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@ricsca2 – upload a photo to become your profile pic / user avatar – is built in buddypress.

uploading pics to your activity stream / albums stuff like that – is possible by adding other plugins. Currently rtmedia plugin is most popular, although likely not the most loved 😉

a newer one – “media press” is gaining stream –

and it’s been reported that “https://buddypress.org/support/topic/wp-photo-album-plus-works-100-with-buddypress/ ” – which looks very interesting.

There has been suggestions and some debate about including additional photo / media uploads as part of core BP –

Personally I think everyone should work on import / export options – or something that converts data from any photo plugin to provide the new bp-attachments info so things could be changed.. right now if you get users into one system I do not know of any way to switch to a different plugin.

I don’t know if your question was about a “profile photo” or photos (plural) in general – but there’s some info for ya.

@atfpodcast Sorry, not quite clear what you mean. What exactly do “other BuddyPress themes have for the profile” that you want? Can you post a link to the other BP themes profile page URI so we can identify what you mean?

The mistake comes from you ! You probably confused bp-legacy and bp-default. You must use the id’s and classes used by bp-default theme, not thoose comming from buddypress legacy templates.

BP-default was designed to be used by BP < 1.7/1.9. Now, BP can be used with any theme…

When you check for CSS names, read the page source (right click on browser screen > show source).

First screenshot is the whats-new form. You highlighted the CSS and can see that it has nothing to do with the css rule you try to apply to activity avatar.
The div there is called whats-new-avatar and the class is photo.

Code source is in bp-default/activity/post-form.php

Try
div#whats-new-avatar .photo {}

Idem for the second screenshot. It’s the activity page of bp-default theme, which use different names as the actual buddypress template.

Bp-default theme is building a list for activities. Means you’re in a ul/li serrie. Avatars are somewhere inside a li.
You have to try something like

ul#activity-stream .photo {}

All concerned templates are in bp-default/activity/

Can’t help you more as i stopped to use bp-default since a few years now. Simply keep in mind that you’re working on an old theme which has not much to do with the way BP is currently handling with themes.

Codex contains some old reference to bp-default if you have other issue with that theme.

Keep your eyes open and have a nice day. 🙂

I tested the snippet on Buddy theme, so i’m pretty sure you have a user menu. This menu is on WP’s Toolbar. You see it when you’re logged in.

To choose an item position, you have to do it differently, as explained here:

[Resolved] Position Notification Counter Bubble after Specific Navigation Tab ID

For more about menu handling and functions, see WP Codex, as this is not really related to BuddyPress. Now it’s your turn to work a little !

See here if you can make it to work !
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/xprofile-just-show-first-letter-of-last-name/#post-182839

@toggerybob
change your permalinks to pretty permalinks in the wordpress settings,
then activate bp.. then go run through the config / page associations (https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/ )

should be good to go at that point.. you may need to create a few blank “pages” like activate and register – or they may populate…

And ?

BuddyPress Theme Development

When you override CSS, use !important to get the new rule to work. Cibling the ID is also a good practice in this case.

#buddypress div.activity-avatar img.avatar {
height: 40px!important;
width: 40px!important;
}

This is not a BuddyPress related question. Please read here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_on_Microsoft_IIS
http://www.microsoft.com/web/wordpress

Note: I am using the default theme of buddypress.

Weird ! Have you tried with Twenty Fifteen ?

First, read here:

Customizing BuddyPress Avatars

Try to add the define to your child-theme functions.php, instead of bp-custom.

Spare bandwidth… define ( 'BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH', 640 ); Are you sure you want to allow such a big size for a picture who use as max full width a default size of only 150 px ? 😉

Hi @lo133,
there is nothing out for what you’re looking for. Answering to “why” is easy, even if it sounds ridiculous: because BP is not FB or Twitter or Google. @djsteveb already gave some other good advice.

Basically, BP is using the built-in favorite feature and doesn’t “share” activities from one to one user, but from one to all. To get individual activities, users have to go to a profile.

That said, maybe considering one of these solution could help you ?

New Plugin Adds BuddyPress Activity as a Wire/Wall to User Profiles

http://buddydev.com/plugins/facebook-like-user-activity-stream-for-buddypress/ (premium)

Mention stuff is in buddypress/bp-activity/css and buddypress/bp-activity/js

To modify the text color of the name list, add this into your child-theme style.css.
Use !important for the new rule.

.atwho-view {	
color: #e30472!important;
}

@lo133 – So – you want to find something within your own buddypress site – and click to share this on your “friend’s activity / all” ? – I THINK your friends can see activity of their friends with a simple click (eg – /members/admin/activity/friends/ ) – so anything you have shared on your profile would display in that feed..

Or (and?) – you want to be on another web site and share something from some other place onto your own activity wall? (I think that is easiest done with wpmudev’s activity plus plugin)

There IS an option to kind of send something to your friend’s “wall” – on their profile if you click “public message” then it opens a box and adds @myFriendsName… which kind of does what you may be asking about.

I would imagine there would be a cool modification to the WP “press this” button code – where a person may be able to highlightsomething and include a list of friends to @MyFriendsName them – however I think it could get bloated if you have a lot of friends…

I myself think it better to just post an activity update and if your friends want to see it then can click to see friend’s activity – or you could make that display the default display when people log in … and if you needed to get a site notification to someone – say post a picture of a sunset – it shows in your activity, and your friend’s would see it on friend’s activity – and if that sunset reminded you of someone particular, you would @MyFriend Mention them – and they MAY get a notification sent to them.

Still not exactly sure what content you are wanting to share with friends, and where you think that should show up.

It may be that you want to customize how activity is displayed to logged in users and solve what you are going for. Not sure really.

“Do you understand?” – I still do not understand what you are asking about. Sorry.

Maybe you mean… while using your buddypress web site you want to share an activity with your other “friends” within buddypress or something?

Only thing i understand from default.css concern gallery and images rules.
If you don’t want them, remove them or use display:none;

bp-default styles are in bp-default/_inc/css/default.css
To overide, you use a child-theme containing a style.css file

haha, @hnla <3 the side effect of wp’s teaser:
One central account.
One unified admin area.
One click install.

… how long whould it take to finally repair & make this forum and codex pages to work correctly, with a clear admin ?

2008 – BuddyPress is born.
2015 – shoemaker’s son always goes barefoot !

hi @nnyorker,
use bp_get_loggedin_user_link()

For example
echo '<li><a href="'. bp_get_loggedin_user_link() .'">View my profile</a></li>';

Reference

bp_get_loggedin_user_link

@bruce7075,

here a complete solution you can use for friends privacy.

– Whe’re going to show the friends menu only to… friends !
– We remove friends activity.

Copy this to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() {
	$retval = false;
	
	if ( bp_is_user() && ! bp_is_my_profile() && ! friends_check_friendship( bp_displayed_user_id(), bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
	
	return $retval;
}

function bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends() {
	
	// Stop if condition is not filed
	if ( ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return;
	}
	// otherwise, we remove the nav
	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' ); // bp topnav
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' ); //bp subnav (my activities, my groups, etc)
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends' );

// we want also to remove all friends related activities to non friends
function bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends( $activity_action = array(), $component_id = '' ) {
	
	// if condition is not filed we go back to original output
	if ( 'friends' != $component_id || ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return $activity_action;
	}
	
	// otherwise, we remove member from context
	$activity_action['context'] = array_diff( $activity_action['context'], array( 'member' ) );
	
	return $activity_action;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_set_action', 'bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends', 10, 2 );

Related topic (other solution, or strict answer to your question) 😉
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/documentation-for-remove_action-activity-streams/#post-242974