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@dains, your enclosed link no longer works. The following should:

Customize profile and group menus in BuddyPress

@mercime, thanks for confirming. I’ve placed the ticket.

Hi Mr. Zen,

Where will we add this php scripts? Thanks.

@tommyhoang, the major benefit of creating a child theme is so that when the parent theme gets updated, the customizations that were made won’t be lost. The child theme’s style.css is where the CSS customizations are being defined. That’s where you would have styled the header.

By the way, the child theme’s style.css is intended to override the targeted styling in default.css which resides in the parent theme. I’m new at this but I don’t see the purpose of you creating a default.css for your child theme.

@qrahaman you’re right. It’s a bug which should be reported in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ Would you like to do the honors? Use same username and password you used to log in buddypress.org

@modemlooper, I’m too new at this to help you but I just wanted you to know that your group announcement plugin that could broadcast across the stream from the “group” itself is a fantastic idea! Here’s a thought. What if there is so much activity in the stream that a observer/member (not of that group) misses it? Do you think providing a subscription feature for a specific group’s Group Anouncements would be something folks would want?

@modemlooper, thanks for replying. I saw I could do that right after I posted my question. I tried what you suggested for each of the component pages but it didn’t work. I created a new page and selected the appropriate template, and that worked. So then, I tried associating the Members component page with that newly created page. No go. Even though it mapped to the new page, the sidebar still shows up. Am I missing a step or do you think this could be a bug?

@tommyhoang use language file to change the text or add this to your functions.php file
`class Tommys_Translation_Mangler {
function filter_gettext($translation, $text, $domain) {
$translations = &get_translations_for_domain( $domain );
if ( $text == ‘You will auto join this group when you reply to this topic.’ ) {
return $translations->translate( ‘Feel free to reply.’ );
}
return $translation;
}
}
add_filter(‘gettext’, array(‘Tommys_Translation_Mangler’, ‘filter_gettext’), 10, 4);`

Reference: http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2010/01/02/mangling-strings-for-fun-and-profit/

@sbruner, yeah i figured that out right before i read this. any chance you can help me out on this other topic
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/removing-group-auto-join/

@mercime, I know this is a somewhat old thread but I would appreciate your advice on how to remove the sidebar and make the content area full width (for all the component directories: Activity, Forums, Groups, Members) from a markup/php standpoint for Buddypress 1.5. I am running Beta 3.

Per @modemlooper plugin, I’ve been able to add fields to groups. So what I’ve asked you is the next step; that is, to make room for all the content.

Thanks @modemlooper. I went hunting for an answer and there it was. Your plugin works like a charm!!

@r-a-y, remove custom css from which file? default.css?

as soon as i put
<?php

define( ‘HEADER_IMAGE_HEIGHT’, 300 );
?>

into my functions.php, i cant access wp-admin dashboard. i get this message: Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home6/stemcomm/public_html/wp-content/themes/STEM/functions.php:17) in /home6/stemcomm/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 934

Various notification settings are scattered throughout the BuddyPress codebase; each setting is saved as user meta.

To disable them, you have to set each one to “no” for each member.

eg. To disable email notifications for a member, you can use:
`update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘notification_messages_new_message’, ‘no’ );`

You’ll have to pass the user’s ID for the `$user_id` variable.

In BP 1.2.9, to find notification settings, try looking at /plugins/buddypress/bp-X.php, where X is each component’s main loader and search for “notification_settings”, then grab the meta key and rinse and repeat:
eg. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.2.9/bp-messages.php#L254

@tommyhoang – If you’re using that tutorial, remove any custom CSS you may have for the header and everything should work out fine.

Backup DB. Could still be lurking elsewhere like in BP tables. Export SQL, open up with text editor and search for jaws.my

@tommyhoang glad to hear you got it working. The header widget is supposed to be where you put it. Just move it in your header.php file to where you want it to show.

@sbrajesh Thanks for information. Your code worked perfectly!

@sbruner, great news! i finally got it to work! thanks for the all resources and help man. really really appreciate it!!!! one last question, is the header widget suppose to be below the default buddypress banner? i was hoping for it to be on the banner.

my widgetized footer only displays the widgets vertically and not hortizontally. i believe ill have to do some style.css with this but im not very good with coding. So i decided to not use widgets and just edit the codes in my child’s footer.php to include links to pages. hahaha works great but hopefully i didnt do something wrong by using this alternative route.

@r-a-y, when you say (YOUR IMAGE URL HERE) do you mean just paste a link to the picture we want? How would i change these codes so that I can simply upload a new header image in dashboard and crop it to a certain size?

i’ve used this tutorial http://buddydress.com/2010/04/custom-header-tutorial-adding-an-image-and-changing-the-size/
but it gets all messed up when i edit my child theme’s default.css

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/

Could you open an enhancement ticket on trac.buddypress.org? Ideally with a patch