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Hi @datenfresser – You can customize the template by overriding the template file in your child theme. Copy the file wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/messages/messages-loop.php to wp-content/themes/[your-theme]/buddypress/members/single/messages/messages-loop.php, and make your modifications to the new file.

To turn avatars into links, find lines that look like:

<?php bp_message_thread_avatar( array( 'width' => 25, 'height' => 25 ) ); ?>

and do this:

<a href="<?php bp_message_thread_from(); ?><php bp_message_thread_avatar( array( 'width' => 25, 'height' => 25 ) ); ?></a>

Something like that should get you close to what you want.

To link the excerpt, find the line that includes bp_message_thread_excerpt(), and wrap it in a link to bp_message_thread_view_link(). See the ‘View Message’ markup just above for a template you can copy.

I think you need a child-theme and change the header.php to include your custom navigation, I have created a similar menu but did require a lot of work in the header.

When new messages the number of messages shows in the message-icon, links to profile page, also woocommerce integrated and a dashboard link for admin only.

The following is in my custom header.php

First code links to profile.
<li><a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>" class="activitylink" title="My Account"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-users"></span></a></li>

This code deals with messages.

<li><a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '/messages/'; ?>"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-comments"></span><span class="commentcount"><?php if (bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) > 0 ) { ?> <?php bp_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ?><?php } ?></span></a>
</li>

Since I did not want too much in my nav I only used these buddypress features, more would clog up my website too much.

But where it comes down to is with a child-theme you can make it exactly as you like.

Good luck
P.H.

I guess the only way to achieve this is to create a child-theme and override the buddypress templates there, then your theme stays ok unless they make a major change with hooks etc.

Then in your entry.php file in your custom buddypress theme folder (located in wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/activity/), replace the delete link code from this

<?php if ( bp_activity_user_can_delete() ) bp_activity_delete_link(); ?>

to this

<?php if ( bp_activity_user_can_delete() ) bp_activity_delete_link_aside(); ?>

You will need to add something like this to your bp-custom.php file. If you haven’t already, create this file and place it in the wp-content/plugins/ folder. I added “aside” to the name to tell buddypress this is a custom function and not re-declare an already existing function.

function bp_get_activity_delete_link_aside() { 
 
    $url = bp_get_activity_delete_url(); 
    $class = 'delete-activity'; 
 
    // Determine if we're on a single activity page, and customize accordingly. 
    if ( bp_is_activity_component() && is_numeric( bp_current_action() ) ) { 
        $class = 'delete-activity-single'; 
    } 
 
    $link = '<a href="' . esc_url( $url ) . '" class="item-button bp-secondary-action ' . $class . ' confirm btn white btn-xs" rel="nofollow" style="padding: .2195rem .5rem;font-size: 0.8rem;">' . __( '<i class="fa fa-fw fa-trash text-muted"></i>', 'buddypress' ) . '</a>'; 
 
    /** 
     * Filters the activity delete link. 
     * 
     * @since 1.1.0 
     * 
     * @param string $link Activity delete HTML link. 
     */ 
    return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_delete_link', $link ); 
} 
function bp_activity_delete_link_aside() { 
    echo bp_get_activity_delete_link_aside(); 
} 

Try this

#buddypress ul.item-list li div.item-desc {
    color: #000000;
    font-size: 80%;
}

If you have the user’s ID then you can pass it to the get_userdata() WordPress function like this:

$user_id = 1;
$user = get_userdata( $user_id );

Then you can use the $user object like this:

echo sanitize_email( $user->user_email );

Note, how you get the user’s ID will depend on the context. See:

Playing with the user’s ID in different contexts

@erraticramblings

Try this in: – Customizer – Extra CSS

#buddypress div#item-header div#item-meta {
    color: #000000;
    font-size: 80%;
}

Plugin “BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top” Last updated: 6 years ago

I do not know if that still works. But I have found a working alternative.

Look here – http://techiescircle.com/move-new-commented-activity-stream-to-top/

there is a plugin called “BuddyPress Activity Stream Bump to Top”.
I use it and does exactly that.

Not done it, can not help, but applaud your choice to change vbulletin for buddypress.

ive just noticed the same thing, its defo something with the theme inspirebook.

if i switch to a different theme it works, i can upload cover images to profile and group.

if i enable the theme again, i cant.

i have deleted the theme and uploaded it again and still nothing.

i have disabled all plugins except buddypress and still the same, so wondering what it could be