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BuddyPress used to come with it’s own theme, it’s still there though not really supported.

The theme dictates the look and feel of your site so recommendation is difficult, also there’s a choice to be made between premium and free themes.

For the free themes just take a look over on the WordPress Themes Directory

Hi,

BuddyPress use templates to show his stuff.
The registration is part of WP and BP’s xprofile component add only some additionnal fields to the original register form.

If you open a template file you will see a lot of code and many lines starting by do_action( ‘something’ );

These files are all stored in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/

Now you have already the where and the what. here’s the how.

To show some text on the register page you have two options:
1) altering the whole template file bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/register.php
2) add what you want by using an action hook

The second method is the fasted and the easiest. You just need to write a function and you’re done.

function valeriemanne() {
   echo 'Here i am !';
}
add_action( 'bp_before_register_page', 'valeriemanne' );

Add this to your child theme functions.php file or into bp-custom.php

WordPress codex references
add_action
Child theme

This may of may not be of help:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-custom-profile-menu/

Think this was the plugin Hugo was thinking of, it’s not been updated in 4 years though.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-announce-group/

Thanks @wordpressrene, I’m having a closely related issue. WP 4.6.1, BP 2.7.2.

Just to restate the issue for clarity, my client brought to my attention what she considers to be a bug: in places such as the members listing and individual profiles, no recent update is shown for some members who *have* been active.

looking around in the code, it appears that the bp_member_latest_update() function seems to not include forum replies or activity comments, just updates.

HOWEVER, the bp_member_last_active() function DOES include activity comments in its calculation of how much time has passed since the user interacted with the site. One sees that a person was active, but for some mysterious reason that activity isn’t shown. My personal opinion is that all activity, including activity comments, should be included in bp_member_latest_update() by default, but my guess is that this is by design.

Any advice as to how to print out a user’s most recent activity regardless of its type? Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks everyone!

What you could do is install WPFront User Role editor, one of the features of this plugin is that it allows you to choose menu items as not being visible until you are logged in etc.

with this?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-message-attachment/

Also, turn on WP Debug and check your error logs.

Hi,

You have to install BP correctly on WordPress as very first.
This means particulary that you use WordPress with one of default’s Twenty theme.
– install BuddyPress
– activate the component you want to use
– ensure that each component has his own page
– pretty permalinks must be activated too.

To get a proper register page, allow user registration in WP settings and add manually, if not created automatically, a “register” page to BP.

NOTE: BP pages are not usual WP pages. They are only placeholder (a unique ID in the wp ecosystem) where BP will show dynamic content. These page must be unique and shouldn’t be asigned to any template or model. Give them a title and you’re done.

once WP+BP work correctly together and you can access to the register page without trouble, you can be sure that this couple is definetly OK.

No it’s time to activate a custom theme if you use one. An if something gooes wrong at this stage you’re sure it’s the new theme who is the culprit.

And if the new theme is working correctly with WP+BP, you can install plugins.

And again, WP+BP+Theme = OK, but what about the plugin ?

Easy to understand, easy to build, very annoying to write this for the 589 000 time, but still the only way to install BP.

On your side, you need to follow these steps, but also to read the documentation from codex and of course, from any additionnal plugin you want to use !

That said, be warned that we can’t assist you on this forum with third party premium theme or plugins as we have no free access to their code.

You want to hide the Members menu item from non logged in users?

I use WPFront User Role Editor, that allows you to choose if menu items are displayed for non logged in members or not.

Perhaps you can spare time and use https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddy-progress-bar/ ?

hi @robcnz,

not tested, but sounds doable

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I actually think that’s a WordPress issue, however, I can’t replicate your fault, so it must be a plugin conflict or similar that is causing this.

Just guessing…

Try using the bp_ready hook instead of bp_init.

Try adding the priority to the call:
remove_filter( 'bp_get_the_profile_field_description', 'wp_filter_kses', 1 );

Try adding your attributes to the $allowedtags global.
https://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/201762/add-html-tags-to-the-allowed-tags-list-in-wordpress

You can request one be added here

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

BuddyPress doesn’t create a database. It only add it’s own tables to the existing WordPress db.

Why are these tables not created ? Impossible to say without more details about your server configuration and more information about how, what and where you tried to install the plugin.

Hi @mthant,

sorry for your menu trouble, but it seems to me, after visiting your site, that you omitted some important settings steps. So let’s try to set up properly your site menu before adding BP related conditionnals.

1) Each active BP component should have his unique page.
2) Site should have pretty permalinks activated (whatever option but default)

For example step 1 indicate that your register page is at /site/register-2. This could be correct, but tells that you created a page called register first, than removed it, and finally recreated a second “register” page. This explains why you have “-2” in the URL and probably a page in the trash. You have to clear it definetly. And you have to ensure that the slug is /register/. Go to dashboard > Pages > Quick edit and correct it.

As BP is active, you should also have a page called by default “members”. His default url should be http://7fc.d70.myftpupload.com/members/.
I assume you renamed it to “directory”. Problemen is that “directory” doesn’t show the member directory, or no message telling visitors they have to log in to see this page…

And as you use a lot of different directories, it is confusing, even for you when you try to build a menu.

But you’re using Salutation, which is a premium theme and i can’t help you further to set it up correctly.
But you could activate a Twenty theme for the time you need to create and test how WP menus are created and displayed. And perhaps read through Salutation documentation too. 😉

Here’s BP guide about the BP menu you can add aside the site main menu.

And here, the access to any menu related codex articles.

If you are a newbie you might like to check out my website – http//:buddyuser.com, it’s aimed at getting newbies up to speed.

Regarding your issue with menus, is this not a more general WordPress/Theme issue? What happens when you replace those BuddyPress Options with other options, do you still get the same behaviour?

thank you for sharing @peterspliid, but it would also be usefull for the devs that you add your fix to this ticket: https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7349

so at least it will be taken in consideration.