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See template entry.php

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.3.3/src/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/entry.php

Caution: modification are preferably done via child-theme.

That’s WP Toolbar user menu with BP user menu as subnav.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Toolbar

Googling for custom howdy menu will bring a lot of answers.

“when user reply or comment on any post” – when I hear that I think of replying to a post in wordpress language, which is a chrono blog post, and not a ‘static “page” ‘ – however I am going to assume you mean replying in the various comment reply places all throughout buddypress; like activity comments, group updates, etc.

I am confused by what you are saying, but it’s only becuase I have no clue about how any of these things work. I’m still trying to learn php and then going to try to learn how wp and bp actually works – and that looks like it’s gonna take a long time.

However now that you have provided some details I am sure one of the much smarter people around here will be able to guide you in the right direction.

Hi guys
we are looking for solution to get buddypress notifications work on our theme, we know it will be shown on wordpress’s default top tool bar but we want it to show somewhere else.

We are using WP 4.3 with buddypress 2.3.3, we have added these to theme’s functions.php

function bpfr_add_notification_to_page_title( $title, $original_title, $sep  ) {
	
	//do not change if the user is not logged in
	if( ! is_user_logged_in() )
		return $title;
	
	$user_id = get_current_user_id();//logged in user's id
	
	$count = bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( $user_id );
	
	if( $count > 0 )
		$title = sprintf( "You Have %d New Notification(s) - ", $count );
	
	return $title;
	
	
}
add_filter( 'wp_title', 'bpfr_add_notification_to_page_title', 100, 3 );

then we add these to theme ‘s menu location

<?php echo bp_notifications_get_unread_notification_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ); ?>

but it is showing nothing, what is the correct steps to make this work please?

thanks

Do you know how do_action works?
There is no need to include any WP or BP files.
Just make sure the hooks are available when you call them.
For example, in your plugin loader, use ‘bp_ready’ hook to call a function that will include any of your plugin files that rely on BP hooks.

By default, when using BP’s site wide activity component and if user is logged in, you’ll see a Fav/Unfav button under each activity. This means that you can fav/unfav an activity, not directly a post.

To get a similar button near a blog post, you’re no more on the activty page and need to add a separate code. Read from here how to do this. More or less…

WP Favorite plugin is not made to work with BuddyPress, just aside.
Edit: you’re lucky, found this topic how to make it work.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-favorite-posts-and-buddypress

@itslino – yeah I don’t see much about them in there either – the theme docs are a mess here, and non-existent for 2015 theme as well.

There was some site that listed a bunch of wordpress code and buddypress code – searchable and such, but I can’t .. wait I think it’s called hookr.io or something – found it – http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=a if you type css in the filter box it limits what is displayed – it may help – but not sure. I have no idea how that works, if it’s up to date, and if all bp styling stuff actually has “css” in it’s tag or whatever.

I guess you could change to 2014 theme and go to each page and right click property inspector and copy the css.. then put that into notepad and search for everything “buddypress” – at least that’s what I have been thinking about doing.. I think there is also some different styles with 2014 and 2015 depending on what screen size you are viewing with – so may hve to check various media queries.. no idea if there is a better way.

I want to make some custom bp themes, but I can’t even get proper docs on working with latest / best coding practices with the wp default themes at the moment. There is some details on thesis.com err.. themeshaper.com – I think that stuff is out of date though –

If you get it figured out I’d love to see some info put together on all this.

man your theme there has a lot of places where the background color is set.. some for different screen sizes.. some just setting the background for menu and the search box..

open up your style.css and do a ctrl+f (find) for: background

start trying different values is all I can guess. I can’t find that particular rule using property inspector or firebug.. maybe you just need to add the rule. (save a copy of your original)

I’m not really sure, and not a css expert or anything..

But this isn’t really a byddypress fourm question – it’s more of a question for the theme and plugin designers perhaps.. maybe do some searches for “modifying wordpress themes”

@projectslimited – yeah, welcome to the club! I had one bp site with registration turned off for 18 months.. turned it on to test some thing – hours later – dozens of new “groups” and spam accounts.

My main site I depend on buddypress humanity as main line of defense.. but also add the plugin “good question” (changing the defaults on these two!)

I also use “geo ip block” on all wp sites now. (changing some defaults)

that seems to help 95% – then I got so tired of the manual spammers that I added the apache gep redirect thing from maxmind lite.. and block all visits from Russia, China, Ukraine, and a few others completely.

Saves a ton of bandwidth and server resources – and makes it easier to find the cdir blocks of US and UK ISPs to block via htaccess (none of my web site visitors are using COLO Crossing Transport to visit my site- so all their cidrs eg:
23.94.144.0/20
23.94.144.0 – 23.94.159.255

blocked…

I have been messaging with a wordpress plugin author about modding his plugin that pulls info from failed logins and puts them into iptables – suggesting a few mods that can make that info useful to those of us who do not have access to or want to get into iptables modsec stuff – hopefully those suggestions will come into a new version of that plugin later this year.

with my multi-site setup I use a ‘new blog defaults’ plugin to set any new blogs created to automaticcaly have the noindex setting in wordpress, and noinded nofollow settings from yaost.. so even if one manual spammer gets in and makes blog – it does no good, and does not show up on the radar of the other spammers.

I recently had to block Japan entirely as I started getting daily spam hits from there.. of course each person’s setup will vary – I can’t block all countries on all my sites, so some sites I set the ip geo block to whitelist just one or two.. on other sites I setup a blacklist to block 20 or so..

Just looked it up

 * Filter SQL query strings to swap out the 'meta_id' column.
 *
 * WordPress uses the meta_id column for commentmeta and postmeta, and so
 * hardcodes the column name into its *_metadata() functions. BuddyPress, on
 * the other hand, uses 'id' for the primary column. To make WP's functions
 * usable for BuddyPress, we use this just-in-time filter on 'query' to swap
 * 'meta_id' with 'id.

Seems as though it’s used to make WP *_metadata() functions compatible with BP.

I agree it sounds as though you’ll need a bookmarking plugin as the “core”. There are most probably lots to choose from in the WordPress Plugin Directory. My advice is set up a WordPress site locally for testing, install BuddyPress and try out some of the bookmarking plugins to see which suits your idea best.

Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.

Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.

My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!

Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:

A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”

So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.

I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….

afaik, there is no option.
Try this in your theme/functions.php

function larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications() {
    remove_action( 'bbp_new_reply', 'bbp_buddypress_add_notification', 10, 7 );
}
add_action( 'bbp_loaded', 'larnoult_remove_bbpress_notifications', 99  );

You may need to tweak the priority settings.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_action

To the best of my knowledge, you can’t have 2 themes activated at the same time. You should choose a WordPress theme and then make use of the BuddyPress Template Hierarchy to customise the BuddyPress portion of your website.

You can put anything you want in $message

For example:

$subject = ' this is the subject line for the message';
$message = 'this is the message';
wp_mail( $admin_email, $subject, $message );

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail

Hi,

Thanks for posting. Are you using an older version of WordPress?

In BP 2.3.3, we added support for WordPress 4.3 in the Activity and Groups dashboards without checking for older WordPress installs.

This is how the fatal error occurred.

To fix this temporarily until we release a new version, apply this patch to BuddyPress:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6606/6606.01.patch

BuddyDrive is a good solution.

You may have some URL conflicts?

For example, I may have a page called WordPress here:

example.com/wordpress

Then if I install a second instance of WordPress in a sub dir called wordpress, I’d have:

example.com/wordpress

It’s all I can think of.

You’d need to think about your database too. That could cause some issues.

These plugins should address parts of #12:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-local-avatars/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-identicons/

I do list “plupload.full.min.js” and other similar scripts in Autoptimze “Exclude list”

If you don’t include required files, things tend not to work.

Check out Theme My Login. I’ve used it alongside BuddyPress many times and can say it works well.

@karllundgren – neat site and tutorial there I agree.

It seems that is a premium theme, not a free theme from the wordpress repository, and it’s certainly not the default 2014 or 2014 wordpress theme – which means you chance of getting answers here (about theme display issues) in the bp forums are pretty slim.

You should direct this question to the theme author. I would be interested in what they come up with as a solution.