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asked about this with some help over a year ago ( https://buddypress.org/support/topic/remove-all-gravatar-calls/ )

short term fixes some though: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/new-buddypress-plugin-bp-local-avatars/

Which I have installed but not activated yet.

Also mentioned this a while back in a survey thread I think it was ( buddypress. org/support/topic/questions-for-the-2015-buddypress-survey/#post-229073

and in buddypress .org/ support/topic/programmatically-assigning-avatars-to-groups/#post-182810

Glad to see there was some ticket discussion about this issue! And others who are looking at this being a real problem!

I have tried with multiple themes, including the 2015, 14 and 13. I am currently using Firmasite (which works but isn’t the most user-friendly in other ways). I have BBpress, Buddypress, Mailchimp for WordPress, Akismet (activated), Buddypress Group Chat, Buddypress Security Check, Jetpack. I try and keep the plugins to a minimum as my WordPress site is only used for the forums – I use efiction in a subfolder for the main part of my site.

this is really a wordpress/xampp setup issue not a buddypress thing. i can’t really help you because i never had any trouble setting mine up and i use mac anyway but you might be able to get more eyeballs on your problem by using the support resources for wordpress and/or xampp since buddypress is a sort of baby universe compared to the larger wordpress universe which contains it there are far fewer people here then there are there.

For just BuddyPress (not the WordPress side of things), see comment 4 here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2367#comment:4

@danbp. I followed your instructions in the thread you closed, and confirmed the same in codex. It does not change anything. I still cannot get a forum to show unless it is public. Please advise.

The BuddyPress “Like” plugin is what he was probably talking about.

Please don’t double post.

If you activated Groups in BP, you assigned also a page to the group component.

If you use bbPress, you have to create a group form.
dashboard > forum > new forum and call it group forum.
In the right column, there is a setting box for forum type. Assign category.

In forum settings, check activate group forums for BP and choose group forum parent page.

Now on front-end create a group and follow the steps. Make it hidden or whatever. Save after each step.

Allow group forum. And save. Now the tricky part.

You have to resave this step, because BP registers first the group. As now forum is active, you have to select the newly create group name in the select box above the option yes, i want a group forum.

For already existing groups, it the same thing to do. The forum tab is existing, but nothing shows on it because of this.
Go to group settings, and select the group name and save.

In brief, you create the forum, save, assign the group name to the forum and re-save.

This was already explained to you on another topic and is also explained on the mentionned codex page.

Topic closed and discussion continue there.

@planetearthlings – I just noticed that the latest version of the avchat.net program has a new API that will produce urls (and other info) for recorded video chats
( https://nusofthq.com/blog/avchat-3-6-brings-a-new-mobile-version-and-red5-1-0-5-compatibility/ )
– so it should be pretty easy to to put together some code that would take that info and send it back to BP to post recorded video chats.

The program already has a wp plugin (and a pro version) to connect avchat with buddypress members, so this is the closes thing I have seen that does what you were asking about.

I will be posting a job offer for someone to connect with another API that nusoft has released soon, and I would help fund any project to connect BP with the avchat recordings API if you decide to take that route. I wish I could just write it myself, but still in the early stages of learning php and java.

Check your div’s !
Or better, faster and much easier for you if you aren’t a CSS guru, use an existing WP theme.

We can’t assist you if you use third party premium tools or themes.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

disable ALL other plugins first. Then try to activate buddypress by itself.

not working still? Switch to 2014 or 2015, or 2012 theme.

try again.

Then when you go back to enable your other plugins (or theme) – you will find which is causing conflict –

-most likely

hi @henrywright. Oooooooooooups ! No pasaran. 😉

@hammed4real101,

try this (add to child-theme functions.php or bp-custm.php) :

function swa_remove_new_member_activity( $a, $activities ) {
 
	//allow site admin to see
	if ( is_site_admin() )
		return $activities;
 
	foreach ( $activities->activities as $key => $activity ) {
		// activity type name is new_member
		if ( $activity->type =='new_member') {
		unset( $activities->activities[$key] );
		 
				// recalculate activity items for pagination
				$activities->activity_count = $activities->activity_count-1;
				$activities->total_activity_count = $activities->total_activity_count-1;
				$activities->pag_num = $activities->pag_num -1;
		}
	}
 
	// Renumber the array keys to account for missing items 
	$activities_new = array_values( $activities->activities );
	$activities->activities = $activities_new;
	
	// output
	return $activities;
}
add_action('bp_has_activities','swa_remove_new_member_activity', 10, 2 );

@marcella1981

It’s always a disappointment when a thread you’ve opened gets closed, especially when your intentions are genuine. That said, the mod offers some great advice which I think will help you find people with similar interests as yourself.

Twitter is another great way to interact with the BuddyPress community. Be sure to hashtag your Tweets with #buddypress related words so people will find you 🙂

Hi @paixaofileto

I’d suggest you contact the theme author asking if they can release an update; making things compatible with BuddyPress.

Hi @hoseke

Assuming you’re talking about WordPress roles and not BuddyPress member types, then you can do this:

$user = wp_get_current_user();
$user->set_role( 'student' );

Hey @marcella1981

Great to see you’re interested in developing BuddyPress themes. It might be worth also asking your question over at wordpress.org; I’m hoping there’ll be some WordPress theme authors who’ll want to turn their hand to themes for BuddyPress.

Hi @arturamirov

See the Languages and Translations article to start with. There’s also the Translator Handbook.

@bewitchingfiction, @caniwigirl,

have you read group forum install instruction ?

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

Note also that for hidden group

Only users who are invited can join the group.
This group will not be listed in the groups directory or search results.
Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.

Members who are part of such a group can see their group activity on their profile, when they’re logged-in.

Groups

On a correctly installed BP, user can access to hidden group forums via the profile, the group activity itself or the group forum.

This how BP handles members and how bbPress is built. And has nothing to do with a standard coded theme.
If you don’t believe, try by activating one of Twenty default theme.

I think it’s in a core file somewhere, having looked into index.php (inside buddypress/templates/members/) now index-directory.php there’s no specific function call that I can see .

However you can build your own search form, just make sure you set the input name to be that of “s” and it should work. With AJAX you can look into buddypress.js to see how the devs have hooked up the form.

hi @batufan,

bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php:10
bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/index.php:10

Functions are
bp_directory_groups_search_form & bp_directory_members_search_form

Respectively in bp-groups/bp-groups-template.php & bp-members/bp-members-template.php

You make a good point.
It definitely should be exposed as a DEFINE, similar to define('BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT', 'profile' );

I suggest you create an enhancement ticket. Use the same user / pw that you use here.

I posted the same question and no one answered me. This seems to be a common issue with all WordPress/BuddyPress installs (I have a separate WordPress install and the same thing occurs), so it seems to be inherent in the responsive CSS code or something.

This was my question:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/toolbar-empty-for-mobile-logged-out-users/

These other threads also seems to be talking about the same, or a similar issue:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddy-bar-not-displaying/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-show-secondary-navigation-menu-to-logged-out-users/

Doesn’t anyone have any advice, since it’s affecting so many of us?

And no, it was not due to a conflicting plug-in or a theme. Tests were done when the site was just installed with the default themes. The links shows up correctly on desktop, and on my Nexus 7 2013 (1200×1920 resolution) ONLY when it is in landscape mode, but not when it is portrait (empty, black bar is show). And the same empty black bar is shown on my Galaxy Note 3 (1080×1920 resolution) in both portrait and landscape. So it doesn’t seem to be due to just the horizontal resolution – but perhaps the the full (horizontal x vertical) resolution or something.

It’s pretty frustrating.