@kenny, its better you create a child theme as when you upgrade the default theme which you are currently using, you will loose most of your customization.
see my site : http://www.naijaping.com/
i created that child theme and i have changed whats new to my liking
I don’t have that either in the new version of buddypress
@naijaping.. child theme? i dunno
im using buddypress default if thats what you mean
@hnla yes it’s my site, and sorry for double post, where do i go to change the relevant files in cpanel ?
@odiseo i really only wanna change those two words ‘what’s new’ and ‘site activity’ here: http://www.londonbbmpinswap.co.uk/
You can try to edit the translation file (.MO). That can be more convenient if you plan to customize many of the strings and terms used by buddypress (such “Friend”, “Group”, “activity”, etc)
@pinhit You have effectively asked this question twice, please try and keep to one thread .
@r-a-y, i read that codex..how do i get to: ‘Open the POT file from the /plugins/buddypress/bp-languages folder in your BuddyPress install’?
You could try the technique mentioned here
but you are probably better off creating your own custom language file as described in: https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/
Thank you very much for your help!
ok i went here in my admin area: BuddyPress Default: Main Index Template (index.php)
and could only find this line: `
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am I in the right area?
thanks
kenny
ideally i would like to able to at least ‘have a go’ at editing myself..my biggest hurdle is finding exactly ‘where’ to make these edits and always get confused between editing in admin area in buddypress and on the cpanel server-side,
@Virtuali where exactly can i find my current theme’s ‘activity/index.php’ ?
@r-a-y looks too complex for me but thanks for replying. I’m an absolute beginner with code I’m afraid.
phpBB would be a different beast altogether because unlike Mingle Forums which is a WP plugin and shares userbase, you have to use a plugin which is not updated regularly to bridge WP and phpBB. If you’re using BuddyPress, better and much easier to use bundled bbPress forums.
When will that update happen? I like self hosting so I can use advertisements (wordpress hosting doesn’t let you do this)
@T3Kaos yes, I saw your response and asked some questions there.
Actually, I do have one last question: would phpBB be a relatively simpe option for creating a forum?
Alright, thank you very much! If it doesn’t work, I suppose I’ll just use bbPress.
Go to BuddyPress > General Settings and make sure that Groups are enabled
Then go to http://yoursite.com/groups and click on the “Create a Group” link beside the Groups directory page title.
Sorry, I suspect only a few handful would consider using Mingle forums when bbPress is already bundled in BuddyPress. I can only suspect that URI to Mingle Forums would be “yoursite.com/forums” which conflicts with default slug and therefore URI of our bundled forums.
You could change BP forums slug to something else so your Mingle Forums URI will hopefully work, like adding the following to your wp-config.php:
`define ( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘somethingelseexceptforums’ );`
If that doesn’t work, I suggest you contact the plugin dev of Mingle Forums for assistance.
I’m sorry to bump, but any ideas?
for new one not working please help
@hnla My host has just set domain keys and SPF records for my account which is great but I can’t seem to find info on a PTA record. Could you give me some more info?
Cheers 
@rossagrant
Here’s quite a comprehensive list of links to help you troubleshoot:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=606426
EDIT: that’s actually a rather old thread. This is probably better: http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx
