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@hnla thank you for the guidance. FWIW, I did try doing as much research as possible (and trying out a few things) before posting my question here.

I reviewed the information contained in the link you provided. Thanks for that. But after reading through that information, what I’m still unclear about is how/what template I should modify in order to affect ONLY the BP Registration page. (FYI, I’m not a php developer, so I do need a bit of hand holding for some of this kinda stuff.)

I read through the info on how to “Customize the layouts of BuddyPress pages within the WordPress Default Themes”. However, the instructions provided there seem to apply to scenarios where a site admin is wanting to make page template changes that apply to all BP pages on a site (i.e., by placing a customized buddypress.php file in the child theme folder).

In my case, I’m only wanting to change a single page (the Registration page) to remove the headers and footers. So I’m still unsure how I would go about doing that (even after reading through the info). Thank you very much for any specific guidance you can provide me with to accomplish this.

Thanks for your help with this but I am still not sure what I need to do. The function I posted was just an example that I had found from an earlier forum, I do not need to add videos and pictures to the activity stream.

I need to add details of a custom post type every time a custom form is submitted from the frontend by a user. The custom post type is “Files”. Below is a class for the form and it is within the CMB (custom meta boxes) plugin folder. Can you advise on how to implement the code to record these forms posts in the activity stream?

class uploadForm {

    // Set prefix
    public $prefix = '_cmb_'; 

    /**
     * Construct the class.
     */
    public function __construct() {
        add_filter( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array( $this, 'cmb_metaboxes' ) );
        add_shortcode( 'cmb-form', array( $this, 'do_frontend_form' ) );
        add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'initialize_cmb_meta_boxes' ), 9 );
       /* add_action( 'cmb_save_post_fields', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );*/
        add_action( 'save_post', array( $this, 'save_fields' ), 10, 4 );
       /*add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'add_activity' );   IS THIS CORRECT?  */ 
    }

    /**
     * Define the metabox and field configurations.
     */
    public function cmb_metaboxes( array $meta_boxes ) {

        /**
         * Metabox for the "Memorials" front-end submission form
         */
        $meta_boxes['upload_files_metabox'] = array(
            'id'         => 'files',
            'title'      => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
            'pages'      => array( 'Files' ), // Post type
            'context'    => 'normal',
            'priority'   => 'high',
            'show_names' => true, // Show field names on the left
            'fields'     => array(
                array(
                    'name'       => __( 'File description', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'       => __( 'File title or description', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'         => $this->prefix . 'title',
                    'type'       => 'text',
                ),
                array(
                    'name'     => __( 'Project stage', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc'     => __( 'select stage (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'       => $this->prefix . 'category',
                    'type'     => 'taxonomy_select',
                    'taxonomy' => 'stages', // Taxonomy Slug
                ),
                array(
                    'name' => __( 'Link to website', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Add url to website (optional)', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'url',
                    'type' => 'text_url',
                    'protocols' => array('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet'), // Array of allowed protocols
                    // 'repeatable' => true,
                ),
               array(
                    'name' => __( 'Upload image', 'cmb' ),
                    'desc' => __( 'Upload an image or enter a URL.', 'cmb' ),
                    'id'   => $this->prefix . 'image',
                    'type' => 'file',
                ),

              array(
                  'name'         => __( 'Upload files', 'cmb' ),
                  'desc'         => __( 'Upload or add multiple images/attachments.', 'cmb' ),
                  'id'           => $this->prefix . 'file_list',
                  'type'         => 'file_list',
              ),
              array(
                'name' => __( 'oEmbed', 'cmb' ),
                'desc' => __( 'Enter a youtube, twitter, or instagram URL. Supports services listed at <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds">https://codex.wordpress.org/Embeds</a>.', 'cmb' ),
                'id'   => $this->prefix . 'embed',
                'type' => 'oembed',
             ), 
            ),
        );

        return $meta_boxes;
    }

    /**
     * Shortcode to display a CMB form for a post ID.
     */
    public function do_frontend_form() {

        // Default metabox ID
        $metabox_id = 'upload_files_metabox';

        // Get all metaboxes
        $meta_boxes = apply_filters( 'cmb_meta_boxes', array() );

        // If the metabox specified doesn't exist, yell about it.
        if ( ! isset( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ] ) ) {
            return __( "A metabox with the specified 'metabox_id' doesn't exist.", 'cmb' );
        }

        // This is the WordPress post ID where the data should be stored/displayed.
        $post_id = 0;

        if ( $new_id = $this->intercept_post_id() ) {
            $post_id = $new_id;
            echo 'Thank You for your submission.';
        } 

        // Shortcodes need to return their data, not echo it.
        $echo = false;

        // Get our form
        $form = cmb_metabox_form( $meta_boxes[ $metabox_id ], $post_id, $echo );

        return $form;
    }

    /**
     * Get data before saving to CMB.
     */
    public function intercept_post_id() {

        // Check for $_POST data
        if ( empty( $_POST ) ) {
            return false;
        } 
         
        

        // Check nonce
        if ( ! ( isset( $_POST['submit-cmb'], $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'] ) && wp_verify_nonce( $_POST['wp_meta_box_nonce'], cmb_Meta_Box::nonce() ) ) ) {
            return;
        }
        
        // Setup and sanitize data
        if ( isset( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ) ) {
                       
          
            //add post data to database    
            $this->new_submission = wp_insert_post( array(
                'post_title'            => sanitize_text_field( $_POST[ $this->prefix . 'title' ] ),
                'post_author'           => get_current_user_id(),
                'post_status'           => 'publish', // Set to draft so we can review first
                'post_type'             => 'file',
            ), true );

            // If no errors, save the data into a new post draft
            if ( ! is_wp_error( $this->new_submission ) ) {
                
                return $this->new_submission;
                
               
            } 

        }

        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Grant temporary permissions to subscribers.
     */
    public function grant_publish_caps( $caps, $cap, $args ) {

        if ( 'edit_post'  == $args[0] ) {
            $caps[$cap[0]] = true;
        }

        return $caps;
    }
    
   
    

    /**
     * Save custom fields and uploaded files 
     */
    public function save_fields( $post_id, $post  ) {

            if($_POST['_cmb_category'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_category', $_POST['_cmb_category'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_url'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_url', $_POST['_cmb_url]'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image', $_POST['_cmb_image'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_image_id'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_image_id', $_POST['_cmb_image_id'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_file_list'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_file_list', $_POST['_cmb__file_list'], true );
            }
            if($_POST['_cmb_embed'] != ''){
                add_post_meta( $post_id, '_cmb_embed', $_POST['_cmb_embed'], true );
            }
       

    }

    /**
     * Initialize CMB.
     */
    public function initialize_cmb_meta_boxes() {

        if ( ! class_exists( 'cmb_Meta_Box' ) ) {
            require_once 'init.php';
        }

    }
    
    /**
     * Add to buddypress activity timeline. - HOW???
     */
    public function add_activity($post_types) {

       /* $activity_id = bp_activity_add( $args );
        
        return $activity_id;*/

       /*   $post_types[] = 'file'; 
          return $post_types;*/
    }  
    

} // end class

$uploadForm = new uploadForm();

I’m not an expert on wordpress and I am afraid, I’m not sure as to how I can create the forum outside of groups. But my question is, if a group is set to public, it should be reffering that it’s visible to anyone and it must NOT be compulsory to join the group for the public groups. Why can’t this be done?

Any guide for carrying the whole forum outside the groups ? how would it effect me?

This works

// hook failed login
add_action('wp_login_failed', 'my_front_end_login_fail'); 
 
function my_front_end_login_fail($username){
    // Get the reffering page, where did the post submission come from?
    $referrer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
 
    // if there's a valid referrer, and it's not the default log-in screen
    if(!empty($referrer) && !strstr($referrer,'wp-login') && !strstr($referrer,'wp-admin')){
        // let's append some information (login=failed) to the URL for the theme to use
        wp_redirect($referrer . '?login=failed'); 
    exit;
    }
}

http://www.wpinsite.com/code-snippets/how-to-redirect-wordpress-failed-logins

@rosyteddy, I found that the quickest, easiest, and most efficient solution was to substitute a different login widget. This one I found really works perfectly for me:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-login/

Many thanks, nonetheless, for your ongoing support and advice.

@mcpeanut Thanks, and like I said I’m aware of the issue of too many admins. I’ve been working with WordPress for over 10 years, I know about roles and capabilities. This is a site that I help out with – not my personal site, and there are a lot of moving parts.

I am curious if you can replicate this odd behavior, thanks for investigating.

Sorry … I guess I should have mentioned that I’m using WordPress v.4.1.1 and BuddyPress v.2.2.1
The site URL is: http://mylifeismymuseum.eu/mlimm/activity/ and that I have tested with several different themes.

So asking again … I’ve found that, if a site member clicks the ‘Log In’ button without first entering their username and password, the page redirects to the default WordPress login page (/wp-login.php)

How (and where) might I modify the code so that, instead, it simply fails or, better, displays a an error message to remind the user to fill in their login credentials?

@peter-hamilton

Really cool to see the plugin in action and thanks for the review on wordpress.org! 🙂