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Hi @format19

These are the capabilities that admins have which editors don’t:

• activate_plugins
• create_users
• delete_plugins
• delete_themes
• delete_users
• edit_files
• edit_plugins
• edit_theme_options
• edit_themes
• edit_users
• export
• import

If you’re not comfortable granting full admin rights, then perhaps you could cherry-pick these? As you probably know, the add_cap() function will add capabilities to a given role.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_cap

Hmm, it sounds harsh that you get burned and have problems on each update because ive not really had many problems when updating in the past, maybe a few small ones but not many, and if i have had a few problems ive just held off updating for a couple of weeks until the fixes have been issued into buddypress or the plugins.

After trying out “ALOT” of themes (paid and free) with buddypress and wordpress over the past 2 years i have made my own conclusion that the best themes to use in both cases are usually the bare bones and lightweight themes that can have things integrated by yourself as and when needed, this way you are cutting out alot of problems that can be caused within the theme itself, i know some themes look amazing but they can also cause alot of problems for you in the future if not regular updated by the developer.

If your comfy with design i would always opt for a lightweight and barebones theme and build upon that. less things built into a theme = easier to troubleshoot! (This is just my opinion)
I have tried numerous themes that have caused wiered things to happen with certain plugins, yet work fine on the default themes for example.

As for setting up a local test server, this is quite easy to do now, you should definitely look into using something like XXAMP and give it a try.

I still havent got round to testing the new buddypress update yet on my themes and plugins as i fell asleep lol.

If P2 fits your needs, there is a P2-Likes plugin. https://wordpress.org/plugins/p2-likes/

P2 is not a standard theme. There is a lot of custom stuff going on there, so unlike most themes, you will have trouble making BP and P2 play nice.

If you need Likes on BP, this looks to be an option: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-like/

You could add a snippet of code like that to the bp-custom.php file. This file isn’t there by default so you might not have one yet, but you can create it if you have FTP access to your site. It should be placed in the wp-content/plugins directory.

You can read more about it here: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/bp-custom-php/

If you are creating it for the first time, remember to include a the <?php tag on the first line before the function @modemlooper has provided for you here.

@scaffies it seems your having a hard time since the new update with the amount of posts about what has broke, ive got a good few test sites setup on my other computers that all run different plugins so i will test this new update with about 100 different plugins on different themes and sites over the weekend and see if anything breaks with any of these plugins too, what theme do you use? and have you tested the plugins together on default themes too to make sure its not just theme specific?

Like mentioned in another thread i really think you should test any major update with your current plugins on a test server to check out what may or may not of broken, this way you can report the issues to either the buddypress devs or plugin authors and wait for them to catch up or apply a quik fix until they do. I might actually test one of my dev sites tonight that is running 40 plugins to see what happens.

The Members widget has members staggered rather than in a straight flush left list.

In v2.2, member avatars in widgets have been enlarged from 40px to 60px, which might have caused the staggering issue that you are experiencing. You might have to adjust your theme’s CSS to fix this.

Your theme doesn’t have a menu?

Hi @disha76

P2 is made by Automattic so you can be sure the theme is of the highest quality. Whilst I haven’t tried it myself, I’ve heard it offers some great features such as inline comments and real-time updates. If you notice a problem with it, then try opening a support ticket on their support forum.

Hope this helps 😀

Ref: https://wordpress.org/themes/p2

@nomad48 Could you check the header.php file of your theme re whether it has
<title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title> within <head> ... </head>
or if there’s no <title> ... </title> tag at all. The ticket I pointed out to is relevant for themes with the second scenario.

@nomad48 what theme are you using? There is an outstanding issue with themes which use the new title feature. Have you you updated that SEO plugin? https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6107

Hi Brandon,

I’m really sorry about the inconvenience.

I think this is very specific to the way the BuddyPress links plugin is built. Maybe the plugin developer will be able to find a quick fix.

In the meantime, @venutius @scaffies you can use a bp-custom.php file and paste in it this temporary fix :
https://gist.github.com/imath/ef0d44e21bd2dd195147

I really suggest you to remove the code as soon as the plugin author fixed the trouble.

@gatelli yoursite > Groups > nameofgroup > Forum pages use the page layout of the the groups page template as it is integrated with that BuddyPress group. WP/BP versions? What theme are you using?

Hi @nopartysystem,

Can somebody please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

in brief: all ! 😉

After you create a child theme, you’ll have a folder ‘my_child_theme’ and a unique file in it ‘style.css’

If you want to modify BuddyPress, you create a folder named ‘buddypress‘ into your child-theme folder, and in this bp folder, you copy /folder/file/ you want to modify from /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Read here for more details

In your case, you use /child_theme/buddypress/activity/activity-loop.php

Than you modify the code to reflect if ( bp_has_activities( bp_ajax_querystring....
(read here)

Another method to filter your activities is to use bp_parse_args (also explained on the codex)

Hi @mrjarbenne

Using Twenty Fifteen with just BuddyPress and BuddyPress follow activated, I can’t seem to reproduce the problem. Can you provide some details of your set-up and open a Trac ticket so that it can be investigated? With the default theme and no plugins things should work so I’m a little puzzled. The core dev team will know more.

…as I don’ know diddly about php… where do I place it?

Ah OK. Take a look at the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy article which should explain how templates work in BP. You’ll need to create your own templates if your theme doesn’t already have them.

Hi @tranny

I’m sorry to read about the problem you’re having when activating BuddyPress. From what you’ve described it looks like a plugin or a theme is checking for a capacity very early in the process, well at least before the BuddyPress members component has been fully loaded.

BuddyPress hooks ‘plugins_loaded’ at a 10 priority and define its components a little while after. So your target is a plugin, a theme, or a specific code direclty loaded in global scope that is doing a current_user_can() before the action ‘plugins_loaded’ has been fired.

If you look at this page, you’ll see there are 3 actions fired before ‘plugins_loaded’ : https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference#Actions_Run_During_an_Admin_Page_Request

Searching the cause of the problem won’t be easy, if i were you i’d do a back up of your entire site and would do some tests on a local server making sure the local server environment contains a x-debug client so that it would display the different functions called before the error appears.