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I think I fixed it.

I enqueued /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/css/buddypress.min.css manually in functions.php

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A full restore would wipe the newest entries in the forum. Not to mention all the activity data between the last backup and now.

Is there any other way to solve this?

Where does the tool look for the last active data? Maybe we could diagnose the fault and create a better solution.

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Specifically, this affects Mastodon oEmbeds.

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Another suggestion would be to expand the codex and include all the hooks and filters so that we code happy types can actually look stuff up. There is this, but at best it seems woefully incomplete. We’re on 7.2.0 and the top entry on that page leads to a PDF for 2.8.2’s hooks.

Getting the boards back on-topic would be a huge help too. Take this third-party plugins post as an example. Surely that belongs in Requests & Feedback?

An FAQ that the moderators and active helpers on the forum can point answers to would enable more people to give helpful answers to other users. If said power users can also contribute to the FAQ too, that could really expand the site’s usefulness.

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I’m hooking “bp_activity_add” but this is not firing when a blog in the network publishes.

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What would really help me would some way I can search out answers in the form “what do I need to hook or filter to do X?” I’ve found myself going to SO a lot with things I am stuck on.

For me, BuddyPress is a giant black box of mystery.

One suggestion I can make about this forum would be to get a few moderators tasked with “X not working” posts into one board as those crop up everywhere at the moment.

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At what size are you getting the error?

How are you inserting the text?

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If you are happy adding code, there is a thread which talks about filtering the feed with code samples here.

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Erm… Visibility of what?

I need more information to even try and guess how to help you.

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I’m certain you can use BuddyPress for this. How is another question.

A quick Google for “BuddyPress art portfolio” showed me this plugin. I’ve never used it before but it might be what you need.

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I’m a huge nerd who uses BuddyPress. I don’t know everything but I would be on hand to answer questions. I’m a long time stack user. Back in the day when I worked for other people, I used SO all the time.

I’ve also run this idea past the Meta for WordPress SE (where BuddyPress is off-topic)

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At last

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Fixed it.

Apparently, turning off avatars (no gravatar is what I wanted) also shuts off all logo pictures everywhere – groups, users, etc..

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It is a VERY bad idea to edit plugins directly. For one, you might break things, but for two, your changes will be reverted when the plugin updates. Better to hook the right event from functions.php and change things programmatically.

Sadly, as far as I know, there is not an option where you can choose “no thanks” to gravatar.

That said, if you inspect the element and find an id you can use that id to do a display:none;

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My Report Stuff project might scratch that itch as it matures. The idea is to allow all users to report, well, stuff – user accounts, content, etc.. I hope to end up with some degree of what you are asking for such that “moderators” would have a limit set of options they could apply including escalating the issue.

We’re still in the planning stage but you are welcome to join us.

https://github.com/lordmatt/bp-report-stuff

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I’m working on a plugin to allow you to report and track the report of pretty much anything in BuddyPress. How soon this is ready for use rather depends on if I write it by myself or others chip in to help.

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Absolutely, come and join in. I want this to be something that the community owns.

I’ve spent my better moments trying to set things out so that anyone can contribute. I’ve set up a wiki on GitHub so that even if you lack any programming skills, as long as you know how to string a sentence together, you can still contribute.

As for the UI, yes – I’ve abstracted that to the point that it should be possible to work on HTML & JQuery without worrying too much about PHP.

Edit: (what it should have said on my first post) Do the usual – fork my repo and feedback any work you feel you can contribute. I’ll keep chipping away at this in those hours when my body lets me do stuff because I need this for my own projects. The more of us there are, though, the better this can be.

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Update. I recently moved hosts. My new host specialises in WordPress support and has their own cache plugin. Getting rid of the (very popular) plugin I was using also got rid of the problem. It seems that the former cache plugin was being just a bit too aggressive with caching.

Just thought I would pop back and say thanks for the support and that the problem is now fixed.

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Bingo – sounds good!

I was toying around with this and getting nowhere:

if ( !function_exists( 'bp_core_load_template' ) ) { 
    require_once '/bp-core/bp-core-catchuri.php'; 
}  
$templates = array('bp_core_template_plugin', 'buddypress/activity/activity-loop'); 
$result = bp_core_load_template($templates); 

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I’m guessing I could just include ./wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php?

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Loading plugins is a lot less work that writing the code from scratch

This is true. I’ve worked as PHP developer before and I quite enjoy the coding part of things so that’s not the biggest worry for me.

I’ll take a look at that loop. That should tell me most of what I need to know.

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BP was designed to be customised with plugins, it’s not unusual for a BP site to have several tens of plugins and maybe more.

Oh gosh. Sounds like a ton of work.

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I see. I’m not fond of adding too many plugins. I know this could be done as part of the child theme. That’s what I feel would be the best approach – that would keep extra plugins away from the multisite blog owners.

The thing is, I’m having a heck of a time getting my head around the BuddyPress template stack. I have worked out I’ll need two loops – WP and BP but that’s about it.

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I’ve run into a bit of a roadblock doing it this way. Well, two actually.

1. What is the shortcode for activity?

2. How do I display the latest blog posts?

I’m not super familiar with Nimblebuilder so I could be missing something. I am starting to think I’d like to work out how to do this natively with PHP.

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That would certainly be easier.