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This one is not that straight-forward there is a filter you can use as follows:

function bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads( $default ) {
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
		foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
			if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
				$default = true;
			}
		}
		
		return $default;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_disable_avatar_uploads', 'bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads' );

However this causes BuddyPress to simply show the user that they can upload their profile image via gravatar, and I’m afraid you can’t switch this off.

So the alternative is to remove the Change Photo tab and admin-bar menu item:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo', 50 );

function bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() && bp_displayed_user_id() != wp_get_current_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );
		}
	}

}

function bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-xprofile-change-avatar', 'my-account-xprrofile' );
		}
	}

}

You’d need to put this in your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php file in the plugins directory.

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

Hi there,

My suggestion is that you add a new menu item “All” and create a new set of queries for the page then make that page the default landing page for the profile activity page. Here’s my code to do this:

function bpex_set_member_default_nav() {
 
		if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() ) {
		    return;
	         }

                bp_core_new_nav_default(
		array(
			'parent_slug'       => buddypress()->activity->id,
		// other "activity" sub_nav slugs : personal favorites friends groups mentons
			'subnav_slug'       => 'all-activity',
			'screen_function'   => 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity'
		)
	);
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_set_member_default_nav', 20 );

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_just_me_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_add', 50 );

function bpex_just_me_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	global $bp;
	$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
	
		bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
			'name'            => _x( 'All', 'Profile activity screen sub nav', 'buddypress' ),
			'slug'            => 'all-activity',
			'parent_url'      => bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) . 'activity/',
			'parent_slug'     => 'activity',
			'screen_function' => 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity',
			'position'        => 10
		) );

}

function bpex_admin_bar_add() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	// Personal.
	//$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-activity-personal', 'my-account-activity' );

	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
		'parent'   => 'my-account-activity',
		'id'       => 'my-account-activity-all-activity',
		'title'    => 'All',
		'href'     => bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) . 'activity/all-activity/',
		'position' => 10
	) );
}
function bp_activity_screen_all_activity() {

	do_action( 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity' );

	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_activity_template_all_activity', 'members/single/home' ) );
}

function bp_activity_filter_all_activity_scope( $retval = array(), $filter = array() ) {

	// Determine the user_id.
	if ( ! empty( $filter['user_id'] ) ) {
		$user_id = $filter['user_id'];
	} else {
		$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id()
			? bp_displayed_user_id()
			: bp_loggedin_user_id();
	}

	// Should we show all items regardless of sitewide visibility?
	$show_hidden = array();
	if ( ! empty( $user_id ) && $user_id !== bp_loggedin_user_id() ) {
		$show_hidden = array(
			'column' => 'hide_sitewide',
			'value'  => 0
		);
	}

	// Determine groups of user.
	$groups = groups_get_user_groups( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $groups['groups'] ) ) {
		$groups = array( 'groups' => 0 );
	}

	// Determine the favorites.
	$favs = bp_activity_get_user_favorites( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $favs ) ) {
		$favs = array( 0 );
	}

	// Determine friends of user.
	$friends = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $friends ) ) {
		$friends = array( 0 );
	}

	$retval = array(
		'relation' => 'OR',
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'user_id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $friends
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column' => 'component',
				'value'  => buddypress()->groups->id
			),
			array(
				'column'  => 'item_id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $groups['groups']
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column' => 'user_id',
				'value'  => $user_id
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $favs
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'content',
				'compare' => 'LIKE',

				// Start search at @ symbol and stop search at closing tag delimiter.
				'value'   => '@' . bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( $user_id ) . '<'
			)
		),
		// We should only be able to view sitewide activity content for friends.
		array(
			'column' => 'hide_sitewide',
			'value'  => 0
		),

		// Overrides.
		'override' => array(
			'filter'      => array( 'user_id' => 0 ),
			'show_hidden' => true
		),
	);
	

	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_set_all-activity_scope_args', 'bp_activity_filter_all_activity_scope', 10, 2 );

Once you have done that you would also want to overload the buddypress/bp-templates/your-template/members/single/activity.php to make sure this new page contains the post update form:

Change:

if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'just-me' ) ) )
	bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

To:

if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'all-activity' ) ) )
	bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

Note: with this method there is a danger of duplicating activity since a friend posting to a group would show up in the groups search as well as the friends search etc. so you may want to adjust the $retval criteria.

Also you might want to add a post form for visiting users so they can leave a comment for the user, you could ad this:

function bpex_load_mention_me() {
	
	if ( get_current_user_id() != bp_displayed_user_id() ) {
		$_GET['r'] = bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( bp_displayed_user_id() );
		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );
	}

}

add_action( 'bp_before_member_body', 'bpex_load_mention_me' );

Hi there, WordPress and BuddyPress are predominately PHP applications. PHP requires a page load in order to view new content and this is what you are seeing – you click a menu item a new page loads and it starts from the top of the page again. There are tricks to bring the page focus back to where you were and BP uses these where appropriate, another trick is to use Javescript to fetch now content and again BP uses this, in the activity page for example. But when you are clicking a main link, an entire now page is going to be loaded to there’s not a reference of where you were in order to set the new page focus. So in short, it’s the way WordPress and BuddyPress have been written, yu’d need to do a significant rewrite to change it.

@dope-boy you are really rude for the “stupid” statment to @prashantvatsh
…
what @prashantvatsh gave you is the best solution to what you are actually looking for

..
the only way to change buddypress labels like on the menu (“friend, profile, notification ” ) .. the best way is my changing the language to your choice
..

@prashantvatsh was just trying to help

For the activation and welcome messages you can find them in Email menu in dashboard. Find the one that you want to edit and add your text there and then test.

If wants to do it with code then please check this https://websistent.com/custom-buddypress-activation-email/

Same for the translation. You can change the content there in the Email menu.

Please see: https://prnt.sc/l5n76g

Thanks