SKParticipant
@im4th Honestly, I don’t see why BP Media should be involved since:
1. They are not even close to being the top media plugin for BP. rtMedia is (source http://mercime.github.io/buddyPress-2014-survey-results/index.html)
2. By their own admission, they have taken so many manhours to build simple functionality that it seems their approach is almost prohibitive for BP core team.
I think we should look to work more closely with rtMedia, who have built in a very short period of time a much more feature-rich and popular option than BP Media.
Also, I strongly feel we should leverage the media management capability that is already built into WordPress.
SKParticipant
@henrywright i agree with you on that definitely, but adding some functionality that some plugins offer as built into buddypress would also help because your adding less weight from these plugins too no?
@mcpeanut I am probably the person that asks most often for stuff to be included in the core. However I beg to differ with you on this as a general principle.
I think you are right – if everything I need is in the core then the install will probably be faster than having a barebones core and 500 different plugins that I need to achieve the functionality I need. With you on that.
Problem is: everyone’s “needs” may be different. That’s why WordPress and BuddyPress are extensible systems. If there are 500 features in the core and I need only 50 and the core is slower because of that, then I would be one of the people complaining about “bloat”.
So, it’s essentially akin to drawing a line in the sand and hoping you get to the goldilocks area: a core that’s not so bare as to not be useful and not so bloated as to be inflexible or noticeably slow.
I think there are 3 (relatively) objective tests that the developers can employ when considering whether to include a feature in the core:
- Will the feature be useful for (or used by) a sizable majority (60%+) of users
e.g. media management capability
- Will the feature be used by only a significant minority (5%+) but is mission-critical for those who use it
Mission-critical is defined as a feature without which the whole premise of the site of community (that uses the feature) will fall apart. e.g. activity widgets, facebook likebox, Genesis connect etc are not mission-critical but multisite, multilingual and hierarchical groups are
- Do we need the feature for strategic reasons
i.e. for marketing, competitive or usability reasons, e.g. new user activation workflow revamp
Passing any one test should put the feature on the roadmap. If multiple tests are passed, it should be a priority.
Hey community.
Im mocking up an idea I have using buddy press. Now I have been using wordpress for about 4 months and I have grasp the idea of editing the php files. I have found out how to add a bulk list of states for my registration. The problem is where? I’m reading pages of code and can’t find the right xprofile.php. I put in a genric “bjfhwbgrger) and tried to hunt it but my eyes are killing me! I have another field with about 40 choices to and dont want to manually add 90 entries.
Thanks in Advance,
CL
You could be using an older theme, which needs the new notification templates.
Contact the theme developer and tell them to look at the following change:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7688/
Take note of the five additional files that need to be created and the change to /members/single/home.php
Hi.
I am running wordpress 3.8.1 and buddypress 1.9.2, recently I have noticed the notifications show up with a number but when I mouse over it’s blank, when I view notifications there is nothing there as well.
I do not have any plugins that would interfere with this, I have the ntifcations feature turned on in the buddypress setup. Can anyone point me in a direction on where to look to fix this?
Please ask specific questions on the appropriate forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/live-comment-preview
It’s not BP related, a third party plugin, and we’re not necessarily going to be familiar with it’s setup and configuration, also we have no knowledge of what theme you are using or how that’s setup or where they may have put the comments form code.
Thanks Renato. Strange though, I’ve installed the plugin ok but the preview is not showing 🙁 I read in https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-comment-preview/faq/ and still can’t seem to get it working! help.
theme’s comments.php file. It must contain the code
<?php comment_form(); ?>
or <?php do_action(‘comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>.
I checked and didn’t see the code therefore I added… and still didn’t work.
1. WHICH LINE SHOULD I ADD THE ABOVE CODE?
Can I make the preview display in another location?
Yes, you can add the code <?php live_preview(); ?> in comments.php where you want the preview to be show.
2. WHERE SHOULD I ADD THE ABOVE CODE?
Thank you so much
I don’t think this is the one, as this is related to a WordPress Multisite and it seems not your intent.
But test it out and see if it suits your needs. =)
All right, I understand your point and agree. The problem I see is that the search function is related to the searchable information in her profile, not in her profile description, or Bio as you call in your website.
Some examples to clarify:
If you search “creative”, it brings her as a possible result.
If you search “counselling” (not counsellor), it brings her as a possible result.
And if you search “creative counselling” (what’s actually searchable) you can find it.
What she is trying to search, creative counsellor, is not searchable and possibly, nobody had used it before. So no match is available.
Also, if you click in her “Job Title”, you will see exactly what I mean.
My reason is that you want to add not only the searchable areas but also any text. I’m not sure how to do that, but maybe there is a plugin around WordPress to help.
It is not a BuddyPress related question, but here it goes. At CSS-Tricks, Chris Coyer is using this plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-comment-preview/) to allow the user to preview their answer in the bbPress.
It is not the topic, but I think you can make it work.
Hi @iwishiknew,
what you trying to achieve can be accomplished with WordPress Multisite (WPMU), except for the shared forum part (maybe it is possible, if it is, I don’t know how).
In a WPMU, you can have, through sub-directories or sub-domains, several high level domain using the Domain Mapping plugin. I use it in my personal blog and it works fine.
It is also possible to make one user to access the other websites in the network, without having him/her to register again.
With the foruns, I would create different bbPress instalations in each website. In this way, although the users base could be shared, the forums would be related to each particular domain in the network.
In a nutshell, I’d assume that what you want is possible, except for the shared forum part. If it possible, please, let me know.
Plugins you’d use:
Domain Mapping – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
MU User Management – https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-user-management/
Hello all! This may be impossible but here goes…
Say I have the following domains all with buddypress wordpress sites running with bbpress forums also running:
domain1.com
domain2.com
domain3.com
Here is a breakdown of how they forums look:
domain1.com has the following forums: General, domain1stuff, domain2stuff, domain3stuff
domain2.com has the following forums: domain2stuff
domain3.com has the following forums: domain3stuff
Basically, I want those three sites to be able to share all users across all 3 sites and be able to register for all 3 domains on any of the 3 domains; however, when on domain2.com I want only the domain2stuff forum visible, etc.
Is this possible? I know with multisite you can only do subdomains or subdirectories… but can you create a network of multiple domains with shared users and shared forums?
Any help greatly appreciated 🙂
BuddyPress version: 1.9.2
Wordpress version: 3.8.1
Hi All,
As a simple test to see if I can prevent BP from navigating to the /friends/add-friend/<id>/ page I have put the following script in place:
jq('div.friendship-button a').on('click', function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
return false;
});
Placing a breakpoint in this script shows that the code does indeed run, however it doesn’t matter what I do within it, I cannot stop the page from navigating to the href url. Essentially I’m trying to override the way the friends system works.
Does anybody know a way of stopping the default behaviour of the friends button?
Hi Im using the twenty thriteen theme and I have set up the BP plugin according to the tuts and created the register and activation pages but they WILL NOT show up on my main page. I saw them there for literally 3 second once but then they disappeared and I can not get them back.
Anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks
actually just found this
Twenty Thirteen Theme
I did find a plugin now that correct this easy.
Global admin bar hide or remove
Thank you anyway
Best Regards
I have a custom field in registration and asking to user membership type with radio button.
There are two selections like “A” and “B” when he registered, as always does in wordpress, i’m getting notification email that “New User Registered on you site bla bla…” i want to add this selection to this email and see fastly which one he/she choosed.
Ex.:
New user registration on your site
Username: John Doe
Email: johndoe@gmail.com
Membership Type: B
Please help if you have an idea..
Interesting
The idea came when I was searching for solution and found this
#WordPress Un Comparateur FIND_IN_SET pour les meta_queries
I was implementing find_in_set meta query and read the comment below by Willy. Since I don’t want new table for something simple, this sound like a good idea
Wordpress allows same key for multiple metas.
Now when I look at that function I think this should allow too, but I want some confirmation before I continue.
* @param bool $unique. Optional. Whether to enforce a single metadata value
* for the given key. If true, and the object already has a value for
* the key, no change will be made. Default: false.
BP 2.0 adds bp_activity_add_meta()
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L658
But I’m not sure you can have same key. There is $unique which seems to imply you may have multiple values.
// cc @boonebgorges
get a plugin from wordpress.org instead theme functions.php should bd code for the theme only
If your groups are at url/groups/
then try pasting the code below into your theme / functions.php
It should redirect non-admins to the groups page.
based on https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/login_redirect
function shug_login_redirect( $redirect_to, $request, $user ) {
//is there a user to check?
global $user;
if ( isset( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
//check for admins
if ( in_array( 'administrator', $user->roles ) ) {
// redirect them to the default place
return $redirect_to;
} else {
return home_url('/groups/');
}
} else {
return $redirect_to;
}
}
add_filter( 'login_redirect', 'shug_login_redirect', 10, 3 );
Version WP: 3.8.1
Version BP: 1.9.2
Installation: Local, using MAMP
Other plugins installed: none
I’ve been struggling with this for days now and can’t seem to find anyone with the same problem. In short:
When I try to register at the frontend of the buddy press setup the page simply refreshes after submitting the form. No error/success message, no email, no new account.
What I’ve tried to make sure before posting:
– No third party plugins is interfering with BuddyPress or WordPress; it is clean install
– Part of it being a clean install is that the theme Twenty Fourteen is enabled. Tried it as well with Twenty Twelve; no success.
– I read another post saying that it could be a case of uppercase letters in the directory name, not in my case: all paths are lowercase
– obviously anyone can register is enabled. Even tried it two ways: enabled before installing BP and installing BP before enabling
– Email is working. Created an account on the backend and enabled ‘send password by email’. Received it just fine.
I really can’t think of anything else to fix the problem, which is frustrating because it’s kind of a vital element of BP. Anyone out there who got any ideas?
