class wpdev_compose sounds like its not part of BuddyPress Core and is from a 3rd party plugin. This site only offers support for 3rd party plugins if another user helps you or the 3rd party plugin developer offers you support.
This site is mainly to help with the base install of BuddyPress.
To change text in BuddyPress you need to create a language file. You don’t have to translate to another language you can still use english. It’s a way to change words without fear of upgrading and loosing changes later on.
You type @ then the username like @wakkas or use the mention button on a profile. This is how you post to a user with BP. Also, there are tutorials on adding a post form on a friends profile. Google for it.
Well it is sorta broken and should be turned off in favor of a profile tab that shows your topics started as well as topics involved in. I bet JJJ will flip this to bbPress eventually. #FingersCrossed
Deactivate BuddyPress by deleting the BuddyPress folder so you can get too site.
The correct steps to update a BuddyPress site are
1. place your site into a maintenance mode. How you do this is up to you. There are many WP plugins for this.
2. switch your theme to bp-default.
3. deactivate every plugin including BuddyPress.
4. upgrade the BuddyPress plugin.
5. If you need to re-activate bp-default do so.
6. Check your site now to see if the upgrade was successful by going to the front end. log out and in, post activity and forum posts, check avatar uploads. And any other things to check.
7. if you are using a custom theme then test your custom theme the same way you did with bp-default.
8. if custom theme checks out test plugins one by one using the same method. After checking a plugin and its ok deactivate it.
9. if you find an error with a certain plugin then deactivate it. move on to next plugin.
10. post in this forum the error you may have found with a certain plugin. the developer may have not updated a plugin and your findings can help them. It’s the least you can do to give back when using FREE open source software.
All of the above should be done on separate install just for testing. This is to avoid the horror of updating only to find your killer site feature (plugin) completely broken. I usually do a BuddyPress install on the same server so it has similar configurations to get realistic tests.
I usually do it on a sub domain: mytest.url.com
This test site is for you only so you can test away. Just make sure you block sign ups and block it from search bots etc. I run a maintenance mode full time on my test install.
Since you already updated just get to the backend and then deactivate all plugins. Reinstall BuddyPress and activate. Then do the one by one test stated above. It’s most likely a plugin conflict.
Do not ever download scripts that are not hosted on WordPress.org or at least have a good following and are well known. I even test plugins on a separate install before using live.
those buttons are loaded via javascript on page load. When you refresh activity stream via ajax the button’s code is not called again. This is why they do not show. I killed javascript buttons on my share plugin because it really slowed down BP activity (the javascript code gets called for every activity item on page x each button using javascript) and for the same reason you are experiencing. You could also try to use your own image for the buttons. This is against Facebook TOS but there are some tuts online. Google “custom like button facebook”.
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