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== Yes it work with the admins but for other user account type the plugin didn’t allow them to create a group. ==

For group creation In BuddyPress at this time, it’s either Admin or “others” – the users/members – that’s it. So there’s no conflict when only the Admin can create groups if you uncheck “Enable group creation for all users.”

Basically, you will no longer need to install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress as this new feature serves as a fallback for any WP theme which does not have BuddyPress templates in it. The feature is the same way bbPress plugin templates are served up in WP themes.

Hello, I have the same problem, and I am using the default theme for buddypress, any ideas on how to fix this issue?

You need to install/activate BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress.

It is possible to filter profiles, but you’ll need PHP development skills — It’s not possible directly with ‘out of the box’ BuddyPress

@rcpessoa – that’s not how those links work – they are not a filtering mechanism.

Instead they do a search across the member profiles for any text that has that value.

It gets applied somewhat non-sensically to any profile data, and is a confusing UX element that can be turned off – have a google for how to do that.

Usually in BuddyPress that would be the site activity stream. You can embed that anywhere you want. Would that be a good solution? http://testbp.org/activity/ shows what it by default would show – but a number of plugins also show output there.

I see you mention hours they contributed – this seems more user specific not site specific (which the other things you list do fall into). If it was me I’d try and keep the two separate and maybe show a user table somehow of stats like that or leave it on profiles. That or perhaps what you are meaning would be an output like ‘bob volunteered 4hours today’ rather than a running total. In that case, it would be down to custom development or a plugin that is monitoring those donated hours. But, the hook is there in BuddyPress for it to output.

I think you’ve already asked this

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-show-only-firstname-lastname-in-activity-instead-of-nickname/

Better to keep to one thread – doesn’t get a faster answer by asking multiple times.

I just did a quick check and that plugin is only designed to work for the members directory not site wide from what I see. Either that or it’s stopped working on activity, but the notes seem to indicate it’s designed for members directory.

Per user you can set it yourself but I guess you want a solution that forces users to have it displayed one way? If the per user method works though you can under their user settings in the admin.

This thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/fullname-vs-username-vs-first-last-name/?topic_page=1&num=15 has some thoughts on solutions but they are all code and not sure how applicable to the current code base.

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-usernames-only/forum/topic/bp-username-only-plugin-announcements/ however may be another thing to consider.

B. CREATE a NEW BLANK FILE named sidebar-buddypress.php

Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php file and add the following within:
`

jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});

`

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/strings/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

D. Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to make the BP templates compatible with your theme.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your strings theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete those 6 BP folders transferred to your theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add:
`

@jaymeselman based on the HTML structure of your theme, you only need to create two files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php

Having said that, you have two options. either
a) all pages full-width
b) all pages with sidebar

(a) or (b)?

@cleaus there’s not a single code in your pastebin.com’s links for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php

@ubernaut,

I am not able to get a chosen option to stick using BP Default, and using the Template Pack, I can’t see the privacy options at all. I have not turned off all other plugins though, so there could be a conflict with one of those.

@abovenbelow,

give this a shot… I’m about to: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/

You may also want to check out: http://buddydev.com/tag/bp-gallery/ for the Gallery (but Brajesh is working on the next version), BP Media’s BP Album+ could also work for you; and you could give Boris’ Mapology plugin at http://shabushabu.eu a shot as well.

There’s no way to do this in the BP UI at the moment, without writing code. If you’re interested in how these tabs work, you may want to consult the BuddyPress Skeleton Component: https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-skeleton-component