Displaying search results on a different page

Hi again,

Yes, you can change the form action and point it to a destination page of your choice (line 23 of bps-form.php).

That destination page, by default, should display the whole members list; that’s because BP Profile Search doesn’t output its search results, but filters the members list present in the destination page.

Andrea,

Is it possible to send you a message via email to discuss some issues I’m experiencing? Thank you.

@centbanc: Please do not solicit contact via email. Posting your email address or asking others to contact you off forums is really frowned upon here. This is to protect users and to prevent people from trying to solicit work or harvest email addresses from the forums.

Additionally, the point of these community-based forums is to help each other in a public space so that the whole community can benefit from the discussion and any solutions proposed. Private discussions take this benefit away. If you would prefer a one-to-one discussion, please try https://directory.codepoet.com/ or https://jobs.wordpress.net/

Hi @esmi,

I agree with you, for a general WordPress support forum your considerations make perfect sense. I would never jump in a general WordPress support thread asking to be privately contacted.

But in this plugin support forum I feel that readers are asking questions directly to me, the plugin author, and sometimes, when I think I can provide a quick specific help, I ask them to let me privately see their test site, so I can debug their issue, or write a few lines of code tailored to their use case.

See, for instance, this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-search-multiple-fields-in-diff-groups-using-same-keyword?replies=4

I confess I’ve done this several times in this forum, because I didn’t find anything against this practice in the official forum guidelines:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome

So I would like to ask the moderators whether my way of answering support questions, as documented in the above thread, is acceptable or not.

I feel it’s acceptable in a plugin support forum, where in most cases the only person answering questions is the plugin author, but I’ll respect the moderators decision in any case.

By the way, probably @centbanc has been encouraged to seek a private contact by my example.

Sorry for the long post! I’ll wait for your decision on this matter.

This comes up a lot but here goes:

Regular forum members should not post their email addresses, ask others to post their email or solicit contacting people off of the forums. That one’s easy. ??

What I believe Esmi was replying to was the forum member centbanc asking. See this post on make/updates for some of that discussion.

Support Team Update for January 30th

However… Plugin and theme authors do get a pass in their own support sub-forum. That means you the plugin author may post your contact URL or even your email address but that should be a last resort thing.

When you support a user in these public forums then you are helping many more people that way.

You as a plugin author should never ask for admin access to a server, mysql, WordPress installation etc. That would be going too far and If you do get that access then you’re responsible for anything that happens to that installation.

That’s also covered in that link I posted. I hope that helps clear things up.

Thank you Jan,

Yes that helps to clarify things. I took the liberty of adding those rules to the “Bad Stuff” section of the forum guidelines

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#The_Bad_Stuff

because I think the link you posted is hard to find for forum users.

Probably a new section could have been more appropriate, but I think I can only edit existing sections, not add a new one.