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@sharemarketer,

this is the original CSS of the group description: (bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/css/buddypress.css)

#buddypress div#item-header div#item-meta {
	font-size: 80%;
	color: #aaa;
	overflow: hidden;
	margin: 15px 0 5px 0;
	padding-bottom: 10px;
}

By default (for security reason), the group description field is filtered and doesn’t accept any html tags.

You have 2 solutions:
Only the site admin can create groups, and you can evtl. remove the filter.
Users are allowed to create groups and in this case, you let the filter active and you modify the CSS.

Add to your child theme:

#buddypress div#item-header div#item-meta {
	font-size: 100% !important;  /*or any other size*/
}

Filter : see bp_groups_filter_kses function in bp-groups/bp-groups-filters.php

Switch your theme to a WP default theme like Twenty Twelve. Now, try duplicating your issue.

If you can duplicate your issue, then it’s a problem with your theme. Probably a rogue code snippet.

If you’re still experiencing problems, next, disable all other plugins except BuddyPress and try to duplicate your issue again.

Also, check your /wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php file if you have one.

ivanguinea – If you look at the Spanish translation on translate.wordpress.org, there are still some strings that haven’t been translated:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/dev/es/default?filters[status]=untranslated

You can help by translating these strings. If you decide to help and are not sure how to add your contributions, let us know and we’ll point you in the right direction.

Hi @manag99

This can definitely be implemented with BuddyPress but you’ll need to use plugins and or custom code because what you need to happen doesn’t happen out-of-the-box. Try searching the WordPress Plugin Directory for individual plugins and then try them out on a test install.

From what I recall, BP uses the bp_xprofile_data table to store the display name, field_id = 1, for each user.

There is a BP setting for syncing BP and WP profiles.
Some info on what that does:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/please-help-me-understand-a-wordpressbp-feature/#post-97470

Re profile edit handling code: Look at function save() in class BP_XProfile_ProfileData in bp-xprofile\bp-xprofile-classes.php

@seeingblues2

read here please:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-1-known-issues/

@jessicana

In your child theme directory, create a folder named “js”. Copy the buddypress.js into that folder and make all the changes inside that file.

If you are using buddypress 2.1 you will have to rename the file to buddypress.min.js (when buddypress 2.1.1 will be released you will probably have to rename it back to buddypress.js because it is 2.1 bug).

Hope it helps.

@wayne-alex We would not be able to access screenshots in your local host. It could either be a theme issue or could be a plugin conflict. To determine which is causing the duplication, change to the Twenty Fourteen theme and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and see if issue is resolved.

Greetings, I too also am NOT using activity streams.

When publishing a post I get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bp_activity_update_meta() in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-functions.php on line 537

The post still gets published.

I added a “custom function”:

function bp_activity_update_meta() {}

and it seams to fix the problem.

Cheerz

Thanks for reporting, @qobalt.

Looking into it.

Update

This fix should work:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5900/5900.01.patch

@scaffies – I split your post because you replied to a 2-year old thread.

Your issues are probably related to a change we made to optimize our javascript, which broke bp-default themes.

See my response to a similar thread:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-2-1-javascript-issues/

If you want to downgrade, view this thread:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-2-0-3-download-needed-please-help/

@androidforlife46 – I split your reply from the main 2.1 thread because your issues should have been placed in a new topic.

As for your issue, I’m guessing you are using a bp-default deriviative for your theme. There was an issue with javascript breaking on these themes.

For an interim fix, see:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/5889/5889.01.patch

If you’re using a bp-default theme, you should use this fix instead:
https://github.com/buddypress/BP-Default/commit/619efe8527847266c961fa43775eade42c7ff70d

@daveodea

Thank you for the advice.
They disabled it and now buddypress groups worked perfectly!!!

@amalsh i had the same problem, and solved it.

If you’re using bp-legacy in your child theme to modify the look of the activity post form,
you must have a file called post-form.php in /yourtheme/buddypress/activity/post-form.php

To make the @mentions panel appear, simply add the class="bp-suggestions" to the textarea at line 30

The code I posted will stop all email activity notifications, though I haven’t tested it 😉

I’m not sure how BuddyPress does all of what it does for these notifications, kind of strange that it is still processing older entries and sending notifications though.

My advice (up until now) has always been don’t import your forums into bbPress with BuddyPress activated for this very reason, though if it starts processing a backlog of notifications for ‘old content’ once activated then this is not ideal behaviour either.

@danbp / https://buddypress.org/support/topic/creating-a-new-profile-field-type/#post-198965:

‘Maybe nice, but it’s a commonly admited bad idea to let users style your site.’

As I alreday said elsewhere, I would prefer anyway to place the profiles within the subdomain-blogs and not in root-blog.

Then it would be not “style my site” (by my users), but “style their [my users] own site” (by themselves).

‘If you want italics for some field title’

No, what I imagined what not a field title, rather a book or movie title, e.g.:

Favorite movie [= Field title]

Mädchen in Uniform by Leontine Sagan [= user content within that field]

Favorite Book [= Field title]

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein [= user content within that field]