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There are some code snippets in this previous post (I don’t know if they still work, or if there is an easier solution, for 1.2.5):

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-12-how-to-add-a-custom-tab-on-the-home-activity-section/

@nonegiven I too have this issue but only when I am logged in on an account that has joined thousands of groups.

I have 2000 groups on my site. Admin is a member of all of them and has multiple topics in each. When I log in as admin the page is a little slower to load as the page fetches the number of topics that are admins.

If I log in on an account that has only created a few dozen topics then the page loads quickly. I imagine it is something to do with MYSQL queries.

@talgalili I’ve just started work again on a jobboard plugin for BP. Give me a week and I’ll have a working test site up and running (if the electricity ever comes back on again in my little beach hut that is…)

Ok, i’ve managed to do it with:
global $bp;
bp_core_fetch_avatar( array( ‘item_id’ => $id, ‘type’ => ‘full’, ‘width’ => ’75’, ‘height’ => ’75’, ‘html’ => ‘false’ ) )

If somebody needs the same thing he can try this lines, maybe it will help.

Hello,

i am writing my own plugin which needs avatars from BuddyPress. Plugin is pulling members IDs and some other info they’ve putted in their profiles from the database, but can’t figure out how to echo avatar based on the user’s ID. Any help with this?

Thanks

I’d like to be able to do this too

@travel-junkie I had a look at your post, but I wasn’t sure where to start, as I’m not very used to editing BuddyPress code

Any help appreciated

@profitsbuzz Though this method is not exactly what I wanted, I use java script to fetch RSS feed and then I use the profile field data tag to call in. If we can integrate feed url validation this will work.

I have tried it live on my site. But users don’t usually give their correct feed url. So it show up error message and it spoil the whole page.

We have to try to get things to work for 80% of our users; if we encouraged people to edit the default theme or any of the core BuddyPress files directly, most of those people are going to come back and complain when we release a new version of BuddyPress because they won’t understand what’s really happened.

Theme developers of course have two options — either as a child theme, of BuddyPress’ bp-default or one of the many other theme frameworks, or as a seperate/existing theme with the BuddyPress template files copied in. Both have their disadvantages and advantages.

So with reference to the last entry on this link https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2207

Has anyone managed to use uppercase usernames?

Also https://buddypress.org/community/members/pandragon/profile/change-avatar/ not working lol

I ran into this problem while working with a BuddyPress installation on Rackspace Cloud Sites. To solve it I needed to change some server limitations by editing my .htaccess file. The settings I used were:

php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value post_max_size 128M
php_value upload_max_filesize 128M
php_value max_execution_time 6000000

I’m not sure if your problem requires a similar solution, but I hope this helps.

@jeremyrobinson Have you tried the solutions offered in this thread: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-notification-not-working/?topic_page=1&num=15

Read this:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/faqs/specific-faqs/#register

I have this same problem with my BuddyPress installation. I searched these forums for the solution, if any, saw this and tried to apply it. I do not see the option for “Tick the box next to ‘membership – anyone can register’.”

Where is it?

Hi profitsbuzz,

Please do not create a new topic when you have another one that you recently created:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/creating-extending/forum/topic/useful-plugins-required/

Post your responses in the link provided.

Thanks!

Just tried to register on your site and I get a white screen after hitting submit.
Please deactivate any plugins other than BuddyPress (if you haven’t done so already).

Are you able to access your server’s error log? If so, there is most likely a message in there. It would help if you could paste the contents of this log here.

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Also you say you upgraded to WordPress 3.0. Do you experience the login issue you noted in point #3 with BuddyPress deactivated?

Hi Derek, I don’t intend on being mean, but this is now the fourth separate thread you have created about this:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/unable-to-login-to-dashboard/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/serious-1-2-2-5-upgrade-problem/
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/help-1-2-2-5-upgrade-problem-i-get-an-error-message-then-not-able-to-login-to-admin/

Please post in this thread only:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/help-1-2-2-5-upgrade-problem-i-get-an-error-message-then-not-able-to-login-to-admin/

Like I mentioned in a previous post, feel free to bump your own topic by replying to it after 24 hours. But please do not create any more new threads!

Thanks!

@jace0228 – Cool! Glad this works. You’re the second person to confirm the fix.

Here’s the fix bundled into a quick plugin:
http://buddypress.pastebin.com/download.php?i=S8e3t2Se (updated July 24th, forgot to wrap a !function_exists call around the function)

Save as a PHP file and add it to /wp-content/mu-plugins/ or add it to the regular plugins directory and activate network-wide.

@thekmen I’m just one of the people that think themes should be completely separated from the plugin the same way they are separated from WordPress. Trying to reduce everything to one theme with a bunch of child themes is only going to slow down development and discourage people from appreciating Buddypress. I mean look how few themes there are, one theme with with a couple color alteration child themes and now people are excited just to be able to use the generic WordPress default.

I actually prefer this not being a child theme because I’m not a programmer and don’t know enough to write a theme completely from scratch, and this WordPress default is the most basic sandbox like template to start with.

I think it is an inherent difference between front end and back end developers. You guys don’t care what it looks like as long as the programming is constantly up to date and I don’t mind if I miss some updates as long as its designed well. You guys try to plan for every possible scenario and I design to make things as customized as possible. I have a million ideas of things I want to do designing a theme for a non-profit I work with, but I’m not always certain about writing the php to get the functionality on track so I post on here about it. Instead I get front end advice, suggesting I write an entire plugin for something that can be accomplished with a line or two of html and css, just to keep the plugin pure. Neither extreme is the answer, I’m just saying it is a bit lop sided right now.

Here is the solution, thanks Ray, John and Paul!

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/page-not-found-errors/#post-63309