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@newpress Please don’t make these sorts of posts, this is spam and we do not need it re-focussed on. Both Paul and I have asked you previously to improve your behaviour on this forum, please observe these requests as it isn’t going to be asked again.

tbh thought I had locked this thread – will do so now.

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your paradise theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

I’m trying to do the exact same thing right now. It has gone smoothly, bar version 1.5 featuring no CSS for the admin bar, then on upgrading to 1.6 the admin bar CSS was fixed, but all the menu items in the admin bar disappeared.

Any ideas on how to get the BuddyPress bar menu items back?

I chose to use the new admin bar menu instead of the older one, so perhaps I could go back to that to fix it? It seems like moving to the regular WordPress one would be best though.

“They said they were
hoping to show off “that
wow factor, “WordPress Opensource Wonder”

this is not spam. This is rather an encrypted message. Buddypress is still stuck in 1,********s. No major release recently. Its 2.0 phobia

“The audience liked
their number, which ended
with all of the guys dancing in trays of water”

“Sharon liked it. Howie liked it but said it was “one-dimensional.”

“Howard thought they “did well,” but also said it was “deja vu” – we had seen it all before or we were mesmerized”

@newbie2011 we have a list of “template-packed” WordPress themes @ https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes

If you need assistance for your current theme, open up your theme’s header.php, copy all code, paste in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php

Hi,
you changed the wrong file. Never modify a core file when what you need is on the public side ! This means a template of the theme you’re using.
i said “you can search a term in the pot file”, not you must modify the pot file. This file is necessary for translation purpose and has no activity on your site. With a pot file you can generate a po file, and by saving it, you create the compiled mo file. PHP use this mo file at least.

How it works ?
– searching a word: xxx.pot file
– translating/modifying a word: xxx.po file (no T in the extension)
– saving the po file within a po editor sofware like poEdit
– saving the po file will generate a compiled format called .mo file witch must be uploaded on your server via FTP

In your case, the word “groups” you want to modify is used in these files. You will find this piece of code in your po file.

`#: bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php:189
#: bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php:284 bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php:354
#: bp-core/bp-core-template.php:260 bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php:143
#: bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php:179 bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php:215
#: bp-groups/bp-groups-activity.php:251 bp-groups/bp-groups-loader.php:502
#: bp-groups/bp-groups-screens.php:844 bp-groups/bp-groups-widgets.php:28
#: bp-groups/bp-groups-widgets.php:48 bp-groups/bp-groups-widgets.php:119
msgid “Groups”
msgstr “”`

Learn more here: https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/

Thank modemlooper – I totally agree about unsupported plugins and warned the client, but he is crazy about having this group home page and all the extra info sections. Everything was working well until the last buddypress update. The problem seems to be that both the group frontpage and Activity are directing to mysite.com/group.
I am thinking that creating a custom activity page may more what we want. building on the trick above – if I create a custom page template, such as group-activity.php – not sure where to put this. We are using a child theme.
Then – remove the default Activity sub-nav item and add a new custom sub-nav link
Any reason that won’t work?

The short answer is yes but with some custom modification. Either you’re going to have to develop it yourself or work with a developer to achieve everything.

Do you mean bbpress or BuddyPress? Want to be sure what you are doing.

@newbie2011 just saying that it would be easier creating two files instead of changing 16 BP template files since you’re fortunate that your theme’s HTML structure allows it. See an example of how it was done for the Evolution Theme. The additions to the header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php would be different in your case, but you get what I mean. Should you decide to go this route, backup your revisions.

@spuntotheratboy I upgraded an installation from BP 1.2.5 / WP 3.0 but I did it step by step, watching up for WP upgrades as well as the BP compatible upgrades.

The first thing I did before the first upgrade was to change to bp-default theme. Then I deactivated the BP-compatible plugins, then the other WP plugins plus renamed bp-custom.php and renamed the mu-plugins folder, then changed to Twenty Ten theme and deactivated BP.

Version by Major version manual (s/FTP) upgrades of WP and BP per compatibility of both and stopping to check the site once in a while to check if BP components are working as expected. For reference re compatibility of WP/BP versions, check out https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/

Are you using the bp-default theme? If you are, are you using a customized homepage template?

Try disabling all your plugins except BuddyPress and see if you are able to see the register link afterwards.

If you’ve created a child theme of bp-default, copy and paste the /activity/index.php template to your child theme.

Next, open up this file and remove the various li entries for All Members, My Favorites and @mentions. This should remove the tabs from the activity directory page.

Check out this link:
https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/developer-and-designer-information/#member-forum-pages-are-blank

Agreed with Roger.

You would have to do two things:
* modify the registration template (/registration/register.php) to remove the username field.
* modify the registration validation routine to use the first and last name as the username. If you’re already familiar with WordPress development, the appropriate function to look at is bp_core_validate_user_signup().

Hey buddypress — Any insights here? It’s been 10 months and several people have reported this. It’s even broke on this site.

Please respond.

@sciencefiction68 glad it’s working out for you, good news
Marking this as resolved.