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Hi @jerrysmith212

Thanks for the kind words! BuddyPress does *use* a cron task for only one thing — if Activity component is active and you also have the Akismet plugin enabled, then there’s an integration between the two, and our cron task periodically tidies up old metadata.

We do nothing that I know of that affects WordPress’ cron system, let alone something that might break things.

(To clarify: we use WordPress’ “scheduled cron” API, like all plugins, not actual “Linux cron” jobs).

See above for a list of user capabilities by role:

2) Choose the users that you want to enable (to create groups). Get the list of WP capabilities for each of them from here (or use a role/capability editing plugin):

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

Choose one capability which is only shared by those users that will have the ability to create groups.

No, there is not currently a way to make a group “pending” though that’s will be possible as a result of something I’m working on.

Did you try the forum notifier plugin? You can also have a look at other plugins here Best BuddyPress Plugins

You should be able to do that, with a filter to only display the What’s new box if the logged in user name is the same as the displayed user name. by overloading the activity/post-form.php file.

Check out BP Template Overloader to help you manage your template overloads.

Hey guys, @grounder is talking about xprofile fields plugin, not Buddypress. Read the thread title.

I assume it’s this plugin as it has been abandoned by wordpress recently as it has not been updated in 3 years or so.

Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields Type

I am also using this plugin and looking for an alternative. My hosting (wp-engine) just notified me that this plugin has a security vulnerability and they have contacted the developer to fix it but I doubt it will happen.

I think this plugin might be an alternative but have to look into it, if anyone is also in this situation. This one is also not updated:

Advanced XProfile Fields for BuddyPress

How did you change the link to the registration page? Presumably this is what caused that issue. I’ve not had to do that myself so am unaware of what issues it may cause.

Regarding some users not getting activation emails. Are you using the default wordpress email address (wordpress@yoursite.com) some mail providers block these default emails and you can change the default email to something mre specific to your site using a plugin such as CB Change Mail Sender.

Hi Jorge,

The header functionality is now available in a new plugin I’ve created. It should make it a lot easier for you to display both group and user headers:

BP Profile Shortcodes Extra

Hi Avaiya,

just to let you know I’ve totally revamped the profile shortcodes plugin and added a load more features, you might like to take a look:

BP Profile Shortcodes Extra

Hi Steve,

My initial version is ready – https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-shortcodes-extra/

I’d welcome any feedback about the shortcodes and how they work. There were a number of options I was not sure about, for example if they needed to display a title.

I opted to omit activity and forum shortcodes in this initial release as there are existing shortcodes for these, though in the longer term I do think it would be nice to collect everything into one plugin.

Maybe this plugin could do it, I don’t really know multisite but found this in searches:

WordPress User Sync

Which top menu options? the WordPress toolbar?

Seems like it’s not working. What happens if you deactivate BuddyPress and just use the wordpress registration?

BuddyPress basically uses the wordpress email system, it uses a sender address of wordpress@yoursite.com. Some email providers block this generic address. Mine doesn’t, if you like I could register on your site and see if it works for me?

I’ve been playing with this and I too am struggling. What I have discovered is as follows:

Remove the & from the beginning of the string and alphabetical will work.
Start the string with another option beginning with an & and alphabetical will work.

Exclude does not seem to work in any variation.

I’ve raised this in a track ticket:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7742

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

It’s where you can ask for new features or report a bug.

I’ve raised the links problem on BuddyPress Trac, I’ve been able to add rich text editing to the compose and reply boxes for messages, it’s quite involved doing it but if you’d like that feature I can help you implement it.

I think you should add this as a new feature request into BuddyPress Trac, I think it should be a core feature since you will want to for example send a message to all friends in category X, or send an activity update to just those friends. I think that functionality would need to be enabled in core.

If you are going to implement the visual editor for messages, you will need to overload the members/single/messages/compose.php file. You might like to use BP Template Overloader to help you manage your overloads

Most themes support BuddyPress these days, thanks to template compatibility in that the BuddyPress pages are displayed and work. What most BuddyPress theme’s mean when they say they support BuddyPress is that they have modified the BP theme files and/or css in order to provide BP specific features.

There’s over 100 template files that can be overloaded, most BP specific themes do not touch the majority of these, they tend to concentrate on just the main pages such as the members and group list and profile pages to give them a theme specific feel. Much of this modification is simply to add their own specific css to allow better control of how a page looks.

To make overloading of the template files easier I created a plugin called BP Template Overloader. This displays all of the files available for overloading, allows overloads to be set up and allows you to compare your overloaded file with the BP master file.

This kinda sounds more like an authentication problem that one with BP per se, but you say it only happens on the BuddyPress login, not the WordPress login? When you say “run it on a responsive sit” what do you mean?

Because the object cache caches query results from the database and if you modify the database – either directly or using WP’s DB APIs – you to clear it. Otherwise you’ll end up with inconsistent results.

Using WP-CLI is probably easiest for this: https://developer.wordpress.org/cli/commands/cache/flush/

If you don’t know enough to write these PHP commands yourself, using some shell scripting and the BuddyPress WP-CLI commands will probably be easier: https://github.com/buddypress/wp-cli-buddypress/

One issue that people see is Hotmail rejecting the default email address that WordPress uses, you can change this using CB Change Mail Sender, see if that fixes it.