Hi, I am currently using Buddypress 2.3.4, and my wordpress veirsion is 4.3.1 and its running with dazzling theme. I just setup my website with buddypress and trying to test registration function with my other emails. During testing, I’ve faced some weird situations. Mostly its about delaying the activation email. It happens frequently, mostly it happens to yahoo email. So, is there any solution for my situetion? I was setup registration page and activate page same as buddypress documentation.
I don’t have any knowledge about php, I just have some basic HTML & CSS knowledge.
So please tell me what to do? I just stuck with this isuue. I would be appreciate if someone could help me with this problem. Thank you very much.
My website URL is http://www.livbeauty.biz.
Hello Team,
I have just started using buddy press and I am very much happy with the performance of the theme.
I have one question. In the profile page of the user, it shows @username and nowhere it shows the name of the user. I also want to show the Name of the user near profile picture. Is it possible and how.
My Theme : Evolve
Buddy Press Version : 2.3.4
WordPress Version : 4.3.1
Thanks in advance for your help !!
Regards,
Sumti Bhadani
As many do, I have one username and password for all WordPress accounts. Today I can login to BuddyPress forum but not WordPress forum. Does this kind of glitch occur often? Is there anything I can do? I did get a password reset but that didn’t solve the problem. Thank you.
As many do, I have one username and password for all WordPress accounts. Today I can login to BuddyPress forum but not WordPress forum. Does this kind of glitch occur often? Is there anything I can do? I did get a password reset but that didn’t solve the problem. Thanks.
How can I make their avatars to sync with buddypress?
I want them to see the avatar they have had for years now in their buddy press profile I am installing.
Currently their avatars show in regular wordpress pages but not on buddypress pages, for example in the profile page or in the activity page.
thank you for your help
Just started the installation and already have run into a road block.
Under Setup Group and Sitewide Forums, item 8 deals with setting up the BuddyPress Group Forums in bbPress Settings and indicates that I need to go to Settings > Forums and scroll down to the BuddyPress section.
The problem is that there is no BuddyPress section under Settings > Forums.
This is a new site. I had originally installed BuddyPress 2.3.3 but just upgraded to 2.3.4. bbPress is at 2.5.8 and WordPress is 4.3.1.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance.
The following code…
<?php
// Use this file to customize Buddy Press
// This section changes the default avatar to the picture of a box
// the picture is uploaded into WordPress
add_filter( 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav','__return_true' );
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT’, ‘http://www.truesouthernmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0307152159-02-300×225.jpg’ );
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB’, ‘http://www.truesouthernmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0307152159-02-300×225.jpg’ );
?>
Returns this error when loading the page…..
Fatal error: Can’t use function return value in write context in /home/cody7670/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php on line 8
I am trying to change the default avatar on existing accounts I have a file at wp-content/plugins/bp-custom.php with the following code inserted…
<?php
// Use this file to customize Buddy Press
// This section changes the default avatar to the picture a box
// the picture is uploaded into WordPress
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT’, ‘http://www.truesouthernmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0307152159-02-300×225.jpg’ );
define ( ‘BP_AVATAR_DEFAULT_THUMB’, ‘http://www.truesouthernmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/0307152159-02-300×225.jpg’ );
?>
But the custom php file seems to have no effect. Any suggestions?
Hi,
I would like users to submit phone number on registration and automatically save it in a WordPress field.This should be only visible for admins, and therefore, the xProfile fields won’t work. To create a user the user fill out this form with password and email (Username is created programmatically).

I would like the phone number field there as well, but I’m not sure how to update the field at submission.
I tried to add the field with this code: <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" value="" class="regular-text" <?php bp_form_field_attributes('phone'); ?>
But the field is blank when I check in WP admin. Any idea how I can do this?
If i click to edit a user in WP admin I want the number to be added to this field.

I followed a tutorial to create the field, and added it to my function file with this code:
add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘my_show_extra_profile_fields’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘my_show_extra_profile_fields’ );
function my_show_extra_profile_fields( $user ) { ?>
<h3>Extra profile information</h3>
<table class=”form-table”>
<tr>
<th><label for=”phone”>Telefon</label></th>
<td>
<input type=”text” name=”phone” id=”phone” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘phone’, $user->ID ) ); ?>” class=”regular-text” /><br />
<span class=”description”>Vennligst angi ditt telefonummer slik ati </span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php }
add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘my_save_extra_profile_fields’ );
add_action( ‘edit_user_profile_update’, ‘my_save_extra_profile_fields’ );
function my_save_extra_profile_fields( $user_id ) {
if ( !current_user_can( ‘edit_user’, $user_id ) )
return false;
update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘phone’, $_POST[‘phone’] );
}`
Just commited Buddy Member Stats to Github, a plugin to get all BuddyPress related counts on user profile and BuddyPress Community Stats, a similar one acting at site level. This one is a fully rewamped version of the original who stopped to work normally around BP 1.7. New version make it compatible with WP 4.3+ and BP 2.3+
Community Stats display a basic community stats widget on dashboard, and can be added to any theme in sidebar, footer or elsewhere to your convenience.
Install from Github
===================
– download and unzip to wp-content/plugins/ directory
– remove -master from the folder name (git add this automatically)
– files starting by .git can also be removed
– go to dashboard > plugins and activate.
– read About page.
– go to dashboard > settings and setup the options. Save.
– You’re done.
Enjoy !
Try the BP Local Avatars plugin.
BuddyPress use Gravatar by default, like WordPress.
If your user uploaded custom avatars, you may use bp_core_fetch_avatar in place of wp’s get_avatar
http://oik-plugins.eu/buddypress-a2z/oik_api/bp_core_fetch_avatar/
More about avatars here and search for “avatar”
http://hookr.io/plugins/buddypress/#index=a
I have a site with 2000 users which I have decided to convert to a social network with buddy press. Many of the users already have an avatar. My surprise was that after installing buddypress, it is not picking up the users avatar.
Before, I could display the avatars with get_avatar() but I think buddypress uses a different function.
How can I make buddy press to use the wordpress installation avatars of my users?
Is there a plugin or a hook?
I really appreciate your help!
I have created a custom page in my theme and it is almost the same as the activity page.
I’ve added the activity post form and activity loop. It is all working fine, but the mentions popup doesn’t appear when writing out a mention name in the post form. This is because the mentions.js and mentions.css is not adding (though it does add and work if I turn comments on for that custom page in the WordPress admin). Also some plugins that use the activity post form such as activity plus plugin is not being added to the post form, but it works fine on the activity page. someone else had this problem: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-on-custom-page-template?replies=6.
Is there something I’m supposed to add to make buddypress load up properly on a custom page?
Hi, i am trying to link the user-name in my themes navigation to the user-profile (frontend).
I am on
Wordpress 4.3.1
Buddypress 2.3.4
True Mag Theme 4.1 by CactusThemes
In the theme options i can enable to extend the navigation by the user-name, avatar and a little dropdown menu with links to edit profile and to logout.
Unfortunately the user-name and avatar are empty links and i want to link them to the users profile.
I asked the theme author but he couldn’t help and said i should ask the buddypress author 😉
so this is the html/php code for that little navigation extension
<li class="menu-item current_us">
<?php
echo '<a class="account_cr" href="<strong>#</strong>">'.$current_user->user_login;
echo get_avatar( $current_user->ID, '25' ).'</a>';
?>
<ul class="sub-menu">
<li class="menu-item"><a href="<?php echo $link; ?>"><?php _e('Edit Profile','cactusthemes') ?></a></li>
<li class="menu-item"><a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url( get_permalink() ); ?>"><?php _e('Logout','cactusthemes') ?></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
as you can see the href on the first a is empty.
Can you tell me what i have to write there to link it to the users profile?
and additionally could you tell me how to link the ‘Edit Profile’ link to the frontend profil-edit screen and not to the wordpress backend?
i noticed that when i activate the extended profile component of buddypress that this works. but then i have to fill that undesired name field on “base”…
The website i am talking about is http://wordpress.freekickerz.net
Login credentials for testing purpose are hallo/hallo
if you need any more information please let me know.
greetings from Cologne, Germany
Jan
Hi, actually I’ve already added
add_post_type_support( 'recipe', 'buddypress-activity' );
to bp-custom.php in /wp-content/plugins. The recipes are counted in the “member activity stream”, but only the ones posted directly in the parent site, not the ones posted in the member’s blog.
I think it’s a pity you can’t use a “blog” as the user profile page, or at least give the user profile page, the same kind of customisation as a full blog install. I think this is more a “Facebook” kind of approach, everyone will have more or less the same kind of page, with minimal customisation option (I guess the header profile). But since WordPress already has a multisite option, and Buddypress already support multisite environment, have the chance to use the user’s blog as if it were his “user profile” would have been a huge facility.
@RafVin Here’s how to hide “All Members” tab with CSS.
Find a file called “style.css” in the wordpress active theme, add the code below and re-upload the file.
#buddypress div.item-list-tabs ul li.selected a {
display: none !important;
}
Warning! When you update your theme, you’ll loose these CSS changes so try doing this in a child theme if you’d like to retain the changes when you update your theme.
Showing custom tasks under personal? Well that requires some custom PHP coding or probably a plugin. Hopefully, someone will help you with this.
@konberg find a file called “style.css” in the wordpress active theme, add the code below and reupload the file.
#buddypress .standard-form div.radio div label {
text-transform: lowercase;
}
Warning! When you update your theme, you’ll loose these CSS changes so try doing this in a child theme if you’d like to retain the changes when you update your theme.
Let me know if that works.
The filter call is:
apply_filters_ref_array( 'bp_get_activity_content_body', array( $activities_template->activity->content, &$activities_template->activity ) );
Your function expects 2 parameters. Your add_filter call states there is only one.
And there is only one – an array.
Read about that kind of filter https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters_ref_array
Try something like this:
function cshp_add_thumbs_to_activity( $array ) {
$post_id = $array[1]->secondary_item_id;
//etc
$array[0] = // new content
return $array;
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_activity_content_body', 'cshp_add_thumbs_to_activity', 15, 1 );
Thanks for the reply on this and sorry just now getting back…life got in the way…can you explain in newbie elementary terms exactly what you were discussing in regards to having me show up as admin and not just looking like a logged in user on buddypress…what is happening is…when I log into my wordpress I show up on my webpage as like a logged in user..doesn’t say admin or anything…I want to be displayed as a admin/moderator for the site…how do I do this…in elementary terms please as I am new to WordPress although I have learned so much and have actually almost put up a complete website…but I am even newer to buddypress although I have it up on my site…these little kinks such as this one are getting in the way…thankful for this buddypress support forum….if you could help I would greatly appreciate it!! Rhonda
We had WordPress Multisite up and running on Windows Server 2008 for a few years before switching over to NGINX (we could never get the MS box to run quickly enough, and it needed to be restarted a fair amount when there was heavy traffic.)
Before we made the switch, we hired Ruslan Y to look over our configuration and make suggestions for optimizing. They were some great suggestions. I’ve copied the document he shared with us here. I’m not sure if he still does this, but you could try.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9yl4no9k_c2eFdDNlU2dnNnNTA/view?usp=sharing
Regardless of what plugin you end up using, it might be worth a few dollars to have someone look at your set up and optimize it. The biggest issue of running WP on IIS is that most support forums won’t have what you are looking for, and when you run into problems, you will be immediately dismissed because developers love to blame IIS for bugs when they hear you aren’t running on LAMP.
Just taking a guess here, but depending on your setup, you may not have the URL ReWrite module active. You need Pretty Permalinks to make BP work. Here’s a tutorial: http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress