[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @nickofnight,

In order to see the sitewide activity stream, by default members can go to: example.com/activity. Activity related to a particular member can be seen by going to example.com/members/username

Why don’t you just redirect everyone to the first link on login?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @mecceo

Yes. You have 3 options:

• Search for a plugin on the Plugin Directory
• Write some code yourself. Feel free to ask any “how to” questions on here
• hire a developer

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Is the Buddypress avatar handled the same way as the normal WordPress thumbnails? i.e. functions?

No. See the bp_core_avatar_handle_upload() function for how avatars are uploaded in BP.

Ref: https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/master/src/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php#L794

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@nithin270 this shouldn’t be happening. To debug this your best bet is to deactivate all plugins, revert to TwentyFifteen and remove all custom code you have in functions.php. Then, one-by-one, activate each of your plugins, checking each time if the problem is introduced. This trial-and-error approach should hopefully allow you to find the culprit.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Yes I know that. But what is the solution

I’m not really sure from the info you’ve provided. You’ll need to provide a more detailed outline of the problem.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

You shouldn’t change core files. Each time you upgrade BuddyPress your changes will be lost.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

I put it into my code file and also into functions.php but always empty.

I think this indicates there is something weird going on. My advice is to remove all custom code, disable all plugins and revert back to TwentyFifteen theme. Then try again. If it works then, we can be sure you have something on your install that’s conflicting. The task is then to find out what.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

When you say it isn’t working, can you provide more details?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

using ?var1=test in the URL, what does the following display?

if ( isset( $_GET['var1'] ) ) {
    echo $_GET['var1'];
}

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

No worries; welcome to the forum! 🙂

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@alvin341965 That’s quite different so you should open a different topic for that 🙂

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Just put @shanebp’s code in your theme’s functions.php file.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@patrykos360

But now I can delete this form NAME from the registration area?

I have no idea because I don’t know the theme you’re using. The best thing to do is contact the theme author because they will be able to see the theme’s markup/code and advise you how to do it.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@patrykos360 you should contact the theme author as the problem is likely to be theme related. If the theme is purposefully BuddyPress-compatible, then perhaps the author will release a fix?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@zenimot

If you wanted to, you could disallow spaces in usernames by validating the field during registration. This is how you’d do it:

function zenimot_validate_username() {

    $bp = buddypress();

    if ( strpos( $_POST['signup_username'], ' ' ) !== false ) {
        $bp->signup->errors['signup_username'] = __( 'Spaces are not allowed', 'buddypress' );
    }
}
add_action( 'bp_signup_pre_validate', 'zenimot_validate_username' );

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Completely agree! The LAMP stack is so easy to install I think sometimes people might not realise there are alternatives. Be good to read your article once written!

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Hi @zenimot

See 5185 for some background and a discussion on the topic.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

That’s great you’re interested in updating the docs.

@henrywright who is the best person to ask on these forums to add a new section?

@mercime should be able to grant you contribute access to codex.buddypress.org.

Ref: https://codex.buddypress.org/participate-and-contribute/

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

@mattsten don’t bother with my solution; @shanebp’s is far better!

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

That’s quite odd and it shouldn’t be happening. Do you have any custom code in your functions.php or bp-custom.php files?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Hey @mcpeanut

Check out the Nginx WordPress article; it may help whilst you’re waiting for a response.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Possibly, but it may be unrelated. In order to investigate that particular message, try opening a topic on the bbPress support forum

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

The problem might be coming from one of these. Try deactivating them all and then reactivating one-at-a-time to see which one introduces the problem.

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

Which plugins do you have activated?

[@henrywright Moderator 11 years, 5 months ago]

If you just need a quick and dirty approach for yourself to view, you could use the standard group loop to output a loop. See here.

Then put the following snippet directly after the line: <?php while ( bp_groups() ) : bp_the_group(); ?>

Snippet:

<?php
$args = array(
    'populate_extras' => true,
    'group_id => bp_get_group_id()
);
$group = groups_get_group( $args );

if ( ! in_array( bp_loggedin_user_id(), $group->admins ) ) {
    continue;
}
?>

Notes:

• I haven’t tested
• This approach won’t be performant
• I haven’t considered pagination

That said, it should get the job done. The alternative is to write some SQL and use the wpdb class.