Hi danbp
I’ve read through that before and it doesn’t sound so easy to me.
I’m not a PHP, BuddyPress or WordPress expert I’m afraid, so editing core files is not something I feel comfortable doing. Plus if I wanted to add an image where would I do that? That’s why I was hoping there was a way to do this using a template file as I want to do more than just change the page title.
I don’t know how to generate a .MO file and I wouldn’t know how to edit a .PO or a .MO file either or what to put in them.
If you offer any further support, that’d be great.
So far, I’ve copied this file: buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php into my child theme and edited it and added content form tips where I want them, but I’m still left with the ‘Create an Account’ text at the top that I can’t get rid of – any ideas?
Evie
You can add custom option fields for References and Places Worked:
Profile → Edit
Not sure that adding a memberlist as drop down is very clever. What if you get a community of hundreds of members ?
To get database info, see here: (that’s a common WP task)
https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb
Thanks for the link, but I’m not a WordPress or Buddypress coder, so it’s all a bit beyond me to be honest…
I am using WP 4.3.1, BP 2.3.3 and Sweet date theme, here. Any plugin I want to use besides the ones mentioned before makes my activity stream in the WP dashboard disappear. I am also using bbPress 2.5.8, rtMedia 3.8.19, akismet 3.1.3, contact form 7 v4.3. All the plugins deactivated makes my activity stream appear again, any of the other plugins activated makes it disappear again. I first thought that it was a bbpress issue only, but after systematic troubleshooting it rather seems to be a Buddypress related issue. Any help is greatly appreciated.
The Theme My Login plugin is useful in handling redirection. Taken from the plugin’s feature list:
Redirect users upon log in and log out based upon their role
I’ve done this myself using the plugin and can confirm it works quite well with BuddyPress installed.
Hi
@Jose
Your reply [You need an API Key because your WordPress has to “talk” with WangGuard server, it is like Akismet, you need and API Key, but it is free. In any way, if you need to get a “Premium” API Key, it will be 12€/year. I think it is very cheap….] does not answer what Vignesh has asked: how to get API if one is starter and yet to get to the mark of $200-5k queries..
At least I could not figure out.
If I had, I could give it a try..
Best,
Arvind
BuddyPress use 3 pages by default: members, groups and activity and a small bunch of templates depending the context.
These 3 pages are not used as ordinary WP pages, and exist for internal usage with WordPress, as slug placeholder only. These pages must stay empty and independant of any template or model.
The best way to add featured images, is to hook into an existing function/filter or action. There’s no need for a static page.
For more complex addition, you can use plugin.php template file which exist in /single/ directory of members and groups component template.
See get_posts and get_the_post_thumbnail on WP Codex
Post type of featured image is attachement
Read also about BuddyPress:
Post Types Activities
Template Overload from a Plugin
or a working example similar to what you try to do (if i understand you correctly).
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/my-contributions-tab-with-subtabs/#post-244609
Do I need to create these wordpress pages myself?
You will need to use hooks. The basic idea is to attach a custom function to the relevant filter hook then inside your custom function you can use number_format() to group the thousands.
Hi I have a problem with uploading images, I’m on the newest WordPress and Buddypress versions, and I can upload images when I’m logged in as Admin.
But when logged into Buddypress as anything other than admin, the image upload for profile/change-avatar doesn’t work. I get an “An error occurred. Please try again later.” message.
If it’s pertinent, I just moved to a new server.
Also, Lazyload plugin was affecting the cropping screen, by leaving the image invisible with just a small square visible – I found that as I was going through and checking the plugins before posting here, by switching them off.
Now the image uploads, with a progress bar, but receives the red error at the end.
Has anyone seen this before?
Thank you
@ch1n3s3b0y Hi there, im gonna chime in on this as im starting to believe that buddypress can most definately scale vary well (even though its not been proven yet to scale to say a million users+ i think its quite possible), as henry may remember from previous threads i have commented in i have decided to look into the ultimate server configurations to try and find the best way to actually move forward into my own buddypress build.
This has meant concentrating and learning about lots of different server configurations for the past couple of years in-between my other projects.
Do you think Buddypress can support hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users?
Lets just switch this notion right on its head, rather than ask yourself if buddypress can scale to a millon users start asking yourself if your server setup and configuration can scale to a million concurrent users instead.
The key to success on a buddypress active and busy site becomes more of a server and administration task rather than how you have buddypress setup on a basic server config (before long you will bottleneck somewhere if you do not setup for expansion).
I know it seems daunting to think about all of this rather than install it build it and launch it and expect it to scale! But to me doing something half hearted isnt the way forward with a serious build on any project. If you prepare and understand the potential problems before you have that killer network built with 100s of thousand of concurrent users its much better to be prepared than to sit back and go NOW WHAT! when you finally grind to a halt and noone can use your site anymore and you dont know how to fix and expand it. Proactive is the way forward.
I am currently testing my buddypress install on one of my servers with nginx and HHVM (hip hop virtual machine) that was created by and is used by facebook instead of standard php, this speeds up the PHP execution speed PHP code is translated into C++ compiled into a binary and run as an executable to really speed up the way php works, therefore making everying load much much much much faster! I have only just started messing around with HHVM and will keep you updated. is anyone else actually running HHVM? if so please do share with me your finding, to me this seems the way forward with any buddypress installed website.
Also as i have stated before once i have decided on my final server configurations and im 100 percent happy with exactly how my setups work with wordpress/buddypress to scale to massive amounts of users i will create a post and guide on how i have it all set up, but still will take me more time yet. and also as stated before if anyone else does want to give there 2 cents on it feel free because on these forums there is not much talk about actual configs that people are using, even though i do realize this is server tech department, i also believe it is a valid issue for buddypress because instead of questions about scalability there could also be a few answers which is my ultimate goal. 😉
I’m pretty sure WordPress sets authentication cookies when you log in. Make sure these aren’t being deleted by your browser.
Hi @qurgh,
use bp_loggedin_user_domain function and wp_nav_menu_items filter to add the item to an existing menu, like this: bp_loggedin_user_domain( 'kag/ship/' )
See here for a working example:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/url-for-menu-to-logged-in-users-profile-page/
WordPress reference:
wp_nav_menu_items
https://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus
BuddyPress reference
bp_loggedin_user_domain
Yes it is. But rather than using a plugin (for this project i am nearly at 53 active plugins…too much) maybe its better to use a function.
i use this thread to ask you another question, some users (registered before i applied this plugin) named their account with a period: john.doe . Actually it’s not a big deal because buddypress (or wordpress natively) transform this dot into hyphen in each link.
On one specific page template, I have special function i created with the help of a dev to display all users by a custom taxonomy (ranks)
Only mater is that every hyperlink that link to account like john.doe are display like this http://www.website.com/members/john.doe and not http://www.website.com/members/john-doe
I search into the code and found this:
<div><?php $user = get_user_by('id', $gold ); ?><a href="<?php echo site_url();?>/members/<?php echo $user->user_login;?>/buddyblog/"><?php echo bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( 'item_id' => $gold, 'type' => 'full' ) ); ?></a><a href="<?php echo site_url();?>/members/<?php echo $user->user_login;?>/buddyblog/"><?php echo $user->user_login; ?></a>Performances: <?php echo count_user_posts( $gold ); ?></div>
I must change how is display the username.
Thank you for your time and your help!
I’m trying to add a link into the main WordPress menu that points to a subnav of a Buddypress page.
I see there’s an option for menu items that point directly to the main Buddypress pages (/activity/, /forums/, /groups/, /achievements/, etc), including my own custom slug (/kag/). I’d like to have a menu option that points to a subnav of my custom page (/members/USERNAME/kag/ship/) but since it has a varaible in it I can’t just setup a custom link (unless there’s something I’m missing).
Can anyone tell me how to add items to the Buddypress section of the Menu editor, or how to make a direct link to the subnav page?
I’m using the most current WordPress, Buddypress, bbpress, and BadgeOS. I’m using the Firmasite theme.
– Is it possible as admin to change their username in the back office?
No, WordPress does not allow it. Usernames must be unique.
– Why the dot/period or special characters are allow in the username during the registration? and how i can block this?
There are various methods to restrict the characters allowed in a username when registering. Here’s one example:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/124697/limit-username-to-specific-characters-a-z-and-0-9
Try adding a call to wp_mail.
There are several examples of that in codebase.
For example, see function bp_activity_at_message_notification
in buddypress\bp-activity\bp-activity-notifications.php
@djsteveb
i wrote: To make it work with BP, you add a copy of the original page.php of 2014 and rename it buddypress.php. And you add the condition into that copy.
I’m not a 2014 specialist and never liked that theme with BuddyPress. The’re so many other out to discover, easy to use and configure, that i wouldn’t loose my (at least) time with it.
2015 is already avaible and 2016 too, though 2014 is a dynosaur now. Beat’em ! 😉
Hi – I have just installed WordPress 4.3 and BuddyPress 2.3. Everything is working great, except that when I am trying to create a group, it will show a 404 error. I have a bunch of buddypress plugins and bbpress installed. After deactivating all these buddypress addons and bbpress, the problem persists.
Per my DBA, we are using the Apache server.
I am not that technical. Can someone guide me to solve the problem.
The problem URL is …/members/groups/create/
Thanks a lot.
Jing
@venutius – yeah wordpress is weird in that it uses a “theme” to handle how the backend admin dashboard does things, and I have no idea where those things are decided in the backend – but indeed it’s kind of weird how that is basically hidden from the backend – no notice of “your current theme is enhancing how the admin dashboard looks / behaves”
@yespapa – there have been several posts in the forums about restricting views of various pages based upon logged in / logged out. I can’t remember any of the solutions, if there were any at this moment.
I think you need to establish first which pages will be viewable by public / not viewable unless logged in – and make sure your language is correct / thorough.
eg – in wordpress world “pages” are like “static pages” – they end up in nav menus, not in the blog “loop” – etc.. blog posts are posts.. and in bp world stuff like profiles, groups, are kind of “pseudo pages” – which are not easy to hide with standard user role / permission plugins like “press permit core” – and I’m not sure if s2member has started to be able to lockdown bp’s psuedo pages..
there are some details posted by others in the other threads that have alredy discussed this kind of thing.
@douglaslovin83
You’re lucky !
Download the latest version of the plugin, as it seems that this is now in since 101 minutes:
Added support for Buddypress custom profile fields
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-auto-affiliate-links/
I was planning on using a plugin called Auto Affiliate Link because it can change all instances of a keyword on a page to a specific link.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-auto-affiliate-links/
However it does not work with buddypress. I asked the developer and this was his response
“Right now, we are replacing links by adding a filter to the_content function. This function is called when a blog post, page, or any other custom post is displayed.
Unfortunately, buddypress don’t work this way. There is different function call for every profile field.”
So my question is, What functions would I need to specify the filter to be applied to?
This is the current code for the_content call
add_filter('the_content', 'wpaal_add_affiliate_links',5);
In theory would I just add more filters and replace the_content with the other call functions?
