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BuddyPress generally shows the admin bar to all users, whether logged in or not. If it’s not showing, it’s probably due to a plugin or theme issue.

I’ve just downloaded the Point theme and I don’t see anything in the theme that would cause the admin bar to be disabled.

Perhaps you’re running another plugin that disables it? If you’re able to…[Read more]

Hi @ankitjoshi11 – Check out the file buddypress/bp-friends/bp-friends-functions.php. The functions you’ll need are:


friends_add_friend( $initiator_userid, $friend_userid );


which accepts a third $force_accept parameter which makes it unnecessary for user B to manually accept. If you want to handle acceptance separately, look at…[Read more]

Hi @jeffm2008 – Thanks for the post!

I’ve just had a look at how Jetpack handles this. Unfortunately, it looks like it’s probably fundamentally incompatible with the way that BP’s top-level pages work. While BP does use WP’s page infrastructure in the Dashboard, it then tricks WP into thinking that BP pages are *not* in fact WP pages at the time…[Read more]

Thanks for the quick response.

Looking over some of the earlier posts, it is weird that the message says “For better results, make sure to upload an image that is larger than 0px wide, and 225px tall.”. This suggests that theme is set up in such a way that it sets the cover image width to 0. As such, it’s possible that it’s being rendered, but…[Read more]

Hi @wackao – Thanks for the post. I agree that the REST API could be a big driver for future adoption. (And I obviously agree that BuddyPress is a superior product to its competitors!) That being said, the BP team is a group of volunteers. The folks who build BP are professional and serious, but they work on projects that interest them, according…[Read more]

@almostsultry – It depends on your setup. By default, on Multisite, WP user objects are not created at ‘bp_core_signup_user’. By default, on non-Multisite, users *are* created at the time of registration (ie ‘bp_core_signup_user’). This behavior may be modified by other plugins, especially those that interact with the login process (like SSO…[Read more]

Hi @barkins – Unfortunately, BuddyPress doesn’t yet have a full set of CRUD endpoints for BP objects. The team is working on it, and we hope to start rolling out endpoints in the near future. BP-REST is the repo to follow for that.

BP will work fine with the default WP REST API, if all you want to do is access a list of users. However, WP’s user…[Read more]

@shanebp is correct that you’ll need to choose a hook where the user ID is made available.

Unfortunately, ‘bp_core_signup_user’ may be too early. On some setups (specifically, most Multisite configs) no user has yet been created at ‘bp_core_signup_user’ – only a signup object. The earliest point when you can be confident that a WP user object…[Read more]

Hi @julienbr – Sorry you are having problems with this. Invite Anyone should use the same mechanism for sending emails as WP itself uses, so the first thing I’d check is whether WP emails are being sent. For example, do you get an email when you initiate a password reset?

If the problem seems specific to Invite Anyone, you should check to see…[Read more]

Yes, this can be done in code. You’ll need two filters. One removes the unwanted items from the dropdown on the activity page, and the other removes them from the activity stream itself.


add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_show_filters_options', function( $filters ) {
unset( $filters['friendship_accepted,friendship_created'] );
unset(…[Read more]

The easiest way to customize things like this is by creating a child theme and overriding the template – in this case, members/register.php. See https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/#child-themes for some information on getting started with child themes.

Another thing to check is whether regular avatar uploads are working. The two features use basically the same mechanism.

Cover image/avatar uploads sometimes run into trouble due to asset offloading, such as plugins that push uploaded assets to Amazon S3 or a CDN. Are you using anything like this?

The code you’ve given does a check against the logged-in and displayed user. Remove the if and endif lines, and it should show for all members.

For more information on how to modify your theme to show a left sidebar, you’ll want to reach out to the theme author.

Very odd – it appears that this too is caused by your theme, as BuddyPress itself just inherits the mobile styling of the toolbar from WordPress (and the WP toolbar looks fine, as shown by your Dashboard screenshot). Try reaching out to the theme author to see whether they’re able to identify the problem.

Hi @nikelaos – The bbPress forums are here: https://bbpress.org/forums/

I’m unsure how or whether bbPress allows custom language overrides, so I would suggest asking there. Thanks and good luck!

Excellent! Good luck as you continue to work on your site.

@louisarthur – Thanks for sending me credentials. I’ve logged into your site to have a look.

As you note in your email, there’s no href attribute on these links. It’s not clear to me how this would be the case, but I can give you a starting point for looking into it yourself. Briefly, the buttons will be built without an href if the button…[Read more]

I don’t believe that BuddyPress itself could be configured to do anything like this.

Are you using any other plugins that might perform redirects, or restrict access to content?

What’s your setting at Dashboard > Settings > Reading “Your Homepage displays”? I wonder if there’s something funny happening there.

Thanks, @Julia_B! Please do follow up when the Avada folks have had a chance to look at your issue. If BP is doing something wrong, we’d like to know about it, and your experience could be a useful resource for others in the future 🙂

Profile avatar markup is generally pretty different from the markup used for the content of posts and pages. It’s likely that the plugins are written in such a way that they don’t recognize avatars as the kinds of images that ought to be expandable.

Can you share links to one or two of the plugins you’ve tried? They all work a bit differently,…[Read more]