== Clearly the problem is with the themplate. ==
You could be right. That theme has had different incarnations though. So are you using the stand-alone Church theme and installed the BP Template Pack to make the Church theme compatible with BP? Or, are you using the Church child theme of Genesis and installed Genesis Connect for BP Compatibility?
To isolate the problem furthere, did you deactivate all plugins except BuddyPress (and BP template pack or Genesis Connect) and see if you can log in?
@Boone Gorges That is what i done first ! But helas, it doesn’t work: i had a blank page.
And that is why i asked here…. but if you can give me the command syntax for that function_exists for bp_dtheme_blog_comments (i didn’t find it in WP or BP), i would appreciate ! 
Don’t hardcode the BP files, use child theme to make changes
The POT file is the catalogue. You have nothing to change in it.
The PO file is the work file
The MO file contains the PO compilated datas who will be read by WP
If you want to modify BP messages or different text, you have to edit a PO (without T) file. Use poEdit (or equivalent)
When you save the file, poEdit creates automaticaly a compilated mo file Your modification will be in this file, and this file had to be in the right folder on your site !
Also, if you use BP 1.2.8, your buddypress-xx_XX.mo should be in wp-content/languages folder, no more in buddypress/bp-languages
I have tried changing the text in the .pot file as you suggested but I still get this original message:
Sign Up Complete!
You have successfully created your account! To begin using this site you will need to activate your account via the email we have just sent to your address.
QUESTION: Any suggestion on where I can change this message? I also tried to change it in wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php, line 225 BUT also that did not work to change the message.
Actually, I just looked at the code, and the comment there is correct. The entire function is wrapped in a function_exists check, which means that you could simply put your own version of bp_dtheme_blog_comments() in your child theme’s functions.php, and it would override the one in bp-default (no changes to comments.php necessary). The way that you’ve done it will continue to work just fine, of course.
You’re right it could be better commented, but in BP’s defense, this is a core WP functionality, and part of just about every modern theme 
https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_comments
@Boone Gorges : great, thank you !
This should be documented somewhere in the BP doc
i only found this:
bp_dtheme_blog_comments( $comment, $args, $depth ) X-Ref
Template for comments and pingbacks.
To override this walker in a child theme without modifying the comments template
simply create your own bp_dtheme_blog_comments(), and that function will be used instead.
Used as a callback by wp_list_comments() for displaying the comments.
param: mixed $comment Comment record from database
param: array $args Arguments from wp_list_comments() call
param: int $depth Comment nesting level
This tells we can do something not how we can do that. You give the right answer
bp_dtheme_blog_comments() is a callback for wp_list_comments in comments.php. So the best way is to give your new version a different name (eg chouf_blog_comments() ) and then change comments.php in your new theme to call that function instead of the bp_dtheme version, eg
` ‘chouf_blog_comments’ ) ); ?>`
Unfortunately, this is quite complicated. Adding another item to the Order By dropdown is quite easy, using the ‘bp_members_directory_order_options’ hook (or putting the additional option directly in the members/index.php file of your theme). But making it actually work in terms of reordering will be complicated – it will involve hijacking part of the loading process, and filtering the members queries (see bp-core/bp-core-classes.php, around 193).
Here are all the related to bp_activity_action in BP 1.2.8
the function is defined in bp-activity-templatetags.php line 515
Not sure you’researching in the right direction…
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-activity.php]
Line 305 : function bp_activity_action_permalink_router() {
Line 340 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_permalink_router’, 3 );
Line 342 : function bp_activity_action_delete_activity() {
Line 362 : do_action( ‘bp_activity_action_delete_activity’, $activity_id, $activity->user_id );
Line 372 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_delete_activity’, 3 );
Line 374 : function bp_activity_action_post_update() {
Line 409 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_post_update’, 3 );
Line 411 : function bp_activity_action_post_comment() {
Line 441 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_post_comment’, 3 );
Line 443 : function bp_activity_action_mark_favorite() {
Line 459 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_mark_favorite’, 3 );
Line 461 : function bp_activity_action_remove_favorite() {
Line 477 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_remove_favorite’, 3 );
Line 479 : function bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed() {
Line 491 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_sitewide_feed’, 3 );
Line 493 : function bp_activity_action_personal_feed() {
Line 505 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_personal_feed’, 3 );
Line 507 : function bp_activity_action_friends_feed() {
Line 519 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_friends_feed’, 3 );
Line 521 : function bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed() {
Line 533 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_my_groups_feed’, 3 );
Line 535 : function bp_activity_action_mentions_feed() {
Line 547 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_mentions_feed’, 3 );
Line 549 : function bp_activity_action_favorites_feed() {
Line 561 : add_action( ‘wp’, ‘bp_activity_action_favorites_feed’, 3 );
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-themesbp-default_incajax.php]
Line 226 : do_action( ‘bp_activity_action_delete_activity’, $_POST, $activity->user_id );
Line 259 : do_action( ‘bp_activity_action_delete_activity’, $_POST, $comment->user_id );
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-themesbp-defaultactivityentry.php]
Line 15 :
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-blogsbp-blogs-widgets.php]
Line 42 :
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-activitybp-activity-classes.php]
Line 58 : $this->action = apply_filters( ‘bp_activity_action_before_save’, $this->action, &$this );
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-activitybp-activity-filters.php]
Line 12 : add_filter( ‘bp_activity_action_before_save’, ‘bp_activity_filter_kses’, 1 );
Line 21 : add_filter( ‘bp_activity_action_before_save’, ‘force_balance_tags’ );
wp-contentpluginsbuddypress 1.2.8bp-activitybp-activity-templatetags.php]
Line 377 : function bp_activity_action_name() { echo bp_activity_type(); }
Line 515 : function bp_activity_action() {
You mean iThemes Builder can’t load the BuddyPress template files transferred during the BP Template pack process? While iThemes hasn’t created a bridge to adapt BP to their themes, strange that they have not promoted using BP template pack instead.
As for additional styling, there’s a panel during the integration process where you have option to include the CSS provided in BP Template Pack to start you off. Then you just add/adjust styling to taste.
Which comments are you talking about ?
Blog comments ?
See here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_time
To do this, If you use BP 1.2.8, go to bp-themes/bp-default/functions.php or better to the functions.php of your child theme
In file there is a function bp_dtheme_blog_comments
Near line 78 change
`
to this
`
how to embed this function into your theme’s function ? read here:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-do-you-do-this/
By default, there is no cache system. It’s not possible that the output doesn’t change….except if your changes are not saved.
Work on local ! Do the text change in comments.php of your child theme and upload it via FTP
Refresh your browser history (ctrl+F5) and see if the change is done.
If you use BP 1.2.8, go to bp-activity/bp-activity-templatetags.php
at line 647 is function bp_activity_recurse_comments
with a if statement if ( is_user_logged_in() )
in which is the word “reply”
rewrite this function to retrieve the word and put it in the functions.php file of your theme
This is a solution, but probably they are others
Thank you guys so much for getting back to me. I really want to straighten out this page, our visitors are commenting all over the place or not at all.
@Chouf1 Yes, that is line is what I am changing, but the output doesn’t change.
@Virtuali Yes, that is the location that I have been working on, there was no comments.php in my child theme folder so I was editing the one in bp-default, when editing that didn’t change the output, I added a comments.php file to my child theme, still no change to the output. I tested the backend theme editor, when I added the comments.php to the child theme that is the one that it started editing, where before it had been edting the comments.php in the bp-default folder.
Maybe there is some kind of cache system I can’t find, I know in Joomla when I get this frustrated, I remember the built in cache, I have cntl-f5ed it a couple times.?????
iThemes Builder can’t load the layout that i’ve been creates to the buddypress activity page. However, it does not add any additional styling which could make specific BuddyPress pages look nicer.
=== i want to disable the hole buddypress stuff to get a clean wordpressblog to use my old and self styled wp-theme. ===
Do you mean you want to delete BuddyPress? https://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/deleting-buddypress/
that´s nice. but i think you got me wrong.
i want to disable the hole buddypress stuff to get a clean wordpressblog to use my old and self styled wp-theme.
@tmcandle
See my earlier post above.
A couple of great themes at http://BuddyLite.com
A Google search would turn up many more.
Yes that is what I am referring to the 103 theme. I used the current buddypress default theme when I did the update (to get the site working), but it appears to be a blogging theme (a more traditional WordPress one) and not a social networking theme like the 103 was. My home page had no blog at all on it and was oriented to widgets that provided resources and the blog area was on another page. I would like to get the 103 theme working in a compliant version but it is not listed in the themes section so I assumed it had not been updated. If you know where there is a compatible version please let me know and I will check it out (it would save me many hours of work).
Thanks
@tmcandle
Are you talking about the “BuddyPress Default Home Theme 1.0.3 by Andy Peatling” ? If you are, that theme has long since been updated. Buddypress comes with its own default theme which is now at version 1.2.8… and 1.3 is coming soon to a browser near you!
Will do – anyone know what it would take to make that theme compliant? I would guess a number of people would benifit from it.
Thanks
Sorry for not responding.
Your just looking for the Comments Function on your theme?
There is most likely a “comments.php” in your theme folder.
Sorry, i didn’t see you’re using 1.2.7….
The line you search is this one
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.7/bp-themes/bp-default/comments.php#L100
note that comments.php is the only file where this line exist.
if you search for specific things, this is a good starting point:
http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/hooks/
@rossagrant shucks, before you mentioned that changing usernames/passwords affected all other themes, I was going to write that you should get theme support from @Bowromir again
Seriously though, there’s a silver lining to discovering about the perils/shortcomings of Fantastico this early in your installation – knowing never to use it again for another developer installation as @nexia said. There are many who have posted their woes in WP.org forums. Shaving off a few minutes of uploading WP manually, creating a database and installing WP is not worth the hours wasted on a shaky foundation set up via Fantastico.
At this stage, it’s a blessing you only have 4 members a few groups etc which you can recreate later on. So it would come as no surprise that I would recommend starting your installation from scratch – clean and solid – after making DB and server files backup (just in case). Contact your webhost tech support on how to delete WP and Fantastico files properly. There’s one topic in WP.org forums which gives a clue but no actual solution https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fantastico-problem?replies=1 so you need your webhost tech support on this one.
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