BuddyPress.org

1. Which version of WordPress are you running?

4.8

2. Did you install WordPress as a directory or subdomain install?

directory

3. If a directory install, is it in root or in a subdirectory?

root

4. Did you upgrade from a previous version of WordPress? If so, from which version?

No

5. Was WordPress functioning properly before installing/upgrading BuddyPress (BP)? e.g. permalinks, creating a new post, commenting.

Yes

6. Which version of BP are you running?

2.9

7. Did you upgraded from a previous version of BP? If so, from which version?

2.8.2

8. Do you have any plugins other than BuddyPress installed and activated? If so, which ones?

Ban Hammer: 2.6
bbPress: 2.6-rc-3
BP Blog Author Profile Link: 2.8.1
BP Idea Stream: 1.0.1
BP XProfile WordPress User Sync: 0.6.4
BuddyDrive: 2.1.1
BuddyPress: 2.9.0
BuddyPress Docs: 1.9.4
BuddyPress Edit Activity: 1.0.8
BuddyPress Groups Extras: 3.6.9.1
Co-Authors Plus: 3.2.2
Jetpack by WordPress.com: 5.1
JetPack Non-Admin Removal: 3.0
Login Site Icon: 1.0
Mantablog bp register text: 0.1
Mantablog bp remove rss: 0.1
Mantablog Custom Profile: 0.1
Mantablog meta desc homepage: 0.1
MediaPress: 1.1.6
Registration Honeypot: 1.1.0-alpha-1
SEO – Remove H1: 1.0.2
TablePress: 1.8
TinyMCE Advanced: 4.6.3
WP Idea Stream: 2.4.0
WP Revisions Control: 1.2.1
WP Sitemap Page: 1.6

9. Are you using the standard WordPress theme or customized theme?

standard WordPress theme

10. Which theme do you use ?

Generatepress

11. Have you modified the core files in any way?

No

12. Do you have any custom functions in bp-custom.php?

No

13. If running bbPress, which version? Or did your BuddyPress install come with a copy of bbPress built-in?

2.6rc3

14. Please provide a list of any errors in your server’s log files.

15. Which company provides your hosting?

16. Is your server running Windows, or if Linux; Apache, nginx or something else?

Linux; Apache

Hi! I did follow the documentation. You’re right that those two pages work. Both of those pages use a certain template within the theme. That template uses a full-width page, without the sidebar and search bar that are on other pages. I’ve a few things to see what can remedy the matter:

1) Yes, I switched to a different template to test, and yes, on the 2016 template, BP works, so I don’t need to reinstall BP or get it working on its own. That part is working. I didn’t realize I’d have to reset all of my widgets and stuff. Fortunately, they weren’t deleted… Got those set up again.

2) I tried making all other relevant pages, creating pages for the stuff that BP uses, and setting each of those to use the template that works for Activity, Members, and Chapters. That didn’t work, though.

3) I tried creating a Custom CSS entry that uses the .buddypress class, telling it to use full-width for #primary. That made the page use full-width, but it didn’t make the functionality of BP work… Like on this page:
https://www.philosophersinamerica.com/chapters/create/step/group-details/

Please help! I’ve reached out to my theme’s creator – and there’s no changing to a different theme. We’re super committed and it works really well for everything else, and he’s had no experience using BuddyPress. I need help! This is just the plugin I’ve been looking for to help my people create groups that they need to manage.

It seems to me that if we’re able to get some of the pages to work there’s GOT to be a way to get other relevant pages to use whatever that same setting is to work also. Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Best,

Eric

I have tried that it still returned the same error, however i have just noticed that if i delete my bp-custom.php everything works fine but my pages does not redirect users to there profile “if logged in” which was the purpose of the bp-custom.php file. This in the code in my bp-custom.php file

<?php
// hacks and mods will go here
/* Redirects to profile upon login */
add_action('login_form', 'redirect_after_login'); 
function redirect_after_login() 
{     
global $redirect_to; 
if   (!isset($_GET['redirect_to'])) 
{ 
$redirect_to =   get_option('activity');
//  sample-page = your page name after site_url
} }

function bp_help_redirect_to_profile(){
global $bp;

if( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_front_page() )
bp_core_redirect( get_option('home') . '/members/' . bp_core_get_username( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) . '/activity' );

}

add_action( 'get_header', 'bp_help_redirect_to_profile',1);

add_action('wp_logout','go_home');
function go_home(){
  wp_redirect( home_url() );
  exit();
}

add_action( 'bp_complete_signup', 'buddydev_redirect_after_signup' );
 
function buddydev_redirect_after_signup() {
    
    $page = wp_redirect( get_option('siteurl') . '/profile' );
    
    
    bp_core_redirect( site_url( $page ) );
}

?>

So how do i fix this?? I need help Please

Another Update:

Ok, I was finally able to create a change in the file I was trying to edit. For some reason, I wasn’t able to insert code in the exact place I was trying to last time, but I WAS able to add code elsewhere in the document.

Also, I noticed the name of the hook started with “bp”, so I moved my cover-image code to my bp-custom.php file in my child theme. But it didn’t work there either. I feel like there’s something else I’m supposed to do with $settings['callback']. Or maybe I’m supposed to plug some more code in elsewhere. I could really use some help with this.

Also, while playing with the profile templates, I noticed there were a few hooks (which I’m learning are the ‘actions’ I’m adding to) that don’t really seem to do anything but sit there. Do they exist only for me to add code to through my bp-custom.php? If so, why wouldn’t I just hard-code something into the template file?

For example: do_action( 'bp_member_header_actions' ); sits between the @username and last-activity. But it’s empty. When the profile page loads, there’s nothing there. So that would make it an empty hook for me to plug stuff into, right? bp_profile_header_meta is also empty. Are all hooks like that? Or do any of them have their own code/functions?

I would still like to know where these actions are declared, and what possible functions lie inside them. Is there any way to find that information out? People create their own BP themes and plugins all the time so there has to be a way to figure this stuff out . . .

well I was trying post the my code, but I think I spammed myself after trying to edit the reply to this …
CPT (and custom title thing)

add_action('init', 'video_register_my_cpt');
function video_register_my_cpt() {
register_post_type('video', array( 
'label' => 'Videos',
'description' => 'Latest Videos',
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
 'show_in_nav_menus' => false,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'videos'),
'query_var' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'supports' => array('title','editor','excerpt','trackbacks','custom-fields','comments','revisions','thumbnail','author','page-attributes','buddypress-activity'), 
'bp_activity' => array(
            'component_id' => buddypress()->blogs->id,
            'action_id'    => 'new_video',
            'format_callback' => 'bp_blogs_format_activity_action_new_blog_post',
            'comment_action_id' => 'new_video_comment',
            'comment_format_callback' => 'bp_activity_format_activity_action_custom_post_type_comment',
            'contexts'     => array( 'activity', 'member' ),
            'position'     => 40,
            ),
  'taxonomies' => array('video_category','video_tag'),
  'labels' => array(
  'name' => 'Videos',
  'singular_name' => 'Video',
  'menu_name' => 'Videos',
  'add_new' => 'Add Video',
  'add_new_item' => 'Add New Video',
  'edit' => 'Edit',
  'edit_item' => 'Edit Video',
  'new_item' => 'New Video',
  'view' => 'View Video',
  'view_item' => 'View Video',
  'search_items' => 'Search Videos',
  'not_found' => 'No Videos Found',
  'not_found_in_trash' => 'No Videos Found in Trash',
            
            'bp_activity_admin_filter' => __( 'New video published', 'custom-domain' ),
            'bp_activity_front_filter' => __( 'Videos', 'custom-domain' ),
            'bp_activity_new_post'     => __( '%1$s added <a href="%2$s">[Video]</a>', 'custom-domain' ),
            'bp_activity_new_post_ms'  => __( '%1$s added <a href="%2$s">[Video]</a>','custom-domain' ),
            
            'bp_activity_comments_admin_filter' => __( 'Comments about video', 'custom-domain' ), // label for the Admin dropdown filter
            'bp_activity_comments_front_filter' => __( 'Video Comments', 'custom-domain' ),        // label for the Front dropdown filter
            'bp_activity_new_comment'           => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">video</a>', 'custom-domain' ),
            'bp_activity_new_comment_ms'        => __( '%1$s commented on a <a href="%2$s">[Video]</a>, on the site %3$s', 'custom-domain' )

  )

) ); }

function my_video_include_post_type_title( $action, $activity ) {
  if ( empty( $activity->id ) ) {
    return $action;
  }

  if ( 'new_video' != $activity->type && 'new_video_comment' !=$activity->type ) {
    return $action;
  }

  preg_match_all( '/<a.*?>([^>]*)<\/a>/', $action, $matches );

  if ( empty( $matches[1][1] ) || '[Video]' != $matches[1][1] ) {
    return $action;
  }

  $post_type_title = bp_activity_get_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title' );

  if ( empty( $post_type_title ) ) {

    switch_to_blog( $activity->item_id );

    $post_type_title = get_post_field( 'post_title', $activity->secondary_item_id );

    // We have a title save it in activity meta to avoid switching blogs too much
    if ( ! empty( $post_type_title ) ) {
      bp_activity_update_meta( $activity->id, 'post_title', $post_type_title );
    }

    restore_current_blog();
  }

  return str_replace( $matches[1][1], esc_html( $post_type_title ), $action );
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_custom_post_type_post_action', 'my_video_include_post_type_title', 10, 2 );

BP CUSTOM

/*////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/
// Modifying CPT Activity Actions
/*///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/

function record_blogpost_activity_action( $activity_action, $post, $post_permalink ) {
global $bp;

if( $post->post_type == 'jobs' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'jobs' ) {
  
  $activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>');

} elseif( $post->post_type == 'video' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'video' ) {

  $activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s posted a video', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

} elseif($post->post_type == 'post'  ) {

  $activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s posted a blog', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

}  

return $activity_action;
}

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_post_action', 'record_blogpost_activity_action', 11, 3);

/*////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/
// Modifying CPT Comment Activity Actions
/*///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/

function comment_activity_action( $activity_action, $post, $post_permalink ) {
global $bp;
if( $post->post_type == 'post' ) {

  $activity_action  = sprintf( __( '%1$s commented on %2$s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . $post_permalink . '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

} elseif( $post->post_type == 'video' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'video' ) {

  $activity_action = sprintf( __( '%1$s replied on the video %2$s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( (int) $post->post_author ), '<a href="' . esc_url( $post_permalink ). '">' . $post->post_title . '</a>' );

} 
return $activity_action;

}

add_filter('bp_blogs_activity_new_comment_action', 'comment_activity_action', 11, 3);

/*//// ? /////*/
function bbg_record_video_post_type_comments( $post_types ) {
      $post_types[] = 'video';
      return $post_types;
  }
//add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_post_post_types', 'bbg_record_video_post_type_comments' );
//add_filter( 'bp_blogs_record_comment_post_types', 'bbg_record_video_post_type_comments' );

doing it this way, everything works except my custom comment action.