No problem it’s also a great opportunity with BuddyPress 1.4 for people to get stuck in UI and design / theme wise so I’d strongly encourage anyone theme / design focused to start attending the developer meetings on Wednesday. Really exciting shiny pixel pusher times 
@christophg So far I’m looking to create a custom user data field for the front end, and hard coding it into the member-header file with out current user id restrictions so other members can manipulate it. On the front end it would just be a simple form field of 5 check boxes with a star image set as background images. I am still working on the math to tally total ratings and display out the results as said stars. Think of the star rating system on NetFlix. The form to rate is also the averaged rating display.
Hmm weird I’m seeing it working for me. I’m using the default BuddyPress theme and it shows friend activity for me.
My first thoughts are ‘maybe’ (long shot) a theme or plugin could be interfering – have you tried without plugins and using the default theme. Seems that probably wouldn’t cause that though.
Scratching my head a little as in a few tests I come up with it working for me sorry. Maybe someone else will be able to replicate if you can let us know your version for WordPress and BuddyPress and browser (long shot again that it’s browser but playing safe).
It could be a plugin it could also be something easily fixed with a browser cache clear – have you tried that? Best practice advice would be to browser cache clear, remove each plugin one by one, remove each widget one by one… all else fails try the default BuddyPress theme and rest your permlinks.
If all that doesn’t work just post a link to your site and that will help people in looking at what is going on to see if they can help you.
Your going to be best off having a look at plugins – your developer should be able to do this for you also.
A good starting point is the extend section of this site. https://buddypress.org/extend/
Lets see if we can get one on track though for you. For the activity stream editor you may want to start with: http://teleogistic.net/code/buddypress/bp-tinymce/
@embergermedia Let me know what rout your thinking of taking and perhaps we could put our heads together and find a solution. I have been working on an idea but have hit a wall and maybe between the two of us we will be able to fill the gaps
Interestingly enough, WordPress-side media uploads work just fine. Correct permission is assigned with those uploads, and also with BP Album+ (both come through at 644). It seems to be isolated to the avatar uploads in Buddypress only. The avatar uploads, but comes through at permission level 600. The file owner and group are the same as all of the other files uploaded as well, so it’s not a file ownership issue that I can see…
Not sure why the code is not showing:
Here’s the snippet that I changed between the php tags
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘somethingnew’ );
Ok, I guess the code did not post in my last post, so here’s what I have:
<?php
define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );
define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘activity’ );
define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘blogs’ );
define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘forums’ );
define( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘friends’ );
define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘somethingnew’ );
define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘members’ );
define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’, ‘messages’ );
define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘register’ );
define( ‘BP_SEARCH_SLUG’, ‘search’ );
define( ‘BP_SETTINGS_SLUG’, ‘settings’ );
define( ‘BP_XPROFILE_SLUG’, ‘profile’
?>
I successfully changed the titles, but not the slugs.
Ok, right now, I place exactly this code in my bp-custom.php
<?php
define( 'BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG', 'activate' );
define( 'BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG', 'activity' );
define( 'BP_BLOGS_SLUG', 'blogs' );
define( 'BP_FORUMS_SLUG', 'forums' );
define( 'BP_FRIENDS_SLUG', 'friends' );
define( 'BP_GROUPS_SLUG', 'somethingnew' );
define( 'BP_MEMBERS_SLUG', 'members' );
define( 'BP_MESSAGES_SLUG', 'messages' );
define( 'BP_REGISTER_SLUG', 'register' );
define( 'BP_SEARCH_SLUG', 'search' );
define( 'BP_SETTINGS_SLUG', 'settings' );
define( 'BP_XPROFILE_SLUG', 'profile'
?>
and uploaded it to /wp-content/plugins. I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘;’ in /home/content/90/5329690/html/*site*/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 17.
Any thoughts?
Good suggestion. I’ve opened a ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3374
In the meantime, you could probably do something by filtering bp_get_activity_latest_update_excerpt.
OK, there isn’t a “Create a Group” tab when I click on “Groups” in the top bar, so it seems not everything is working correctly.
@christophg I have a similar site structure and have been looking for a rating system as well. To date I haven’t found anything except this crumb of hope:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/rate-anything-new-plugin-in-development-soliciting-architecture-advice/
this being done by @dwenaus
At the moment I am working on trying to create a simple solution myself. I may have a look at the plugin mentioned here and see how it works. I’ll post here if I figure anything out.
I removed the multisite aspect from my site entirely and that seemed to have cleared up most of the issues I am having since the upgrade. Things look better now so maybe it wasn’t buddypress after all. After removing multisites though I had to redo all of the plug ins – maybe that’s why its better – I don’t know.
BP can be installed on the computer??
Because I try to install and have no success because the following error appears:
Fatal error: Can not redeclare bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring () (previously declared in C: xampp htdocs wordpress wp-content plugins BuddyPress -themes bp bp-default _inc ajax.php: 20) in C: xampp htdocs wordpress wp-content themes custom-community _inc ajax.php on line 63
And I don’t see any upgrades for those plugins. Also I noticed this buddypress.org site isn’t working properly either like I just tried to edit that last reply and it took me to a page not found. And all my recent activity is gone in the profile page. But at least it still looks good.
Or you could stop using that plugin and follow this tutorial:
http://bp-tricks.com/featured/creating-a-custom-front-page-for-your-buddypress-groups/
It works better for me, since Group Front Page plugin has a horrible template
I’m using the Pagelines Pro and Pagelines Pro Base – according to them it is good to go for the upgrade. The only forms it is affecting is the ones associated with buddypress – like the boxes in the groups and forums for search, reply’s and the buddypress form add on’s for registration.
I hope it comes out soon! I’m kind of desperate for a solution..
I found this “fixed” version of the Buddypress Maps plugin, http://www.sky-flop.com/buddypressmaps-titi.rar done by a user named tweetyx.
Before I couldn’t even get the markers working, but with this fix I managed to get the markers running for the group maps in the group admin section. However as a user under the “map” tab in groups, the markers aren’t visible.. you can only see the default location..
@josephisready please start a new thread for your issue. most people have probably missed it.
Those are general multisite questions. 
“- Where is the code? Is it replicated, or pulled from a single location?”
One codebase. pulled from one spot.
“- Should I be worried about the load?”
by just turning on multisite? no.
“Can I keep it from loading on select sites?”
that admin bar? yes.
“- Can my messing about with BuddyPress somehow affect my other sites?”
depends. edit the files directly and whitescreen something and maybe it will show up everywhere. generally, no.
you read my blog now, right? 
http://wpmututorials.com
I second this ! I am interested to include the map in the groups , I had the same question here.. https://buddypress.org/community/groups/third-party-components-plugins/forum/topic/any-recommended-groups-map-plugin/
Brajesh promised to create simple map on my request here (maybe not everybody see it because you need to be a member on his site) :
http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/groups-google-map-plugin-suggestion
perfect solution for me within buddypress groups should be this:
http://gmap3.net/examples/address-lookup.html
Hey, have you tried to refresh your computer after making the changes? sometimes you need to clear the cache.
If you have a child theme of bp-default theme, copy over the header.php file to child theme folder. Open header.php with text editor and make changes in navigation links.
