[ideasdesigninc]

Nevermind — I just installed and tested the plugin and it does exactly what I was looking for – thanks so much!

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

I actually did read the description, and saw no mention whatsoever that WP Better Emails would allow me to modify any of the BuddyPress specific emails. Or does BuddyPress just hook into WordPress’s built-in emailing system for when new users are created?

Thanks,
– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

Hugo – just one more question for you. If I wanted to add some required field checking to my BuddyPress login form/widget … how would you recommend that I do that?

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

I actually just ended up installed the “Custom Sidebars” plugin, created a new sidebar, dragged the BuddyPress login widget to it, and then integrated the dynamic_sidebar call into my header.

Thanks!
– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

>> If the question is How to style the HTML of the messages, use a plugin like WP Better Emails.

Will this plugin allow me to customize the BuddyPress 2.1.1 emails? And does it allow me to change the content of each of the emails, .. or just the HTML styling of them?

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

Thanks for your response, but the link you gave me doesn’t provide instructions on how to implement the “the_widget()” function. This page does:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget

“This template tag displays an arbitrary widget outside of a sidebar. It can be used anywhere in templates.”

But how do I reference the “(BuddyPress) Log In” widget using this function, and which additional parameters I’m supposed to pass to it, if any?

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

I currently have 5 different widget areas in my WordPress theme:

1) sidebar
2) footer slot #1
3) footer slot #2
4) footer slot #3
5) footer slot #4

However — all 5 of these widget areas completely disappear when viewed on mobile, which means I can’t put the BuddyPress login widget in any of them. So I want to place the widget in the one area that makes the most sense — which is in the top header section (ie: header.php)

So .. is that not programmatically possible? Isn’t there a way that I can accomplish this using WordPress’s the_widget() function?

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

So .. do I need to do both (modify the language file AND filter the message)? Or if all I need to do is modify the language file … will I have the ability to change the message to HTML format? Or can I only change the message the HTML format by filtering it?

Thanks!
– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

Thank you so much! Creating and uploading my own language files seemed to to the trick. However — it’s unclear as to whether or not the “Sources Keywords” stuff is even relevant in my situation. Wouldn’t the WordPress functions already exist in the BuddyPress language file that I’ve copied and modified? If I’ve done something wrong (by ignoring these Sources Keywords stuff) — how can I test/verify that?

Thanks,
– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

Thanks for your reply Shane, but adding that function to my bp-custom.php file didn’t change anything at all. Any other suggestions?

– Yvan

[ideasdesigninc]

UPDATE: I’ve figured out how to change the “/activity/friends/” friendly URL to “/activity/connections/”. I’ve simply uploaded a bp-custom.php file to my “/wp-content/plugins/” folder and added the following line to it:

define ( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘connections’ );

I now just need to figure out how to change “Friends” to “Connections”. I’ve searched through these forums, but all of the instructions I’ve been able to find so far seem to pertain to 1.x versions of BuddyPress, and involve the modifying of language files (which doesn’t seem to apply to version 2.1.1 of BuddyPress). Can anyone here give me some pointers on how I’d do this in BuddyPress v2.1.1 ?

Thanks!
– Yvan