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I know this is a little old, but I’ve seen other questions linked to this answer.

I tried the above suggestion and it took down the site. All pages read;

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /home/(Cpanl-User-Name-Retracted)/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 3

Paul do you have any other variations that might work or has anyone had any success?

Running WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress.

Thanks!

Isn’t there any plugin that integrates users Linkedin plugin with BuddyPress yet? Me too need it so much:(

BuddyPress uses page.php as the outer container of your files in the your-theme/buddypress folder.

To create a custom outer container duplicate page.php and rename it buddypress.php

your-theme/buddypress.php then you can remove the sidebar from that file

Your file should be:

/buddypress/members/index-directory.php

and not:

/buddypress/members/index.php

(which is what I think you mentioned you have).

@ubernaut is right – it’s called oEmbed and it’s a feature provided by WordPress core. BuddyPress supports oEmbeds in activity updates by default. If you’re not seeing a YouTube video after pasting in a YouTube video’s link, then there is possibly a problem with your theme.

Have you read through the guides in the BP codex?

Have you created a buddypress.php file to manage the page.php rendering? Theme compatibility uses the stock WP page.php file – or a series of other templates names in same manner WP performs template selection. You need to customize page.php essentially but not the themes copy but a copy of renamed for Buddypress use which you can then edit, again fairly detailed guides available in the BP codex to help explain the process.

No not a blank file, you copy over the existing file, the crucial aspect is that you retain the same folder paths to that file so members/single/index.php if found in your child theme is the one used, or in the case of that plugin you might need to us it’s templates in place of the BP ones.

If you are set on using bp-default then you probably ought to copy over all template files, and all assets css, js, etc to your theme along with the functions file parts necessary to locate BP ajax, scripts, styles and add the line add_theme_support( ‘buddypress’ ) in your themes functions.php file and run as a full theme.

@hnla ok hugo ty for your info and help, i think im understanding your meaning now, this is the first time that ive worked with the bp-default theme you see, even though i do realize you are no longer supporting it in the future i want to use it for my next project as i like the layout to start from, ive just been over and read about theme compatibility buddypress offers, the last time i was using buddypress was with the template pack you see.

so let me get this straight after i create a bp-default child theme say if i want to make changes to the members activity.php would i be correct in thinking i would make a folder called members and add a blank activity.php into that folder in my child theme? or would i copy the activity.php located in plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members folder and add that to my child theme for editing?

Is there a plugin to make BuddyPress compatible also with themes not specifically designed for it?

Not that I know of.

That said, if the display of the widget fields is the only problem you’re having then a fix shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Do you have a link to your site?

Hello @thecbell,

This should be a good starting point. Though a little old, the plugin below does a similar job for the sMember system, but you can give it a try in your development install and report any progress/set-back in this thread:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-profiles-manager/

Good luck 😉

No problem. Have you tried switching themes to see if that resolves it? You should do that first so that you actually know it is a theme issue.

In your theme, look for, starting at your root directory in WP:

/wp-content/themes/[theme-name]/buddypress/members/single/home.php

Is that in your theme? If not, then disregard this theory, at least in regards to your theme. If so, then please post the code from that template here and I’ll take a look at it.

@icog,

Quit being an oliver twist…

But I think this is what you’re trying to do:

Do the followings and you’re well on your way…

1. Install the plugin “BP Group Organizer”
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-group-organizer/

2. Install GroupOmatic Plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groupomatic/

Follow @megainfo’s instructions above by installing the GroupOMatic plugin to create appropriate conditions for the filling-in of matching profile field at registration.

You can also utilise the Hierarchy plugin to manage the groups.

It’s fairly easy to manage what you seek with the above solutions including the suggestions of @megainfo…

GroupOmatic plugin is not compatible (just use it and quit complaining), OR create a plugin of your own that does just that. Or if you can spare some change buy the pro version.

Try copying the bp-default theme from the Buddypress plugin bp-themes folder to your wp-content/themes folder

Several of what BP themes? BuddyPress works with any well written theme following the WP template principles, as you don’t mention what themes you have tried, try activating one of the WP standard themes bundled with WP then you’ll be able to see BP in action, also please do check the BP codex documentation as you’ll find helpful guides to getting started there.

P.S. Why are you looking for a bp-custom.php file what prompted you to do that? This doesn’t exist by default and is created as needed and the file is specifically to run code that affects BP core operation across any theme which may be installed; it isn’t required to simply run a theme or BP.

That works perfectly but I would love to know how to get this post form to add the Buddypress Activity Plus media buttons. Any idea?

Old topic, but maybe interesting? I needed the same functionallity so I created a plugin that might help here, too:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-foaf/

Hi @dtc7240,

Thank you very mutch for reporting bugs.

i have added fix on the last version (1.3).
I just want to mention that i keeped the ability to members to change the visibility of no threaded comment( join group, leave group, ..etc) since this activities concerns it.

be cargful when you add this tests on your version:
if( bp_activity_user_can_delete() && bp_get_activity_type() == 'activity_update' ) {

it’s can stop the plugin to work for others plugins like buddydrive or others ( they use others activity type other than ‘activity_update’).

I invite you to join the support forum of the plugin for more enhancement and suggestions.

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/buddypress-activity-privacy

Thanks again for the fix.

Regards,
Mounir

Does this have anything to do with BuddyPress?

Hi @nat0n

I think you are using a deprecated method to get users. The only way I’ve found to reproduce the issue was to force BuddyPress to use BP_Core_User::get_users() which is deprecated since version 1.7 of BuddyPress.

If i’m right about the above paragraph, I strongly advise you to use BP_User_Query to quickly solve the trouble.