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@sokrates,

thank you for your reply!
You found a solution with a third party plugin. Glad it works for you, but it doesn’t really help BP users encountering the issue discribed by @solutionstriwareca. An issue which is, as @mercime said, “never seen before”. In other words unknown.

Let’s try to stay on a buddypress pov first, before searching workarounds.

Hi, Just in case it’s of use….

I’m a bit of a BP newb, and I’m using a fresh install of WP 3.9.2 and BP 2.0.1

I’m using a Gravity form as a registration form with the GravityForms User Registration add-on to register BuddyPress users.

As a newb, I have been experimenting a lot with the XProfile fields, and also noticed that at some stage of the proceedings, I had made a change that resulted in the same problem as in the first post – the WordPress last name value was deleted and the firstname field was set to the nicename when the update profile button was pressed.

I had changed the primary field in the XProfile fields from “Name”.

Replacing the primary field as Name, and mapping the “full name” field from the Gravity form to this field in the Gravity User Registration add-on screen seems to solve it for me

BBPress is great, you can make it just like any other forum, just needs a bit more time invested.

Right now I am working on a BuddyPress forum/theme you can have a look at: BBFacelook

hi @igid26,

FB’s share button on a buddyPress profile is very simple to use.
You have only to provide the profile URL, not the whole profile header.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button

The code could be something like this (not tested, not sure if you need also a API key, or some urlencoding)

<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://example.com/members/zuzana/">Share on Facebook</a>

The picture cannot fit as you use bp_displayed_user_avatar( ‘type=full’ ) which is by default 150x150px. And FB’s code you entered is 550×550 !

To add some extra code in the header profile, you can do this with a function in a child theme functions.php instead of hardcoding the template. And another great advantage, if you use bp-custom.php, you will be totally theme independant.

function zuzanna_share_button() {
?>
	<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=<?php bp_displayed_user_link(); ?>">Share on Facebook</a>
<?php
}
add_action( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'zuzanna_share_button' );

hi @fumow,

here is a way to color any group activity on the site activity.
Group A is red, Group B is green.

The function use the group ID and add a class to the existing. You can modify it in your child theme style.css file

Function can be installed in functions.php or bp-custom.php

function fumow_li_class_group_id( $class = '' ) {
	global $activities_template;
	
	// the group id in case of an activity in group component is the field item_id
	if ( buddypress()->groups->id == $activities_template->activity->component ) {
		$class .= ' rj-' . $activities_template->activity->item_id;
	}	
	return $class;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_css_class', 'fumow_li_class_group_id', 10, 1 );

You have to create a css class for each group. The example use group ID 13 and 9

li.groups.activity-item.rj-13 {
	background-color: #FFD5F4;
}

li.groups.activity-item.rj-9 {
	background-color: #be4;
}

References:

Activity Loop

bp-activity-templatetags.php

May this help !

@bucobill You have a different issue from that of the original posters, it’s for this reason amongst others that stepping into a running thread that wasn’t started by you with what is assumed the same issue is frowned upon and discouraged, multiple responses to different posters and issues in the same thread can not be supported. You must start your own thread on your particular issues. As a start point for your issue, looking at your url suggests you are on IIS or non standard apache type server running mod_rewrite head over to the WP codex and search on permalinks for some guidance on setting permalink structures under IIS.

@samchozx Likely your theme does something odd and non standard with page.php which BP needs to use to inject it’s content into, the_content() function must run through as normal in this file, you probably need to create a buddypress directory in your theme(as a child theme) and then copy page.php renaming it to buddypress.php and copied to the root of this new bp directory, that file then needs to retain the themes specific markup but properly use the ‘the_title()’ & the_content()’ functions. Please check the BP codex for guides on this process of overloading files, editing the actual file may require some help from the theme authors.

It seems to focus on Members random page.

Ya, but only seems. The codex is not a ready-to-use answer to any kind of problematic or the solution for anything, but a guide who explains how things can/should be done with BuddyPress.
That’s why you’ll find essentially examples who can be used to extend or achieve your projects.

Codex pages are written by volonteers (like you tomorrow ?), and none of them is able to know or to write about any given issue, situation, need.

It certainly would be an awesome codex, if every BP user would share some snipppet or simply some experience, by adding his personnal how-to…

Hold on ! You have to try, experiment and realize yourself. The other face of freedom and open source, i guess

If you have questions, do not hesitate. Like the codex, this forum is yours. 😉

Thanks for your feedback @00mark. The buddypress.org site was actually open sourced back in the spring so you can now checkout, review, and patch the code yourself (if you want to). 🙂

Ref: https://buddypress.org/2014/03/open-sourcing-buddypress-org/

Also, take a look at the Your BuddyPress forum for links shared by the community.

hi @jjnw,

random order is not avaible for the activity stream.

But it can be added as explained here 😉

hi @peti446,

Sorry, this is not clear:

to send buddypress information to register it then

Do you want to make a register page ?

The register template is here: /buddyress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/members/register.php

Register and Activation Pages

Other information about registering are on the WP codex.

Hi @techfundz,,

All BP text is referenced in bp-languages/buddypress.pot, like this:

#: bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php:23
#: bp-themes/bp-default/activity/post-form.php:23
msgid "What's new in %s, %s?"
msgstr ""

To modify text:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

or directly in the code via a child theme

OK. I have the same issue as quite a few users. I went to the themes area and activated Twenty Fourteen. It still doesn’t work. I changed to Anyone Can Register, still doesn’t work. Added an htaccess.txt file with the WP code found on the wordpress site. Overall I spent the better part of the day with issues. I cannot access the register page, it is using blurbble/register even though I set the Permalink to Postname like http://blurbble.com/index.php/sample-post/ . I uninstalled and reinstalled buddypress and still nothing. If any help could be given it would be appreciated.