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in case of the case:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/hashbuddy/
https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/buddypress-activity-stream-hashtags

@julia_b,

you can allow your users to be notified by email when they are mentionned (and some other little things).

See Notification Manager plugin.

I just tested Duena and the BP translation is fine.

Recheck your po/mo files. Here what you must have:

duena – leave as is.
buddypress/bp-languages/buddypress.pot
wp-config – if you use english, as it’s default language you have nothing to do
// define(‘WP_LANG’, ” );
wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-en_US.mo

Now if you want to modify only some strings, make a copy of the pot file and put it in a folder outside of buddypress.

From this copy you remove anything you don’t want and keep only the 2 lines or 4 lines (if plural form) who belong to the string you want to change. You keep only the string you want to change.
Once done, save and rename it buddypress-en_US.po and open it with a text editor (not poEdit), as we’re going to modify the header.

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"PO-Revision-Date: 2014-09-12 00:05+0100\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n > 1;\n"
"X-Generator: Poedit 1.5.7\n"
"Project-Id-Version: BuddyPress 2.0.2\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: \n"
"Last-Translator: \n"
"Language-Team: \n"
"Language: en\n"
"X-Poedit-SourceCharset: UTF-8\n"
"X-Poedit-Basepath: .\n"
"X-Poedit-KeywordsList: __;_e;__ngettext:1,2;_n:1,2;__ngettext_noop:1,2;"
"_n_noop:1,2;_x:1,2c;_nx:4c,1,2;_nx_noop:4c,1,2;_ex:1,2c;esc_attr__;"
"esc_attr_e;esc_attr_x:1,2c;esc_html__;esc_html_e;esc_html_x:1,2c\n"
"X-Poedit-SearchPath-0: ..\n"

The rest of the file looks like this:

msgid "Friendships"
msgstr ""  <strong><- replacement goes here</strong>

#: bp-friends/bp-friends-template.php:588
msgid "%s friend"
msgid_plural "%s friends"
msgstr[0] ""
msgstr[1] ""

Save in text format utf8 without BOM. (important)

Now you can open this po file with poEdit, do your translation and save so that poEdit generate a mo file (see poEdit settings first to get this automatically each time you save a file).

Copy the mo file in the appropriate folder and, normally, you’re done.

References
https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress
https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/handbook/translating/basics/
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-disable-automatic-updates-in-wordpress/

The definitive guide to disabling auto updates in WordPress 3.7

@seeingblues2 seems to be fixed:
see https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5868#comment:8

@danbp

Let’s be honest here. Bbpress is designed to be ok with most themes.

So yeah you are right, in absolute terms. A forum is just a grit. But if we go that route all of this is just 0 and 1’s. It’s not that productive to think like that imo 😉 Most people like to have something that looks better than ok for most themes.

https://devpress.com/?attachment_id=6504 is a theme that is just a regular forum but completely fine tuned to the theme. This is a rarity. Sadly. Some perspective on why this is I guess… https://devpress.com/tickets/social-buddypress-theme/

Standalone forums most of the time have themes, although indeed phpbb always looks very much like…phpbb 😀 BUT, it’s a standalone forum and therefore coherently themed throughout.

@durkk

you seem to be affraid by the term “legacy”… ?
Read here some explanation about legacy

Like BuddyPress, bbPress is only a plugin.
Generally when you need a theme, you search a theme for wordpress, not for a plugin.

Of course some a better than other, or better tailored to do something than other, but in anyway, no theme can be perfect for anything.

And in some case, ready to use is not synonym of adaptable ready.
If you search forum themes, see first what other forum software have to propose. One of the most popular, phpbb, is desperatly identical from one site to another in 90% of case.

When you have 1 000 of WP theme and you add a bbpress or a buddypress group forum, you have potentially 1 000 different forum look.

Basically it’s a grid, so it’s a bit difficult to present a forum in a very original maner. And finally too much work for many users or considered as out of rentability (100 hours to get a nice forum and 3 topics after 2 mounth….search the error ! )

FYI here some related topics
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-xprofile-names-and-replace-with-username/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/sort-user-list-by-last-name/

About your first post, why don’t you show the site activity by using the topic filter instead of the default “all activities” ?
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/changing-the-default-activity-filter/

Or you can try buddypress-wall plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-wall/

11. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php? Yes, the function from every tutorial talking about the language, but changed for my custom language file.

Which tutorial are you telling about ?

Remove that function, it’s not necessary i guess.

By default, you set your site language in wp-config define ( ‘WP_LANG’, ‘de_DE’ ); and in wp settings > general (depending if single or MS install)

Where to put the translation ?
wp-content/languages/de_DE.mo (this is the WP translation)
wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo (this is the BP translation)
wp-content/languages/themes/theme_name-de_DE.mo (this is the theme translation)

You say you used gedit to generate your translation. It’s a text-editor, not a mo compiler. (mo means machine only, you can’t read it !)

I suggest that you use poEdit to make a translation and generate a correct mo file.
On Ubuntu, you can (not sure) use the msgmt command from the gettext package. Something like this

$> msgfmt -o your_file.mo -v your_file.po

In the last screenshot, if you take a look under the IP address it reads: @ Julia Buckley

Regarding the roadmap, 2.1 is due any time soon. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap

@julia_b

be patient ! The upcoming BP 2.1 version brings huge improvement to mentions handling, with auto suggestion.

BP 2.1 About page excerpt:

With BuddyPress 2.1, type a @ when leaving a status update or commenting on an activity item or blog post, and the new suggestions panel will open.

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3278

First and foremost, I am not a buddypress expert, rather someone that went through the same process you are going through now.

The forum is not easy to customize without coding. There used to be themes for the standalone I believe but that’s all legacy stuff now. If you want to start ‘theming’ bbpress you’ll need to adjust the css to taste. Shortcodes won;t help you with this.

The easiest solution is buying a theme that has extensive bbpress tweaks. Do a search on Themeforest for ‘bbpress’ and or ‘buddypress’. There’s only a view that did extensive tweaks to the forums tho.

The IP address is only visible to Admins. As far as I am aware the @ mentions are based on the username, not the display name.

@wainwatkins

if you’re comfortable with coding (php, js and html), you can add such a scenario to the profile-loop template from within the child-theme.
Original file:
wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php

child:
your_child_theme/buddypress/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php

Read the buddyPress Codex and be inspired to write something of your own.
End user documentation is not a general matter that can be applied to every site. It is more your point of view, the way you want your members go through your site and respect your community rules who primes.
This is a software support first, not a how to use it for your best. Each site has his own specifics.

BuddyPress Components and Features

You can “hide” this from the obvious displays by

#buddypress span.activity { display: none; }

Just put it at the end of whatever CSS. My preference is just before any mobile specific sections that may be towards the bottom.

but really that just hides it and still leaks it everywhere. Until it’s really fixed it may be better to let members know it is so public.
I am also looking how to programmatically secure this as well and let users choose what is displayed.

CSS is applied so that in general, the most specific gets priority and the last line gets the last word too, so if you have control of the flow put the things you want to override at the end or the last stylesheet applied.