BuddyPress.org

Do they also have a profile field for gender?

You could write custom mysql queries – more info.

there has been some discussion of media handling in core I’m not sure the exact status of it but you may want to show up for a dev chat to lobby for your request(s) theres one later today in fact:

Wednesdays at 20:00 UTC
#buddypress on Slack

https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/buddypress

The Toolbar belongs to WordPress. See WP Codex for how you can rearrange this.

So far i see, your register button is correctly linked to BuddyPress register page.

@disha76

Even though Jetpack and BuddyPress and both projects under the WordPress ‘umbrella’, they are separate plugins and haven’t been designed to work in that way. That said, both should always be compatible. For example, if you find something stops working as a result of the plugins being installed together and conflicting then you could file a bug report.

as i said before jetpack likes are really more like Facebook likes, you can’t Facebook like something if you aren’t on Facebook any more than you can jetpack like something if you aren’t on wordpress.com the whole idea of jetpack is to give your self hosted blog/site many of the capabilities of a wordpress.com hosted blog/site, so from that perspective how it works is pretty sensible even if most people have no idea about wordpress.com

Hi @christoph744

I’m sure there is a way to filter the members loop via BuddyPress but if you want a WordPress approach then check out the WP_User_Query class. Assuming that s2member uses custom fields to distinguish members (I may be wrong on that) you’d want to look at using the Custom Field Parameters

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query

@rizar9 – buddypress is a membership plugin (and more) – but you may not need that kind of community (that buddypress essentially creates) – you could use a regular ol’ wordpress site and something like s2member if you are set on a membership plugin.

If you find a way to encrypt all the data that gets stored in the database, please let me know – I have been trying to find a good secure contact form system that encrypts into sql and stuff – which I think would be needed for the hippa stuff with some of my clients..

“without a membership plugin, how am I able to keep a record of the past and pending appointment bookings that the person made?” = I am not sure on that really – but I was pointing you to a couple of plugins up above that seem to do some of what you are describing – so maybe you should install those and play with them – see what they report to you and perhaps some small mercenary (paid) modifications of those could piece together what you are describing(?)

rizar you don’t need a membership plugin for that- you needs a points for actions / karma type plugin and an appointment setting plugin. I have heard of one like that, I guess something similar to https://wordpress.org/plugins/mycred/ and these https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=buddypress+appointments&sort= . From my limited experience dealing with some in the medical field in the states, I am not sure what you are describing is technically ethical or legal – but I don’t know for sure, and I am sure those issues vary by region as well. Just a thought you might want to consider before putting too much into that.

@disha76

I found a few in the WP repo that may do what you are asking..
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-ulike/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/voter-plugin/
wordpress.org/plugins/likebtn-like-button/

I have not tried any of these, so I’d love to hear from you if you try any and they work for what you are wanting to achieve. I also have not looked to see if any of these have privacy issues (loading images / data from third party sites like jetpack)

They say they work with posts, pages and BP activity stuff, and show some shortcodes to add most liked this and that, I assume to places in your theme..

I hope one of those, or similar will do that trick for you. I may decide to play with that like thing again myself in the near future.

Hi @jhvaletaolcom

You can’t do this through BuddyPress itself, but there may be a plugin that does it for you. Take a look on the WordPress Plugin Directory to see if anything is available.

Hi @disha76

I have installed Jetpack Like. But when a blog post is Liked / favorited it does not show in my BP Favorit list.

As far as I know, Jetpack Likes apply to blog posts only and are completely unrelated to BuddyPress favorites. If you ‘like’ something via Jetpack, then that’s separate to any ‘favoriting’ that you do via BuddyPress.

Another problem with Jetpack Like is it asks my blog visitors or members to register at wordpress.com compulsarily. Am I missing something?

I’m not aware of the specifics of Jetpack Likes, but you could try taking a look on their support page. I do believe they have an option to contact someone in their support team:

http://jetpack.me/support/likes/

Looks like someone has forked or remade / resurrected this. From the support threads for the activity stream types block thing on wp repo; lenasterg.wordpress dot com/2014/11/14/bp_block_activity_types/

Says code is posted on github instead of wp repo – can anyone confirm this code is good / safe to use?

Why does buddypress dot org forums throttle and block me from posting half the time? meh. I have to cut up links, remove words. Another why we can’t have nice things, thing, I guess.

A different method to get similar results:
I use BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/ )

and I have these set to be axed from activity stream:
deleted_group_document, new_blog, new_member, joined_group, friendship_created, activity_liked

although it is in desperate need of an update / fork to make it work smoother with bp 1.9 plus I think. I just looked into plugin settings to get info for you, and I see a weird message on the settings page:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/admin/bp-activity-block-admin.php on line 6 and defined in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1154

Hmmm.. it still works to block the annoying stuff my users have no interest in. Wonder what it will take to get this plugin forked and updated.

@disha76
I would not use jetpack and try https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/ instead.

That may do what you are looking for, and it may not.. just a thought.

Did you mean BuddyPress as opposed to bbPress?

Wouldn’t it be faster to just check for BuddyPress in your plugin and if found remove their filter and then replace it?

You can always create a ticket in trac. If you do, please reference this thread.

Hello I am the author of the contact form plugin.

The problem is that bbpress is adding a filter ‘wp_mail_from_name’ when the plugin is loaded.

/**
 * Set "From" name in outgoing email to the site name.
 *
 * @uses bp_get_option() fetches the value for a meta_key in the wp_X_options table.
 *
 * @return string The blog name for the root blog.
 */
function bp_core_email_from_name_filter() {
 	return apply_filters( 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter', bp_get_option( 'blogname', 'WordPress' ) );
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter' );

My plugin also uses this filter. It applies it just before sending a mail and then removes it afterwards. When applying the filter it also checks whether any other plugin has already changed the from name from the default: ‘WordPress’, if so it does not apply the filter. When BBPress is active, the from name is not the default so the filter is not applied. This has been done so that the plugin works well with other plugins such as wp-mail-smtp which also allows the from name to be set.

I would like to request that BBPress only applies this filter at the time of sending the mail and then removes it afterwards as it only applies to emails that are sent from BBPress.

Hi @style960

How do you suggest notifications be improved? If you think they are seriously flawed, then you could open a Trac ticket with your observations.

@giftvincy
I am sure there are many different “membership plugin” options out there..

I’d suggest starting with the “press permit core” plugin
( https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/ )
which should do what you are describing I believe.

Without knowing everything exactly the way you envision, from reading:

4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

I think if you drop buddypress… do a WP MultiSite install – with 4 sub blogs… look into creating “author pages” – not all themes do that well out of the box… a simple subscribe to blog plugin for each of the 4 blogs.. I think you can install bbpress and mix it with each sub blog – but I have not messed with bbpress in a while, so not sure the best way to connect that.. I think you can enable to the bbpress “sitewide” then each individual sub blog author and enable it or something.. then code that into the sidebar if each blog.. that would do everything you have said I think.. maybe that will get you in the direction you are trying to go.

I suggest searching the wp plugin repo for plugins that are “multi site” enhancements.. look into “author pages” in the codex, and search for themes that have special author pages to make experimenting easier..