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I had the same problem but finally got it solved. I had to do 2 things:

1 – go into “settings>miscellaneous” and fill in the “full URL path to files” so it will be example http://yourdomainname/wp-content/uploads

2 – requires editing the php coding in the file bp-core-avatars.php in BuddyPress. You can find this file by going into “plugins>editor”. On the right side, there is a drop down box labelled “select plug-in to edit”. Change this default selection from Asimet to BuddyPress and press “select”. The list of files beneath will change. Scroll down to “buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php” and select it.
The changes need to be down on lines 389 & 390, it’s down near the end of the page. (I used copy/paste in MS Frontpage editor to find the line number close to “function bp_core_avatar_upload_path() {“) You’ll be replacing the 2 lines with 3 lines. ** Use the WordPress editor to make the changes to copy/paste the lines once you find them **

Replace:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;

With:
if ( !$path = get_option( ‘upload_path’ ) )
$path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/uploads’;
else $path = ABSPATH . $path;

See this post for the solution https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/avatar-cropping-after-upload-image-and-cropper-dont-appear-fails/

: “is they’re any way you can edit it through a text editor rather than dashboard. Or is there any known way of how to solve this problem”

I tire of trying to parse through the mangled English we see here sometimes to tease out intended meaning. Also, I believe the question was edited since first posted.

The answer to that questions is: of course, any good FTP client will let you do that kind of thing. My preferred tools: get the WinSCP FTP client, get Notepad++ and set it as the text editor for WinSCP, double click on any PHP (or whatever) file on your site through the FTP client, it’ll open locally in Notepad++, when you hit save it’ll automatically upload the file. Boom, done.

You’ve declared “display” as screen_function in your org_info_add_subnav() function.

So now, you need to create a “display()” function with some code to display your admin page.
In the skeleton component, the function you would want to look at is “bp_example_screen_one()” for hints.

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Also is your plugin BP-aware?
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/make-your-plugin-buddypress-aware-v1-2/

Read this again:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bbpress-setup-through-buddypress-plugin/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-51853

You can’t create sub-forums for a group natively in BP. It’s potentially possible to create a plugin to create sub-forums for each group, but such a plugin doesn’t exist right now.

If you need sub-forums, stick with the external install of bbPress.

Somebody? Anybody? Come on guys/ gals this really stinks! If I knew PHP I would do it myself but I am just a BuddyPress user… Somebody has to know how to get this working?

@dwdutch –
1) Exactly right.

2) Most (all?) BP-specific functions that default to the logged in user are named in a way that makes it clear. bp_loggedin_user_domain() is an example. There are some WP functions that take the logged in user as a default argument, and they’re generally not so helpfully named (fwiw the context is generally not so complex on a blog as it is in a BP network). current_user_can() is an example. When in doubt, I do a quick search through the codebase of a local installation. cd to the correct directory, and then grep -nR "function current_user_can" ./, etc.

While the functions in bp-x-templatetags.php generally don’t accept arguments in the normal way – they get their arguments from the context of the iterating bp_has_x loop – there are also some functions that take user ids (or group ids, or activity ids, etc) as arguments. For instance, have a look at bp-groups.php and groups_get_total_member_count() – this isn’t intended to be used in the context of a groups loop. Generally you’re going to be better off using a loop, as the api is really designed around this kind of use, but you can use these other functions to do some things without loops.

3) I used to use that phpxref on bp-dev.org all the time, but sadly it’s a version or two out of date, and is kind of useless at this point. (bp_has_members, for instance, used to be bp_has_site_members or something like that). If I had some spare time and bandwidth, I would set up an up-to-date phpxref of the current version of BP. In the meantime, I recommend following @r-a-y ‘s advice and going directly to the BP codebase, until the community has come up with a better solution

Within a plugin group, the Reviews tab does not display that proper ranking. See my plugin group for an example. It states, “Based on 1 rating” but then shows two reviews below: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wordpress-hook-sniffer/reviews/

Try this until a more, full-featured privacy component is available.

Remove send private message button for non-friends:
http://blog.etiviti.com/2010/03/buddypress-hack-remove-send-private-message-for-non-friends/

Again, this isn’t very clear.
Please outline your steps.

Let’s say your external bbPress install is located under /bbpress/.
Your custom template would reside in /bbpress/my-templates/YOURNEWTHEME/.

In this case, you’d want to put “bbbp-default” under /bbpress/my-templates/.
Then you go to /bbpress/bb-admin/ and activate the bbPress theme.

It’d also help to read the theme’s instructions. According to the theme author, you also need to add deep integration.

What is deep integration? Read the following article and read the section on deep integration:
http://wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

@quirhijn – Read this guide on how to create a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

Using a child theme allows you to make changes to the default theme without fear of losing them when you upgrade BuddyPress.
You don’t need programming knowledge in order to set one up either!

You need to attach a screen function to your admin page.

Check out the skeleton component plugin for more details:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-skeleton-component/

Or copy the structure of your favorite plugins

Possible bug?: When on a displayed user’s profile page the “personal” tab shows all mentions of the user NOT just that user’s activity, this can be verified by clicking @username mentions a few links to the right.

bp-default does not duplicate this issue so I am guessing it found its way in via bp.org customization

@lint9999

MrMaz’s plugin is what you need.

You might want to join this group for part of what you’ve requested (the admin resend of activation emails/activating manually): https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/over-1000-not-activated-users-what-do-you-suggest-we-do-with-them/

Seems like he could add the redirect to the plugin as well. I don’t think it would be too hard.

I think the ease of use and elegance of WordPress has somehow been lost in the most recent iteration of BuddyPress. Yes, we can make it whatever we wish it to be, but to do that we must be prepared to get under the hood and play with code while relying largely on untested or BP-approved plugins to extend its functionality. In one word, I would describe a BP install right now as ‘noisy’.

Seems to me the activity stream and the current group-forum relationship draws the ire of most people commenting in these forums. Right now, the activity stream is, frankly, a dog’s breakfast. The group-forum thing I can get my head around, but it would be very helpful if for example some of the functionality evident in bp.org was made readily available (the plugin group format for example) versus the current practice of teasing users with snippets of code all over the forums. Andy and the moderators here are great, but once again I think BP needs to figure out if it is targeting WordPress users or PHP developers as its primary target market. They are not one and the same, even those of us who are quite capable of handling a hosted version of WordPress.

I think BuddyPress should have focused its primary activity stream around the use of a microblog that comes standard with the install. A variation of P2 as the community blog right out of the box could provide an easy to follow timeline of user posts, shared links, etc. as per Twitter while a lot of the commenting and related noise created by the activity streams, etc. could be eliminated.

Looking forward to continued progress however on what is still the best option for developing a social networking application.

Have you seen this plugin yet? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-links/

check this plugin it displays the avatars of members who have recently viewed your profile..but it only shows for the logged in user if it is your profile..