When I say BOTTOM for header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php, I mean post given codes after all other pre-existing content in respective files. When I say TOP for sidebar-buddypress.php, I mean post given code above all other pre-existing content, the first line of the file.
Your theme’s original header.php and sidebar.php files should not be changed at all.
If you don’t have a page associated with the Activity component, I don’t think activity permalinks will work (though that needs checking).
At the moment, there is no simple way to remove the message. (Though you could remove it from the $bp global at admin_init if it bothered you that much.) It’s a good idea for an enhancement ticket, though http://trac.buddypress.org
@mercime, thank you for helping me. I appreciate it. I was unsuccessful at integrating Buddypress although.
I received a php error message regarding in the header.php, line #75. When you say insert the code at the bottom or top, you do mean the absolute bottom, or are in saying at the bottom of the final div tag ?
@mycreativeway –
jqueryui has an autocomplete widget you can work with (or have a look at the older autocomplete plugin that’s used already in BuddyPress for usernames e.g. when you send a message). http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/
The correct way to set up it up in a WP environment is by getting the autocomplete plugin to make an AJAX request to admin-ajaxurl, which will call on to an action that you create to return suggested names.
It’s not straightforward, but a Google around will retrieve details on how to best setup an Ajax call in WP – alternatively the book “Professional WordPress Plugin Development” has a good chapter on it.
I use activity items / loops, but I don’t want a dedicated page showing site wide activity.
In 1.5 though, if I remove / don’t set the ‘activity’ page, I get ‘plagued’ by a warning message in admin:
The following active BuddyPress Components do not have associated WordPress Pages: Activity Streams. [Repair]
Is there a hook / filter to remove this warning?
Also, the terminology is not really appropriate – there’s nothing to ‘repair’ – I want the component, I don’t want the page
Did anyone figure out a way to do this without that plugin (which still doesn’t work it seems) ?
BP Xtra Signup is in the PASS list on https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/1-5-plugin-compatibility/.
Works perfectly in single site setup.
BUT
On a multisite set-up with buddypress root blog on a subdirectory BP Xtra Signup’s settings page does not show up and so it can’t be used.
Thanks for your great work. Would like to have this confirmed/contradicted if possible.
@modemlooper I completely agree with you, I’m just saying iphones can still be used as telephones because that is a proven useful means of communicating.
Thanks @boonebgorges that seems to have fixed the reply button, but it is still producing the lines at the bottom of the activity stream. Here is a screen shot.
@boonebgorges sorry, but when to find the errors exactly when seeting WP-DEBUG to true? I can’t find any place for them in admin page or website front.
@alanchrishughes I can’t reproduce your exact problem (I don’t see them at the bottom of the screen) though I was able to create at least some kind of error when posting new activity replies via AJAX. Try adding the following to your bp-custom.php in addition to the other stuff:
`function bbg_dont_remove_self_replies_on_ajax() {
remove_filter( ‘bp_has_activities’, ‘bbg_remove_self_replies’ );
}
add_action( ‘wp_ajax_new_activity_comment’, ‘bbg_dont_remove_self_replies_on_ajax’, 1 );`
As I said in the ticket, I don’t think that @alanchrishughes is making a bad suggestion. Just that it’s probably not wise to implement in BP today, without making several further modifications. In the meantime, anyone is welcome to take the code suggested so far and turn it into a proof-of-concept plugin.
@modemlooper not to discredit anybody’s hard work, but what does BP currently do that is so innovative that justifies not taking advantage of the option to let people have their own little fb sites in addition to whatever ground breaking Steve Jobs options you are talking about?
@boonebgorges Thanks for this, I have another question, as a test, I installed 3.3 beta 1 today, and tried to install buddypress ( latest SVN version) but every time I click network activate it do nothing, the plugin is never showing as activated in the list of plugins or any further install instructions showing, is current svn not compatible yet with WordPress 3.3?
@boonebgorges I’m also using BP 1.5 (fresh out of the box installation) and it does work to an extend, it removes the notifications from the top, but adds them to the bottom of the activity stream like I described on the trac page, and it breaks the reply button until your refresh the page. I’ve tried both pasting your code in my functions.php file and creating a bp-custom.php plugin file. Both have the same results.
This fix, and a comment form on friends pages, would be the only two little tweaks it would take to reproduce a fb experience, right now it is reproducing the twitter experience so it is already copying something anyways, giving both options to BP users would be great. And with what you just suggested Boone people could say “oh they’re just trying to copy digg” which I understand would be frustrating, but it honestly isn’t that big of a deal, you would be copying the system but people would be implementing it to their own little situations and needs which would be completely authentic and new. Like comparing tv stations to youtube, it is copying the idea but at the same time it is completely unique because you are bringing the tv station to the users to create more diverse content.
Yesterday I upgraded to buddypress 1.5 and everything went pretty good. I am having one problem though. When you go to the profile pages the “add/cancel friendship” and “send message” buttons are missing. I’m using the Suffusion theme, I did post on their site yesterday as well but waiting to hear back. If anyone has any idea could be wrong, I’d sure appreciate some help! I’m using the newest Suffusion theme and the newest suffusion buddypress plugin. So far it seems I’m the only one with this problem. 
If it helps the WANG guard “report” button still shows in that area fine. It used to display beside the other two.
If I switch back to the default bp theme the buttons do show fine.
http://www.homestead-acres.com
Thanks!
Hey folks:
I have created a sidebar called “your profile” that has the member_header.php info (i.e. the avatar image, user name, when they were last active, and the activity, profile, messages, friends, groups, events, and settings links). All of the content displays properly and links work when I am in buddypress. However, when I am in the nonbuddypress part of the site, none of the user content shows up and all of the links are broken. Is there a way I can change the code so that the users information shows up when they are in buddy press AND when they are in the main (non-buddypress) part of the site?
Using WP 3.2.1, BP 1.2.9
Getting this error about once a minute:
PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-classes.php on line 331
The line number varies from 331 to 335
That is in: function get_user_extras, in the IF statement for Fetch the user’s total friend count
If I comment out that IF statement, the same Fatal Error occurs, but the Line Number moves down to the next IF statement.
Tried setting Max Time to 60 seconds – but get same error.
Enabled slow query logging – everything is fine.
The site has ~12k members with an average of 300 members online- so it seems odd that the error only happens once a minute.
Any thoughts?
The code I provided works fine on my BP 1.5 installations. What version of BP are you using?
IMO, @alanchrishughes suggestion is only advisable if we also implement something that pushes an activity item to the top of the activity stream when it has been commented on. Otherwise new activity comments will get buried in the pile. This is not a trivial thing to do, however; I’m not sure it can be easily done with our current activity data schema. A plugin could be written for the purpose right now, but it would probably have to do some funny business with BP’s MySQL queries.
FYI, this filter has been added, and will be in 1.5.1. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/5237
Being able to launch your own website that uses a conversations system similar to fb would be awesome though and Buddypress kind of does that if it weren’t for a few little problems like what I mentioned. Like you mentioned, it would be great if there were different ways to use the software, so intentionally preventing one usage just because you may be afraid of being labeled as copying fb doesn’t make sense. Would we be talking right now if the second person to ever launch a messageboard was afraid of copying the first ever messageboard?
We need a Report/Block button and we need it fast… rapido vamos 
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I give you 2 spamming profiles, for start :
https://buddypress.org/community/members/afarabig/
https://buddypress.org/community/members/mercy123/
Yes… getting messages from miss.afara… Is Akismet used on updates? Or do registered users bypass any filtering?
Yip, getting tired of all the spam!
After searching for hours on end to find the solution to this I think I’ve found something. I too had installed the latest Buddypress with the latest WordPress and couldn’t get the forums to work. There was no tab linking to the forums page using the default buddypress theme and when typing in /forums/ it would just redirect back to the homepage.
Under Buddypress->Pages set ‘Discussion Forums’ to ‘none’ rather than the ‘Forum’ page.
This worked for me an hopefully it works for everyone else. Please note this works for the site wide forum option, I haven’t tried the group forums.
Also seeing as it was so easy I’m guessing it’s probably not the best way to fix things and I’ve more than likely done something wrong but until someone corrects me it’s a solution that works.
Hope it helps
The point of BuddyPress is not to create a fb like system. We do not need fb clones. BuddyPress provides a method to create unique ways of social interaction. Sure the out of the box example is a social network but this is only one way to use the software.
@supertwigs change to bp-default theme and it still doesn’t work, could be plugin conflict.
@jommowner – Custom Community theme has been updated for BP 1.5 though it’s not “live” in the WP repo yet. You can download new version at https://github.com/Themekraft/Custom-Community
