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I don’t understandd this paranoïd question: So this is another case where they decided to leave out any option.

– Who are “They” ?
– What are the other case ?
– Which options are leaved out ?

Really mysterious, unless the truth is elswhere ? May be in the Twilight Zone ?

You have the option to disable the Toolbar under Settings > BuddyPress > Options.
You have the possibility to use BP’s login widget under Apparence > Widgets

Hi @vickievik,

the right question here would be how to make my theme compatible with buddypress.

The thing to understand is that BP use dynamic content for its page and that these page are NOT ordinaty WP pages.
For each content, BP fires a so called template-part.
Lets take as example a profile page

The slug is /members/ which exist as “page” on wp’s page list. This wp page has no content and also no model or template. It’s just a “slug” in the wp ecosystem.

When you’re on a profile you have the page(aka /members/) but also many template parts, depending what you’re doing on that profile. Aside the common parts header – content – footer, you’ll find also personnal activity, frineds, groups, mentions, notifications, messages and not the worst, profile settings. All this on the same “page”.

Most theme mistakes are at this point. People try to design the page, instead to work the template parts.

When you design a theme, you usually design something for a page, independantly from any plugin. This structure is used by any Twenty Theme and you can follow them as model, because these themes are bullet proof and systematically used by all wp devs when building (in our case) BuddyPress

BP can be used with almost any existing theme, so far this theme is respecting WP’s coding standarts.

If you have brocken elements, and specially thoose using JS, it could be due to missing ID or class or even more simple, some missing instructions/conditionnals in your theme.

BP’s template parts are designed to fit with a majority of themes. The best to do, at least while creating your first theme, is to use BP “as is” and build your theme around thoose existing parts and not to remove/modifying BP arts to fit your creation.

This might be a good place to start if you looked at it already?

BuddyPress Theme Development

@masoud1111,

You’re talking about 2 different things: profile and groups. Let me explain you a little…

On the buddy nav bar, navigation looks similar but doesn’t work the same way on profile and on group page. While profile navigation use nav and sub-nav, the group navigation use only sub-nav.

Also, as documented on codex, define('BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', '...' ); is a constant related to a component, not a sub-nav tab. It let you define the default landing component, but not the one or other sub-nav tab. For example on profiles, the component Activity has 4 sub-nav attached to it: personnal, mentions, favorites, friends, groups

To get one of them, you need to specify a new default tab, not another component. 🙂

Buddybar main nav items on profile page
Activity Profile Friends Groups Forums (if you use group forums)

Default tab is Activity/personnal. To change it for “Friends” you use the constant:
define('BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'friends' );

To change the default landing tab from (Component/sub-tab). For example Activity/personnal to Activity/mentions, you define a new nav default tab with a function like this one:

function bpex_set_member_default_nav() {
 
    bp_core_new_nav_default (
        array(
            'parent_slug'       => buddypress()->activity->id,
	   // other "activity" sub_nav slugs : personal favorites friends groups
            'subnav_slug'       => 'mentions',
            'screen_function'   => 'bp_activity_screen_mentions'
        )
    );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_set_member_default_nav', 20 );

For groups, it’s a similar technique, but a different syntax. The following example is a bit sophisticated, as it let you change the landing tab differently for each defined group.
Depending each group activity or target, you can choose a different default tab.
In this example, the kill bill group has Forum as landing tab, while Leon’s group use the group member directory.

function bpex_custom_group_default_tab( $default_tab ){
	/**
	 * class_exists() is recommanded to avoid problems during updates 
	 * or when Groups Component is deactivated
	 */
	if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) ) : 
	
	$group = groups_get_current_group();//get the current group
	
	if( empty( $group ) ) {
	 return $default_tab;
	}
		switch($group->slug){
			
			case 'kill-bill': // group name (use slug format)
			$default_tab='forum';
			break;
			
			case 'leon':
			$default_tab='members';
			break;
			
			default:		
			$default_tab='home';// the default landing tab
			break;
			
		}
	
	return $default_tab;
	
	endif; // end if ( class_exists( 'BP_Group_Extension' ) )
}
add_filter('bp_groups_default_extension','bpex_custom_group_default_tab');

All this tested and working with BP 2.7.2 / Twenty Sixteen

Hi,

no of course ! Read 2.7.2 changelog.

If you use a child theme or a third party theme, ensure it is updated for BP 2.7+: verify the templates.

Template Updates 2.7

Hi,

all is explained in the doc !

Changing Internal Configuration Settings

Navigation API

Try the solution near the bottom of this codex page:
https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/#filter-from-address-and-name

add_action( 'bp_email', function( $email_type, $email_obj ) {
$email_obj->set_from( "custom@example.com", "Custom Website Name" );
}, 10, 2 );

I think you are looking for BP Registration options – that provides you with new member moderation.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-registration-options/

If you are new to BuddyPress I’m developing a site aimed at helping people get the most out of BuddyPress http://buddyuser.com

You can find this information in the codex https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/buddypress-cover-images/

define( 'BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION', 'members' );

change members to the slug of the extension and then that tab will load when you click a link to a group.

more configurations here https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

use this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/

Under Settings in the admin click BuddyPress. Then the tab Pages and re associate the page to the component.

This has got to be plugin conflict or theme related issue since avatar and cover image uploads work when BuddyPress is running standalone. I’d try deactivating all other plugins and if that does not work then switching to the 2016 theme to check

You could try something like this, only it’s not been updated in a while, not tried it myself https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-login-redirect/

Well, you now have to control your child theme and custom functions (if any).
Seems that changes made in BP 2.7, 2.7.1 and 2.7.2 won’t apply to your case.

Read also here.

And if it doesn’t help, go to kleo support and ask there.

Hi @maccast,

thank you for the tutorial and sharing your trick, but there is a little problem !

bp_options_nav is deprecated since 2.6 – you can verify by enabling wp-debug in wp-config.php or by reading the doc.

Get the right navigation solutions available for BP 2.6+ here:

Navigation API

You have two options that I’m aware of – http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-mass-messaging-in-buddypress and http://buddyuser.com/plugin-review-mass-messaging-for-buddypress-by-alkaweb

Hey @danbp

I just thought I’d jump in here real quick, as I think this will be beneficial to everyone in the thread including @Tranny.

And even if you would be a genius coder creator of an extra super original spam shield, you could be sure to became target #1 of all spammers, because in this case, you would represent the absolute challenger of all code breakers !

We are that “genius coder creator of an extra super original spam shield” that you speak of. 🙂

There is no miraculous plugin or trick to stop them.

Ahh, but there is.

It’s real, and it’s even called WP-SpamShield. LOL…you can’t make this stuff up. 🙂

Check it out on WPorg. It’s been out for about two and a half years, and is forked from another plugin we developed almost a decade ago. It works perfectly and automatically on BuddyPress, bbPress, and pretty much everything else. You can also feel free to check out the plugin documentation here.

…And for the record, we definitely are a huge target of spammers. 🙂

dealing with spammers is a long run work, to not say a never ending work.

True story!

– Scott