Hello everybody!
Im developing site for my internetradio and i found that Buddypress really kicks’ ass for creating community based website for our DJ’s.
Now i tried to programm plugin witch will get name of the Dj on air from shoutcast and then shows DJ’s avatar and name at my site. Could some one help me developing this kind of script, because im totally newbie with PHP and MySql 
Now im just fetching currently playing song from my shoutcast server with file_get_contents function in php, but how i create application wich compares buddypress profile names from database to that string and outputs that to wordpress / buddypress?
Im sure that this kind of plugin will need someone else too 
If there is some kind of PHP nerd around there who can help me, i am willing to make donation via paypal
Regarding the WP_DEBUG errors. Have you recently upgraded to BuddyPress 1.6+? There was a schema change, and we added the is_spam column in the wp_bp_activity table, and your error message says that it doesn’t exist.
Can you look inside your WordPress admin area, and check that you’ve not got some pending update action? https://i.imgur.com/MseHC.png
In your WordPress admin area, there’s a “Activity” item in the main menu list. On this page, there’s a button to filter to view only spam posts, and if any have been marked as akismet, there’s a little label nearby that says “marked as spam by akismet” etc.
huh, i just tried the “private buddypress” plugin — using the latest WP BP for nov 2 2012 (plz lookup the versions if you need to), and the plugin works just fine.
i am quite grateful to the creator of the private buddypress plugin. it does everything i need it to do.
life’s hard enough as it is — when you catch a “break” like this with code that works as promised without hassles and even without payment — you just really have to say thanks.
thanks to dennis at: https://profiles.wordpress.org/GIGALinux/ seriously — thanks!
@mercime, thank you for your response. We were getting ready to try your suggestion when this happened:
As you know, the registration emails going out from our site were working but then weren’t working. See previous email. Since then, we went into something we never before went into: Membership, Communications and created a test Welcome message. We registered as a new user and wouldn’t you know we received the registration activation email as that new user, the test Welcome message for the new user and the admin new user notification email. Then we deactivated the test Welcome message and went through the process again. It worked! We received two emails now (just like before the mysterious site-rendered email disappearance); the registration activation email as that new user and the admin new user notification email. We then completely deleted the test Welcome message so that the Membership, Communications was the same as before we started and again, we received the same two emails. Whatever did we reactivate?
So, for whatever reason, the emails seem to be working again. However, this is a huge concern to us. This could happen again and we would have no idea why the emails stopped working and why it suddenly reset itself. We have repeatedly read in our research of this matter that WordPress uses PHPMail Sendmail. It has been mentioned more than once that making the emails go SMTP is better and more stable. We are of the belief that this may be the core issue here. Can anyone give input on this and guide us in the right direction? Is there anyone out there that can explain to us what may have happened and is there something we need to hard code so that it doesn’t happen again?
Many thanks for your help and advice.
@megainfo @djpaul i can’t post updates to groups *or* my profile.
this is what i get with debug on (mind you no errors in chrome dev tools)
`WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘a.is_spam’ in ‘where clause’]
SELECT a.*, u.user_email, u.user_nicename, u.user_login, u.display_name FROM wp_bp_activity a LEFT JOIN wp_users u ON a.user_id = u.ID WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.user_id IN ( 25 ) ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC LIMIT 0, 20
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘a.is_spam’ in ‘where clause’]
SELECT count(a.id) FROM wp_bp_activity a USE INDEX (user_id) WHERE a.is_spam = 0 AND a.user_id IN ( 25 ) ORDER BY a.date_recorded DESC
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘is_spam’ in ‘field list’]
INSERT INTO wp_bp_activity ( user_id, component, type, action, content, primary_link, date_recorded, item_id, secondary_item_id, hide_sitewide, is_spam ) VALUES ( 25, ‘activity’, ‘activity_update’, ‘wec posted an update’, ‘ajax 2’, ‘http://tier1alumni.com/members/wec/’, ‘2012-11-02 00:53:15’, ”, ”, 0, 0 )
-1
`
People will chime in but anything recommended by WordPress should be good. Just remember BuddyPress has more overhead in displaying content and will use more resources.
https://wordpress.org/hosting
@ A Swede in Greece
You could try this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
But you’ll want the beta version as it fixes an issue with BuddyPress
http://www.blogseye.com/beta-test-plugins/
Also, you should look into installing ZBBlock.
http://www.spambotsecurity.com/zbblock.php
== I successfully set up Multisite with my Buddypress site and everything looked like it was working well until any members tried to create a new site. ==
Deactivate BuddyPress and make sure that you can create subdomain/subdirectory sites without any issues. If there is, please resolve multisite issue first before activating BP again – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
If you can create subsites in your WP install, then activate BuddyPress plugin only, go through the BP Installation Wizard — make sure you choose pretty permalink and choose for BP-default theme. Then create a blog/subsite and check if subsite is working.
@famous BP 1.7 is not due anytime soon. There’s just still so much more to be done and everything should be settled and tested before any documentation is finalized/released. So if you’re going to launch this month or early next month, recommend either create bp-default child theme OR use WP theme with BP Template Pack plugin OR use BP-ready WordPress theme.
The most basic rendition of BP components will just be like how the bbPress plugin forums are rendered with very minimal effort on your part and you can add customizations via shortcodes, style.css or functions.php files. That’s all there is to it. The trac ticket seeks to provide options for developers to customize the structure of each BP component page further, among other things.
I understand that @r-a-y @hnla @mercime and @djpaul are working on a 1.7 theming solution. However, if you could explain your thoughts on how this will unfold that would be great. I have viewed your trac ticket and do not seem to be grasping the idea.
As a user of BP & WP, I would think that many other users would like to take variables such as, “ and plugin them in to whatever template chosen. The expectation is that, this is the way 1.7 will work? I know that there was a discussion about the look of the theme for 1.7, however for those of us who don’t want a pre-packaged look, how will 1.7 address these users.
Wordpress addresses this by using includes for headers, sidebars & footers – can BP apply this to activity streams, profiles, groups, friends, etc…?
Defined Classes and IDs for all elements would help designers/developers to create their own personalities on the web & should be sufficient in the way WP themes and variables work.
At this point BP seems like it would be in a mature enough part of its lifecycle to accommodate WP usability.
If someone has time to address this, it would help. If you could please define the expectations of 1.7’s theming capabilities it would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have recently started working with wordpress and now I would like to add buddypress to my website. I have installed the theme package and got stuck with adjusting the html codes. I have tried to make some changes following the instructions, however it still not working correctly.
It is allmost there, however the sidebare and the content of the forum are still overlaping.
Can anyone help me resolve this last step so I am able to run the forum on the website! Thanks in advanced. I have copied the codes of the page by pastebin.com
index.php http://pastebin.com/xYiQ1PJF
page.php http://pastebin.com/PrCyPU8p
activiy/index.php http://pastebin.com/jGrSehVj
header.php http://pastebin.com/6zDPqHpK
sidebar.php http://pastebin.com/MfzDKhAX
footer.php http://pastebin.com/xhgcG009
content.php http://pastebin.com/s6fwivdQ
Thanks!
Pieter
the website is http://www.debroekriem.nl
Has this changed at all since you last posted?
I had the same question and got here.
I am new to BuddyPress. It seems ridiculous that a site admin couldn’t alter profile details of a user on his site.
In my case, I want to pre-populate a site with an set of guaranteed users whose info I want to enter for them.
Surely, if BuddyPress was just a part of WordPress alongside it, all BuddyPress user profile info should be accessible and editable under WordPress user profile admin, not just the core WordPress fields?
You definitely need an Akismet API key; for most people, these are free, so there shouldn’t be any problems. Your WordPress install probably already has the Akismet plugin installed, but you can install it from the Plugins Directory if it’s missing.
You can change text strings like “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” in core by adding filters in your theme’s functions.php file
– http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2010/01/02/mangling-strings-for-fun-and-profit/
or this one which is the same but implemented differently
– http://www.viper007bond.com/2011/07/13/changing-core-wordpress-strings/
Hi again,
I am almost ready to go ahead with the buddypress multi-network project as mentioned above.
I need some recommendations for:
* selecting a host
* what themes are great (paid or free etc) for the buddypress multi-network project
Also some tips on starting such as:
* install wordpress
* now enable multi-site
* now install buddypress
* now install multi-network plugin etc etc.
I don’t know if the above order is even correct so looking for some help on how to do it.
Thank you for your help.
There is a dropdown menu in the members page and I want to add the friends filter into it. Can someone give me an idea on how to do this? I’m no PHP expert but I know it will involve some ajax.
Wordpress 3.4.2
Buddypress 1.6
@snowlas – Sorry! I didn’t test that snippet.
I just tested this and it will work:
`
/**
* Removes BP’s redirect from the regular WP registration page.
*/
function my_remove_bp_register_redirect() {
remove_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘bp_core_wpsignup_redirect’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_loaded’, ‘my_remove_bp_register_redirect’ );
`
Snippet belongs in `/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php`.
This will work I think for the time being. I need to test a couple other things to work with my other plugins.
Something you should know, the code you gave me works. But I’m not sure it’s talking to the field names, because it doesn’t publicly display any fields now. Even ones that I have not named in the code, like names and the show people work on in my media center. Not a big deal for me, but might be a big deal for someone else. Maybe this will be fixed in the code in 1.7.
Thanks.
I took a look at bbPress last night to see what it was doing differently.
Note: this is becoming more into a dev discussion than anything so bear with me!
bbPress does things differently in `bbp_template_include_theme_supports()` compared to BP in `bp_template_include_theme_supports()`.
bbPress:
`https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.1.2/bbp-includes/bbp-template-loader.php#L13`
BuddyPress (trunk):
`https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/bp-core/bp-core-template-loader.php#L236`
We could probably mirror the same changes as bbPress by adding the page conditionals in `bp_template_include_theme_supports()` like bbPress does.
What do you think, @djpaul @johnjamesjacoby ?
Update: Just read through the dev chat and it looks like Paul is already working on something!
I’m trying to change the content of the standard message sent by BP when a user registers.
Since the site search is not working properly and I have searched in vain for an answer I’m gonna post the question here.
I have started with this code added to my functions.php of my theme.
function fix_bp_activation_message($message) {
CONTENT
}
add_filter(‘bp_core_activation_signup_user_notification_message’, ‘fix_bp_activation_message’);
What do I place in the CONTENT if I need to place the username, password and a different welcome message along with the activation link for the BP account?
For example I want it to look something like:
Username: USERNAME
Password: PASSWORD
Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of your account please click the following link:
THE BUDDYPRESS ACTIVATION LINK
Wordpress 3.4.2
Buddypress 1.6
