I’m currently having trouble in posting anything after having installed Buddypress in a sub-domain. One cant see the text area nor the post message tab. But it works perfectly when installed in the main directory.Problem is that the client desires that there is a separation between the “website par”t, and the “buddypress part”. Is there any setting that I’m missing or do we have to get a separate domain for buddypress? I’m using WordPress v.4.6.1
Thanks in advance.
Samuel.
This is my first submission to the Forum, and I hope I’m doing this correctly.
I am using BuddyPress to register members of my website. I am not a developer, and I don’t know coding, but I’ve worked with WordPress a lot. This is the first time I have used BuddyPress.
When I set it up several months ago, registered members could upload and change member photos/avatars in the member profile section, as well as upload or change a cover image. Within the last several days, the member photos that had been uploaded no longer show up and the photo/avatar upload fields are gone, although the “Change Cover image” prompt is still visible. Also, the member photos I uploaded to my WordPress media library are also gone. I am using WordPress 4.6.1 and Buddypress 2.6.2. Any help would be appreciated to get that functionality back. Thank you.
An interesting plugin I just found is https://wordpress.org/plugins/galau-ui-visual-editor/ this allows posts to be edited from the front end, but it does not allow posts to be created, categories to be set or images added from the media library, so has limited use I think, still it’s a nice plugin if all you need people to do is edit the text of their posts without going to the admin screen.
It is wrong as it search for an activity and not site access…
Try this
Clients requiring many things ! Some can be done, some not. It’s to you to explain them that it’s not possible. Or only with a very huge additionnal budget. This argument is mostly the best to opposite to an obtuse “i want this feature”. Diplomacy, diplomacy… 👿
1) You count the number of avatars on the widget ! Or something like this. 😉
2) who’s online refreshes after 5 mn. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3590
3) try with bp_get_user_last_activity()
Also wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-core-whos-online-widget.php
Hi,
I would like to know what happens if I delete a user from the user wordpress dashboard.
What happens with his activity, post into the bbpress forum, …?
Thanks
pending to your reply
Ludovic
If I leave the registration and activation pages blank I get a warning all the time in the backend.
The warning won’t cause harm but I agree you should be able to dismiss it. You could open a ticket on Trac for the core developers to take a look at?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
I have no real idea for this. You have to code that as nothing ready to use exist. Similar question here.
Note also that BP pages are dynamic, so what ever you can built won’t, imo never, be exact.
Ie. user A is on a profile activity and another is on members directory. What would you get ? At best, only the /members/ page… that is a bit vague, no ? And who cares, outside evtl. you ?
Note also that the nav history is browser territory, and that each client has different settings, even deactivated history, so you can’t really trust user’s history…
My recommandation would be: don’t loose your time trying to do this. BP let members know about there activities, focus on this and encourage it, instead of tracking there navigation. 😉
Hi @dphelun,
– 1) no idea ! It depends of what you know about WP and BP, coding and templating
– 2) see 1…
– 3) in theorie yes. In real life… check the forum… and point 1.
Don’t buy a theme before you tested your project with all plugins and fonctionalities correctly working on a WP+BP default install. Use one of WP’s default theme, ie. Twenty Sixteen or Fifteen. Or even all coming with WP
This tests should be done on a test site (locally or online, but not on a production site)
Default install, because it’s the only waranty for you and the project to work properly in a respecfull environment of WP standarts. Once ok you can jump to a premium theme if you estimate it is worth. That said many free themes are just ideal too.
I would just warn you to avoid frameworks and page builders- specially because BP doesn’t use WP pages like WP does. Focus on the theme itself, and not on plethoric theme functionnalities. Theme is for layout. Plugin is for functionnality.
About Themes
you will find a lot of themes on the net. Most with nice pictures and impressive list of functionnalities and prices. Problem is that this marketing arguments rarely fit with a project. And if you’re unable to customize it, you go towards weird issues and will be lost in no time.
About plugins
Like for themes and of course your technical level.
From what you tell, i would consider WP Job Manager and his (premium) add-on for BuddyPress.
Messaging is included in BuddyPress, even if it is not exactly meant as instant messaging.
But test the message component first as is before going further. And keep in mind that less is more.
Hi danbp,
I actually googled it but didn’t find except wp-useronline it does the same functionalities but sometimes it shows wrong url and also it tracks users by their ip not the username.
Please suggest something like this as buddypress has already who’s online widget which is good but if it can also show the browsing page it would be good.
Thanks,
Thanks for you reply.
Sorry, it is my typo………… my problem is with buddypress translation instead of bbpress.
I have contacted with the loco team, but they asked me to contact buddypress, as the the problem is only with the buddypress po.mo that I download from https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress
could you please help me？
Hi,
you are on the BuddyPress support.
bbpress questions should be asked on bbpress support.
And as you use Loco Translate plugin, and apparently have an issue with it, you have to ask on the LT plugin support.
To get more about chinese translation, help and much more, please read the Polyglots blog.
Hi,
all you have to do is to use a custom translation for BuddyPress !
This can be done with help of this plugin.
Actually, WP uploads automatically all available translation for itself and any of his dependencies: themes and plugins(when exist) accordingly to the site language. Ie. brazilian portugue (pt_BR.mo)
In your case, while using the plugin, WP will remain in portuguese and as you will use buddypress-en_US.mo or buddypress_en_GB.mo as custom translation, anything related to BP will be in english.
Of course, this behave will always be used even AFTER an update of WP or BP and both updated to portuguese.
The avantage of the plugin is that you haven’t to struggle with complicated domain settings and hacks, because he does it for you by using a different path for any custom translation (in your case, BP’s english version). The file is stored in /uploads/wpt-custom-mo-file/buddypress-what_EVER.mo
You simply need to remember to download manually the english BP version.
Translation files can be downloaded here.
Hope to be clear. 😉
Hi,
never heard of this kind of functionnality for BP. Do you mean a way to show WHERE the actual user is on the site ?
Sounds like tracking or user history. But such information is mostly used by site admins only and is handled on back-end, not on front-end.
Anyway, if you want more details about the few plugins doing that, here’s an overview. It may exist other resource about this. Google is your friend !
Hi there. Let me explain my issue.
I run an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) school in Brazil. Our native language is Portuguese and my website in WordPress is in Portuguese (since it’s being made for possible clients/students here in Brazil – I can’t have things on the website like “Search”). I use WPLMS, which uses BuddyPress as part of its Learning Management System. Since the LMS is for students that are learning English, I need BuddyPress to be in English, however I couldn’t find anywhere how to change BuddyPress language.
I need my WordPress website to be in Portuguese and BuddyPress to be in English.
Help?
I just took those steps to translate bbpress, but encouter internal server error(only with bbpress)
1. download the chinese translation file from buddypress: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress (.mp /.po)
2. add those two file into wp-content/language/plugin and rename it
3. the translation works fine
4. but when I use loco translation plugin to edit some text in translation plugin, sync and save , it shows ” Internal Server Error</span>” shows again.
here is the php log: [29-Sep-2016 07:48:55 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Method Loco_gettext_Data::__toString() must not throw an exception, caught Exception: Truncation error in vhosts/bpteach_dev/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 0
<p class=”p1″>[29-Sep-2016 07:51:56 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Method Loco_gettext_Data::__toString() must not throw an exception, caught Exception: Truncation error in vhosts/bpteach_dev/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 0</p>
As it is working, you can’t expect a fix. 😉 (see #6112) If you think you have found a bug, open a ticket and give any details to recreate the issue: theme name, used plugins, php version.
Have you tried to create an error ? When you’re sure that a notice should appear, and you don’t see it, check first the source of the page (right clik – page source). Sometimes you’ll find it in the code but something avoid it to appear on the screen.
Is there a fix to get bp-template-notice to work properly with WordPress version: 4.6.1?
I am using WordPress 4.6.1 and BuddyPress 2.6.2 for a week. To create a new discussion forum with functionalities of community websites (e.g. private message, member friendship etc.) for the members I installed bbPress 2.5.10 plugin today and was reading the BuddyPress documentations to use bbPress within BuddyPress. In this article the authors suggested to migrate the forum within BuddyPress to bbPress and in the (3) paragraph they suggested to go to settings > BuddyPress > Pages > Discusssion forums.
I followed the path but couldn’t find “discussion forums” option within “page” or any other tabs in BuddyPress settings.
My question may seem silly, but still I request for your help as I have just started using BuddyPress and haven’t published my website yet…I don’t have much knowledge about this plugins.
one of the reasons that I think can be possible is that I haven’t created a forum yet using BuddyPress. Please guide me in this matter and if you know suggest any resources where I can find the step-by-step process to include bbPress forum within BuddyPress.
Hi,
the wall plugin wasn’t updated since over 2 years. But try first to ask on it’s support or to contact his author and ask for update.
Accordingly to this topic, there was a button problem beacause of an outdated JS code. Poster gives some hints to resolve it. But to go through you need to code and know what you do.
I notice that BP last stable was in August and shows in Dashboard as being untested with latest version of wordpress. Can anyone verify that there are no issues running BP with latest WP? Thanks
You should be able to log in to the WordPress admin area > Users > Profile Fields and then drag the Account Profile fields to the Account Details group.
I have non wordpress installed in sub-domain..The main domain is wordpress with bp installed.. They are sharing the same database with login users and other credentials.. Now what I want is to show some of the values of xprofile fields of main wp domain in to the sub domain (non wp) site..Like for example ‘about’ field..
I could have done through ‘SELECT’ in the database query using $_session but I see there are no values of xprofile fields are stored in the db.. Am i missing something that it stores value in db? If they are not stored in db, is there any other alternative to achieve my goal..?
Thanks
@renix,
the first solution would be to use a group blog, but it may be a heavy project. So, IMHO, best way would be to create a plugin and using Group Extension API.
You can also check for an eventual existing plugin who fit to or narrow your goal and customize it.
