Questions tagged [buddypress]
Social networking in a box, BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress.
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How to get a buddypress user profile link and a certain user profile field for the current post author?
I want to replace get_author_link() and get_the_author_meta($feld)
with something equivalent to point to the author of the current post Buddypress user profile page and retrieve a specific profile ...
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Can't get a custom template taxonomy page to display
I've been trying to wade my way through learning the ins and outs of taxonomies and how to integrate them into themes and I've run into a pretty basic issue that I can't seem to figure out.
I started ...
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How to hide admin account in BuddyPress? (for security reasons)
I have been working with WordPress for the past 3-4 years, but I am new to BuddyPress.
I would like to hide the admin account completely from BuddyPress for security reasons. For example with a ...
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Building a Digg clone using WordPress?
I am thinking of building a site similar to Digg.com (the old version). I think the best way in my case is to make a custom post type for the links and then use a a plugin such as TDO Mini Forms or ...
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How can I create an auto-populated menu that is automatically assigned to a location?
I'm trying to add BuddyPress nav menu support to my theme and, unfortunately, BP's template tags still aren't fully up to snuff. (Basically, if you're not making an explicit child theme for the BP ...
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How to Control user registrations directly on sub-sites
Does anybody have Idea to enable a wordpress based multisite user to automatically get access to all sub-sites under same Multi site ?
If I have A Multi-site installation(Also Buddypress enabled) at ...
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How to Modify/Change a Buddypress/Wordpress Account Activation Process
I'm developing a custom BuddyPress/WordPress Plugin. Here's how a user would normally register.
A user registers as usual on registration page
His/Her account is deactivated till he/she clicks on ...
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Integrating Buddypress, Wootumblog and WPMU Sitewide tags
Judging by the lack of information when I perform a search, I may be one of the few people that has tried to get these plugins playing nicely together. When all is sorted and the site is live, I’ll ...
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How do I add a new string to a .po or .pot file?
I have a .pot file that came with my Wordpress theme. Now I want to add strings to it, that weren't there in the original theme. How do I do that?
Do I have to update the .pot file? but 1) How do I do ...
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BuddyPress: Allow only one email domain to register
In the BuddyPress, I want to allow register and log in using only one email domain. For instance, [email protected] restore all will be disallowed.
I have checked in the BuddyPress source and ...
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What methods should be used to fend off splogs in a multiuser install? [closed]
We're running 3.1.1 multi-user with the latest BuddyPress plugin, but we're having all sorts of issues with splog signups.
So far, we've started using Anti-Splog, Bad Behavior, ReCaptcha on the ...
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Ability to set character limit in BuddyPress?
I would like to limit characters in BuddyPress posts to certain limit . Ex: Set it to the limit of 150 ... just like twitter's 140.
Googled about it and found nothing. Does any one have Idea on this?
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Add BuddyPress Profile Menu Item [closed]
In BuddyPress, when a user clicks on their username, they are presented with a page that contains a menu:
Activity
Profile
Messages
Friends
Groups
Settings
How do I add an item to this menu?
How do ...
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How to override BuddyPress 3.0 bp-nouveau theme files?
The Buddypress 3.0 uses bp-nouveau template as default. How can I override the CSS and other template files in WordPress theme? Earlier it would be done by copying bp-legacy folder into the WordPress ...
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How to redirect after login, the working way?
I've tried everything: Peter's Login Redirect, Redirection, some unworking javascript hacks, routemap PHP Class (which is really impressive, but I'm not sure that's very useful in this case).
I'm ...
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How to enable truly anonymous posting in bbPress forums? [closed]
I have bbpress-post-topics plugin installed so that my comments forms are replaced by a bbpress forum topic, it's working but I would like to enable anonymous posting.
Currently, as you can see above,...
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BuddyPress: Adding a new tab in groups
I'm trying to add a new tab to my groups on BuddyPress. All the groups will have different content preferrably from the database.
How can I accomplish this?
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How to display random users with avatars
I adapted a little a function to display a number of random users with their avatars with a shortcode. It works, but something is not good. Sometimes it displays with one user less than I want (just a ...
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User logged-in from front end is logged out automatically accessing wp-admin
I have stuck in serious problem. I want to create a document and upload a word doc from front end after user login. Logged in user is admin. The plugin bp-doc uses WordPress default media uploader to ...
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How to override normal Wordpress search in Buddypress? [closed]
hi
i have wordpress and buddypress installed and i wanted to be able to search through forum posts, blog posts and other info all over the site.
i found Search Engine (Wordpress Plugin) and installed ...
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BuddyPress: hook to add new profile fields and groups
I am writing a plugin that adds additional profile group and some fields in it when activated. I am using basic $wpdb functions to insert new rows into bp_xprofile_groups and bp_xprofile_fields
So ...
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wp_editor on front end - JavaScripts not included
I am working on a BuddyPress plug-in for a client that requires users to be able to add content from the front end - they never see the back end for security reasons. I have the plug-in written and it ...
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Bulk Delete Users Error uri too large
I am trying to delete thousands of users at once. After seeing that I can only display up to 999 user records at once using the "Screen Options" menu I thought that might be ok. But upon clicking ...
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How to edit bbPress template files - WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress? [closed]
I am using BuddyPress 1.6.1, bbPress 2.1.2 and WordPress 3.4.2
I follow the guide here.
In the end, I did the trick pointed out by Sarah Gooding because mywebsite.com/forums was blank right after ...
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Automatically Creating Posts for Popular Forum Topics or Products [closed]
I am integrating a Wordpress template with Buddypress (with bbPress included).
I would like to automatically create a post for popular forum topics so that it will show in my main page. I am hoping ...
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Syncing BuddyPress and WordPress profile fields [closed]
BuddyPress and WordPress store profile information in 2 separate locations, and there's a process to sync profile data between the 2 tables. However, this is pretty much limited (from how I'm reading ...
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custom login page redirect to logged in user profile page
If I click on sign in then it should go to the login page.
The issue is that when I put the link then it goes to redirect_to home page, but I want to go on user profile page instead.
I don't want to ...
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BuddyPress: How to get info of users filtered by some x-profile data? [closed]
I want the list of users with their email IDs, filtered by some x-profile data.
For example, I want to send an email to users who have checked a checkbox on their profile.
How can I get the info of ...
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Buddypress Full documentation [closed]
I have searched alot for finding the list of Full documentation for buddypress Hooks (action, filtrs) and functions but not satisfied with that limited documentation provided by Buddypress.
Like if i ...
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Get user role by using user_id in buddypress
I need to classify the user according to their role, so I need to find the user role by using the user_id alone (not only for logged in users but for all the BP users).
Something like this $user_role=...
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What problems can BuddyPress make? [closed]
I took a brief look into Buddypress yesterday and was just overwhelmed by the massive amount of template files that got added (during installation) to my theme.
After looking over the template files, ...
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how to get current user name by user_id in buddypress?
I want to display the user names by the reference of user id.
Is there any function like get_user_displaynme($userid)?
(and one more Is there any shortcode to get group names?)
Thanks in Advance
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How to force buddypress users to complete profile after registration? [closed]
Seems logical for any other network, not for buddypress though :(
We all know the extended user profiles in buddypress - problem is, even though some fields are marked as required, that "required" ...
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What's the easiest way to change the default landing page for BuddyPress groups?
I'm looking to have the default view for Groups be the Forum component instead of the Activity component. What's the best/easiest way to alter the default landing component/page?
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Delete images uploaded by 'Subscriber' role
I've inherited a very poorly designed WordPress site that in part uses BuddyPress for a directory type section. Users are able to upload profile images and 'product' images to their profile.
As a ...
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BuddyPress | Check if user is in current group [closed]
I'm developing a plugin for a website, which uses the Group Extension API to create a new "subpage" in the group's page, just like Home, Members...
Here's the code:
class BP_Suggest extends ...
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How to override Member's Avatars in BuddyPress [closed]
I have tried everything to override the BP Avatar. Found about 5-6 different Google results that basically all point to the same solution:
function override_bp_member_avatar($url) {
return ...
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How to notify users of blog updates a la Admin Plugin Update notifications?
What I would like to do is mimic how Wordpress shows an administrator how many new updates there are for installed plugins (a tiny number displayed next to a link). The main difference is that I want ...
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BuddyPress: What's the use of wp_bp_xprofile_data table and how does it get updated? [closed]
I have a questions related to BuddyPress:
What's the use of wp_bp_xprofile_data table? How does the data in the table get updated?
And when any user updates his information - does the data in this ...
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Buddypress send email notification only if user is not logged in [closed]
When a member send a message to another member, the recipient receive a message in buddypress and also an email.
I want to change that because if you receive many messages, you have too much mail in ...
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Redirect after User Activation [closed]
I am using BuddyPress 2 registration and activation for three different sites with my own registration form.
To know where the user has registered, I add the user meta key registered_from at ...
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Creating new dynamic menu including BP links [closed]
Perhaps I have missed something fundamental, but I am attempting to include the various dynamic menu items included with BuddyPress and other add-ons to my primary drop-down menu.
For example, the ...
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Rename Buddypress Profile Tab
Without using a language file, which file would I go to if I wanted to rename profile tabs? For example, instead of the tab saying "Activity" I want it to say "My Activity". Instead of "Groups" I ...
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BP Multi Network & Members Directory [closed]
With bp-multi-network it appears members are shared across all networks.
Example - networks based on location.
newyork.mydomain.com, losangeles.mydomain.com, vancouver.mydomain.com
At present a ...
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Delete all user attachments
In buddypress when a user wants to delete their own account --> is possible to delete all their attachments entries and images uploaded using media?
Note:
Images are not attached to posts, because im ...
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Change management solution for BP-based site?
I administer a social networking site that runs on WP, BP, and WP Multisite. Currently I have two servers: development and production, but I plan to move to three: development, staging, and ...
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How to reply to Buddypress notifications? [closed]
Currently, when I receive notifications from Buddypress, I have to log in the site to post a comment on an event, or a reply to a message.
Is there a way to reply directly in the MUA ? My idea was to ...
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Posting Photos and Other Attachments in a BuddyPress Forum?
I recently built a WordPress site based and am using BuddyPress for some interactive community functionality. Members are using the forums built into BuddyPress, but are looking for a way to attach ...
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How to update BuddyPress xprofile fields programmatically? [closed]
I update user info using wp_update_user function. I also need to update the table wp_bp_xprofile_data. Is there any function, where I can update data on wp_bp_xprofile_data table?
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How to delete user roles?
I installed BuddyPress which created additional user roles but even after deleting BuddyPress those roles are still there. How can I delete these roles? I have tried the remove_role() command but it ...