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please post at theme’s forums https://wordpress.org/support/theme/ibuddy

There are probably a couple things happening:

1. There is a hardcoded check to is_super_admin() in bp_core_process_spammer_status(). That check would fail during a cron job. BuddyPress should probably separate out the business logic of this function from the permissions checks. This would be appropriate for an enhancement ticket.

2. Certain parts of BuddyPress are only loaded at some times. If you’re going to modify BP’s behavior, or use functions from BP, you need to make sure you’re waiting for BP to be loaded before doing so. It’s possible that load order works differently during cron than during regular page loads, so it’s extra important to pay attention to these rules. In short, anything that needs to hook to a BuddyPress action, or use BuddyPress functions, should be in files that are loaded at 'bp_include' or later. (See https://codex.buddypress.org/plugindev/checking-buddypress-is-active/). I’m glancing at wangguard-admin.php, and it looks like there are quite a few places where you’re attempting to do BP stuff in the main plugin file – try breaking it out into a separate, BP-specific file, which is loaded in the manner described in that link.

If you can, you might also try turning up your error reporting level on your test installation, making sure that it’s going to your Apache error log or wp-content/debug.log. It could be that something’s happening that’s causing a non-fatal error, and your php.ini settings are too low for it to be showing up. wp-cron can be sensitive to that sort of thing.

Welcome pack by Paul Gibbs will allow you to customise the text in all emails that get sent out via BuddyPress
https://wordpress.org/plugins/welcome-pack/

With reference to the emails not getting through to users, perhaps try reverting to the default theme, deactivate all plugins (aside from BP) and see if the problem is still happening.

Hi @djouonanglandry,

Thanks for wanting to help users find solutions to enhance or fix their BuddyPress sites but I must ask that you not reply to users topics with requests for payment in exchange for your services.

This forum is volunteer based, the users here help each other out as BuddyPress is open source and free to use. Volunteer support is a way for the users to give back to the project.

You can however reply to paid support requests:
https://buddypress.org/support/forum/bp-jobs-board
http://jobs.wordpress.net

Or try one of the many freelance sites.

@raymond8

https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/install-buddypress-on-a-secondary-blog/#1-configure-the-bp_root_blog ?

@synaptic Check out https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-secure-invites/

Hi @welshdemo

The theme’s fine. The problem is actually caused by a bug in our widgets (you’re using the Members list and the “Who’s online?” widgets). We’re tracking the bug here https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5170 and currently aiming to fix it by the 2.0 release, which is probably 4 months away. If we get a fix before then, we’ll put it into a 1.9.x small release.

A workaround is to make sure that no BuddyPress widgets are rendered before the main content of the page. i.e. try moving the widgets to the right-hand column, or a widget area at the bottom of the page, or just removing the widgets.

This was cross-posted to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/private-message-and-button-doesnt-always-appear-empty

@barboncaves

wordpress/buddypress uses the template file ( ie footer.php ) in the child theme directory if it exists, otherwise it uses the parent’s file.

*.php files are simple text files and normally everything means something. Most things have opening and closing tags which you need to be aware of, but in general, what you put in the child theme’s file will then be used…

functions.php and style.css are loaded after the parent theme’s versions.

The only file a child theme needs is a style.css which will overwrite rules in the parent’s css

@barboncaves

Actually I was trying to keep it simple and I don’t know what theme you are using.

Copy footer.php from the parent theme directory to your new child theme direcory and change that line to what you want.

If you are using bp-default then that line is https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.8.1/bp-themes/bp-default/footer.php#L15 – just replace the text between the paragraph tags with a simple text line

( or even the whole line as the <p> </p> tags arent’t critical but help with styling )

@barboncaves

The main point of a child theme is that you can upgrade the parent theme and still keep your edits.

To create a child theme of bp default you need to create a new directory ie: /wp-content/themes/bp-child/

In that directory you need to create a style.css simple text file with a header at the top of the file ie:

/*
Theme Name: A BP Child Thene
Theme URI: http://buddypress.org
Description: A Buddypress child theme.
Version: 0.1
Author: Me
Author URI: http://example.com
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress
*/

The Template: bit is important. The /* and the */ ‘comment out’ what is between them so the browser doesn’t try to interpret as css.

After the header comes the style rules and properties such as were quoted above.

To follow through with an example from your other question using the bp-default theme.

First you need to copy footer.php from /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/ into the /bp-child/ theme directory.

In that file should be the following line 15:
<p><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by <a href="%1$s">WordPress</a> and <a href="%2$s">BuddyPress</a>.', 'buddypress' ), 'http://wordpress.org', 'http://buddypress.org' ); ?></p>

Replace that line with something like:

<p>© <?php echo date('Y'); ?><a href="<?php echo home_url( '/' ) ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home">
					<?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a>. </p>

Put what you want between the paragraph tags ( <p> and </p> ) – it could just be simple text. Use a text editor not a word-processor…

Then preview the bp-child theme and the footer text should have been changed.

I would suggest backing up your files and database before attempting to edit files….

further info:
https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_bloginfo