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You don’t edit the dashboard BP pages, they are simply placeholders for BP, you mention the BP codex did you not see this page? :
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

That should help.

Mika and John were just pointing out you didn’t need to load that extra file to check for BuddyPress. The code you were using has been copy & pasted over the years from some early plugins.

See answer of @shanebp , or use the shortcodes, as explained http://www.s2member.com/kb/simple-shortcode-conditionals/

@disqusnow WP/BP versions? Theme used? Change to Twenty Twelve, is the issue resolved?

/*** Make sure BuddyPress is loaded ********************************/
if ( class_exists( 'BuddyPress' ) ) {
	add_action( 'bp_include', 'private_community_for_bp_lite_init' );
} else {
	add_action( 'admin_notices', 'private_community_for_bp_lite_install_buddypress_notice' );
}

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

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>';
}

See this link http://www.s2member.com/kb/s2member-conditionals/ it explains how to get the conditionals using PHP, since I do not have s2 installed can’t get them for you

Did some more reading for ya.

try if (current_user_is("s2member_level1")) { echo "Woohaa got LEVEL 1" ; }

and or echo S2MEMBER_CURRENT_USER_ACCESS_LEVEL;

To see the output of that, you can either put that in your theme/functions.php or i would say bp-custom.php in dir /plugins/pb-custom.php i saw that simular code of yours on stackoverflow.

Not sure what you are tying to accomplish with that s2, but the issue is probably not that piece of code, but more trying to get the right levels.

That code all it does, is checking usernames, so if username is “fred” it will remove the bp_core_record_activity but not according to levels. You need to figure out a way getting it to print out the levels. and then do a if or else statement per level.

@nanaimomen The problem is more like the theme is using a proprietary templating system. BuddyPress works in nearly all WordPress themes. Regular WP tags like the_title() and the_content() should be in the theme’s page.php file for the BP Theme Compatibility magic to work, i.e., you no longer need to revise 16 template files manually like before.

To resolve your issue, open up your theme’s page.php file and Save As > buddypress.php and ask the theme author to replace theme’s corresponding tags with the_title() and the_content(). Upload that updated buddypress.php file into your theme’s folder in server and you should be good to go.

@forallatlantis Have you gone through basic troubleshooting like changing to Twenty Twelve theme and/or deactivating plugins batch by batch except BuddyPress to check what’s causing the issue?

all content and users are mirrored/shared across the networks/sites

@mike245 Strange. Only users not the content should be shared across the network for that plugin as far as I know. Have only used the other BP Multinetwork plugin, so don’t quite know why that’s happening in your installation. Recommend that you post at plugin’s support forums https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network

I was wondering this too. The “create group” tab shows up if I directly go to my link: http://durhamregionactionnetwork.com/groups/ (same with Forums with bbpress) but how do users find the link when it isn’t appearing in their profile? I have everything enabled in settings for both plugins.So once a person is logged in they see this on their page:

Activity
Profile
Messages
Friends
Groups
Forums
Events
Settings

But when you click on Groups from there, there is no link to create a group. Same with Forums. Maybe BuddyPress doesn’t have that option? I wanted to improve usability by adding the links to the user’s dashboard, it seems to make sense it would be there but it’s not. I hope I am explaining this OK 🙂 Thank you for any help you can provide!

It all depends on how the plugin functions. if you have WP options saved and then use bp_include to load plugin your settings won’t load fast enough for BuddyPress to use options.

bp_include is used for code that accesses BuddyPress code. So you know that BuddyPress is loaded before you execute code. It should not be used to detect if BuddyPress is active.

you can use https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_plugin_active

or check if ( class_exists( ‘BuddyPress’ ) )

@mgrmn There should be a “Create a Group” button beside the page title in the Groups Directory page. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/#groups-directory

If the “Create a Group” button doesn’t show up in your theme, that’s because the_title tag of page template is not within the WordPress loop. To resolve this issue, you can create your own link to the Create Groups page, just append /create to the URL of your groups directory page
e.g.
groups page -> http://example.com/groups
groups create page -> http://example.com/groups/create

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can instead add the patch to include the groups/create link in BP MyAccount section of the WP Toolbar https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1838 – coming out in BP 1.8

Not sure, but I believe you need to add get_currentuserinfo(); for the part getting user info.

Try something like this to debug and see if you get any reponse at all.

function debug_userinfo() {
	global $current_user;
      	get_currentuserinfo();
	echo 'Username: ' . $current_user->user_login . "\n";
      	echo 'User email: ' . $current_user->user_email . "\n";
      	echo 'User first name: ' . $current_user->user_firstname . "\n";
      	echo 'User last name: ' . $current_user->user_lastname . "\n";
      	echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name . "\n";
      	echo 'User ID: ' . $current_user->ID . "\n";
}

See wp codex https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

@mike245 by default, there’s only one instance of BuddyPress per WordPress (single or multisite) installation. What you want – multiple BuddyPress installations in one Multisite install – is not possible without a BP multinetwork plugin. There are two plugins available and of those two, since you want a shared userbase, you would need https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/