@svetka812 – these questions are also better asked in the forum “how to and troubleshooting” rather than “requests and feedback”
@svetka812
Hi Tatiana – it would be better to ask this as 2 separate questions in the forums (one about images, and one about text). Also make the title a bit clearer, as that will get more people to help you (“activity stream 1.2.5.2” is too general).
To get more help and quicker: I suggest you create two question threads, something like: “how do I stop small images from blog post excerpts getting enlarged in the activity stream updates?” and “Why are my blog post updates missing paragraph breaks when shown in the activity stream?”
My quick thoughts:
images
The problem with image sizes is because a core function in BuddyPress is forcing activity images, that don’t have their height or width set explicitly, to be 100px high. The function causing the problem is bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images().
I’ll raise this as problem in the forums or maybe bug trac.
update text
I don’t have a problem with paragraph breaks in the activity stream. My blog posts are being shown correctly with the breaks. I’m using a default installation of BP1.2.5.2
Paragraphs can be removed by a filter in WordPress / BuddyPress. Have you made any changes to your functions.php or bp-custom.php to turn off the ‘autop’ filter? i.e. do you have any code like this in those files:
add_action(“init”,”remove_autop_filters_from_activity”);
function remove_autop_filters_from_activity(){
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content_body’, ‘wpautop’ );
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_activity_content’, ‘wpautop’ );
}
Perhaps there is something in the blog template you are using that is doing this?
Ask this one about paragraph breaks as a separate question in the forum (and include my comment).
Cheers, Roger
@christinarule pursuant to my other comments on your other threads you really need to start a new topic if you have an issue, and you will need to be a whole! lot more descriptive of the problem; telling us you need help is a ‘Given’ telling us something ‘Sucks’ not at all helpful it may well do but if you want it sorted out tell us exactly why it sucks!
My comments are for your benefit following them will get you the help you require not doing so and your posts will probably be passed over, it’s a busy tech forum and certain procedures need to be followed if needing the help of people here.
@damainman this is an oldish thread and unlikely to provoke a response. did you have an issue/problem? If so them post a new topic as it will get a better response, having first searched the site as this particular issue may well have been covered more recently.
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Oh ok so I need now to add 
@christinerule you need to have a little patience your original post was only 8 hours old for many of us that was around midnight for others late evening you do need to allow a bit more time before expecting a reply.
One post – avoid multiple duplicate posts on the same forum – generally these get locked or simply removed.
Duplicate posts have the action of tying up forum members answering and possibly duplicating effort where an answer has already been given on the other thread – resources i.e member respondents are a valuable commodity with many requiring access to them.
@christinarule
Point of general forum nettiquette: It is a frowned upon practice to ‘Hijack’ another’s post, this is due to the confusion it can introduce to the thread where you have multiple replies to different questions asked.
Please always start a fresh topic with your question unless you are responding in some fashion to the OP’s question.
@christinarule nice site. After installing and activating BuddyPress, you coudl install and activate Buddy Template Pack https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/ There are steps to go through with the Template Pack plugin and based on your theme, you would have to change the container divs of files within Template Pack. It’s not easy but it’s do-able.
There is a BuddyPress demo at http://testbp.org/
I currently have a blog site that I customized http://www.blokmovaz.com I really want it to turn into a social networking community and I thought buddypress was just the thing! How do I easily Integrate buddypress into my existing wordpress site?
It would be ideal if a user who is part of buddypress can comment on the post I make from my wordpress categories. Then once you click on a users profile they are given all the âbuddy press featuresâ to interact with that user..
Is this something that can be easily done or do I have to re-theme buddypress?
Thanks for all the help in advance!
I figured out what I want to do…I want to make it so the default is the “Show Updates” section instead of the no filters suggestion. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Tahnks
@r-a-y
Yah, the 999 is good to remember, but it isnt helping here..
so basically I figure that is getting written over. because when i change the name to anything else, it displays, but if i call it posts, it does nothing which makes me think its working properly, just getting overwritten down the way..
So, basically I figure i’ll just do this:
function erocks_change_bp_tag_position()
{
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav = 20;
$bp->bp_nav = $current_user->user_login . ‘/posts’;
$bp->bp_nav = __( ‘Gigs’, ‘buddypress’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘erocks_change_bp_tag_position’, 999 );
Basically this method works. but it doesnt register the slug… If I could get that sorted, I’d be set. any assistance would be appreciated
Not sure this is exactly the same issue, but looking for input. I’m a brand new buddypress user testing a site. Unless someone already has an avatar in wordpress.org (not .com) photos cannot be uploaded. The error message is “Unable to create directory /home/natural/domains/natural-leader.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/avatars/3. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
Can anyone tell me if this is an issue with buddpress or somewhere else such as the domain host? If buddypress, does anyone know how to fix?
@circlereader
Yup, that plugin will allow you to have all nav links show in the adminbar. Then, simply hide the navbar and reposition the adminbar using the css rules provided in bp-wp-navbar.css. VoilĂ : instant single navbar with all the Buddypress goodness!
Enjoy
Yes it is possible. Did you need the blog to be the root blog or is it another subdomain or subfolder blog? There are a number of different options depending on how you’ve setup the blog and which blog you mean.
I’d like to do this as well – so I can consolidate my navigation & get rid of the admin bar altogether!
It looks like someone else has coded a plugin for the opposite strategy: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/new-plugin-add-all-nav-links-to-bp-adminbar/
epic. I’m reordering the nav like so:
function erocks_change_bp_tag_position()
{
global $bp;
$bp->bp_nav = 10;
$bp->bp_nav = 20;
$bp->bp_nav = 30;
$bp->bp_nav = 40;
$bp->bp_nav = 50;
$bp->bp_nav = 60;
$bp->bp_nav = 70;
$bp->bp_nav = 80;
$bp->bp_nav = __( ‘My Profile’, ‘buddypress’ );
$bp->bp_nav = __( ‘Gigs & Posts’, ‘buddypress’ );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘erocks_change_bp_tag_position’ );
inside my bp_custom admin bar plugin php file
but the second one doesnt respond..
Can anyone help me figure out why I’m getting a skipping error on the ning to buddypress importer. The developer says because the forum topic may not be associated with a category or group? Does that mean in Ning, all topics must be assigned to a category or group to come over to BuddyPress?
Tony
Are you talking about at account signup?
If so, try Travel-Junkie’s Xtra Signup plugin:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-xtra-signup/
@dwenaus – How can I include a page title if someone is viewing a tag page? At the moment when you view a tag page, the page title is blank
@miri, I am having the same exact problem, can you please contact me, I would like to see what you did to fix the problem.
It looks to me like you were storing images in the buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default directory, which gets overwritten whenever you upgrade BuddyPress. It’s a good idea to create a child theme for bp-default and to make all of your edits there. I see you’re using one called BuddyPress Colours Aqua; you should store all footer images in that directory, so that you don’t overwrite them when you upgrade BP.
