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@marathifacebook, am not being funny, but no one will be willing to help you with this kind of you attitude, refering to a free plugin which developer spent hours of hardwork on as useless even make the matter worst.

There is no free gmail importer that am aware of, you may have to consider some paid one and make it work with buddypress or code one yourself.

Naijaping

@modemlooper
So anything to do with BuddyPress then?

@nobodymove
Have you tried reverting to twenty twelve theme or bp-default theme to see if your issue persists?
If so then try bulk deactivating all those plugins other than BuddyPress and then reactivate each one individually and test if the issue you are having persists against each one of those plugins as you reactive them individually. I know it sounds tedious but this is pretty basic troubleshooting procedure to narrow down if it is a theme or plugin causing the issue. If you find that it is a theme or plugin then report it to the respective author so they may check and make any adjustments necessary. If the issue persists after this procedure and you have not been able to narrow down the culprit then please report back here.

@nobodymove
This is not default behavior. Please see:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/
And supply all the info you can regarding your install!

@disqusnow BuddyPress is a plugin, plugins live in the WP directory /wp-content/plugins/ not in the directory /wp-content/themes/

BP historically ran it’s default theme from it’s plugin struture and still does along with the new theme compatibility files /buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/

If you have a custom theme and you want to edit the bp theme compat templates then you must copy them over to your theme and edit them from there ( to confirm as mentioned earlier the actual WP pages are placeholders you do not enter content in them.)

Please see the codex for more in depth guides to theme compatibility and overloading the templates to your theme.

What you’re trying to do doesn’t work I believe.

BuddyPress only creates those pre-named Pages in WordPress to create Permalink -structures.

I believe the BuddyPress script takes over from that point , those pages have no further meaning from the back-end of your WordPress website. You can add content to them as much as you want but that content will not show up on the front-end of the page because BuddyPress has taken over those pages and instead loads it’s own ‘groups’ – ‘activity’ – ‘members’ templates.

If you want to add some content to those pages you have to look into the template files.

wp-content / plugins / buddypress / bp-templates/ bp-legacy / buddypress / groups / index.php

Thats the files that will be shown when you view the Groups page.
If you would like to add some content to it or edit it in any form you should copy-/paste that file inside your WP Theme folder – just like this.

wp-content / themes / [your-theme-name] / buddypress / groups / index.php <– make sure that’s a COPY of the default version.

So you want to replace fullname “John Doe” with username “johndoe93”? Do you need to make the change sitewide?

r-a-y (BP core developer) has built a plugin for that:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

Go to pages -> Trash -> empty all pages from trash
And in the page make sure the permlink says groups and not groups-2 (edit if needed)

edit -> ok -> update page

Best to ask on bbPress.org. bbPress is the component that provides forums to BuddyPress.

Looks good. One more suggestion per WP standards. Place all add_actions right below it’s function unless the action is inside a function in that case you place that actions function below the function the add action is inside. It’s to keep the code easier to manage when you have really long file and scrolling up and down gets tedious.

/*** Make sure BuddyPress is loaded ********************************/
function private_community_for_bp_lite_bp_check() {
    if ( !class_exists( 'BuddyPress' ) ) {
	add_action( 'admin_notices', 'private_community_for_bp_lite_install_buddypress_notice' );
    }
}
add_action('plugins_loaded', 'private_community_for_bp_lite_bp_check', 999);

function private_community_for_bp_lite_install_buddypress_notice() {
	echo '<div id="message" class="error fade"><p style="line-height: 150%">';
	_e('<strong>Private Community For BP Lite</strong></a> requires the BuddyPress plugin to work. Please <a href="https://buddypress.org/download">install BuddyPress</a> first, or <a href="plugins.php">deactivate Private Community For BP Lite</a>.');
	echo '</p></div>';
}

function private_community_for_bp_lite_init() {
	require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/private-community-for-bp-lite.php' );
}
add_action( 'bp_include', 'private_community_for_bp_lite_init' );

Check the Codex and BuddyPress release notes! As of 1.7 there is a theme compatibility layer built in to BP that allows it to work with most themes – activate your theme, activate BP, that is about all you have to do bar a few style mods if required to bed BP screens in.

Hugo beat me to it 🙂

Ah yes, my bad. BP forums was pre 1.6.5. The bbPress plugin is different.

This may help you move everything across:
https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

it is in the Codex!

Originally BP used a stripped down version of bbpress built in, now that is removed and bbPress plugin provides support for BP groups forums, there is a guide on transitioning over.

https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/

‘BuddyPress forums’ is bbPress (as far as i know)!

@maan18

Your code is outputting the exact same line of code to both logged in users and logged out users:

do_action( 'bp_member_header_actions' );

The idea of an ‘if’ statement is to output different code based on certain criteria being met.