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Thanks @shanebp,

As soon as I’m happy that Buddypress is going to work for me i’ll be in touch 😉

Create a template overload of this file:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\member-header.php

Then in that file put one of these snippets wherever you like:

-show all roles for a user

$user = new WP_User( bp_displayed_user_id() );

if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
	foreach ( $user->roles as $role )
		echo $role;
}

– show just the first role

$user = new WP_User( bp_displayed_user_id() );
echo $user->roles[0];

Have you tried another setting for Toolbar ?
Default is yes. Uncheck and see if you get a difference.

Configure BuddyPress

@mrgiblets @ihavetodothis you can change the name of Sitewide Activity when you create a New Page and name it as “Vavoom” for example (leave text area blank) and publish that page. Then you go to admin menu Settings > BuddyPress > Pages and assign “Vavoom” for example to the Activity component and save.

The picture shows that you also use OneAll social login….

You have to debug. Read here first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress

Activate TwentyFifteen and deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress.
See it the issue is still in.

Reactivate each plugin one by one untill you find a culptrit

If you have to disable activity auto-refresh, this is telling me that there are other problems.

Try re-enabling auto-refresh and use Firebug to see what JS errors are being logged. Also try purging your browser cache to determine that you are running the latest BP JS.

Activity auto-refresh uses the WP Heartbeat API. The relevant JS is here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.2.1/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/js/buddypress.js#L1661

Let us know what your debugging finds.

It’s a problem with any theme using the TrueThemes framework:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6335#comment:6

They are trying to force comments open on WP pages. When their code hits a BuddyPress page, their code will generate a new page due to the way they are forcing comments open and because the BuddyPress page ID is 0.

Themes using the TrueThemes framework can use this code snippet to disable their force comments code:

remove_action('template_redirect', 'tt_get_comments_status');

All symptoms sound like a problem with the javascript not working properly.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s a problem with BuddyPress.

Maybe you have javascript disabled in your browser? Can you try other browsers?

If you’re starting on a fresh WordPress install, install BuddyPress from the WP admin dasbhoard’s “Plugins > Add New” page.

Hey,

I’m a newcomer to all of this and I can’t answer your overall question, but I can tell you how to change the name “Site-Wide Activity” on the activity page. You go to: wp-content>plugins>buddypress>bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php and the title is towards the top the in $GLOBAL array. And you can change it from “Site-Wide Activity” to whatever you want.

I’ll be following this tho. I’ve been looking for way to customize my BP wall and make it look not so bland. I hope someone else can help you further!

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Have you assigned a page to the activity component ? Sometimes it’s not setup automatically.
Also which is your theme ?

Configure BuddyPress

Do you mean BP’s profile or a third party plugin ?

All translatable strings related to BP are stored in /buddypress/buddypress.pot

@mrgiblets haha you did the exact same as me with picking twenty twelve when i first started using buddypress, i still think its one of the best blank canvas themes to work from apart from the lack of responsiveness it has, although you can make it fully responsive but its a pain to do, i even went to the extent of making it into a 3 column layout etc.

In regards to what you want to implement no-one can really help you until the ideas of what you want to integrate emerge 🙂