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Themes can also interfere with the admin area. Which theme are you using? Does the problem happen with Twenty Thirteen activated?

@eable good idea to test on the Twenty Thirteen parent theme. If it works then you’ll know something is up with the child theme.

Will I mess up WordPress’s ability to see them all, if I drag them all over?

There’s no harm in dragging them all over. And yes, you do need to retain the folder structure.

@eable apologies I didn’t realise you were using a child theme. You’re right, just style.css is required in that case.

@eable so your theme contains just the /buddypress/ folder and style.css and 404.php files? I think that might be your problem. Themes must include an index.php file. Try adding one and see if the problem is resolved.

I copied the buddypress folder that is contained in bp-legacy. Is that not was what the directions meant?

That sounds right to me.

If I did this right, why are the files not visible in the WordPress back end at Themes > Editor > mytheme?

If you’re not working on localhost, you’ll need to upload the files to your web server. Have you done that?

Hi @eable,

The directions look like they mean for me to move the whole of /buddypress/ into my child theme

Be careful not to copy the whole BuddyPress plugin to your child theme. Just the templates should be copied. As you mention in your post, the templates are found here /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Also worth mentioning is you only…[Read more]

@bphelp sounds like you have your next project idea right there? 😉

Thanks Paul. Shame the feature never got implemented, maybe one day 🙂

@akovia, I’ve updated the article to remove the reference to forwarding messages. Apologies for the confusion with this.

cc @danbp and @bphelp

Private Messaging works like an internal site email. Members can message people on their friends list as well as forward and reply to received messages

@bphelp I see the reference to forwarding in that article but am not certain forwarding functionality is available. Perhaps @djpaul can confirm?

Hi @akovia

There’s only really a need to supply your environment info if you’re troubleshooting a problem (if something is broken). Regarding the forwarding of messages, I’m not sure that is possible by default, actually. May I ask where abouts you read about it?

These text strings get set in the setup_nav() method. See here for an example. They’re translatable via a language file but to my knowledge they’re not filterable. That means whilst it will be easy to change the text to something fixed such as ‘My activity’, it will be difficult changing it to something variable such as ‘Pete’s activity’.

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Hi @dmccuiston

Check out this forum reply

It would be a fairly big task to write something like that. If writing it yourself or paying a developer is out of the question, have you thought about using a similar sort of plugin and modifying it to your needs? The challenge then would be to find something similar

Hi @martinblack

This sounds like an interesting idea for a plugin. But it’s very custom so I’m not sure if you’d find something like this already available.

@maxmore88 if you’re saying you would like to log in using the same role as your customer then that is possible. For example, subscriber, contributor, editor and so on. You’d just need to set up a new user account which has been assigned the same role.

However, it isn’t possible to log in using the same user ID as your customer. The only way I…[Read more]

@shanebp debug_backtrace() looks interesting, I’ll find that one useful!

Agree with @shanebp!

I’m trying to isolate an apparent quirk in BuddyPress having to do with an embedded user avatar image (via shortcode) not linking properly to the user profile…

To my knowledge, BP doesn’t supply shortcodes? I suspect if you search your theme for something like add_shortcode( 'shortcode-name-here' and look in the hook’s c…[Read more]

Sometimes plugin authors throw out a hook and don’t actually bite themselves. It’s a good way to make a plugin extendible 🙂

Hi @becks-star

bp_profile_after_header isn’t a function. It’s an action hook. You would usually write a function of your own and ‘hook’ it to bp_profile_after_header.

For example:

function my_callback() {
// Do something amazing...
}
add_action( 'bp_profile_after_header', 'my_callback' );

You can read more about hooks here:…[Read more]

Hi @brodskis

Have you tried rtMedia?