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Hello there,

I’m reviving this old thread cause I can’t wrap my head around the text domain.

I’ve read this thread, the codex and this example : https://gist.github.com/imath/dce8426f686da1727f82

It works for me, I understand how and the code but in case of adding buddypress-activity support to a post type created by another plugin (CBX Poll) I can’t figure out what text domain to use when I put this code in bp-custom.php

With a home made plugin I would add support at post type registration and use this custom plugin’s domain.

I guess I could use the functions.php of the theme and the theme’s domain but then it’s theme dependent.

If anyone can enlighten me…

Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.

Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.

If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…

The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: How to fix WordPress Not Sending Email issue

Email should work but much can go wrong including things connected to plugins, themes and functions.php or bp-custom.php files.

Presuming the email didn’t go into spam, and WordPress sent emails before installing BuddyPress, then one thing that can be tried is disabling all plugins except except buddypress and the ( un-customised ) bp-default theme.

If this is a localhost/dev site then php / server has to be correctly configured and/or upgraded for email. Alternatively WP Mail SMTP may be useful in this situation…

The main email address is set on the wordpress Settings > General page.
I would advise you check you have correct PTR record for your IP address, and also set a SPF record along with your MX records doing these two things can drastically affect how mail servers receive your mail or reject it if not happy these two items exist and check out as valid.
There may be other issues in some situations. For more info see: WordPress Not Sending Email – Mail SMTP Not Working

There might be problem in your theme, its better to check your wordpress theme first of all. This post might help you – https://secure.wphackedhelp.com/blog/detect-malicious-code-malware-wordpress-themes-plugins/

Hey Brajesh!

Sure, happy to provide some additional feedback.

I have tried your releases and I am still wondering what prevented you/your team from contributing to BuddyPress? Did you try to contribute or was there some other reason for fork?

There are a lot of reasons we decided to go our own way. The primary one is that at a very fundamental level, BuddyPress was not providing the experience our customers are looking for and was really holding us back in our ability to provide the features and usability they ask us for. We have many thousands of customers and do a large amount of custom development, and there are so many things they ask for and wish were different in BuddyPress. BuddyPress development moves very slowly, and the types of changes we have implemented and will continue to implement require major changes to BuddyPress, in a way that can only be done by forking the plugin. We do theme development and mobile app development, and it’s not good that the foundation we rely on for everything is not under our control, and actually has barely changed at all over the past 5 years. We need to control its direction completely to achieve what we are trying to do. We are making mobile apps and other things, and want complete vertical integration between everything to provide an amazing experience.

is there any future plan available for the platform?

We have a multi-year plan for features we want to add. We also build mobile apps that replicate BuddyPress functionality into a synchronized app, and we will continue to grow there over time. Now that we control our core platform we can move much faster.

The features we add are determined primarily by our customers. So the order in which things are added will depend to a large degree on what people ask for, and which requests have the highest volume of requests. We have a big support team responding to and noting requests.

One major area of focus right now is performance. With each release you will see the product get faster. BuddyPress falls apart when it has too many users. We plan to fix that.

Since the forking of BuddyPress, can you please provide what kind of new feature other than merging your own/others plugin into the bundle have your team added.

Sure, this is going to be a very long list. I am just listing the high level items, as we have done so many smaller changes throughout.

Layout

We have our new BuddyBoss Theme which is much more advanced than any BuddyPress theme. It is only possible because we forked BuddyPress and are able to change the templates as necessary to accomplish our designs. Because we control our platform now, we can be sure that every single feature added is always styled in a consistent way, and with a unified admin experience. It much more powerful, and simultaneously, simpler and lighter than anything we could provide before.

Profile Fields > Proper “Name” fields

BuddyPress has just one name field, which drives customers crazy. They want professional networks with First/Last Name, or private networks with just nickname. BuddyBoss Platform has dedicated name fields for First Name, Last Name, Nickname. The site admin can control how to display names sitewide using this. In BuddyPress it is actually impossible just to display First Name + Last Name in the profile and activity feed, something that 50% of customers want. In BuddyBoss it is very customizable. We also let users change their Nickname (handle) any time.

Profile Fields > Repeater Fields

This is a request we have gotten for years, and could never provide; the ability to have repeater fields (Jobs, Experience, etc) so you can make a profile like LinkedIn. That’s out of the box now.

Activity

We have completely overhauled activity feeds. Instead of separated tabs, which is super confusing, it’s one unified activity feed. And within the feed, we have added a bunch of features:

– Emoji
– Animated GIFs
– Likes
– Follow
– Link previews
– Media
– Ability to add any custom post type into the feed (via the Settings)
– Ability to enable/disable any default BP activity type (via the Settings)

Messages

We have completely overhauled Messages. In BuddyPress, messages is a really poor experience. It uses a Gmail convention with subject and content, which makes little sense on a social network. We changed it into a single threaded message, just like Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and every other messenger works. This allows us to create a really amazing messaging experience (go play with our demo). Also we can extend this later into live chat, and messenger in our apps. Those features could not be built using BuddyPress messenger as it uses a Gmail style messenger. Imagine if Facebook messenger worked like Gmail, it would be awful.

Media

We added a native Media component for photos and albums, which provides a really amazing interface. It’s not just a fork of our old media plugin, it’s a total overhaul and is much nicer than anything out there for BuddyPress. And we will extend it over time for videos and other media.

Private Network

Out of the box, with one click you can make the whole site private from outsiders. This is a feature that more than 50% of BuddyPress users are doing but need to hunt for 3rd party plugins to figure out how to add. Our implementation is highly customizable also, in terms of what is public vs private.

Network Search

We added a new component for searching all content across the social network, with live results as you type. It’s not just a fork of our old BP Global Search plugin, it is a complete overhaul and is a much nicer experience.

User Invites

We added an invites system, to allow users to invite others into the network by email.

Profile Types

We added a built in interface for creating and managing Profile types, and many additional related options.

Group Types

We added a built in interface for creating and managing Group types, and many additional related options.

Group Hierarchies

We added a built in interface for creating and managing Group hierarchies, so you can have parent and child group relationships.

Email Layouts

Emails in BuddyPress look really bad. This is something we have had to hack up in the past on virtually every client site to give them something usable. Now, in BuddyBoss they look really beautiful out of the box, and are more customizable with logo options etc.

Default Data

This comes up constantly, people want to quickly add a bunch of default data into the site for testing. Now they can do it with the click of a button.

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And… that’s just the high level stuff. We have fixed usability issues all over the place and added minor options throughout. And don’t forget that we have been live to the public for less than 2 months. There is much more to come and we are moving fast. Revisit this in a year from now, and the list will be endless.

Not sure if this is still relevant, but you can easily remove the email address field without having to remove the entire page. This can be accomplished by editing the BuddyPress template files you copied into your WordPress theme (wp-content/themes/mytheme/buddypress).

The file you will want to edit is named general.php and is located in “wp-content/themes/mytheme/buddypress/members/single/settings”. Once you locate general.php, simply delete the following code located around line 27 and 28.

<label for="email"><?php _e( 'Account Email', 'buddypress' ); ?></label>
	<input type="email" name="email" id="email" value="<?php  echo bp_get_displayed_user_email(); ?>" class="settings-input" <?php bp_form_field_attributes( 'email' ); ?>/>

Presto! No more email field 🙂

Customizing BuddyPress Avatars

Yeah the scrolling is BuddyPress. The theme position just looked a bit off in the video, I’d ignore my comment on that if the position is fine.

It does seem odd, but that’s the nature of nested comments. I’d prefer like you the default action went through a single form and not a different form for every nest.

There is a work around, I’d do it as a custom solution for you as I really need the money and do this on a professional basis.

So in the video you can see the form appears under the current nest you are in.

If you reply to nested comment 1 of 5 for example the form is still going to be below all 5.

How do you propose the user gets there? A hard page jump?

You are using a theme that seems to make the position of the scroll not look accurate. Normally it will hook into the right element and go straight to the form.

Sorry without know what your theme structure looks like under the hood I can’t help you further.

I did take a look at the site and they are doing custom stuff.

So yeah, a bit stuck here. I am available for private work if you’d like to hire me to solve some of your design challenges.