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Most of the time BP will use page.php since that template file exists in the majority of WordPress themes. However, if you wanted to style BuddyPress pages differently than a regular WordPress page, you could add a template file named buddypress.php to your theme’s directory and BP would use that template instead since that file is ahead of page.php in the hierarchy above.

@thatmtnman – should be pretty easy to put widgets around the activity stream, and so to have content around the activity wall as you are saying.. individual member profiles have an activity stream, and you can change content around the profiles with some theme coding – so I’m pretty sure bp already does what you are asking about right out of the box..

Maybe I don’t understand what you mean by content around activity similar to facbook, I’m not an f-book expert.

@ttpgolf – have you asked the Divi theme people about your issue?

hi @billmann,

to remove only last activity date from profile header:

function bpfr_core_get_last_activity( $last_activity_date ) {
   if ( empty( $last_activity_date ) )
      // we do nothing
         $last_active = '';
   else
   $last_active = sprintf( $string, bp_core_time_since( $last_activity_date ) );
 }
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bpfr_core_get_last_activity' );

To remove all last active instance (profile, group & member directory,…), you simply remove the filter

function bpfr_remove_last_activity_filter() {
    remove_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', $last_active, $last_activity_date, $string );
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bpfr_remove_last_activity_filter' );

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

bp_core_get_last_activity function is in buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-functions.php:1418

Note that site wide activity is not affected by these functions.

@rollercoasteride

disable all plugins except buddypress and twenty-something theme – does it work?

My guess is your wp / BP may work fine without the zippy courses plugin – if it works fine with no other plugins – then your issue is with those plugins, not a BP issue per se.

No WP and BP do not work with default theme and all other plugins disabled?

yes you need permalinks pretty – I think.. when you set that does it actually write to your htaccess file? or is there some text that appears at bottom of screen (below scroll view sometimes) that tells you need to manually add the new htaccess code?

still not work? you may…

Looks like you may have some corrupted files somewhere – I would make a backup of your databases and zip up your files for a backup (there is a reasonable backup thing in softalicious backend) – remove the wp installation through softalicious – remove the whole wp / bp setup – start fresh.

If exporting your database through phpmyadmin, click advanced / add / drop table or something (directions in wp codex)

You can install WP through softalicious and then add BP no problem in my experiences.
(I would not count on softalicious to do your updates, gosh fantistico was horrible at that, and WP has it’s own auto-update thing going on these days anyway)

/random thoughts from a user, not a BP dev or anything – other advice may be better.

Hello
I notice I don’t have the group avatar tab anymore.
I switch theme and disable all plugins except BP. The tab is still missing.
I do remember that I could upload an avatar for group in the past.

Any help would be really appreciated.

hi @revadigital,

not sure what you call buddyblog… The blog is part of WordPress, not BuddyPress.

Can you give site url, theme, list of plugins and install type (network or single) please ?

Found a site which seems to be yours. If it is the case, you’re using Frisco for BP, an old theme. This theme hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Since BP 1.9 (dec 2013), you can use almost use any existing theme.
If you’re in a test phase, use simply 2015. Once anything is working, you can search a theme. 🙂

Hi @chirag1212,

you’re on BuddyPress support forum. But BP hasn’t a BuddyPress Course Stats widget.
Ask on your theme support or the widget author.

@baldarab –

I see how you are using groups – so it does appear that links to them are easily discoverable from your public facing pages.

If you do a view source and look at your code for each of your groups, you will notice that the page title is exactly the same for all of your groups ( <title>Activities – Freaky Rivet</title> ) – and there is no meta name description =

Two major issues for the big G.

Which version of buddypress are you using?

This problem concerns me so much that I have kept one of my sites with an older version of buddypress (2.2.3.1 ) with the cobbled custom code I was able to get from wpmudev ( http://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/bp-meta-tite-description-for-groups-and-members-pages#post-806736 ) – the cobbled code may work the newer version of bp – but things are quite confusing with how wp has changed up some of the title thing, and bp has it’s way of things and there are possible conflicts with priority or something..

The discussion on this trac ticket( https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107 ) says things have been “fixed” – I do appreciate the devs working on it a bit – but I have a feeling the fix is more of a “make it work in a semi-okay way with a couple of setups” – not much as far as giving users real control over the titles and descriptions.

I am guessing people will point to theme designers to hook this up, and they will point to “we use wordpress’s suggested way of title-ing (wp the title or whatever) – and so it’s wp/bp issue, and descriptions should be handled my an seo plugin – but given that bp’s pages are pseudo pages without any taxonomy registered, it appears that yoast and others have so desire to work with it.

This is my current understanding, and may be not 100% accurate – what I gather after posting many questions and issues relating to this in various places.

I’d pay someone to code a plugin that gives options for bp meta stuff like the suggestion I posted before, and give it to the community. If I could understand all the bp/wp code and php I’d gladly make it. It seems the BP coders are spread a bit thin, so I have no good options for fixing this issue at the moment.

The item on the left is anchored to #login and calls a widget, the one on the right has the right link

Check your theme settings or turn-off the widget

You found the right solutions, but you haven’t to use them in theme’s functions.php but in the template.
Template files are stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress
activity-loop.php is in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/

Create a child-theme and do your changes from there.

Theme Compatibility & Template Files

Template Hierarchy

@serfma They posted a walk-through about setting up BuddyPress last year using the Divi 2.0 theme at http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/an-introduction-to-buddypress Check with them though if current Divi version is compatible with latest BuddyPress version.

Try checking the order using the TwentyFifteen theme and if the order is as expected, then that means there might be a problem with the Boss theme. If that’s the case, you should let the BuddyBoss team know so they can hopefully release a fix.

You could use bp-custom.php for this if a hook is available but an alternative method would be to override the template. Check out the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article for more info. This approach gives you more control over what exactly is to be displayed on your website.

@vinzen I was initially able to confirm the issue reported by the lady in the original post. However, upon consultation with another developer, testing in another laptop, and restarting the other laptop I used to test the issue, the result is that one can open the file selection box using keyboard navigation.

Could you please ask her to restart computer/clear caches and check again? She can open the image file selection box using the Enter key or the Space bar.

If the above don’t resolve the issue, can she give us more information about: the browser/s she is using, PC/Mac, other assistive technology used, etc., and on your end, it would help us to know what theme and plugins you have installed in your site.

If you find any more issues, please let us know.

I have never used kendo, so i can’t help you about how it works, or not, with BuddyPress or with your theme.

But you can deregister a script or add more scripts into the theme…
Read here if it inspires you:
http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/152559/wordpress-script-loading-unloading-wp-deregister-scriptjquery

Which theme and language do you use ? Can you explain step by step what you did ?
The “Add Friend” button disappears when I do this.
Probably because you do something wrong.

@d_enajetic,

it’s not a BP issue. By default, an embeded video in a blog post is not showed in the activity stream.
Only videos who came up on SWA are those added via updates.

See rTMedia settings, theme specific setting or search for custom code somewhere.