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Theme Compatibility & Template Files

You will need to copy the buddypress folder from your-site\wp-content\plugins\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress
Place this in the root of your child theme. Then simply navigate to activity\activity-loop.php in that same folder and make your changes there. Just remember the folder structure needs to stay the same as it was when you copied it over to your child theme.

To customize your activity loop, I believe you’ll want to copy the ‘activity’ folder from ‘buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress’ into the root folder of your theme. Then edit the activity-loop.php file within that new copy of the ‘activity’ folder.

Hi @davinadanian

What is the difference between using BuddyPress from the webiste versus downloading it to your computer?

Do you mean like wordpress.com and wordpress.org?

BuddyPress is downloadable only – there is no web service version of it available like there is with wordpress.com.

i know this thread is ancient but I needed the same thing so heres some code if you need it as well

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: BuddyPress change last initial
Plugin URI: http://wpfixr.com
Description: Change the last name to use only the first initial
Author: Anthony Brown
Version: 1.0.0
Author URI: http://wpfixr.com
*/
$changeLastInitial = new changeLastInitial;
add_filter('bp_displayed_user_fullname', array(
    $changeLastInitial,
    'last_initial'
), 7, 1);
add_filter('bp_get_member_name', array(
    $changeLastInitial,
    'last_initial'
), 7, 1);
add_filter('bp_get_the_profile_field_value', array(
    $changeLastInitial,
    'last_initial_xprofle'
), 7, 3);
add_filter('bp_core_get_user_displayname', array(
    $changeLastInitial,
    'bp_core_get_user_displayname'
), 7, 2);

class changeLastInitial
{
    function bp_core_get_user_displayname($name, $id)
    {
        $name = $this->last_initial($name);
        return $name;
    }
    function last_initial_xprofle($value, $type, $id)
    {
        if ($id == 1) {
            $value = $this->last_initial($value);
        }
        return $value;
    }
    function last_initial($name)
    {
        $name_a = explode(' ', $name);
        // if there is at least two parts to the name
        if (count($name_a) == 2) {
            // replace the last part of the name with the first letter of the last part
            $name_a[count($name_a) - 1] = substr($name_a[count($name_a) - 1], 0, 1);
            // put it all back together
            $name  = implode(' ', $name_a);
        }
        return $name;
    }
}
?>

1. Use BP Xtra Signup plugin and add an xprofile field of birth date

2. Not sure on this but this plugin might help Buddypress Xprofile Custom Fields

Just wanted to chime in that WebDevStudios’ “BuddyPress Registration Options” plugin is nearing, but not quite there yet, its 3.4 release which will offer both BuddyPress and bbPress support. We’ll use user meta to check if approved, and if not, prevent access to everywhere but the unapproved user’s profiles.

Willing to take feedback from anyone wanting to help beta test.

I had the same problem and I added this CSS to my theme in the Custom CSS section, if you don’t have Custom CSS section, you can create a child theme. I don’t know if its buddypress or a plugin but some avatars in “activity” are set as “mini” making the 20×20 avatar. It may look good in replies but not in the situation you described. Here is the custom CSS I used to keep the mini avatar at 50×50 like the rest of my activity stream.

#buddypress .activity-list li.mini .activity-avatar img.avatar, #buddypress .activity-list li.mini .activity-avatar img.FB_profile_pic {
height: 50px;
margin-left: 0px;
width: 50px;
}

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/album-script-for-bp-2-1-and-wp-3-9/

I’d love to see this option become a part of the core options. I am trying to disable gravatars on all these buddypress. Would be great to have the option for admins to establish a group of avatars that would be auto-used for groups and profiles, removing the third party dependency, saving some privacy, increasing page load speed, and giving communities a better branding by having their own options for default avatars.

contrary to some of the other commenters, I think there is space for a theme to focus on some of the buddypress shortcomings – even those that work with WP / BP – there are often issues that are not well handled with a BP enabled site, and many theme authors are reluctant to adress the usability issues that occur when using as the base for a buddypress site.

Suffusion for example is a good WP theme, with some enhancements for buddypress at one point.. but the next page navigation is too small, and not easy to adjust. There are also majoy issues with the tabbed sub menus like in user profiles (site/member/profile then activyty, media – etc) – and no easy fix for that.

As far as your theme being based on bootstrap, I suggest you scrap that and switch to foundation of something. I love bootstrap myself, however wp themes that are based on bootstrap all fail to work well with bp-media in my recent experience.

So the choice pretty much comes to using a buddypress with a good theme and no bp-media plugin, or use a buddypress site with bp-media and a theme that is not based on bootstrap. Which really limits things quite a bit in my humble opinion.