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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.

Also clear WordPress object cache after manipulating the DB directly.

PHP error log files are another source of information.

p.s. WordPress does not have a “birthday date” field by default. BuddyPress provides the “Extended Profile” screen. If some other plugin has added a field with that same name/heading, and BuddyPress causes it to disappear, then there’s probably some sort of code conflict you’d need to investigate.

As I said above, PHP error logs are a good place to start figuring this. And venutius’ suggestion to use Query Monitor to see if the cause is a slow DB query.

@johnnymarin Searching the BuddyPress code base for “Extended Profile” would have shown you the relevant WordPress action hooks to use are edit_user_profile and show_user_profile.

Have a look at class BP_Members_Admin->profile_nav() for an implementation example. 🙂

This is broken in Firefox. We have a fix and targeting it for the 3.0 release: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7676

I’m getting the same as you, or at least on mine it works better on Chrome than it does on Firefox. I think you should raise a trac ticket for it.

I think you are really talking about new page, one that performs a search of the members profile fields and comes up with matches. If I were you, I’d look at using BP Match Me as a basis for this, or maybe BP Profile Search and then providing my own custom code to automate the search process.

The following change will remove the What’s New area from the Activity page, it will still be visible in Groups and on the users profile activity page.

You will need to set up a childtheme (there’s plenty of plugins that will do this for you).

<?php
/**
 * BuddyPress - Activity Post Form
 *
 * @package BuddyPress
 * @subpackage bp-legacy
 */

?>

<form action="<?php bp_activity_post_form_action(); ?>" method="post" id="whats-new-form" name="whats-new-form">

	<?php

	/**
	 * Fires before the activity post form.
	 *
	 * @since 1.2.0
	 */
	do_action( 'bp_before_activity_post_form' );
	
	if ( bp_is_my_profile() || bp_is_group() ) : ?>

	<div id="whats-new-avatar">
		<a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>">
			<?php bp_loggedin_user_avatar( 'width=' . bp_core_avatar_thumb_width() . '&height=' . bp_core_avatar_thumb_height() ); ?>
		</a>
	</div>

	<p class="activity-greeting"><?php if ( bp_is_group() )
		printf( __( "What's new in %s, %s?", 'buddypress' ), bp_get_group_name(), bp_get_user_firstname( bp_get_loggedin_user_fullname() ) );
	else
		printf( __( "What's new, %s?", 'buddypress' ), bp_get_user_firstname( bp_get_loggedin_user_fullname() ) );
	?></p>

	<div id="whats-new-content">
		<div id="whats-new-textarea">
			<label for="whats-new" class="bp-screen-reader-text"><?php
				/* translators: accessibility text */
				_e( 'Post what\'s new', 'buddypress' );
			?></label>
			<textarea class="bp-suggestions" name="whats-new" id="whats-new" cols="50" rows="10"
				<?php if ( bp_is_group() ) : ?>data-suggestions-group-id="<?php echo esc_attr( (int) bp_get_current_group_id() ); ?>" <?php endif; ?>
			><?php if ( isset( $_GET['r'] ) ) : ?>@<?php echo esc_textarea( $_GET['r'] ); ?> <?php endif; ?></textarea>
		</div>

		<div id="whats-new-options">
			<div id="whats-new-submit">
				<input type="submit" name="aw-whats-new-submit" id="aw-whats-new-submit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Post Update', 'buddypress' ); ?>" />
			</div>

			<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'groups' ) && !bp_is_my_profile() && !bp_is_group() ) : ?>

				<div id="whats-new-post-in-box">

					<?php _e( 'Post in', 'buddypress' ); ?>:

					<label for="whats-new-post-in" class="bp-screen-reader-text"><?php
						/* translators: accessibility text */
						_e( 'Post in', 'buddypress' );
					?></label>
					<select id="whats-new-post-in" name="whats-new-post-in">
						<option selected="selected" value="0"><?php _e( 'My Profile', 'buddypress' ); ?></option>

						<?php if ( bp_has_groups( 'user_id=' . bp_loggedin_user_id() . '&type=alphabetical&max=100&per_page=100&populate_extras=0&update_meta_cache=0' ) ) :
							while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group(); ?>

								<option value="<?php bp_group_id(); ?>"><?php bp_group_name(); ?></option>

							<?php endwhile;
						endif; ?>

					</select>
				</div>
				<input type="hidden" id="whats-new-post-object" name="whats-new-post-object" value="groups" />

			<?php elseif ( bp_is_group_activity() ) : ?>

				<input type="hidden" id="whats-new-post-object" name="whats-new-post-object" value="groups" />
				<input type="hidden" id="whats-new-post-in" name="whats-new-post-in" value="<?php bp_group_id(); ?>" />

			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php

			/**
			 * Fires at the end of the activity post form markup.
			 *
			 * @since 1.2.0
			 */
			do_action( 'bp_activity_post_form_options' ); ?>

		</div><!-- #whats-new-options -->
	</div><!-- #whats-new-content -->

	<?php wp_nonce_field( 'post_update', '_wpnonce_post_update' ); ?>
	<?php

	/**
	 * Fires after the activity post form.
	 *
	 * @since 1.2.0
	 */
	endif;
	do_action( 'bp_after_activity_post_form' ); ?>

</form><!-- #whats-new-form -->

Just place this file content in your themes/child-theme/buddypress/activity/post-form.php file. Activity, replacing everything that’s in the current file.

If you want an easier way to manage your template overloads you should look at BP Template Overloader, which will help you keep track. When you overload a theme page, you need to remember that you will have to take responsibility for keeping it up to date since any changes to the master file will no longer be loaded.

Try this plugin.

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