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BuddyPress Newsletter – #24 – BP security release, Community Hosting, BuddyApp Theme, BP with WooCommerce etc

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/bpmail/issues/24-bp-security-release-community-hosting-buddyapp-theme-bp-with-woocommerce-etc-48208

Hi @r-a-y, Thank you for the reply. My parent theme doesn’t have that file, and yes I am using a child theme already, and I do understand that it doesn’t work with bp-default themes, but it SHOULD work with bp-default templates – no?

For reasons I don’t understand,

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php

does not work as the index.php file when copied to

/community/groups/index.php

Now, if you’re saying I should not expect it to, then….what should I use as my template for the groups index?

If I’m reading correctly, @hnla says I should just use a regular page template from my theme, and strategically add in the contents of /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php (which, as he points out, is not a complete file with header, etc) and call it index-directory.php. (And thank you, @hnla for the reply as well 🙂 )

I can do that. However, I haven’t found any documentation to that effect, and it seems to be much more complicated than the template hierarchy documentation implies:

Therefore, you can modify any bp theme compatibility template by copying it over from:

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

To:

/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/

That is what I have always done, and I’ve never had this much trouble with it before.

I have other template modifications to make, and if Hugo’s instructions are correct, it would be really helpful to know where the documentation is, in case I have further issues.

If the template hierarchy page is correct, then something is wrong with my site, because I’m following those instructions (in spite of my original faux pas of using “themes” instead of “templates”).

Thanks in advance for any further clarification you can provide.

do_action( 'bp_before_activity_loop' ); ?>

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) ) ):

  if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>

    <ul id="activity-stream" class="activity-list item-list">

  <?php endif; ?>

  <?php      
    $count = 0;

    $args = array(
      'posts_per_page'   => 100000,
      'offset'           => 0,
      'category'         => '',
      'category_name'    => 'freedom-friend-news',
      'order'            => 'desc',
      'orderby'          => 'date',
      'include'          => '',
      'exclude'          => '',
      'meta_key'         => '',
      'meta_value'       => '',
      'post_type'        => 'post',
      'post_mime_type'   => '',
      'post_parent'      => '',
      'author'	         => '',
      'author_name'	     => '',
      'post_status'      => 'publish',
      'suppress_filters' => true 
    );
    $news_articles = get_posts( $args ); 
          
	while( bp_activities() ): bp_the_activity();

		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/entry' );
          
        $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
        if( $current_user->user_login == 'tommy' ):
          
          $count++;
          $news_iteration = $count / 7)-1;
          
          // Loop through news articles as long as there are articles.
          if( $count % 7 == 0 && !empty( $news_articles[$news_iteration] )):
          
            echo 'News Article';
            echo 'Iteration: '.$news_iteration;
            echo $news_articles[$news_iteration]->post_title;
            echo $news_articles[$news_iteration]->post_excerpt;
      
          endif;
            
        endif;

	endwhile; ?>

	<?php if ( bp_activity_has_more_items() ) : ?>

		<li class="load-more">
			<a href="<?php bp_activity_load_more_link() ?>"><?php _e( 'Load More', 'buddypress' ); ?></a>
		</li>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<?php if ( empty( $_POST['page'] ) ) : ?>

		</ul>

	<?php endif; ?>

<?php else : ?>

	<div id="message" class="info">
		<p><?php _e( 'Sorry, there was no activity found. Please try a different filter.', 'buddypress' ); ?></p>
	</div>

<?php endif; ?>

I’m now trying to re-word my original response, so hopefully it will get past whatever filter is preventing me from reposting the dropped message.

Thanks @danbp. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the solution I needed. Partly, perhaps, but not entirely.

As you pointed out, I was wrongly copying files from bp-themes rather than bp-templates (a codeblind mistake on my part). But I was doing everything else correctly, in terms of file structure and use of /community/ according to your write up.

I went through my steps again, this time copying

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php

over to

/community/groups/index.php

with zero impact. (I test this by adding a bit of text in a spot that should display on the live site, and it does not show up. Tried several different places, no effect.)

This would seem to demonstrate that BP is not reading that index.php file at all. It’s only reacting to the template change if it is called “index-directory.php”.

I changed the file name (without moving the file) from index.php to index-directory.php, just as I did before, but again, it did not work as expected. The groups directory page picked up the new template, but it displayed a completely stripped-down version of the page, with no CSS at all (white background, default font, everything left-aligned, etc).

I have been assuming that the index.php file would be a proper starting point (a template) to create custom modifications to the groups directory page (i.e., index-directory.php), but clearly that does not hold true.

This seems very strange, because in looking at the php code in index.php, it’s got all the elements I see in the source for my live groups directory page. So it appears to be getting that exact same information from “somewhere else” within the plugin structure, but I can’t figure out where.

My question is now: What file should I use as a starting point to duplicate my existing groups directory, so I can make custom modifications?

I do hope you (or someone) can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!