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Hi @bea107,

some explanation on how to do this, beside reading the codex.

The original core function we want to modify:

/**
 * Format last activity string based on time since date given.
 *
 * @uses bp_core_time_since() This function will return an English
 *       representation of the time elapsed.
 *
 * @param int|string $last_activity_date The date of last activity.
 * @param string $string A sprintf()-able statement of the form '% ago'.
 * @return string $last_active A string of the form '3 years ago'.
 */
function bp_core_get_last_activity( $last_activity_date, $string ) {

	if ( empty( $last_activity_date ) )
		$last_active = __( 'Not recently active', 'buddypress' );
	else
		$last_active = sprintf( $string, bp_core_time_since( $last_activity_date ) );

	return apply_filters( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', $last_active, $last_activity_date, $string );
}

To alter it, we have to create a little function. Here’s the custom function which removes the message string:

function bea107_core_get_last_activity( $last_activity_date, $string ) {
		if ( empty( $last_activity_date ) )
				// we do nothing
				$last_active = '';
			else
				$last_active = sprintf( $string, bp_core_time_since( $last_activity_date ) );
		}
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bea107_core_get_last_activity' );

If you want to remove the whole filter, you use this

function bea107_remove_last_activity_filter() {
    remove_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', $last_active, $last_activity_date, $string );
}
add_filter( 'bp_core_get_last_activity', 'bea107_remove_last_activity_filter' );

Both function can be added to your child-theme’s functions.php or bp-custom.php

stylesheets are a client side processed file, you cannot place server side code such as PHP in them. To run code such as that filter you either run it from a plugin, your themes functions.php file or from bp-custom.php located in the plugin folder root (and user created – it doesn’t exist by default)

Hi @bea107

Did you copy and paste @danbp’s code? I haven’t tested it myself but if you have copied his code then it doesn’t look like you’ve copied it properly as some of it is certainly missing. For example, where did this bit in your code snippet come from?

add_filter( ‘bp_core_get_last_activity’ );