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@locker17, there is no option to edit BuddyPress Directory pages with Elementor like members Groups, Activity, or Registration.
For the login & 404 page, you can create a template for it, as it can be a regular page with an Elementor widget on it.

For registration pages, that’s template driven, and you need to override the template to make those changes, or you can also use some 3rd party plugins like Gravity Forms and WP Forms with their user registration addon to create custom registration forms.

One approach is to use the pre_get_posts action hook to check if the current page is a BuddyPress page using BuddyPress conditional tags like bp_is_directory() or bp_is_user(). If the page is not BuddyPress, you can remove or modify the rewrite rules.

https://wordpress.com/plugins/bp-fan-page

This is an old plugin of mine, which I think still works, and is simple enough to tweak in order to create a group type called Channel, and there are some customisation options built in.

Technically, you could fork it and pretty much just so a search and relace on the word fan to the word channel and that would work.

But I’d be happy to work with you to add an extra option for a channel page. I’d want you to do most of the work though. I’ve only just got back into coding after a lot of time away. BuddyPress plugins are not a high priority for me, but yes I’d be happy to help you teach yourself programming by manging my plugin.

You can use the WordPress gettext filter.

This filter allows you to intercept and modify text before it’s displayed on the page. Here’s an example of how you can use it to change a specific string in BuddyPress:

/**
 * Translates specific strings in BuddyPress to new values.
 * This function hooks into the 'gettext' filter provided by WordPress, allowing for the modification
 * of text before it is displayed or used on the site. It specifically targets text within the 'buddypress' domain,
 * making it suitable for customizing or translating BuddyPress strings without altering language files.
 *
 * @param string $translated_text The text after being translated.
 * @param string $text The text before being translated.
 * @param string $domain The domain of the text being translated. This function specifically targets 'buddypress'.
 * @return string The modified or translated text.
 */
add_filter( 'gettext', 'wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings', 20, 3 );

function wbcom_translate_buddypress_strings( $translated_text, $text, $domain ) {
    // Target only BuddyPress strings to avoid affecting other texts.
    if ( 'buddypress' === $domain ) {
        switch ( $translated_text ) {
            // Example: Translate "Friends" to "Connections".
            case 'Friends':
                $translated_text = 'Connections';
                break;

            // Add more strings to translate as needed, following the pattern above.
        }
    }

    return $translated_text;
}

Inside the switch statement, you can add cases for each specific string you wish to translate or modify. Replace ‘Friends’ with the BuddyPress string you want to change, and ‘Connections’ with the desired new text.

Option to add a link to my buddypress from an external site? I mean share link by people like is possible for facebook, twitter etc?
For example, FB has: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=
And I want: https://www.mybuddypressweb.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=

By the way, big thanks for Buddypress attachment plugin !!! its so fckg good I read somewhere that you are disappointed that it has a small number of downloads. I think it’s not that it’s bad, but that many people don’t know it exists.

Hi @imath,
You will be glad to know that I think I’ve uncovered the cause(s), or at least possible causes. I had the Block Visibility plugin installed, and have done on this and other sites for years with no problem, but it seems either an update to it, or another plugin (possibly BP) caused a conflict, but on top of that there was another issue with some custom code as well as a need to edit the htaccess file (to add a concatenate scripts line), and I think the last one may have been the major fix. However I also rolled back to the first release of BP 12 and haven’t yet updated again, as I have been busy replacing all the stuff Block Visibility was doing with another plugin (Block Logic) so I won’t know if I am out of the woods for a couple of days. I was getting errors all over the place, and for a while the admin was almost unusable as it wasn’t loading javascript (this was the htaccess fix), and I couldn’t edit or update any pages or widgets. No one else had reported the issue I had with Block Visibility on their support, but it is entirely possible that either no one else has the comination of plugins/theme I do or that they (like I did) didn’t think it would be that plugin causing an issue. If you get the chance to test it I would be interested to know if it is a conflict with Buddypress, as the nightmares it has caused me I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy!

I’d like to throw into the mix ActivityPub. With WordPress being able to support ActivityPub through the ActivityPlug Plugin from Automattic it would be interesting to understand how BuddyPress could interact with other servers and communities built on Mastodon and other ActivityPub compliant servers.

It would be interesting to see a home feed and have the ability to follow others on different servers.

Buddypress: v2.6.9 ?

the current version is 12.2.0

Hi @imath,
I don’t know if my issue is related to this release, as I haven’t been checking for a couple of weeks, but none of the Buddypress pages are loading – all I get is “Loading the xxx updates. Please wait.” – this is for Activity, Group Activity, Groups, Profile Activity, Notifications, Friends, Groups etc etc. No errors in server logs or debug log. However, if I change from Nouveau to Legacy they are fine, so obviously something is amiss with Nouveau, rather than it being a plugin or WP theme – can you suggest where I need to look to fix this? I have already tried deactivating and reactivating, turning off plugins and changing themes.I have also reuploaded the bp-nouveau folder/files from a new download of the plugin but still the same. I really need some help as my site is unusable and switching to legacy loses many of my style and functional customisations.