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Hi @mthant,

sorry for your menu trouble, but it seems to me, after visiting your site, that you omitted some important settings steps. So let’s try to set up properly your site menu before adding BP related conditionnals.

1) Each active BP component should have his unique page.
2) Site should have pretty permalinks activated (whatever option but default)

For example step 1 indicate that your register page is at /site/register-2. This could be correct, but tells that you created a page called register first, than removed it, and finally recreated a second “register” page. This explains why you have “-2” in the URL and probably a page in the trash. You have to clear it definetly. And you have to ensure that the slug is /register/. Go to dashboard > Pages > Quick edit and correct it.

As BP is active, you should also have a page called by default “members”. His default url should be http://7fc.d70.myftpupload.com/members/.
I assume you renamed it to “directory”. Problemen is that “directory” doesn’t show the member directory, or no message telling visitors they have to log in to see this page…

And as you use a lot of different directories, it is confusing, even for you when you try to build a menu.

But you’re using Salutation, which is a premium theme and i can’t help you further to set it up correctly.
But you could activate a Twenty theme for the time you need to create and test how WP menus are created and displayed. And perhaps read through Salutation documentation too. 😉

Here’s BP guide about the BP menu you can add aside the site main menu.

And here, the access to any menu related codex articles.

I’ve seen similar issues when a menu was no saved for the site, then all the main items end up being shown as top level. I don’t think in this case that is the case but it does seem to be an issue with the menus, not BuddyPress

If you are a newbie you might like to check out my website – http//:buddyuser.com, it’s aimed at getting newbies up to speed.

Regarding your issue with menus, is this not a more general WordPress/Theme issue? What happens when you replace those BuddyPress Options with other options, do you still get the same behaviour?

thank you for sharing @peterspliid, but it would also be usefull for the devs that you add your fix to this ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7349

so at least it will be taken in consideration.

no setting in BuddyPress you have to add custom code https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/buddypress-cover-images/

You’re wrong and it is not a BP question.
If you’re not comfortable with coding, i would at your place use a working plugin instead of trying to customize something i don’t completely understand.

There is a similar one called Compliments (and up to date). Will be easier (perhaps) to adapt or even use as is for your needs ? 😉

If I can go BuddyPress pages, I can make those changes.

No, not exactly ! BP pages are not ordinary wp pages.

Do you use a child theme ? If so, read Salutation doc first, then check the child theme and sse if it is updated for BP 2.7 new template

As Salutation is a premium theme, we can’t help you much more with this (small) issue. Afaik you have to ask on the theme support.

Sounds like a theme thing, I’m not an expert in theme things yet but my first port of call would be my theme developer to see if there were settings you could change to change that page. There’s probably at worst case a bit of custom CSS that you can add to your theme. Whilst BuddyPress may be calling that content it’s the theme that is delivering it and obviously a page still configured with the old settings.

Did you see this?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-view-pending-signup-profile-fields/

For a single field, follow the directions in the code.

BuddyDev have a plugin that allows you to change the username – http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-buddypress-username-changer

You might want to take a look at my website. It’s for people just starting out with BuddyPress, it might give you some ideas.

http://buddyuser.com

There’s a plugin to force the user to select an Avatar before they user your site – http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-buddypress-force-profile-photo

Some of your questions you need to ask your theme creator, though if it’s not a BuddyPress theme they may not be much help.

Hi @sixthgalaxy,

you can use bp_get_template_part function.

Depending what you’re building, consider also this function.

@andrewteg,

there is a little link on your example to another codex page who give’s you the main reason for using a wrapper.

It is not required, but strongly recommended. Depending what, where and how your code should run, they are diffrent other ways to ensure that BP is active.
the classic php if_class_exist()
or more a la BP specific

if ( function_exists('bp_is_active') ) {
  // do something here...
}

Hi @excel1,

such URL is odd and shouldn’t appear on a correctly install setup:
example.com/index.php/beispielbeitrag/

In brief, your install WP at the site root which is: exemple.com
BP is a wp plugin and by the way, will also be at the root.

And as wp is also a blog, that blog is also at example.com (on a page defined in wp’s Read settings).

This means that you can create a page for the blog and name it “besipielbeitrag” and asign this page to posts in WP settings. And make it private or whatever.

BP members or groups will be at exemple.com/members/ or example.com/groups/ and the users at example.com/members/USERNAME/

index.php is one of the files in a theme, but has nothing to do with BP pages or a dedicated blog page.

Also, if emxampel.com and example.com are 2 URL for the same site, or if you installed wp in emxampel.com and BP in example.com, BP won’t work.

I would recomend you to read attentively the install guide from the begin.

The basic layout of the items on the right side of the registration screen can be affected by moving the fields around in Dashboard>>User>>Profile Fields.

You can drag and drop them and that will affect the order that they are displayed.

An alternative might be to install BP Better Registration, which creates a different type of registration process.

You might benefit from visiting my website http://buddyuser.com It’s aimed at newbies looking to get the most out of BuddyPress.

@venutius is right; a .mo file is the way to go. Check out this article which should help get you started:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Please take a minute to read this post: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/
Short answer: /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php

Ok so it goes in the plugins folder alone? Not in the buddypress folder?

Place it in bp-custom.php
Then it won’t matter which theme you use.

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-view-pending-signup-profile-fields/#post-261446

Use this filter hook: apply_filters( 'bp_members_signup_custom_column', '', $column_name, $signup_object );
Found at the bottom of: buddypress\bp-members\classes\class-bp-members-list-table.php

code – GIST

Check this out:

http://buddyuser.com/changing-the-text-used-in-buddypress-and-other-plugins