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@mrditt
You can switch in real time.
Mailgun will send email sent to WordPress or any other plugins including BuddyPress.
Mailgun has a free slot and paid stot, based on usages you can increase your plan.
When someone sends a message to Adam (just random username), Adam will get an email notification as well.

You can find the doc here https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/
It will help you disable all bp emails, alter them and disable some emails based on their actions.

Thank you Paul for commenting. I wish I was clearer.

I was referring to the Log In and Register buttons on the admin bar (which is Buddypress) in the top left.

Im using this to disable BuddyPress’ registration process and fallback to WordPress. I want to merely change the link of the Log In button so it goes to my custom login page. How do you go about doing it?

<?php

/**
 * Disables BuddyPress' registration process and fallsback to WordPress' one.
 */
function my_disable_bp_registration() {
  remove_action( 'bp_init',    'bp_core_wpsignup_redirect' );
  remove_action( 'bp_screens', 'bp_core_screen_signup' );
}
add_action( 'bp_loaded', 'my_disable_bp_registration' );

?>

$wpdb->get_col returns an array
$wpdb->get_var returns a single value – try it

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb

@pandreas you can create group type with https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-create-group-type/
and you can display them via shortcodes on any pages with group type parameters

and with https://github.com/wbcomdesigns/shortcodes-for-buddypress you can have a shortcode to display groups with group-type anywhere as a shortcode
e.g. [groups-listing type=”sports”]

You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailgun/ and it will work perfectly. I am also using it on my sites.

@luke_devon You can check https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-member-type-generator/, with their pro version you can also map them to user roles.

Loop functions are a pretty basic feature of WordPress, in WP 101 terms it’s basically lesson 2 – how the posts page displays a list of all posts. It does this by having a loop – using a function to pull in all posts (or in bp members or groups) then using a while loop to iterate through all those posts, members groups etc, depending on the context.

So a bp Loop looks something like this:

If has_members:
While has_members:
print out the info you want
End while
Else
// there were no members

The buddyPress toolbar is also the WordPress Toolbar. There is no function in BuddyPress to hide the toolbar completely, however there are a number of general wordpress plugins that will completely hide the toolbar.

I remember squirrelling around one site to find what had caused this and it turned out to be a front end publishing plugin that had a default setting to hide the toolbar.

So my first question is this – are you sure it’s BuddyPress causing this? have you deactivated all other plugins and still get the problem with BP loaded?

@glenndavis007 use following plugin and you will be able to lock BP components and it will display login widgets when some logout member will try to access it.

BuddyPress Lock

I think you should submit this as a feature request in BuddyPress Trac

I would also like to see this as a feature. I think that it should integrate with messaging, you you can add a bunch of friends into a category and choose to message that category for example. I’d also like to see activity shares to these categories.

What plugin did you use to add the option to only display a menu item to logged in users? Seems like that is what is not functioning. hiding the activity link by hiding the menu item does not hide the activity page from non logged in users, if they know the url they will still be able to view it, to prevent that you should explore the security options available to you. There a number of privacy plugins for bp with a range of features, is it only the Activity page you want to hide?

BuddyPress uses the default WordPress login page, there’s a number of customisers for this, for example: https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-custom-login/

Do you mean the action that triggers the email, they are in the WordPress Action reference I think:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference

@galador WordPress login is same as BuddyPress login; you can create a themed login page as well.

IF you are concern about WordPress.com login options, it might be possible you have enabled it inside Jetpack plugin setting, you can disable from Jetpack option https://jetpack.com/support/sso/

@yusterlan
https://myweb.com/members/username/settings/notifications should point you to the login page ( wp-login.php) and redirect to https://myweb.com/members/username/settings/notifications/ after login, the link is correct and seems working fine.

You can check following threads as well
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7349

Error 404 for non logged in users

Chat – BP Better Mesage :replaces the standard message system BuddyPress supports attachments (video including) and smilies, you can also conduct group discussions

groups, extended profiles, news areas, activity feeds – this is a full-time functional BuddyPress

polls – bbPress + GD Topic Polls, WP Easy Poll PRO also allows users to create polls

for photos and albums (in addition to the voiced options), you can also try BuddyDrive

but in general, you can see a list of plugins in my profile – there are a lot of things for BuddyPress (not all work correctly, but most of it is used on the sites I follow)
https://profiles.wordpress.org/krioteh/#content-favorites

🙂

Thanks @venutius.

I’m actually using Paid Memberships Pro plugin for my memberships management and they just recently released a BP integration which takes care of the xprofile fields plugin problem as I was told by one of their tech support. It is better installed when you just create your site as they still have to create syncing issues between their fields and regular old xprofile fields for older members – currently this syncing is not available but will be. So as a result I will have to manually move the data over from the members prior to using their integration (about 200 people but it’s doable) . I’m waiting for the code to be installed on my site by their tech support to do this.

But if anyone is interested, they should check out PMPro for managing bp or other memberships, it really is great and it’s always supported. I am using the Pro version which is expensive per year however you get great tech support and they will go into your site to modify things and help you install various add ons and integrations. This BP integration plugin is available in free version too I believe. If you have a serious memberships site where you do or intent do make money, it’s worth to pay for the yearly fee though for support and access to more add ons.

I’ve tried other membership plugins and just wasn’t working for me.

Hopefully the old xprofile fields plugin can be cloned by someone for those who are not going to use PMpro. It’s odd that there are not many options for this plugin and it’s not supported as it’s very essential.

Here’s PMPro info:

Paid Memberships Pro

The integration plugin below, you need the above memberships plugin installed though:

Paid Memberships Pro – BuddyPress Add On

Hi there,

I have a plugin called BP Profile Shortcodes Extra. I’ve added a shortcode to provide you with a configurable Private Message link [bpps_profile_private_message_link] you can use the user_id=”” setting to determine a specific user to private message. Let me know what you think.

Hi Glenn,

I’ve never tried Peepso or Social Engine, so I@m not speaking from a point of balance. I have tried other dedicated hosted platforms such as Ning though so I do have some wider experience.

I think your issues can be boiled down into two areas: Maintenance, and features.

Any WordPress site, any site for that matter is going to require maintenance the main question is who does that maintenance, how well is it done and how quickly new issues can be resolved.

With a WordPress/BuddyPress installation I’d say that the level of maintenance that you yourself have to do (or pay for) is going to be higher than with peepso. Much depends on what features your add to the basic installation, in my experience in general WP and BP updates are solid and cause few issues, it’s usually the other plugins that can cause issues (prime eample recently was a SiteOrigin Page Builder update that wrecked my front page and they did not fix it for several months).

My expectation with Peepso is that what you sacrifice in the way of variety of options available to you I’d hope that in return the options you do get will be reasonably well integrated with each other and less likely to cause conflicts resulting in feature or site loss that you would need to take a hand in resolving. The downside is if you find there are specific feature you need, or issues that are not getting resolved, you have few alternatives to go to, you may find yourself stuck.

I once had a paid hosted site costing $50 per month which pretty much ground to halt and the provider refused to see the problem. It made me feel pretty helpless and it was the reason I moved to BuddyPress – I figured the money I saved on hosting I could use to fund feature additions to the basic BP setup.

Anyway getting back to the point, so I reckon peepso will be less maintenance but with less features, and this brings me on to the second point – features.

I think it would probably be a good idea to map out exactly which features you want in quite some detail and see how that drives your thoughts. For example you say you want video, would this be you hosting the video files or libraries of YouTube style embeds? Would you need group galleries, user galleries, sitewide gallery etc?

Here’s what I tend to use:

Chat – IfyChat – free version limited to 10 concurrent users but an excellent chat engine
Video/photos/audio – Either MediaPress or rtMedia, rtMedia is more stylish but add-ons are quite expensive.
Groups/xprofiles, activity, friends – BuddyPress.
News areas – probably more general workpress based solutions for this, are you thinking RSS feeds from other sites or internal news (could be done with a simple News category?).
Polls – never really looked at polls, I note there is this – https://themekraft.com/new-plugin-buddypress-polls/ for starters, looks interesting but I’ve not tried it.

Regarding supporting mobile, BP is coming out with a new theme – BP Nouveau, this has options for vertical menus which I think will be a lot more mobile friendly.

The bulk of being mobile friendly comes down to the theme you are using and whilst most are responsive these days I personally find that having a mobile responsive theme is not good enough for phones, what I do is run a second mobile specific theme and use a theme switcher to detect and switch themes.

Another point to bear in mind with BP is that there are a great many plugins that help you choose how your site is going to work, there’s a range of plugins that change the may notifications and email subscriptions work. This is a benefit of BP, but it does also increase the plugin count.

@worksofweb the plugin I have mentioned add notification when someone mark favorite any activities. It’s not for regular WordPress Post.

You can check this also https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ulike/ it add like button on regular WordPress post and cpt as well.

@michaellanfield all forums created by groups are also parent forums. That’s why default will list them. You can create your own set of forums with a specific category and display them at Forum index with shortcodes.

Individual forums in not displaying at your site, it might be theme specific issue, you can cross test with default WordPress theme.

@ravipatel you can report it inside https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report