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Hi,

I’ve deactivated all other plugins apart from BP and put the default theme back on but no register or activate pages come up in the buddypress page settings. I’ve done it many times with no difference. Any suggestions of things to try next?

If I created pages and just called them register and activate, would they actually be anything other than a blank page? How do I link to the real pages?

@user2165458
I would never buy another theme from themeforest. For the most part especially when dealing with themeforest the themes authors support is flaky. I also dispise using bloated themes like the ones you get from themeforest. It seems to me that the more bloated a theme is then the more issues the purchaser has. If they say it is a BuddyPress theme don’t count on it. You will get suckered into buying this theme then after the fact you will find out that they don’t offer support for the buddypress. They will tell you to get support here but no one here will help you either because they don’t have access to the premium theme. The theme I got from them has jquery issues that comes from the theme because twenty twelve works fine and this author has taken a month and only gave the cheesiest answers to get out of addressing that his theme was a mangled hunk o junk! So the short answer is use a theme from WP repo and use child theme to modify. Save your money and a headache!

@jorgebook1
See my replies toward the bottom of the page on the following topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/dynamic-urls-for-buddypress-user-profiles-friends-etc/
This is just a reference and is not all inclusive.

@cupid4 The ‘developers’ didn’t move anything , a good understanding of the changes in V 1.7 helps and the codex has some pages on theme compatibility changes. the bp-default theme still exists and in the same folder in the core files, a new folder was added for template files which serve the theme compatibility layer /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ these files are not the same as the older bp-default ones as they are template parts rather than full templates with header and footer calls.

Copying bp-default to your theme and re-naming doesn’t sound at all correct, this would not work! Your theme either activates the older bp-default theme in /appearance/themes in dashboard or it’s a child of bp-default and possibly then overloads files by copying e.g /members/index.php to your theme root else you activate any other theme and simply allow BP to run with it’s theme compatibility layer in that situation you can adjust templates by copying templates from /bp-templates/legacy/buddypress/ to /buddypress/ in your theme root, just don’t mix templates.

@rairai-ni have you tried reuploading BuddyPress manually i.e. via FTP? Have you double-checked your Settings > BuddyPress panels and resaved settings?

not sure might require a plugin but for what it’s worth i already have a trac ticket for adding dynamic links for login/logout/register and i have added those to the ticket:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5122

I was successful at doing this. You can read about the results here on the forum.

I would suggest starting this kind of thread on the “How to/troubleshooting” topic, not this thread since it’s all about showing off the finished product.

there are choices already selected even none of them is set as default, should I report this in buddypress trac

@cupid4 there was a trac ticket posted about same issue but was resolved last year https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4362

all the problems started since moving bp-default off the themes folder and putting it in buddyporess folder.

The bp-default theme folder should be left as is in the wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/ folder and not moved to wp-content/themes/ folder

@producist try reuploading BuddyPress manually i.e., via FTP.

BP 1.8.1 issue “widgets are no longer displayed on BuddyPress pages”

Specifically, which widgets are not showing up? BuddyPress widgets or WordPress default widgets or another plugin’s widgets?
What theme are you using?

Hi @Skeary,

There is no filter for bp_directory_groups_search_form(), You can change create a new custom function and replace the old call of bp_directory_groups_search_form by the new function.

function bp_custom_directory_groups_search_form() {

	$default_search_value = bp_get_search_default_text( 'groups' );
	$search_value         = !empty( $_REQUEST['s'] ) ? stripslashes( $_REQUEST['s'] ) : $default_search_value; ?>

	<form action="" method="get" id="search-groups-form">
		<label><input type="text" name="s" id="groups_search" placeholder="<?php echo esc_attr( $search_value ) ?>" /></label>
		<input type="submit" id="groups_search_submit" name="groups_search_submit" value="<?php _e( 'Go', 'buddypress' ) ?>" />
	</form>

<?php
}

The other solution is by javascript, you can change the text of the button by this code :

jQuery('#groups_search_submit).attr('value','Go');

@skeary

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/customizing/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/ might be simpler?

Please don’t advise people not to upgrade, this is bad advise, BP releases often have bug fixes and security updates people should endeavour to keep on the most current release. BP releases are tested as extensively as possible and not released until stable under most conditions. Quite what has happened with your install is hard to quantify without examining things in detail.

One thing that I would advice is not jumping from 1.6 to 1.8 missing out 1.7 due to the changes in 1.7, whether that was the issue in your case is unknown though. What BP can’t do however is patch an issue until it can be replicated and proven as a bug, but if more occurrences like this are reported then it may be looked at in more depth.

Hi,
I’m not sure if it can help you but the following may resolve your problem :

function my_bp_nav_adder()
{
    bp_core_new_nav_item(
        array(
            'name' => __('New Tab Button', 'buddypress'),
            'slug' => 'all-conversations',
            'position' => 75,
            'show_for_displayed_user' => true,
            'screen_function' => 'all_conversations_link',
            'item_css_id' => 'all-conversations'
        ));
        print_r($wp_filter);
}
function all_conversations_link () {
    //add title and content here - last is to call the members plugin.php template
    add_action( 'bp_template_title', 'my_groups_page_function_to_show_screen_title' );
    add_action( 'bp_template_content', 'my_groups_page_function_to_show_screen_content' );
    bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_core_template_plugin', 'members/single/plugins' ) );
}

function my_groups_page_function_to_show_screen_title() {
    echo 'My new Page Title';
}
function my_groups_page_function_to_show_screen_content() {
    echo 'My Tab content here';

}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'my_bp_nav_adder' );

source: http://codex.themedelta.com/how-to-create-a-new-tab-in-buddypress-member-page/

You have to change “members/single/plugins” by the path to your new template file without the .php extention.

If you need to check if the action already existe for different purpose (I already need to do something similar) you can use something like this:

if(has_action('name_of_action_to_check_for')) {
	// action exists so execute it
	do_action('name_of_action_to_check_for');
} else {
	// action has not been registered
}

Hope this help 😉