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Exclude Users from Members directory on a BuddyPress based social network

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on January 29, 2012

Hi All, I hope you all are busy building the next awesome social network. It has been a long time since I wrote my last post. I was busy setting up an office here in Mohali,Punjab. Everything is setup now, and I am almost back to regular work. Today, we will see how to exclude …

BuddyPress Global/Sitewide Unified search update for BuddyPress 1.5+

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on December 5, 2011

It’s a delayed post and I will like to express my sincere apologies to everyone whom I could not reply individually about the Unified Search. Here I am going to put everything you ever asked about unified search in this post. For those of you who haven’t seen my last post please check the original post here. …

Facebook Style Activity Commenting with BuddyPress

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on September 29, 2011
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How many of you use facebook for connecting with Friends and family, I believe almost all Today, I am going to show how to make the BuddyPress Activity Stream activity commenting look/work like facebook activity commenting. I will be doing it by using bp-default theme as an example. you can easily modify it for other …

Disable Auto Group joining In BuddyPress

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on July 14, 2011

This is a small tip to help you disable auto group joining for BuddyPress public groups. Yes, It will allow your users to post to public group forums without joining the group. If you are using BuddyPress 1.2.9, you can put this line in bp-custom.php define(‘BP_DISABLE_AUTO_GROUP_JOIN’,true); Isn’t it easy and cool. Oh yes, and if …

WordPress Multisite 3.1 and fixing the problems with BuddyPress dependent plugins

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on March 16, 2011

Since the release of WordPress 3.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.8, I have seen a lot of complaints that the plugin menu is not appearing or the plugin is not saving data or so and so. So, I decided to write this post which could help plugin developers and if the developer is not updating the plugin, …

Disable Blog Posts and new Blog Comments recording/tracking In the activity by BuddyPress

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on February 1, 2011

Thanks to @Frank for asking the question. If you are using BuddyPress with WordPress single user(Not wordpress multisite), there are no question to disable new Blog post recording/ new Blog Comments recording. In case of Multisite, you can disable it from from Component setup->Blog Tracking. So, Here are the two ways, you can use to …

Creating The sitewide global/unified search Page for your Buddypress Theme

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Tricks on April 28, 2010

Update:- 20th July 2010: Just checked the file with bp-default and forund the bug as mentioned in the comments, the invisible sidebar issue. I have updated the tutorial and the attached file. Now it will have no issues like invisible sidebar. There was a wrong placement of div causing issue. As I promised a few …

Playing With buddypress and WordPress, some codes for the site admins

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Free Plugins, Buddypress Tricks, Plugins on February 22, 2010

Today, I am going to share 2 quick tips with you for enhancing your wordpress/Buddypress Site. As a site admin, when I have Buddypress active, I don’t want my users to visit their wordpress profile , .e. wp-admin/profile.php, so the first tip will allow you to redirect users to their buddypress profile when they will …

Stealth Mode for Buddypress Site Admin Plugin

Jotted by Brajesh Singh in Buddypress, Buddypress Premium Plugins, Buddypress Tricks, Plugins, premium on December 26, 2009

Well, thanks goes to mercime for the idea of this plugin. As he suggested to create something which will allow site admins to anonymously do updates/testing on site without appearing in the recent online members list/ who is online members list. Checkout the suggestion of mercime here http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/stealth-mode-for-site-admins So, I came up with this plugin, …

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