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I suggest you localise. Take a look at at something like Poedit. For more info see the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article.

I added my own version of the code to that page I linked. The only problem with this is that if the BuddyPress devs change how something works, we won’t be in sync with it, so the widget would still be a nice feature.

Hello Guys,

Buddypress is perfect and very good but lucks usability (which is one of the main principles in every software system). Aggregate all the mentions , favorites, groups, etc, etc in one name wall.
Until now buddypress is very nice and good for developers and not for simple users!!!

If we want to follow the principles of human computer interaction we should think about speed, efficiency, learnability, memorability and user preferences so make the user interface simpler.

Buddypress is great

This question is already answered many times.
Please have a look. 🙂
https://buddypress.org/support/search/notifications+counter/

Running the dev build means you’re not getting the optimised CSS / JS files.

If you’re able to deploy with a SVN checkout instead of Git, you could use svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/xxx/ --ignore-externals which will not include the bbPress folder from the checkout.

It must be something to do with the server configuration; it could be anything. I’ve used BuddyPress on Amazon instances of all sizes and I’ve never had a problem.

+1

I don’t use the admin bar on my sites. It actually took me a while to discover that’s where all the BP functionality was.

The best option right now is to do it with some templating:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31812132/buddypress-display-notification-and-profile-in-header-instead-of-wp-admin-bar
That guy’s CSS isn’t the best, I’d suggest working on that.

This requires an understanding of the WP approach to template parts and creating child themes (if you’re not already running as a child theme) plus the BuddyPress template hierarchy as outlined in our codex.

One approach would be to take advantage of the ability to call named template parts in WP so get_header() can become get_header('no-logo') which would then look for a file namedheader-no-logo.php

A copy of header.php renamed to header-no-logo.php means you can now call a file that you can specifically modify – in this instance in the simplest terms you could remove any calls to rendering logos/backgrounds in this file.

Running your BP templates in your theme or child theme (see the bp codex templating guides) would then mean you could run a conditional query to see if in buddypress.php which get_header() template to use by using a check for bp_is_user() but you’ll need moderate php skills for this.

The better approach is to use the advanced BP template hierarchy which would allow you to create a file to act as index.php with all header/footer calls just for BP user screens.

The easy or possibly easier approach but not one I advice is to do what you have mentioned you have tried in using styles to hide the elements.

You’ll need a top level class identifier so we know it’s the BP screens we’re looking at and applying rules to:

body.bp-user .logo-element {display: none;}

I can’t advice what the correct selectors are as I’ve no notion of your themes structure, you’ll need to identify them and test until you find the right combination.
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Not too hard, add a button near avatar image and use css to place it over image. Hide the button until you hover.

Read here on how to customize bp templates https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

BuddyPress search is not 100% accurate. Member search searches usernames and profile fields. Think of it more like a filter than search.

Can you try the following fix?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/10586/branches/2.4/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-functions.php

This is scheduled to be released with BuddyPress 2.5 this week, but you can try this fix temporarily.

For private messages, auto-complete only shows your friends.

To access everyone, put this in your theme/functions.php or in plugins/bp-custom.php

define( 'BP_MESSAGES_AUTOCOMPLETE_ALL', true );

I’m on BP 2.4.3 and WP 4.4.2.

I’m getting this Message:

PHP Warning: strstr(): Empty needle in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-filters.php on line 682

Hi John

If you’re referring to the BuddyPress Activity Plus plugin, try asking this same question on their support forum.

I believe you can simply delete /bp-forums/bbpress/ and you should be good to go.

However, I understand that this is annoying for WP Engine as you might have to do this manually each time BuddyPress has an update.

An alternative is to pull the development version of the codebase (SVN or Git) from buddypress.trac.buddypress.org. Then, you can checkout the current maintenance branch (currently 2.4, but will be 2.5).

The development version does not include the older version of bbPress; we only include the older version when bundling it for a release.

Hopefully that helps somewhat.

Check out the Template Hierarchy article. It will show you how to set up templates for BuddyPress. You can then remove the comment section and comment form from the page(s) you want.

The Template Hierarchy article is what you’re looking for.

You might also want to try BP 2.5-RC1:

BuddyPress 2.5.0 Release Candidate 1

I believe the issue might be fixed there.

So my next question would be… is there a downside with having BP network enabled when it will only be used on 1/3 sites?

If you are using the site tracking feature in BuddyPress (Settings > BuddyPress > Components), then you would need to leave BuddyPress network activated.

Otherwise, except for taking up some PHP memory, there isn’t any downsides.

BuddyPress users are WordPress users; they are the same.

If you are talking about making those users active in BuddyPress terms, then those users would need to login at least once.

See:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6633

Particularly:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6633#comment:3

If you are interested in testing BP 2.5, maybe you can try in a local environment?

Did you Network Activate the BuddyPress plugin, or just enable it on one of the sites?

Your best bet is to try the bbPress.org support forums — the shortcode you’re using is bbPress, not BuddyPress.