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BuddyPress activity items aren’t WordPress posts so as far as I know you can’t associate categories or tags with them. However, activity items do have associated meta.

Take a look at these functions which will be useful to you:

bp_activity_add_meta()
bp_activity_update_meta()
bp_activity_get_meta()
bp_activity_delete_meta()

Hi,

in brief: yes!
But it depends greatly of your CSS and design knowledge. Fortunately, you can access to the whole theme code used on buddypress.org, by clicking here.

Official announcement of this was in 2014.

There are quite a few social login plugins. I use WordPress Social Login. If you click Add New in plugins and search social login you’ll see quite a few.

I would suggest https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-custom-fields-type/ to create your profile fields. There also conditional field plugins that would allow you to set up different fields to members and doctors.

You’ll need FTP access for that probably. These items are not stored in the Media Library. Avatars are stored in wp-content/uploads/avatars. RTmedia probably stores items in another directory in uploads (I’m not familiar with that plugin).

If you just need to ghost a few offensive users, perhaps a plugin like this, which allows you to impersonate the user, might help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/

I would suggest asking this question in the Studiopress forums. It could be that the Genesis Connect plugin was required before BP enhanced their theme compatibility. BP now works in any well designed WordPress Theme. You can read more about that here, along with instructions on building out your own child theme to tweak how BP renders within your selected theme:

BuddyPress Theme Development

Hi Dee,

I would suggest that you download the plugin and give it a try. If you already have a WordPress install, there isn’t anything to “buy”.

Once you log in, the Main activity stream has a central area where users can post updates:

Allowing users to post media to the activity stream, rather than just text, is going to require an additional plugin. Although I don’t use it, this will do the trick: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/

Commenting on each other’s posts is there by design. If you go into Settings/Discussion you can set the Threaded Discussion depth in the same space you would manipulate this for blog posts.

Rating each other’s posts could be done with https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/bp-reactions/

Allowing users to also post to the blog on the site (as well as the activity feed) will require you to elevate their permissions. By default, users who are Subscribers (WordPress Roles https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities) can post to the Activity Stream, but not to the blog post. If you promote them to Contributor, they can post articles to the blog post as well: given your wish to moderate those posts, you want Contributor rather than Author, so you can read the posts first before publishing. You can’t moderate the activity feed. Users can post there freely (like FB)

First, you need to figure out how to fetch the Active Directory data for a user and how to display it. This isn’t dependent on BuddyPress.

Once, you’ve figured that out, you’ll need to hook into the BuddyPress profile template to add those fields.

If you are a WordPress developer, there are various hooks you could use. View the profile template:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.8.1/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php

And hook into any of the do_action() hooks to display your AD data. To get the current user’s ID on a profile page, use bp_displayed_user_id().

You have 2 options. I’d recommend the 2nd:

1: Copy and paste the JavaScript to your my-theme/buddypress/members/register.php template. In this case you’ll need to copy the <script> tags also.
2: Create a separate file (my-theme/js/script.js for example) and paste the JavaScript into that. In this case you don’t need to copy the <script> tags. If you go down this route you will need to enqueue the script. See this article for info on how to do that:

wp_enqueue_script()

It’s being caused by the BP Group Email Subscription plugin.

View the following for a fix until the next version is released:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-issue-of-letters-with-v3-7-0/#post-8832281

Hi,

you need a child theme and a small code modification.

The code is explained here.

if ( bp_has_members( bp_ajax_querystring( 'members' ) ) ) is to replace by something like (can be different)
if ( bp_has_members( 'type=random' ) )

In a “buddypress” folder of your child theme, you add a copy of this file:
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/members-loop.php

What ever you modify in that file while now be interpreted by BuddyPress. The advantage of this method is that BP can be updated while your modification in the child will always be save and taken in account over the current version.

You can also search the forum for members-loop to get other information.

1,2,3,4,6 should be left to WordPress plugins as these are specific to WP.

7, 10 have been discussed as core options. It just takes time for developers and the team to finalize specs and to code as this is all done on a volunteer basis. 10 is hard because it relies on a ton of dependent code that hasn’t been written or finalized yet.

5 – There’s been some preliminary work on this. See https://github.com/buddypress/bp-types-ui.

9 – If you’re using WordPress multisite, this should be already available as a WordPress option under “Network Admin > Settings”. Otherwise, this plugin might work, but does the opposite. It restricts signup to email domains that you specify.

Notifications

2 should already be in core.
3 is a good request, but unreliable due to how the notifications data is stored. It would be easy to do for BP core notifications, but notifications generated by plugins could store the user ID differently, making this unreliable.
4 could be done via a custom template or via a small code snippet.