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Mike

WordPress and BuddyPress are set up to work in different languages provided the alternative language files are available and installed.

There is a difference between running a site purely in another language, vs. having an existing site be able to switch between languages.

If the site will be purely in Spanish that’s straightforward, you have to just load the WordPress and BuddyPress Spanish language files. If you want to switch that’s more complicated and you will want to use a plug-in to achieve that.

If you are switching between languages, there’s the question of the WordPress & BuddyPress text (the buttons, things like “user1 posted an update 10 minutes ago” etc., and then there is your content, your words and the page, the menus etc.

You’ve got a bit of reading to do to learn more about this.

Start with https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language

For BuddyPress you can use this plug-in to make sure it loads the latest Spanish language files:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-translations

There are a bunch of plugins for maintaining a bilingual site that all work in different ways. Try WPML or qTranslate to get you started (although you may find they do not fully support BuddyPress, you’ll have to try them or contact the developers to see.)

TL:DR; is it’s very straightforward for standalone sites in a different language, but pretty complex for multi-lingual sites that you can switch between languages.

@ofloveandbeauty thanks for the screenshot. That menu is not generated by BuddyPress. It’s more like it was generated by another plugin which probably needs to be updated by the developer.

read this to understand templates

Template Hierarchy

I’ve got no advice the actual problem as I’ve only been banging my head against BuddyPress for about a week, but did you check to see that the update didn’t overwrite your changes? My understanding is that you need to use a child theme for file changes so that updates don’t overwrite them.

Hi @rayela, since your original question never got answered I thought I’d give you an answer:

As you discovered, you can disable all activity feeds for your entire site by unchecking the “activities” component on the BuddyPress settings Components tab, but as you mentioned this results in a blank home page which isn’t good.

Unfortunately, you cannot fix this without writing code because there are no easy options to do this with BuddyPress (I feel your pain, I quit programming for a reason).

You will need to create a functions.php or bp-custom.php as mentioned above to add custom code to. This function will redirect it so that the forum tab is the “home page” for your group and remove the “home” tab so that it’s no longer visible:

function redirect_group_home() {
  global $bp;
  $path = clean_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
  $path = apply_filters( 'bp_uri', $path );
  if (bp_is_group_home() && strpos( $path, $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home']['slug'] ) === false ) {
    if ($bp->groups->current_group->is_user_member || $bp->groups->current_group->status == 'public') {
      bp_core_redirect( $path . 'forum/' );
    }
  }
  
  $bp->bp_options_nav[$bp->groups->current_group->slug]['home'] = false;
}

add_action('bp_init', 'redirect_group_home');

I’m not sure if you’re still active here but I felt after your amiable responses you deserved a real answer.

Hi focallocal,

Read this for a tentative fix:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-stopped-working-with-thesis-on-upgrade-from-1-8-to-1-9/#post-176829

And reply in that thread to let us know if it fixes your problem.

Thanks to Qball7686 for posting a freely-available theme that runs into this problem.

I have a tentative fix for this. See:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5301/5301.01.patch

If people who are having problems with their themes can test this fix and let us know if that works for them, that would be great.

Thanks everyone for this hard-to-find-info!

Where is the user experiance and human point of view dear Buddypress team? Totally confusing using “legacy”, and I consider myself old in the game…

Im not so good at this template part but I think Accociation with “buddypress pages” (or like Woocommerce and other) is to claim the slug for the screen function, that don care about the content() of the page itselfs.

I might be wrong, so someone please confirm or correct this.

I figured this out, in my case.

If you disable a component and still have the new buddypress menu link for that component in your navigation menu, you’ll get this error. You have to remember to remove it from your menus.

I was working just fine, Multisite, 3.8, and 1.9…and I went to activate Groups component. And I started getting this error message.

Only thing I can think of is that I had Buddypress activated on single mode as opposed to Network activated at the time I enabled Groups.

I activated bp in network mode, but it didnt fix it.

> I’m conflicted on how much we can realistically support themes that deviate so far from the norm.

I see no real conflict to be resolved, it’s impossible for BP to take into account unknown divergences from the core template api WP provides, if theme authors want to create something non-standard then sadly that’s their problem and unfair to expect BP to have to try and deal with this. The best BP can do and is doing pretty well is to tie in as much as possible to the set WP template approach and if all themes did the same – and frankly they probably could regardless of proprietary approach to frameworking – then this would be a non issue.

>that now uncover pretty fatal flaws in several themes

Flaws that existed and have existed in many themes that do their own thing.

Where that leaves things is sadly fairly and squarely in the theme authors court to try and help provide a solution for template issues.

On a sidenote on another thread I noted a response relayed from a theme author to the user on enquiry of how to resolve their theme issue that the theme author couldn’t possibly support every third party plugin issue that happened along! It’s worth perhaps pointing out to any theme authors that might happen past this thread that there are plugins and there are plugins that really are best described as modules that extend WP they transcend the notion of a simple plugin and leverage the WP API to it’s fullest, these plugins, and I’m thinking of BuddyPress and bbPress here are in wide spread use, and really the smart theme author might be advised to actually test their themes with both these ‘plugins’ to gauge the level of support the theme offers and where possible improve it!

Obviously the above isn’t a great deal of help to those of you having these issues, but this forum is going to struggle to help on these sorts of issues being it’s primary purpose has to be directly related to BP issues and third party themes especially premium ones are something we can’t deal with due to lack of knowledge on how they are constructed.