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Hi @mohamedbakry83,

In this case you’ll need to copy the email template into a /buddypress/assets/email/single-bp-email.php file of your active theme and edit it from theme to include a new template tag.

something like:

<?php mohamedbakry83_output_avatar(); ?>

Then in a bp-custom.php file, you’ll need to include new function for this template tag:

function mohamedbakry83_output_avatar() {
  $token = '{{recipient.avatar}}';
  printf( '<img src="%s">', $token );
}

In this file, you’ll need to use & adapt the filter @shanebp pasted in his first reply making sure to check $formatted_tokens['friend-requests.url'] & $formatted_tokens['initiator.id'] are set and then set the recipient.avatar token like this :

$formatted_tokens['recipient.avatar'] = bp_core_fetch_avatar(
  array(
    'object'  => 'user',
    'item_id' => $formatted_tokens['initiator.id'],
    'html'    => false,
  )
);

This is for the friendship request email. But you should be able to do it for any email type with this example.

Hi @bigealien

A possible reason could be that you deactivated the WordPress discussion setting about the avatar display. I advise you to check it within your WordPress Dashboard (see: https://wordpress.org/support/article/settings-discussion-screen/#avatar-display)

@fabrizio1407

I suggest creating a child-theme that targets the specific BP pages.

If you just want to add background images – i think you can do that via CSS

You can get away with a lot of look&feel by just doing a default cover image

BuddyPress Default Cover Photo

Hello again,
Just wanted to let you an anyone else looking for the same that the plugin is available on wordpress.org now.

Activity Plus Reloaded for BuddyPress

Regards
Brajesh

How do I tell bp_send_email() function to use it?

This may be helpful: BP Email Assign Templates

Here’s 2 cents of input from a new comer…

It’s great that BuddyPress is free, that’s certainly an important part of the market to serve, and I applaud members for doing so. Truly.

However, there’s a downside to free too, nobody is obligated to the user, as is the case with paid software. So for example, if I were to succeed in my goals I’d have a social site full of serious professional people, who aren’t going to be easy for me to attract as they are already quite busy. I can’t afford to invest tons of time in winning them over, and then have some software let me down.

So I’m looking for some situation such as I have with a WordPress.com paid account, where if something technical goes wrong they jump on it immediately and fix it, and I can stay focused on content, marketing, networking etc. The WordPress support team says they would help me with BuddyPress if they could, but it’s not their software so there’s only so much help I can expect, which seems entirely reasonable to me.

I could come here for assistance, but I would have paid the BuddyPress team nothing, so it wouldn’t be reasonable for me to expect help unless somebody just happens to feel like it on that particular day.

So as seen from here, BuddyBoss is not really competing with BuddyPress, but providing a different kind of service, a commercial service. The downside with BuddyBoss, best I can tell, is that BuddyBoss isn’t really up and running yet. You know, they’ve been unable to point me to a single one of their client’s sites, a limitation they explained to me quite promptly and politely.

Wordpress.com has a theme which offers some level of social site features, but so far I’ve been unable to make any sense of it. If it’s confusing to me, it will likely also be to any new users I am able to attract.

So my first impression is that BuddyPress appears to be interesting hobby software generously provided for free, but if I want a more serious setup I’ll have to start looking beyond the WordPress environment.

@buddyboss Hey Michael!

I totally understand what you mean. I feel the same way about WordPress. Even simple whitespace changes there become endless discussions that result in no changes and no agreement, and worse… no fun.

My own personal concern here, comes from everyone involved in BuddyPress purposely trying to create an inviting, open, fun, rewarding experience to contribute to the project, and seeing talented folks like yourselves choose to compete instead of collaborate is the opposite of the target we are shooting for as a project.

What more could BuddyPress have done? What could the team have done differently? I’ve never really seen much in the way of upstream improvements or recommendations or requests in Trac or the forums from your team. Not that it’s necessary. Not that it’s expected. But there isn’t a history of anyone saying no or shutting y’all down.

I applaud the independence. I wish all y’all nothing but the best. And I hope BuddyPress is inspired from the creativity and inventiveness that BuddyBoss is known for.

Hi @chaddblanchard

If you are using the BP Legacy template pack, you can follow @shanebp snippet available in response to this support topic: Display profile fields on members page

It will also work on the BP Nouveau template pack, but it will be wrongly positioned. FYI, I’ve opened a ticket to fix this in next BuddyPress major version.

You can also use a different strategy using the BP Template hierarchy. If you create a copy of the bp-templates/bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/members-loop.php into a buddypress/members/members-loop.php file of your theme (be careful to respect the relative path into your theme: create a buddypress folder, then a members one and finally put the members-loop.php copy inside this folder. From this copied file, you can modify the html layout to include specific code to display the profile field(s) of your choice.

Here’s an example: https://gist.github.com/imath/67c2c5d961083bc8d4205860a2a075b2#file-members-loop-php-L44-L46 The specific code to add has a yellow background.

@imath vous êtes formidable et je vous remercie.
J’ai modifié les permaliens en : /%monthnum%/%postname%/%day%/%year%/
et ça marche ! Je peux créer mon premier groupe !
Merci et bonnes fêtes.
Pierre

Question subsidiaire : si j’ai d’autres soucis plus tard avec mon site WordPress, quelle est la meilleure solution pour être vite dépanné ? Passez par vous ? Ou allez vers une autre personne calée en WordPress et Buddypress ?

Bonjour,
j’ai téléchargé Buddypress sur mon site OVH mais je ne vois pas du tout la même chose que sur les tutoriels. Je ne vois pas où je peux créer des groupes et quand je clique sur le bouton ajouter des groupes je trouve le message d’erreur : “The requested URL /groupes/create/ was not found on this server”.
Je ne comprends pas car j’ai déjà utilisé WordPress et je n’ai jamais eu de problèmes pour créer des groupes. (J’ai installé aussi Bbpress correctement).
Merci de me dire car je suis perdu.
Pierre Raynaud

site : http://ddgefgn.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net/

I’m the only admin in my community and I don’t want to give access to the administrative backend, but I need someone to check and moderate the site’s activities, alone its impossible, nobody has the same problem? … it absolutely needs a buddypress moderation system role (like bbpress or wordpress), it should be in the core of the bp project

If there is, I’m not aware of it. I’d recommend searching on https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or googling it.

@jjj

Somehow my last comment got deleted so posting again. This is Michael here.

I really appreciate the nice things you posted here about BuddyBoss. I’ve also enjoyed hanging out with you at many WordCamps, going years back. Our issues with BuddyPress are not that it is coded poorly or anything like that, I think the developers have done a tremendous job with what is there, and appreciate everything you have contributed to the project personally. Our main issue is just that it has evolved really slowly over the past 5 years, and the market has gotten way more competitive in that timeframe. This has hurt our ability to grow as a company. Customers are leaving BuddyPress and switching to more feature complete SaaS solutions. But then at the same time, they want to be able to customize everything like you can do in WordPress, and then they are stuck. There really is no solution available that has all the features people want, and is also available to customize and extend. So we are trying to address that for our customers. At the end of the day, BuddyPress is free to copy anything we do and merge or adapt it into BuddyPress; open source works both ways. Hopefully there are not too many hard feelings, we’re all working toward the same goal, but as you said, in different directions.

The best thing to do is to ask for your money back. 🙂

No, but seriously, I reported it already in Buddypress Trac, but no luck. You can try asking them again and see what they say. Request Refund for lost revenue lol

Confirmed.
Please open a ticket here.