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@zewitchi

with new servers, I try to use these two plugins:
Have you tried “contact form 7” or “si-contact form” plugins to see if your server allows wp to send emails?

on some servers they both work to send an email to my admin email account – on some servers only one of those will work (without tweaking smtp settings and such)

in my limited experience – if neither of those work – then I would write my server people and ask them if some kind of mod sec or php limiting setting that the server company sets would be preventing your wordpress install from sending email via php.

There are other ways to get WP to send emails – but your server people will usually see something in the error log, or know that they have your account limited in some way that either they will change for you, or tell you that you need a different hosting plan in order to use features like that – since they are sometimes abused by the hosting account leasee, or spam / hack programs that hit unsecured php scripts.

(I’m no expert, just had some experiences. I’m sure others know more about this than I do)

btw I tried to sign up an account with your site, and used one of my non-gmail non-yahoo addys, which usually lets everything through (no spm filters and such) and I never got an email – so I would check with your host first.

hi @electrolove,

mostly it’s the theme who doesn’t work with BuddyPress. Actually, BP is working with almost any avaible theme, under condition this thme is respecting WP’s coding standart.

Unfortunatly, your theme is a mix for joomla and wordpress… May work with a WP blog, but i doubt for BP as it doesn’t exactly use the basic page system. And if your theme wasn’t recently updated, it could be a mess to adapt.

They are so many theme that you can choose another one in case of trouble. Why loosing your time with one who doesn’t work, when you can find hundred’s of others in the same time ?

Anyway, ask on theme support, you paid for that. Here we can’t help you, as we have no access to the code.

@danbp –

those are interesting – I’d like to add that anyone considering integrating those should pay close attention to the terms of service, privacy policies, usage restrictions, etc – most that I have found that are “free” either crash ~ 20 users, or are hosted on third party servers that are not in your own control – so reliability, and privacy, third party ads out of your control – stuff like that I always found (aside from quick chat, which runs on own server using sql database I think)

to get a little fancier than quick chat, I have tried more then 50 free / freemium / and premium options out there.. but I had not seen that one pointed out at code canyon – I might buy it and try it to see how it works, unfortunately I have found that even most premium options fail with server load issues once about 20 people are chatting – especially if they use the same mysql that your wordpress is tapping into. I also need to find someone who can go over the code in that one to see how hackable it may or may not be – any suggestions for a security review person?

If you can budget a couple hundred bucks you could get into:

123flashchat, I can say that it is solid enough to keep running for months on end even with lots of chatters.. there is a wp integration kit avail for that premium program – but I have not tried it yet. The support is either really great, or no answer – but I think part of that is my email services auto-blocking stuff from a busy email server in hong kong – and some language barriers.

Another premium option with will require a red5 media server or something similar is av-chat by nusoft – it has buddypress integration that I use – will pull in bp avatars into the chat room and such – it’s pretty solid, and lots of customization options.
( https://wordpress.org/plugins/avchat-3/ )

I use these as single page chat rooms, not something site-wide on every page.

@danbp or @moderators – I am pretty sure the comment two above which links “cards” is just purely seo link spam 🙁 –

Hi all,

the’re some specific chat plugins for BP ! Have you tested them ?
– BuddyPress Group Tinychat
– Buddypress Group Chat
.. and both are up to date !
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+chat

For a few bucks, i can buy BPChat

@expertscafe,

please use the code button when you post code.

Why do you think there is an error in BuddyPress ?
The warning only tells you that foreach doesn’t work correctly on YOUR install. No need to copy BP code, we have it all here. Mentionning the error – without server path- is enought.
(removed from your topic for security)

If there would be a BP error, you would find many topics here about that problem. It’s not the case so far i can see.

First thing to do is to debug.
Deactivate all plugins but BP, and activate one of WP default’s theme.
Review BP settings and save your permalinks.
After that, you reactivate plugins one by one and test… If all is OK, reactivate the actual theme.

If you see a probleme again, you can get sure it’s your theme. In that case you have to contact the forest support.

This doesn’t answer your question but you say you’re including a file to open a mysql connection. Interacting with the WordPress database should be done though the wpdb class. Check it out, it’ll make your life easier and ensure your code is secure.

I’ve created a ticket about this bug here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6528

This should be fixed for v2.4, which is tentatively scheduled for an autumn release.

In the meantime, you could use the 'bp_verify_nonce_request_url' filter to remove the double port number, which should temporarily fix the issue.

Hi lionel @prabin04

no directly the solution, but you asked for code, here it is:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/adding-favourite-posts-as-a-tab-in-buddypress/

No screenshot ? Anyway, on group activity page, some action to take could be:

$my_fav_count = bp_activity_get_meta( bp_get_activity_id(), 'favorite_count' );

The important thing here is bp_activity_get_meta()

Most of favorite action are related in bp-activity-actions.php, like
$favs = bp_activity_get_user_favorites( bp_displayed_user_id() );
also some in bp-activity-functions.php:659

For other favorite skills, see also

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5644

Thanks for the report.

I’ve created a ticket about this here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6529

BP will better support emojis after we’ve upgraded our database schema to support utf8mb4.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6346

More info courtesy of WP here:

The utf8mb4 Upgrade

The nearest would be BP Moderation, but from back-end mostly.

Group updates are not topics or blog post, but activities. And these can’t be moderated like topics.

If you want group members discussion, use a group forum and in that case, deactivate update commenting. This will force members to discuss on forum and not on group activity wall.

@djsteveb,

was miffed too, and decided finally to not use emoji’s. IMO unnecessary built-in noise, coming from extarnal server and added to every page without warning the site admin ! I disabled them with this plugin. On another hand, 23% of websites use now emoticons and probably 90% ignore that… Marketing !!!

If you still want some pics (if childish public is the target), see WP MonaLisa, which is even tailored for BuddyPress.

Have a nice day ! 😉 (emoticon ?)

1) Yes

2) The same as the default user level you set up in WordPress. By default, this should be the ‘subscriber’ role.

3) https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/register-and-activation-pages/

4) BuddyPress does not come with a bundled login page. It uses WP’s default wp-login.php page. You can find plugins on the wordpress.org repo to modify the login page to your liking.

hi @maelga,
You can’t actually automatically associate a user to a category.
try Restrict Categories, which let you assign categories to each user via backend.

To associate an xprofile value (or member_type), try this:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-assign-a-wp-user-role-based-on-a-registration/#post-232887

When you use WordPress alone, you can use many plugins for registering.

If you use BuddyPress, you also use his fonctionnalities.
One of them, is Members, which comes also with extra components, like extended profile.

When you use extended profile, it is like using a register plugin for WP, with his own extra fields you can create/add to the original WP registering process. After that, each user can handle/view these fields on his profile.

Now you have to choose:
– WP alone, with his poor profile fields
– WP + BP, with rich profile fields
– WP + BP, without xprofile component (and users go back to the original profile fields aera).
– or ask on ninja plugin support for improvement guidance to apply with BuddyPress.

Hi @aventurine_geode,

It seems like overkill to create a whole child theme to make a few small changes to things like colors and fonts

It seems because you are beginner. But it is the reicipe of this cooking.
Making a child theme is shorter, faster and much more handy as a plugin.

What is a an overkill ?
Taking a hammer to kill a fly….

What is a child-theme ?
– create a folder in theme directory (5 seconds)
– adding an empty files to this folder: style.css (5 seconds)

Once done, you open style.css with a text editor and you add a header as explained here (copy/pasting: 5 seconds) and modifying that text (15 seconds).

Once done, you activate the child as your site theme. And the “big” overkill is now a simple water drop whipe.

Now you can add, remove, modify any CSS rule from within your child theme. Without thinking about plugin updates or struggling with issues reliable to that plugin.

Doing this depends of your CSS knowledge and your handling of that style.css file

Hopefully, you will understand that in this case, installing a plugin or doing it yourself, has no difference in matter of time, but a big one in matter of usability (direct vs. indirect handling) and last but not least, in both case, it’s you who have to enter CSS rules.

If you know how, it’s ok. If you don’t, it’s only your fault. 😉

This is an issue that has been identified and ticketed and in the process of being corrected, hopefully it will be included in a point release, if not we can show how to modify or replace the core file in the interim short term.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6517

Responsiveness depends more of the theme you use….
There is also a plugin you could try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddymobile/

hi @mnctigah,

have you found this ?
http://zurb.com/forrst/posts/FPDF_integration_with_Wordpress_for_PDF_printing-Gr4

Yes, I’ve seen many solutions that do just that. Try searching the Plugin Directory. If you have no luck, try searching these forums for a custom code snippet that’ll do the job for you.

Hi,

As mentionned on official plugin page, this plugin is a Beautiful WordPress User Profile and Instant Community Plugin.

In other word, an alternative to BP for WP sites users. You use the one or the other, but not both !

If you have issues with that plugin, you have to contact the author.

Note also that this plugin is not in WP’s plugin repo.

Hi @thesmartone,

I even changed wp_config.php, variable WPLANG
This is no more necessary since WP 4.0

If your WP is in portugese, BP should be in same language automatically (except if you deactivated this feature)

BP translation can be found on GlotPress. pt_BR is translated to 96% (see here)
The po/mo files goes to wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-pt_BR.mo

Your comment is awaiting moderation, is a default WP string. In many cases, it can also be in theme. To ensure this, activate 2013 or 2015 and test all translations for WP and BP.
Deactivate all other plugins while doing this.

And before claiming about buggypress, check for PBCK. Or better, read the doc before installing something. 😉