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It is standard! At least if you use xprofile component to let your users enter their signature.

1) Create a new field. Call it Signature and give it a textarea type.
2) Once this field is edited by a user, during registration or later, the signature appears on his profile.

3) if you want this field somewhere else, for ex on the profile header, you simply write a function to call this field and hook it into the template you want.

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

function my_signature() {	
if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
   if ( $signature = xprofile_get_field_data( 'Signature', bp_get_member_user_id() ) ) : // field name; case sensitive				
      echo $signature;	
   endif;
}
add_filter( 'bp_before_member_header_meta', 'my_signature' );

Or to use Henry’s advice
add_filter( 'bp_after_profile_content', 'my_signature' );

Reference

User Extended Profiles

Displaying Extended Profile Fields on Member Profiles

Please give details about your config: theme, plugin list.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

On a default install, there are no restriction for visitors to see all profiles.
Have you tested without captcha plugin ?
Do you use a cache ?
While testing after been connected as admin, it’s important to ensure that your brower history & cookies are cleared.

If you use Dan’s approach, you want to do it by first making a template overload of the file he links to. And then writing a conditional for the calls to the user link. It will work fine.

Or you can use the filter hook for bp_activity_user_link() and then you don’t need to touch template files. You could write a filter in theme/functions.php – something like:

function imborx_profile_link( $link ) {

   if( $link != bp_loggedin_user_domain() )
       $link = // custom url

   return $link; 
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_user_link', 'imborx_profile_link', 15, 1 );

See template entry.php

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.3.3/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/entry.php

Caution: modification are preferably done via child-theme.

This is not a gravatar:
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You can disable gravatars by adding this to your theme/functions.php
add_filter('bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true');

Hello

thanks for this, but I am not looking for customize that tool bar, we want to move that part to somewhere else on to theme though

Can you try deactivating all of your plugins whilst you have the TwentyFifteen theme activated? Sometimes a rogue plugin can be responsible.

hi ailyroot,

no time to sort out what you need, but see here 3 snippets using different wya to add such item to a theme main menu or custom menu, with fixed or free position… Test and take the one you need.

//fixed position
function my_nav_menu_notif_counter($menu) {      
        if (!is_user_logged_in())
                return $menu;
        else
                $notif = '<li>Notif '. bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .'</li>';
                $menu = $menu . $notif;
                return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_notif_counter' );

//choose position
function my_nav_menu_positioned_notif_counter( $items, $args ) 
{
    if( $args->theme_location == 'primary' ) // only for primary menu
    {
        $items_array = array();
        while ( false !== ( $item_pos = strpos ( $items, '<li', 3) ) )
        {
            $items_array[] = substr($items, 0, $item_pos);
            $items = substr($items, $item_pos);
        }
        $items_array[] = $items;
        array_splice($items_array, 0, 0, '<li>Notif '. bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .'</li>'); // 0,0 is first position, 1,0 is second, etc

        $items = implode('', $items_array);
    }
    return $items;
}
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items','my_nav_menu_positioned_notif_counter', 10, 2);

// depending the theme, $theme_location may vary and this one use a menu ID
function my_notif_link( $items, $args ) {

$theme_location = 'primary';// Theme Location slug
$existing_menu_item_db_id = 6; // menu id
$new_menu_item_db_id = 66; // unique id number
$label = 'Notificationas '. bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() );
$url = bp_core_get_user_domain(bp_loggedin_user_id()) .'notifications/';
 
if ( $theme_location !== $args->theme_location ) {
	return $items;
}
$new_links = array();

if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
	  
	// only if user is logged-in, do sub-menu link
	$item = array(
		'title'            => $label,
		'menu_item_parent' => $existing_menu_item_db_id,
		'ID'               => 'fugit', // menu name
		'db_id'            => $new_menu_item_db_id,
		'url'              => $url,
		'classes'          => array( 'menu-item' )
	);

	$new_links[] = (object) $item;  // Add the new menu item to our array
	unset( $item ); // in case we add more items below

	$index = count( $items );  // integer, the order number.

// Insert the new links at the appropriate place.
	array_splice( $items, $index, 0, $new_links ); // 0,0 is first position, 1,0 is second, etc

}

return $items;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', 'my_notif_link', 10, 2 );

Happy testing 😉

Hi guys
we are looking for solution to get buddypress notifications work on our theme, we know it will be shown on wordpress’s default top tool bar but we want it to show somewhere else.

We are using WP 4.3 with buddypress 2.3.3, we have added these to theme’s functions.php

function bpfr_add_notification_to_page_title( $title, $original_title, $sep  ) {
	
	//do not change if the user is not logged in
	if( ! is_user_logged_in() )
		return $title;
	
	$user_id = get_current_user_id();//logged in user's id
	
	$count = bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( $user_id );
	
	if( $count > 0 )
		$title = sprintf( "You Have %d New Notification(s) - ", $count );
	
	return $title;
	
	
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'bpfr_add_notification_to_page_title', 100, 3 );

then we add these to theme ‘s menu location

<?php echo bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ); ?>

but it is showing nothing, what is the correct steps to make this work please?

thanks

Make sure this is in your child theme custom css:

#td-outer-wrap { background-color: #colourhere; }

@itslino – yeah I don’t see much about them in there either – the theme docs are a mess here, and non-existent for 2015 theme as well.

There was some site that listed a bunch of wordpress code and buddypress code – searchable and such, but I can’t .. wait I think it’s called hookr.io or something – found it – http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=a if you type css in the filter box it limits what is displayed – it may help – but not sure. I have no idea how that works, if it’s up to date, and if all bp styling stuff actually has “css” in it’s tag or whatever.

I guess you could change to 2014 theme and go to each page and right click property inspector and copy the css.. then put that into notepad and search for everything “buddypress” – at least that’s what I have been thinking about doing.. I think there is also some different styles with 2014 and 2015 depending on what screen size you are viewing with – so may hve to check various media queries.. no idea if there is a better way.

I want to make some custom bp themes, but I can’t even get proper docs on working with latest / best coding practices with the wp default themes at the moment. There is some details on thesis.com err.. themeshaper.com – I think that stuff is out of date though –

If you get it figured out I’d love to see some info put together on all this.

have you looked into the codex area?
( https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/ )

I have not yet begun to learn all that, so I can’t tell you anything about it.

Themes and buddypress and me are a challenge to say the least.. especially if you mixin rtmedia plugin.

Only thing I have been able to do is go back to the 2014 theme and try modding that.

man your theme there has a lot of places where the background color is set.. some for different screen sizes.. some just setting the background for menu and the search box..

open up your style.css and do a ctrl+f (find) for: background

start trying different values is all I can guess. I can’t find that particular rule using property inspector or firebug.. maybe you just need to add the rule. (save a copy of your original)

I’m not really sure, and not a css expert or anything..

But this isn’t really a byddypress fourm question – it’s more of a question for the theme and plugin designers perhaps.. maybe do some searches for “modifying wordpress themes”

With Twenty Fifteen as the theme, and no other plugins enabled, the pages show up entirely blank. I’d really like to be able to use BuddyPress, but right now I don’t see what I can do to fix this.

Is it possibly an issue with the mod_rewrite either not being enabled on the Apache server, or that the .htaccess is missing something that needs to be in there?

It’s probably more than a css issue.
Unless somebody else has that exact theme, it’s doubtful you’ll get much help.

Since it’s a premium theme, try asking the theme author for support.

It’s probably an issue with your theme.
To confirm, try switching to a WP theme like 2015.

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

afaik, there is no option.
Try this in your theme/functions.php

function larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications() {
    remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );
}
add_action( 'bbp_loaded', 'larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications', 99  );

You may need to tweak the priority settings.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action

I added some comments asking the main group to seriously consider BP and other plugins when choosing next default theme

Nice one @djsteveb! I hope TwentySeventeen takes BuddyPress into consideration too.

To the best of my knowledge, you can’t have 2 themes activated at the same time. You should choose a WordPress theme and then make use of the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy to customise the BuddyPress portion of your website.