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First you’ll need to add an additional option to the BP dropdown select menu for “activity”.
Check out the “bp_search_form_type_select” filter in bp_search_form_type_select() (located in bp-core-templatetags.php) to add your own.

Then you’ll need to modify the bp_ajax_querystring so it adds the search_terms parameter as Andy has stated above.
Check out the “bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring” filter in the bp-default theme’s /_inc/ajax.php.

You’ve probably got a javascript error of some type. Does it work on the default theme?

Closing this thread per standard practice. Contact the OP above if you’re interested.

Yeah I sent some suggestions.

99% of the wordpress themes out there are gpl. snag away.

no default copyright message in BP
https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/branches/1.2/bp-themes/bp-default/footer.php

but otherwise create a child theme file for footer.php

i’m confused – do you want to restrict the group settings->enable forum option (which restrict group creation plugin can do) or restrict creating a new topic within the group forum? if the later – don’t forget this theme file as well https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/forum.php

Add to your theme’s style.css
div#item-header span.activity { display: none; }
This will also hide same in Group’s pages

Edit – ok @hnla that was fast

Simplest way would be to delete the markup entirely in /members/single/member-header.php

removing this line:
<span class=”activity”><?php bp_last_activity( bp_displayed_user_id() ) ?></span>

Preferably in a child theme copy of the file.

Hi Anton, no you didn’t miss something, I did … missed the limit “topic” in post because of title “Forum create only available to certain members”
Change line 38 in https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2.5.2/bp-themes/bp-default/groups/single/group-header.php from
if ( bp_is_group_forum() && is_user_logged_in() && !bp_is_group_forum_topic() ) :
to
if ( bp_is_group_forum() && current_user_can(‘level_7’) && !bp_is_group_forum_topic() ) :

I was thinking that with @nuprn1‘s plugin activated, one can also use a conditional to target group admin and group mod specifically

I use P2 for user blogs and it works pretty good but then you feel like you want even more available to the user as far as an full editor with categories, custom fields, and other features like widgets, and switching themes….and that’s just not worth hacking up P2, so there’s also styling the backend so that it looks like your theme, for that check out wpengineer.com for some functions that’ll allow you to skin your wp admin. there may even be some plugins up to the task now, i haven’t checked. You could also get someone to develop some custom forms that could be placed on a page only viewable to the admin user. So there’s alot of creative ways to do it but ultimately…I think the push for frontend editing is getting bigger and bigger, and theme developers will begin including frontend features — if we show there is a demand.

Yes, BP works with almost any theme. You’d have to do some adjustments though.

Most themes are

header
content
sidebar
footer

The content area on a regular WP theme has the loop that shows you blog posts. BP can fit inside the content of almost any theme. It’s like extra pages with a loop for BP stuff instead of blog posts.

So to make BP work on another theme you have to match the content divs. If the theme you want to use has a content div like this.

div id=”myContent” >
div id=”padding” >

Then on the BP page HTML you have to make the content divs match. The BP content structure might look like this.

div id=”content” >
div class=”padder” >

So you’d need to change it to match the the theme.

You can contact @Andrea_r at http://wpmututorials.com as well

bp_group_creation_tabs() is called directly in the bp-default theme; /groups/create.php. Override that file in your theme and change the function call.

ok, i found some delete references on the activty comments that do not have any sort of filter on them (actually this goes back to a trac i need to file – https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2530 )

under the functions:
bp_dtheme_new_activity_comment() – ajax.php
bp_activity_get_comments( $args = '' ) – bp-activity-templatetags.php

Otherwise everything uses the same activity template

the div new-topic-post is hidden by jQuery (see global.js ) after the page loads – you could change up a child theme to hide this div within the html first.

@djpaul “if we encouraged people to edit the default theme or any of the core BuddyPress files directly, most of those people are going to come back and complain….”

That’s why I think it is important to start separating the BP plugin from themes.

@andrea_r You made a BP child theme to a theme that is not BP compatible?

We have to try to get things to work for 80% of our users; if we encouraged people to edit the default theme or any of the core BuddyPress files directly, most of those people are going to come back and complain when we release a new version of BuddyPress because they won’t understand what’s really happened.

Theme developers of course have two options — either as a child theme, of BuddyPress’ bp-default or one of the many other theme frameworks, or as a seperate/existing theme with the BuddyPress template files copied in. Both have their disadvantages and advantages.