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I’d create each group and assign users to each group

check if this plugin still works

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/

I’d also like to know if it’s possible to have a Profile Page layout for the user’s profile

BuddyPress 2.6.0 has custom profile pages which is yet to have a stable release. you might want to test the beta out. Currently BP has custom group pages

Regarding forums better to check out the bbpress codex/forums

The problem is due to bbPress.

Check out this ticket with a fix:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2745

@fidelduque,

welcome here ! To not loose your changes, you need a child-theme.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Note that we can’t assist you here for premium theme, as we have no access to the code, but if you search the forum, you will find many topics related to child theme, profile-loop and customization.

As you’re new, please read here.

I don’t have a Windows phone to test this but feel free to open a Trac ticket to report the issue:

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

Hi Ben,

You are correct that it’s best to leave the bp stylesheet in place so that you get updates to that file. You can add a custom stylesheet, though, and increase the selector power of the rule, so that it overrides the bp.css rule, like .site #buddypress #item-body { border-left: none; }

Here’s the basic concept.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

Adding a stylesheet:

Including CSS & JavaScript

Hi pckelly123: WP Better Emails works well for applying a template to all mail sent via the function wp_mail(), which is what the group email subscription plugin uses.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/

You say nothing about how the administrator will give a score/badge!
Perhaps you could use one of these plugins ?

https://fr.wordpress.org/plugins/badgeos-community-add-on/ + badgeOs
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-compliments/

@graemebryson5,

you need a function to fetch the activity_comment type in bp_activity table. For the count itself, we use mysql count. Here it goes:

function bpfr_get_activities_comment_count() {
     global $wpdb;
     $user_id = bp_displayed_user_id(); 

	if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {

	   // DB query 
	   $total = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM {$wpdb->prefix}bp_activity WHERE user_id = '%d' AND type = 'activity_comment'", $user_id ) );
									  
	   return $total;
	
	}
}

Now you can echo bpfr_get_activities_comment_count wherever you need it on your profile template.

Here an example to get it on profile header.

function bpfr_total_comments() {
   echo 'My comments: '. bpfr_get_activities_comment_count();
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'bpfr_total_comments' ); 

If you need more member activities counts, try Buddy Member Stats !

You could be using the thumb sized avatar. Check your theme to make sure the full sized image is being used. bp_core_fetch_avatar() is the function used by BuddyPress to display avatars but there’s also get_avatar() so check for that too (it’s a WordPress function).

@gettingdownunder,

did you asked on WP Job Manager support forum ? If you didn’t receive any response here, it’s probably because you’re on a BuddyPress forum.

Untill somebody use the same plugin with BP and know also the same issue, it’s better to ask first the authors of the plugin you try to integrate to BP.

Meanwhile, have you made some tests and tried to debug your install ?

Be carefull, it’s not recommanded to modify original files as they will be overwritten at next update. And you will have to redo all your customization.

Prefer best practice and use a child-theme, especially if you modify CSS.

Profile, groups and cover iages are in a custom path.

The complete directory when a user uploads an avatar is /wp-content/uploads/avatars/35/ where 35 is the user_id. Same architecture for groups and covers. So each user as only access to his avatar, and each group has only access to his logo or cover.

Adding avatars in media library is not recommanded, as any author can access to such image. Aside, BP members are usually (except if you have a multi author blog) not going to media library to handle pictures.

And if you already googled a bit, ie. wordpress+change+avatar+upload+path, you may noticed that they are not much results.

It’s not really a Mailgun support problem. It’s just that BuddyPress requires a different email interface to what WordPress needs. I hope in time people will build these for BuddyPress, but for now, you’ll need a developer to build it out for you.

If you know PHP and the basics of how to build with WordPress, I can give you hints.

Use the Repair Tools under wp-admin Tools > BuddyPress. There’s one to reinstall emails.

Emails not sending in HTML means you probably have some plugin active that redeclares the wp_mail function — this doesn’t make sense to non-developers, I admit, but if you have any plugins that do things with emails for WordPress, that’s the likely candidate.