Yesterday, one of our members( Joshua ) asked me how to restrict users from creating topic in specific bbPress based forum but allow users to reply them to the topic. I looked at the filters and put some code that does it. I am sharing it here hoping that some of you might find it useful. …
If you have WordPress adminbar enabled, with BuddyPress, you get a nice dropdown menu for the current logged in user. The problem with that menu is all the 3 links as shown in the image below, points to edit profile page. Hans asked me on our forum on how to improve it. Here is our …
I created this small plugin on the request of one of our members. The plugin allows site admins to link a page to BuddyPress Group. It simply shows the page in the navigation menu of the group Once the user clicks the link, he/she gets redirected to the regular pages. Here are a few screenshots …
It is a little bit delayed but I wanted you all to relax after the holidays before taking on the new adventures. The new year is here and I wanted to thank you all for supporting our efforts for all these years. You are a great community filled with awesome people and we hope to …
With the recent updates in BuddyBlog & BuddyPress Simple Front End Post plugin, The front end blogging with BuddyPress is fun. If you want to allow your users to contribute and post from front end, the new updates make it a pleasant eperience. Before getting in details, here are a few screenshots to show it …
Thanks to the efforts of Andrea( She deserves it all ), The BuddyPress XProfile Member Type field is now compatible with BP Profile Search plugin. In other Words, If you are using BP Profile Search plugin and BP Xprofile Member Type Filed plugin, You can allow user filtering by member types on the BuddyPress member directory. …
By default, The BuddyPress mention autosuggestion only works on activity component, single post(comment) and group activity page. If you have created a custom activity page or using a shortcode plugin like BuddyPress Activity Shortcode, the autosuggestion may not work for mentions. The reason is, BuddyPress does not load the mentions javascript file everywhere( That is …
Yesterday, One of our members A. Zidi, asked me how to filter user searches by roles when using BP Profile Search plugin by Andrea. A few months ago, Andrea helped me in integrating one of our plugins to BP Profile Search( Thank you Andrea ). In order to allow searching by Roles, I just followed along …
By default, the site wide activity stream on a BuddyPress site contains all the updates/activities from the whole site. If your site is aimed at being more social type, you may want to make this page list friends only activity, to provide a more personalized feeling. It was asked on our Forum by Israel, and here …
This post is aimed at theme developers. BuddyPress 2.4 introduces cover images for profile and groups. Though it is a great feature, if your theme has custom templates for BuddyPress, you will need to make the changes as per this codex article on BuddyPress Cover Image. If you are like me and believe that it is …