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You will find all those templates in the BP plugin in this directory:
buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\members\single\

If you want to change a file, you should create a template overload.

Perhaps a CSS adjustment to do ?
But first, revert to a twenty theme as it work’s now.
If you see the button with Twenty, you have a theme issue.

Reactivate your theme and check the page source code in your browser and verify that the button exist in the code.
(../members/USRNAME/profile/change-cover-image/)

This button is in a drag’n’drop area inside a script.
If you see the code but don’t see the button displayed, you have to work your CSS to get it.
Meanwhile you can try to add a picture by drag’n’drop even if you don’t see the button (it is only usefull in case drag’n’drop doesn’t work – ie when JS is deactivated).

Can’t say more…

Codex reference (in case of)

You can download the modified js file (trunk:10207) here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/bp-core/js/bp-plupload.js?rev=10207

If it doesn’t work, revert back to original plupload.js and debug elsewhere.

Youl’ll probably have to ask your theme support in that case.
Activate also wp_debug in wp-config to eventl. get some other error msg.

I can’t read the codex at your place but if you really did this:

I’ve copied the entire BuddyPress plugin directory into my theme

you started on the wrong side.

BP Plugin directory ? Really ? Or bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ directory ?
Also you already hacked core files. This is not recommended at all anyway, and on a CMS, the form (template) is separated from the content (core)….

BuddyPress Theme Development

Sorry but we can’t bring assistance for premium themes.
that said it may be a JS conflict generated by BP in some exotic JS situation…
Read here: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6574

The ultimate tutorial to add wp_editor to What’s New textarea (on Site, Members and Group Activities pages).

Warning
The What’s New feature was never intended to publish posts or formatted text. It was imagined for brief announcement or instant conversation. That’s why this textarea is texturized and doesn’t allow much HTML tags. It is also ajaxified and need the original BP ID to work.
You will use it at your own risk.

The following trick will let you remove the existing textarea from the template and replace it with a custom wp_editor. And it will be very customized ! For example, you will not have the visual tab, but only his HTML version, similar to the one you see on this forum for example.

Required:
BuddyPress activated
a working child theme
some understanding of HTML and php grammar

This trick was succesfully tested on a single install with WP 4.6, BP 2.6.2 and a Twenty Sixteen child theme.

Start !
Read from here how to remove the textarea in post-form.php

The code to remove is line 40 and looks like this:

<textarea class="bp-suggestions" name="whats-new" id="whats-new" cols="50" rows="10"
	<?php if ( bp_is_group() ) : ?>data-suggestions-group-id="<?php echo esc_attr( (int) bp_get_current_group_id() ); ?>" <?php endif; ?>
><?php if ( isset( $_GET['r'] ) ) : ?>@<?php echo esc_textarea( $_GET['r'] ); ?> <?php endif; ?></textarea>

You replace it by:

<?php
$content = '';
$editor_id = 'whats-new';
wp_editor( $content, $editor_id );
?>

As the visual edit tab doesn’t work, you must deactivate it. In your child-theme functions.php, add this:
add_filter( 'user_can_richedit' , '__return_false', 50 );

And that’s it !

If you want also rich edit for activity comments, which i didn’t recommand for sites who have many comments, you can use the same technique as above, with some more settings. Note that each comment has is own ID and that each comment editor should also have an unique ID.

First, you need to remove the textarea from (child-theme/buddypress/)activity/entry.php
You remove this:
<textarea id="ac-input-<?php bp_activity_id(); ?>" class="ac-input bp-suggestions" name="ac_input_<?php bp_activity_id(); ?>"></textarea>
and replace it by

<?php
$id             = bp_get_activity_id();
$content	= '';
$editor_id	= 'ac-input-'. $id;
$settings	= array( 
			'textarea_name'	=> 'ac_input_'. $id,
			'editor_class'	=> 'ac-input bp-suggestions'
		);
wp_editor( $content, $editor_id, $settings );
?>

With Twenty Sixteen, i first couldn’t see the Post Update button and the option selector. I got it with this little CSS adjustment (in child-theme/style.css).

div#whats-new-options { display: block!important;}

Function reference: wp_editor.

Add the snippet to your child-theme functions.php
If it doesn’t work from there, remove it and put it into bp-custom.php

You may also give details about the theme you use and what you did “exactly” on a template.

That’s a Firebug question, but not important anyway. Also, there is no need to use all rules, as they are handled by the original CSS. You declare only the part you want to modify for .label

Open /child-theme/style.css and add only this: (#xyz123 is the color hex you want to use)

#buddypress table.profile-fields tr td.label,{
   background-color: #xyz123!important;
   color: #xyz123!important;
}

Do you get the same behave while using another theme ?

I think you need to disable all your plugins (and any other code tweaks), while running a default WP theme, until you figure out what’s causing the behaviour.

Please don’t double post on this forum.

You activated BuddyPress Custom Profile Menu plugin and got a fatal error. Remove it or rename his folder via FTP, so you can access your dashboard again.

Then contact the plugin author.
Since 2.6, BP use a new navigation API. Maybe the plugin isn’t updated for that or there is another conflict with your theme.

You have to debug.
And read also here please.

You could completely customize the Admin-bar. This snippet should help, put in either the functions.php file of your theme, or in the bp-custom.php file. It should give you a good idea of what is possible. I’m hiding the W menu. You could probably hide the Site dropdown altogether and then craft your own dropdown with links to different items. Particularly if this is a single install of BP, and not a Network/Multisite install, there really isn’t any reason for your users to see the Site dropdown:

	/**
	 * Adds custom "Home" menu to WP Adminbar.
	 *
	 * Also removes the "WP logo" menu.
	 *
	 * @param object $wp_admin_bar The WP Admin Bar object
	 */
	public function add_custom_parent_menu( $wp_admin_bar ) {

		/**
		 * Removing the "W" menu
		 */
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'wp-logo' );

		/**
		 * Create a "Home" menu.
		 *
		 * First, just create the parent menu item.
		 */
		$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
			'id' => 'commonlinks',
			'parent' => '0', //puts it on the left-hand side
			'title' => 'Home',
			'href' => ('http://domain.com/activity')
		) );

		/**
		 * Add submenu items to "Home" menu.
		 */
		// Only show the following for logged-in users
		if ( current_user_can( 'read' ) ) {
			// Support link
			$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
				'id' => 'support',
				'parent' => 'commonlinks',
				'title' => 'Support',
				'href' => ('http://domain.com/support')
			) );

			// Blog request form
			$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
				'id' => 'blogrequest',
				'parent' => 'commonlinks',
				'title' => 'Feedback',
				'href' => ('http://domain.com/feedback' )
			) );

			// Developers blog
			$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
				'id' => 'developments',
				'parent' => 'commonlinks',
				'title' => 'Developments',
				'href' => ('http://domain.com/developments' )
			) );

		}

	}

Hello look on https://github.com/buddycore/surface-theme/issues/1 thank you 🙂

Hi buddycore,

I think the theme is looking good! Will you be accepting pull requests on GitHub?

To restrict the usage of the What’s New form to only admins and editors…

Copy post-form.php from (bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/ ) to (/your-child-theme/buddypress/activity/).

In the copy, add if ( bp_current_user_can( 'editor' ) ) : above the form tab and add endif; right after the closing form tag, at the end of the file and you’re done.
Note to take care of the existing php tags.

On Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=wordpress+child+theme&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=

On WPBeginner:
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-create-a-wordpress-child-theme-video/

and as always, WP Codex is your friend.

Annoying to work on a site where you’re not allowed to access the child-theme!
As you can see in index.php, there is no action hook for these buttons.

The only other way i know is a dirty trick using directly gettext.
Add this to bp-custom.php

function abcd_gettext( $translated, $original_text, $domain ) {

    if ( 'buddypress' !== $domain )  
           return $translated;

    switch ( $original_text ) {
        case 'All Members %s':
            return 'All Buddies %s';

		case 'My Friends %s':
            return 'My Amigos %s';

        default:
            return $translated;
    }
}
add_filter( 'gettext', 'abcd_gettext', 10, 3 );

More about that trick here:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-change-the-title-of-the-create-an-account-page/#post-254772