Okay, I found it. Looks like a bug in the BP default theme to me, really. This patch fixes it:
--- header-old.php 2010-02-21 02:02:40.000000000 +0000
+++ header.php 2010-02-21 01:54:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
<div id="header">
- <h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bp_site_name() ?></a></h1>
+ <h1 id="logo"><a href="<?php echo site_url() ?>" title="<?php _e( 'Home', 'buddypress' ) ?>"><?php bloginfo('name') ?></a></h1>
<ul id="nav">
<li<?php if ( bp_is_front_page() ) : ?> class="selected"<?php endif; ?>>
Great help thanks – ran into this issue and glad that you documented the fix
I just need to know now what to add below the bloginfo header to make it show the tag line.
Very old thread! suggest this isn’t a bug but you ought to read through the ticket linked to above.
if you want the tagline it’s (‘description’) instead of (‘name’) ( check the WP codex for bloginfo() for the parameters it accepts)
Thanks for your help hnla