Hi,
I’m wondering if bbPress activity is meant to show up in the BuddyPress activity stream? Currently the activity stream shows everything that happens — registrations, updates, friend connections, etc, but doesn’t show any entries for bbPress forum posts or replies.
I’ve been through the settings for BuddyPress & bbPress, but can’t see anything that could be adjusted to add bbPress to the activity stream. The only semi-relevant thing I can see is the BuddyPress setting “Allow activity stream commenting on blog and forum posts”, but nothing forum-related appears in the activity stream regardless of this setting.
I’m using the latest versions of both BuddyPress (2.0.2) and bbPress (2.5.4), and WordPress for that matter (3.9.2).
Am I doing something wrong, or is bbPress not supposed to appear in the activity stream?
Thanks,
Ross
Buddypress does not “create” its own sidebars. It uses the theme’s.
Maybe it will be a good idea for you to try it out with a couple of free themes. The default wordpress theme (twenty fourteen) comes with two sidebars, you can probably play around with that a bit.
It should work the same way with a paid theme as far as Buddypress goes.
You could take a look at https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-community-for-bp-lite/
It allows you to make all pages/posts private by default. You can (optionally) exclude upto 10 pages/categories to show to the logged out visitors.
The reason I ask the question is due to the following reply I received on a question I asked here
The gist of it was the use of a language file is bad practice and any translations made in a language file are overwritten on WordPress upgrade. However, I’m not sure I quite agree. What are your thoughts?
@semperfideles
You could try:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/private-bp-pages/
Full disclosure I wrote the plugin but you can check it out and see if it fits your needs.
There are plugins like Activity Plus that allow embedding things like a uTube link in the activity page on a member’s profile.
There are several pages in a member’s profile, including a profile page that has data describing that member. There ways to allow for what you want, but it would require some custom coding, iow. not an option out of the box, afaik.
This should be a simple question
I have used wordpress for years, but have never needed to use BuddyPress until now. Can each member embed code in their profile page similar to a YouTube Video or embeding a Mapquest map?
Would this require some crazy configuring by me or is it an option out of the box?
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide
@henrywright
No, the languages file in /wp-content/languages doesn’t get deleted upon upgrading WordPress.
I read another solution here
1. Install and activate this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-exec-php/
2. Create a new page called “Friends” or whatever name you want and add it to your menu.
3. In content of this page, add this code
<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0;URL=http://blabla.com/members/<?php global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
echo sanitize_file_name($current_user->user_login). “”;
?>/activity/friends/”>
4. You may still need a way to hide this menu from logged out users. Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/if-menu/
In the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article under step 2 of Labels and Messages it says:
If the /wp-content/languages/ folder does not exist, create it!
I’m wondering, does the /wp-content/languages/ folder get deleted when WordPress is upgraded?
@richonbp
@henrywright Pretty much nailed it just so you have a second opinion so I would go with his suggestion. You may also want to post a job here as well:
http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Good luck!
Hi @richonbp
(1) A combination of PHP, JavaScript, jQuery and Ajax is the usual.
(2 – 4) Depends on your requirements
(5) Usually a combination of WordPress and BuddyPress to begin with. Then any plugins you need. You might also want to choose a theme
Hope this helps!
When you’re ready to go ahead, try posting your requirements and some contact information on the BP Jobs Board – there are some good programmers around that check on that forum regularly.
Hi Paul, thanks for the message. The “official” stance is that HHVM will be officially supported in the upcoming wordpress 4.0 – although as you say, as of 3.9 it runs without a hitch.
I think it is obvious that HHVM is an important variable in wordpress and will become even more important in the future.
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27881
AFAIK, no-one on the BuddyPress core team has tested BuddyPress extensively on HHVM. Also, we do not check our unit tests on HHVM.
Informally, I think our position is along the lines of “once HHVM is officially supported in WordPress core, we’ll officially support it in BuddyPress core.” Note that there’s a difference between “works well” and “officially supported”.
However, if people like yourself want to run BuddyPress on HHVM and report any issues to us (or help us debug and fix them), we’d love that.
When I google that error I see posts referring to WP running it’s jQuery library in no-conflict mode.
People say that errors like this are syntax issues – the jQuery library included with WordPress loads in “no conflict” mode. This is to prevent compatibility problems with other javascript libraries that WordPress can load. In “no-confict” mode, the $ shortcut is not available and the longer jQuery is used, i.e.
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
By including the $ in parenthesis after the function call you can then use this shortcut within the code block.
This is a bit beyond me – does anyone else see this behaviour and have any idea if the above solution is implemented in BP to cause no conflicts?
Would love some help!
Ross 🙂
Hallo,
Is there a Buddypress social sharing plugin that works? I looked through the web, wordpress etc but nothing. Is there anyone who knows a plugin to share buddypress/bbpress posts to social media?
Thank you
Yeah, that’s selected. Something weird is going on and I’m not sure what.
What files are involved wordpress-sided? Which ones would need to be replaced to theoretically revert changes to the login system?
Sure, @henrywright
It’s Ward-Pro running:
Buddypress Sitewide activity widget
Go Daddy Quick Setup
WordPress Charts
WP Error Fix
hi @carlenb,
there is no buddypress forum. BuddyPress use the bbPress forum plugin, and once it is installed you can opt for a global forum or a group forum or both.
worddraw is outdated.
drawblog mentionned in the topic you linked is for wp comments and according to support doesn’t work with ios.
Perhaps try this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/deviantart-muro/
Hey guys!
I’m about to launch a buddypress forum, and would LOVE if it was possible to attach drawings or doodles (directly from a mobile device and the touchpad). See this, for example:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-allow-users-to-add-drawing-or-doodles-in-wordpress-comments/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/worddraw/
Here it seems to be possible to do it by comments, but I want it to work for a forum thread as well. Does anyone know if a similar solution is out there?
@daneraid
please read here and give more details
If you are on a local install, you cannot login yourself as super-admin and also for a user you added.
If it is the case, revert back to original install of BP and use this plugin. This will literally fill your site with users, friends, groups and all kind of other activities.
Hi @jungmook,
it’s a bit difficult to answer a such wide open question in one post. So very shortly:
For a multisite installation of WP with Buddypress, do all the sites in the network of sites share the same user base?
Yes. There is only one wp_users table in the DB. And by default all registered users are network users.
Can WP multisite with BP be easily configured to work the same way (and yet let each site have its own separate forums and groups)?
Yes and No.
BuddyPress on multisite runs for the whole network. If you’re not comfortable with WordPres and never used BuddyPress it’s not easy at all, because you have to learn a bit first.
If you’re comfortable with WP, it’s relatively easy because BP is “only” a plugin and it works like a plugin.
And if you’ve never worked on a network (meaning a multisite) it could be complicated at first because you probably don’t be familiar with things such as activating a plugin on the main site and not for one of your network site, or vice versa.
I encourage you to read attentively the codex, show some videos about wordpress multisite and get the one or other tutorial you can find on the web.
Some reference
Installing Group and Sitewide Forums
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/
http://premium.wpmudev.org/manuals/wpmu-and-buddypress-installation-2/
Hi
Thanks, for your fast respond! Unfortunately it doesn’t work. But I could fix it by myself with trying.
With poEdit the words were translatet but when I opened the file with CodeStyling Localization and searched for the “</span>” – tag I found message, notification, friends and groups twice:
Once translatet to German and once not. I translatet all to German who were not translatet and it worked. I have no idea why this was that way but now I’m happy.
I sent the file also to deckerweb and a topic in German WordPress so the other user with this issue can use the file.
Maybe you have an idea what that could be?
My Buddypress Version: 2.02
My WordPress Version: 3.9.2
http://www.ikino.ch (Pass for website access: hallo16)
testuser: guest
pass: guest
Hello
I read that a lot other people had this problem but no older topic could help me 🙁
I use the German translation for my site but in the activity overview 3 tabs are not translatet:
Notification, friends, messages
But in the translation this words are translated.
I already tried to remove the <span> – tag in the German translation as mentioned here:
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/words-notifications-friends-groups-are-not-translated/
The words are always in English it doesn’t matter if there is a notification or not.
