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Re #1 – BP 1.2.7 will fix this.

If you can’t wait until then, try the solution posted in this thread:
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/am-i-going-mad-or-are-there-now-avatars-next-to-posts-in-the-activity-stream/?topic_page=2&num=15#post-76621

Re #2 – Most likely a child theme issue. Can you…[Read more]

@janis It seems to be the avatar of the blog so if you have multiple blogs you can have different avatars for each blog. I’ve been going nuts trying to figure out how to upload a new avatar for each blog so it doesn’t look generic but I haven’t figured it out yet. If the monitors […]

@Janis, Just thought of a different strategy… come to think of it, this may be what you’ve been asking for from the beginning 😉 If you want to keep your existing sidebar, but extend IT to the top of the page, and make your header narrower, that can be done purely through css. Here’s how: Make […]

@Janis, here we go… To widgetize your header, register a new sidebar in your child theme’s functions.php file, like so: register_sidebars( 1, array( 'name' => 'custom-header', 'id' => 'custom-header', 'before_widget' => ' <div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => ' <div class="clear"></div></div>', 'before_title' => ' ',…[Read more]

@Janis

If you can wait a couple of hours, I can post some css & stuff to get you started. Im at work right now and should be home around 4:00pm (its 1:00pm here now)

@Janis You can always widgetize your header. Here`s a great tutorial for that: http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/ Then, you can do one of two things to make your sidebar go away: 1 – On every template where you don’t want the sidebar to appear, you can either comment out the line where the…[Read more]