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Sure. Make a ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ and we’ll look into it for a future release. If you are able toacreage a patch for this change, it’d get into BP quicker.

Look into something called “Open Graph”.

I’m not aware of any decent plugins that add Open Graph markup for BuddyPress content, before you ask

Activity stores data in what’s known as a “modified preorder tree traversal” structure; it’s a way of storing hierarchical data. http://www.sitepoint.com/hierarchical-data-database-2/ has more information.

Left and right are used to store the position of the node in the tree. Unless you want to/are able to figure out correct values, I strongly suggest you use BuddyPress’ APIs to insert or update data.

Have you checked out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras

Hi,

@Paul Gibbs, that’s a very good point. However, would it be possible to wrap that portion in a hook, or expose the resulting domain in a filter? This way the core could carry on doing its thing, while the plugin could hook up to that and take care of itself.

What you are asking for sounds beyond what I would expect a theme to do. However, this forum really isn’t the best place to ask I would point you to ask the theme developers. I do know this may not be what you want to hear but truly they will be the ones that know their product the best, not those of us on this forum. I hope you have success contacting them and get a theme that works for you.

Just to be clear, what you are saying is that there are a number of things you think BuddyPress fails at with regards to social content sites and you’d like to see changed? If so I’d recommend you either / or post this in the Requests / Feedback section (it may get lost in this section) and also look to open tickets if you think it’s a valid enhancement request or bug https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

@djpaul – has anything changed recently, as the ‘Load More’ AJAX in my profile activity stream no longer works for me. Pretty sure, this was functioning correctly a couple of weeks back. Without this, it makes it even harder to find previous topics.

Are you trying to build your own widget or add them as menu links? Ideally you shouldn’t remove things from the admin bar as that’s a control panel really for users but this link should provide a starting point for you:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/remove-the-visit-link-from-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

In BuddyPress 1.6 (due out soon – weeks, rather than months) there is an admin option to do this. In the interim, maybe look on wordpress.org for plugins.

Looks like issues with the BP Mobile plugin rather than BuddyPress. Have you tried contacting the BP Mobile plugin’s author for support?

When you say tweak it all depends on what you want to do as a lot you can simply do using CSS which means no needs to dive into the actual templates. I’d recommend a tool like Firebug http://getfirebug.com/ or Inspector depending on what browser you use. Using that you can view your page and inspect each element adjusting the CSS live and see the results.

Now, if you do want to dive deeper into templates it all depends on your theme. What should happen is your theme would be a child of BP Default ‘or’ use the template pack – I don’t know what theme you are using so don’t know what is the case. Some premium themes do bundle the files for BuddyPress (and often BBPress) in with the theme. Depending on your theme does also depend on where the BBPress template files may be. It could be it’s using default styling, it could be it has called it’s own – in this case the files would be in your theme folder. Ideally it should do the later if using customisation.

If you just end up doing CSS you can override in your themes CSS.

I would encourage you if you can to link in your site as it’s not the best way to view an image and diagnose CSS (or suggest if just can be CSS). Also stating what you want beyond you don’t like look – most things can be done in CSS but you may want more structural and for that it would be wrong to just suggest CSS.

In BuddyPress 1.5.6, you have the choice of two forum types: site wide, and group forums. Both are powered by bbPress; the former by bbPress 2 (the plugin), the latter by bbPress 1 (the standalone software). Right now, you can’t use bbPress 2 for group forums.

When BuddyPress 1.6 is released, you will be able to use bbPress 2 for group forums. And that’s what we’re strongly encouraging everyone to do; bbPress 2 is a much better piece of software, and is in active development (bbPress 1 is dead).