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Hi @jhvaletaolcom

You can’t do this through BuddyPress itself, but there may be a plugin that does it for you. Take a look on the WordPress Plugin Directory to see if anything is available.

Hi @disha76

I have installed Jetpack Like. But when a blog post is Liked / favorited it does not show in my BP Favorit list.

As far as I know, Jetpack Likes apply to blog posts only and are completely unrelated to BuddyPress favorites. If you ‘like’ something via Jetpack, then that’s separate to any ‘favoriting’ that you do via BuddyPress.

Another problem with Jetpack Like is it asks my blog visitors or members to register at wordpress.com compulsarily. Am I missing something?

I’m not aware of the specifics of Jetpack Likes, but you could try taking a look on their support page. I do believe they have an option to contact someone in their support team:

http://jetpack.me/support/likes/

Looks like someone has forked or remade / resurrected this. From the support threads for the activity stream types block thing on wp repo; lenasterg.wordpress dot com/2014/11/14/bp_block_activity_types/

Says code is posted on github instead of wp repo – can anyone confirm this code is good / safe to use?

Why does buddypress dot org forums throttle and block me from posting half the time? meh. I have to cut up links, remove words. Another why we can’t have nice things, thing, I guess.

A different method to get similar results:
I use BuddyPress Block Activity Stream Types ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/ )

and I have these set to be axed from activity stream:
deleted_group_document, new_blog, new_member, joined_group, friendship_created, activity_liked

although it is in desperate need of an update / fork to make it work smoother with bp 1.9 plus I think. I just looked into plugin settings to get info for you, and I see a weird message on the settings page:
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-block-activity-stream-types/admin/bp-activity-block-admin.php on line 6 and defined in /wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1154

Hmmm.. it still works to block the annoying stuff my users have no interest in. Wonder what it will take to get this plugin forked and updated.

@disha76
I would not use jetpack and try https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/ instead.

That may do what you are looking for, and it may not.. just a thought.

Did you mean BuddyPress as opposed to bbPress?

Wouldn’t it be faster to just check for BuddyPress in your plugin and if found remove their filter and then replace it?

You can always create a ticket in trac. If you do, please reference this thread.

Hello I am the author of the contact form plugin.

The problem is that bbpress is adding a filter ‘wp_mail_from_name’ when the plugin is loaded.

/**
 * Set "From" name in outgoing email to the site name.
 *
 * @uses bp_get_option() fetches the value for a meta_key in the wp_X_options table.
 *
 * @return string The blog name for the root blog.
 */
function bp_core_email_from_name_filter() {
 	return apply_filters( 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter', bp_get_option( 'blogname', 'WordPress' ) );
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'bp_core_email_from_name_filter' );

My plugin also uses this filter. It applies it just before sending a mail and then removes it afterwards. When applying the filter it also checks whether any other plugin has already changed the from name from the default: ‘WordPress’, if so it does not apply the filter. When BBPress is active, the from name is not the default so the filter is not applied. This has been done so that the plugin works well with other plugins such as wp-mail-smtp which also allows the from name to be set.

I would like to request that BBPress only applies this filter at the time of sending the mail and then removes it afterwards as it only applies to emails that are sent from BBPress.

Hi @style960

How do you suggest notifications be improved? If you think they are seriously flawed, then you could open a Trac ticket with your observations.

@giftvincy
I am sure there are many different “membership plugin” options out there..

I’d suggest starting with the “press permit core” plugin
( https://wordpress.org/plugins/press-permit-core/ )
which should do what you are describing I believe.

Without knowing everything exactly the way you envision, from reading:

4 different categories where different Contributors can write new posts and interact with the Participants in the forum (better way to comment and reply to questions using the forum, than WordPress’s commenting system). These Contributors, however, must have their own public profile and allow for Participants to subscribe to their posts. So far, I’ve used different plugins:

I think if you drop buddypress… do a WP MultiSite install – with 4 sub blogs… look into creating “author pages” – not all themes do that well out of the box… a simple subscribe to blog plugin for each of the 4 blogs.. I think you can install bbpress and mix it with each sub blog – but I have not messed with bbpress in a while, so not sure the best way to connect that.. I think you can enable to the bbpress “sitewide” then each individual sub blog author and enable it or something.. then code that into the sidebar if each blog.. that would do everything you have said I think.. maybe that will get you in the direction you are trying to go.

I suggest searching the wp plugin repo for plugins that are “multi site” enhancements.. look into “author pages” in the codex, and search for themes that have special author pages to make experimenting easier..

@sbraiden – I had similar 24 second page load times, and tried to get advice for enqueing, dergistering, and compacting the multiple and overlapping java and css all these plugins attached to buddypress are mixing in on top of the themes stuff.

Y Slow gives my BP site with basic plugins an “F” – WP professionals shrug it off – meh.

(more one all that here: http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/deregister-enque-compact-css-and-java-jquery-buddypress-load-time )

I have a sneaky suspicion however that my load times were an issue for me when logged in, and perhaps being logged in as an admin, I THINK that the (stupid) wpmudev dashboard plugin was slowing down my page load speed dramatically more than anything else. It was strange that after I complained of my long page loads, that 2 days later wpmudev had an update for their dashboard thing, and then my page load time went to like 3 seconds. – Coincidence, maybe, nothing definitive. – Everyone else said the pages loaded fine – so maybe it was just an admin thing – or maybe my ghostery blocking gravatar loads or something.

ANYHOW – in regards to hosting, I have a small buddypress site running fine on a shared server with amerinoc. I have one that is fairly busy running fine on a dedicated server at certified hosting.

I personally think that most important thing for a WP based site to perform well is blocking all the bad bots.

I have found that blocking all the naver and badu spiders (And most others) with a robots/txt file has decreased the sql over load (at peak times) on my servers by more than 80%.

I found that hosting a few wp sites on a shared server or dedicated could cause problems not just with spiders crawling pages too much too fast for indexing, but also all the attempting account creations / account brute force logins – even if they are blocked with something like sucuri or limit login attempts – every time they tried to login – they were using up server resources to load the login page, then hit the database to check credentials.

I also suggest using a pwd auth like explained here: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/technical/wordpress/wordpress-login-brute-force-attack

locking down the login with a double thing like that is fine for most WP installs, and a private family / friends BP site should be fine – when the bots can’t login through the first thing there is no need for wordpress to load a bunch of php / css files and pull from SQL a bunch of times just to give a bot a failed login – It becomes a problem for general open to the public buddypress comms I guess.

Now I set all my non-BP sites to use the double auth, I block all search engine bots aside from the top three selectively with robots.txt – and now just about any server can run fine with wp / bp – especially if some attention is paid to plugin overhead, wp-cacheing tools.

I have my fingers crossed the new bp-mediapress (sp? and Beta!) plugin thing will decrease the plugin overhead of rtmedia and offer a better alternative for pics and stuff.

Same random thoughts – I’m not an expert so take my 2 cents with a grain of salt or two..

Here’s my stab at it, in actual code (demonstrating what I mean by my rambling above):

function my_add_meta( $user_id, $key, $user ) {
    add_user_meta( $user_id, 'first_login', 'not_yet' );
}
add_action( 'bp_core_activated_user', 'my_add_meta', 10, 3 );

function my_check_meta( $redirect_to, $redirect_to_raw, $user ) {
    $meta = get_user_meta( $user->ID, 'first_login', true );
    if ( $meta == '' ) {
        // The user has logged in before
    } else {
        // The user is logging in for the first time.
        // Do something here.
        delete_user_meta( $user->ID, 'first_login' );
    }
}
add_filter( 'bp_login_redirect', 'my_check_meta', 10, 3 );

References

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_user_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_user_meta
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/delete_user_meta

There are lots in the WordPress Plugin Directory. The problem with social login plugins is they’re very hard to maintain from the developer’s point of view. Often, social networking sites update their APIs which results in the plugin code no longer working. My suggestion is, find a plugin that’s actively maintained – that way, you’ll be in a better position should it need updating in future.

This isn’t really a BuddyPress question as such. Try googling/searching the WP plugin repo for WordPress subscription / membership plugins, there are a few that will serve your purposes S2Member is generally suggested as a good one.