Thanks for your interest, Robert. We’re close to announcing something official with appropriate documentation, so stay tuned.

Hi Ray,

I see that you have the CBOX-OL version up to 1.10-beta1. Looks like great progress! Is there anywhere I could read more about the new functionality that CBOX-OL will add?

Thanks!

Hi Michelle,

My guess is that there is some custom code that is preventing blog posts from the mentors site from being recorded into the activity stream.

It’s hard to tell without looking into your site. Ask your developer to check their code for any snippets that is interacting with the BuddyPress activity component. Common places for code…[Read more]

Hey Ray,

The following item is selected: Allow search engines to index this site

Thanks!

Hi Michelle,

In the mentors WP admin dashboard, can you go to the “Settings > Reading” page and tell me what is selected under the “Search Engine Visibility” setting?

That component is activated, but I’m not sure when it was turned on exactly. I tried resaving Alexis’ post, but it still does not appear. I also tried creating a new post with a test account: https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors/2018/08/23/test-blog-post-activity/

And this post doesn’t appear in the activity list…[Read more]

Hi Michelle,

If you recently turned on the BuddyPress Site Tracking component under “Network Admin > Settings > BuddyPress > Components”, then that only records activity for new blog posts into the activity stream. Unfortunately, this does not backfill older blog posts into the activity stream at the moment.

You can try resaving Alexis’s post…[Read more]

Thanks for catching that bug!

That’s exactly the type of activity I was referencing. It looks like it is working for some users but not for others. Lauren’s account looks correct, but when I look at for example the account of Alexis: https://futuresinitiative.org/members/alexispaulin/

I see no activity, but she has posted on the mentors…[Read more]

Hi Michelle,

Can you elaborate on the type of missing activity that should be visible on member profile pages? Are you talking about blog posts or something else?

On the mentors site, I took a look at the latest post from one of the members:
https://futuresinitiative.org/mentors/author/lmelendez/

And the post is populated in their BuddyPress…[Read more]

Hi Robert,

The intention is to upgrade to BuddyPress 3.0.0 eventually.

We always wait for things to stabilize in a point release and do not upgrade to major plugin releases immediately due to compatibility issues that may arise with other plugins.

However, feel free to upgrade yourself if you are adventurous and are able to debug and report…[Read more]

I’ve been able to upgrade to BP3 by modifying commons-in-a-box>admin>plugins-loader.php on the following two lines:

line 123:  ‘version’           => ‘3.0.0’,

line 359:  ‘download_url’ => ‘https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.3.0.0.zip’

Everything seems to work. Are there any other changes that need to be made to safely use BP3?

Hi Ray,

Thanks, that’s very helpful. I’ll be interested to see the new functionality in CBOX-OL. Is there a place where I could learn more about what you have planned?

At this point we’re looking at starting with something like underscores or FoundationPress and adding in the appropriate templating for BuddyPress and bbPress – a different game f…[Read more]

Hi Robert,

At its most basic, the CBOX Theme is a WordPress theme with some built-in BuddyPress support and an advanced configuration panel.

You should look to use any WordPress theme since universal theme compatibility was added to BuddyPress quite a few releases ago. You might have to adjust some of the CSS to match your chosen theme…[Read more]