No notifications of pending Member Requests in BuddyPress menu

  • Resolved Jay

    (@uscore713)


    8 years ago

    BPRO installs itself as a component to BuddyPress such that it advertises its interface to the BP Notification API (using the key “bp_registration_options”).

    BPRO also registers a submenu tree in the BuddyPress menu (in the Toolbar, at or near the bottom):

    BP Registration Options
    General Settings
    Member Requests

    However, when one or more Member Requests are present, no Notifications are posted to BuddyPress such that an Admin can see the request count in the BP menu, as all other notification-compliant components do.

    Was this an oversight? Or perhaps a bug? Or does this post turn into a feature request?

    This feature is pretty critical for our site, so if you need development assistance, let me know.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    Traditionally, and for the longest time, we’ve relied on admin notices at the top of admin pages to help indicate that there are pending members. There should also be a number indicator in our WP Admin Menu area showing that there are some pending.

    In 1.3.0, I gave my first go-ahead into adding BuddyPress notifications as well. That said, it may need some further refinement, if there are things that should be happening around it, that aren’t. I wouldn’t call the BuddyPress notifications a super critical piece. It’s more of an extra/nice touch that I hope adds value.

    This is the type of notification we’ve traditionally used and still use: https://ps.w.org/bp-registration-options/assets/screenshot-5.png?rev=1680432

    Thread Starter Jay

    (@uscore713)

    8 years ago

    Hi Michael,

    “I wouldn’t call the BuddyPress notifications a super critical piece.”

    We don’t believe an Admin has to hang out on the Admin side (backend) in order to be sure incoming requests are seen. You already have the plumbing in place, and that’s probably the majority share of the work. If you think you’re posting notifications to BuddyPress, but they aren’t showing up, then it’s a bug. A minor bug.

    If you don’t have the cycles to track it down and fix it, no problem — we’ll get around to that when we can.

    But getting frontend notifications is critical to us. Your mileage obviously varies. 😉

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    Just saying the frontend-based notifications is a new feature that was only recently added, otherwise it’s all WP Admin area notifications 🙂

    You should be receiving email notifications as well when people get queued up for moderation. Not sure if that’s working for you, as that information/topic hasn’t been brought up here.

    I’ll open an issue on GitHub for us to try and debug what’s going on

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    https://github.com/WebDevStudios/BuddyPress-Registration-Options/issues/146

    Thread Starter Jay

    (@uscore713)

    8 years ago

    Thanks, Michael.

    Actually, now that you mention it, we have indeed had some problems receiving email notices of new member requests, but I’ll start a different topic for that problem when we get around to it.

    Overall, though, your plugin has been doing a pretty good job. Kudos to you and your staff.

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    8 years ago

    Emails are harder to debug because they’re very server/system-specific. All I know for sure is that we’re using wp_mail() when intended, but beyond that, it’s a hairy debugging situation, for which there’s no “start here” todo list.

    Thread Starter Jay

    (@uscore713)

    8 years ago

    Right, understandable.

    We’ll continue this in another topic. Thanks.

    Thread Starter Jay

    (@uscore713)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    We found and fixed the conflict that caused the original problem. It had nothing to do with your fine plugin.

    Marking this topic as “Resolved.”

    Michael Beckwith

    (@tw2113)

    The BenchPresser

    7 years, 11 months ago

    I’d be curious to know more details about that to see if there’s anything from our end that could be done to help the situation.

    Thread Starter Jay

    (@uscore713)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks, Michael.

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