It appears, based on searching the forum, that there isn’t a way to include existing users if you add BuddyPress after your WordPress site has been active awhile. Hopefully, I am just missing something.
However, on my test site, the only existing user (admin) is not recognized as a “user” by BuddyPress. Is there a magic button to push to get him imported?
My live sites definitely have more than one registered user and I would hate them to be ignored.
Thank you for the response, I really appreciate it!
Is it true then that Buddypress will not use existing wp avatars ? Is there any way to do this?
Thank you!
M
Hi all,
My user accounts in wordpress have user avatar images. When I look at the profiles in BuddyPress user profile pages, the default “blank” avatar is shown, and it is not using the worpress avatar image of the user.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Website: http://www.overlandbound.com
A solution was given here. It’s for post only. But if it works you can use similar fn to get comments.
It’s old but maybe it’s still working. Don’t forget to read the complete thread. At least you have a start point.
I would like to change the slug used by Buddypress.
I would like a change from:
example.com/members/USER_NAME
to
example.com/USER_NAME
How can I accomplish this?
// Victor
I am a learner like you but this is what I did last week and it worked for me. I just used two major things. The buddypress plugin and the boss theme. All the settings your’e looking for are preloaded and you just need to check and uncheck what is necessary.
Give it a try.
Hi Guys
So I am working on a project for college. I need to build a trading system for the classroom members. So far buddypress has most of the specs that can make this work. So below is how the system will work.
Peers will visit the site and signup for membership. Once they activate a via link in their email they will login and update their profile. I don;t want them to see other members profiles, I don’t want them to create groups and send messages.
THE TRADING PART
So we will be trading books. When a member logs in for the first time the profile/dashboard should show ZERO BOOKS and BUY BOOKS(link). The member will then click BUY BOOKS, after clicking a page with a list of books should come up. The member will then choose a desired book and reserve it. Once reserved it should show within the profile/dashboard of the buyer and the admin will get a notification via email about the reservation. The buyer will should receive an sms notification with the book details. Once the buyer receives the sms then he can either hand deliver the cash to the book seller/owner.
Once the transaction is completed offline the admin will confirm the transcation between the buyer and seller and update the number of books bought on the buyers profile/dashboard. The logic might be stupid but just need to achieve this.
If you can give me pointers I will be a happy. Just need to create something interactive for my class.
Hi @megainfo,
WP 4.5.2
BP 2.5.9
BP Activity Privacy 1.3.8
After clicking submit button to send a new activity, the whole div “#whats-new-options” gets a display:none applied to it, therefore it disappears for users.
The problem seems to be line 224 on this file:
wp-content/plugins/buddypress-activity-privacy/includes/js/bp-activity-privacy.js
jq( '#whats-new-options' ).slideUp();
When changed to:
jq( '#whats-new-options' ).slideDown();
Everything works fine.
Could you apply this fix in next release?
See also the same ticket on wordpress.org:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-button-disappears-after-submitting?replies=1#post-8508147
I was not sure which channel would be more appropriate since the link you suggest on your plugin wordpress.org FAQ page (http://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-activity-privacy/forum/) does not work anymore.
Best regards,
Oscar
Hi all!
I want to know that how can I remove email tab from the settings page of users profile.
I mean that when a user opens his profile and go to settings. There is an Email tab to let the user to decide which email notifications he would like to receive. I want to remove this tab completely.
I also want to disable every email notifications for users by default.
Please tell me how to do both of these things. I shall be very very grateful!
Thanks a lot in advance and best Regards, Waqas Ramzan Techlover, Web Master of Blind Help Project (BHP) http://www.blindhelp.tk
Using latest version of WordPress and BuddyPress and the latest version of responsive theam.
Hey, I’ve been running a couple BuddyPress sites for a good number of years now, and well, the setups are pretty involved.
I’m curious, if there might not now be a few plugin combinations that create reasonably functional BuddyPress communities, out-the-box.
So, basically: everything works.
It’s not that important “how” everything works, but the setup creates a site that won’t be plagued by splogs or spam, obviously registration works properly, and there are usable community features that aren’t broken.
Ideal answers would basically be lists of plugins & possibly themes.
I’d create each group and assign users to each group
check if this plugin still works
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/
I’d also like to know if it’s possible to have a Profile Page layout for the user’s profile
BuddyPress 2.6.0 has custom profile pages which is yet to have a stable release. you might want to test the beta out. Currently BP has custom group pages
Regarding forums better to check out the bbpress codex/forums
Hi @danbp
Firstly, thank you very much for testing this, it’s really appreciated!
I can validate that if you disallow account creation via the WPJM settings the preview process works fine.
However please can you also confirm if the same applies with buddypress and bbpress installed and account creation enabled in WPJM? As this is the problem I am having 🙁
For my set up I require that an account is created as part of the job submission process as my recruiters need the ability to edit the posting, mark the job as filled or review candidate submissions and they can’t do this if they post as guest.
Without the buddypress and bbpress installations ‘switched on’ this step works fine. However as soon as I activate the two plugins, although an account is still created in the background when posting a job, whatever is happening at the account creation stage when the three plugins are enabled at the same time interrupts the preview of the job posting resulting in a 404 page not found error.
Many thanks again
Regards
Mark
Please give details.
Could be a blank line outside php brackets.
Best way to know what’s going on, is to check your site on http://validator.w3.org/feed/
Depending the message you get from the validator, you can:
– Check your wp-config.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
– Check your theme’s functions.php file for blank lines outside of <? and ?> bracketed sections.
– One by one, disable plugins and revalidate until you isolate the one causing the problem.
I have a Nationwide BuddyPress website, so the activity stream can become confusing since people from all over are posting updates/content. I’d like to give members the ability to sort the activity based on their chosen location in their profile (drop down).
If a person wants to view a BuddyPress stream from members in New York, then they should be able to… Not based on GeoLocation but on the state selected in their profile.
How can I filter activity based on the users location, which is chosen via drop down menu in Users > Profile Fields > State ?
Someone had mentioned – “Another approach is filtering on sql query which may be a little bit more efficient.” but I’m not sure where to start with that one 🙁
No dan, i’m not using the child theme, should i?
This problem also happens in others translations arround my site, not only in “subir”.
Badly to me, i have not other template that supports buddypress, but i will try to find one and install it to check that. Thanks for your awesome support.
EDIT: I just changed the template and the translations works fine. So the problem is the template. What do you think i should do to fix it?
Unable to reproduce. It’s working for me. Here’s what i see on my test site.

What i did:
– set site language to español de argentina
– downloaded venezuela’s version of po/mo
– renammed both file to buddypress-es_AR (
– added the file to this directory wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-es_AR.mo
That worked without changing header information, as ID is still “stable”. Sorry, my fault.
Perhaps try to change the theme to see if something get different. Apparently there are some missing tabs aside “subir”. Compare pictures.
Do you use a child-theme where you changed a profile template ?
@fidelduque,
welcome here ! To not loose your changes, you need a child-theme.
Theme Compatibility & Template Files
Note that we can’t assist you here for premium theme, as we have no access to the code, but if you search the forum, you will find many topics related to child theme, profile-loop and customization.
As you’re new, please read here.
hi @mlao,
we let the tab All members where it is and remove only the count.
function mlao_gettext( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {
if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )
return $translated;
switch ( $original_text ) {
case 'All Members %s':
return 'All Members';
default:
return $translated;
}
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'mlao_gettext', 20, 3 );
Add this to bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php
Hi everybody, I’m kind of newby with buddypress. I need to change the profile-loop file but I don’t wanna lose my changes when the buddypress gets updated. Any hint would be apreciated.
I’m using a genesis framework theme (Enterprise pro theme) and my buddypress version is 2.5.3 and the wordpress version is: 4.5.2.
Thanks
I want to know if there is any plugin that my user can not to put same name or user that the email because a lot of people put the same user or name that the email because do not want to pay, my website is http://www.llename.com, my wordpress is 4.5.2 and my buddypress is 2.5.2. Thank you.
I don’t have a Windows phone to test this but feel free to open a Trac ticket to report the issue:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/