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Preferred not to hack each site’s theme or the bp plugin.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-bar-disabler/

Removes the bp section as well. Can set by role or capability

Creating a child theme is not necessary. I figured out that if you create template files using the //Template Name you can go to the pages that BuddyPress makes and assign template pages to those pages. So you can create a file named activity.php and make it a template file and add the activity loop inside of that file. Once you have assigned that template to the Activity page in the WordPress dashboard you can then go to the BuddyPress settings and make sure that your Activity page is set up under the Activity drop down and save changes and it will work. I didn’t want to add unnecesary steps to making a single theme that did everything I needed. I will work on compiling a tutorial series on how to work with BuddyPress and then contribute it to the codex. Thank you for the response. Also if you look at the code in the BuddyPress plugin on the codebase you will see that bp-legacy is completely deprecated. There is compatibility code to not break old themes, but it is not the best way to do things.

I just figured that out. I have the activity folder added to the twentyfifteen theme. I am trying to modify the file, but it really doesn’t look like it should. I am logged in and I dont see any activity nor do i see the message Sorry, there was no activity found, Please try a different folder.

I am so confused and frustrated. I am pretty competent with wordpress as well as php, and i don’t feel like this should be so difficult.

Hey,

Thanks for the response, i am so silly i cant believe i didnt realise they were always there but because i am logged in i cant access them i can only see them using incognito window or when logged out.

Do you know how i can “log out” without logging out of my wordpress site?

Many thanks Henry!

Yes that is what would be needed, but how can i assign “.some-wrapper-class” to the element i am trying to resize ? I am still a newbie with wordpress and buddypress … i have looked all over the net and couldnt find anything helpful.

Best,
Yvan

Hi Henry,

Yes i have done that, but there’s still no option for users to join groups, nor anything other than very basic styling.

Whereas the documentaiton shows a ‘group directory’ which looks like this

I have no group avatars, join now buttons or anything like that. Do we actually have to create all those basic features manually every time? I would have thought it should be automatic…?

Thanks

This is everything what is written to the log after i tried to upload an image:

[02-Dec-2015 17:45:42 UTC] PHP Notice:  bp_setup_current_user was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. The current user is being initialized without using $wp->init(). Please see <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Debugging_in_WordPress">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 1.7.) in /home/***/domains/***/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3622
[02-Dec-2015 17:45:43 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot use object of type WP_Error as array in /home/***/domains/***/public_html/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-avatars.php on line 874

So i’ve had some success trying to change the profile links with this code:

function _bp_core_get_user_domain($domain) {
	$url = get_home_url();
	$user_id = bp_get_member_user_id();
	if (empty($user_id)) {
		$user_id = bp_get_activity_user_id();
	}
	if (empty($user_id)) {
		//$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
	}
	$user_info = get_userdata($user_id);
	$link = $user_info->display_name;
	$domain = '' . $url . '/profiles/' . $link . '';
	return $domain;
    }
add_filter('bp_core_get_user_domain', '_bp_core_get_user_domain', 10, 4);
apply_filters( 'bp_get_activity_user_link', '_bp_core_get_user_domain', 15, 1);

This seems to work on every profile link except the one in the activity header section. This link is being changed but just to /profiles/. The display name is not being added to the end… so looking at my code this means i’m not retrieving the user id in the activity. Strangely enough though the user avatar next to the post has the correct link applied to it with the above filter! Any ideas?

My other option is to use the buddypress member profile location but replace it with my profile templates. I tried to implement this by creaing a members/single/home.php in my wordpress custom theme folder… but the profile loads inside another page, i get a page within a page type effect with the username above the inner page… not sure what is going on there? If anyone can help with either of these solutions i’d really appreciate it!

James

Sorry for keeping you guys in the dark but what I’ve discovered is that BP’s implementation of member types is pretty underwhelming since it’s only an xprofile field. In regards to my original use case, I discovered I was better off defining custom user roles (AKA member types) and adding appropriate permissions. This can easily be achieved with a few simple lines of code in your functions.php or your custom plugin. If coding isn’t your thing then there are a bunch of freemium plugins available for you to use. Why the Buddypress team elected not to leverage WordPress’ built in User Roles for this feature is beyond me, but if anybody is still looking for an answer to this then I highly recommend checking out the WordPress Codex on User Roles and Capabilities. Hope this helps!