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That seems beyond the scope of buddypress, you may want to search for a gamification plugin. Also, don’t hold your breath on getting an answer here. For such a popular plugin, the support sucks and I’m becoming less and less of a fan of buddypress. The solutions aren’t straight forward, it’s “Here modify 20 files and create this new child theme and create 1000 lines of code”. Not a very user-friendly plugin compared to others.

Put it in your theme/functions.php

Since you don’t want to use the child theme / template approach, you could set the update to an empty string…

function filter_bp_get_member_latest_update( $update_content, $r ) { 
    $update_content = '';
    return $update_content; 
}; 
add_filter( 'bp_get_member_latest_update', 'filter_bp_get_member_latest_update', 10, 2 ); 

If a member has not logged in at least once, they are not considered ‘active’ and will not show in the count.

You could run this once in your theme/functions.php and then remove it. It will create an activity timestamp for all members with the role: subscriber.

function pp_add_last_activity() {

  $subscribers =  get_users( 'fields=ID&role=subscriber' );
  
  foreach ( $subscribers as $user_id ) {
        bp_update_user_last_activity( $user_id, bp_core_current_time() );
  }

}
add_action('bp_init', 'pp_add_last_activity' );

Actually, what hnla points out is correct. Disregard what I previously wrote, I was thinking of something entirely different!

index-directory.php has to be a full template with get_header() and get_footer().

You should copy your theme’s page.php template and rename it to index-directory.php. Then move this file to wp-content/themes/YOUR-THEME/buddypress/groups/index-directory.php.

Please note that template hierarchy means modifying the surrounding elements of the page. If you just want to modify the group loop itself, then just copy /groups/groups-loop.php and make your changes to that file.

@kalico – Template hierarchy doesn’t work for bp-default themes or older-style BuddyPress themes that are derivatives of bp-default.

In your situation, I would just modify /themes/YOUR-THEME/groups/index.php directly.

If this doesn’t exist in your theme, that means you are using a child theme, so copy /themes/PARENT-THEME/groups/index.php to your child theme and make your mods.

I’m so wrong! Read my updated reply below.

@kalico when you create thse template files for index they must be full templates not partials i.e they must include the WP get_header(), get_footer() and any other markup structures representing your themes structure.

Try doing the same thing using a different theme to see if your theme is causing the issue.

bp-default theme is the old mandatory theme. BP doesn’t use it anymore since 1.9. This historical theme is only in for backpat compatibility perhaps still in use on some very old installs…

Actually, BP fits to almost any modern theme, correctly formated and respecting WP’s code standarts.

What you can try is to create in your child theme, a directory called “community” or “buddypress”.
If you need to alter a bp template, you copy the original file from here:
/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

You copy only the file you need and you respect the folder structure who starts from /buddypress/.../

Note that you if you want to use /community/ in the child, this folder is equal to /buddypress/ in the original template folder. You copy (for ex.) group’s index.php file.
From:
/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/groups/index.php
To:
/themes/my_child/community/groups/index.php

Avatar upload path is: ../wp-content/uploads/avatars/user_ID

Have you modified something in your htaccess file ?
Have you added some custom function to your theme or to bp-custom.php ?

Control also all your media settings on dashboard and don’t forget to check the permalinks.

Finally, go to your server and check the wp-content/uploads/ permissions, including sub-folders.
(ie. 755, 705)

Deactivate the mail plugin and add this snippet into your (child)theme functions.php file and give a try:

add_filter('wp_mail_from','custom_email_from');
function custom_email_from( $mail ) {
	$mail = 'noreply@example.com'; // Replace the email address here //
	return $mail;
}

BuddyPress doesn’t use breadcrumbs. This belongs to bbpress and sometimes to a theme or a plugin.

Ask on respective support. Or try out this plugin.

🙂 we might have spotted that – regardless you’ll need to approach the theme authors to update their theme or find a new theme.

Your theme is using an older BuddyPress function – bp_is_member().

Switch that out for bp_is_user().

@paripari it’s the weekend so help is likely to be a little slower.

Based on what you show it’s going to be quite hard to suggest what’s wrong apart from the obvious & from a jpg without any other detail of the events surrounding the problem almost impossible.

I can just about see that your using a custom theme ( I have quite good eyesight but that text is really small!) and that you have the issue referenced as occurring from the sidebar.php of the theme, I’m guessing a custom bp loop or widget. You’ll need initially to approach the theme authors and ask them if they can help out, if not then re-post here but supply a little detail about your setup and the sidebar file contents.

I don’t know what this means? Link?

I just see in the page of enfold that retirano

I don’t see how it loses compatibility with BuddyPress. AFAIK out of the box, Enfold doesn’t really have it. It needs to be customized in the child theme.

Take a look at the Template Hierarchy article. The register.php template is the one you’ll need to modify.

Template Hierarchy