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Are activity updates a wordpress custom posts types?

No. Activity items aren’t custom posts; instead, they live in the bp_activity table. See here for a diagram.

Hi @mhawksey

Can you open a new bug report for this on Trac referencing #5733?

This isn’t possible out-of-the-box but there may be a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory that adds Disqus functionality.

Adding items to the BuddyPress activity stream is very easy. Check out the bp_activity_add() article for more info.

@azaleamollis
Because its not as a straightforward process as it should be these are the the steps I took to remove my plugins from the WP repo.
1.) Send the request to plugins@wordpress.org to remove the plugin using the same email you used when submitting the plugin make sure you state your reason why, be it personal or lack of time to support the plugin etc..
2.) Log into the SVN and delete all of the relevant php in the files between the opening and closing php tags.
3.) As long as you don’t update the readme.txt then current users will continue to be able to use your plugin unless the code is somehow depreciated. If that happens then they will have to figure it out on their own or find another solution. If you don’t want even your current users using your plugin then update the readme.txt as a higher version number with the empty php files which will basically render the plugin completely useless when it is updated.
Dirty trick but it gets the job done! Good luck!

That’s a pure wp question !
See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_userdata

Hi @david-ar,

consider first https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

then read here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

and finally some snippet, http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82239/make-display-name-unique

As alternative, it exist a wp plugin called Credible Names

@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.

You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.

If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..

it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:

BuddyPress Theme Development

for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..

of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.

I think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.

make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.

just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload later

real instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)

I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.

pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.

note sure if these work or not – never used them:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-community/

Let me know if you try them and they fail or work!

@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/

I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉

Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.

Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))

Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.

Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!

@ajay25 – maybe the wp plugin “good question” ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/good-question/ ) will do what you are asking (?)
Maybe “buddypress humanity”

I imagine there are other similar ones in the wp repo these days

I think I should solve problem if you implement this patch into next release:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5202/5202.02.patch
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5202

Debugging PHP code is part of any project, but WordPress comes with specific debug systems designed to simplify the process as well as standardize code across the core, plugins and themes. This page describes the various debugging tools in WordPress and how to be more productive in your coding as well as increasing the overall quality and interoperativity of your code.

The following code, inserted in your wp-config.php file, will log all errors, notices, and warnings to a file called debug.log in the wp-content directory. It will also hide the errors so they do not interrupt page generation.

// Enable WP_DEBUG mode
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);

// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);

// Disable display of errors and warnings
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
@ini_set(‘display_errors’,0);

// Use dev versions of core JS and CSS files (only needed if you are modifying these core files)
define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);

Thank !!
SherieySron@Ufindthem

@mattfl850 – so you just need to the basic functions of BP with each? (not give each member a separate blog/site as well) – is what I am guessing…

I imagine these is a graceful way to put a wp/bp install in your root directory and network activate bp to create separate members and mesh this with multi-site to make it so that /sbs is a new “site” and /rust is..

but if I was going this (And I am not a bp dev or any kind of wp expert) – I would just install wp/bp in /sbs and do another separate wordpress install in /rust and add bp there.

That may be the simplest setup for what you describe as the current goal. Others may have a differing idea.

@natmba1 – places like dreamhost are good at doign some hand holding with wordpress issues, so I would suggest them, or bluehost – or someone similar who really specializes in WP hosting for those who are new(ish) to the self hosting game – their tech have more knowledge about common wp issues – and they have some extra layers of security that help a bit with common wp things like brute force login / hacking attempts.

Just about any host out there can run wordpress fine – I try to avoid windows hosting platforms – as the setup for running wp quickly and easily just seems smoother with the ‘nix based servers –

I am sure others have good recommendations as well – I will tell you from my recent experiences I am really liking tmdhosting.com – as their support has wowed me this year, and they have strong mod-sec setups to block multiple password fails already running.

Some people look for price first – I say support is more important than anything else. I could give you a long list of hosting places that have completely failed me when it comes to support – and if your site goes down and the server needs to be restarted, you don’t want to wait 48 hours to here back from some level one support guy that does not fix the problem, no matter how cheap the place may be.

Obviously I have not tried every hosting company in the world, so don’t take my experiences as the only voice on this.

most hosting places have one step installs for wordpress these days – like I said earlier, I usually suggest dreamhost for total newbies – but I am more familiar with the standard cpanel admin server backend that places like tmdhosting and hostgator provide – I get a bit lost in the dreamhost panel sometimes – but if you have not already gotten used to finding things in either panel – then that would not be an issue for you.

The good thing is that it’s pretty easy to change your wordpress hosting to a different place if your needs change – so I don’t think you need to worry too much about picking the perfect place right off the bat.

I should probably check to see if I have an bonus code or something from these hosting places, but not sure it would jive with the bp group to provide you with an affiliate link where I got a kickback if you signed up.

If you were looking for dedicated servers I’d have more suggestions – but I don’t think you’ll need that kind of server power for a while (if ever)

If you take a look at the WordPress code base, you’ll see there is similar logic applied to username. The gist will be

1. Query the database for a list of display names
2. Throw an error if the desired name already exists

Installation in WordPress Multisite

@natmba1 – you do not need a wordpress dot COM account to run buddypress – and I am not sure that you can run BP there – not the last time I checked.

What I suggest is getting your own web hosting account – for 10 or 20$ per month you can run your own (shared) hosting – and put wordpress and buddypress and any other plugins you like into it.

Some places like dreamhost.com (and similar hosting companies) – make it pretty simple to setup a wordpress hosting account and then you can add plugins and themes through the backend admin dashboard.

You will likely end up with an account at wordpress dot ORG – to ask questions about plugins and stuff – but the dot ORG is the free open community and the dot COM is more the commercial thing kind of like wix.. which I am sure you have seen places like that are very limited – running your own system has many more options – but with that comes a bit more learning and responsibility 😉

I am also having this problem but it’s specifically with groups. We noticed it happening maybe a month ago? Does anyone know how to fix it?

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