I’m looking to create a site where members are able to post articles, and edit their own profiles.
The problem is that some of them are not very web savvy, so we would like to have the profile information, and posting in the same area, ideally, the Dashboard.
The way it is by default, the Dashboard shows the posts, and profile, but the WordPress profile. Is there a way to show the BuddyPress profile instead?
Thanks
I would like to add an author’s Biographical Info to the Buddypress profile page.
I would like to add the info to the child-theme/members/single/member-header.php file (at least that is where I think it should be).
So far all I tried did not work …
I use the Suffusion theme that includes a BuddyPress pack.
I found some code here which I can add to that page that returns the “description” for a nominated user, but I need to amend the code so it automatically returns the “description” for the particular member.
The first line of that code is
`$user_id = 9;`
but I need the $user_id to refer to the relevant member of the profile page.
Somehow the member-header.php file knows which member’s details to display, but I have no idea how to do the same.
Here is one of my member profile pages where I’d like to add the “description” field:
http://wizztravel.com/list/bookhinterland/
i think “damage” is the wrong way to put it. the extraneous roles attached to your existing sites are meaningless and should be ignored in any case. you may be able to reset the old roles by running the built in bbpress repair scripts or alternatively you can install this plugin i use:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-role-editor/
which also has the ability to sort of reset all users to their default roles and capabilities.
It’s worth noting that in the past, BuddyPress created bbPress 1.1’s roles in the same global namespace as WordPress’s blog roles. This is suboptimal, as it requires a user to be EITHER an Author, or a Moderator, or an Editor, or a Member.
Most people will want an Editor to ALSO be a Moderator, or an Admin to ALSO be a Key Master.
bbPress 2.2 and beyond allow for a user to have multiple roles on sites (in a network) that have bbPress active on them. On other sites without bbPress active, users still have regular old roles.
Thanks for all the input. BUT I am seriously and urgently looking for a media (only photo will do) plug in – paid or free – that will allow just 3 things without any hitch or bump for BUDDYPRESS 1.7 beta :
- ability to create album and upload photo with chosen privacy
- ability to directly mark or tag on photo</li
- comment to a photo from both activity stream and on the page itself`
BP Album is broken with BP 1.7
BP Media photo commenting from activity stream is buggy+ it has no photo marking
BuddyPics keeps on giving error message : Warning: Division by zero in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\BuddyPics-master\includes\bpa.template.tags.php on line 84 etc and does not actually upload a photo (fresh install of latest WP, BP 1.7, no other plugin)
BP Gallery – does it work ok with BP 1.7? Does it allow photo marking? Please answer if you know, also a link to a demo site with BP gallery + photo marking + BP 1.7 beta will be really really helpful.
@hnla On second thought never mind, you can close this topic. I guess I just wish the admin in dashboard/appearance/menus was a little different, like I said its more of a WordPress thing than a BP thing. The part on the left says “Theme Locations” I think it would be more appropriate and less confusing if it said “Select Theme Menus” I know how to create custom menus but I have noticed that some new users get confused and I think the reason is because “Theme Locations” should be renamed to “Select Theme Menus” Anyway sorry for babbling about something that is probably not even relevant to this forum. Apologies!
Thanks Hugo. I’ve reinstalled everything and found the installation wizard and it all seems to be working now:). . just figuring out how to set up eerything. thanks so much for your help and pointing me in the right direction!:)
More importantly than being able to see the plugin listed is whether BP is running correctly?
The plugin – activated as ‘network’ – is listed in plugins list on the network admin dashboard.
Hi Thanks Hugo,
i’ve set up a brand new separate installation on a test site.
installed wordpress MU 3.5.1
installed buddypress 1.6.4 from the plubin menu
network activiated
ran through setup wizard
activated the buddypress theme
Went into the dashboard of the site
Buddypress theme present
but no evidence of buddypress plugin in plug ins in plug in area?
Any ideas?
many thanks
pardon me for chiming in here but if i might i think mercime is trying to say that the roles you are referring to as “missing” should not be available on sub-sites since they are buddypress roles and should only ever apply to the primary blog. the list of roles you provided for the sub-site is the normal list of wordpress roles and is what you should be seeing.
THanks for your suggestion. . when you say default theme, do you mean to download a specific buddypress theme? .
Thank you mercime. Have now got it to the point where someone can register and activate their account – but once they are logged in – how do they add a post – all it does at the moment is give them access to the wordpress admin area with three tabs -Dashboard, Profile and Jetpack but no where to post?
Any ideas?
Thank You
Hi,
I’m using Version 1.7-beta1 and wish to restrict access to the buddypress areas of a wordpress site to logged-in users.
I’ve seen code to do this and tried placing it in bp-custom.php but have had no luck. Does anyone have any code that works with 1.7. I don’t need anything fancy, just redirect to register/login page if anyone tries to access buddypress pages.
many thanks
@discdemo please don’t bump if less than a day as we’re all volunteers here living in different time zones. That said, I’ve checked out the site and the sidebar width is 224px less 40px padding = 184px space for the image. The ad you have there is 203px wide, hence the image was cut off.
About the available themes: if you upgrade to BP 1.7 beta 1 download at https://buddypress.org/2013/02/buddypress-1-7-beta-1/ you can use any WordPress theme which does not override core templating system and you’re good to go. Caveat is that only a few BP plugins have been upgraded for BP 1.7 beta 1 compatibility.
You will have to create a custom menu.
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/how-to-set-up-your-main-site-navigation-using-the-built-in-wordpress-menus/
Then check the box beside register then add to menu. Save and refresh your front end to see the new menu with the register page.
Hi @jcangler,
you have to activate BP only once, on the main site.
The main site is the WP declared as network. In the network admin you install BP as plugin. And BP would only be managable from within the network admin. And that’s right so !
Now this site is network enabled and is using BP. If you want install other blogs, do so from your network admin. Those blogs are all included into BP activities. There is no need to install BP on each secondary blog. This cannot work.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs
https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
This drove me a bit nuts. I figured out how to do it though and it’s very easy.
With buddypress installed it takes over the registration entirely and ads this activation email which is outside the normal header load so it;s outside of the functions.php call include.
The way I got it to work was by adding a call to the welcome email action after the do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ ); in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/activation.php file.
Near the end of the file you see this.
do_action( ‘bp_after_activation_page’ );
Add the following
do_action( ‘welcome_email’ );
Now this may work because I am using a plugin to modify the welcome email to begin with. I am using SB Welcome Email Editor
As for why someone would need to send the user their id and password. I needed this because people can sign up using a name with spaces but the id is created with a dash in place of spaces so they may never know their id isn’t what they saved it as. I also added a condition on the id entry to force them to not use spaces but I like to cover all bases and let them know what they signed up with.
Hope this helps.
Hi, 🙂
updated buddypress to 1.6.4 on a wordpress 3.5.1
In buddypress.org website, there is “Favorite topics” and “subscribed topics”. I don’t have them on my installation. note that I’m using the old buddybar, but that’s not the problem, because even the link to the favorite/subscribed topics on my website shows me a 404 page.
I wanted to have these functions. I searched but didn’t find anything relevant.
Thank you in advance 🙂
Hi
I have 3 questions that are related:
1. Is it possible to get two different roles to have two different types of user with different profiles?
I want have two different roles (e.g. company and person) with different profile content.
E.g. the user Company should have different profile fields than the user Person.
The user Person should have for example a field for birthday but the company not because it doesn’t make sense.
Is that possible?
2. Another thing what would be great is to have a group in the profile for picture upload of recent work of the Person.The Company shouldn’t have that. Would that be possible too?
3. Can the different User (Company and Person) get a different theme? Is it possible with “Theme my login”-plugin or is there something else?
Thanks a lot
My versions:
Wordpress 3.5.1
Buddypress 1.6.4
So I’m trying to enable multiblog on my multisite network so all sites can access BP content, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Here’s what I’ve done:
– using WordPress 3.5.1. and Buddypress 1.6.4
– I defined BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG as true in wp-config
– network activated buddypress in the network admin
– activated buddypress in the single site’s admin
After activating buddypress in the site admin, the buddypress panel doesn’t show up in the settings tab in the dashboard. It is only accessible through the network admin.
Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks in advance for your help.
I’m not sure that I’ve seen a huge amount of demand for event plugins specifically for BP in my experience. I hear more about media galleries, but again, it’s infrequent. It took a long time for WordPress itself to get a better media upload/interface. There’s no technical reason why a simple plugin couldn’t be built to use that.
The scope of the problem (“what is a media gallery”) is pretty huge, and means different things to different people, and I bet that any new plugin that picked a focused implementation which isn’t going to be ideal for everyone.
I use this on my site to show a different single.php. I have a folder mobile in my theme folder with my mobile templates. I copied single.php, removed the get_sidebar and then added css when on mobile to style it better. This code works in functions.php.
`function mobile_filter_wp_template( $template ) {
$overridden_template = dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/mobile/mobile-single.php’ ;
if ( is_single() && wp_is_mobile() ) {
return load_template( $overridden_template );
} else {
return $template;
}
}
add_filter( ‘template_include’, ‘mobile_filter_wp_template’, 10, 2 );`
`function mobile_style() {
if ( is_single() && wp_is_mobile() ) {
echo ”
<style>
body {
width: 100%;
}
</style>”;
}
}
add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘mobile_style’);`
Use WP is_page to set conditions to specific pages https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_page
You should set up WP fully first checking all aspects of a standard WP install work correctly, when that checks out proceed to activating BP and doing so with the default theme initially to establish BP is set up correctly and working fully only them move on to activating a third party theme.
