BuddyPress.org | Joshua Blevins | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/jblevins1991/activity/ Activity feed for Joshua Blevins. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:30:31 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 d40d42b4f295a3dc68da6340703921d4 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Creating Custom Member Types in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-member-types/#post-258473 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 22:43:41 +0000 I am really confused about how a child theme overrides a standard theme. So does the child theme just have to be named Twenty Sixteen Child and it will override Twenty Sixteen?

]]> 44f45e0d08a1fc986c6fb0f7f3b94f1b Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Creating Custom Member Types in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-member-types/#post-258457 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:44:02 +0000 If I change code like the h3 tags or something will the changes show up on the members directory page? I am trying to modify the bp-default because im not very familiar with child themes. I figure if I modify the parent theme it would show up on the main theme right?

]]> f5f5723290010a76462c005d9b830adb Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Creating Custom Member Types in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-member-types/#post-258454 Tue, 06 Sep 2016 17:38:20 +0000 Worked like a charm!

Is the member directory /members/index.php and the loop for the directory is /members/members-loop.php? right?

]]> ab94298e7b17f0e25efb955f93edfb6b Joshua Blevins started the topic Creating Custom Member Types in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-custom-member-types/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:48:02 +0000 I wrote the following code and put it in functions.php inside of the bp-default theme. Is this wrong? If so where should i put it?

/*
* Create the custom coach role for users.
*/
function createRoles(){
//create coach roles
$type = "Coach";
$args = array("labels" => array("name" => "Coaches", "singular_name" => "Coach"), "has_directory" =>…[Read more]

]]> 0e24ccf71433c4729bbc0188709105a0 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About bp-custom in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-bp-custom/#post-248322 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:26:53 +0000 Okay, I did those changes (shown below). I still see no additional role added to the WordPress extended profile. I should be able to see it there. Correct?

<?php

/*
*
*/
function custom_member_types(){
bp_register_member_type('role', array('labels' => array('name' => 'role', 'singular_name' => 'role')));
}

add_action('bp_init',…[Read more]

]]> f0d653078c49b36930a0d732038ca33b Joshua Blevins started the topic About bp-custom in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-bp-custom/ Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:31:28 +0000 I see the code here about creating custom member types, but it didn’t say much about where to put this code. I assumed one of two places. Either in the bp-custom.php file wp-content/plugins/ or in functions.php. However, when i post the code below into both I did not get the desired effect.


function…[Read more]

]]> 4c2a9f065bfe8a6dc690cd540a484ffb Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248283 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 14:47:12 +0000 Got it to work. Thank you for your help Hugo.

]]> a6f5ff92cb7e801d92509d80b5b37180 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248238 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 05:23:35 +0000 Do you have a fully custom BuddyPress theme that is not a child theme? I’d really like to look at the code and figure it out under the hood.

]]> 507f8286b1b971ff4611b0834cab380f Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248212 Wed, 30 Dec 2015 21:58:05 +0000 Just gonna bump this up.

]]> ad9d2b29635bd941117bddbf5194754b Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248163 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:41:16 +0000 I copied the files that are located in bp-legacy/buddypress/groups to MyTheme/buddypress/groups. Hmmmm, I will have to look into that Hugo. So that would be why you never see get_header or get_footer, etc. in any buddypress templates. That makes a hell of a lot more sense!

]]> b57b838ca5d8fb2b49a69f3024e8555a Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248151 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:11:38 +0000 I really should not have posted before testing. However I copied pasted the BuddyPress Template for index.php to my theme and It comes up as a blank page. Any ideas why this would happen?

]]> 119d263cde89f6bb33134fdc42a5ddc1 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248150 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:04:38 +0000 Okay. Revisiting that page kind of game me some direction. I think I just stumbled into a state of pure confusion. I’ll post back if I have any questions.

]]> 91fafc6bdf947d902a06a57892b933e3 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248147 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:15:12 +0000 Right, when it says directory it means that its where all of the groups are shown in a list right?

I am trying to find which pages are what right now so I can mirror the directory structure and move on to coding them out and testing things on them.

Can you give me some more information on which ones are which? I really couldn’t find which one…[Read more]

]]> d0aca694a62ec001c49d2d8d9ed063e7 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248136 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:47:31 +0000 Okay because I was looking at bp-core-template-loader. I saw the many functions such as bp_register_template_stack and bp_get_template_stack. From the description of the function in the comments I infer these functions allow me to say “instead of bp-legacy use these folders instead”. Is there a way to get BuddyPress to use the files at…[Read more]

]]> 64a00bb83978e9bffb28de60b0085fdf Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Group Type Development in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/group-type-development/#post-248134 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 23:10:12 +0000 I would really like this. As of now I have to create my own solution for this. Im not to the step where I have started the code for my custom group types, but if it would help the community in any way I will post a link to the code for it when I do get that far.

]]> 2e6b488091bc716fd8050b7ecab6db0d Joshua Blevins replied to the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/#post-248131 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:58:29 +0000 Anybody know how BuddyPress looks for and puts together the group profile page?

]]> 7950f0291270b9883a59956daee8a049 Joshua Blevins started the topic About BuddyPress Templates in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/about-buddypress-templates/ Sun, 27 Dec 2015 02:17:26 +0000 I see in bp-legacy there are many files (including: group-header.php, home.phpm admin.php, cover-image-header.php, activity.php, members.php,etc.). Is there anybody within the community that can explain how WordPress and BuddyPress put together the group profile pages and what files they use.

Example: WordPress uses get_header to fetch…[Read more]

]]> 2f1115bb4ea5002d20f026ac915a9436 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Question about bp_activity_action in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/question-about-bp_activity_action/#post-248064 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:06:52 +0000 Right now I am trying out Dreamweaver for production. However for a bit more versatility I am thinking about going back to Sublime Text. If not mainly for awesome plugins.

]]> 98b86c51667cde064a5cc5b64fc3ab10 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic Question about bp_activity_action in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/question-about-bp_activity_action/#post-248062 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 22:34:01 +0000 I did look at that function as well.

/**
* Return the activity content.
*
* @since 1.0.0
* @deprecated 1.5.0
*
* @todo properly deprecate this function.
*
* @uses bp_get_activity_action()
* @uses bp_get_activity_content_body()
* @uses apply_filters() To call the 'bp_get_activity_content' hook.
*
* @return string The…[Read more]

]]> aae4b626dffb57e51812ba5e65dfbc09 Joshua Blevins started the topic Question about bp_activity_action in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/question-about-bp_activity_action/ Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:26:09 +0000 Right now I am trying to make my own custom entry.php for my activity loops. When looking at the bp-default one to get a good idea of what one should look like i ran into the following code.

<?php bp_activity_action(); ?>

Now I found this function in bp-activity-template.php in the github project, but that was not too helpful either. The file…[Read more]

]]> b41bd5c51917712c3ab49af4858c4877 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic I don't understand the template files in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-the-template-files/#post-247463 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 21:00:48 +0000 Creating a child theme is not necessary. I figured out that if you create template files using the //Template Name you can go to the pages that BuddyPress makes and assign template pages to those pages. So you can create a file named activity.php and make it a template file and add the activity loop inside of that file. Once you have assigned that…[Read more]

]]> 364da9ef0e9182fea7f48eca4e48ab40 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic I don't understand the template files in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-the-template-files/#post-247436 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 09:16:14 +0000 I just figured that out. I have the activity folder added to the twentyfifteen theme. I am trying to modify the file, but it really doesn’t look like it should. I am logged in and I dont see any activity nor do i see the message Sorry, there was no activity found, Please try a different folder.

I am so confused and frustrated. I am pretty…[Read more]

]]> 6492163e33bbe9d46744aab8c90daf41 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic I don't understand the template files in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-the-template-files/#post-247433 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 08:59:46 +0000 I guess I didn’t have the answer. Can someone seriously help me out? There are no notes on this anywhere on google and I don’t see it on the site or on github. I’m about to give up on buddypress.

]]> edc64bfa130b63d924aaac3f7471d737 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic I don't understand the template files in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-the-template-files/#post-247428 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:50:33 +0000 I found the answer myself. BuddyPress uses specific folders for the default pages (Activity, Groups, Forums, etc.) located at wp-content/plugins/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress. In each folder found here are the corresponding default templates. These can be added to a folder you create in your theme. The folder you add to your theme must be…[Read more]

]]> df40fdf9ecd65be21131a41c9966a940 Joshua Blevins replied to the topic I don't understand the template files in the forum Creating & Extending https://buddypress.org/support/topic/i-dont-understand-the-template-files/#post-247427 Sat, 05 Dec 2015 03:21:42 +0000 So I found this page, which says I can make a directory named buddypress or community. However, it doesn’t say the name of any of the files I can override. What files can I override and what do they do?

]]> 491747fbc9d5e8b865b95c3c13193fb9 Joshua Blevins's profile was updated https://buddypress.org/updates/p/491420/ Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:36:18 +0000 0