BuddyPress.org

best place for that kind of thing is:

buddypress.trac.wordpress.org

https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-followers/ ?

I know this thread is old, but I want to help those that are in the same boat as I am in while searching for this issue on Google, I hope it is also pertinent to this thread fully as I believe these issues are linked together.

I was having an issue with this too, where the activity streams on the home page were showing times that are 7 hours off because of GMT time being 7 hours off from me.

This problem can easily be fixed by setting your WordPress’s main timezone settings to something like -8 instead of the city name ie; Los Angeles.

But I could not go this route because I’m currently using Ajax Event Calendar plugin, which requires the timezone to be a city name for some weird reason. Thus I had two plugins that wanted two conflicting things.

This is the fix I came up with that seems to work just fine for me : )
In buddypress: \bp-core\bp-core-functions.php
Find: function bp_core_time_since
Change: $newer_date = ( !$newer_date ) ? strtotime( bp_core_current_time() ) : $newer_date;
so that bp_core_current_time() becomes bp_core_current_time(false)

This passes over to the bp_core_current_time() which defaults as true which sets it to automatically handle the activity time differences as GMT instead of your time zone.

I’m not a WordPress pro but it looked like you could just hook into this function if you wanted to or override it, but this was the route I knew how to take.

As a result of that group forum tab was vanished.

@chathuranga Not seeing this issue. Is this a new WP/BP installation or are your group forums created in BP version earlier than 1.6? What other plugins do you have installed?

I’m using buddypress.1.8.1, bbPress 2.3.2, wordpress-3.5.2 and buddypress default theme.

have you upgraded to WP 3.6 yet?

i would say yes although some of the functionality may need to be extended depending on the exact nature of these classes. here’s some additional buddypress stuff that may interest you:

commonsinabox.org

wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-media

I have one site with the problem of missing avatars that first emerged when upgrading from BuddyPress 1.6.x to 1.7.x

I tried migrating the content to a different installation of WordPress and BuddyPress latest versions (3.6 and 1.8.1) and I still have the problem.

I tried turning off all my other plugins other than BuddyPress and I still have the problem.

Have you checked the Codex Documentation ? I suggest you read the guides on theme templates as these will help your understanding and allow you to ask more detailed questions that we can help with.

I created the the buddypress-pages on full width and also changed the template-page in WordPress, but Buddypress is still using the standard-template. Someone knows the Problem?

I assume you mean the pages created in the setup routine for BP such as ‘activity’, ‘members’ etc these are placeholders only you can not do anything in them except set the page title.

‘<i>changed the template-page in WordPress</i>’
You need to be clearer on what you mean here!

‘<i>standard template</i>’
Again not sure to what you are referring here, BP in theme compatibility mode uses page.php, unless you provide other named templates but this is all explained in the template compatibility themeing guides written for users to help them out with just this sort of issue.

As for the loader gif it’s impossible to say, you haven’t told us the theme in use, linked to the site, or shown any code to work from thus it’s a complete guess as to what may be happening.

As always if there are issues first test is activate known good theme such as twentytwelve and see if things work in that theme then you know it’s a theme issue.

We’ve used WP FB Autoconnect on a lot of BuddyPress sites – https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/

There’s a functional free version, and just a few dollars extra for the pro version