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@1missrodnee Have you checked out https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/ ?

@shubh14 It could be plugin conflict with the theme. The best place to ask for assistance is at the plugin’s forums. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-media

@rastarr
– There’s a free plugin but has not been updated in over 2 years https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-ninja/
– There’s premium and maintained plugin http://buddydev.com/plugins/bp-stealth-mode-for-site-admin/

All the details can be found at the link I provided above, but essentially it utilizes PhoneGap which allows you to write in HTML, CSS, and JS. You can submit your code to App Store and Play store. I am writing the plugin needed to communicate with the application and the application that will be submitted to the store. With both of these pieces you will be able to have a mobile application in both stores and directly communicates with your WordPress/Buddypress website.

@pjbursnall

see: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/dashes-in-usernames/#post-169926

Though this looks like it might be resolved in bp 1.9

probably the right way to do that is turn registration off in the general wordpress settings.

@pjbursnall yeah that code replicates the notification element only (the only part that is somewhat confusing to replicate) you place the code in the plugins directory in bp-custom.php you may have to create the file yourself.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9953482/how-to-make-a-pure-css-based-dropdown-menu – shows you how to create a drop down menu, https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo get the current users info so you can create links to their profile pages, etc.

Just a note, to add the notifcations to your custom bar your code will look something like <li><?php bp_notification_badge(); ?></li>

It may be a conflict with buddypress.css and the WordPress theme. Have you inspected the element in Google chrome?

I think what you’re really looking for is this plugin: BP Direct Menus. You can put a menu item or shortcode that links to any buddypress page. It even lets you customize the menu name with the user’s information.

Full disclosure: I wrote the plugin after I couldn’t find a more elegant solution to this same problem.

you set that in wordpress reading settings to whatever you want.

Theme compatibility lets you use BuddyPress with themes built for WordPress. So build your theme and when you activate or deactivate BP it will continue work seamlessly:

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

@chouf1
Oh sorry about that! I’m using:
Wordpress 3.7.1
Buddypress 1.8.1
bbPress 2.4.1

After having deactivated everything and tried things 1 by 1 and because i’m running a subscription based shin-dig, like i suspect a few others here are doing, running the show from the back end seems like the best course of action (althought the back end version works if i’m using another account with similar access).

The former is another work around if one wants to use less plugins.

Working great !

Thanks 🙂

@synaptic I didn’t realise the auto emails were sent from ‘wordpress’@mydomain so thanks for this!

@laurentdesserrey

The code does go into your theme’s functions.php file. This is what I have:

function custom_wp_mail_from( $email ) {
        $handle = 'laurentdesserrey';
	$find = 'http://'; 
	$replace = '';
	$link = get_bloginfo( 'url' );
	$domain = str_replace( $find, $replace, $link );
	return $handle . '@' . $domain ;
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from', 'custom_wp_mail_from' );

Note: change the handle. I’ve used ‘laurentdesserrey’ but you could use ‘admin’ or ‘support’ or ‘info’ – whichever works best for you.

Reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_mail_from_name

I wanted to avoid editing templates

I suppose you could achieve what you’re trying to do by using a bunch of action hooks although the advantage of theme template files is they are there to be edited.

Hopefully you’ll be able to get your plugin approach to work! Perhaps it might be worth throwing BP Profile Search into the mix. It offers some improvements over the standard BP member search.

Hi @synaptic,

I’ve the same issue. I tried to add this to functions.php but my site breakdown when I do that.

Could you be more precise on where you put the code ? 🙂

I’m not a (real) dev so not really comfortable yet with this.

Thank you very much 🙂

Laurent

https://wordpress.org/plugins/embed-rss/ works well.

It can also be done using https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-on-pages/
Add the Place the RSS Feed Widget Inside the Widgets on Pages Widget.

Hop this helps.

This file: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/1.8.1/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/member-header.php