[@shemakeswebsites Participant 2 years, 7 months ago]

Fixed! The guys over at Buddydev was a great help.

I put the following code in my “bp-custom.php” file:

add_filter( ‘bp_email_use_wp_mail’, ‘__return_true’ );

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 2 years, 8 months ago]

HI Varun,

Thank you for your response but it didn’t work. 🙁

This is what I tried to use:

/**
 * Translates specific strings in BuddyPress to new values.
 * This function hooks into the 'gettext' filter provided by WordPress, allowing for the modification
 * of text before it is displayed or used on the site. It specifically targets text within the 'buddypress' domain,
 * making it suitable for customizing or translating BuddyPress strings without altering language files.
 *
 * @param string $translated_text The text after being translated.
 * @param string $text The text before being translated.
 * @param string $domain The domain of the text being translated. This function specifically targets 'buddypress'.
 * @return string The modified or translated text.
 */
add_filter( 'gettext', 'wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings', 20, 3 );

function wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    // Target only BuddyPress strings to avoid affecting other texts.
    if ( 'buddypress' === $domain ) {
        switch ( $translated_text ) {
            // Example: Translate "Friends" to "Connections".
            case 'Groups':
                $translated_text = 'Packs';
                break;

            // Add more strings to translate as needed, following the pattern above.
        }
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you for the suggestion. I really dislike working with language files and was hoping to find a php snippet for quick fix.

Any help would be appreciated.

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 2 years, 9 months ago]

Thank you! I didn’t even know that this was a thing. My site is fixed!

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 3 months ago]

Sorry, please disregard. It works, not sure what caused the issue with disabling the feature earlier, but all is well.

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 8 months ago]

Oh my goodness – I don’t know how I missed that. I was jumping between browsers and I guess I was looking at a dashboard with “Groups” disabled.

All is well, I found it. Thank you for leading me out the dark. 😉

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 8 months ago]

Just trying to see if anyone has any input on how I would go about addressing this issue. 🙂

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 8 months ago]

WOW! That was easy and very handy too. Thank you so much.

If you have any interest I have another post about the groups end page – I’d love your input on that. 😉

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 8 months ago]

Hi Varun, thank you for your response. But I’m not really sure how to do that without affecting the page that currently uses the “groups” slug. Is there a way to change the page end point from groups to regional-groups? I wasn’t able to locate any setting for this.

I have a site that currently uses: http://www.website.com/groups

When I enable Buddypress groups, the content of this page is overwritten with the Buddypress groups content. I cannot change the content from my current groups page to another page as I have a lot of printed material that references that particular page. So I am hoping there is a way to have the Buddypress groups content appear on another page (www.website.com/regional-groups).

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 8 months ago]

Update! I found a snippet to change the slug…but that doesn’t fix the problem.

function ts_change_groups_slug(){
	global $bp;
	$bp->groups->root_slug = 'teams';
	return $bp->groups->root_slug;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_groups_slug', 'ts_change_groups_slug' );
add_filter( 'bp_get_groups_root_slug', 'ts_change_groups_slug' );

How do I change the default “groups” page to another page of my choice? Thank you.

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 7 years, 9 months ago]

Oops! I meant to post it there. Thank you for catching my oversight. 🙂

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

Thank you for your response.

So to clarify, if you use BuddyPress on a basic theme, then the dropdown toggle does not show and ALL active tabs appear in the menu?

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

image link isn’t working: https://seventhqueen.com/themes/kleo/members/kleoadmin/

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 8 years, 1 month ago]

I forgot to add an image to better explain my post.

After the tab listed “Articles” there is only one more tab, which is the tab for “Media”. How can I force this tab to be visible instead of being nested in the drop-down. I basically just want to get rid of the drop-down altogether. Thank you.

[@shemakeswebsites Participant 9 years, 6 months ago]

I found the solution. I tested the script I had tried before…but this time it worked. If anyone else is interested, see the script at the end of this post:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-vs-display-name/