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Hi @ingeB1983

I’m sorry you’re having problems. Thank you for letting us know.

* How were you customising your activation emails?
* Is your site sending other emails correctly, or are all emails broken? Can you test to be sure?
* Are you running WordPress multisite, or regular WordPress?
* Do you run any plugins that change wp_mail or affect how emails are delivered? For example, any plugins that send email via Mailchimp, etc?

@mi423 Thanks for the feedback! And sorry for introducing a new bug. We try not to do that. 🙂

I’ve created a bug report at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6937 which you can monitor for updates, or partipicate. Our first question is: what BuddyPress components do you have enabled?

Specifically, is the Activity component *not* enabled?

Yes, the French translation needs to be updated for BuddyPress 2.5. See https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/stable/fr/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc

@brx8r Yep. 🙂

The last one isn’t a bug. Let me try to explain.

* “The Keeper” is your BuddyPress name.
* “the-keeper” is the version of your name used in URLs and for at-messages.

If your BuddyPress name looks like “firstname lastname”, BuddyPress will, by default, split that on the space into “firstname” and “lastname”, and sets those as your First Name and Last Name in the WordPress user profile (in wp-admin -> Users -> Edit).

The “What’s new” box is pretty old at this point and it must have been built to specifically fetch the “First Name”. Thus the “The” 😀

Thanks so much for your step by step guide @mcUK. I’ve followed your instructions, but am stuck on changing the CSS Selector. The theme I’m using is (http://themeforest.net/item/sweet-date-more-than-a-wordpress-dating-theme/full_screen_preview/4994573), I’m trying to put the notifications in the top menu (Welcome/Features/Forums… on the demo, but I’ve added Buddypress menu items there). Do you know which selector I would need to use for that? Many thanks.

@lanvalencia The Spanish translation still needs to be completed for BuddyPress 2.5. The new phrases for the emails have not been translated: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/dev/es/default

Maybe you can help @_dorsvenabili get those done 😀

After the translation is updated, and after WordPress downloads the updated language pack (the .mo and .po files), go to wp-admin > Tools > BuddyPress and run the “Reinstall emails” tool.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/kQj5CtT.png

This will reinstall the emails in Spanish for you.

Thank you for using BuddyPress!

The alternative to having WordPress posts as “topics” and WordPress comments as “topic replies” is to theme bbPress. Check out the Theme Compat article for some introductory info. You can either use an already-made theme, or have a go at developing something unique yourself.

Hi @mcuk , I’ve added Buddypress menu items (e.g. messages, notifications etc.) in my main WordPress menu, together with WordPress menu items (e.g. home). I also want to have the notification counters next to each of the Buddypress items, but am struggling to get your solution to work for me (doesn’t help I’m not that proficient in coding)! Should I add the code above to the functions.php of my child theme, and is it only that one file I need to edit?

Many thanks.

Running the dev build means you’re not getting the optimised CSS / JS files.

If you’re able to deploy with a SVN checkout instead of Git, you could use svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/tags/xxx/ --ignore-externals which will not include the bbPress folder from the checkout.

Can you try the following fix?
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/10586/branches/2.4/src/bp-messages/bp-messages-functions.php

This is scheduled to be released with BuddyPress 2.5 this week, but you can try this fix temporarily.

Hi John

If you’re referring to the BuddyPress Activity Plus plugin, try asking this same question on their support forum.

I believe you can simply delete /bp-forums/bbpress/ and you should be good to go.

However, I understand that this is annoying for WP Engine as you might have to do this manually each time BuddyPress has an update.

An alternative is to pull the development version of the codebase (SVN or Git) from buddypress.trac.buddypress.org. Then, you can checkout the current maintenance branch (currently 2.4, but will be 2.5).

The development version does not include the older version of bbPress; we only include the older version when bundling it for a release.

Hopefully that helps somewhat.

Try: https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-profile-message-ux/

You could create a mini plugin for this which uses wp_enqueue_script to enqueue a custom script.

Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

BuddyPress users are WordPress users; they are the same.

If you are talking about making those users active in BuddyPress terms, then those users would need to login at least once.

See:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6633

Particularly:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6633#comment:3

If you are interested in testing BP 2.5, maybe you can try in a local environment?

These MIGHT help.

Group Home Page

or

Link a Page to Groups

Both actually do what they say they’ll do and MAY be a part solution for your project.

Take a look at Theme My Login. That plugin has a redirection module which will help you do that.

You will need to write custom code for that task.
There is lots of existing code/plugins that does similar things.
You could probably tweak an existing plugin to only work for your client.

Google: ‘wordpress comment email notification plugin’

I’m not aware of any code re ‘Clone Group’.
And it would be very easy for such code to create a real mess.

imo, this is definitely plugin territory.
Look at the generate groups code in this plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-default-data/