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@akswer Friend type is not part of current features. It’s not like regular WordPress Post category. It will need to be extended and need to add one more parameter for friends and add a new option for the user to add specific friend inside their list Like Inner Circle, Friend or Acquaintance. You can request for a feature inside https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

@bizzibi @cassihl If you are only looking for BP notification only not as email for new topics, you can try
https://github.com/buddydev/bbp-bp-notify-new-topic

For bbPres email notification, you can check

bbPress Notify (No Spam)

@bizzibi You can try https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

@avaiya might be this can help https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-post-from-anywhere/ it will help you to paste shortcode inside page or widgets which will allow your user to post from anywhere.

@parttimedimes you can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/hashbuddy/ it can help to tag activities and comments with related hashtags and you can search activities as well.

Short answer is WordPress has a totally crap email API, and it’s really hard to reliable filter the core WordPress emails. That’s a big part of the reason I wrote a modern email API for BuddyPress, because WordPress itself is doing a bad job.

Let me know if you think this is something we should prioritise. It’s been a while since we’ve improved the email system, and this might be a good reason for another pass.

I am not sure why this might not work. I suspect, too, it is a conflict with some other plugin or theme that affects permalinks or page management, but it’s impossible to tell without actually working through the code and checking your database. Perhaps the theme, as you said you’ve tried disabling all plugins.

If you let me know your versions of WordPress and BuddyPress, and if your site has WordPress multisite enabled or not, or if you’ve customised any BuddyPress options via custom code, I’ll try to test on a similar site next week and just confirm if it actually works. I doubt that’ll help fix your issue, though, unfortunately.

You’ll need to be a reasonably competent developer, familiar with WordPress, to achieve this. There is some documentation at https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp_activity_add-2/ that might help you get started. Good luck!

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