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I’m guessing you have an older plugin that you want to support with the newer theme compatibility standard.

Since you’re referencing bp_core_load_template( 'activity/index' ) in your example, I’m guessing you are trying to add theme compat for a new slug in the activity directory (eg. example.com/activity/new-slug/)? If so, you’ll want to copy the following code, rename the class and change a few things, so it is applicable to your plugin:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.1/bp-activity/bp-activity-screens.php#L301

Then you would load up your new class with the bp_core_load_template() call.

if ( class_exists( 'BP_Theme_Compat' ) ) {
     new BP_Activity_WHATEVER_YOUR_CLASS_IS_CALLED_Theme_Compat;
}
bp_core_load_template( 'activity/index' );

@jovicar something like https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-registration-groups-1/ ?

that I’m using the BuddyPress default theme

@lorns Change to the Twenty Fourteen theme.
Strange that you could see and activate to the BP Default theme in a new installation http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/the-future-of-the-bp-default-theme/

But if I act as a new user, I cannot register using the BuddyPress register page.

Please make sure that you’re logged out first before going to the register page. If you were logged out, do give steps or more information to replicate the issue.

@giorgosnl Next time, please start a new topic as moderators could miss your post.

But when I click on upload image it redirects to my profile and will change admins image??

When I checked the issue you posted, the avatar was correctly changed in user’s profile but the update did redirect after completion to the Site Admin’s profile page. The issue was also posted at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5580 and fix is slated for BP 2.1.

If your issue is not resolved with the patch after changing to one of WP Default themes and deactivating all plugins except BP to exclude conflicts, please feel free to create a new trac ticket using your WP username and password to log in.

You’ll probably get a better answer using the support forum for that plugin.

My guess would be that you are hooking too early and the remove_action calls fire before those add_actions exist.
Maybe try a hook other than ‘plugins_loaded’.
Have you tried ‘bp_include’.

Filters have to return something.
You’re only returning if a condition is met.
So no buttons will appear.

And you aren’t passing the $arg, so you can’t return it.

Try:

function hideAddFriend($button){
	$caps = get_user_meta(bp_get_member_user_id(), 'wp_capabilities', true);
	$roles = array_keys((array)$caps);
	// Hide friendship buttons
	if(in_array("inactive", $roles)){
		return '';
	}
        return $button;	
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_add_friend_button', 'hideAddFriend');

also – are you sure that your get_user_meta approach to retrieving ‘inactive’ is working?

The way I achieve this is by using wordpress blank avatar and css.
In wordpress dashboard Settings -> Discussion, change default avatar to Blank.
In your css file add this (after uploading the image you want to use ->

.avatar {background:url(image/custom_avatar.png) 0 0px no-repeat!important;background-size:100%, 100%!important;}

i think this setting is on the options-reading.php page in WordPress 2.0.1 and is now called:

Search Engine Visibility 	
Search Engine Visibility Discourage search engines from indexing this site
It is up to search engines to honor this request.

…not 100% sure though…

Should the child theme be under themes or templates?

@jeremiahward I assumed that you created a child theme of your theme so that whatever modifications you make won’t be overridden when you upgrade your theme. As noted in WP codex, the child theme should be in the same folder as your parent theme is, i.e., wp-content/themes/your-child-theme-folder. Thus, if you go the child theme route, that index.php file mentioned above would go into wp-content/themes/your-child-theme-folder/buddypress/activity/index.php – so should the other BP files you modified

i am still having this problem and have updated to the latest versions of buddypress and wordpress…

@godavid33 some links which could help you
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-groups-extras/
– https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-fields-to-group-creation-with-group-extension-api-please-read/page/3/
– http://buddydev.com/buddypress/blog-categories-for-groups-plugin/
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-groupblog/
– https://wordpress.org/plugins/external-group-blogs/

@jeremiahward copy over https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.0.1/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/activity/index.php to your child theme folder following directory structure of your-theme/buddypress/activity/index.php and remove lines 7 through 11

@avfregeau go to Pages > All Pages, click to edit the Register page. When the register page panel opens up, choose the one column template which the theme you’re using seems to have per theme tags https://wordpress.org/themes/fruitful

@dainismichel Please make sure that any commercial theme you purchase is compatible with the latest version of BP. If it claims it is compatible with latest BP version, then they should fix the issue/s you have encountered.

Re child theme of the BP Default Theme: if you find that after adding
add_filter( 'bp_do_register_theme_directory', '__return_true' ); to your theme’s functions.php file that there are still issues, please post a ticket with all relevant information at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket by logging in with your WP username and password

BuddyPress is compatible with nearly all WP themes which do not replace the_title and the_content with their own proprietary/framework tags.

@canadadre Please do confirm with woo first about compatibility with BP. As for Genesis themes, they have https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-connect-for-buddypress/ but it’s always best to confirm with them first

@henrywright 🙂

I did the same research as @kansas3d – multiselect only saves the last of multiple fields on the xprofile edit screen. I am running BP 2.0.1 (WP 2.9.1), and have confirmed that rolling back to BP 1.9 (not BP 2.0) fixes the issue. I disabled all plugins and experienced the same problem in my custom theme (built on Bones, not TwentyFourteen-derived).

Converting multiselect to checkboxes allows for multiple value saving, but is not optimal. I have tracked down some similar tickets (#2176 from BP 1.2 and there’s another somewhere…)

Update – it appears there is an open ticket (#5672) related to this:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5672

@noizeburger i have followed all the instructions. I don’t get any errors. My problem is the User Role doesn’t change upon new registration. It wont change it from the DEFAULT ROLE set in WordPress/Settings/General/New User Default Role [Author]. Any Suggestions?