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Twenty Fifteen, meaning the theme? I’m currently using an updated Twenty Fourteen theme, which I prefer the look. Is it necessary to change? I’m on the updated wordpress version and the most update buddypress version.

It’s best to make your changes in the language file.

If you only want to change a label or two, you can use functions. The tricky part is knowing which filter hooks to use: gettext or gettext_with_context.

In your case, you need both:

function example_gettext_with_context( $translated, $text, $context, $domain ) {

    if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )
        return $translated;

     switch ( $text ) {

        case 'Friends':
            return 'Contacts';
            
        default:
            return $translated;
    }

}
add_filter( 'gettext_with_context', 'example_gettext_with_context', 11, 4 );

function example_gettext( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {

    if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )  
        return $translated;

    switch ( $original_text ) {
			
       case 'Friends <span class="%s">%s</span>';
            return 'Contacts <span class="%s">%s</span>';

        default:
            return $translated;
    }
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'example_gettext', 10, 3 );

@jerryroxas – welcome to the wonderful world of wp and bp!

Here is what you are likely to find out.. when asking for support in the bp forums people are going to ask if your problem exists when you switch to the default wp theme and turn off all plugins except bp.

If your problem does not exist in the default setup, then re-enable your other plugins one by one and see if the issue is caused when another plugin is activated. If the problem is caused by another plugin (in your case I am guessing the members plugin) – then you will likely be asked to go find the support forums for that plugin and ask them over there, as it’s not a bp problem, and you are unlikely to get (free) support here.

If your problem does not exist with all plugins, change your theme to what you were using and see if the problem exists. IF problem exists only with the non-default theme, then you need to ask for support with your theme designer.

If you come back here and say that you need such and such functionality and the other theme designers and plugin authors are not helping you, then you will likely be directed to the coders jobs board when you can offer cash for solutions. (And those solutions that you pay for will likely not be guaranteed to work, or work in the future when wp and bp have updates.)

I will add some extra light on your situation however, from what I have seen the next version of buddypress is supposed to have core functionality support for some kind of member levels thing.. see https://buddypress.org/2015/01/buddypress-2-2-beta-2/ –

whether or not that new function will work right at all, or work for the type of situation in which you are trying to create with the permissions / members plugin you are currently playing with, I don’t know. I myself have had some luck with using press-premit-core for some content restriction situations, but I have not looked to see if those affect activity stream registering.. I may play with that some and see.

Importer plugins are always welcome here at BuddyPress! 😀

cc @djpaul

Ref: https://twitter.com/pgibbs/status/556433768526143488

Disabling search engine visibility in WP settings did the trick.

To get @mention properly on group notice, read here please:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-mention/

closed – duplicate of this.

Unless you’ve created bp-custom.php yourself, you won’t have one.

If you can verify that you’re using Twenty Fifteen, no plugins activated, and have made no custom code changes, then please feel free to open a ticket on Trac. Please provide the developers with as much info as you can (see here) and describe the problem you’re seeing in as much detail as you can. Also, feel free to reference this thread.

@casesolver

The error log seems to indicate the problem is coming from the theme x. For example:

wp-content/themes/x/framework/functions/global/plugins/buddypress.php on line 478

Can you try reverting to the Twenty Fifteen theme to see if the issue is resolved?

There’s a lot more to uploading an avatar than just saving the meta. Check out xprofile_screen_change_avatar() to see how BuddyPress handles the process.

Along with saving meta info, you’ll need to handle the actual file and save it to your file system (just as BuddyPress does). Then there’s cropping to think about too.

Hope this info helps.

Hi @mvaneijgen

Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article. It explains how BuddyPress will look for specific template files inside your theme if you’ve created them. These then override the default.

The wp_users table description can be found here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description

And here’s the BuddyPress database diagram:

BuddyPress Database Diagram

Hope that helps you.

@manu-pb

Is this with one of the default wp themes like twenty-fifteen / twenty-fourteen?

you have tried deactivating all plugins except buddypress to see if the problem is related to a plugin?

if yes and yes, I would go to permanlinks, note what they are set to, change permanlinks to a different setting and save.. then try your settings tab.. then go back and change your permanlinks back to how you want them.. and save..

go to dashboard -> Settings -> Reading.. change home page to be activity.. and make your blog posts a new page called “whatever” you have to make a new page called “whatever or site blog” or something first.

Should be able to make a div block that includes some welcome message info and a sign up form and plop that into the header of your theme.. have is conditional like “if_is_home”.. one of the themes I use on a site (bp-social) does something like this, but it uses “if_is_logged_out(notlogged_in)”, then display a content block that has some welcome info and a sign in / sign up for in it.. that block does not appear once someone is logged in..

I imagine there may be some plugins in the wp-repo that add a content block conditionally.. might be easy if your theme has header widget areas..

So yeah I think there are several ways to do this with buddypress, if I understand what you mean.