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Hi @boonebgoges and thanks for replying.
I get what you are saying, its just that I am maintaining this site for a bunch of friends for their forum. basically no other feature of buddypress is used. I try and keep my efforts at a minimmum as its an unpaid favor I am doing them. So for the last few years all I did was keep WP and themes + plugins up to date.

What I am looking for is the solution with the least effort 🙁

Still, do you have some pointers where to start? Some links I could read up or tips what to do and check?

What to do about this budypress message about the outdated template pack? I googled those terms and found some old posts from a few years back, mentioning some BP template pack plugin but that seems outdated information.

Say I can solve this outdated template pack, can I then keep using the buddypress default theme? I did improve it by adding some css but that is the only change I made to it.

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I just checked the tempalte’s css file and it says:

/**
* Theme Name: BuddyPress Default
* Theme URI: https://buddypress.org/extend/themes/
* Description: [NOTE: except for security issues, BuddyPress Default is no longer being actively maintained by the BuddyPress team.]

so is there another default theme available?

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thx.

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is there any documentation which fields get synchronized with which fields? maybe some more fields could be hooked up for synchronization? since you said: `with changes automatically synced back to WP.` I’d like to know what goes where and when

just curios here.. and thanks for clarifying this for me.

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ok so the Wp one would be the username and the BP one whatever I want? still I think its unnecessary.

btw. where can I read more about this supposedly synchronization between the WP and BP profiles?
I mean this is not activated so what gets synchronized and when? `Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?:`

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anyone? not even a link for me to read up? is this not documented anywhere?

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given that this guy’s tone was rude: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/pathetic-functionality-here-on-this-forum/ I nevertheless agree. If only the feeds would work

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thx. that helps a lot. not much documentation around your plugin so far
running a custom theme so will look into building my own templates….

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tried that already, all I see is that some jquery components were loaded from the google repo. no idea which one. But I found the culprit and have mailed the author already he’s gonna have a new version out tonight. took me 30 mins deactivating all plugins then reactivating one-by-one and checking which one was loading what…
I know that some plugins wrap their calls in html comments but this one didn’t..

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Oh, just hit another wall: it seems I activated some plugin that loads jquery despite it being loaded already but I can’t determine which plugin it is.
any way to find it without disabling all plugins one by one?

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ok, I heard about that. its just that some plugin authors don’t have a comment form or a contact page.
I thought there might be a way from stopping those plugins without hacking them but I see the answer is to notify the authors.

thanks to all of you guys.

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its quite a hassle but I am usually doing that. ’cause some plugins load jquery everywhere, some load it only in certain parts of the website takes a while to find all problematic ones…

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well, my idea was this:

reading through the forums and the codex I found a couple of settigns that seemingly can be used from wp-config.php BUT I don’t want to clutter it too much.
Alternatively I can use bp-custom.php or make a small plugin and pop it into mu-plugins.

here is my collection of lines, please let me know where I can find more (built-into BP as I know plugins also offer several of these). What is recommended for what? I try to use wp-config.php only for WP related stuff, mu-plugins only for stuff that really needs to be running on every page and functions.php for stuff specific for my theme (and in this case the main page)

`/*add user with ID as group admin, alternatively change to mod*/
define( ‘BP_RESTRICTGROUP_AUTOADD_ADMIN_USER_ID’, 1);
/* disable the admin bar*/
/*define( ‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, false);*/

/*customize all slugs*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘activity’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘journals’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FORUMS_SLUG’, ‘discussions’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_FRIENDS_SLUG’, ‘peeps’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_GROUPS_SLUG’, ‘gatherings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MEMBERS_SLUG’, ‘chefs’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_MESSAGES_SLUG’, ‘messages’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_REGISTER_SLUG’, ‘register’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SEARCH_SLUG’, ‘search’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_SETTINGS_SLUG’, ‘settings’ );*/
/*define( ‘BP_XPROFILE_SLUG’, ‘info’ );*/

/*customize more stuff*/
/*Put profiles in the root � http://example.org/username/*/
/*define ( ‘BP_ENABLE_ROOT_PROFILES’, true );*/

(btw. since I have decided upon the final theme to use, I guess I will be going via the functions.php route)

/*Change the default tab opened when looking at a user’srofile (default is activity):*/
/*define( ‘BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT’, ‘profile’ );*/
`
Also if you want yo ucan give some more information about order of invocation?

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it loads automatically but doesn’t seem to support comments. i.e. this content:

`/*customize all slugs*/
/*define( ‘BP_ACTIVATION_SLUG’, ‘activate’ );*/
define( ‘BP_ACTIVITY_SLUG’, ‘actions’ );
/*define( ‘BP_BLOGS_SLUG’, ‘journals’ );*/
`

will properly apply the uncommented line but simply print out the commented lines. will therefore stick with wp-config.php

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do I have to manually activate it or is buddypress looking for it and loads it by default?
cause otherwise I’d rather put it into mu-plugins if I need to activate it anyway…

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where would I create bp-custom.php? I want to use that one as I haven’t decided upon a final theme yet so I’d rather go with bp-custom.php

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36 tabs and 6GB of ram but that is not the issue here. I am looking for a convenient way to follow up on my threads and feeds is the only one I found so far…

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sorry guys but I know of no other way to keep updated with my threads here…
I am waiting for a couple of responses and can’t keep 10 tabs open in my firefox the whole time…

how do you guys keep informed if there is a new answer to one of your threads?

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how does the synchronization work?
I’d love to get a plugin to match certai nfields against certain other fields win wp profile and bp profile!

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same question here! just started with BuddyPress and this was one of my first questions.

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sorry for double posting, I am still struggling to figure out the structure of this support forum.

would you mind pointing out where this bug is mentioned? I’d like to follow its progress.

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I need to continue this discussion as I have a very similar problem:

I have followed the advice given in the link posted by r-a-y but if I select the activity stream to be the front page I get a permission error? Please see screen shot: http://screencast.com/t/YTVmODU1N

Using wp 3.0 RC3 and the latest BP version as of right now.

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no, it was a 2.9.1. install upgraded to 3.0 beta1, then beta2 then RC2.
Its all good now, just trying to figure out where it went wrong…

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I have compared both the test server and the live server configs, disabled mod_security, checked different other settings and found NOTHING until I stumbled upon a pretty hidden error log of this client and there are a couple of different DB errors like [06-Jun-2010 10:46:25] WordPress database error Unknown column 'spam' in 'where clause' for query SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM wp_users WHERE spam = 0 AND deleted = 0 AND user_status = 0 made by require, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_do_catch_uri, load_template, require_once, bp_get_total_member_count, bp_core_get_total_member_count

so its definitely a wordpress issue and not a server issue. here is a bigger part of the error log, just in case anyone has some feedback on this: http://pastebin.com/tx5gaEWG

gettign weirder and weirder:

the test site has these fields inside the wp_users table:
Full Texts ID user_login user_pass user_nicename user_email user_url user_registered user_activation_key user_status display_name spam deleted

the live site these:
Full Texts ID user_login user_pass user_nicename user_email user_url user_registered user_activation_key user_status display_name

After adding the two missing fields: spam and deleted, all is good
Does anyone know when those fields were supposed to be added? I which WP version? or does BP add them? I’d like to figure out where this went wrong…

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here is a link to a relevant error log: some problems there but unsure how they happened: http://pastebin.com/tx5gaEWG