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Hey @mariatrier

1. Yes, sending a message to multiple recipients is possible
2. Yes, this feature is called @-mentions
3. Not possible ‘out-of-the-box’. You’d need to find a plugin that does this. Try searching the Plugin Directory
4. Not possible ‘out-of-the-box’. But see the BP Checkins plugin

Hope this info helps!

Since 1.7, BuddyPress can be used with almost any correctly coded theme.

How to customize BuddyPress needs a child-theme. From here you can add modification to BP templates or code. No matter the theme: Enfold, Twenty something or any other one.

How it works is explained here.

Why should every thing possible to do with WordPress automatically be on ON as soon as BP is used ? There is no obligation to use BP. And there are hundreds of way to use that plugin. As there are also hundreds of ways to use WP.

Permalinks offers 6 options.
1 Default value -> means OFF
2-5: are 4 pre-defined option
6 your own custom setting !

Before installing a plugin, users are invited to read documentation. At least, it’s the case for BP.
Not all WP user are using BP, so i guess enabling some BP specific option will never be part of WP installer. When you buy a TV, you can’t whatch it immediatly. You have to unpack it, and setup some channels yourself. Same thing with WP and plugins.

since BP is just no other plugin but an important part of WP family I understand your enthousiasm and BP is effectively a plugin from the WP family, but it’s just a plugin. Not more, not less. 😉

@rosyteddy, What am I doing wrong? Apparently nothing. You try do add it to a plugin template.

If it doesn’t work, maybe it is not intended for or buddypics is not activated. And for the right answer to this, the code author is @modemlooper.

Ask on plugin support.

@henrywright

This is a bit nicer:
$content = wp_trim_words( $content, 15 );

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

Hi @rosyteddy

I haven’t tried it, but I think it’ll work if you put it in a page template. See here for more info.

Regarding the functionality you want, you’d need to do something like this:

$ids = '1, 2, 5, 33, 43';

if ( bp_has_members( 'exclude=' . $ids ) ) :

Where $ids is a comma separated list of user IDs who are not friends.

@numumar
I hope this doesn’t sound dumb for asking but have you installed WordPress? Reason being is BuddyPress and bbPress are WordPress plugins so having WordPress installed is a prerequisite to using BuddyPress and bbPress. Again sorry if its a dumb question.

FYI, Boone posted about phpunit test today !

http://teleogistic.net/2015/03/phpunit-speedtrap-and-wordpressbuddypress-automated-tests/

hi @rosyteddy,
guess the mytery sit here: http://localhost/wordpress/userA/

Multisite (subdomain or subdirectory) need that wordpress stays at the site root. At least for a default install.

SSite: hxxp://my_site.com
MS: hxxp//my_site.com

MS subdomain: hxxp//wouah.my_site.com
MS subdirectory: hxxp//my_site.com/wouah/

A local install (wamp, mamp or xamp) is mostly in a ‘www’ folder at your hard disk root C://
(recommended path) Refer to your software documentation for more details about installing Wamp/Mamp/Xamp – at least about localhost in URL. In the latest version (wamp 2.5), this is no more used. In my case, the local URL is http://my_site/wp-admin/….

C://www represent the private part of the site path. The equivalent of /var/your_account/htdocs/ on a production server.

The same path scenario goes localy
C://www/my_site (avoid confusion and don’t use WordPress as site name)
My_site folder contains all WP directories and files:

My_site/wp-admin
My_site/wp-content
My-site/wp-include
My_site/wp-config.php and so on…

At the end of the install, you got a htaccess file containing:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

The important things here are rewrite engine on and rewrite base /, where the slash means “start to manage site URL’s form this point”, which is /…/…/var/your_account/htdocs/<- from here !!!

Before installing BuddyPress, activate pretty permalinks to what you want, EXCEPT default. Save. I do this before, because WP likes also pretty permalinks, and so i don’t forget to do it after i finished with a BP install.

Install BP and setup (or at least control if they exist) the choosen component page(s).

If you do this, you won’t have 404 or other issues, no matter if you use MS or subdirectories or subdomain. WP alone will work, and BP too.

The most important advice if you want to work localy, is to setup correctly apache (mod_rewrite is not activated for ex.). And if you use it with windows, to double-check anything, including HOST file where you have to declare manually each of your local sites (since wamp 2.4 – don’t remember exactly)

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1       localhost
::1             localhost

127.0.0.1       my_site
::1             my_site

127.0.0.1       my_other_site
::1             my_other_site

Hi @svenl77,

It’s the case, just tested it and the function does what it intends to do : remove the group-avatar && the delete-group manage tabs.

I don’t manage to reproduce your issue. If i go to groups/GROUP-SLUG/adminthen i’m automatically redirected to groups/GROUP-SLUG/admin/edit-details so no 404.

My config is :
fresh install
WordPress latest trunk
BuddyPress latest trunk
twentytwelve

I don’t think we’ve played in this area since 2.2.1

FYI : if i add the edit-details to the list of restricted tabs, then the group admin cannot access to any manage page without knowing the url of the allowed tabs. So i’d say the edit-details should always be there.

I have also created a plugin for this purpose if you need more complex forms check out BuddyForms. https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddyforms-members/

There is also a demo available http://buddyforms.com/

Feedback is welcome 😉

Cheers,
Sven

@nomad48 see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107

@danbp

Thanks. Its not a question of trusting them. I trust always. Issue is:
Suppose you have created a site where your members use this feature and posts pictures not belonging to them in their stream. It is okay but there should be a small note (if the site admin feels so as an option) to say if that is picture is from flickr | original postername (if available) or photobucket or whatever

Asking users to manually add a note won’t work most of the time – it should be and must be solved programmatically. I visited the page https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/design-decisions/#whitelisting-oembed-providers but could not see any comment-box ( although there are other user’s comments)

This should be an issue but in WP main site I have no idea where do I submit “issue”, and even if I do I wonder if there is going to be any response at all. But I think this should be addressed immediately. Thanks.

Sorry, i can’t help you for best practice in that domain.
They’re many things BP related on GitHub.
https://github.com/boonebgorges/wp-cli-buddypress

Or contact one of the dev on their blog:
https://bpdevel.wordpress.com/

These may help

wordpress.org/plugins/export-user-data/
wordpress.org/plugins/wp-users-exporter/
buddypress dot org/support/topic/exporting-xprofile-fields-to-csv-etc/

[ My previous reply here had many more links, and it just vanished on hitting submit without any alert message, probably was caught as spam]

Thanks

@rosyteddy,

no idea, but WP use whitelisted oEmbed service. So you can trust them. And you can always add manually an © author ©