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Well, there are several Group chat rooms integrated well with BuddyPress.

When you choose, you need to consider the following:
1 – You can install one on your server, but if you have more than 10 chatters, that will probably load your server. Most shared hosting services, do not allow to install a chat on the server as it is high cpu/mem consumer. In addition, sharing files is dead slow.

2 – I recommend a group chat hosted service, it will offload all activity to a remote server, bandwidth is not a consideration. They work with CDN, so everything is pretty fast.

As for your question:
I am very much in favor of RumbleTalk chat plugin, works very well and integrate with your users base.

– Ability to send any files (anything from videos, photos, music, etc.)
Yes -You can upload files, pdf,excel..etc, I think any file, but they have size limit
– Ability to text chat
Yes
– Ability to video or voice call to a friend
Yes – they have private chat (you need to allow it in the settings), you must be in ssl to use it (WebRTC)
– (Optional) ability to add other friends or users to the chat
Yes – you can allow facebook/twitter friends
– (Optional) ability to screen share (desktop sharing)
No – no screen sharing

@backpackersunion Some have asked about the “Hi” part. I suppose that could be changed. I have seen a few people ask, but if I see one post about something here, I normally multiple that number by 100, because very few people find it easy or convenient to get in contact with us (with support question), so probably quite a lot of people would like the option, even if it wasn’t the majority.

The unsubscribe I am a bit less sure of. I don’t want to make it easy for evil people running BP to remove the unsubscribe link for emails they send. In BuddyPress 2.6, an upcoming change means that this unsubscribe link will work, even if you’re not logged in to the site.

From a technical perspective, if we remove the token from the template and put it into the option, if a user has already customised the footer text option, they won’t see the new updated (default value for the) option.

This is not unsolvable, we’d run something on the upgrade routing, but we’d have to stick the token at the very bottom or top of the template. It’d be easy for the site admin to change, but it would annoy them. But it might be worthwhile.

So — maybe? You could create a ticket on buddypress.trac.wordpress.org to see if any other regular contributor likes the idea, or see if you can start a discussion or get feedback from other users via the forum.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7010#ticket

@justarandomuser Yes. BuddyPress does not and will not support WordPress’ wp_mail_content_type filter, so setting this or not does not affect BuddyPress.

Postman SMTP plugin re-declares a function called wp_mail(). BuddyPress will send its emails in plaintext if wp_mail() has been redeclared.

This decision was made because a lot of legacy WordPress plugins that change email content/appearance, or how they are delivered, re-declare wp_mail() and it is impossible for BuddyPress to know if/how it could support all these custom implementations.

If you are using Postman SMTP to only send emails via SMTP, you could find an alternate SMTP plugin. People have mentioned some recently in email support discussions on this forum, though I can’t remember the names. If I find one again, I’ll try to remember to let you know here.

If you are using Postman SMTP for any other purpose, and you don’t want to switch to another plugin that only configures WordPress to send via SMTP, then I’m afraid you’re out of the options at the moment.

You are right that the Customizer does not indicate that the email will only be sent in plaintext in these situations. We’ll get some messaging added to that screen in the next BuddyPress release to clarify that.

Hi there, let’s try to reply to one problem at a time!

Now the posts do appear in activity stream, but not the comments. If i comment on a post, the stream doesn’t show the comments, but if i comment on a post via activity stream, the comment is then seen on a post and on the activity stream.

I guess, this means the BuddyPress “Site Tracking” is active.

1/ WordPress Administration > BuddyPress Settings > Options Tab – Activity Settings section:
Setting ‘Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts’ is not checked. It means when a post or a comment is posted, then an activity will be generated, but it’s not possible to add an “Activity comment” to the generated activities. Just tested with latest WordPress and BuddyPress 2.5.2 and it works as expected:

2/ WordPress Administration > BuddyPress Settings > Options Tab – Activity Settings section:
Setting ‘Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts’ is checked. This means you chose to synchronize comments between the Post object and the corresponding activity object. So a comment on the activity about the post will generate a regular post comment and a regular post comment will generate an activity comment on the activity about the Post. Just tested with latest WordPress and BuddyPress 2.5.2 and it works as expected:

Now @cmavrikas is talking about something else i think. He wants the activity comments to also be displayed like regular activities: in stream mode.
I then advise to use another filter to avoid parsing args / checking the current object of the Ajax querystring:

function activity_comments_stream_mode( $args = array() ) {
	return array_merge( $args, array(
		'display_comments' => 'stream',
	) );
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_has_activities_parse_args', 'activity_comments_stream_mode', 20, 1 );

I just tested it, and again it’s working fine in latest WordPress / BuddyPress 2.5.2…

I advise you to deactivate plugins/come back to a default WordPress theme and do the opposite work to find the plugins or theme that prevents this regular behaviors.

That list is/was pretty old and not well maintained. BP’s codex is under permanent reconstruction (made by volonteers), so it’s no tomorrow morning that that list will be back.

Actually, the best place to get available BP plugins is the WordPress Repository. Recommanded search keyword is buddypress. 😉

This might not fix the problem but have you tried BP Profile Search?