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Within the profile when logged in the user can select and add their own cover image. This will allow all users to have their own unique cover images.

You might want to make sure your images are not too big and the correct proportions otherwise they will be cropped. Depending on your theme this size might vary but a good starting point would be 1350px wide and 350px tall or for full screen width 1920px x 640px.

Hi,

Some of the answers may have to come from the Theme developer, i.e. Re-Hub theme, for example:

1) How can I configure the user profile page? There are elements I find unnecessary for my website, and I’d like to remove them: the sharing buttons, the “write a note” option, etc.

The “sharing buttons” and “write a note” options are not standard for BuddyPress and are either introduced by your theme in use or possibly from a plugin you have actuated.

Additionally, without getting into a lot of detail, depending on the template pack in use, e.g., Legacy or Nouveau, there are an assortment of template pages that can be overloaded/overridden (requres advanced knownledge).

2) Users registered on my site can publish articles using a frontend plugin, comment, etc.
However, nothing appears in the “Activity” section: even if someone has published an article, nothing shows up. Similarly, nothing appears if they leave comments, someone replies to their comment, or tags them.
Also, what does the “Favorites” button correspond to? With the theme I’m using, users can save articles as favorites, which are then displayed on a dedicated page. Is that what it’s supposed to refer to?

As to “articles“, I’ll assume these are synonymous with “blog posts“, typically these are synced to “Activities” via BuddyPress settings (wp-admin > Settings > BuddyPress) by enabling the “Site Tracking” component within the “Components” tab and enabling the “Post Comments” option under “Activity Streams” within the “Options” tab. See Post comments

As to “Favorites”, think of these as “bookmarks”, IOW, Activity items may be marked as “favorites” or unmarked as “Favorites” which will be listed within the “Favorites” tab, if marked accordingly and, yes, Favorites behave as you have indicated.

3) On the profile page, users can change their username and select a username that’s already in use (which isn’t allowed during registration). How can I fix this?

Usernames are unique and cannot be changed. In a “users” profile, the username is preceded/prefixed with the @ symbol. What may be confusing is the “Name” field which is more akin to the display name, to be more precise, it appears to be the “Display name publicly as”, which can be the same as the username or can be different from the username. What’s confusing is that there specific BuddyPress profile fields that correspond WordPress profile fields that may or may not have the same nomenclature. See Your Profile Screen – names section.

It seems like you are trying to fix something like, there can only be one user with a display name of "Alice". Rightly or wrongly, I suppose confusion abounds when a “display name” is conflated as being a “username”.

Perhaps, someone else will have a better or more precise explanation than I have provided.

I setup a fork of the original github repo, I can’t guarantee it 100% works, especially like with following blogs and stuff like that as I haven’t tested that throughly. I also haven’t tested it with legacy themes. However, for regular following and for the following activity filters in bp_noveau etc… it should work.

https://github.com/Alexanderwbell/buddypress-followers

Hi,
I am also testing this plugin, and I am using it with buddyboss platform and buddyx pro theme. I am encountering the same issues, especially this one with hitting enter to send a message, I hope so omeone can help with this, but it seems this thread is not active 🙁 I might end up getting help from ChatGPT 🙂

I see that this is a multisite installation, not that this should matter, it’s just that more information gets revealed over time. I noticed that define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); is listed twice; is this verbatim or just something that happened with copy & paste, just curious?

As to base64_decode, this may not apply, this would have been a malicious attempt to obfuscate, I was just trying to rationalize why you aren’t finding where the BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION constant is being defined.

Perhaps I should ask the question differently; what tool are you using to search for the BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSION constant? Typically constants are defined in wp-config.php, it appears, however, the BP_GROUPS_DEFAULT_EXTENSIONcan be defined in a child theme'sfunctions.php` or a “Must Use” plugin, etc, etc.

Hi @davesumpter,

It would depend on the theme in use on how you would edit the Site Title link, assuming the Site Logo has the same link as the Site Title, you would use a URL similar to:

https://example.com/members/me

The “me” is the default shortlink redirector member slug. IOW, this will redirect to the profile area of the logged in user, typically, their activity stream/feed

Hi @asmaajaved,

I’m not sure if this an edge case, so more information is required, e.g.:

1. WordPress version
2. WordPress permalink setting(plain or pretty URLs)
3. WordPress theme in use
4. BuddyPress version
5. BuddyPress template pack in use
6. What does your error log reveal?

It would also help to have a screenshot of:

the single groups pages show up empty

Unfortunately, you’ve applied a band-aid at the Theme level. The next Theme update will remove your band-aid and you will have to apply it again, given the approach you’ve taken.

The bp_loggedin_user_domain( ) function should have returned a URL with a trailing slash, for example:

http://www.url.com/members/username/

Which is why the Theme has it written as:

bp_loggedin_user_domain() . $bp->notifications->slug

Something is causing the trailing slash to be missing, solving for this will be the fix. Maybe a plugin or some custom code is filtering the return value, such that is stripping the trailing slash.

Assuming you are using BuddyPress 14.3.3, see the following URL for the source code:

bp_loggedin_user_domain()

Try this in the functions.php file of your child theme. I have put 777 as filed id but you will have to put in the correct field id and the correct field name:-

function validate_required_profile_fields() {
$required_fields = [
‘field_777’ => ‘The so and so field is required.’,
];

foreach ( $required_fields as $field_key => $error_message ) {
if ( empty( $_POST[ $field_key ] ) ) {
bp_core_add_message( $error_message, ‘error’ );
}
}
}
add_action( ‘bp_signup_validate’, ‘validate_required_profile_fields’ );

This is quite strage. I am having a similiar problem. When Elementor is activated it breaks all my buddypress links. But I found out that when switching to Hello theme the links work again.
But since my design was made for Astra this is not a solution for me.

So my links work if

• either Elementor is disabled or
• Hello theme when Elementor is activated.

Any solutions for this? The hope to get help here dies last.

To apply a different template for BuddyPress pages in the latest WordPress block theme, you can create a custom template (e.g., bp-custom-template.html) in your theme’s templates directory. Then, use a filter in your functions.php file to assign this template to BuddyPress pages using code like:

php
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add_filter(‘template_include’, function($template) {
if (bp_is_buddyPress()) {
$custom_template = locate_template(‘bp-custom-template.php’);
return $custom_template ?: $template;
}
return $template;
});
This allows you to customize the layout for BuddyPress pages without relying on the default “pages” template.