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@espeon
If you had actually read that codex page in the second link without dismissing it as not what you wanted (what did you want? I suspect what has been offered above!) then you would have noted this line:
We’re going to modify the ‘My Blogs’ menu without changing the core code

Operative words there are “without changing core code”

When you come to a tech forum that offers help you need to bear in mind that the prerequisite to gaining that help is that you demonstrate a willingness to get involved and to be seen to help your self as much as possible; please do not think that on a voluntary help forum that there is any obligation to help people it’s a co-operative process, and attitude of any sorts is never taken well!

You now have a function that looks on the surface to do what you require, and which you now test by adding to your functions file in your theme.

it’s important though that because some code has been provided that this isn’t perceived as the norm or that the forum is a coding service – the provision of code in this manner is up to each and every member to decide if they wish to provide and often it will be but it mustn’t be taken for granted.

@pcwriter @thealchemist

woohoo! that worked for my forums too! i am one happy camper. now hopefully my forums will stay clean! yay!

anyone know the code for profiles? would one just replace “profile” for “group” in the code for forums? thinking that there would be MORE to that, but I’m all ears.

thank you for testing @pcwriter !

function add_welcome_message() {
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$author = $current_user->display_name;
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo "
<li>Welcome <strong>" . $author . "</strong></li>

";
echo '
<li><a href="' . wp_logout_url( site_url() ) . '">' . __( 'Log Out', 'buddypress' ) . '</a></li>

';
} else {
echo "
<li>Welcome <strong>Guest</strong></li>

";
}
}
add_action( 'bp_adminbar_menus', 'add_welcome_message', 15 );

Add in the remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ ); if you wish.

@stars4321 yeah, BP Nicey is a child theme of bp-default and most probably wouldn’t have cause the registration glitch. Change to bp-default theme, deactivate recaptcha and plugins other than BuddyPress and see if /register/ still goes to home page.

@Ann_Whitt_Wen running BP Template Pack moves the following 13 files within 6 major folders to your active WP theme: https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#revise-templates. Looks like member folder files are missing. Double-check via FTP/cPanel that those 13 files are there. If not, go through the BP Template Pack process again. Or, copy over the missing files/folders from BP Template Pack plugin to your active theme while maintaining folder/file structure.

== The links you provided linked me to a codex do_action hook page, which is nothing I want. I don’t need hooks.==

@espeon the information contained in linked documents given by @nahummadrid may be nothing you want but those are what you need in order to modify the adminbar. No reason for sarcasm.

@NrFive That was the layout of the BuddyPress parent theme pre-BP 1.2. It’s do-able but not easy as A-B-C.

== every user created blog to be part of the main site ==
It can be as simple as making your blog a multi-author blog in a single WP install. But even if you go multisite, you can achieve the same look and feel by creating the child theme and just changing main navigation in header.php to get navigation of main site with BP.

@pjnu at least we know that there’s no error if you’re using bp-default theme, so it’s not a BuddyPress issue at all. What theme are you using exactly? Have you read your theme docs whether it requires activation of a membership plugin? I would contact theme author especially if it’s a premium theme for support. Good luck.

Alright, that makes sense. Thank you @djpaul .

i’d try removing the logo something like this in your functions.php or bp-custom.php…

remove_action( ‘bp_adminbar_logo’, ‘bp_adminbar_logo’ );

…and try applying your welcome message start here & here:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar-not-working-in-bp-customphp/
https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/modifying-the-buddypress-admin-bar/

You should be able to create a page called Activity and go to your wp >> reading >> settings and change it to static page and choose your activity page. that should put your activity stream up on the front page.

but if you really want something like the twitters as you say..then those are not really live tweets happening. they are editorially run through a continous loop like the plugin you provided. thats what I think is what you’d want to do. I’ve been looking into the same thing for a while and it turns out it’s better to run the most recent Xnumber of activity updates in a scrolling activity loop so it looks active. running the activity refresh isn’t necessarily going to give you that same effect on the homepage if you don’t have constant activity. the closest to reaching this is the activity bar plugin, it just needs to display more than one activity at a time to accomplish this.

Here’s some other related threads:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/scrolling-activity/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-stream-bar/forum/topic/scrolling-activity-display/

Good luck. looking forward to seeing this hit the stage.

you might want to look at
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-stream-bar/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/rs-buddypress-activity-refresh/

Please read through this post and try a manual install for the reasons noted in that post.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/forums-posting-problems-the-definitive-post/

That needs to be attempted before being able to help that much further, this issue of forum error creating new topic crop up frequently and the solutions covered a few times in threads, it’s a cas of finding the right one for the circumstances.

Also please try searching on a topic before posting as you may well find the answers or steps to follow without needing to post afresh.

Try a search on ‘forum posting’ it returns quite a few threads on the subject.

Hello! I completed my first install of WordPress / Buddypress today and was extremely excited about switching after seeing how easy everything was to install…so impressive, I love it! However, I’ve been struggling all day with the “There was an error when creating the topic” issue mentioned above. I searched for hours on the Internet trying to find a solution and was thrilled to see this post! But unfortunately, nhla’s suggestion to check and uncheck the ‘Enable Discussion Forum’ didn’t work for me. :0( I desperately want a forum for my Word Press so I looked into installing the SimplePress plugin, but…. would definitely prefer to go the Buddypress route.

Are there any other suggestions/fixes for this problem?

I’m using a “one click install” of Word Press v3.0.4, and Buddypress v1.2.7.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I don’t want to give up on Word Press!

@r-a-y staying tuned for sure

@acaps2007
What I’ve found finally:

(It’s based on this article:
http://easyoutsource.com/blog/how-to-code-a-custom-adminbar-in-buddypress/)

So if you just set your adminbar to be hidden in css rather than completely disable it in the wp-config.php, you could use to call the notification menu.

If you’ve completely disabled adminbar, then use the following code instead(it’s copied from bp-core-adminbar.php):

<?php
global $bp;

if ( !is_user_logged_in() )
return false;

echo '<li id="bp-adminbar-notifications-menu"><a>loggedin_user->domain . '">';
_e( 'Notifications', 'buddypress' );

if ( $notifications = bp_core_get_notifications_for_user( $bp->loggedin_user->id ) ) { ?>
<span></span>
<?php
}

echo '</a>';
echo '<ul>';

if ( $notifications ) {
$counter = 0;
for ( $i = 0; $i < count($notifications); $i++ ) {
$alt = ( 0 == $counter % 2 ) ? ' class="alt"' : ''; ?>

<li></li>

<?php $counter++;
}
} else { ?>

<li><a href=&quot;loggedin_user->domain ?>"></a></li>

<?php
}

echo '</ul>';
echo '</li>';
?>

And as I have found out, the js effect (what you called the “mouse over” effect) is dealt automatically by bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/global.js

In my case, I’m building a child theme of bp-default, so I don’t have to worry about js, just copy and paste css codes from bp-themes/bp-default/_inc/css/adminbar.css and adjust selectors accordingly.

If you are not building a child theme of bp-default, then maybe you can try search in the global.js and make some copy and past.

Good luck !

Make sure the page.php file looks like this http://paste.ly/4Dyc

Note: the comments template part