BuddyPress 4.0 was released a few days ago and today we are going to review what is new in BuddyPress 4.0. In short, this release focuses on compliance with EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and improving BP Nouveau(anyone using it must know the pain it caused in 3.x release). Let us take a detailed look …
Making your BuddyPress user profiles friends only is easy. I have seen a lot of people asking about it and today, we will see how to do it. Our goal is to restrict access to user profiles to everyone except:- Self:- The user themselves should be allowed to access their profile. Site Admins:- There should …
Recently, I was asked about using BuddyPress Member Types as profile field visibility level. It seemed like a good question to me and I am going to share the code to make it work. Before we start, The goal of visibility is to set the visibility of the profile field data for other users not …
BuddyPress allows your users to use "jpeg", "gif", "png" file types for avatars and cover images. If you need to restrict or change the allowed file types, there exists a filter "bp_attachments_get_allowed_types" that allows us to do it. Let us see some examples on how to restrict the allowed file types for avatars as well as …
If you are using BuddyPress User Profile Tabs Creator Pro, It allows you to create unlimited profile tabs/sub tabs for a BuddyPress user. It works well for most of the cases. You can create any type of content, use shortcodes and do a lot of things. There is one case that our members have been …
If you are using BuddyPress Featured Members plugin and need to expire/remove the users based on time, This post might help you. One of our Members(Thank you Herve), asked about it in our forums a few week ago. @ravisharma put a tiny plugin to do it. The plugin is available from github. Link:- https://github.com/buddydev/bp-featured-member-expirable-membership By default, It …
The world of WordPress is filled with too many addons for Mailchimp. For us, The problem was most of them had too many things that we did not need. All we needed was a very simple, mailchimp subscription form with slide in/slideout box. After spending 1-1.5 hours on testing the existing plugins, we decided it …
BuddyCircles:- The BuddyPress User Circles plugin enables users on BuddyPress sites to create lists of users. These lists are termed as circles of users. A user can create one or more circles(or lists). If you are a site admin who needs to allow users to create lists of other users, BuddyCircles will help you. Features:- …
Today, we are releasing MediaPress 1.4.0 with the support for adding remote media. MediaPress – Your preferred BuddyPress Media and gallery solution has got the new wings now. The new version allows now to add videos from YouTube/Facebook etc. to your BuddyPress Activity and BuddyPress User/Group galleries. It also allows you to add media using …
Yesterday, while looking at one of my site's generated source, I found this string This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v7.5.1 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ That was very interesting as I do not remember allowing any plugin to add a love letter to my html source. I thought WordPress.org hosted plugins had no source …