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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.

@maan18

it should work, I have used this approach many times.

@maan18

I’m not sure what you’re asking exactly but take a look at this:

<?php 
       if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { 
       // whatever you put here will be displayed if the user is logged in
       } else { 
       // whatever you put here will be displayed when logged out
       } 
?>

‘Add friend’ and ‘send private message’ aren’t supposed to display when a user is logged out. For example, how would BuddyPress know who the friend request came from? How would BP know who the private message came from?

@maan18
I am not certain I understand your requirement but you can try:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp_lite

@marbler
Try this out courtesy of BuddyDev:

Prevent spaces in WordPress/BuddyPress Usernames

Although this is listed as Resolved, I will still post a reply. I had the exact same issue, and decided to try adding “www.” to the front of the URL in the WordPress address bar (instead of simply http://mysite.com) under General Settings. That fixed the issue immediately.

@mgrmn the reverse of BP plugin, Blog Categories for Groups http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/

@mewrd you cannot bypass dealing directly with PHP files to customize some or all of your BP pages. Basically BP pages are rendered via the theme’s default page.php file.

i have tried to remove `<?php get_sidebar( ‘buddypress’ ); ?> from them -didnt help

What theme are you using? If you’re using a child theme of the BP Default theme, then that would work on the file you copied over from BP Default theme into your child theme’s folder in server.

However, if you’re using a WordPress theme with BP Theme Compatibility, for BP 1.7 per link hnla gave above you’re limited to customizing the HTML structure wrapping the BP templates to all templates or not at all (see last paragraph). Full customization of HTML wrappers (like removing sidebar for the Members pages only) is possible come BP 1.8 https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/