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Hello, it looks like google trends for Buddypress aren’t good. Is there a better altenative for BP? What is trending now?

Wouldn’t it be more WordPress hierarchy -like if we did something like this to the activity items?

Maybe instead of the solo entry.php template.

bp_get_template_part( 'activity/types/content', bp_get_activity_type() );

The bp_activity_action() function is probably the most disliked function/action in BuddyPress for myself. This really annoys me like crazy. When creating custom themes for BuddyPress you can easily delete the nav system function and replace them with your own code or create custom menu’s and buttons wherever you want them to show up but the activity stream is by far my least favourite part of the plugin all because of the above function and everything is so glued together, barely customisable.

Activity items are essentially the same thing as WordPress post formats inside a blog index. I believe they should have their own post-format style of templating just like WordPress does with one pre-build example. An update about a new member or a member writing something on his own are basically the same things as an update + default post format -post to WordPress.

We could create a single content.php file instead of the entry.php with all the HTML + solo php template functions inside them so they are easily to move around and alter if you like.
Wen you want your date at the bottom of the activity item, just grab the HTML container + PHP from the top of the document and move it below the content. If you want to go any deeper, just duplicate content.php and rename it to the activity post type you would like to customise and give an unique ‘snippet’ in the stream.

I’ve been testing this for a few minutes now and it just works. It’s kinda pretty to be honest. The only thing I have to do now is strip apart that bp_activity_action hook function and add all the solo or separate functions to the content.php template.

Sources:
Template 1
Template 2

So ever since buddypress was installed users can only register accounts with lowercase usernames and just alphanumeric but I want to add the ability for users to sign up with capital letters in their usernames as well as an underscore if needed.

I have already tried the “Network Username Overrides” plugin which doesn’t seem to change anything else I still get the error message no matter what settings I use for that plugin.

Any ideas how to fix this preferably without modifying the core?

I’m having trouble overriding Buddypress template files following the directions and documentation listed here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

For example, I have modified member-header.php.

Here is my website’s file structure: child-theme > buddypress > members > single > member-header.php
And this is Buddypress’ file structure: bp-templates > bp-legacy > buddypress > members > single > member-header.php

Now, I’m wondering if my parent theme (VideoPro) might have something to do with this not working.
Must my child theme be a direct child of Buddypress for this to work?

I have an NDA contract for who I am working with on this, so I can’t provide a link for the website. I can, however, provide screenshots to some degree.

Both my WordPress installation and BuddyPress installation are up to date and using the latest versions (as of the date of this post)

As mentioned on the GitHub page, jQuery Cookie isn’t longer maintained. Shouldn’t BuddyPress upgrade to JS Cookie because of this?

https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie

Got this error months ago and have never been able to fix it. Can anyone help me with a random act of kindness on how to fix this? =)

http://www.everkind.life/

Warning: Illegal string offset ‘slug’ in /home/everkind/public_html/wp-content/themes/buddyapp/lib/plugins/buddypress/navigation-icons.php on line 102

I don’t have super advanced PHP skills so I made this as a start to show off only 3 profile fields (will be svg icons later) ..when their set of course.

<?php
	$twitter = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Twitter', bp_get_member_user_id() );
	$instagram = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Instagram', bp_get_member_user_id() );
	$website = bp_get_member_profile_data( 'field=Website', bp_get_member_user_id() );

	if ( isset( $twitter, $instagram, $website ) ) {

		echo '<div class="test">';

			if ( isset( $twitter ) ) {
				echo '<span>'. $twitter .'</span><br>';
			}
			if ( isset( $instagram ) ) {
				echo '<span>'. $instagram .'</span><br>';
			}
			if ( isset( $website ) ) {
				echo '<span>'. $website .'</span><br>';
			}

		echo '</div>';
	}
?>

I have this feeling, this can be made better or nicer within some sort of loop instead of all those IF statements.

Usually I use Advanced Custom Fields Pro for those kinda of things because of their detailed Documentation and examples but I thought it would be overkill to use ACF only for 3 simple fields while BuddyPress has this inside the core.

Thanks.

Hi,

Don’t know if this codex page is still up to date but I’m trying to exclude a bunch of activity stream items from my site.

Posting Activity from Plugins

So I made this.

function dont_save_various_activities( $activity_object ) {

	$exclude = array( 'activity_update', 'new_avatar', 'new_member', 'friendship_accepted', 'friendship_created', 'created_group', 'joined_group', 'new_blog' );

	if ( in_array( $activity_object->type, $exclude ) )
		$activity_object->type = false;

}
add_action( 'bp_activity_before_save', 'dont_save_various_activities', 1, 1 );

This excludes almost everything from the activity stream but for some reason you can’t target the ‘… profile was updated …’ activity item. That one keeps showing up when some user edits their profile.

I only want to record, new: blog posts, comments, topics and replies.