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I dont quite understand what you mean tbh about page refreshes when clicking a link or menu item? that is how web pages tend to work in general lol 🙂

However i do understand what you are saying about what you want to achieve, but you have to realize one thing first, if something doesnt work as your brain imagines it to work out of the box it does not mean you cannot make it work that way, as hugo said you should be really looking towards ajaxing certain parts of your website to acheive what you asked (you said you have no idea what ajaxing is yet you only need to type it in google to find out and read a few articles on what exactly ajaxing does to find out), ajaxing basically will let you do exactly what you are describing, you can read about it here https://codex.wordpress.org/AJAX

There are quite alot of wordpress ajax plugins around i have messed around with myself with mixed results when used with wordpress and buddypress, i suggest reading the link above then searching for a few ajax plugins and try them out for yourself 🙂

no it’s only a cache error if you had installed a caching plugin in the first place, unless you have tweaked your server in some arcane manner – get rid of the caching plugin they are a bloody nuisance, use it when you’re live if you really need to but then not for dynamic pages which BP’s mainly are.

BP uses page.php in theme compat mode where the user name is injected into the WP title() function – or you can override that template file with your own located under either ‘community’ or ‘buddypress’ in your theme root, further to that you can replace the use of /members/single/home.php with index.php and variations of that as explained in the codex; lastly you could be running the older bp-default templates in which case you may have /members/ in your theme root which BP will detect and assume an override of theme compatibility mode is required.

Going to be hard to help when you provide so little information 😉

Be a little more or a lot more specific about what issues you are having generalisations aren’t too helpful on technical forums or on technical matters.

Theme in use ? Versions of installed apps?

How have you created this ‘Template’ is it a copy of a current page.php template from your theme?

BuddyPress css is specific to BP screens not any other template that may be created outside it’s knowledge, if I created a page ‘community.php’ and stuck a load of BP functions or loops in that they wouldn’t inherit any particular styling, however BP styles are pseudo namespaced with a ancestor token #buddypress so if you add that ID to an element in your template at a fairly high level such as just after something like #content you might then inherit some styles if rendered BP elements have the usual classes they need.

Please contact your host, about server user permissions this isn’t a buddypress or application issue. You could try logging into your hosting account and cpanel or similar control panel and perhaps trying this from whatever file editor it provides.

Please use the code button to format code you paste into this forum.

To remove the count…
Assuming you aren’t using a language translation file, try this in your bp-custom.php file.

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

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

    switch ( $original_text ) {
        case 'All Members <span>%s</span>':
            return 'All Members';

        default:
            return $translated;
    }
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'john_gettext', 20, 3 );

@joetheboss1998 First, please do not edit core files as these will be overwritten when you upgrade BuddyPress. Second, you’re looking at the wrong file.

Create a folder named buddypress at the root of your active theme/child theme folder then copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.1.1/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php and place that within the buddypress folder created earlier following the directory structure, i.e., wp-content/themes/your-theme-folder/buddypress/members/register.php

This helps a lot thanks!! I tried activity plus, but I didnt like the way it posted to the activity feed. Just posting the URL into the activity form that is standard with Buddypress works great for audio or video, but for some reason image URLs do not post. I would also like the option for the user to upload images. I dont want them to upload video since I heard the size of the video can cause other complications. I will try rtmedia. Hopefully I can find a way to customize it to only allow the user to upload images – and still post video via youtube or another site.

Do you have any estimate for when mediapress will be available?

No. It goes into your template. So for example, if you wanted to display the count in your member profile header, then you’d put it in member-header.php.

Take a look at this article for more info on the BP template hierarchy for how to set up templates (if you don’t have them already).

Hi @enigmaweb

You have a couple of options regarding your requirements here.

1. You could try searching the Plugin Directory to see if anything is available that meets your needs. If nothing then you could try option 2…

2. Implement a custom solution yourself. Restricting content is fairly easy if you make use of some WordPress functions such as current_user_can() and wp_redirect(). You’ll also need to make yourself familiar with hooks. Here’s a very basic example of how to restrict content depending on a particular user’s role.

function my_restrict_content() {

    // Check if the current page is the group creation page AND the currently logged-in user is a subscriber
    if ( bp_is_group_create() && current_user_can( 'edit_posts' ) )
        return;

    // If we get to here, the current user is not authorised to view this content so redirect them to the homepage.
    wp_redirect( home_url() );
    exit;
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_restrict_content' );

Helpful refs:

• https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_user_can
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_redirect
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
• https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/template-tag-reference/

@kris35 You should still be able to create a group using the member dropdown menu on the right side of the admin toolbar Groups > Create assuming that the super/site admin enabled group creation in Settings > BuddyPress > Settings. Best place to ask is at the theme author’s forums as the theme is supposed to have BuddyPress support.

Hi @htown

1. Will buddy press allow me to print out a list of members and customize it the way I’d like?

BuddyPress may do. By default, BuddyPress provides a members directory which displays all active members (users that have activated their account). If you need more control over exactly which users are displayed then you’ll need to use the WP_User_Query class provided by WordPress.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query

2. Will buddy press allow me to export users in a CSV file?

I’m not sure this is do-able out-of-the-box. However, there may be plugins available in the WordPress Plugin Directory that can help.

@sbaglia i really dont have a clue about this but ive just noticed a recent update on a plugin that adds seperate social networking functions to wordpress that i have been watching for a while, now the idea i had a while ago was wondering if this plugin could infact be ran alongside buddypress just for the comment notifications within wordpress, meaning i was wondering if all other notifications and workings of this other plugin could be disabled and used just for this one specific task, this way users would have a seperate notification system for blog and custom post comments, i really dont know as i have not messed around with them together but i know that this plugin does achieve what we want but seperately to buddypress, maybee you want to have a mess with the idea i had? i just dont have time at the minute and dont know if it will work well with buddypress running too, the plugin is here https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-notifications/

@sbaglia i too would like to achieve this but have been so busy with doing other things that i have not even looked at how or if this could be done yet, so i +1 this request if anyone has any info on how to do this? it would be awesome if users received notification on blog post comments or for me especially custom post type comments. to me this would infact give complete social network functioning throughout my entire site this way and not just on the buddypress pages.

Beauty of forums are their archives, the question has arisen a few times:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-activate-existing-wp-users-as-bp-members-effectively/

I needed a solution myself a few years back to activate imported users so ran a function up and uploaded to gist:
https://github.com/hnla/force-show-bp-users

Just updated it to reflect BP 2.0 changes to last activity to use ‘bp_update_user_last_activity()’ – it takes a slightly different approach in running only as admin and requiring that user runs the script by passing a get variable on the url ?action=force-active just to ensure script wasn’t run by accident or repeatedly also it checks and runs on a user id only if that user has no existing entry as I had existing users, I also didn’t want them all to have same time stamp so added in a delay on each iteration of the loop so each had a unique timestamp and just to allow breathing space between updates if loop particularly long.

Updates to script are untested at this time.

Loving Buddypress 2.1.1. My only big request would be with regard to Private messaging:

1. Allow users to ignore (silently block) users from private messaging them. For example, if you receive a PM from a user you do not wish to converse with (troll, spammer or some other form of harassment) you can simply click “ignore” or “block” to block this user(s). The offending user is not made aware of this and future PM’s send by this person are simply not seen by the recipient while keeping the offender unaware.

Users can edit their block/ignore list to remove/add users from it.

2. Provide site admins the option to prevent users from PM’ing multiple users at the same time.

That’s pretty much it. A simple request that would have a positive impact IMO. Looking forward to the next release. TThanks.

>Buddypress is waiting for the first login of each user

At which point it will add a last_activity timestamp.
The easiest solution is to add those timestamps for everyone via a script.
Put this code in your bp-custom.php file, then open your site in a browser.
Then remove the code – or it will update the timestamp on every page load.

function daten_add_last_activity() {
    global $wpdb;
    foreach ( $wpdb->get_col( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users" ) as $user_id ) {
        bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );
    }
}
add_action('bp_init', 'daten_add_last_activity' );