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I would think you could use the normal import/export wordpress plugin as long you have the buddy press installed. How much do you needing to export to import.

This will allow php in your widgets
https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-widget/

To be completely upgrade proof, I would make an mu-plugin out of it.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Must_Use_Plugins

That way it’s always running when BuddyPress is running, and it will never go away unless you explicitly tell it to by deleting or modifying your code.

Look! You’re writing your own plugins today!

Unfortunately, you can’t assume that because your account has a certain role, that you’re able to do certain things, especially once you start installing membership plugins that directly manipulate the way roles and capabilities work.

(Role/cap problems are amongst the worst to troubleshoot in WordPress, IMO. There is no UI to help you, and there is little documentation available to guide you through the complex process of unraveling WordPress’s role based access control. It’s also my experience that most role/membership plugins are quirky, and can oftentimes leave your users and roles in a very crippled and polluted state.)

Do any of these plugins that you’re using place limitations on types of posts that users can see? Is it possible you blocked Topics on accident?

I wrote a bbPress plugin almost a year ago to try and provide a bbPress specific solution to roles and capabilities, and troubleshooting why specific users are blocked from certain things:

https://github.com/johnjamesjacoby/bbp-capabilities

You’ll need to install it on your site manually with your favorite FTP program. After installing the plugin, visit your Users in wp-admin and try editing a user that’s having issues viewing topics. At the very bottom, underneath their Forum Role, will be a large table of bbPress capabilities, the current permission, the source of that permission, and allow you to manipulate it. Anything highlighted in yellow is a deviation from the role (saved to the user instead) and there is a button to reset the user’s capabilities back to match the default role.

Hopefully this all helps track this down.

Do you have any WordPress Role editing plugins installed? Or membership plugins like S2Member?

It’s possible something has altered your role capabilities so that bbPress’s read_topics capability is broken.

Or, it’s possible it’s just a template issue. The query itself happens in bbp_has_replies(), so start your debugging there to see if it’s a template problem, or a dataset problem.

If the Activity meta table really was deleted, you’ll want to restore that table (and likely the entire database) from before your attack occurred.

If you have evidence of BuddyPress being the attach vector (and not simply that your site is running BuddyPress) please follow the instructions provided at the link below:

https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Security

Er. I’m not sure this is a valid WordPress setup?

How exactly does BuddyPress not work with this at the moment? Does everything else work fine, including blog permalinks?

@somethingelse

You can render an editor using the WordPress function wp_editor()

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_editor

Also, you might need to remove some BP filters on the member bio content areas – I’m not sure if there are any in place which strip HTML etc.

Hi @a77a77

Try rtMedia’s BuddyPress Media plugin:

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

Hi @mykrabuilding

To my knowledge, the time of the latest update isn’t recorded. The latest update info is stored in user meta. To get it you’d do something like:

$update = get_usermeta( $user_id, 'bp_latest_update' );

You then have the option to get either the activity ID or the content (no timestamp I’m afraid).

echo $update['id'];
echo $update['content'];

You can of course add your own user meta when somebody writes a status update. You could record a timestamp and then fetch it as described above.

See:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/update_user_meta

I think bp_activity_posted_update is the hook you’ll need.

Here is a similar plugin that encourages the use of real names instead of login words…..

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-real-names/

WordPress.org accounts cannot be deleted. If it’s an emergency, contact one of us directly.

I use the tubepress plugin for video… You can show many thumbnails on your site and play them in a light-box popup… or in their original YouTube page – which solves your user comment issue without having to make new templates

http://tubepress.com/demo/

the Activity Plus plugin allows users to post videos with their comments, just like Facebook, but for BuddyPress….

@modemlooper : A BuddyPress member cannot delete their account. But a WordPress administrator can delete a user from the dashboard.. If you have been following the recent EU moves on the Internet, such as forcing sites to post “We use cookies on this site” dumb messages, it will probably soon be necessary for members to be able to cancel their own accounts, for the sake of privacy…

@shaunokeefe @gvanamu,

This plugin does modify ALL WP & BP emails:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-email-editor/

Try it out and see if it resolves your issue. 🙂

@gfam105,

If you are looking for an UI that allows only video commenting, then I am afraid you will have to code a plugin that does just that.

But given the plethora of bp plugins that support video, you might just give these plugins a try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-plus/

Any of these plugins allow your users to upload videos in comments.

Hope this helps 🙂

@Mbonner,

That same plugin that hasn’t been updated since early 2013 works superbly. It wasn’t updated because there’s absolutely nothing to update! It does such a basic task that doesn’t warrant any upgrades whatsoever. More so, there are some plugins that haven’t been updated since 2010 that are still working fine.

Do a proper search in the BP plugins repo and as of the last count, there is a valid plugin that solves your issue.

Utilise Better WordPress Security plugin to make your wp-admin inaccessible and this plugin to take care of ALL non-admin users:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-redirect-to-profile/

Hope this solves your problem.

@fkapnist,

Slow down with that Mr. Journalist! Will you!?

It shouldn’t be probably out of your league investing in some enterprise-class social networking package out there or simply employ an in-house wordpress developer to do your bidding. It’s quite cheaper than you think!

If you encounter any problems with your upgrade, courtesy (which you people often harp about in your profession these days) demands that you ask politely.

@henrywright – A fellow BP enthusiast asked you a simple question with the aim of lending a hand, but obviously you couldn’t pass up the opportunity to throw that worn-out jibe.

Next time, ask a developer how to properly manage a bp install. Wisdom preaches that you maintain at least 2 separate installs of BP (one as production site and the other as development install [a cornucopia of your production install]).

When an upgrade such as this is pushed, you would want to play around with it on your development install for proper behaviour before pushing it in live.

@WPDragon,

This is what you are looking for:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-display-name/

It will allow you to enforce a certain display name change throughout your site… Users won’t be able to override it either.

Hope it works for you. 🙂