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You can use the WordPress gettext filter.

This filter allows you to intercept and modify text before it’s displayed on the page. Here’s an example of how you can use it to change a specific string in BuddyPress:

/**
 * Translates specific strings in BuddyPress to new values.
 * This function hooks into the 'gettext' filter provided by WordPress, allowing for the modification
 * of text before it is displayed or used on the site. It specifically targets text within the 'buddypress' domain,
 * making it suitable for customizing or translating BuddyPress strings without altering language files.
 *
 * @param string $translated_text The text after being translated.
 * @param string $text The text before being translated.
 * @param string $domain The domain of the text being translated. This function specifically targets 'buddypress'.
 * @return string The modified or translated text.
 */
add_filter( 'gettext', 'wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings', 20, 3 );

function wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    // Target only BuddyPress strings to avoid affecting other texts.
    if ( 'buddypress' === $domain ) {
        switch ( $translated_text ) {
            // Example: Translate "Friends" to "Connections".
            case 'Friends':
                $translated_text = 'Connections';
                break;

            // Add more strings to translate as needed, following the pattern above.
        }
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

Inside the switch statement, you can add cases for each specific string you wish to translate or modify. Replace ‘Friends’ with the BuddyPress string you want to change, and ‘Connections’ with the desired new text.

I’d like to throw into the mix ActivityPub. With WordPress being able to support ActivityPub through the ActivityPlug Plugin from Automattic it would be interesting to understand how BuddyPress could interact with other servers and communities built on Mastodon and other ActivityPub compliant servers.

It would be interesting to see a home feed and have the ability to follow others on different servers.

Thanks for the response! I installed classic but no change.
No change when I de-activate the ‘Buddy Press for Learndash’ by BuddyBoss plugin. (https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-learndash/)
I checked with LearnDash and this is still the plugin they advise to use – even though it hasn’t been updated in 4 years. We may just abandon the functionality – it doesn’t offer much value to us if it’s not connected to the online course. I suspect the BuddyBoss plugin is the issue.

@rodrigolzd, try this: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-activity-filter. You can disable a certain type of activity posting. This feature will only be effective on new activities, and will not remove existing ones. For example, when someone adds you as a friend or registers on the community.

@jerrythemouse https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailpoet-paid-memberships-pro-add-on works fine with Mailpoet 3.

There is no specific limitation from Paid Membership Pro I have seen upto so far where it limits you to fetch registered user email and sync it to any 3rd party integration.

@jerrythemouse To add a membership layer, you can use Paid Membership Pro, which also comes with a BuddyPress addon.

Paid Memberships Pro – Content Restriction, User Registration, & Paid Subscriptions

BuddyPress & BuddyBoss Private Community with PMPro – Restrict Profiles, Groups, Messaging, Forum Discussions

I am glad to hear that a v.14 is planned!
For 10 years I’ve tried to build something with buddypress, but I have never been able to launch a completed project, as I haven’t had the skills to make it as functional as it needed to be.

I am one of those guys that have used wordpress + various other members plugin + freelancer to make what I want.

Every community is different – so is the ones I’ve tried to make, and more often than not I haven’t needed 60% of the functionality coming out of the box in buddypress. But there are always something missing, at least for what I wanted to use Buddypress for.

In version 14 I hope to see more functionality (presented in a clear way for the users) towards user-interacting: Easy to use notification system for 100% of interactions between users.

All notifications is so, so important – as this is the way to bring members back. “Lila has sent you a message, click here to see”, “You got a new friend request”, “Someone replied to your topic”.. This brings people back, helping to grow the community!

So: Live popups and emails + bell notifications for:
Private messages, new bbpress replies / new topics, bbpress mentions, commenting, like buttons, added, follows, friend requests, accepted friend request, rejected friend requests, rating of content, e.g posts, forum posts etc.

And the entire notification system must be easy to use for both members and the admins!
Not all admins have coding skills. We just need an easy way to implement a bell in the header, which nicely presents new notifications. Small things like that is what I’ve been looking for.

And I have often found that 50% of it is working as I hoped, but then the other 50% is just not there. Forcing me to go to Freelancer, and from the developers over there, getting told: “You don’t need such a heavy tool like buddypress to accomplish this. Let me fix it for you just using wordpress and UsersWP”.

@eluyawi

Possible caching issue.

You can check these docs, WP Fields can be used as xProfile fields https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress/

@eluyawi

You can use the following code snippet to create a new tab to display at BuddyPress Profile.

// Function to add a custom tab for Membership Details in the BuddyPress profile
function wbcom_rcp_buddypress_add_membership_tab() {
    global $bp;

    // Define a new navigation item for the BuddyPress profile menu
    bp_core_new_nav_item(array(
        'name' => __('Membership', 'textdomain'), // The name of the tab
        'slug' => 'membership', // The slug for the tab, used in the URL
        'screen_function' => 'wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen', // The function that will load when the tab is clicked
        'position' => 50, // Position of the tab in the profile navigation
        'parent_url' => bp_loggedin_user_domain() . '/membership/', // The parent URL for this sub-navigation
        'parent_slug' => $bp->profile->slug, // The slug of the parent navigation item
        'default_subnav_slug' => 'membership' // Default sub-navigation slug
    ));
}

// Function to handle the display of the Membership Details tab content
function wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen() {
    // Add the title and content to the Membership tab using actions
    add_action('bp_template_title', 'wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen_title');
    add_action('bp_template_content', 'wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen_content');
    // Load the BuddyPress plugin template for displaying the tab content
    bp_core_load_template(apply_filters('bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins'));
}

// Function to set the title of the Membership Details tab
function wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen_title() {
    echo 'Membership Details'; // Title displayed on the Membership tab
}

// Function to display the content of the Membership Details tab
function wbcom_rcp_buddypress_membership_screen_content() {
    // Use the shortcode [subscription_details] to display membership information
    echo do_shortcode('[subscription_details]');
}

// Hook the function to add the Membership tab into the BuddyPress setup navigation action
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'wbcom_rcp_buddypress_add_membership_tab');

You can use a plugin to add code snippets to your WordPress website using a plugin like “Code Snippets.” This plugin allows you to add custom PHP code snippets to your site without editing your theme’s functions.php file.

@fourbfb you can try to debug with the following steps.

1- Temporarily deactivate other plugins to rule out conflicts, as another plugin might interfere with BuddyPress’s upload functionality.
2- Switch to a default WordPress theme like Twenty Twenty to check if the issue is theme-related.
3- Verify PHP settings such as upload_max_filesize and post_max_size are adequate in your php.ini file.
4- Use the browser’s developer console (F12) to check for JavaScript errors that might block the upload process.
5- Ensure that the profile photo and group icon uploads are enabled in BuddyPress settings.

Warning in BP 12.2.0

[25-Jan-2024 02:32:13 UTC] PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “activity” on null in /var/www/eufort-sokolniki/wordpress/current/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php on line 643
[25-Jan-2024 02:32:13 UTC] PHP Warning: Attempt to read property “id” on null in /var/www/eufort-sokolniki/wordpress/current/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php on line 643

Hi @imath,

I have a similar / related issue. I’m using Restrict Content Pro’s registration page with the latest Buddypress version (12.1.1) on a staging site and my registration page broke. It told me “Member registration is currently not allowed”, even if I disable the buddypress plugin.

I tried the gist you posted https://gist.github.com/imath/c5c34feb5d3c9b3070f7a11bc339f103 in my child theme’s functions.php but the registration page still does not work. Any ideas?

*Update* – I read through the earlier post and found the first workaround – going to Buddypress Settings -> URLs, but did not see any option to change the register slug. I had to briefly turn on wordpress general settings “Anyone can register” so that more options would appear in “URLs”. I was able to set the slug to something else like ‘sign-in’ and that seemed to allow my RCP registration to function again.

Just to check, I disabled “Anyone can register”. Seems like the BP slug change stuck and my RCP registration is operational.

@imath
Thanks for your help
That note was very helpful.

According to the image below, the Date Selector field is related to choosing the date of birth and…

This is the part I was looking for, which is apparently not compatible with WordPress’ core historiography system and cannot be used with Shamsi date in Persian language (after using the Shamsi-Jalali plugin).