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The Theme My Login plugin does that quite well.

Compare source code of the textarea on activities (which use original BP JS) and compare with the source of the custom textarea. The first thing you may notice on the original, is that there is no iframe.

The second is that you have some tinymce related divs which aren’t handled by what’s new JS – that’s why the visual tab doesn’t recognize formatted text and why there is the filter to diable that tab.

To show the buton and the missing selector, it’s a simple CSS adjustment to declare.
Add this to your child theme style.css

#whats-new-options{
	clear:both!important;
}

Works at least on 2016.

If you absolutely want the visual tab to work, you have to write some additionnal JS, so it can recognize the custom area tools. I’ve never done that and i’m unable to help you with this.

Hi @socialc

The Template Hierarchy will let you override create.php. In your own version of that file you could use custom_show_blog_signup_form() in place of bp_show_blog_signup_form(). I’d copy everything from bp_show_blog_signup_form() to your custom function and edit what you need to.

Global.js is related to BP Default theme which is no more used since 1.9.
The “new” js you can check for comment count is \buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\js\buddypress.js:667

I don’t know how the default 5 count is set before firing Show all X comments link. But i haven’t read very attentively the whole js file.

If your goal is to gain some place on activity feeds, you may use a show/hide comment button ?

function add_comment_hide_show() {
?>
<style>
.single-group .activity-comments ul{display: none;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(function($) {
	setInterval(function() {
		$('.activity-meta').each(function() {
			if( !$(this).find('.show-comments').length ){
				var html = '<a href="#" class="button bp-primary-action show-comments">Show/Hide Comments</a>';
				$(this).find('.button.acomment-reply').after(html);
			}
		});
		
	}, 500);
	
	$('body').on('click', '.show-comments', function(e) {
		e.preventDefault();
		var obj = $(this).closest('.activity-content').next('.activity-comments').find('ul');
		obj.slideToggle();
		return false;
	});
	
});
</script>
<?php
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'add_comment_hide_show' );

Or if you want to limit the number of comment a member can leave on activities, BPDEVEL has a premium plugin called BP Rate Limit User Activity which can do that.

On Trac, some very old tickets about comments: #2768, #1870

Perhaps @dcavins can tell you more about this ?

Glad you got it !

Sad you did it wrong by hacking a plugin core file (ignitiondeck-admin.php). What will happen to your modification at next Ignitiondeck update ?

Couldn’t your filter work from within bp-custom.php or theme’s functions.php ?
Has that plugin no hooks to extend it ?

IMO a generous bad good idea.

… or just add a login link to your site anywhere in your theme files. e.g <a href="<?php echo wp_login_url(bp_loggedin_user_domain()); ?>"><?php _e('Login', 'buddypress'); ?></a>.

This will redirect a user to their profile page after logging in.

[MOD] Topic moved to a more appropriate forum.

The following plugins/widget are generating these error messages.

bp-edit-group-slug

BP_Toplevel_Groups_Widget

BP_Group_Navigator_Widget

bp-group-email

bp-group-hierarchy

You have to contact their authors via plugin support on WP repo.

and on your side:

The first step to getting rid of those Notices is identifying the source, so:
– switch momentarily to a WP theme like 2016 and see if any persist
– turn off plugins one at a time and see if any persist

About the bbPress notice (bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly), read here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/10709/

bbp_setup_current_user was called incorrectly

Add this snippet to bp-custom.php and give it a try.

function bpex_hide_profile_menu_tabs() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :

	if ( bp_is_user() && !is_super_admin() && !bp_is_my_profile() ) {
	//	BP's profile main menu items. Comment those to show.
	//	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'activity' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'profile' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'groups' );
	//	exist only if you use bbPress
		bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'forums' ); 

	//	BP's profile main menu items. Comment those to show.
	//	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'personnal' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'mentions' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'favorites' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' );
		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'groups' );
	}
	endif;
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_hide_profile_menu_tabs', 15 );

Hi, Ive spent most the day trying to add widgets to the profile areas and stumbled accross this explanation which seems perfect but doesnt seem to work for me.

The widget areas are there and populated, and the home tab is displaying, but the widget content doesnt display?

Is it possible my front.php is not being called for some reason?

Im using an Avada Child theme, could that be part of the problem?

Thanks

@danbp yeah, sorry about that :). Reason I went a bit further was when working on a theme earlier I was using a function get_displayed_group_id() or something with a similar name. I was expecting a return value but it was echoing no matter where I placed this.

Ended up using a different method.

Just wondered if there were other functions inside BuddyPress that looked like a return value but had output instead.

Have you read this tutorial ?

Note that most of BP custom functions for core are better handled when living in bp-custom.php. Sometimes also, a same function may work from within one file, but not from the other. In other case, which file has no real importance.
Even if in background there is a hierarchy and a load order, to take in account for the file choice.

That said, as it is related to CPT, bp-custom is the best place IMO.

Theme’s functions.php contains functions related to theme, templating and evtl. wp stuff
BP custom functions goes to bp-custom.php

It’s also better for you to have such separated functions.

Inside your theme, make sure there is a file wp-content/themes/your-theme/buddypress/activity/post-form.php. If there is no file in that location copy this file wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/post-form.php into the first location.

Then, look at line number 28 – 32 of post-form.php.

From there, you will notice you can change this text for the activity update form which reads “What’s new in “GROUP NAME” if you’re on a group page posting the update or “What’s new USERNAME” if you’re any where else.

So, to swap in a specific profile field you’d need to supply a bit more about the nature of your project and how it’s setup. You could simply drop in some static text, but if you want it to relate to a specific profile field in a dynamic way then please elaborate further.

Might be a theme problem? Try if it works with WP default theme or use this CSS .entry-title{display:block !important}

yes its not…check with the theme author

If you’re sepaking about the Group directory page, yes !

# of columns can be defined by CSS. For other details, read here
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-display-multiple-single-group-headers-on-a-single-page/

You need also a child-theme to do customization.

Codex is your friend. 😉