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I’m not sure why but when you are in the page admin for a BuddyPress page can you select a different page template? Looking at your source code in browser there is reference to a class “teaser” which is making me assume its showing a page excerpt

yes but using the terminology you already have, you are really talking about WordPress roles more then Buddypress roles (which actually don’t really exist) some of the functionality you are looking for would probably require something like s2 member to be fully automated the way you describe.

I believe it’s accomplish by https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-components-and-features/activity-streams/ Activity streams unless you are are wanting to add the bbpress forums.

@colabsadmin agreed!

You could raise a Trac ticket for this?

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

Alternatively you could create your own version on bp_get_the_thread_recipients() – which is what I did.

Child themes based on bp-default may not work right. Contact the developer and see if they can remove BuddyPress so the theme will use template compatibility files.

BP Default Theme – moving forward with BP 1.9

more of a theme question then a buddypress question i think the dev hasn’t been any help?

i think he platform itself will be fine but you should be aware that user levels only apply to wordpress and bbpress. buddypress itself doesn’t really use them so your moderators will be able to have extended authority in your forums but they will have no special powers over groups themselves (they will be able to moderate any group forums that are created however) only full wp admins can moderate groups (although you can assign a member to be a group admin manually as admin).

I’m also looking for a similar solution to this, it’s just so unlogical to have such a fine working BuddyBar “My Accounts” but in such a place where it simply gets burried.
I am using mostly widgets together with the main navigation. And I would so desperately just want to add THAT menu, into my own excisting menu’s if I only knew how. Or add it to a widget I would settle for that as well. It’s too bad this isn’t a standard function from Buddypress cause I really don’t like letting people into my wordpress backend. So I would prefer to disable the Admin bar for my members. But now I can’t because then they don’t have a menu.
I also tested the new Buddypress componants in wordpress custom menu’s this is a good step in the right direction. But you don’t have links like to someone’s forum topics, favorites, subscribed etc. Like you have in the buddybar. Or going to the Change avatar link, just too many goodies to miss to leave out the admin bar now.
Can someone help out here?

I did this by copying/editing /buddypress/activity/index.php in my child theme. Look for the activity-filter-by select tag. All the options are within it.

Thanks for your reply. Sorry I meant the activity comments. When a user is not logged in, they can see the posts on my buddypress site, but not the comments to the posts. Once logged in the comments become visible. The public activity comments disappeared when I updated buddypress recently.

I’m afraid this doesn’t sound like a buddypress issue, you mention issues with a custom theme and with bbPress widgets. You probably want to look to the theme authors/s for support, also try changing to a known good theme i.e one of the WP default series to establish if the same issues exist.

Try posting your requirements in the BuddyPress Jobs Forum

BP Jobs Board

Hm, there must be *something* powering the dropdown. By default, BuddyPress doesn’t have this kind of dropdown. What theme are you using?

@mfmsw2youth Thanks for letting me know.

I hadn’t tested the code. Please try this and let me know how you get on:

function custom_activity_text_change_avatar( $entry, $user_id ) {
    $gender = bp_get_profile_field_data( 'field=Gender&user_id=' . $user_id );
    $userlink = bp_core_get_userlink( $user_id );

    if ( $gender == 'Male' ) {
        $entry = sprintf( __( '%s changed his profile picture', 'buddypress' ), $userlink );
    } else if ( $gender == 'Female' ) {
        $entry = sprintf( __( '%s changed her profile picture', 'buddypress' ), $userlink );
    } else {
        // the user hasn't told us if they are male or female so do nothing
    }
    return $entry;
}
add_filter( 'bp_xprofile_new_avatar_action', 'custom_activity_text_change_avatar', 10, 2 );

> Why not leave “bp-default” in the theme repository with that note that it is no longer being update?

Yup, we’re going to do this as soon as we figure out how to do it technically without breaking people’s sites 🙂 When it’s in the theme repo, it’ll have the added bonus that it’ll no longer necessarily be the BP core team who’s taking care of it – other community members may step up and officially take charge of maintenance.

But, as Hugo says, don’t worry too much about it for the moment – bp-default will continue to work.

> I am currently running the “bp-default,” if I were to experiment with a new theme “Theme-X” – would I have any way to revert back to “bp-default” with a simple activation?

You’ll have to do this https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-default-parent-theme-missing/#post-176376 to make sure you’re able to reactivate it.

BUT at the same time, when I search for buddypress theme – it is is not showing up as a download option…

That’s because it’s not available as a standalone theme, it has been suggested that it might be in future and likely will be.

Less worry should be placed on this, people will be able to use bp-default for ever and a day if they wish, and it’s pretty easy now to decouple it from the core files and run the templates and styles from a theme or child theme.

i think it is interesting in what buddypress/bbpress is suppose to be about community engagement which seems to be quit the opposite.

I think that’s a little unfair, @mercime and I have gone to great lengths with the codex effort to make things as inclusive as possible with posts, tweets, polls, and requests in general for feedback from the community at large.

It’s worth keeping an eye on BP blog posts & bpdevel.wordpress.com to keep abreast of what’s happening.

One thing – perhaps to what Boone refers – that would help and that has been discussed and is favoured by some is to try and vring the three major aspects of BP under one domain proper so themeing, Documentation, and core dev exist as subdomains of buddypress.org and as such have their own homes for news and updates.