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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.

Thanks for joining in the conversation.

Though I’m still pretty confused with the semantics used —

That it is not being abandoned and will live on as a “legacy theme” BUT at the same time, when I search for buddypress theme – it is is not showing up as a download option…

I mean, take for example – 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?

Not providing further update for bp-default is one thing, but Why not leave “bp-default” in the theme repository with that note that it is no longer being update?
To provide another option, if nothing else.

BuddyPress doesn’t have a very straightforward way to add links like this to the Groups menu. By design, the links in the group nav are intended to correspond to sub-pages of the Group (which are created by BP_Group_Extension), rather than arbitrary external links.

That said, while we don’t have a very elegant way of making this happen, you could rig something up to directly insert the link data into the navigation array, just before it gets printed to the screen. Something like this:

function bbg_add_my_profile_to_group_nav() {
    // Logged-in users only
    if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
        return;
    }

    // Bail if not looking at a group page
    if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
        return;
    }

    buddypress()->bp_options_nav[ bp_get_current_group_slug() ][] = array(
        'name' => 'My Profile',
        'link' => bp_loggedin_user_domain(),
        'slug' => 'my-profile',
        'css_id' => 'my-profile',
        'position' => 9999999, // make it last
        'user_has_access' => true,
    );
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bbg_add_my_profile_to_group_nav', 100 );

Note that you can’t use the function bp_core_new_subnav_item() here, because you’re not registering a valid screen callback (among other reasons). Thus the hack of directly inserting the link into the nav.

Good luck!

Another brief thought: You say that the Register component is linked at Dashboard > Settings > BuddyPress > Pages. But make sure that the linked WordPress page has its status set to Publish.

It’s weird that it’s appearing as blank. This could be the case of a failed redirect.

Make sure that registration is enabled on your site. On Multisite, go to Dashboard > Network Admin > Settings; you’ll see a set of radio buttons where you can select “Users can register” or something like that. On non-Multisite, go to Dashboard > Settings > General, and make sure that “Anyone can register” is checked. (What I suspect is happening is that you don’t have registration turned on. BuddyPress tries to handle this for you by redirecting people away from the Register page when registration is closed, but it could be that the redirect is failing because of something about your Windows setup. Just a hunch.)

If you’re talking about the author icon on a *blog* post page, then it probably doesn’t have anything to do with BuddyPress – that’s handled by your WordPress theme. In any case, it’s likely that you’ll have to change it in a template file, or at least use CSS.

What theme are you using?

I am also having this problem-though only since I upgraded to Buddypress 1.9. Does anyone know how to get the comments to show again for non-logged in users? I have seen other buddypress sites where I can see the comments without logging in, but maybe they didn’t update? Any help would be appreciated.