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– it’s the (or one of the) “default” wp themes ( https://wordpress.org/themes/twentyfourteen/ )
about the only way you will get any kind of support with bp or / and rtmedia..

it’s not the easiest thing to mod – but at least it works, and bp has some stylesheets included that massage it into something better than the average theme for some bp pages..

I finally got deep into it to style some changes at the various media queries / screen sizes..

btw – did you try changing your premium themes style.css to those changes to see if they work?

if you search the bp forums for other premium themes you will see that even ones selling as “the best or the most popular buddypress theme” – seem to have issues and lack good support.. search the forums for “kleo” for example – lol

I am sticking with twenty fourteen ’till things mature a bit (recent changes in wp and bp have made things complex in some ways) –

Within the menu page under Appearance there is an option under Buddypress called Groups. you should use this as your menu item instead of the current Groups menu item, this will only display the groups the user is a member of.

Yep – I think most of us want better backend choices for what things are included and excluded in the activity stream – I wrote a detailed post reply recently on this thread here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/content-activity-stream/

but I had too many links or wrong words in it or something and I guess it got stuck in the moderation que or just blackholed by akismet – who knows..

@liharris – welcome to the suck (that is theme issues with bp (and other things bp related like rtmedia) (welcome to the suck a movie quote, kind of joking)-

you will likely not get any help in the bp forums when it comes to premium themes, you should contact the theme author.

I did a quick look, and I must say I have zero knowledge of that theme and all the css things that could affect everything – I am also not a css expert.

My first thought is that you can create something very similar with a free theme from the wp-repo and a one of the “cards” plugins from the from wp-repo..

my second thought is wondering why the theme author did not include a couple of css rules like:

.header {
margin-left: -200px !important;
}

body {
margin-left: 200px;
}

but again I have no idea what he/she is trying to do with whatever elements, and how one may affect another in different situations..

you could try to make a child theme (good luck with that friggin process!)

and adapt those rules..

but I suggest that you don’t get married to that theme and buddypress – even if you find a theme that actually says “works with buddypress” – I think you will find little issues to contend with – and from what I have seen (lately even) is that these premium theme authors (And free theme authors) have trouble keeping up with bp and other things that are (IMHO) needed addons with bp (rtmedia, or/and media press, or that other one – umm. photo something)

anyhow – I gave up on all premium and free themes and have been stuck with working with 2014 theme as it’s the only thing that gets any kind of “working well with bp / rtmedia and other things” – I’m sure other smarter coders mileage is different.

That should be the hook to use. See here for it in context:

https://github.com/buddypress/BuddyPress/blob/master/src/bp-activity/bp-activity-functions.php#L2180

Try this in your theme/functions.php or bp-custom.php

function is_user_online() {

   $last_activity = bp_get_user_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() );

   $curr_time = time(); 

   $diff = $curr_time - strtotime( $last_activity );

   $time = 5 * 60;  // must be in seconds

   if( $diff < $time )
      echo '<br/>online';
   else 
      echo '<br/>not online';
}
add_action('bp_before_member_header_meta', 'is_user_online');

Do you think Buddypress can support hundreds of thousands, if not millions of users?

In theory, yes, BuddyPress can handle millions of users. BuddyPress will add rows to the database without problem, and that database can scale to a very large size.

In practice, there are things that might have an impact on that. Your hardware will play a big role. For example, will a million users all be logged in at the same time, each posting a video clip or large image?

Please look into other forum topics as well..

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-could-handle-a-huge-number-of-members/

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/what-about-i-got-10-million-users-or-more/

Personally, I think BP supports thousands of users. There are few BuddyPress sites with abounding users. You just need a good server and a good database space.

may be it’s a permalink issue. Try editing your htaccess file.

Navigation Links Return 404 Errors

https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

@jake-reimer,

if you don’t use bp-default theme, this advice from @prabin04 is wrong:
Copy BuddyPress *members* folder from bp-default folder inside your child theme, and search for member-header.php file located inside members->single folder.

You need to take the copy from bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Theme Compatibility – Customizing

hi @jake-reimer, you can do this. you need to customize member-header.php file inside your child theme.

Copy BuddyPress *members* folder from bp-default folder inside your child theme, and search for member-header.php file located inside members->single folder.

and inside member-header.php file, find this code,

<?php if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
<span class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>

replace bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); this with your desired function name. either first name, or full name or DisplayName.

Cheers.

@danbp, @henrywright thanks for the feedback. 😀 I may have to need your other further helps regarding BuddyPress issues and modifications.

@xrossgg well fudge – I tried posting a thorough reply, but I guess my post is going to held in moderation for having too many links in it. Maybe one of the @mods will un-moderate it.

Search the forums here for “activity filter” – look for things with “parse_args” –

maybe the thread here can get you started: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/documentation-for-remove_action-activity-streams/

See this plugin, which is made for that:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget/

WP’s comment widget is for main blog comments, not activity comments.

@gebar,
the allow blog checkbox is a conditionnal who open a sub form via ajax. If you remove it from the template, it will compromise the register process. But as the only thing we need is the value (0 or 1), we have to change it from 0 (empty) to 1 (ckecked) in the core. The function who made this is bp_get_signup_with_blog_value which contains a filter for $value.

Give this a try. Add it to bp-custom.php

function create_blog_activated( $value ) {
if ( function_exists( 'bp_get_signup_with_blog_value' ) )
// default value is ''
	$value = 1;
return $value;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_signup_with_blog_value', 'create_blog_activated', 10, 1 );

Now the register page shows blog activation part open and checkbox is ticked.

BuddyPress is a plugin dedicated to members, not blogs. On a multisite install, each member can get his separate blog, without limitation. These member blogs are then refrenced on a blog directory. An each membrer profile will show a blog directory with that member’s blog(s).

Groups is a component to group members, not blogs. If you need a group blog, instead or in addition of individual member blogs, you can use BuddyPress Groupblog. Such blog will be for all group members and each group can have only one blog. But each group member can have his own blog. In this case, the network will have a main blog, group blogs and individual blogs.

Whatever solution you use, a blog is always part of WordPress and will work exactly like the main site blog where you installed BuddyPress.
This means that it’s the responsability of each member with a blog to admin his blog, even if the main site admin has priority and can allow/disallow plugins and themes. Usually disallowed, so members can only use what main site admin decided they can use.

Enhancement can be asked on Trac. Read here about user participation and contribution to BuddyPress.

Participate and Contribute

Omg I just had a whole wall of text written up and while researching a link from earlier I found this:

https://gist.github.com/jonasnick/6125869

and it made my comments show up in activity, hopefully it’s what others need. Why I had to fight with buddypress and search the net for hours to make wordpress comments work is beyond me. I still don’t know if it’s supposed to out of the box or not, which I’ve tested.

@hamiltontroy007 – Is the issue the same when you use chomre vs firefox vs IE ?

if you switch to the 2014 theme does the same issue occur?

If not, then it would appear to be something with the Kleo theme, and I don’t think your chances of getting help in the bp forums to debug a premium theme are very high.

“asked Kleo support and they had a look and said it is related to buddypress. ” – I think that’s like saying your issue has something to do with “http” since it’s internet related. I would of expected a much better answer from a premium theme developer that seems to have made more then $200,000 selling a theme that claims to be “the greatest community theme on the market”

just one more reason I sigh when it comes to bp and themes.
and my 2 cents on the issue without knowing much about any of this.

Have you read this codex page?
Note the section at the bottom: ‘Preserve the Order’

@collinkemp – in this kind of situation I either ftp in or get to cpanel file manager.. either download a copy of your wp-content folder with http://ftp.. or make a zip / compressed folder of your wp-content folder to have a backup.

Then go into your wp-content/plugins/
– delete rtmedia err “buddypress-media” folder. Check if site comes back.
– if not start deleting other plugins and checking.. and or
– delete the non-default themes your have in you wp-content/themes folder

This should get you back to basic wordpress and buddypress and default theme – then you should be able to get into your wp-admin section and go to appearance – themes and select one of the defaults..

you may figure out what the hiccup was during the delete and check process.

sometimes when my rtmedia updates I have to go into permalinks – change them, save, then change them back and save again.. don’t know why, but 50% of the time rtmedia updates causes a bunch of my static “pages” to be “404 not found” and the permalinks change then change back and save fixes it.. it’s a weird bloated plugin.. but glad it’s here.

Double post. Topic started here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/urgent-need-a-hook-which-is-called-during-click-og-comment-button-urgent/

Closing this topic.

Please don’t double post. It doesn’t bring more answers.

You already received some answers. This topic is closed and can be continued here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/urgent-need-a-hook-which-is-called-during-click-og-comment-button-urgent/