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Hi All,
I googled a lot and read many posts but found no code snippet to show member names along the profile avatars of the BP Recently Active Members widget. So i created my own widget and that is super easy to do. I took the core class of the above widget did a single line modification to display names also and registered it as a widget through functions.php
Just paste the below code in functions.php of your child theme and it will work.

class wpb_widget extends WP_Widget {

function __construct() {
parent::__construct(

// Base ID of your widget
‘wpb_widget’,

// Widget name will appear in UI
__(‘Recently Active Member Custom’, ‘wpb_widget_domain’),

// Widget description
array( ‘description’ => __( ‘Sample widget based on WPBeginner Tutorial’, ‘wpb_widget_domain’ ), )
);
}

// Creating widget front-end

public function widget( $args, $instance ) {
global $members_template;

// Get widget settings.
$settings = $this->parse_settings( $instance );

/**
* Filters the title of the Recently Active widget.
*
* @since 1.8.0
* @since 2.3.0 Added ‘instance’ and ‘id_base’ to arguments passed to filter.
*
* @param string $title The widget title.
* @param array $settings The settings for the particular instance of the widget.
* @param string $id_base Root ID for all widgets of this type.
*/
$title = apply_filters( ‘widget_title’, $settings[‘title’], $settings, $this->id_base );

echo $args[‘before_widget’];
echo $args[‘before_title’] . $title . $args[‘after_title’];

$max_limit = bp_get_widget_max_count_limit( __CLASS__ );
$max_members = $settings[‘max_members’] > $max_limit ? $max_limit : (int) $settings[‘max_members’];

// Setup args for querying members.
$members_args = array(
‘user_id’ => 0,
‘type’ => ‘active’,
‘per_page’ => $max_members,
‘max’ => $max_members,
‘populate_extras’ => true,
‘search_terms’ => false,
);

// Back up global.
$old_members_template = $members_template;

?>

<?php if ( bp_has_members( $members_args ) ) : ?>

<div class=”avatar-block”>

<?php while ( bp_members() ) : bp_the_member(); ?>

<span class=”item-avatar”>
” class=”bp-tooltip” data-bp-tooltip=”<?php bp_member_name(); ?>”><?php bp_member_avatar(); ?>
” class=”bp-tooltip” data-bp-tooltip=”<?php bp_member_name(); ?>”><?php bp_member_name(); ?>
</span>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</div>

<?php else: ?>

<div class=”widget-error”>
<?php esc_html_e( ‘There are no recently active members’, ‘buddypress’ ); ?>
</div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php echo $args[‘after_widget’];

// Restore the global.
$members_template = $old_members_template;
}

/**
* Update the Recently Active widget options.
*
* @since 1.0.3
*
* @param array $new_instance The new instance options.
* @param array $old_instance The old instance options.
* @return array $instance The parsed options to be saved.
*/
public function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {
$instance = $old_instance;

$max_limit = bp_get_widget_max_count_limit( __CLASS__ );

$instance[‘title’] = strip_tags( $new_instance[‘title’] );
$instance[‘max_members’] = $new_instance[‘max_members’] > $max_limit ? $max_limit : intval( $new_instance[‘max_members’] );

return $instance;
}

/**
* Output the Recently Active widget options form.
*
* @since 1.0.3
*
* @param array $instance Widget instance settings.
* @return void
*/
public function form( $instance ) {
$max_limit = bp_get_widget_max_count_limit( __CLASS__ );

// Get widget settings.
$settings = $this->parse_settings( $instance );
$title = strip_tags( $settings[‘title’] );
$max_members = $settings[‘max_members’] > $max_limit ? $max_limit : intval( $settings[‘max_members’] );
?>

<p>
<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘title’ ); ?>”>
<?php esc_html_e( ‘Title:’, ‘buddypress’ ); ?>
<input class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘title’ ); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘title’ ); ?>” type=”text” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( $title ); ?>” style=”width: 100%” />
</label>
</p>

<p>
<label for=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘max_members’ ); ?>”>
<?php esc_html_e( ‘Max members to show:’, ‘buddypress’ ); ?>
<input class=”widefat” id=”<?php echo $this->get_field_id( ‘max_members’ ); ?>” name=”<?php echo $this->get_field_name( ‘max_members’ ); ?>” type=”number” min=”1″ max=”<?php echo esc_attr( $max_limit ); ?>” value=”<?php echo esc_attr( $max_members ); ?>” style=”width: 30%” />
</label>
</p>

<?php
}

/**
* Merge the widget settings into defaults array.
*
* @since 2.3.0
*
*
* @param array $instance Widget instance settings.
* @return array
*/
public function parse_settings( $instance = array() ) {
return bp_parse_args( $instance, array(
‘title’ => __( ‘Recently Active Members’, ‘buddypress’ ),
‘max_members’ => 15,
), ‘recently_active_members_widget_settings’ );
}
}

// Register and load the widget
function wpb_load_widget() {
register_widget( ‘wpb_widget’ );
}
add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpb_load_widget’ );