Questions regarding a third party plugin should be asked on that plugin support forum.
Subsidiary question to you: how can a code snippet or WP know the difference between the mystery man picture and your grand’ma picture ?
As you know, WP uses Gravatar and some other services. You can deactivate the mystery man to use one of them in replacement. At least a more colorfull alternative, even if it’s not the answer you expect. 😉
hi @osamanuman,
as you asked the same on the polylang support, i would recommend that you wait for an answer of the plugin author.
I’ve never used that plugin, anyway, by reading the description it appears that Polylang is a tool for translating any kind of WP content.
Of course BuddyPress is a WP plugin, but as it use pages differently as ordinary WP content, i don’t think that you can use Polylang to translate BuddyPress pages using the plugin default behave: translating by content. You’ll probably have to try the option translate by directory name.
While searching the support forum, i found this, about BP compatibility. Discouraging.
If you read attentively the documentation, you will see that it becames very difficult/complicated to translate BuddyPress because of some permalink settings.
Hi!
I’ve gone through the forums and docs, but I couldn’t find how to setup user types. What I am trying to achieve is,
1) I should have two User Types (18+ and 18-) on setup.
2) When a user registers, he should be categorized into either of the one user type.
3) Posts should not be visible between these two groups. Example, a user posts belonging to 18+ user type should not be visible for 18-.
Can you please help me with a clue to achieve this?
Thanks,
Vincy.
Wordpress 4.0.1 and BuddyPress 2.1.1
You could try this plugin. It is kind of what you want.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-announce-group/
Hi @shmk
It’s definitely possible. BuddyPress uses the wp_mail() function to send emails. By default, it uses text/plain as the content type which doesn’t allow HTML. The good news is you can change this. For example:
function set_content_type( $content_type ) {
return 'text/html';
}
add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'set_content_type' );
Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/wp_mail_content_type
Hi @sbraiden
The response time on ANY page/link can range from 10-20 seconds, even with virtually all of the plug-ins disabled.
A standard WordPress-BuddyPress install, running on the most basic hardware with little web traffic would respond far quicker than this so there is definitely a problem. Sometimes (although not always) the problem can be elsewhere (not your host). I’ve seen some badly-written themes cause page load times to lag and the same goes for certain plugins. I think the first step for you to take (before you go through the upheaval of changing hosting company) is to determine the exact cause of the problem. If you’re definitely sure it’s the host, then definitely make the switch. From a personal point of view, I’ve had problems with 1&1 in the past so switched host and have never been happier.
Post author is a wordpress concept. And WP doesn’t allow authors to delete comments.
Search about caps on WP Codex or see on the WP forum if you find some help.
Activity feed is not retroactiv, and will never be i guess ! It’s a feed, not an archive with updates. 😉
If interrested by future of BP development, see here
I have been a DreamHost customer for years, and generally a happy one. Back in April I upgraded to their DreamPress service, paying significantly more money each month in order to properly manage my self-hosted WordPress/BuddyPress web site. (I am always running with the most up-to-date version of both WordPress and BuddyPress/Commons-in-a-Box).
This has been completely in vain, as DreamPress gets it’s speed from Varnish, a front end cache that sits between your server and your visitors, and like pretty much every cache tool in the universe, if you’re a logged in user, you don’t get a cached page. Since forums and membership driven sites pretty much live by having users be logged in, you’re never going to get the same level of speed as other sites will on DreamPress.
This is actually a gross understatement. From the moment I did testing with only 1 member, it’s been abysmal. The response time on ANY page/link can range from 10-20 seconds, even with virtually all of the plug-ins disabled.
I’ve asked at DreamHost’s own support forums if there is ANY service they offer on which a BuddyPress installation of WordPress works (do I need to look at VPS? a dedicated server? someone other than DreamHost?) but to no avail. I have never received a reply on this, so it appears to be time to spend my money elsewhere.
There seem to be a lot of people that DO make BuddyPress work, and scalable. For those of you who are doing this successfully, where are you hosting your installation?
I would be very grateful for any advice folks might be able to offer so I can determine next steps.
Many thanks,
Sue.
I’ve had a similar situation in the past this plugin was able to help straiten things out for me it was made by jjj the lead for bbpress:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-capabilities/
Hello.
I’m about to make a website for my gaming clan. In this clan, different people have different privileges and therefore they should have access to restricted pages. Currently i have come around this issue, by password protection, but is there a way where i could integrate BuddyPress groups instead? So that when i for an example is logged in on BuddyPress, i have access to a restricted page? All not logged in users should have access to the rest of the website, but not the pages restricted pages.
Also, how do i rename the usergroups in both WordPress and BuddyPress? if you even can..
All help is appreciated 🙂
-nikko4913
I am using WordPress 4.1 and BuddyPress 2.1.1, the latest versions of both. I use hostinger.co.uk as my webhost. It has always been satisfactory, except the server resources are a bit limited. However, the email activation functions are not working. Emails are not being sent to new registrations, so people cannot activate their accounts themselves, and I have to manually go in and activate it for them. This is very distracting and time consuming, especially when I have to wade through dozens of span accounts to find one legit user. My guess is that it is because of my webhost, but I am not sure how to resolve the issue. Any help would be great.
https://codex.buddypress.org/component/activity/
The’re also lot of comments in activity files: /buddypress/bp-activity/
Other ressources
BuddyPress Trac
Dev’s blog
About Post Types and BuddyPress Activities
Do you use the french WordPress install ?
Have you selected “french” as your site language ?
dashboard > settings > general
I figured it out. For some reason WordPress decided it would be a good idea to hide custom menus added to the toolbar(when did they change the name from admin bar?) when viewing it on mobile devices.
If you browse through the WordPress directory you will find the css for the toolbar in wp-includes\css\admin-bar.css.
This line hides everything but the default items from the toolbar.
/* Show only default top level items */
#wp-toolbar > ul > li {
display: none;
}
By changing “display: none” to “display: block”. That fixed the problem i was having.
So hopefully that information is useful to someone.
Oh and one more thing. If you need to modify the toolbars css don’t do it there. You shouldn’t modify WordPress’s core files. Instead you should copy that css to your themes style sheet.
1) Issues with BuddyPics can be reported on the plugin support.
2) Similar and answered question here
Hi,
I’m using default theme of buddypress and not apply custom functions.
Now I try default theme of WordPress.
🙂
Hi there, I am using wordpress 4.1 and buddypress 2.1.1
I have searched the forums and have found only extremely old posts on this topic with no apparent solution.
Is there a way to filter searches based on user profile fields? For example, search based on the custom profile field: “location”? so that my users could see all other users that are in a certain city?
Or a plugin that would do this?
Any clues would be greatly appreciate,
Lost and frustrated,
Monica
@mamtagupta,
did you missed BuddyDrive settings ? See
dashbord > settings > buddydrive (wp-admin/settings.php?page=buddydrive) where you can handle mime types; slugs, max file size upload etc
Once activated the buddydrive access is showing in the usermenu (top right corner)
your-site/members/username/buddydrive/
A user must have uploaded a file to appear on the buddydrive admin (your screenshot is empty) !
A good start point for buddydrive is to read the plugin doc. For any technical question about this plugin, please use the plugin support.
If all this is already checked, as you use many security and cache plugins, i recommand that you check these different settings to track some special authorization who maybe disallow file uploads or that kind of restriction…
Aside, your site is not updated and you use a dangereous sensible (temp admin) username.
Hi!
I am using Buddypress 2.1.1 and WordPress 4.1 with the Plugin Blog Categories for groups. Is there any plugin or other possibility to see the Blog-posts in the Activity-stream? I was searching a while but didn’t find any answer.
Thanks in advance!
If there is not already a way to do this, I would like to request that sites that are listed in BuddyPress have independant avatar just like the groups do. I have a multi-site WordPress install where I am the administrator of many of the sites and my avatar photo shows on each of them.
I would rather have an image meaningful to the site rather than my mug on them. The only other work around I know of is having to create a new user for each site, which is a real annoyance.
Hopefully there is a quick and easy solution to this and I look forward to the answer with the solution.
