BuddyPress.org

BuddyPress was released in 2009. Custom Post Types were introduced into WordPress in mid-June 2010 so there was no way the original BuddyPress crew could have used them.

Also, the use of custom tables isn’t always a bad thing. If the situation calls for them after careful consideration then you should use them.

In the case of BP, the database schema is sound, queries are optimised and everything is generally done “the WordPress way”. Personally, I don’t think of BP tables as “custom”. I think of them as an extended set of WordPress tables that get activated if you want social features with WordPress.

Yes. Check out the WordPress Custom Fields article.

Questions specific to another plugin are best asked of the plugin creators.
Try http://www.learndash.com/ or https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-learndash

That’s not how you use a hook.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_action

function william_bp_core_activated_user(  $user_id, $key, $user ) {
     // do something with $user_id
     // there is no return for add_action, only add_filter
};
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'william_bp_core_activated_user', 10, 3 );

Hi there Justin,

I’ve run into a similar issue but in reverse.

We’re in the process of migrating an individual WordPress site with BuddyPress to a multi-site WordPress with BuddyPress.

In my case, the normal practice would be to rename the WordPress tables from wp_ to something like wp_99_* , where 99 represents one of the site IDs.

The tool I used called “Export2 Multisite”, does a great job at fixing the table names.
However, it’s not smart enough to handle the data merge of the wp_bp_* and wp_rt_* table names.

Regardless, I’m seeing the same symptoms on the site I migrated from a single WordPress install to a multi-site WordPress.

So, any help whatsoever from this community on migrating sites with Buddypress either coming FROM or TO a multi-site would be GREATLY appreciated!

Hi

We’ve been testing against PHP7 nightly releases for a long time. It helps that our PHP is newer than most of WordPress’, so we have less really old stuff to migrate.

You can view our test coverage on https://travis-ci.org/buddypress/BuddyPress/ (“PHP: nightly” is PHP7), as you can see, there’s currently a failure with one test that we need to fix. It looks fairly straightforward to fix, and we’ll do that soon.

This one test aside, to the best of knowledge, yes, BuddyPress works with PHP 7.

Good question! This is likely to being looked at by the core team.

See this post which describes what is being done by the WordPress core team: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/09/10/wordpress-and-php7/

My guess is the BuddyPress core team are doing something like that. Maybe @djpaul can add something here?

Hi,

of course, in so far that php 7 will be used by WordPress. BuddyPress’s dev follow the same route.

WordPress and PHP7

Try saving your permalinks again through /wp-admin/options-permalink.php

If that doesn’t work, turn on your debug logs for WordPress through wp-config.php and come back with the errors that show up.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bepro-listings looks good. I have not tested though.

If nothing else works:

1. Create a custom post type ‘Businesses’. You can use the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/
2. Use plugins like https://wedevs.com/products/plugins/wp-user-frontend-pro or gravity form to give users a form to submit/edit entries from front end
3. Use any of the rating/review plugins and set it up to work with this custom post type

You can disable the xProfile component and there shouldn’t be any ill effects associated with doing that. You obviously won’t get that functionality but of course you’re free to use the WordPress-based usermeta to store profile data instead.

Hi,

consider this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-group-email-subscription/

Cool idea. I haven’t seen a plugin which can do this myself. Did you check the Plugin Directory?

Hi,

read here, maybe it helps
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-check-if-the-length-of-field-is-too-long/

or try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-xprofile-validate-with-regex/

Hi,

try BP auto group join

This question was asked many times in the past. Search the forum. Ie.

Auto join group based on role

how to add new members to groups automatically?