BuddyPress.org

This is sort of a big WordPress question that lots of people would like to change, but it’s not that easy. You could try using the plugin Theme My Login, which would need to be applied carefully, as it overlaps with BP a bit. https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/ (I have no idea if this is a good plan, you’ll just have to try it.)

The black bar across the top is a WordPress per-user preference “Show Toolbar when viewing site”. There are many resources on the web about how to disable it/change the behavior:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+disable+toolbar+for+subscribers

You can save extra things manually on the bp_core_signup_user hook:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.9.1/src/bp-members/bp-members-functions.php#L1900

But I imagine that the simpler answer would be to use Profile Fields. If you add profile fields to the base group, then they appear on the registration form and are saved at signup. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/extended-profiles/

Best,

-David

Hi moefahmy,

Just registered my first WordPress.org account since over hundreds of sites I’ve built in the past, hehe. I’m facing exact the same issue as you have. I seriously thought that BuddyPress would support features like this. In the wp-admin > Groups > Single Group, there’s even an option that says: ‘Who can invite others to this group?’, WHY is this option available but not ‘Which usertype can post to this group? e.g. Administrators, Moderators, Subscribers etc.’.

Is there a plugin that anyone in this community is aware of which handles above feature? I really need a feature to assign posting permissions to users or userlevels…

Hey! I am using the plugin: BuddyPress Docs. You can create Wikis and upload docs inside the groups.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-docs/

“Part wiki, part document editing, part shared dropbox, “

It is working, but I would be interested too if there is a better solution..

Hi @paksunny-

#1 can be accomplished by adding this code to you bp-custom.php file (or wherever you keep your customizations): https://gist.github.com/dcavins/c65f3856dd6ed5be37eef115ab09405a

#2 Try this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-message-for-friends-only/

-David

It sounds like you need to change/update your permalink structure for your WordPress installation. Visit wp-admin > Settings > Permalinks to update.

-David

follow these instructions for a free way : https://www.en.suaralo.com/allow-user-wordpress-frontend-post/

BP functions need to be used in WP & BP context.
For example, they should not be called until BP is loaded and ready – use the ‘bp_ready’ hook.
And use the WP db functions – see $wpdb
If you want to use vanilla php and mysqli, then you’ll need to roll your own join group function.

I need to exclude Author role from my BP members loop. The authors will all go into a different Directory system with different profile template and no BP functionality, just wordpress blogging capabilities.

Does anyone have some code I can pop into the functions.php of my child theme?

thanks!

It sounds like you need @imath’s Rendez Vous plugin.

Rendez Vous

If you haven’t already, create a child theme.

Then copy your buddypress/template folder & subfolders over to your child theme.

Go through each file, search for instances of the word “FRIENDS,” and replace it with “CONNECTIONS.”

If you can’t find all instances of the word “FRIENDS” in these files, check your buddypress.po file and use Poedit to hack it out of there too.

If you haven’t already, create a child theme.

Then copy your buddypress/template folder & subfolders over to your child theme.

Go through each file, search for instances of the word “FRIENDS,” and replace it with “CONNECTIONS.”

Or, you can pay a developer thousands of dollars to make a plugin do it for you 🙂

The problem you’re having is really common, not related to any specific code or plugin, and it affects pretty much all WordPress emails (contact form emails, notices, etc) that are sent from a web server instead of through SMTP. (SMTP is what your email programs use.) You never know when a site will start having this problem, so it can appear random, or it can seem connected to a plugin, etc. (It hardly ever is.)

Over the past few years sending mail from a web server has become more unreliable due to the various improvements in fighting email spam: SPF/DKIM/DMARC etc. Using SMTP is the only reliable way to get emails to arrive at their destination (unless you really have your site’s email configuration dialed in).

I could get into all the technical issues/reasons, I’ll spare you. 🙂

Short answer:

• Use an SMTP plugin.
• Create an email account that is only used for sending emails from your site. (Gmail account is fine.)
• Do a search in the WordPress.org plugin directory for “SMTP”, and pick one of those plugins: Easy WP SMTP for example.

Once you get those setup, you should be good to go.

Hey @friendlygooners

You can go to Tools > BuddyPress in the WordPress admin area and then select Reinstall emails under Repair tools.

Is your user name a reference to Arsenal? I’m a fan 🙂

2 options I see:
1) Use hooks on the register.php page like do_action( ‘bp_after_registration_submit_buttons’ ) add_action('bp_after_registration_submit_buttons','your_function');
function your_function(){
echo do_shortcode( '' );
}
2) Modify register page –> copy wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/members/register.php to wp-content/themes/your-child-theme/buddypress/members/register.php and modify in your-child-theme

do_shortcode()

Hi @bttmrc,

You can add the profile avatar in wordpress menu by simply filtering the wp_nav_menu_items function. A nice article is here. Add a custom menu item. You should know a little bit of coding to achieve it.

host via a server other than WordPress

Are you referring to wordpress dot com ?

Both WP and BP are free and can be hosted on any server.
You don’t need the ‘pro’ membership plugin.

@ftg17 Did you check the Profile Settings Option? If not Login to WordPress dashboard using admin account and navigate to Setting >> Buddypress >> Options >> Profile Settings . Mark tick on allow user to upload profile photo. If you did this kindly change to the WordPress default theme and check if now you can update your profile pic.