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@scottofford Please could you update to BuddyPress 2.5 (we released it yesterday) and try again? If you’re seeing the problem, please open a new topic with more information about the problem, such as how to recreate it.

Thanks.

@brx8r Yep. 🙂

The last one isn’t a bug. Let me try to explain.

* “The Keeper” is your BuddyPress name.
* “the-keeper” is the version of your name used in URLs and for at-messages.

If your BuddyPress name looks like “firstname lastname”, BuddyPress will, by default, split that on the space into “firstname” and “lastname”, and sets those as your First Name and Last Name in the WordPress user profile (in wp-admin -> Users -> Edit).

The “What’s new” box is pretty old at this point and it must have been built to specifically fetch the “First Name”. Thus the “The” 😀

Hi @markob17

Glad you like it — thanks for using BuddyPress! There isn’t a token to add a member avatar. Where would you want it shown?

We could add a token, but it’d end up rendering a <img> tag, so I’d love to understand a bit more what your idea is. Maybe break out MS Paint and take a screenshot of an email and mark out what you’re describing?

Thanks so much for your step by step guide @mcUK. I’ve followed your instructions, but am stuck on changing the CSS Selector. The theme I’m using is (http://themeforest.net/item/sweet-date-more-than-a-wordpress-dating-theme/full_screen_preview/4994573), I’m trying to put the notifications in the top menu (Welcome/Features/Forums… on the demo, but I’ve added Buddypress menu items there). Do you know which selector I would need to use for that? Many thanks.

@lanvalencia The Spanish translation still needs to be completed for BuddyPress 2.5. The new phrases for the emails have not been translated: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev/es/default

Maybe you can help @_dorsvenabili get those done 😀

After the translation is updated, and after WordPress downloads the updated language pack (the .mo and .po files), go to wp-admin > Tools > BuddyPress and run the “Reinstall emails” tool.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/kQj5CtT.png

This will reinstall the emails in Spanish for you.

Thank you for using BuddyPress!

Hi,

check out the new Email feature added in BP 2.5.

Dashboard > Emails and customize any of the existing emails.

More details here:

Emails

Email Tokens

Can the {{{{unsubscribe}}} link only be edited directly in the single-bp-email.php file or am I missing something within the new editor? Also, I think the unsubscribe token has one extra ‘{‘ on the codex page: https://codex.buddypress.org/emails/email-tokens/

Really great work everyone! Thank you!

Hi @mcuk , I’ve added Buddypress menu items (e.g. messages, notifications etc.) in my main WordPress menu, together with WordPress menu items (e.g. home). I also want to have the notification counters next to each of the Buddypress items, but am struggling to get your solution to work for me (doesn’t help I’m not that proficient in coding)! Should I add the code above to the functions.php of my child theme, and is it only that one file I need to edit?

Many thanks.

This can be done by modifying your theme. BuddyPress uses a Template Hierarchy. If you have any specific questions feel free to ask them here 🙂

I suggest you localise. Take a look at at something like Poedit. For more info see the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article.

I added my own version of the code to that page I linked. The only problem with this is that if the BuddyPress devs change how something works, we won’t be in sync with it, so the widget would still be a nice feature.

Hello Guys,

Buddypress is perfect and very good but lucks usability (which is one of the main principles in every software system). Aggregate all the mentions , favorites, groups, etc, etc in one name wall.
Until now buddypress is very nice and good for developers and not for simple users!!!

If we want to follow the principles of human computer interaction we should think about speed, efficiency, learnability, memorability and user preferences so make the user interface simpler.

Buddypress is great

This question is already answered many times.
Please have a look. 🙂
https://buddypress.org/support/search/notifications+counter/

Running the dev build means you’re not getting the optimised CSS / JS files.

If you’re able to deploy with a SVN checkout instead of Git, you could use svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/xxx/ --ignore-externals which will not include the bbPress folder from the checkout.

It must be something to do with the server configuration; it could be anything. I’ve used BuddyPress on Amazon instances of all sizes and I’ve never had a problem.

+1

I don’t use the admin bar on my sites. It actually took me a while to discover that’s where all the BP functionality was.

The best option right now is to do it with some templating:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31812132/buddypress-display-notification-and-profile-in-header-instead-of-wp-admin-bar
That guy’s CSS isn’t the best, I’d suggest working on that.

This requires an understanding of the WP approach to template parts and creating child themes (if you’re not already running as a child theme) plus the BuddyPress template hierarchy as outlined in our codex.

One approach would be to take advantage of the ability to call named template parts in WP so get_header() can become get_header('no-logo') which would then look for a file namedheader-no-logo.php

A copy of header.php renamed to header-no-logo.php means you can now call a file that you can specifically modify – in this instance in the simplest terms you could remove any calls to rendering logos/backgrounds in this file.

Running your BP templates in your theme or child theme (see the bp codex templating guides) would then mean you could run a conditional query to see if in buddypress.php which get_header() template to use by using a check for bp_is_user() but you’ll need moderate php skills for this.

The better approach is to use the advanced BP template hierarchy which would allow you to create a file to act as index.php with all header/footer calls just for BP user screens.

The easy or possibly easier approach but not one I advice is to do what you have mentioned you have tried in using styles to hide the elements.

You’ll need a top level class identifier so we know it’s the BP screens we’re looking at and applying rules to:

body.bp-user .logo-element {display: none;}

I can’t advice what the correct selectors are as I’ve no notion of your themes structure, you’ll need to identify them and test until you find the right combination.
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Not too hard, add a button near avatar image and use css to place it over image. Hide the button until you hover.

Read here on how to customize bp templates https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

BuddyPress search is not 100% accurate. Member search searches usernames and profile fields. Think of it more like a filter than search.