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Try one the other existing action hook in entry.php. If they don’t fit to your need, you add the custom action where you need it.

Keep also in mind that all position are div, so depending your theme you have also to maipulate CSS to achieve your goal.

As it says in that thread – to entry.php
Specifically buddypress\bp-templates\bp-legacy\buddypress\activity\entry.php

And of course create a template overload of that file.

Apparently the issue is clearly related to Boss theme, no ?
You have to ask on the theme support, support is included in the licence price and we haven’t free access, so it’s difficult to help you. Sorry.

I suspect the theme to not use some very recent modification around localization. Since BP 2.0 many strings where enhanced with translators ready comments and somme other little details, like points or comas.

As example, my groups (x) is coded My Groups <span>%s</span> in BP 2.2
As you say it’s not translated, this means that the original (theme) code is wrong.
Could be My groups <span>%s</span> or my groups <span>%</span> (lower case, missing ‘s’)…
Verify this for each string.
Compare the result between buddypress.pot and what you see in theme’s source.

Other common issue example. Groups is not translated on My Profile sub nav menu.

Actually, BP use this in bp-activity/bp-activity-loader.php
'title' => _x( 'Groups', 'My Account Activity sub nav', 'buddypress' )

Not so long in the past, it was
'title' => __( 'Groups', 'buddypress' )

The important thing for gettext to work, is the difference between _x and __ !

Updating a theme or plugin to fetch those kind of details is a time consuming detail work. An the devil is in details… and custom themes use custom functions or complex template overloads.

But at least, you know where and what to control now. 😉

I’ve been thinking of this a lot myself, in the way that Facebook or Gmail for example update their title tags. This is a great way of encouraging engagement in the site as people see the number even if their browser is minimised and they’re off working on something else.

I haven’t tried to implement this myself yet but will have a try asap.

I guess it’s a case of:

adding a conditional in to the <title > tag in the themes header.php that says IF there are notifications then display the count. Then, have the page refresh periodically to update the count (or does buddypress do this already to update notifications? I’d have to check)

So just need to find the code that generates the notifications count.

Hopefully it’s that simple, but we’ll see 🙂

No, you do it wrong. Read the codex links i provided.

buddypress-functions.php in the bp-templates\bp-legacy folder or profile-loop.php are not the right files.

I told you to put the snippet into bp-custom.php OR in your child-theme functions.php

Why do you hack core files ? They will be overwriten at next BP update… 👿

Try this (bp-custom.php or child-theme functions.php)

function lafa_remove_submenu_item() {
	global $bp;

	unset($bp->bp_options_nav['profile']['public']);
}
add_action('bp_setup_nav', 'lafa_remove_submenu_item', 201);

hi @tiquality,

to show the user’s mail above the other user information, you can add the following snippet to bp-custom.php or child-theme’s functions.php

Assuming users gave a valid email at registration, we can output that address.
Avantage is that they haven’t to enter their mail a second time while completing their profile.

So we just need to manually add this address to the template, using one of the action hook avaible in profile-loop.php

function tiquality_add_custom_field() {

	if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :

		if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
?>
	<div class="bp-widget <?php bp_the_profile_group_slug(); ?>">
		<table class="profile-fields">
			<tr class="my_mail">

				<td class="label">Contact me</td>

				<td class="data"><a href="mailto:<?php bp_displayed_user_email(); ?>"><?php bp_displayed_user_email(); ?></a></td>

			</tr>
		</table>
	</div>
<?php 
		}
	endif; 
 
}
add_action('bp_profile_field_buttons', 'tiquality_add_custom_field');

If you prefer it on the profile header, use the action hook indicated by Brajesh
add_action('bp_member_header_actions', 'tiquality_add_custom_field');

Hi I have the same problem.
I think it has to do with the main theme.
I use smartmag theme with a child theme, when a change back to Twenty Twelve theme everything works fine.

Hallo @rene-streber,

First of, i would recommend that you revert to a basic WP install using 2014 or 2015 theme and the WP’s german language activated and all plugins deactivated.

If you have a local install, suggest you do your test on it instead of the prod site.

Once this is done, you activate BuddyPress. German language will automatically be uploaded to the right folder (wp-content/languages/plugins/buddypress-de_DE.mo)
The original translation is here. It is complete to 100%. (and also the official translation).
FYI deckerweb provides a translation for bp 1.9 & 1.9.1. So seems to me it is outdated now.

Check if anything is correctly übersetzt. Theoretish sollte es jetzt funktionnieren.

If ok, you activate the main theme. Recheck everything. If ok, reactivate your plugins one by one and check each step to isolate an issue, if ever.

If everything is correct again, you can handle the specifics for your homepage. But remind one thing: BuddyPress components use a page system which is only in for internal purpose. This means that you can’t apply a page model like for an usual WP page. And if you use a special template just for the homepage, you have to adjust it to work with BuddyPress.

Each activated BP component should have a page assigned. And this page must be unique and empty, whithout any template or model settings, just a title.

I see that you have some issue with page names in your menu. Button show community2 and the permalink contains community-4. Check this too, to get community only everywhere. And probably clear your trash as it may contain some duplicates from previous attempts.

Once this is cleaned, und mit klarer aussicht, simply resave your permalinks to reinitialize all links.

Codex is your friend…

https://codex.buddypress.org/member-guide/messages/
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/ (child theme)

Hi,
Is your theme BuddyPress compatible, if yes, Please check if there is ‘members/single/member-header.php or buddypress/members/single/member-header.php

If yes, you can put the code anywhere in that file. If your theme does not have this file, It can be added via ‘bp_member_header_actions’ too like this

add_action('bp_member_header_actions', 'devb_show_displayed_user_email' );

which you can put in the bp-custom.php too.

This works only in the member loop.
Not sure what you mean by a user standard page, but if you mean a normal WP page, see here first:

Template Hierarchy

or more simplier, see
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-search/

@fabwintle Hi Fabienne,

i’m pretty sure the plugin is working. So you probably do something wrong somewhere, perhaps with your theme or another plugin.

IMHO, a link formated like the one you indicate in your post is unusual. And a register page with over 45 javascript runing is… very unusual too. So i’m not surprised that you have some issues with a custom function.

Aside, i haven’t seen any description on that page, at least because i’m not logged in ?

Honestly, I encourage you to hire a dev to configure and optimize correctly your install. If you want to open it publicly in a mounth, it’s not tool late. Once you get memebrs, it will became difficult to repair.

Deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress and activate 2014 theme.
See if it works. Then reactivate one by one until you find a culprit.

if you’re sure you strictly followed these instructions, enable wp_debug and see which kind of error you get when on the group front-end settings page.

Can you upload user avatars correctly ?
Can you upload pictures to Media Library ?

And last but not least, give your theme name or the site url.

I can’t explain better as the Codex. You simply have to follow what’s explained here:

Twenty Eleven Theme

You can’t use that function for this contextual menu.

Use the action hook coming after bp_user_displayed_nav function: bp_member_option_nav to simply add html and your link.

Try this (add to bp-custom.php or child theme functions.php)

function lh_custom_setup_nav() {
  if ( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) )
?>
<li><a href="<?php bp_members_directory_permalink(); ?>"><?php printf( __( 'All Members', 'buddypress' ) ); ?></a></li>
<?php  
}
add_action( 'bp_member_options_nav', 'lh_custom_setup_nav' );

Apply CSS to li and a tags accordingly to your theme if necessary.

Reference file: bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/home.php

Hi @expbountyhunter

Do you mean the ‘Home’ item in your navigation? The rest of the text on that page already seems to be white.

Try adding this to your theme’s style.css document:

.header .header-inner .nav ul li.current_page_item a {
    color: #fff;
}

To learn about CSS, check out this resource:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

Two snippets to do this (hopefully). The first has a fixed position (latest by default), the second let’s you choose the 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' );

See comment how to apply a 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);

Reference: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_nav_menu_items/