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@buddhatunes not familiar with how Buddyboss is wired. But it should follow template hierarchy supported of BP https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/template-hierarchy/

@hollyspress or check out documentation at https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/

I can see why you’d look at bp-core-avatars functions.

But have you tried just replacing the avatar calls in templates with your own function?

You’ll have to hunt down the calls in several templates, but probably easier than messing with core-avatar filters given that you don’t want anything from bp avatar code anyway.

Try it in something like the members loop first:

Members Loop

Of course, in your theme, create an over-ride of the members-loop template first.

@number_6

BuddyPress doesn’t rely on 3rd-party support as far as I know. oEmbed support is provided by WordPress.

Take YouTube for example. If you paste a YouTube video’s link into your blog post, your WordPress blog (the consumer) will make a request to YouTube (the provider). YouTube then responds with an oEmbed response. The HTML therefore gets pulled from the provider’s server.

That is how I understand the process to work. Hope it helps.

Unfortunately I couldn’t migrate bbpress to buddypress and so deleted bbpress (and my buddypress forums) to go for a fresh install.

No migration needed, both plugins work together https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

My issue is that when I navigate to the root forum directory it returns my WP archives page!

If you followed instructions from link above, what slug do you have for your forum archive? Did you create a page specifically with that slug for your forum index and added shortcodes to show all forums and/or topics

@hughshields first thing, back up the theme folder in your server to your hard drive.
– Deactivate the Suffusion Template Pack plugin
– Delete the following folders, if any, from your Suffusion theme folder in server: /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/bp-17-upgrading-template-packed-themes/

@jf_trumpet Where are you hosted? BP can be sluggish on shared hosting plans.

Improving Performance

@carmeetsroad
Study the activity-loop.php:

Activity Loop

Take note of the scope parameter. You can pass favorites as an argument like so:

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring( 'activity' ) . '&scope=favorites' ) ) : ?>

@jiminps
Even though the first question deals with bbPress the answer is it depends on what you mean by capabilities. You can can assign user roles like keymaster, moderator, participant, spectator, or blocked.
Yes, private messages can be sent and received. If you only want messages to be sent between a member and the admin that would require use of a plugin, or some custom code but it can be done!
Hope that answers your questions!

@sheratonwalls From what WP/BP version did you upgrade and to what WP/BP version? Theme used? Plugins activated? Have you tried changing to Twenty Twelve theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress?

hi @leoreiki,

read here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/categories-and-tags-from-blog-post-in-the-activity-stream/

hi @trinzia,

don’t ask here about YOUR security settings ! We are not reading in chicken guts or in cristal bowls. 😉

Also, if you use BP 1.8+, a solution given over a year back cannot work (most of time)

See here an old discussion with a recent answer (2 mounth) – has patch.

But before to do something, check your WP settings if comments are allowed and/or if comments are allowed for your test post (sorry for this, but… nobody’s perfect ! 😀 )

Also, if you cheched site indexing by robots (settings > reading) it may be possible that the comments won’t show up on the activity wall.
Encountered this a few mounth back with bbPress forum answers on a bp 1.7/bbp 2.3 install

@uabassguy

BP has no post, it’s WP. 😉
BP has no rating system, so you need to create it first or use a rating plugin for the blog posts. And probably the votes won’t show up in the activities. I’m afraid that what you want will need some custom coding. 😉

Can’t help you more, but here are some usefull resource.

The codex Activity Loop page.

Some advice to modify the Activity

A detailed tutorial, by @imath

A configurable activity widget

I tried to do this. I created bp-custom.php, and placed it in plugins directory (not in plugins/buddypress). the function gets as far as //return $user_id, and will display it, but doesn’t seem to know what $update is.

	<?php

	//Remove view button on status update

	function tty_activity_latest_update( $user_id = false ) {
		echo tty_get_activity_latest_update( $user_id );
	}

	function tty_get_activity_latest_update( $user_id = false ) {
		global $bp;

		if ( !$user_id ) {
		$user_id = $bp->displayed_user->id;
		}

		//return $user_id;

		if ( !$update = get_usermeta( $user_id, 'bp_latest_update' ) ) {
			return false;
		}

	$latest_update = trim( strip_tags( $update ) );

	return apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_latest_update', $latest_update );
	}

	?>

Hi @leon-craggs

Be inspired by reading here:

BuddyPress Activity Shortcode: Embed BuddyPress Activities anywhere

and also here:
http://wpmu.org/how-to-customize-the-buddypress-activity-loop/

and of course here:

Activity Loop

@proculinar
Your theme sets a very narrow width for a generic instance of ‘article.post’ it later changes that to be wider if a single post or page class is on the body tag, this isn’t ideal!

You will need to add a ruleset like this:


.buddypress article.post {width: 100%;}


Try and locate that after the other article.post rulesets which are somewhere around the approx lines 250 or thereabouts.