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Hi,

Some of the answers may have to come from the Theme developer, i.e. Re-Hub theme, for example:

1) How can I configure the user profile page? There are elements I find unnecessary for my website, and I’d like to remove them: the sharing buttons, the “write a note” option, etc.

The “sharing buttons” and “write a note” options are not standard for BuddyPress and are either introduced by your theme in use or possibly from a plugin you have actuated.

Additionally, without getting into a lot of detail, depending on the template pack in use, e.g., Legacy or Nouveau, there are an assortment of template pages that can be overloaded/overridden (requres advanced knownledge).

2) Users registered on my site can publish articles using a frontend plugin, comment, etc.
However, nothing appears in the “Activity” section: even if someone has published an article, nothing shows up. Similarly, nothing appears if they leave comments, someone replies to their comment, or tags them.
Also, what does the “Favorites” button correspond to? With the theme I’m using, users can save articles as favorites, which are then displayed on a dedicated page. Is that what it’s supposed to refer to?

As to “articles“, I’ll assume these are synonymous with “blog posts“, typically these are synced to “Activities” via BuddyPress settings (wp-admin > Settings > BuddyPress) by enabling the “Site Tracking” component within the “Components” tab and enabling the “Post Comments” option under “Activity Streams” within the “Options” tab. See Post comments

As to “Favorites”, think of these as “bookmarks”, IOW, Activity items may be marked as “favorites” or unmarked as “Favorites” which will be listed within the “Favorites” tab, if marked accordingly and, yes, Favorites behave as you have indicated.

3) On the profile page, users can change their username and select a username that’s already in use (which isn’t allowed during registration). How can I fix this?

Usernames are unique and cannot be changed. In a “users” profile, the username is preceded/prefixed with the @ symbol. What may be confusing is the “Name” field which is more akin to the display name, to be more precise, it appears to be the “Display name publicly as”, which can be the same as the username or can be different from the username. What’s confusing is that there specific BuddyPress profile fields that correspond WordPress profile fields that may or may not have the same nomenclature. See Your Profile Screen – names section.

It seems like you are trying to fix something like, there can only be one user with a display name of "Alice". Rightly or wrongly, I suppose confusion abounds when a “display name” is conflated as being a “username”.

Perhaps, someone else will have a better or more precise explanation than I have provided.

go to Users – profile fields
try found message on page “BuddyPress Multilingual – have no translated fields” something like that. there is a button in the message, we press it, wait and now we can translate into string translation.
I searched for a long time and why the authors of the plugin did not include this in the instructions.

It actually appears to be a component in buddypress now apparently, so in the wordpress admin dashboard click on your installed plugins. Then under buddypress, click settings and then check friend connections and then save settings.

Also if you would like to connect with me on social media as you said before, I am trying to grow my LinkedIn profile as I’m currently looking for a job. So unless the link gets removed, it is below:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-bell-487a69295/

This file extends WP_CLI\CommandWithDBObject which no longer is part of WP_CLI, which in turn throws a fatal error.

This is news to me. I’ll look into it.

And your previous developer is not playing tricks. The CLI is bundled with BuddyPress when we release a new version We develop it separately here: https://github.com/buddypress/wp-cli-buddypress

buddypress already has a similar feature, it’s called bp friends, I can’t remember if it’ a standalone plugin, or if it’s its own plugin, but I also use that on my site. With the friends plugin, you can friend, and the user has to accept the friend request (which friends them back). This plugin also has support I believe with rtmedia’s privacy levels where you can friend people and then set post privacy levels so that only your friends can see the activity. (I might have made that functionality myself though, I can’t remember, I’ve written a lot of code). With the followers plugin, it’s just like regular followers where you would follow them and they don’t have to follow you back, and the user gets a following activity feed. that’s why I have both.

I setup a fork of the original github repo, I can’t guarantee it 100% works, especially like with following blogs and stuff like that as I haven’t tested that throughly. I also haven’t tested it with legacy themes. However, for regular following and for the following activity filters in bp_noveau etc… it should work.

https://github.com/Alexanderwbell/buddypress-followers

Yea, so I use the same plugin and the plugin is old and doesn’t work with the latest versions of buddypress by default. I had to modify it. I believe the load text just in time is just a warning though, the fatal error I had was with the sql queries, it worked for me without fixing the warnings. When I get home, I might be able to share some code.