A few days ago, we discussed about having better member type directory title. Today, let us see the same for the group types directory title. In this post, we will see how to improve the directory title for the group types directory:- Problem:- By default, BuddyPress does not update the directory title to reflect current …
Are you using BuddyPress member types on your site? If yes, you might have noticed the issue with member type directory title. In our forum, one of our members asked about it. Since I thought It may benefit more people, here is the code with an example. Screenshot:- Member type directory title default Note the …
Are you using friends_check_friendship() function in your code to test the user friendship relationships. If yes, this post may help you. A slight change in the order of the passed arguments can help us cut down the queries from O(n) to O(1). Let us see it with an example. Say you have the code in your …
If you are looking to add new members to one or more BuddyPress groups automatically, this post will help you. You can use the following code and put it in your bp-custom.php /** * Add the new user to one or more BuddyPress groups on account activation * * @param int $user_id new user id. …
If you are looking to find out the group Id for your BuddyPress group, this tutorial will make it easy. When you add the following code to your bp-custom.php, You can see the BuddyPress group id by hovering over the group in the Dashboard groups list. /** * Display the ID of the BuddyPress group …
Do you want to disable some of the BuddyPress components based on user role or some other conditions? if you do, BuddyPress provides us with a filter hook “bp_is_active” that you can use to conditionally disable the components. It is not even necessary to filter based on role, you can filter based on anything you …
If you are interested in changing the default landing tab( activity listing type ) for BuddyPress Activity directory, then you can do it easily. We are going to see it with an example where we will change the default landing tab from “All Members” activity to “My friends” activity. All you need to do is put …
If you want to disable oEmbed(e.g youtube videos, vimeo videos etc embedding) support in BuddyPress activity, you can simply put the following code in your bp-custom.php and it will do that. add_filter( ‘bp_use_oembed_in_activity’, ‘__return_false’ ); Yup! That’s all you need to disable oEmbed support in the BuddyPress activity. Bonus:- Disable clickable links in activity. Don’t want …
One of our members asked me recently about this. They wanted to know if it was feasible to set different default BuddyPress profile cover image based on WordPress user roles. If you are looking for the same, you can do it easily with the following code /** * Set different default background images based on user …
Assume that you are running a BuddyPress site and you have multiple profile field groups. Now, if you don’t want some of the field groups to be visible to certain users, you can do that by filtering on ‘bp_after_has_profile_parse_args‘ and passing the field groups as the ‘exclude_groups’ parameter. Here is an example where only the …