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set their own account picture, directly from the buddypress account

Not quite clear. If you mean users can upload their own avatars from their profile pages, then yes they can.

Yeah I got group forums right now

@thapharm were these group forums set up in previous version of BuddyPress (1.6.5 below) or were your group forums set up per instructions in link provided by Chouf1? If set up in BP 1.6.5 below using the old internal forums, then you have the option to keep it as is and then install bbPress plugin for the sitewide forums or port over the group forums into the bbPress plugin forums per https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-site-administration/migrating-from-old-forums-to-bbpress-2/ Whatever option you take, always backup database and server files so that you can always revert if something goes awry.

@thapharm

you have different choices to set up forums.
Sitewide forum (like bp.org)
Group forum
or both

Read here how to achieve this: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

@skippyg,
you have to check if your WP is working correctly first.
You installed it in a subdirectory and this is bit more complex as the usual root install.

Please read here first: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

and follow the given instruction.

@mshane8
The short answer is yes as long as your using BP 1.6 thru 1.7.1+
Read the documentation here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/extended-profiles/

yeah idk maybe something is up with your network i have it enabled on only on the root site. works fine and shows up in the control list. pretty sure i read somewhere about network vs single site enabling for bbpress before in the documentation somewhere I’m 99.9% our situation is not a fluke maybe @jjj can settle it :/

@megainfo, You are the bomb. Thanks for this great plugin. I voted 5 star already.

Future suggestion,To make it look cleaner, may be just a padlock icon with a dropdown arrow to replace the word privacy: . So when you click on the padlock it then display all the privacy level. just a suggestion.

Thanks for your great work

Thanks!
It has worked!

Yes! in functions.php of your current theme.

Hi @megainfo
Which functions.php?
That of my theme or an other one?
Edit:
My theme’s functions.php says:
Don’t edit!

Hi @timvango,

Add this code to your functions.php (make sure using BuddyPress Activity Privacy 1.0.3 or +)

add_filter('bp_profile_activity_visibility_levels_filter', 'bp_remove_loggedin_activity_visibility_levels', 10, 1);
function bp_remove_loggedin_activity_visibility_levels($profile_activity_visibility_levels){
	unset( $profile_activity_visibility_levels ['loggedin'] );
	return $profile_activity_visibility_levels;
}

add_filter('bp_groups_activity_visibility_levels_filter', 'bp_remove_loggedin_groups_activity_visibility_levels', 10, 1);
function bp_remove_loggedin_groups_activity_visibility_levels($groups_activity_visibility_levels){
	unset( $groups_activity_visibility_levels ['loggedin'] );
	return $groups_activity_visibility_levels;
}

add_filter('bp_profile_activity_privacy_levels_filter', 'bp_remove_logged_in_profile_activity_privacy_levels', 10, 1);
function bp_remove_logged_in_profile_activity_privacy_levels($profile_activity_privacy_levels){
	return array_diff($profile_activity_privacy_levels, array('loggedin'));
}

add_filter('bp_groups_activity_privacy_levels_filter', 'bp_remove_logged_in_groups_privacy_levels', 10, 1);
function bp_remove_logged_in_groups_privacy_levels($groups_activity_privacy_levels){
	return array_diff($groups_activity_privacy_levels, array('loggedin'));
}

@megainfo
At first: Great plugin!
I have one question:
My whole site is only for members, so I want to remove the loggedin choice.
I have tryed some things, but when I remove something, I get an Syntax error…
What can I remove and what not?

Thank you

@buidinh1803
do you have already WP in vietnamese ?
Even if the page seems to be abandonned, read here for some advice about vi_VI po/mo

Home

WP translations are here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp
3.5.x in vietnamese is not translated for the moment, so you probably have to search for previous version. And 3.4 is only 79% translated

No luck too for bp vietnamese translation: nothing !
See here: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/buddypress/1.7.x

So you have to translate BP in your language, (read codex if you don’t know how to do that or search on this forum) then you have to add buddypress-vi_VI.mo into wp-content/languages/ folder

@arumugamk WP/BP versions? Single WP site or multisite? If multisite, is BP activated in main site or subsite? Theme used? Plugins used?

@tomraff as of BuddyPress 1.7, BuddyPress Pages are rendered automagically in nearly all WordPress themes.

If you have activated the BP Template Pack plugin, deactivate it and delete the plugin.
If you already went through the Appearance > BP Compatibility process, you also need to delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your flare theme in server, i.e., delete /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members and /registration folders

@prettyhopeful

@modemlooper removed buddypress extended settings from the repo and made one premium plugin called BuddySuite that has more features than the plugin that was in the repo. I think this also covers adding the profile menu to the main nav as well You can get it here:
http://shop.taptappress.com/downloads/category/plugin/
For the private community you can get that here:
https://github.com/bphelp/private_community_for_bp
Cheers!

@baskers @msdoble Glad your issues are resolved. Thanks for posting back. As far as I can recall, WordPress works in folders with lowercase names.

Marking this topic as resolved.

The solution was so simple. Just use good old fashioned manual FTP upgrading methods.

Notes:
1. Deactivating BuddyPress caused a 500 Error and I had to use phpMyAdmin and add the active_plugins db entry back for BuddyPress to bring the site back up.
2. Doing a WP Dashboard upgrade caused a 500 Error.

Successful BuddyPress Upgrade steps:
1. FTP to site and rename the /buddypress folder
2. Upload the new /buddypress folder.
For good measure I resaved all BuddyPress settings just to ensure that everything was actually good to go and no problems. Yeah!

Based on that it’s hard to know what’s wrong, did you read / follow that link I gave you. Show us what paths your copied files are in:

/my-theme/
page.php
index.php etc
/my-theme/buddypress/members/index.php

These files need to be copied over from the /bp-template/bp-legeacy/buddypress/ directory not simply copies of the files you had before with mods in but I’ve mentioned that earlier.

Adding a link to your site might help if you have it online.