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You reply suggest you haven’t read through the guides I mentioned above?! If not please do so as they have been written to help users.

You have to match those files to your themes primary html markup as that is where things differ, your theme will have certain major layout elements e.g id=”container” the BP files must match to your themes markup, generally you would use index.php or page.php as your themes example to follow

The list of themes already put through the process by mercim are listed here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

@elbowrobo What help do you want from the community? When you say you are at a complete loss what is the issue you are having, it would help to know what you have tried and what the issues are that you have hit.

The template pack is only meant as a helping hand, starting point – it does require that you do some manual file editing of a basic nature and for that you do need rudimentary HTML skills and ability to understand how read code and copy paste it around. Without those skills you might struggle and perhaps need to be getting a developer to help you or choosing a theme that has already been template packed.

Have you actually followed the guides written by mercime in the BP Codex? these are extremely helpful walkthrough guides to working through the steps involved including the manual step 3; or look at the general list of themes that mercime has added and maybe choose one of those instead?

I havent tested them but here was first search result.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-local-avatar

Creat a new page. Name it whatever and publish. Go to buddypress ->pages and select just created page as search’s functioning page. But I am not sure search require a seperate page. Remember to subset the page to an already published page as a sub page

If you want to customise the twentyten theme, you are best to post on the WordPress.org forums for support. This forum is for BuddyPress-specific questions.

This has been requested many times but has not been created yet. If you want to hire post here: http://jobs.wordpress.net

Actions are a standard part of WordPress programming – if you check the WordPress.org documentation, or any good book on advanced WordPress PHP development, you should be able to find good guidance.

You can use my profile privacy plugin to hide profile sections. Even though it says not supported it still should work. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-profile-privacy

@pawriter – if you go to wordpress.com — the reader shows you latest featured blog posts from the blogs on the site. Which is what the described solution tells you how to achieve using BuddyPress in a multisite install

For simple purposes can set up an extended field (say ‘Country’) in Buddypress without need for any particular plugin and have it included, even ‘required’, then you can use the ordinary WordPress search to filter the list of members to reflect only those matching the country of search. However I am not certain if you can restrict the content of that field to a particular known dataset of countries (ie you would have to rely on members correctly listing their country).
If you want to go further you could use a plugin like the BP Avatar Map ( https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-members-avatar-map/ ) which needs a ‘Location” extended field using various depth of location eg. just USA or Sydney,Australia or Sydney, NSW, Australia – the WordPress search should then find all from Sydney or all USA etc. The plugin includes a map for the Directory page but you could probably exclude that if you wanted.
Hope this helps.

Hi,

please read the roles capabilities in wordpress
https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
If you need more precision work, try a role plugin like this one:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/

@mike00m – first thing: if you want support on a particular problem, it really helps to give your thread a meaningful title that says something about the sort of problem you are experiencing.

Showing a list of latest posts from blogs around a WordPress multisite install is actually surprisingly challenging because of efficiency concerns. Polling lots of blogs takes a large amount of CPU time.

However, in BuddyPress, you can implement this relatively easily using a custom activity stream loop (which avoids the efficiency concerns):

Each time a post is saved, an entry with the details of the post is added to the activity stream.

You can then write a custom activity loop that just pulls out the latest blog post related activity.

Unfortunately, BuddyPress saves the info (thumbnail, excerpt, etc.) in a monolithic chunk that’s cumbersome to manipulate later (e.g. to pull out and style the thumbnail as you want). Therefore, you might also want to look at modifying the action hooks on post save, to set up the activity stream entry in the correct format for your site to begin with.

It’s relatively easy to set this up, but you do need to be a competent PHP / WordPress developer.

[it’s possible that someone else might be able to point you to an off the shelf plugin / widget for this]

It’s stored in the wp_user_meta table, and there are some BuddyPress wrapper functions around the standard WordPress get_user_meta() functions.

You should be able to use:

$activity = bp_get_user_meta( $user_id, ‘last_activity’, true );

Let me know if that works.

Cheers, Roger

Do you mean, you want to send an email to everyone when a new (blog) post is posted, or when any kind of item is posted to the activity stream?

For the first you can hook a function on to the WordPress ‘save_post’ action. In that function, you can iterate over every member (see https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-members-loop/ for guidance), and for each member you use the BP messaging API ( messages_send_message() ) to send them an email.

For the second – you can’t seriously want to email everyone, any time anything is posted to the activity stream: the system and your users would be swamped – However, if you still do, check out some of the action hooks that are called when activity items are saved: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/activity-streams/

It’s standard WordPress syntax for including templates (e.g. sidebars, footers, template parts).

If you have a template called header-buddypress.php defined it will include that, if not it will fallback to header.php.

@rickpowell you would need to resolve your multisite issue first –> https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

@patrickhitches neither BuddyPress nor bbPress are installed in your site. If you’re still want to hire someone to fix the layout for you, do post at
– https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/forum/
and/or
– http://jobs.wordpress.net/

Haraldo, there is nothing wrong with your install, there is NO built in way to message all users in BP. The site notification will merely place a widget type notice at the top of your sidebar for all logged in users, which thy can then choose o close. It isn’t emailed or passed as a private message.

There are a couple of old plugins for this such as: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-mass-messaging/screenshots/

It’s an option that is useful, HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend you export your users to CSV. Again export plugins are available and import people into a 3rd party email service like Mailchimp.

This is far better for email marketing, however in itself is a bit tricky, as unless your members have signed up or opted into a list, it’s technically breaking the T&C’s of all 3rd party mail apps.

The problem with sending email direct from your server is if you get people unwittingly or deliberately labelling your mail as junk/ spam in clients like hotmail, yahoo and gmail, the ip address of your server can get blacklisted.

At that point NO mail at all from your server is going to get through to those services, not just for the accounts that labelled you as spam but your server will be blocked and mail won’t reach anyone with a hotmail address etc.

Sounds dramatic but it could kill your community if you aren’t careful.

You should always use a 3rd party.

Rules are still incredibly stringent though. You are generally allowed one spam complaint in every 1000 emails sent.

Hope that helps!

Hi Thomas –

a few pointers for you:

To integrate your videos into BuddyPress, you probably want to take a look at building a BuddyPress component – check out the bp skeleton component – it gives all the outline code you need for integration with the activity stream, adding new menus / screens within a user profile, and creating classes / custom post types to store your data.

You won’t need any new tables – WordPress custom posts and data storage in wp_post_meta should give you all you need.

I’d suggest you’ll probably want a new custom post type for storing your playlists, and can make use of the existing WordPress video post format for the actual videos.

It’s not easy coding, but if you know your way around PHP, and WordPress custom post types / taxonomies, you’ll be fine.

cheers, Roger