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To change the background colour, you’d use the background-color CSS property:

#element {
background-color: #000;
}

Where #element refers to the form element used in your HTML (the way to target this particular element is theme-dependent). Check out the Getting started with CSS MDN guide for more info on how to write CSS.

You should use your theme’s style.css document to add your own custom styles.

The @-name you see is slightly different to the “full name” displayed in user profiles. The @-name can be thought of as a username; a unique identifier for that member. The full name is just a line of text that can be anything the user likes. Two users can have the same full name, but no two users can have the same username.

You can set the page users are taken to when they log in quite easily with a plugin such as Theme My Login.

Possibly. Try searching the Plugin Directory.

If a user can log in, then they are a member who has a profile page. This is regardless of whether they have activated their account. Of course, non-activated members can’t do much as their site usage is restricted.

All members get a profile page, even the ones that haven’t activated their account yet.

BuddyPress uses a Template Hierarchy, just as WordPress does. If you have a copy of activate.php in your theme, BuddyPress will look for it and load that in place of the core template file. See the article for more info.

Check the activation emails aren’t going into user’s spam folders.

You could try MediaPress or there’s also BuddyMedia.

Actually, no. But overriding the activate.php template is an option if you wanted to go down that route.

How does MediaPress compare to rtMedia?

I haven’t used Mediapress myself but I know it’s quite popular here in the BuddyPress community.

Check out the Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs article. You can use a language file to “localise” BuddyPress strings.

You’ll probably want to use a plugin such as Mediapress.

The problem might be related to the theme you’re using. Try activating the TwentyFifteen theme to see if you can upload.

Hi Rhonda

Which theme are you using?

Please wrap code in backticks when pasting into a post. It helps format it so it’s easily readable.

You’re using it as a string. Try removing the ' delimiters. For example:

bp_loggedin_user_domain()

Note, you also don’t need the semicolon ;

BuddyPress was released in 2009. Custom Post Types were introduced into WordPress in mid-June 2010 so there was no way the original BuddyPress crew could have used them.

Also, the use of custom tables isn’t always a bad thing. If the situation calls for them after careful consideration then you should use them.

In the case of BP, the database…[Read more]

Why was BP coded so oddly in the first place?

What parts of the BP code do you find odd?