@piiyo Is your Salutation updated to the latest version that’s compatible with latest BP?
@bruce-hazard glad you resolved this on your own. Yes, in any new WP/BP installation, bp-default theme is best theme to use while check out if everything’s functioning as expected 
@kristian86 I’ve altered the title of this topic from “Altering the activity stream” to “Altering the activity stream page” per your post above. Major difference.
If you’re using a child theme of the bp-default theme, copy https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.6.1/bp-themes/bp-default/activity/index.php , make revisions and upload file into wp-content/themes/yourchildthemefolder/activity/ folder. Some amount of HTML/CSS/PHP required.
i have a strange problem with a site running buddypress 1.6.1
the problem is that i can view a profile of some users but a profile for an editor i cannot view, i get a page not found.
When an editor is logged in he cant send private messages although the private messages is turned on in settings, but i as an admin can send pm to other users as long as the user is not admin or editor
I’m new to buddypress, and I can’t find a tutorial on how to customize the way members are displayed. I want a directory where members can be sorted by an extended profile field, namely a particular skill.
My members are artists, so visitors to the site should be able to find them by genre i.e. painting. Preferably, I’d like visitors to be able to search by keyword, but also click on links to a predefined list of genres, to show all members in that category.
Sometimes, artists specialize in more than one genre i.e. painter, sculptor. – so I’m thinking of creating up to 3 fields, all dropdowns containing the same list of genres. Is there anyway to:
1: search only specific fields in a keyword search?
2: create links that will generate results for each genre
3: combine 1 and 2 on the buddypress members page
Thank You for helping.
@tvanes glad you resolved the issue and thanks for letting us know what the resolution was.
@kenn_icuk WP/BP versions? Is your installation hosted locally or on shared hosting or VPS, etc? Windows or Linux? Are you using bp-default theme or a custom theme?
@mix35 per my check at this time, you have many plugins activated but did not activate BuddyPress at all. Before activating BuddyPress, deactivate the BP-compatible plugins first. Then activate those one by one as some may not have been updated for BP 1.6.
No, we don’t use Jetpack in our installations since we only needed some features which were already filled by other solutions.
Just a thought, have you tried deactivating plugins except BuddyPress and JetPack to check if it was a conflict with another plugin?
@mumbaipav you have activated the BP template pack plugin and need to complete of fix wrong implementation of Step 3 compatibility process. So as mentioned above
Open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all code, paste in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Do the same for index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php
thanks @shanebp, that fix the problem.
Hi everyone,
After updating buddyperss to bp 1.6, the number of members in Members Directory ‘All Members’ tab is incorrect.
http://www.dz-tchat.com/members/
but in the Activity area the number is correct
http://www.dz-tchat.com/activity/
how i can fix that?
thanks advance.
I found BP Gallery produces an “internet explorer cannot display the page” error when trying to enter groups since upgrading to 1.6.1
Thanks for reply James, I’m using Basic Theme from Elegant Themes, I added buddypress by BP Template Pack.
Unfortunately the code You’ve given above didn’t help. Any other Ideas??
@karmatosed – thanks for the suggestion, it worked perfectly!
Nope.
I’ve always had lots of trouble with the Groupblog plugin. Have you tried contacting its authors directly for support?
This is working as intended. Please create an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org, using your username and password from this site, explaining this and why you think it should be changed.
No need to crosspost on both here and on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4458 — we read both.
I would say generally that whatever the behaviour should be, it ought to be consistent.
Ooh. Tricky. Does setting the attribute via javascript work?
If you submit this as an enhancement ticket to https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org, using your username and password from this site, we can change the template in BuddyPress 1.7 for you. If you can attach a patch, that would be even better
opps my bad! forgot that the form’s enctype attribute has to be set. if i edit the `wp-contentpluginsbuddypressbp-themesbp-defaultmemberssinglemessagescompose.php` file to set the forms enctype then it works. but then another problem, how do i set it through my plugin so that i dont have to go and edit that file manually. or is if possible in the first place? any work around?
Hi @Chouf1,
I have been googling for the past 2 hours, so I thought I might finally give the forums a go.
I am already using my own theme – I have my sidebar-buddypress.php ready to insert code I need to add these links. Once I have the links I’m ok with styling it. I don’t think I need to set up a widget as I can directly edit the php file in Coda.
The problem is, I don’t know what the code is and that is what I’m looking for.
Hope that clarifies it a bit more.
