Hi @jessiewordpress
You could use the Welcome Pack plugin?
In the “Discussion Forums” WordPress-Page (Global Forum) only Admins can see the threads for Private Group Forums they are members in. Normal Users only see the threads from Public Groups, but not from Private Groups they are member in. They have to go to the group forum page to see threads.
Is there a way to see these private topics in Global Forum for group members ? It would be far more easy for users…
Thank you.
Running WP4.1 and testing Buddypress v2.2.0.
The site I’ve inherited relies pretty heavily on WordPress’s is_page() function in functions.php and header.php.
I can see in the support forum and trac tickets that there have been some changes made around is_page() and that this should be properly solved with #4954.
I’ve not actually had any trouble with any of the is_page() stuff (I’ve used versions 1.8.1, 2.0.1, 2.1 and 2.1.1) until v2.2.0 when all hell seems to have broken loose.
Any suggested workarounds other than finding every instance and reworking it with is_buddypress()?
Being able to create a group without logging in is more than ‘clever’.
There have been a few similar reports over the last couple of years – always specific to groups – suggesting that there is a ‘hole’ somewhere, maybe in BP.
I don’t know what the solution is and have been unable to replicate the problem.
@leighgregg
What version of WP and BP are you using?
Are you using any additional plugins or code re BP Groups?
There was an issue that was fixed for BP 2.2
The latest WordPress release doesn’t display the WP Toolbar for Subscriber level users. Not only does this prevent access to the account menu via the Toolbar, it more importantly means that Notifications remain at zero, even on the user profile page.
Upgrading the account to Contributor or above will reinstate the Toolbar and bring Notifications back to life.
This problem isn’t theme specific or a plugin conflict. bbPress is affected in the same way.
Any thoughts on this? WP is breaking a key component of two it’s most widely used plugins.
First of all thank you so much for taking the time to try to figure out where the problem is.
Anyone can register is acitvated and now my pages appear. It looks a bit different then in the past. But it works.
Now…when I click on my sineup button (on the right corner of my website/ http://kompanio.de) I get an Error that says this: “ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS”
Is this a wordpress/buddypress issue or is this a total different error that has other reasons?
Hey @lepittenger
There may be a plugin out there that can do all that you need but you may be able to achieve what you need without a plugin
WordPress uses Roles and Capabilities to dictate what a user can and cannot do.
Take editing a page for example. Any user with a role of Editor or above will be able to do that so all you’d need to do is change the user’s role via the admin area.
Hope this helps!
Thanks. I am have tried multiple sitemap plugins and they all give the same error when BuddyPress is active. If I disable BuddyPress the sitemap works fine. I am using WordPress SEO by Yoast at the moment, same deal. http://bphope.staging.wpengine.com/sitemap_index.xml
BuddyPress is only a plugin you can use with almost any correctly formated theme.
See here how you have to do this:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar#New_way_of_adding_sidebars
Hello there,
I’ve installed buddypress on several servers allready and I am familiar with most of the settings. But in my actual installation I have problems setting up the needed directories.
I’ve created the site register and activate but I can’t associate them in the settings.
Can anyone help me please?
I use WordPress 4.1/ Buddypress 2.2 and I have no other plugin activated.
hi @melle328, @milenushka
i opened a ticket about that issue. Feel free to connect to Trac and give your feedback.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6202
To login, use same credentials as on this ofrum.
Apologies for the widget styling.
You can apply the following patch for a temporary fix until we issue 2.2.1:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5817/5817.clear.patch
Theme: Weaver II
Plugin-list:
Agreeable
amr shortcode any widget
bbp Private Forums Visibility
bbPress
bbPress – Unerwünschte Inhalte melden
bbPress Advanced Capabilities
bbPress Direct Quotes
BbPress Notification
bbP Signature
Beautiful Widget CK
BuddyPress
BuddyPress – Private Aktivitäten
Facebook Like Box
GD bbPress Attachments
GD bbPress Widgets
Google XML Sitemaps
Invite Anyone
Login With Ajax
Page Links To
Page Restrict
PayPal Donations
Privates BuddyPress
Q and A FAQ and Knowledge Base for WordPress
rtMedia for WordPress, BuddyPress and bbPress
Super Socializer
Use Google Libraries
Weaver II Theme Extras
WordPress Backup to Dropbox
wp-Monalisa
I know that’s quite a lot of plugins, but how can I reduce them, if I need the functionality? Is it possible that the problem comes from just too many plugins?
Hello, not sure if it’s the Importer or Buddypress who is to blame here …
We just had a few users migrating from blogspot and other wordpress installations into a multisite with BuddyPress and it looks like right after the import is finished the BuddyPress-“All Sites” page shows for them the oldest article as the newest one. The Problem “solves itself” as soon as they post a new article, so I thinks it’s just a minor issue. But since we had some users contacting our helpdesk about what to do, it might affect others too and be worth a general fix.
I assume it’s because the wordpress import tools all seem to crawl backwards and instead of using “publish date” this Buddypress function seems to look after the creation timestamp in the database here.
Anyway, won’t miss the moment to thank you all for this great pice of software ?!?!
Hinnerk
I see what you mean about this possibly being confusing to the member. I think you should create a Trac ticket for this to see what the core developers think.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
You can use the exact same username and password you use here in the forums.
Thank you for your reply.
I figured that it would be the best place to ask prior to going down the rabbit hole with the BuddyPress documentation and website. It’s been labeled as rather archaic, cryptic, and unreadable by many people that I asked for advice. I contribute to several other open source projects and might jump in on your docs/forum if the platform seems like something that will be handy for me in the future.
As for the project being a copy, it’s really just identical in feature sets but not a literal copy of the site. Design is very different and it’s not dog sitters that are members. This site is for parents and babysitters which is highly similar to dogvacay.com in feature set. Yep, their site is built in Java. ::vomits a little::
The key features that need to be included:
– two member types (parents and babysitters)
– they should be able to message each other privately
– parents can schedule a date for the sitting to happen
– parents can browse babysitters
– custom profiles for each with different sets of information (based on a conditional of type)
It appears that I was able to answer my own question over the past few days by utilizing the codex and going through all of the code. BuddyPress looks to be the best option for handling all of this unless I was to custom code a plugin (I am actually a PHP developer NOT a wordpress dev). I was looking at utilizing BuddyPress for cutting down time by using the friend associations and messaging system.
BP might be a little much for this project but I can see value in several features that they might want in the future.
I apologize for posting this in err to this forum if it’s not really a good place for asking whether it’s a good platform for such a situation. All of the documentation/about is written in a fashion that presents it as useful in only one way. It made it rather difficult to decipher how I could rip the plugin apart to do what I need instead of using it as “out-of-the-box.”
Might there be some advance blogs out there where people have written about different ways to use the plugin? Just so that I can dig into the community a little more.
Have a nice day.
Hello
I have seen that the images of my groups of Buddypress are out of the media gallery of WordPress and because this the plugin Smush it can’t resize it.
There is some way for fix this?
Thanks in advance
I recently updated BuddyPress and now it keeps giving me the following error message:
The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Search Page. Repair
I’ve tried making a Search page and selecting it on the settings page, but it refuses to accept it. One thing I noticed was when I made a Search page (mydomain.com/search) I couldn’t view it, it just took me to mydomain.com. I tried changing its url to mydomain.com/searchbp and I could view it, but it still wouldn’t take in the settings.
Not sure if this matters, but I should also point out that I don’t use BuddyPress’s register/activate pages. I modified it awhile back (don’t ask me how, I don’t remember) to use the default WordPress ones because I use a plugin to verify their username is also a valid Minecraft username to prevent spam bots.
Hi @alexfa08
It’s great to hear you’re thinking of theme development particularly for BuddyPress.
There’s lots of things to consider, but The Theme Review article is a good place to start. It details some guidelines as well as standards and good practices.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6192#comment:4
check the links on the top right side, below the menu, it goes into profile of wordpress, it should be styled nicely as a bar with grey background and profile activity on the buddypress site not wordpress or so.
@imath okay then add notice by the side of : Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.
Before you use this go to /wp-admin/network/settings.php
and select “Both sites and user accounts can be registered.”
WP+BP needs to have distro
WP and BP standalone
WP Network and BP
any other
Distros will have inbuilt pages and settings already available so that users are not confused. Users can straightway use the flavor they want – simple!
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@disha76
having this settings on “Logged in users may register new sites” means registrations are off for WordPress. Deactivate BuddyPress and you will see WordPress will not allow you to register. Activate BuddyPress 2.1.1 and you’ll see that there are no regressions.
The problem is elsewhere.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-labs/ says :
This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
It is also buggy and does not work. Compatible up to: WordPress 3.5, BuddyPress 1.7
What you say is true but certain essential features need to be there. Again there can be debate what is essential to me is not essential to you. But “Likes” ( or any other name for it) is a core feature of Elgg, Drupal, Phpfox, Oxwall – name any paid or FREE scripts. It is sad that the “Likes” code of wordpress com has not been passed to wordpress org and more sad that it has not thus been incorporated into buddypress. Apparently there are lots of efforts at re-inventing wheels.
Please also understand that majority of users who are using BP
– are small to medium users, many are hobby users
– they cannot code a plugin but looks for readymade solution
– they have to customize their site which takes time and effort, get content and users
Just as developers are gracious and we are grateful to them, so are the users – if users never adopted and tested freely BP so much where it would have been?
I think we badly need a StackExchange type Q and A forum here that comes up with actual code or solutions, which can be rated and used instantly.
