-check-for-expired-sites.php(77): AgentAssets::deactivate_expired_blogs(Array) 
#2 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/themes/agent-assets/buddypress/blogs/blogs-loop.php(22): getAllBlogsDetails() 
#3 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-includes/template.php(724): require('/home/aabiz/pub...') 
#4 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php(155): load_template('/home/aabiz/pub...', false) 
#5 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php(61): bp_locate_template(Array, true, false) 
#6 /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/themes/agent-ass in /home/aabiz/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php on line 3218

Looks like it’s the NULL in:
bp_send_email('aa_site_expired', NULL, Array)

But I put in my email address in the call… why doesn’t this work?
$sent = bp_send_email( 'aa_site_expired', 'bquaid@gmail.com', $args );

Hi @chaddblanchard

If you are using the BP Legacy template pack, you can follow @shanebp snippet available in response to this support topic: Display profile fields on members page

It will also work on the BP Nouveau template pack, but it will be wrongly positioned. FYI, I’ve opened a ticket to fix this in next BuddyPress major version.

You can also use a different strategy using the BP Template hierarchy. If you create a copy of the bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/members-loop.php into a buddypress/members/members-loop.php file of your theme (be careful to respect the relative path into your theme: create a buddypress folder, then a members one and finally put the members-loop.php copy inside this folder. From this copied file, you can modify the html layout to include specific code to display the profile field(s) of your choice.

Here’s an example: https://gist.github.com/imath/67c2c5d961083bc8d4205860a2a075b2#file-members-loop-php-L44-L46 The specific code to add has a yellow background.

I think you can also disable the generated password on the registration page for the nouveau theme by adding the following code to functions.php

add_action( 'bp_before_register_page', 'bp_page_signup_disable_random_password');
function bp_page_signup_disable_random_password(){
  add_filter( 'random_password', '__return_empty_string' );
}

Hi,
You are most probably using a premium theme. The above is added by it or its addon.

My guess is, it has some plugin for adding custoimize panel and somehow that is getting activated twice.

Please look at the list of your active theme/plugin and see if you can find something like that.

Regards
Brajesh

This is already the default behavior. Here is the code that fires a email when someone request to add someone as a friend: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/d44e81fd40e4e9e48fc599836d311cf2752f9f34/src/bp-friends/bp-friends-functions.php#L858

I’d recommend you to confirm if something is disabling that. Maybe the emails are not set up correctly or a theme or plugin is avoiding that to happen. Could be anything.

This needs more investigation.

This looks to be theme related, have you contacted the author? Would also need to know the theme name if you wanted somewhere here to have a look assuming it is free.
Regards