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By default, your theme’s page.php is used as the wrapper. In your theme, duplicate that file and rename it to buddypress.php. Then you can edit that wrapper template and it will only affect BuddyPress.

I am not sure why this might not work. I suspect, too, it is a conflict with some other plugin or theme that affects permalinks or page management, but it’s impossible to tell without actually working through the code and checking your database. Perhaps the theme, as you said you’ve tried disabling all plugins.

If you let me know your versions of WordPress and BuddyPress, and if your site has WordPress multisite enabled or not, or if you’ve customised any BuddyPress options via custom code, I’ll try to test on a similar site next week and just confirm if it actually works. I doubt that’ll help fix your issue, though, unfortunately.

You’ll need to be a reasonably competent developer, familiar with WordPress, to achieve this. There is some documentation at https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp_activity_add-2/ that might help you get started. Good luck!

Hi @jerrysmith212

Thanks for the kind words! BuddyPress does *use* a cron task for only one thing — if Activity component is active and you also have the Akismet plugin enabled, then there’s an integration between the two, and our cron task periodically tidies up old metadata.

We do nothing that I know of that affects WordPress’ cron system, let alone something that might break things.

(To clarify: we use WordPress’ “scheduled cron” API, like all plugins, not actual “Linux cron” jobs).

To a certain extent I’d say the answer is yes it’s possible, all the read only pages at least. Take a look at the overload files in plugins/buddypress/bp-teplates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single. These are the page components that make up much of the bp profile pages.

Any emails sent via BuddyPress like new messages from users etc

There’s different ways of solving it, you can look to this old post for some pointers.

or you could do something like this

<?php
function opengraph_tags() {
    // defaults
    $title = get_bloginfo('title');
    $excerpt = get_bloginfo('description');

    if( bp_current_component() ) {
        global $post;
        setup_postdata( $post);
        $title = get_the_title();
        $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
        if ($excerpt) {
            $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
            $excerpt = str_replace("", "'", $excerpt);
        }
    } ?>
        
    <meta name="description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"/> <!-- general meta tag -->
    <meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo $title; ?>"/> <!-- facebook meta tag -->
    <meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"/> <!-- facebook meta tag -->
    <meta name="twitter:title" content="<?php echo $title; ?>"> <!-- twitter meta tag -->
    <meta name="twitter:description" content="<?php echo $excerpt; ?>"> <!-- twitter meta tag -->

<?php }
add_action('wp_head', 'opengraph_tags', 5);

You’d then be able to write the description of the buddypress page in the excerpt input while editing whatever Buddypress page. This only solves the main pages though.

If you’d like to go further for group, member and activity SEO you’d have to follow it up with some more code.

Presumably this is referring to the BuddyPress Group Email Subscription plugin? Have you tried rasing this as a feature request on that plugins forums?