You mean the links aren’t appearing in the main nav menu? Add them to your theme’s header.php.
But how do i do the alignment? I used http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/ to make my theme and i don’t know where to put the sidebar div………..since it looks like there’s one there but by a different name………this is the theme: http://tinyurl.com/28s8gtl
Ok, i just created a child theme….but it doesn’t work, how do i customize the code so it works right? I figured the first import line out, but i don’t know about the second one…..
You only need to create a child theme if you’re making changes to the default BP theme.
If you’re using an existing WordPress theme, then only use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin with your WordPress theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
but that don’t work, when i go to the actual buddypress pages, they are messed up, they are seriously messed up and i don’t know how to fix them…….
Well, with just “they are messed up” to go on, it’s kind of hard to give specific help. 
Got a link?
milleja46games.frih.org/forums
Looks like it’s working, though you’ll need some knowledge of CSS to get it the way you want BP to look.
Well the bp template pack said something about alignment how would i fix it my template has a extra tag and i don’t know whether to change it to sidebar, or just add it, so i really need help…..
Ok, i have a question since i just saw this on another site, if i were to download the stuff from https://svn.buddypress.org/trunk/ would that help me build a new theme? If so is there a guide on what to do to make it work?
That link only gives you the latest bleeding build of BuddyPress.
It has absolutely nothing to do with building a theme.
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I hate to repeat myself, but…
If you want to customize or make changes to the default BP theme, read the following article to create a child theme:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/
If you’re using an existing WordPress theme, then only use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin with your WordPress theme:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/
It helps if you know the basics of developing webpages and/or creating a WordPress theme. If you have no idea how to do either, you might find theme customization challenging.
Well i know the basics but that stupid template pack thing doesn’t help the buddypress pages on my site……
Did you get to step 3 of the plugin?
It gives explicit instructions on how to modify the template to match your WordPress theme.
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If BuddyPress pages are not aligned correctly then you will need to modify some of the templates to match your theme’s HTML structure.
Then open up the page.php file (if this does not exist use index.php). Make note of the HTML template structure of the file, specifically the [div] tags that surround the content and sidebar.
You will need to change the HTML structure in the BuddyPress templates that you copied into your theme to match the structure in your page.php or index.php file. The files that you need to edit are as follows (leave out any folders you have not copied over in step two):
* /activity/index.php
* /blogs/index.php
* /forums/index.php
* /groups/index.php
* /groups/create.php
* /groups/single/home.php
* /groups/single/plugins.php
* /members/index.php
* /members/single/home.php
* /members/single/plugins.php
* /registration/register.php
Once you are done matching up the HTML structure of your theme in these template files, please take another look through your site. You should find that BuddyPress pages now fit inside the content structure of your theme.
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If you can’t get this to work, just use a pre-made BuddyPress theme.
“how would i fix it my template has a extra tag and i don’t know whether to change it to sidebar, or just add it,”
Take those extra tags from your theme template files, add them in the right spots in your buddypress templates files that have just been added to your theme.
Maybe it would help if i posted the code for something here’s my forums index.php code:
<?php printf( __( "You are not a member of any groups so you don't have any group forums you can post in. To start posting, first find a group that matches the topic subject you'd like to start. If this group does not exist, why not create a new group? Once you have joined or created the group you can post your topic in that group’s forum.”, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( BP_GROUPS_SLUG . ‘/create/’ ) ) ?>
but i don’t know what part of that is screwing it all up….all the other pages are set up the same way….
ok that didn’t work just go to one of my bp pages on my site http://milleja46games.frih.org/forums, http://milleja46games.frih.org/members, or whatever the other ones are and just view source, idk, what’s causing my sidebar, and navigation links to go to the bottom, i have little experience with php, and indepth html coding, i haven’t used it that much lately, so i have a hard time fixing the errors….
Ok, i now have a theme that was just a plain site theme, how would i make it into a bp theme? I’ve decided to use the theme i had before starting to use wp and bp, so i need to know how to make it into a wp/bp theme
well, I don’t know what part of the file to change. I loaded the compatibility plugin templates, loaded the BP Sidebar plugin, even got the theme tag-ged buddypress to get rid of the message.
when I open up the widgets I see the Buddypress sidebar widgetized areas, but no matter what I place in there I can’t get them to show.
I guess I need to learn how to “make note of the HTML template structure of the file, specifically the
tags that surround the content and sidebar.”
will someone hold my hand through that process please?
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