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@ayatango,

golden rule: never change a core file.

If you want to customize things you should use a child theme. And to ad/remove or modify core functions, you should use your child theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php

In create.php are 18 hooks you can use to add some custom explanation !
In your case, you may hook into do_action( 'bp_before_group_details_creation_step' );

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

BP Theme Compatibility and the WordPress Default Themes

functions.php

https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/bp-custom-php/

Understanding Action Hooks In WordPress

@thatmtnman

Is that correct? YES !

The rest of your topic, even if respectable, is a bit due to your inhabitude of BP i guess. And probably also of some WP usage around pages.
You can create as many pages as you want with WP. The difference between a page and post in WP is tiny, but very important. Both are post, but not with the same type ($post_type->post and $post_type->page). All this is detailled on the WP Codex.

BuddyPress is a plugin and use his component pages only for internal puprpose – because WP need them to work with BP… and conversely!

BP is shipped with some widgets, including a member’s widget with 3 filters letting you do exactly what you discribe.

For other custom use of buddypress, you can search for dedicated buddypress plugins on the plugin repo.

@alishaescoto,

instead of struggling with custom roles, i would consider to use one or more private groups for the rescue group. With this setting, you even don’t need two types of members.

And somehow, the memberslist of a private group can than be hidden with some extra adjustment.

BuddyPress Components and Features

Hi @flaviamelo

BuddyPress doesn’t have a Login_Helper class or a change_buddypress_avatar method. Which plugins are you using? This is 99.99% likely to be due to one of them.

afaik – bp_displayed_user_id() requires an echo for display.

So in your template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\member-header.php

paste: echo bp_displayed_user_id();

bp_displayed_user_id() is the member’s ID so perhaps that’s the same as a membership ID? I’m not sure it matters though as the important part is it’s a unique identifier so whatever name we give it is irrelevant.

You should be able to add it to your member-header.php file. Which theme are you using? Some themes might not have it so you’ll need to create it yourself if that’s the case. It might be worth reading up on the Template Hierarchy to get a feel of how BuddyPress templates work.

@sapinfoasap,

Remove get_sidebar from the template ! Must be done on a child theme / check first your theme support.
Get an idea of how to do this here (as example)

Perhaps this could help: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/new-user-invalid-key-the-solution/

@dylss505,

it’s an old topic related to BP 1.7. And @mercime already answered to the same question as yours.
Read about troubleshooting on the BP Codex.

FYI wp codex gives also general advice on how to debug. You may also find many related topics on this forum.

Please open a new topic and give your install type, theme name and used plugin and explain your problem, when it arrived, what you already tried, etc

Hi @jabbajabba,

create first a child-theme and add this snippet into functions.php or bp-custom.php

We are going to use one of the existing action hook in the group header template and add it a custom function.

function jabbajabba() {
	echo '<a href="#">click here</a>';
}
//add_action( 'bp_before_group_header_meta', 'jabbajabba' );
//add_action( 'bp_group_header_actions', 'jabbajabba' );
add_action( 'bp_group_header_meta', 'jabbajabba' );

The snippet has 2 commented action, so you can choose the best place for your link button.

Reference file is
buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/single/group-header.php

Hi @pauldewouters, welcome to the BuddyPress forums.

Sounds like this discussion should be moved to a Trac ticket, if someone would like to do that.

I’m not familiar enough with this part of the code to know if this is a good way to fix the problem, but I know a man who does: @imath – hello. 🙂

Hi @presis_carsten,

could effectively be a translation issue. Why ?
For translation, we (i translate BP into french) mostly use HTML entities for special characters.
In brief, accented letters in HTML. For instance, if you want to type één you would type één.

The only part this should never be used is in the messages, as gettext doesn’t handle mail content.

And so far i see, the dutch phrase contains such an accented letter (beëindigen)

buddypress-nl_NL is here. And you’re free to modify it on Glotpress and of course in your copy, with poEdit or similar.

I checked WP & BP’s nl_NL version on Glotpress and didn’t find the phrase you mention. Could it be you use a very old translation or some notification plugin ?

@maria-d15
this error message are you sure you want to do this? is generally due to a js failure, some nonce who doesn’t operate in time and order or so.

Deactivate all plugins from FTP (just rename the plugin folder) as you can’t access your dashbord.
Go back to your site and check that any thing is working in WP. Activate one of the wp theme: 2013 or 2014. Re check.

Go to dashboard > pages and delete all bp related pages. Don’t forget to clear also (important) the trash after that.

Now you have to create a new plugins folder on FTP (so you have an old xxxxplugins folder with your before used plugins) and a new one (named plugins), which is empty.

Go back to the dashboard > extension and upload a new copy of BuddyPress. Activate the plugin, do all settings and see if it is working.

Hi @anivarth,

Check out BP Chat. It’s a “Facebook-like chatting plugin for BuddyPress”.

@darkpsy,

is there a better way to do it?

If you expect some help, you have to tell what you already did on the way you mention.

As you built your own theme, you perhaps use this function outside of the bbPress scope ?
What does it give by using get_avatar() ?

Do you read this bbPress codex page ?

Maybe better you ask on bbPress forum – remember although bbPress is a standalone plugin, integrated with buddyPress.

@antimuffin (or anyone else) – Can you try the fix I posted here?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5831#comment:3

right now, all your requests are “in” buddypress… example:

1- there are some paid chat scripts that do everything autonomous… but you need to know that chats are stored texts, same as email etc… and the feed even in ajax take a lot of server power… you need to contact a webHost that would offer you a good deal on large scale hosting if you have a lot of clients.

2- integrated to Buddypress

3- some buddypress plugins offer more flexibility added to existing features, like membership, access to personal data, etc… just do a search.

4- if you see in my profile, you will see my personal timeline

5- you need wp-login.php to be /login… use in admincp: /options/permalinks and change the default setting to anyother, and you will have these…

@anivarth,

thesis:

We have many plugins […]Is there any other for free?

anti thesis:

I want to create a social networking site like facebook

Are you a poor ambitious dreamer ? 😉

See here what buddypress already can do, and read/learn here what you can do to approach something similar to FB.

It exist also some theme à la FB. One from many others.

@rthomastechnology

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-get-the-logged-in-users-email-address/

or give a bit more details about you want to achieve.