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Comment on Adding Externally-Authenticated Users to BuddyPress by ddean

ddean — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:10:44 +0000

Hi Stijn,

This technique does create a “shadow” WP user for the external login. A lot of BuddyPress uses the WP user ID extensively, so it would take a lot more work to let external users participate in a BuddyPress site without a local user ID.

Your second question is related to the first one. Because we\’re creating a local user account and hooking `authenticate`, this code is only called if the user fails to log in locally but successfully logs in to the external auth system.

Thanks for the comment!

– David

Comment on Extending BuddyPress Group Hierarchy – Join to Upstream Groups by W.J. Kok

W.J. Kok — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:28:35 +0000

Awsome! Thanks for sharing this piece.

Comment on Adding Externally-Authenticated Users to BuddyPress by stijndewitt

stijndewitt — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:29:33 +0000

Thanks for this great post! It was exactly what I am looking for.

I have some questions though. I see that you perform an update statement on the database:

// activate user and set display name appropriately
$wpdb->query( $wpdb->prepare( "UPDATE $wpdb->users SET display_name=%s, user_status=0 WHERE ID=%d", $display_name, $new_user ) );

1. Is this necessary? I was hoping to avoid storing a 'shadow' record in WordPress as the user is already stored in the external system.
2. It looks like you are registering a new user (and activating it etc)… How does this work? A new user is registered for every login?

Thanks for the great article and keep on writing them!

-Stijn

Comment on Highlighting Features with WordPress Admin Pointers – A Quick Guide for Plugin Authors by ddean

ddean — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 18:50:46 +0000

Hi hassanz –

Make sure the AJAX request that fires when you click dismiss is completing successfully. It sounds like something on your install may be getting in the way.

– David

Comment on Highlighting Features with WordPress Admin Pointers – A Quick Guide for Plugin Authors by hassanz

hassanz — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:57:04 +0000

thank you. One problem: pointer reappears on page refresh, after click dismiss.

Comment on Extending BuddyPress Group Hierarchy – Creating a Member Groups list by Wayne Rowlands

Wayne Rowlands — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:10:53 +0000

I see that you have developed a number of BuddyPress plugins. There is one that would be great. When a member is on the activity stream, it would be great if there was a plugin that permitted a member to post to a number of groups at once.

Comment on Extending BuddyPress Group Hierarchy – Join to Upstream Groups by Johnny

Johnny — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 16:45:14 +0000

Are you saying you can restrict which groups are available as parents?

Can we do the top 3 in the chain?

Cheers,

Johnny

Comment on Serving koha-common with Plack by pongtawat

pongtawat — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 04:42:09 +0000

Thanks for the nice scripts and package!

I would like to report some small problems:

– On my box, which sh is dash, the start/stop plack script will stop at first exec. I have to remove "exec" and it seems to work fine.
– The unlock script will fail in port mode, causing nothing to start. I have to remove that script from start script.

Comment on Grappling with BP theme compatibility by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 12:13:18 +0000

Hi David, I know this not about BP theme compatibility but is there any way of organising my BuddyPress site so that each groups and forum have their own identity so that they will not display on the same page as other types. If I could explain it this way; If I owned a buddypress community network based on sports could I for example give people the choice to select and join a default cricket group or a football group or a fitness group and so on. If it’s possible and my nav bar menu is displaying each type of group will that group and its forum only show up on the page selected. How difficult is this to achieve. Thanks Patrick

Comment on Extending BuddyPress Group Hierarchy – Adding Breadcrumbs to Your Theme by ddean

ddean — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:49:54 +0000

Hi wilsoncortez –

It looks like there was a problem with syntax highlighting. It's been fixed and the code snippets should be visible again. Let me know if you come back and can't see it!

– David