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@mrgiblets HI, I was the same as you when i first came to these forums nearly 2 years back, although i had website developing experience i found buddypress just as confusing, the best way to learn is to get stuck into it in my opinion, there are quite alot of good reads regarding things you may need to achieve in these forums, you should also read through these pages here https://codex.buddypress.org/

When typing a message using “@” the dropdown list that pops up as soon as your start typing should only show names of the current users friends. What happens if you have 10,000+ users on your site? That’s going to get annoying for the users really fast. At very least there should be an option in the backend to activate this functionality.

I tend to agree with this 100 percent, i have mentioned (ironic lol) this before in these forums, you should really have an option to either have @mentions for either sitewide or friends only.

LIKE button. I wasn’t that surprised that something like this wasn’t installed as standard, but as this is an integral part of social interaction these days I was shocked after spending days trying to find a plug-in that works with the current version and have only managed to find one that works but is shaky at best. There are lots of “no longer available” plug-ins and bits of code and hacks out there but again – removed or deleted when you try to view them. From what I gather this seems to be something that developers have had real problems implementing. I can’t even find a single premium LIKE button plug-in out there! Surely it’s time to have this feature as standard?

I believe from what ive read from the dev’s talking about this but i cannot remember the link to give you, that they are working on this via the already built in favorites button, they are trying to adapt it to a kind of liking system but their main concern seemed to be scalability and are working on a way to reduce the queries and database hits this could potentially have an effect with.

A clean current install of BP doesn’t include a BP theme. I have read that you have removed this and tried to implement it with any standard WP theme but that doesn’t help new users when trying to figure out what BP is capable of. Despite formatting issues many of the things it can do simply aren’t that obvious with a default WP theme. Surely it should at least give you the option to install a standard BP theme from theme manager?

They decided to stop support for the default theme and i would advise you to really search for a newer theme anyhows seeing as buddypress integrates with most themes flawlessly now.

Please, give details: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

You could just provide your own template for the registration page (hence have your own custom registration form).

BuddyPress will use the following template hierarchy /buddypress/members/index-register.php

Check out the Template Hierarchy article for more info on how templates work in BP.

Hi @gromozeka

You could create a new component but that isn’t required. Check out bp_core_new_nav_item() for how to add items to the navigation.

bp_core_new_nav_item()

Hi @zigmund

This will all be possible, likely with xProfile fields. To get started with BuddyPress, check out the docs (there’s links to subpages on the left-hand-side).

Hope the info helps.

Hi @feyrisa

Is that a way to add membership checkout to my buddypress registration ?

It will be possible but there isn’t a configuration setting that’ll do it for you (unless the plugin itself has a setting that allows integration with BuddyPress).

Ok, I know it’s not the correct php way, but in lieu of any other option I’ve found how to remove showing it with css – posted in BuddyBoss here: http://www.buddyboss.com/support-forums/topic/1st-month-feedback-mobileresponsive-theme/ and I put this code…
#buddypress #admins-list div.action a, #buddypress #mods-list div.action a, #buddypress #members-list div.action a, #buddypress #groups-list div.action a, #buddypress #friend-list div.action a{display:none;}
in my child theme style.css file.
Hope it helps other who are stuck too 🙂

@gnasralla tbh i havent come across this issue myself and it shouldn’t really be happening so as dan stated id first troubleshoot if its a plugin or theme issue by first turning off all other plugins apart from buddypress and then if the issue is still there swap to any one of the default themes as a starting point.

there used to be a plugin that did this but im not sure if it still works , you can try it
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-activity-stream-bump-to-top/
its an old plugin so i dont think it will work, maybe you could try get it fixed i dunno.

Can be done by using WP’s language file.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

Point 1 is probably your issue.

BuddyPress does not work on installations where you give WordPress its own directory.

To resume a default BP install.

your-site.com is the root. Generally a folder called htdocs or www. Once WP is installed you have something like this:

serveur/path/www/wp-admin
server/path/www/wp-content
server/path/www/wp-includes

BuddyPress goes to /server/path/www/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

This will not work if you use BP /server/path/www/mysite/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/

I’m very patient. I learned that you like poems.

I now would glad to know if you speak BuddyPress ? I’m still waiting some information related to your site…

Which BP version do you use ? What is your theme name ?

Sorry to tell, but I ignore what is the yellow notification top bar !

Sorry for this late answer, i missed your topic.

You can follow a similar topic here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/problem-after-updating/#post-236965

Did you solved the issue ?
Can you give more details about your install (theme, plugins, php version) ?
Are your on a local or live site ?

If you want to answer, do it on the other topic, where the discussion is more advanced.

Closing this topic to avoid duplicate. Thank you for your comprehention.

I opened a ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6335#ticket
Login (same as here) and subscribe, so you can follow dev’s opinion. Not sure they come to the forum quickly.

I’m not sure it is a BP issue. Could also be a plugin or a corrupted one who takes action when BP is enabled. Can even came from WP itself.

So i strongly recommend you close the site access. You will loose much more as some signups if that issue is viral.

Have you some server access log to share ? Or warnings coming up ? Activate debug in wp-config

You (we) have to wait for more opinions about this. Keep calm and stay confident.

Hey, that’s a digit geeking speech ! Twenty Twelve and Twenty Fifteen are respectively WordPress default theme. 2015 and 2012 are even faster to write, specially for me.

Does it make sense ?

While (i wrote period – but i’m french – it’s not the punctuation, sorry. During the time is more US english) building your project (discussing with your client, your team, dog and what ever…) and WordPress, you need a theme. Default theme has the avantage to “work” with WP and… BuddyPress.
While struggling with a third party theme is another story which can be handled quietly AFTER your project is near to be completed. Growing step by step.

Once the foundation is solid enough, in other terms !

Does it make more sense ?