You should check if the plugin has actions or filters which you can use to modify the output. You shouldn’t change a plugin’s code, because you’ll overwrite the changes with any future updates. I also urge you to upgrade to the latest versions of WP and BP, if only for security reasons.
That variable isn’t part of BuddyPress; it’s part of the https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/ plugin, which hasn’t been updated in over a year and doesn’t state compatibility with the latest versions of BuddyPress or WordPress.
Please ask for support with this plugin over at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh
Prior to bbPress 2, BuddyPress used bbPress 1 — which wasn’t a plugin — and so had its own integration for it. The Discussion Forums page and Forums component are some of the legacy settings for that. Going forward, 1) Disable the Forums component in BuddyPress, and 2) Install the bbPress plugin.
This is an area we’ve drastically improved in the upcoming BuddyPress 1.7. I’m not sure there’s any easy solutions for now; figuring out if you can add indexes to more columns might help, but the real badness is in the structure of the SQL itself, and that’s what we’ve improved.
To do this right now, you’ll have to write your own avatar cropping code. It’s the sort of thing that we’ll likely add support for (non-square avatars) in the future.
Let’s close this thread; I don’t want to lose the follow up discussion between you lot. If there’s interest in using the modlook tag, I don’t see a problem with using that here.
It should be possible with 1.6. You’ll need to remember to turn off the “Forums” component in BuddyPress (wp-admin > Settings > BuddyPress). I am not totally sure of the steps to do the migration; I’ll ask JJJ if this has been documented.
If we had a time machine to go back to 2007/08, and build BuddyPress using custom post types and custom taxonomies — which weren’t usable until 2010 — we probably would.
The core team talk regularly about how BuddyPress stores data and we may move to using post types or taxonomies in the future. We’ve also directly solicited feedback from the community about this issue in the past, so be sure to check out http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/custom-post-types-yesno/
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