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Does the page exist ? See BP settings.
And if exist, this page sould be empty, without any template or parent page.
You have also to test with one of Twenty theme if you use a third party theme.

Check your div’s !
Or better, faster and much easier for you if you aren’t a CSS guru, use an existing WP theme.

We can’t assist you if you use third party premium tools or themes.
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/when-asking-for-support-2/

disable ALL other plugins first. Then try to activate buddypress by itself.

not working still? Switch to 2014 or 2015, or 2012 theme.

try again.

Then when you go back to enable your other plugins (or theme) – you will find which is causing conflict –

-most likely

hi @henrywright. Oooooooooooups ! No pasaran. 😉

@hammed4real101,

try this (add to child-theme functions.php or bp-custm.php) :

function swa_remove_new_member_activity( $a, $activities ) {
 
	//allow site admin to see
	if ( is_site_admin() )
		return $activities;
 
	foreach ( $activities->activities as $key => $activity ) {
		// activity type name is new_member
		if ( $activity->type =='new_member') {
		unset( $activities->activities[$key] );
		 
				// recalculate activity items for pagination
				$activities->activity_count = $activities->activity_count-1;
				$activities->total_activity_count = $activities->total_activity_count-1;
				$activities->pag_num = $activities->pag_num -1;
		}
	}
 
	// Renumber the array keys to account for missing items 
	$activities_new = array_values( $activities->activities );
	$activities->activities = $activities_new;
	
	// output
	return $activities;
}
add_action('bp_has_activities','swa_remove_new_member_activity', 10, 2 );

Just copy and paste it into your theme’s functions.php file.

Hi @paixaofileto

I’d suggest you contact the theme author asking if they can release an update; making things compatible with BuddyPress.

Hey @marcella1981

Great to see you’re interested in developing BuddyPress themes. It might be worth also asking your question over at wordpress.org; I’m hoping there’ll be some WordPress theme authors who’ll want to turn their hand to themes for BuddyPress.

@bewitchingfiction, @caniwigirl,

have you read group forum install instruction ?

Installing Group and Sitewide Forums

Note also that for hidden group

Only users who are invited can join the group.
This group will not be listed in the groups directory or search results.
Group content and activity will only be visible to members of the group.

Members who are part of such a group can see their group activity on their profile, when they’re logged-in.

Groups

On a correctly installed BP, user can access to hidden group forums via the profile, the group activity itself or the group forum.

This how BP handles members and how bbPress is built. And has nothing to do with a standard coded theme.
If you don’t believe, try by activating one of Twenty default theme.

Hi, I actually came here to see if anyone else had found a resolution for this issue. I have found one template that displays the ‘hidden’ groups as they should be shown on the relevant profiles but after several comments from people on the forums decided to go with a different theme yet I am unable to find one that still displays the hidden groups on the profiles (one is just a group with no forum but a chatroom as it’s used for weekly meetings so it wouldn’t even be possible to find it using ‘most recent posts.’.

Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated. Hidden groups are important to the running of my site as they are where the mods meet to discuss any issues and have some time away from the rest of the forum, but they are of no use if even the members of them can’t find them.

I posted the same question and no one answered me. This seems to be a common issue with all WordPress/BuddyPress installs (I have a separate WordPress install and the same thing occurs), so it seems to be inherent in the responsive CSS code or something.

This was my question:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/toolbar-empty-for-mobile-logged-out-users/

These other threads also seems to be talking about the same, or a similar issue:

https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddy-bar-not-displaying/
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-show-secondary-navigation-menu-to-logged-out-users/

Doesn’t anyone have any advice, since it’s affecting so many of us?

And no, it was not due to a conflicting plug-in or a theme. Tests were done when the site was just installed with the default themes. The links shows up correctly on desktop, and on my Nexus 7 2013 (1200×1920 resolution) ONLY when it is in landscape mode, but not when it is portrait (empty, black bar is show). And the same empty black bar is shown on my Galaxy Note 3 (1080×1920 resolution) in both portrait and landscape. So it doesn’t seem to be due to just the horizontal resolution – but perhaps the the full (horizontal x vertical) resolution or something.

It’s pretty frustrating.

Previous snippet changed all avatars (user, blogs and groups) which is not what you want. Here’s a snippet which works almost correctly, but not to 100%. Give it a try anyway.

It changes the user avatar depending of an xprofile value.

(add to bp-custom.php)

function bpfr_my_new_avatar_url() {
global $bp;

	if( bp_is_user() && ! bp_get_member_user_id() ) {
        $user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
    } else {
        $user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
    }

	if ( is_page( 'activity' ) ) {
		$user_id = bp_get_activity_user_id();	
	}

$ranking = xprofile_get_field_data ('ranking', $user_id );

	if ($ranking == "Top 25") {		
		$url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/custom_img/25.png';
	}
	
	if ($ranking == "Top 24") {		
		$url = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() .'/custom_img/24.png';
	}
return $url;

}
add_filter( 'bp_core_default_avatar_user', 'bpfr_my_new_avatar_url' );

Create a profile field called “ranking” with 2 options (top 24 & top 25).
Create a folder in your child-theme called “custom_img” and add 2 pictures: 24.png & 25.png (250×250)
If everybody must those avatars, disallow avatar upload in BP settings.
Site default avatar stays as Mystery Man (wp default setting).

You have also to get rid of Gravatar, so you must add this to bp-custom.php
add_filter('bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav', '__return_true');

The thing who doesn’t work is related to X & Y are now friends. Both willhave the same avatar.

Can probably by better improved.

bp works with default 2015 theme fine (pretty sure, 2014 theme I know), and most others.

never tried localhost thing, perhaps search the forum for “localhost or local host” to see if others have found settings or components needed to run in that environment.

users can post news fast just by adding activity item “what’s new Angelo” – just like facebook, no geek level 2 required.

Users can add articles / news to a “group” they are part of easy.. front end.. even upload documents if you have a plugin like bp-group-documents..

if you are talking about each user getting thier blog/aks site with a multi-site setup, or assigning them as contributors to a group blog – just make a 90 second tutorial showing them how to post… or maybe look for some “front end editor” type plugins and add a snippet of code to your bp-theme or something.

random thoughts from a novice bp user..

I have copied home.php file from “single” directory to “community” directory I created in my child theme

So does the file structure in your community dir look like this:
community/members/single/home.php

Oh wait… what do you exactly want to achieve ? Where should this ranking avatar show up ?
Give more details please.

What is the profile field name: ranking or gender ?
Theme name ?

Guess you have an json error due to a facebook plugin. Deactivate it and see if it change something. If it is coming with your theme, see if an update is avaible or if something is related to this on your theme support.

Seems also that you modified your theme name. Doing this is not recommended as it the best way to introduce some errors because of missing files or wrong slugs. Specially when high js management is built in.

Test your install with 2015, and activate your theme only if anything is working correctly with this default setup.

Yes, it’s a knowed bbPress bug (at least 2 mounth ago). But bbPress was updated since… So i guess it’s also related to your theme and the way he calls page…

See here please, and apply the patch. (if not already in latest bbp ?)
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/weird-error-after-updating-buddypress/#post-234299

Activate first 2015 or 2013 while testing, so you will be sure it’s your theme in case of the test is successfull. And also all other plugins except BP and bbP.

hi @hellowed,

try this (add to child theme functions.php or better, bp-custom.php) It will remove a and span and h1 html tag

function bpfr_remove_html_from_private_msg($message){
		$replacement = ''; 
return preg_replace( "/ <(span|a|h1)[^>]*>/", $replacement, $message);
	
}
add_filter('messages_message_content_before_save', 'bpfr_remove_html_from_private_msg');

Hi @edutech2015,

depends your theme, and needs preferably the usage of a child-thme.
the forum plugin is bbPress. This plugin use the same technique as BuddyPress to adjust CSS.

See bbPress documentation here.
And follow for BP from here.