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Redirect Author Archive Page to BuddyPress User Profile

Brajesh Singh on June 7, 2016 in 4 Comments

If you have enabled BuddyPress and want to redirect to user's profile when someone tries to access the author archive page, you can use the following code. function buddydev_author_redirect_to_profile() { if ( is_author() && function_exists( 'bp_core_redirect' ) ) { $author_id = get_queried_object_id(); bp_core_redirect( bp_core_get_user_domain( $author_id ) ); } } add_action( 'template_redirect', 'buddydev_author_redirect_to_profile' ); Isn't that …

Definitive Guide to BuddyPress Avatars

Brajesh Singh on June 1, 2016 in Comments Off on Definitive Guide to BuddyPress Avatars

This is your ultimate guide for anything you ever wanted to know about BuddyPress Avatars. What is an avatar? As per Oxford dictionary, The avatar is an icon or figure representing a particular person in a computer game, Internet forum, etc. In case of BuddyPress, Avatars are used for user profile display photo as well as for group …

Using WordPress Page Titles for BuddyPress Directory Page heading & Titles

Brajesh Singh on May 28, 2016 in 4 Comments

If you are using BuddyPress, you might have already noticed it. The directory titles are hard coded and can not be changed by just changing the page title. You can still change it by translating the languages file. While Building our upcoming BuddyPress theme, Community Builder, I wanted the site admins to have more freedom. …

Changing Default Subnav for a BuddyPress Component

Brajesh Singh on May 26, 2016 in 6 Comments

When you click on a component on the BuddyPress User profile, the default subnav is the screen that will get rendered. Default subnav is registered when a component is registered with BuddyPress. BuddyPress does allows us changing it using the bp_core_new_nav_default function. It has following signature. * @param array|string $args { * @type string $parent_slug …

Changing Default View for BuddyPress User Profile Based on Context

Brajesh Singh on May 24, 2016 in 2 Comments

In BuddyPress, If you visit a user's profile, you will most probably land on their activity page. The page that you see after clicking on a user's profile is called default component. By default, 'activity' is set as the default component. You can change the default component to any active component by putting the following …

Important Upcoming Changes on BuddyDev

Brajesh Singh on May 23, 2016 in News 2 Comments

Did you notice the recent changes on BuddyDev? I have been working with my team to improve the experience and make BuddyDev more useful for the BuddyPress & WordPress community. We have created a plan for future and you will find BuddyDev far more useful in future. We will be concentrating on BuddyPress even more with …

Disallowing Activity recording for components or some activity types in BuddyPress

Brajesh Singh on April 11, 2016 in 4 Comments

In BuddyPress, we have an action hook "bp_activity_before_save" that allows us to work with the activity object before it is saved in the database. The good thing is, After this hook is fired, BuddyPress checks for the component and type, and if any of these two is not set, BuddyPress will not record activity. How …

MediaPress 1.0.4 available now

Brajesh Singh on March 17, 2016 in MediaPress Development Comments Off on MediaPress 1.0.4 available now

MediaPress 1.0.4 contains numerous enhancements and fixes. The following section lists the improvements:- Lightbox JavaScript API. Now developers can leverage our lightbox JavaScript API to open media or list of media or gallery in lightbox Enabling lightbox for media list shortcode using lightbox=1 in the shortcode Enabling lightbox when clicking on single photo in the …

Listing User Groups for BuddyPress with the BuddyPress Extended User Groups Widget

Brajesh Singh on March 15, 2016 in Comments Off on Listing User Groups for BuddyPress with the BuddyPress Extended User Groups Widget

BuddyPress Extended User Groups plugin allows you to list the groups of a user on BuddyPress site with ease. We (Specially, Ravi), developed it on the suggestion on our forum. This plugin allows you to:- List groups of which the logged in user is member Or list groups of which the current user is admin …

MediaPress 1.0.3

Brajesh Singh on February 28, 2016 in MediaPress Development Comments Off on MediaPress 1.0.3

We just released MediaPress 1.0.3. If you haven't yet downloaded it, please visit WordPress.org to download it. 1.0.3 is a maintenance release. It fixes a few small issues and enhances MediaPress for better usability. Some notable changes include:- Fixed avatar in lightbox Fixed the no. of images shown in a lightbox. It is not dependent …

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