Show Comment Box on News Feed

[Ashley]

Hello

I would like to show the comment box on the news feed so that users can add to it…

Thanks

[Alyssa]

@ashleyyoung you need to click the comment link for it to show up depending on your theme. Either way this is a theme issue not a plugin issue. Contact your theme owner for support.

[Ashley]

Hi

When I click on wall the comment box is there however when I click on News Feed it’s not….please see screenshots, is this definitely a theme issue?

Thanks

[Alyssa]

@ashleyyoung it works for me with default settings (I have a copy of Kleo theme to test with). But yes, it is a theme issue and I would suggest you contact them for support.

[Ashley]

OK thank you 🙂

[Alyssa]

Any time.

[Ashley]

Hi TJ

I have gone back to the developer and they told me to revert back to a WordPress default theme, I tried two 2014 and 2015 and it still doesn’t work, I also disabled all plugins apart from BuddyPress and BuddyBoss wall and still nothing.

Any ideas?

[Ashley]

P.S The theme developers told me that if it doesn’t work with all plugins disabled or with a default wordpress theme then it’s not their theme causing the issue.

[Alyssa]

@ashleyyoung try reinstalling a fresh version of BuddyPress via FTP, ditto with WordPress.

[Mayumi]

Any solution to this? I have the same issue with Kleo but I see they don’t want to take responsibility for it either. If you give me the solution I will personally take the blame for both of you I don’t mind 😉

[Alyssa]

@ashleyyoung @milo99 this appears to be a BuddyPress issue. Copy plugins/buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/activity.php to your child theme/buddypress/members/single/
Find line 65:
if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'just-me' ) ) )
Change to this:
if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() )

[Mayumi]

Sorry but that now removes the box on BOTH pages rather than add it to both

[Alyssa]

@milo99 sorry, I didn’t remove enough of the code, fixed in original post.

[Mayumi]

nope completely blank now. No box, no updates etc. This is clearly on the right track though as when I put it back it shows everything but the box. I see that your code was edited but I copied and pasted what you had yesterday and this still looks EXACTLY the same. Not sure you updated the post correctly.

[Alyssa]

@milo99 it appears we are unable to edit this file since we are hooking into it. I’m beginning to narrow it down now.