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@bifrost you need to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress by installing/activating the BP Template Pack plugin. Then go to Appearance > BP Compatibility process.

Unless said bbPress plugin specifically notes that it also works with the BuddyPress Group Forums, then no.

@mumbaipav you’re welcome. Sure you can use a different sidebar. For example you have a sidebar-mumbaipav.php, you copy that file and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php then add the codes I posted above at the very TOP and at the very BOTTOM of that new file and upload to server.

@chouf1 site is private, but I took a screenshot of the group forum topic I made for you as well as the screenshot of the config settings. I post code usually e.g.
[ sourcecode lang=”css” ] the code [ /sourcecode ]
or [ php ] the code [ /php ]
P.S. had to put the spacings between brackets or else it won’t show up here.

I struggled with this too, but here’s the best solution I came up with:

:: http://studiohyperset.com/checking-for-avatars-and-gravatars-in-buddypress/4892

My apologies I’m terrible with my understanding of php etc.. but when I copied the code above for another Themeblvd theme (Akita) the resulting page comes up blank? Is their a solution for the Akita theme?
The themes page.php file is as follows:

[ Edit – removed code.
— Mercime ]

I struggled with this too, but here’s the best solution I came up with:

:: http://studiohyperset.com/checking-for-avatars-and-gravatars-in-buddypress/4892

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-i-make-buddypress-1-6-a-private-community/#post-136021 ?

Hmmm.. I agree Dannyjimmy.. I was excited to see an “official” link on caching for BP, but it looks like I’ve found nothing.

@thirstcard — image replacement techniques for small pieces of text like this are used throughout the web (find a modern website that doesn’t do it somewhere or other) — Google is not going to punish you for this. Have a read around, there are hundreds of articles on this and SEO.

Here’s Jeffrey Zeldman’s post on the latest technique to use: http://www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/

@modemlooper – I missed where you made that point?

@synergywp – I understand where you are coming from re: visibility of username in the url and the consequent reduction in site security.

It’s a fundamental part of the way BuddyPress sets up the URL structure, but should theoretically be
possible to rework the rewrite system to implement something more secure. Perhaps in the Facebook style, where user ID in the URL is just a number (until they change it to a preferred name), and does not reveal their login username (an email).

Would be interesting to get feedback from an informed core developer on this subject — did you check the trac to see if it had been raised before.

[EDIT: having said all that, is Facebook much more secure? — if someone knows my email address, they know my username]

Options:

Create a new user then give that user admin privileges and then delete the admin account This may delete the content associated with the deleted account.

Edit database directly. Links may get broken.

This plugin: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-username-on-your-buddypress-based-site/

@dadvan & @bounomid,

Why wouldn’t a Group work for you? …much more convenient for those who have an entirely separate and secret family unbeknownst to everyone else.

@FIQ – assume you are meaning a jQuery event, equivalent to something like a document.ready() that fires on Ajax load. Pretty sure there are some default jQuery events ready to AJAX activity.. can’t remember names off top of my head

[EDIT: take a look at the global jQuery ajaxSuccess, ajaxError, ajaxStart, ajaxSend, and ajaxStop events — there are also local versions]

@shemada – to do this properly, you need to use the bp_core_remove_nav_item() function.

Add a call to it in your theme’s functions.php file passing in the ID of the Events nav item.

If you Google on here for ‘remove_nav_item’ you should find plenty of previous threads / examples.

Do you have plugins other than BuddyPress installed? If so then try disabling each one until you find the offender.

But, do you really want AOL users? If so I got about a million hours of CD-ROMs I can sell them.

For your info, If the emails you used to test with was AOL it probably won’t work. Maybe someone else may know why. AOL used to work with BP registration emails but there was some change they made that filters out BP registration emails from being received even in the spam folder. Even facebook doesn’t like AOL email addresses anymore. Try yahoo, and gmail instead.

@thirstcard – Henry, as Tammy suggests — CSS can address this for you; It’s a little more complex than just setting background.

Have a Google on CSS Image Replacement Techniques — there are several approaches, you can choose your favourite.