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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/