Well, here’s a solution that worked for me:
// User Description
$user_meta = get_userdata(bp_displayed_user_id());
echo($user_meta->description);
yes I have visited the authors forum found no actual solution , approx 4 month ago somebody asked there the same question , and the answer from the author was as follows :
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Hi,
Sorry, if I answered this in another method. I can’t recall. But this looks like you either did one of two things:
1. Have a space at the end of your bp-chat/chat/config.php file or
2. You didn’t chmod 777 your bp-chat/config directory
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it didn’t worked for me ; firstly there is no config.php chat directory , its actialy is under chat/lib directory ………
and as I’m using it in localhost windows host the option 2. is not needed … but in case of option 1. there was no extra space in the lib/config.php , yet it didn’t worked….
I visited the authors profile here , but it seems the author in inactive for a certain time as its showing no recent activity .
this version of buddypressajaxchat is said to be working fine with wp 3.0 , but I have also tried it with wp 3.0, but again didn’t worked ……..
any solution would be much appreciated as I’m craving for this plugin as there no much self-hosted chat for buddypress…..
p.s. = Phpfreechat plugin – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phpfreechat/ – is working very fine with the present version of wp and bp
i solved this with a child theme by copying activity.php from the default theme to my child theme in the same folder structure (group/single/activity.php) then totally redoing the whole thing. This is using wordpress built in template replacement. good o’l wordpress.
Now I’ve got recent forum posts on the left with activity feed on the right. and the post update box at the bottom. I put them at the bottom because I wanted people to use the discussion forum more than posting updates.
here is the new improved group home page: http://shambhalanetwork.org/groups/beta-phase-discussion-group/
@r-a-y miester last of the last thing 
Im getting a error for groups that dont have the db field
Warning: in_array() expects parameter 2 to be array, string given in F:Programmesxampphtdocswordpresswp-contentpluginsbuddypress-group-credit-cardsbp-group-credit-cards.php on line 101
Would saying ‘else return something’ be the right path, and what should I return to avoid the error?
Edit, thinking about it, how would I say if ‘gcard_group_card’ doesn’t exist, don’t return anuthing?
You can use BP on a regular WP install. Just there are certain features (like the domain limiting) that come with WP multisite that aren’t available on the single install. You can always upgrade your regular wordpress install to multisite and then use it like a single WP install. That’s what I’m doing right now.
Wp loop? Not sure what that is. I’ll look it up but if it’s something you could explain or point me in the right direction that would be great.
Thanks a lot.
Alex
How do I allow spaces in WordPress Usernames?
Hm…I’m not 100%, but you might think of username as just that–the username one uses to login. Something shorter than John Smith, like jsmith, is ideal. But then the name is the display name. It can be first & last (even with a middle name or initial) and provides useful, attractive information, but isn’t something everybody wants to type out all the time (whether for logging in or for [at]mentions….
You have to create a WP loop to show the posts.
Thanks. I guess I did something wrong from the get-go. I installed buddypress as a plugin on a regular wordpress installation. That’s not recommended?
The same thing happened here.
The error in Chrome:
This webpage is not available.
The webpage at http://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=true&plugin_status=all&paged=1 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
More information on this error
Below is the original error message
Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): Unknown error.
In my web server: (apache_error_log)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1829 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1828 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:08 2010] [notice] child pid 1478 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Wed Aug 11 20:10:09 2010] [notice] child pid 1502 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
Something like this should work (or at least get you going in the right direction:
http://pastebin.com/LJbGQpr2
And further reading on conditional tags:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
ETA: oops, I assumed that the “blog” page was your index. In my pastebin example, you just want to replace the text “Your index page title” with the title of the page you DO NOT want the widget showing up on. Or, I guess you could also get rid of the exclamation mark and insert the title of the page that you DO want the widget on. If you literally only have the one BP page and one blog page, either method should work.
Assuming you answered an implicit affirmative to Paul’s question about editing the correct file, did you restart your Apache? server for the changes to take effect (apologies if teaching grandmother to suck eggs 
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What exactly do you mean by members stuff?
And are you editing theme files (like header.php) or just wanting to link from within, say, a WordPress page or blog post?
You might try to disable all of the plugins then enable them one at a time to see which one is conflicting with the admin area. Also, if you have access to the error log files then you can check to see if a message is being written to the logs.
I would really like to get this thing working, but have yet to do so successfully…
basically I got it all installed by disabling all my plug ins, but once I put the plug ins back on, and tried to access the admin page later, it gave me that error
Have you checked you’re editing the correct php.ini file? Setting it to at least 64mb sorts most problems.
If either of these plugins were to be used with a WordPress install without the Multi-blog / site system in effect (meaning it’s all run off the main blog, not sub-blogs), and you had say 10,000 authors blogging or more on the main blog, would that work fine? Or would they need to get into the multi-blog environment to have upwards of 10,000 authors?
Mr Boone.. I have a similar issue.. where activation is not sent…. but I once tried and updated the mailserver_ settings in wordpress.. so I recieved the activation code.. the problem is.. the code I cannot be used to activate the account.. I keep getting “Invalid Key” or “and error has occurred” messages, even though I copy/paste manually..
what do you think is the case? and is there an applicable fix that simply modifies the core files automatically? or howabout I send you the files that might help you.. and you can look into this issue..
This issue is standard and doesn’t resolve even after deleting and re-installing Buddypress over and over …
must be somewhere in buddypress or wordpress which indicates the compression settings
@hnla
Oops, I had removed the page IDs from the plugin file, but the file I uploaded to pastebin was the one that has my page ID exclusions.
Nice touch with the pageLinkDropdown idea! I take your hint and I’ll see if, following your example, I can figure out how to add that option to wp_nav_menus. 
I fully agree that the user should be able to control values and parameters. Next challenge then is to learn how to create (and code) an admin area to give users that control. Here’s the start of my study program: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Options_Pages and https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus
Oh goody… more fun!
