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@msgliniewicz, @nexus66

is not a feature to ask for and is already existing.

@msgliniewicz, if you want to remove your theme login part, see your theme support or documentation first. Generally, this is made by creating a child theme, from where you can remove in a safe way the whole html concerning the login part.

Reminder

1. WordPress is the heart of your install. In any case.
2. BuddyPress is only a plugin
3. You can use any theme you want to get WP and BP showing

Site login

1. WordPress is the only one who manage logins and comes with a login widget.
2. BuddyPress add xprofile (if enabled) to the WP login form. In other words, BP extend the WP login form and give you the ability to use it’s own login widget.
3. Your theme can also come with a login widget.

But there is only one login logic: username | password | login/logout | and sometimes additionnal tools like Remeber me and/or Forgot your password ?

This means that you can use the WP login widget, or the BP login widget or your theme login widget. The only thing you have to do is to activate ONLY(preferably) one of these widget and to stay clear and logic with yourself.

• If you use BP, choose preferably BuddyPress tools to show the plugin.
• If you want to promote a mega super genius awesome responsive coffe delivering theme over anything else installed on your site, use the theme tools.

In this case, remind to checkout any conflict possibility between such a theme and any of your plugins, even BP.

1st:

@danbp / https://buddypress.org/support/topic/blog-comments-not-appearing-in-activity-stream/#post-186094:

I inserted your code into my reddle-child/function.php – and it works for me as well. – Thank you!

Result:

http://1a-spielwiese.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/chrono_comment_display.jpg

2nd:

@ https://buddypress.org/support/topic/blog-comments-not-appearing-in-activity-stream/#post-186095

‘he original problem was that search engine indexing was disabled on my site.’

I had the same problem as well. – I would like to propose: Placing on wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=bp-components inside the ‘Website tracking’-section a hint like: ‘On the page wp-admin/options-reading.php indexing by search machines must be allowed.’

PS.:

I guess, that thread can be marked as ‘[Resolved]’. – Besides I would like to suggest: Placing somewhere in the forum sidebar a link to a stream of all threads, which are marked as ‘[Resolved]’.

@reinforcez,

the link given by @drakedoc was started over 4 years. Many solutions are given in this thread, and the last one was published a year ago.

That solution works for 1.9 and above !

/* Skip the Gravatar check when using a default BP avatar */ 	
add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true' );

By the way you have also to modify the global WP setting of avatars to “mystery man” or “nothing”.

Another solution to avoid gravatars slowing down a big site (at least > 500 members), is to use a specific cache plugin like Nix Gravatar Cache. Complete list here.

Any update on this? I’d love to reduce the number of BuddyPress menu items (tabs) by creating a dropdown menu of BP items. There are just too many tabs right now. What is the best way to customize the default BP menu?

May not need pointing out, but remember that the directory/folder structure you see in /bp-legacy/ must be replicated faithfully in the theme or child theme where/bp-legacy/ is replaced with either /buddypress/ or /community/ sitting in the top level of the theme root. so if a file lives in a particular folder under bp-legacy it must live in same folder under your theme structure.

@bitpath
It may work better to manage a larger chunk of the activity truncation so you have control of things like excerpt length, appended text, removed create excerpt elipses, and ability to remove the class that Ajax hooks to while still allowing appended link to function for single activity. It’s a little dirty but…:

function custom_activity_excerpt_read_more( $excerpt, $text, $append_text ) {
// Manage the excerpt length
$excerpt_length = 100;
// Manage the appended string for truncated excerpts so we have a link to single activity
$append_text = '…';
// Manage the initial text run through the bp create excerpt filter  to remove 'ending'
$excerpt = bp_create_excerpt( $text, $excerpt_length, array( 'ending' => __( '', 'buddypress' ) ) );
// Manage the excerpt  appended displayed markup & rename the span class 'activity-read-more' to disable Ajax hook
$excerpt = sprintf( '%1$s<span class="custom-activity-read-more" id="%2$s"><a href="%3$s" rel="nofollow">%4$s</a></span>', $excerpt, $id, bp_get_activity_thread_permalink(), $append_text );
return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('bp_activity_truncate_entry', 'custom_activity_excerpt_read_more', 10, 3);

Thank you for your well-formed question.

Try your changes in this file in your overloads:
buddypress\groups\single\members.php

see here if it can help you:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bp-wordpress-activity-stream-excerpt-problem/#post-202047

you can read it here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-disable-gravatar-completely/

It’s sounding like you haven’t yet really worked with Theme Compatibility (template pack) the files that live in core /buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/ these files are the ones that BP uses by default to deliver BP screens in any theme – if you are used to the older methods using bp-default theme and template pack plugin those probably need to be unlearned/discarded; theme compat templates are easier to work with and afford more options for customization.

These are the guides you probably need to read through:

Theme Compatibility