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@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

@mercime sorry to revive this topic, I followed your instructions, but buddypress is not correctly aligning yet (eg. http://www.linkin-park.it/newsite/members/linkin-park-italy/activity/). I’m using WordPress 3.4.1, Buddypress 1.5.6 and InStyle Theme 2.7. I’ve attached some code from my theme. Let me know if you can help me out, thanks in advance!

Header: http://pastebin.com/XaLx9ixX
Sidebar: http://pastebin.com/vnHV5FDA
Footer: http://pastebin.com/puaLJRZg
Page: http://pastebin.com/ZKi9QeUh
Page-Full Width: http://pastebin.com/EdkA0Cfb

Have this problem also.

using;
wordpress 3.4.1
buddypress 1.5.6

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-extend-widgets/ or its code may take you some of way.

If you do not want the users blog content then you can export the BP database and re install it on a fresh site. The users blog content can be export by each user and then they can do what they want with it.

these plugins may help:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/navayan-csv-export
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users

I’d suggest you look at wp_mail as the starting point https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail. You can hook into the profile fields (with some custom coding) and send using that I think.

I would say looking at a plugin would be a good point to see code if not a direct solution for you.

Hi just did a uninstall and reinstall but didn’t get any log errors. The errors below were the last errors that i received, but i don’t think they have anything to do with buddy press. Where should i go to get help with this?

I am running wordpress locally on a mamp server could that be the problem?

Regards
gary

30-Jun-2012 23:53:27 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:53:23 PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php on line 16

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.3/lib/php’) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5

30-Jun-2012 23:51:51 PHP Warning: require(/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/template-blog.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/Chimp_Word/wp-content/themes/Decor/page.php on line 5

Hi Jeroen,

we’ve built a lot of sites on BuddyPress – and forums are often a big issue for our clients.

Clients / users expect forums to behave like normal forums (as your users have already indicated as well). Unfortunately, the BuddyPress group forum approach just doesn’t work in this regard.

If forums are crucial to your site – then yes, install the bbPress plugin alongside BuddyPress, and work with the standalone forums it provides.

You’ll need to implement some logic to control accessibility / visibility to certain restricted forums – but that’s not difficult – you can either use the BuddyPress Groups to group your guild officers, and then use the BuddyPress API to test whether a member is in that group. Or, if you don’t require the other group functionality, you may be best to create a new user role with the standard WordPress API.

If you want to see a couple of examples of bbPress providing standalone forums on a BuddyPress site, you can check out our builds for http://worshipministry.com and http://enterprisenation.com

Hope that helps, Roger

ok. this is happening with buddypress as the sole plugin active. (Single site install bp default theme admin user, non admin user – the behavior is as described above)

opened a ticket https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4320