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Do you think that I have to add my modified bp-legacy files to my parent theme as well?

For sure. If you don’t, the next BP update will overide this folder. Golden rule: never touch/modify any of the original plugin files.
Any change you make is to do in the child-theme, including the legacy files you added to it.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

You could also revert back, and try this function ( add it to child-theme’s functions.php)

function bpfr_filtering_activity( $retval ) {
	// activities to filter on, comma separated
	$retval['object'] = 'status';		
		return $retval;
	}	
add_filter( 'bp_before_has_activities_parse_args', 'bpfr_filtering_activity' );

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Did you discovered them in the Pending Registration Tab ?

Maybe related:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/exclude-pending-users-in-alphabetical-listing/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/resolved-why-does-it-show-i-have-more-members-than-shown/#post-137800

hi @stingray1972,

How to get different infos in 21 group sidebars for Dummies.

TIP-OFF: we won’t built 21 sidebars, but only 21 different informations useable from within 21 groups.

We assume you have a theme with at least one sidebar and that this sidebar is visible when you’re on a group page.
We assume also that you have a child-theme, because we’re going to add some modification to it. And this must be done in a child or you loose any changes at the next theme update.

Now that we have set the stage, let’s go further.

1) we have a sidebar
2) we need a place to set our extra information
3) we need a function to insert the info at the right place

You follow ? Not to hard ? Ok, let’s continue…

– Make a copy of the original sidebar.php of your theme into the child-theme folder.
– open the copy and search in the code something like this: dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar' )
– underneath you paste this:

<?php if ( bp_is_groups_component() ) : 
			do_action( 'xtragroup' ); 
		endif; ?>

– save the file.

Bravo ! You have installed a new placeholder in the widget area.

The result should look like this:

	<div id="tertiary" class="sidebar-container" role="complementary">
		<div class="sidebar-inner">
			<div class="widget-area">
				<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-2' ); ?>
				
<?php if ( bp_is_groups_component() ) : 
			do_action( 'xtragroup' ); 
		endif; ?>	
	 
			</div><!-- .widget-area -->
		</div><!-- .sidebar-inner -->
	</div><!-- #tertiary -->

(example shows the code of the Twentythirteen widget area)

– open the child-theme functions.php (if not exist you have to create it)

– add the following snippet and save the file.

function xtra_group_sidebar() {
	
	// conditionnal - group name (slug format) - item
	if(bp_is_groups_component() && 'kill-bill' == bp_current_item() ):
	// your content
		echo 'what time is it Bill ? ' ;
		$my_date = date('H:i'); echo $my_date; 
	endif;
	
	if(bp_is_groups_component() && 'groupe-2014' == bp_current_item() ):
		echo 'who knows ?';
	endif;
	
	if(bp_is_groups_component() && 'rrrrrrrr' == bp_current_item() ):
		echo 'Groaaaar...';
	endif;
}
add_action( 'xtragroup', 'xtra_group_sidebar' );

– Be carefull: the snippet handles only 3 group.
– You have to add 18 more and change the names to those you use.
– Simply replicate for each the if (bp_is_groups_component(), the echo (or anything else) and the endif
– upload to the server and enjoy !

EFD (end for dummies)

Hi @heatherkirk,

if you installed BuddyPress, what is the forum you use ?

BuddyPress Components and Features

Hi @laxmanvel

This functionality isn’t available in BuddyPress by default. You may have some luck searching the WP plugin repo although I haven’t seen anything like this myself. Let us know if you find anything!

I need a pages for members that will let them send each other messages

if you enable BP’s Private message component, the built-in message system will let each user send message to other members.
https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/messages/

Except if i misunderstood you, i don’t see the utility to add an extra page for this.

Depending of which plugin you use to manage events, a subscribe to event page is most probably included in the plugin.

If messaging and event are your only need, you’re going overcomplicated for the moment. The only thing you have to do, i think, is to install correctly a theme and to check that BP is showing properly on it.

Once done, you can eventually customize the theme. But only if it doesn’t fit exactly with a event plugin. For the messages, if BP is ok, messages will be also ok.

Foundation first. The house after and the wallpaper at the end of the end !

For this i have modified /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php

@sachin550 Are you using the BP Default theme or a child theme of BP Default? If not, then you should not modify that file. Instead, create a child theme of your WP theme of choice, create a folder named buddypress in that child theme folder and copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php following the directory structure and revise it.

How can I modify BP pages such as removing profile sidebar ??

@osamanuman https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

but that doesn’t work right

@gregfielding What exactly doesn’t work right? No styles or a blank page or error? Have you checked out the articles listed at https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/?

I guess the top right name is made with echo $user->display_name;

As you added an ELSE clause after the UL end tag, it would probably be better to hide the whole UL to avoid html errors to not logged visitors.

Invert

<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
	  <?php if ( is_user_logged_in()) : 

to this

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in()) : 
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">

You have a page.php in the wordpress themes (2012, 2013, 2014).

You make a copy and rename it buddypress.php and load it into your custom theme.

If not already done, i recommend you to read attentively this on WP codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
and also this

BuddyPress Theme Development

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

@sachin550

That Line is in https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.2/buddypress.pot#L6005

Have a look at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ to customise.

Hi @cyrilbatillat

What data were you planning on passing?

I don’t want to modify the core of BuddyPress, so is there an other way to do this ?

No but you could try asking the guys over at Trac if they could extend what data can be passed. If they agree, the changes usually take a minor version or two to make it into core but until then you could apply the patch to your own installation.

If you’re using BuddyPress 2.0.2 with WordPress 3.9.2 with no plugins activated or even installed in the plugin folder and the Twenty Fourteen theme enabled then everything should work fine as this is a tried and tested combo. The only variables left are a) your server and b) your database.

Perhaps try rolling back your database? And also make sure there has been no changes on your server since you noticed the issue.

@micasuh humm. Perhaps try grabbing a fresh copy of the BP plugin code? https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/

Something may have become corrupted in the actual plugin.

@micasuh the .mo file is most likely being loaded from your theme’s functions.php file. Alternatively, it may be loaded from a plugin. Or, maybe even bp-custom.php (if you have one of those).

Look for something such as the following and try removing it to see if it resolves the issue:

if ( file_exists( WP_LANG_DIR . '/buddypress-en_US.mo' ) ) {
    load_textdomain( 'buddypress', WP_LANG_DIR . '/buddypress-en_US.mo' );
}

If it doesn’t resolve the problem then we know your translation file is OK.

If you still believe the issue is a virus in your database then you could try rolling back. Do you keep database backups? But, to be honest, I’m more inclined to think this is occurring as a result of some rogue theme or plugin code.

I don’t know, whether this is possible in the administration area.

But may you can adapt this for your purposes:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/add-profile-field-to-order-by-drop-down-menu/

I guess, to order the members due to a certain field implies to see, whether it is filled in or not.