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The cover size is theme dependant. And for this reason, you can’t crop it like profile avatars.

And if the user load a poor quality picture or not the exact size, it could be blured or stretched.

Hi,

what happens when testing with a twenty theme ?

Hi @mei-ling,

it’s not an issue but how it works ! 😉

You can filter the activity stream and remove the activities you don’t want to be showed.

Add this snippet to bp-custom.php or your child-theme functions.php

function bpex_bp_activity_types( $retval ) {
   if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {

// list of all BP activity types  - remove or comment those you won't show.
	$retval['action'] = '
		activity_comment,
		activity_update,
		// bbp_topic_create,
		// bbp_reply_create,
		friendship_created,
		created_group,
		joined_group,
		last_activity,
		new_avatar,
		new_blog_post, 	
		new_blog_comment,
		new_member,
		updated_profile
	';	

	return $retval;
	
	}
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'bpex_bp_activity_types' );

You might also remove bbpress activities from the activity filter. You can use this (goes to same file as previous)

function bpex_remove_bbp_activities_dropdown_labels() {
   if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) ) {

         // Remove forum filters in site wide activity streams
        remove_action( 'bp_activity_filter_options',        array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
     
         // Remove forum filters in single member activity streams
         remove_action( 'bp_member_activity_filter_options', array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
 
         // Remove forum filters in single group activity streams
         remove_action( 'bp_group_activity_filter_options',  array( bbpress()->extend->buddypress->activity , 'activity_filter_options'   ), 10 );
   }      
}
add_action( 'bp_init', 'bpex_remove_bbp_activities_dropdown_labels', 9 );

Codex references:

Using bp_parse_args() to filter BuddyPress template loops

bp-custom.php

Thanks to the member who got in touch recently offering to help. Unfortunately we had to give up on Buddypress and went ahead with WP Symposium. Not impressed with their support and we won’t use them again. If we have to use Listify and social networking again I will be back to Buddypress!

By the way if anyone is thinking of using WP Symposium I would say don’t bother. The software itself is ok but looks basic and there are no demo sites (only their own which is on a basic free theme with no other major plugins and probably on a dedicated server). We’ve had to move to a dedicated server as it was so slow and we had big problems getting it to work with other aspects of our site. The support forum is closed so you cant actually see other people’s responses which would save time. Instead you just have to deal with one stroppy support guy who blames your other plugins rather than helping to resolve issues. We had to spend a fortune getting glitches in the coding repaired. Never again!

This is the guide you need to read up on:

Template Hierarchy

has_directory means that if you click on a BP generated link /groups/type/foo/ or type that as a url/create a link to, then you will see that as the url and the loop will now show only groups of type ‘foo’

Template hierarchy will allow you to create a file named in this manner:
index-directory-type-foo.php (file must be a complete one though including WP headers/footers and all parts in-between.)

This will only be used if looking at those group types in the loop/url but you can now edit that and change as you require and only affect that group type loop directory display.

Hi,

sorry for those issues. But you have to give more details about your install.

List of plugins and theme name. And what you did or tried to do before you get those errors.

BuddyPress does not come with a default image for groups, this must be getting added by something else, could it me your theme?

It sounds like a template issue, there do need to be template revisions, additional template function tags to make this process work as detailed in the codex page here:

Template Updates 2.7

Custom themes may well not have updated their templates.

Registering the new types can be done in theme functions files but then are locked to that theme or site.

Hi,

What have you installed or updated ? Please gives details about your config. WP – BP – BBP and MySql version. Also all your plugins list and theme name.

dbDelta() is related to bpress

@rda5009 this also happened to me –

but, for me, it was was theme related –

It did not occur with the Twenty Sixteen Theme where group types did appear when that function as per codex page was inserted in functions.php

The particular theme, kleo, was updated today, to v.4.1.6, and now has no problems with group types

@danbp thanks so much for tutorial AWESOME! and for your contributions over the years –

Add the code to bp-custom.php

bp-custom.php

Read also here, might help for test

Group Types option display

Such snippet is usually working when added to bp-custom.php

bp-custom.php

Hi,

you have to debug this. Deactivate all plugins and custom code and test your install with WP+BP and a Twenty theme only.

Once in this config, anything should work.
Then you reactivate your plugins one by one and last test will be with your theme. Doing so should help you to isolate a culprit.

Please do not at-mention people just to get attention. I normally stop reading if I see I’ve been pinged in a list like this by someone trying to get attention.

That said, thank you for your feedback.

All your Google image links are broken, and if they are screenshots asking “how can I do this”, if you can’t code (or want to spend time learning to do this), then you need to hope there’s a plugin out there you can buy, or hire a freelance developer to build it for you. Very few people build things for others for free, and it’s at a cost to those people, even if it’s free for you.

To comment on some of your points from my own perspective, and not on behalf of the entire BuddyPress team and all its contributors:

• I would also like to see better user communication management tools/preferences! (i.e. blocks). I think some of this will have to happen in the BuddyPress software, and some will happen in third-party plugins that extend the behaviour. There are already some plugins that deal with small parts of these areas.
• Chat, Message Attachments, Media — these are complicated, and I’m pretty sure will never be included in BuddyPress itself. They would make good third-party plugins. I think there are a couple of Chat plugins available already.
• (auto-)confirm accounts after sign-up — I believe this is seriously unsafe, so it will never be included in BuddyPress. Another plugin opportunity!
• Global search is something we always wanted, I don’t know if we still do. A very early BuddyPress default theme about 7 years ago had something similar, I think. I remember playing around with it. Maybe it’s time to bring it back. 🙂
• Sharing tools is pretty interesting. I think I’m personally quite keen to do some stuff like this, but it’d need some experimenting to see whether it felt as if it would fit into the BuddyPress software, or a third-party plugin, or some of both.