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== when I go activate my child theme in admin I lose my sites header banner, and all the work associated with my menus is broken..? ==
You don’t need to copy over the functions.php of bp-default at all. Seems to […]

Mike84, typo in your link? It’s going nowhere. So if you were using Roots Framework, you created a child theme of that framework and installed the BP Template Pack plugin. Which stylesheet is it not loading? I […]

Contact your tech support of hosting provider.

When you turn on debug, consider installing Theme Check plugin, Debogger plugin and Log Deprecated Notices plugin. Very helpful and used by WP theme reviewers.

Have you checked your error logs? Most likely you need to increase memory limits or check out other possibilities.

@Mike84 no worries. Which child theme are you using?
There still might be a solution although I haven’t seen a child theme of BP 1.2 cause white screen in front and backend yet.

Consider moving to another hosting provider.

This would be better addressed at WP multisite forums – https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

Make sure BuddyPress is activated as well.

closing this duplicate of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/first-step-buddypress-template-pack-1/ – mercime

What theme are you using? Doesn’t theme dev have plans of updating for BP 1.5 compat?

Your theme needs to be updated to be compatible with BP 1.5. Change to bp-default theme.

In one BuddyPress site, you either:
1) create a child theme of bp-default OR
2) use a WP theme with BP Template Pack OR
3) create a child theme of a WP theme with BP Template Pack.
Cannot mix 1, 2 or 3.

@ad33lx This issue would be better addressed by the developers of the premium plugin and theme developers in their own fora..

You need to set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on in your wp-config.php file by adding this in
define ( 'BP_ROOT_BLOG', $blog_id );

Re child theme:
1. if you’re going to build your style on top of bp-default styles, then you should add @import rule to get bp-default stylesheet in your child theme’s style.css and BP will respect that and […]

juice_man1 change to bp-default theme and you should see tags available when editing the topic

inewmom – You need to install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. Follow the intructions in Appearance > BP Compatibility