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Add this to bp-custom.php and give a try ! Should show at the left of the logout button on Buddy theme nav bar

function my_nav_menu_notif_counter($menu) {  

$url = bp_core_get_user_domain(bp_loggedin_user_id()) .'notifications/';   
       // condition: user must be loggedin
        if (!is_user_logged_in())
                return $menu;
        else
                $notif = '<li><a href=" ' .$url. ' ">Notif ['. bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) .']</a></li>';
				
                $menu = $menu . $notif;
                return $menu;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_items', 'my_nav_menu_notif_counter' );

And ?

BuddyPress Theme Development

Note: I am using the default theme of buddypress.

Weird ! Have you tried with Twenty Fifteen ?

First, read here:

Customizing BuddyPress Avatars

Try to add the define to your child-theme functions.php, instead of bp-custom.

Spare bandwidth… define ( 'BP_AVATAR_ORIGINAL_MAX_WIDTH', 640 ); Are you sure you want to allow such a big size for a picture who use as max full width a default size of only 150 px ? 😉

Mention stuff is in buddypress/bp-activity/css and buddypress/bp-activity/js

To modify the text color of the name list, add this into your child-theme style.css.
Use !important for the new rule.

.atwho-view {	
color: #e30472!important;
}

Only thing i understand from default.css concern gallery and images rules.
If you don’t want them, remove them or use display:none;

bp-default styles are in bp-default/_inc/css/default.css
To overide, you use a child-theme containing a style.css file

@rgrober,

can you give details please, as media queries and css are not, imo, the same thing. What do you mean by media queries in style.css ?

Can you tell what you want to do exactly and what you have already done ?

Also bp-default theme is no more maintained. Are you still using it ? And if so, what WP/BP version are you using ?

@bruce7075,

here a complete solution you can use for friends privacy.

– Whe’re going to show the friends menu only to… friends !
– We remove friends activity.

Copy this to bp-custom.php

function bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() {
	$retval = false;
	
	if ( bp_is_user() && ! bp_is_my_profile() && ! friends_check_friendship( bp_displayed_user_id(), bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ) {
		$retval = true;
	}
	
	return $retval;
}

function bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends() {
	
	// Stop if condition is not filed
	if ( ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return;
	}
	// otherwise, we remove the nav
	bp_core_remove_nav_item( 'friends' ); // bp topnav
	bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'activity', 'friends' ); //bp subnav (my activities, my groups, etc)
}
add_action( 'bp_ready', 'bpfr_hide_friends_nav_to_non_friends' );

// we want also to remove all friends related activities to non friends
function bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends( $activity_action = array(), $component_id = '' ) {
	
	// if condition is not filed we go back to original output
	if ( 'friends' != $component_id || ! bpfr_maybe_hide_friends_nav_etc() ) {
		return $activity_action;
	}
	
	// otherwise, we remove member from context
	$activity_action['context'] = array_diff( $activity_action['context'], array( 'member' ) );
	
	return $activity_action;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_set_action', 'bpfr_hide_friends_activity_type_to_non_friends', 10, 2 );

Related topic (other solution, or strict answer to your question) 😉
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/documentation-for-remove_action-activity-streams/#post-242974

@djsteveb,

i wouldn’t remove the whole action hook, as other functionnalities from other plugins, can use it. Filtering is even better.

bp_parse_{component}_args is intended to filter template loops.

If you remove an {activity} type with this function, it will remove that activity from each activity feed (swa, profile and group). Something like an all or nothing thing.

bp_parse return values. So if you want to remove something, you have to list what you want to keep to show, and not what to remove !

Here a snippet, listing all existing BP activity types (2.2.x). Simply comment or remove the type you don’t want.

function my_bp_activity_types( $retval ) {
// list of all BP activity types  - remove or comment those you won't show.
    $retval['action'] = array(        
        'activity_comment',
		'activity_update',
		'created_group',
		'friendship_created',
		'joined_group',
		'last_activity',
		'new_avatar',
		'new_blog_comment',
                'new_blog_post',
		'new_member',
		'updated_profile'        
    );
 
    return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_after_has_activities_parse_args', 'my_bp_activity_types' );

IMPORTANT: copy/paste to bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php. Used as-is will do nothing ! You have to remove the type you don’t want from the list….

Third party plugins (like bbPress) use also activity types. Easiest way to get the right type name is to check xxxx_bp_activity table in DB and search for it in the Type column.

@umar007, removing friendship_created will solve your question.

@djsteveb, remove new_avatar ! 😉

First thing I would do – go to permalinks – note what the settings are – change setting to something else – save. Then change settings back and save.

see if it now works.

if not I would check the bp associated pages thing – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-components/#settings-buddypress-pages

see if works..

if not – deactivate all plugins except BP… switch to default 2014 theme… see if works..

@wpguru6
you MAY have a “bp login widget” under widgets in themes-appearance-widgets and not need to get into the actual php codes.. and there are plenty of other addons in the wp-repo as well ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=login+widget )

add a custom post or video with another widget perhaps?

@jrunfitpro – hopefully one of the bp devs will chime in as to whether or not the comments on static pages, and or if comments on multi-site blog posts / static pages are supposed to be pulled into activity stream when site tracking is turned on.

This COULD be a bug that needs to be put into trac..

or it may need to be a feature request to add an additional setting somewhere to enable or disable or something..

The last bp update was June 18th, 2015 according to the blog and the download page here.

Not sure how to contact one of the devs to ask if this is an intended action – also not sure if this lack of comment tracking is due to my use of some old plugins, or me not using the default theme – I could convert one of my test sites to see if doing all defaults makes any difference.

Maybe @boone or @james or someone knows about this.

I could see many people finding this as a normal setting getting out of control – and I wonder if new comments on an old post should show up in the most recent activity stream , or would be added to a thread WAAY back in the activity if the post / page was created a year ago.. know what mean?

Hopefully someone else can shed some light on how this is supposed to work so we can know if it’s working and if there are any current methods for modifying the current, or future intended behaviors.

It’s too bad the title of this thread has Optimize Press in it – as I THINK some of the BP folks will completely dismiss it as it’s main question appears to be about a paid third party thing – yet the issue itself may be related to all bp installs actually.

@labsupplyorg –
Topics? You mean like bbpress forums topics? What do you mean exactly by “topic pages”?

I would..
check your permanlinks perhaps? go there, note what they are.. change them to something else.. save.. then change back.. save again..
May not be related, but on one of my sites this similar issue crops up every other time I update rtmedia plugin for some reason.

Does this happen if you disable other plugins?
Does this happen with the default twenty-fifteen or 2014 theme?

@rgrober – I am pretty new to this as well. I wonder what you mean by the buddypress default theme – as there was a bp default theme thing some time ago – but from what I have seen (and I have not seen everything) – the bp default theme stuff is legacy – do you mean you have a fresh install of wp / bp and it is using the “twenty-fifteen” or 2014 theme?

@rgrober – What theme are you asking about?
I am not sure this is even a buddypress related question / issue.

@hot-head-videos – have you tried to switch to default theme, and deactivate all your other plugins, and then install BP.. and run through bp’s setup process… then start to enable your other plugins one by one to see if there is a conflict with other plugins / themes at that point?

I highly suggest deactivating everything and get BP working with just wp and default theme first.