Links in posts
A link a member taps inside content opens the matching screen in your app when you have placed one. Otherwise it opens in the app’s own browser. Either way the member stays in your app and gets back with one tap.
This applies wherever the app shows what members and authors wrote:
- News Feed posts and comments
- Activity posts and replies, on BuddyPress and BuddyBoss
- Forum topics and replies, both ForumWP and bbPress
- Notes
- Single Post and Single Page articles and their comments
- Profile tabs that show HTML
Where each link goes
Section titled “Where each link goes”| The link points at | It opens | When you have placed |
|---|---|---|
| A member’s profile, Ultimate Member or BuddyPress | Their profile | Profile, or Member Profile (BuddyPress) in an app without Profile |
| A member’s messages | Chat | A chat feature |
| A News Feed post | That post’s thread | News Feed |
| A BuddyPress activity post | That post’s thread | Any BuddyPress activity feature |
| A BuddyPress group | The group | Groups (BuddyPress) or My Groups |
| A bbPress topic, or a reply in one | The topic | Any bbPress forum feature |
| A bbPress forum | Its list of topics | Any bbPress forum feature |
| A ForumWP topic, or a reply in one | The topic | Any ForumWP forum feature |
| A blog post or page | The article | Single Post or Single Page |
| A note | The note | Notes or My Notes |
| An event | The event | Any Events Calendar feature |
| A product | The product | Products |
| A job | The job | Any job list |
| A #hashtag | Search, on that tag | Search, with Hashtags among its result types. See Mentions and hashtags |
| A @mention on a forum post | The member’s profile | Profile |
| Anything else on your site | The in-app browser, signed in | — |
| Another website | The in-app browser | — |
| An email address or phone number | The phone’s mail or phone app | — |
A BuddyBoss group discussion, the one under a group’s Forum tab, opens as the bbPress topic it is.
The in-app browser
Section titled “The in-app browser”A page opened this way has a bar at the top with three buttons:
- Back to app returns to the screen the member tapped from. The phone’s own back gesture does the same.
- Reload loads the page again.
- Open in browser hands the page to the phone’s browser.
A page on your own site opens signed in as the member, so they do not meet your login form.
When it does not work
Section titled “When it does not work”| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| A link opens the in-app browser instead of an app screen | The matching feature from the table is not placed | Place it |
| A link to a group, topic or member opens the in-app browser | Plugin older than 2.61.0 | Update the Memberside plugin |
| A bbPress notification opens an empty topic | Plugin older than 2.61.0 | Update the Memberside plugin |
| A page in the in-app browser shows your login form | The member signed out in the app, or the page is on another domain | Expected |