Thank you for the suggestion @etivite
Sorry I should have mentioned it in my original post. I tried WP Google+ Connect and it didn’t work for me. I posted my issue in that plugin group on wp but no responses so far.
Do you know of alternatives?
Thanks @DJPaul for the reply, that’s what I thought as well that it worked right out of the box. I tested the groups with forums with another install I had and those would post on the activity stream. But neither install would show the blog mentions or blog comments.
Thanks again 
This site has 66,085 members currently. At my day job, I work on http://my.telegraph.co.uk/ which has 93,544 members currently.
This must be part of your custom theme; it’s not part of BuddyPress core.
Cool, glad it worked out for you
Method 1 works all the time for all WP themes, while method 2 works for some WP themes depending on HTML structure.
Method 2 in short, uses the WP functions available for themes. Look at /activity/index.php and you’ll see header(‘buddypress’), sidebar(‘buddypress’) and footer(‘buddypress’) in the template files. If there’s a header-buddypress.php, in the WP/BP theme folder, then the BP template file would use header-buddypress.php. If there’s none, then the BP template file would use header.php by default.
TMA works with either method 1 or method 2. I gave the solution for method 2 because the HTML structure of TMA was suitable for that. Method 2 saves you from having to “fix alignment” for 16 BP template files again (which you have to do in method 1) when the BP Template Pack plugin is upgraded.
the mobile menu is just for the mobile version of the site via the buddypress mobile plugin
I don’t want the mobile menu being ‘hidden’ from logged-out mobile users really, mainly desktop users.
I’ve put some mods in the activity-loop etc for keeping activity updates, profiles and members, groups, and forum directories ‘garden-walled’ as such so may have that angle covered?
I’m not sure what you mean – but according to https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_nav_menu you could have ` ‘fallback_cb’ => false,`
I don’t know how you are doing the mobile menu, but couldn’t you just have $current_user logged in and out mobile menus?
If someone can guess the page such as activity, then just hiding the menu won’t stop them getting in anyway.
@aces just had a thought! instead of calling up the ‘secondary-menu’ would it be possible to void out / null the request to fallback on no menu at all..?
i.e. – => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘no-menu’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
or – => false, ‘menu_id’ => ‘nav’, ‘theme_location’ => ‘//’, ‘fallback_cb’ => ” ) );
sounds like a plugin conflict?
have you tried de-activating your plugins one by one to see if one of them is causing the problem?
single menu..?
I really think I gotta create the third theme location first, because the fall-back call will end up showing logged-out visitors my mobile menu which is a duplicate of the primary location so in theory my menu tabs will still be on display
Figured it out… incompatible plugin (Theme-My-Profile, for what it’s worth). Deactivated it and the world returned to normal*.
* Realize that “normal” is a relative term.
Those roles are added by bbPress 1.0. BuddyPress doesn’t use them.
There’s a setting for exactly that in Settings > Discussion in wp-admin
@mercime – great! it worked. Thanks a ton. Still some styling to do, but it’s working yay!
Could you however help clarify why method 2 worked over 1. And how does method 2 work exactly?
@jugularbean Re #1 – thanks for clarifying, just had to make sure
2. You don’t change the filenames, you replicate the file/s and rename as header-buddypress.php etc and should be saved in root of your TMA theme folder.
You’re in luck. We can use the second method to make TMA compatible with BuddyPress.
1. Open up TMA’s header.php with text editor and Save As > header-buddypress.php in TMA theme folder
2. Open up header-buddypress.php and add the following at the very end of the file:
`<?php global $woo_options;
//get_template_part( ‘top-banner’ );
?>
`
Save file.
Note: if the global woo_options wreaks havoc, delete from the code
3. Open up TMA’s sidebar.php and Save As > sidebar-buddypress.php in TMA’s theme folder
4. Open up sidebar-buddypress.php
a. At the very beginning of the file, insert
`
`
b. At the very end of the same file, insert
`
`
Save file.
5. You might want to tweak the default styling of the BP template files. You can use the following style changes used in Twenty Ten theme as a guide https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/
Here’s a screencast of the issue…http://youtu.be/rNObvdx8h_I
Sorry, I meant buddypress.org, of course.
Wow, definitely need a BP Forums for Dummies book right about now. Looking for online tutorials…
Ok something very strange going on. I did a fresh install of wordpress & deleted tables in database. Went in to WP admin and all ok. Went to ‘Settings – reading’ and I can see that I can select homepage & blog page using dropdown.
However as soon as I activate buddypress and go back in to ‘Settings – reading’ the dropdown to select static homepage is no longer there! This is obviously related to my above problem with no page dropdowns within buddypress settings.
Also any pages I create are not showing up in my themes navigation menu. Its as if WP is not reading any pages I create and treats it as if I have no pages.
If I deactivate buddypress the problems persists and i need to delete database again.
Please can anyone help with this?
Ok, I got rid of the unwanted text (removed it from the bb-config.php file), but I’m still unable to assign forum posts to groups. Any suggestions?
The essence of what you want is to store a piece of usermeta called something like ‘user_type’, where each user is either ‘player’ or ‘team’. The tricky part for your purposes will probably be that BuddyPress (or WordPress for that matter) is not designed to allow one user to act “on behalf of” another user – or, as you put it, “players interact only through their respective teams”. I take it that means that player1 would be able to send a message and have it come from team1. But this is going to be quite tricky, as it’ll mean, essentially, filtering the current user id in hundreds of places throughout BuddyPress.
Yea, I never really used it much… so I just decided to deactivate it + that cleared up this issue!
