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@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.

Hey @zintax

Have you tried hooking to the bp_ajax_querystring filter? This is a good way of modifying both the loop and the pagination.

Hope this gives you a few ideas:

function modify_loop_and_pag( $qs=false, $object=false ) {

    // comma sep list of users to exclude from loop and pagination
    $users = '1,2,3';
 
    if ( $object != 'members' ) // hide for members only
        return $qs;
 
    $args = wp_parse_args( $qs );
 
    if ( !empty( $args['exclude'] ) )
        $args['exclude'] = $args['exclude'] . ',' . $users;
    else
        $args['exclude'] = $users;
 
    $qs = build_query( $args );
 
    return $qs;
}
add_action( 'bp_ajax_querystring' , 'modify_loop_and_pag', 25, 2 );

This is a slightly modified version of: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/exclude-users-from-members-directory-on-a-buddypress-based-social-network/

@ladydekade
It may help the rest of the volunteers answer you if you provide details on your install as listed here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

@shaungreen
Dashboard/settings/buddypress/settings
Make sure the box is checked beside show the toolbar for logged out users!
If it is checked and the toolbar is still not showing up for logged out users then you have a theme issue!

@ladydekade
Sure you can hard code anything if you want too as long as you know what to do just make sure it is done in a child theme!

Groups Loop

As far as your issues with developers, maybe you should agree to certain things with the client and if they decide to change things after the things you agreed on are done then they will have to pay a hourly fee based on what needs to be done! Don’t ever lock yourself in to do EVERYTHING they want when some clients may be indecisive because you will loose money!

@ladydekade

BuddyPress Limit Group membership Per User