[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

I’m marking this topic as resolved.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

In my experience loading anything on to the wordpress.org/extends/ that isn’t release-ready is asking for trouble and will only give you threads of people saying why isn’t x working, etc.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

I would recommend you create a child theme (see https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/), copy header.php into it and make your change there.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Make a new thread please, I am going to close this one. This one is 3 months old and has been marked as resolved by the original poster, lots has changed since then.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

If the problem only occurs with a custom theme, then you need to talk to the person who made that theme.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Your best bet is to delete /plugins/buddypress/ and then visit yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php. Then change the theme back to the WordPress default (Kubrick).

You can then reinstall BuddyPress and reactivate the BuddyPress theme. You won’t loose any of your BuddyPress database data doing this, though I recommend making a backup of your database with phpMyAdmin as a matter of good practice.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Also, before you deactivate BuddyPress, I suggest you change the site theme back to the default (Kubrick) and switch it back after you have installed the latest version of BuddyPress and have activated it.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Suggest you get the forums working before you start adding a custom theme. Site Admin -> BuddyPress -> Forums Setup.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Er, *whoops*.

My excuse is I have about 4 new plugins at various stages of development and I like to flick between then. Achievements hasn’t had any focus in about a month.

Give me this weekend, and I’ll get a new version out!

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

This site works a bit differently.

Buddypress Forums are created when you create a group. If you have an existing group, go to that group’s admin panel and enable its forum.

Assuming you are using the default theme or a child theme, you should also have a forum navigation item on the main menu.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

BBPress plugins won’t work with the method of integration that BuddyPress uses. You will have to port the plugin to work with WPMU and BudyPress or find someone to do it for you.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Karin, your problem is different and merits it’s own thread.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

The regular BBPress administration page isn’t accessible when used with the BuddyPress integration method. This also means that BBPress plugins won’t work.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Any message in your webserver’s error log?

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Plus we have real life – we aren’t paid for helping on this forum – and that of course takes priority for our time.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

If you haven’t already, copy bp-themes/bp-default and /bp-sn-parent to the normal WordPress theme directory (/wp-content/themes).

/wp-content/bp-themes/ is for a previous version of BP themes. Unless you know why you might still want to use it, make sure that /wp-content/bp-themes/ does not exist (i.e. delete the folder) else BP will get confused.

Activate the bp-default theme, put it on your main WPMU blog and it should work.

EDIT: Jeff won!

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Sounds like you’ve just volunteered to track down any obscure IE bugs!

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Let us know if you get stuck again!

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

For Ousep’s post:

Do I really have to use the bp-sn-whatever template to be able to use any of buddypress's functionality?

No. Just like WordPress has its famouse “Loop”, BuddyPress implements its own Loops for all of the core components and features. See https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/.

There is a range of different theme information on the Codex, but you are able to copy all of the templates from the BuddyPress parent theme into any WordPress theme and it will work. You will need to add custom CSS to style those elements, obviously.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

DJPAUL IS CRIT BY A WALL OF TEXT FOR 100,000,000 DAMAGE AND DIES.

https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/action-reference/ lists the actions for the controller code for BuddyPress. A one-minute search of the codex doesn’t show a page of the actions in the theme. If you think this will be useful you are able to add/edit pages on the BuddyPress Codex.

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

You are following an out of date guide. Follow https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

It looks as if this should be working. Can you clarify if you are creating a child theme from bp-sn-parent?

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

Does it look the same on http://testbp.org/ ?

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

[@djpaul Keymaster 17 years ago]

gsmith tells me via a message that he had this problem with IE8.