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@shayariyadav,

thank you for the suggestion. 🙂

But BP is not a blog plugin, but a community tool. And WordPress has already a blog.

Some use BuddyPress for doing something very different as blogging. Some use it as a blog farm (on multisite).

As plugin, it is integrated to WP, so i doubt that BP devs want to do the opposite. 😉

You can anyway post a future request on Trac

The register process is part of WordPress.

For BP, you can see in
\buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\register.php

…but !

the username is already in use is not part of WP or BP.
Do you use an extra plugin ?

Where do I put this and how do I make sure it doesn’t get removed

Custom code can be added to bp-custom.php

@bigswp,

if you have the same config today as @enaijo 5 months ago, update first.
Actually: WordPress 4.2.3 BuddyPress 2.3.2.1 and bbPress 2.5.8-5815

If the issue is still in, ensure that you have some friendship, as you can only invite friends to join a group.

If all this is ok, you can open a ticket.
Give details about your config and any hint about how to reproduce your issue and mention this topic.

Login to Trac uses same credentials as here.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/report

Hi,

search a bit here: https://wordpress.org/search/admin+bar

also on this forum:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-admin-bar-toolbar-like-on-buddypress-org/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-org-theme-2/

> then click on ‘Complete Signup’ button but nothing happens and no users are created in the backend.

@startershut Click on wp-admin menu Users and click on BP’s Pending link on screen then activate the user you just created. https://codex.buddypress.org/administrator-guide/pending-users-admin-screen/

Here’s how regular member registration works: https://codex.buddypress.org/member-guide/registration/

Codex reference:

Members Navigation Menus

Also, on the forum, several topics, with many snippets:
https://buddypress.org/support/search/bp_nav_menu/

Here a working example, which add 2 external links on a profile.

function bpfr_custom_setup_nav() {
  if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
?>
<li><a href="<?php bp_members_directory_permalink(); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'All Members', 'buddypress' ) ); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="http://buddypress.org" target="_blank" title="BP">BuddyPress</a></li>
<?php  
}
add_action( 'bp_member_options_nav', 'bpfr_custom_setup_nav' );

@tomnikkola,

as you discovered already, the CSS trick is a poor solution.
Two solution are on hand.
A first one, which applies to all activity feeds.
Basically the below snippet handles globally the activties output. You simply remove the activity(ies) you don’t want to see from the list. Note that almost all activity types are listed.
Add it to child functions.php or to bp-custom.php

function demo_parse( $retval ) {
	// existing BP/bbP activities
	// remove the one you wont to see from that list
	$retval['action'] = '
		activity_comment,
		activity_update,
		bbp_topic_create,
                bbp_reply_create,
		friendship_created,
		joined_group,
		last_activity,
		new_avatar,
		new_blog_post, 	
		new_member,
		updated_profile
	';	

	return $retval;
	
	}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'demo_parse' );

Codex:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

The second solution, is to use a child-theme with a modified activity loop. This let you handle finer condition for each user.

Read this tut how you can do that.

Codex:

Activity Loop

There are, unfortunately, two sets of user data.

Your imported data was placed in the _usermeta table.
This data will show in wp-admin > users > user > profile

BuddyPress uses different tables: _xprofile_
This data will show in wp-admin > users > user > extended profile
And on the front end while viewing a member profile.

You may want to write a script that migrates from usermeta to xprofile.
Study the structure of the tables used for xprofile.

Cool running club! I was looking to join a club near me but Harold Wood is about a 30 minute drive away.

Regarding your question:

Is there a way of passing this path to Buddypress as the default avatar?

You can filter the default avatar URL using the bp_core_default_avatar_user hook.

Hope this helps!

Are activity updates a wordpress custom posts types?

No. Activity items aren’t custom posts; instead, they live in the bp_activity table. See here for a diagram.

Hi @mhawksey

Can you open a new bug report for this on Trac referencing #5733?

This isn’t possible out-of-the-box but there may be a plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory that adds Disqus functionality.

Adding items to the BuddyPress activity stream is very easy. Check out the bp_activity_add() article for more info.

buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/entry.php

Go here to search inside BuddyPress

@trobertson82,

use this function bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

Add this to bp-custom.php or child theme’s functions.php

function whats_new_my_friend() {
	if ( bp_is_user_friends_activity() ) :
		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );	
	endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_body', 'whats_new_my_friend' );

@kjgbriggs – just took a look at your oblivion thing you like – it appears to be the forums layout you are concerned with here – which may end up being more of a “bbpress” theme-ing issue – not so much buddypress… last I checked you can add “bbpress” as an auto-addon for buddypress – but if it’s not profiles and activity stream stuff – you may need to look up some “bbpress” specific theme things if you run into issues – not sure if they go over all that at bbpress dot org these days or not.. I have not checked those forums / docs in years.

@rochellebarlow
You need to direct this question to the “OptimizeMember” plugin writer.

I will suggest if you do not find it easy to work with that one, perhaps look into others like “s2member” or the membership plugins from wpmudev – and others.

Some places provide better tutorials and support than others – some are easier to work with than others.

This is not really a buddypress issue however I do not believe.

(I am not a bp dev, just another random internet user of bp – and I have not looked into your particular optimize things)

Hi @maelga,

Querying by member type is explained here:

Member Types

Then, you’ll have to create a custom function to get a navbar specific to each member type.

Members Navigation Menus

@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.

You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.

If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..

it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:

BuddyPress Theme Development

for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..

of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.