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@tengwah BP Codex is your friend https://codex.buddypress.org/legacy/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

@ughbrandon do not bump your topic.

You’re using an old version of the Custom Community theme per source view check – it’s version 1.16 of the theme. Current Custom Community version is 1.91, you need to upgrade your theme.

@tengwah If you want to keep the changes that you’re making to the BuddyPress Default theme, I suggest that you create a child theme and make the modifications there.

Simple way to remove the tags, add the following to your child theme’s stylesheet:
#commentform p.form-allowed-tags { display: none; }

@number_6 Only the 5 widgets listed at https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/buddypress-widgets/ are the BuddyPress defaults. Could you please clarify what you mean by the community navigation widget? Member navigation in WP Toolbbar perhaps?

@disqusnow Please do not post in more than one forum on the same topic. Closing this topic for original post https://buddypress.org/support/topic/excessive-vertical-gap-in-buddypress/#post-167184

@disqusnow the large vertical gap is caused by the style applied to the container of the group avatar and group admin/s avatar. To correct the issue, add the following at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet:

#buddypress div#item-header {
overflow: visible !important;
}

@disqusnow WP/BP versions? Theme used? Change to Twenty Twelve, is the issue resolved?

@nanaimomen The problem is more like the theme is using a proprietary templating system. BuddyPress works in nearly all WordPress themes. Regular WP tags like the_title() and the_content() should be in the theme’s page.php file for the BP Theme Compatibility magic to work, i.e., you no longer need to revise 16 template files manually like before.…[Read more]

@fpats Yes. Gravity Forms 🙂
Marking this as resolved.

@fpats you can view source code and check plugins used – could be a form plugin

@forallatlantis Have you gone through basic troubleshooting like changing to Twenty Twelve theme and/or deactivating plugins batch by batch except BuddyPress to check what’s causing the issue?

all content and users are mirrored/shared across the networks/sites

Strange. Only users not the content should be shared across the network for that plugin as far as I know. Have only used the other BP Multinetwork plugin, so don’t quite know why that’s happening in your installation. Recommend that you post at plugin’s support forums…[Read more]

@mgrmn There should be a “Create a Group” button beside the page title in the Groups Directory page. https://codex.buddypress.org/user/buddypress-components-and-features/groups/#groups-directory

If the “Create a Group” button doesn’t show up in your theme, that’s because the_title tag of page template is not within the WordPress loop. To resolve…[Read more]

@mike245 by default, there’s only one instance of BuddyPress per WordPress (single or multisite) installation. What you want – multiple BuddyPress installations in one Multisite install – is not possible without a BP multinetwork plugin. There are two plugins available and of those two, since you want a shared userbase, you would need…[Read more]

@pmcreations WP/BP versions? If you’re using the bbPress plugin (not the internal group forums of old BP versions), go to Settings > Forums – Forum Features, and check “Allow users to subscribe to topics”

@sakarya simple way: remove the whole form in the /activity/post-form.php file and copy that file over to your BP Default Child theme or WordPress theme in server following the directory structure. Or, remove the call to /activity/post-form.php in three files which you then need to copy over to your theme folder in server
See…[Read more]

@mgrmn thanks for posting back re positive result 🙂
Marking this topic as resolved.

@dswd you would go with the jQuery version that current WordPress version is using because that’s what BuddyPress and other updated plugins are using. That’s a major reason why themes should not be dequeueing WP jQuery and enqueueing their own – bad form really.

@dswd current BP/WP versions are using jQuery 1.8.3 while there are themes and plugins who either use old versions of jQuery and some which enqueue version 1.9.1 and therefore not kosher. Check that.

@dswd it could be a theme or plugin conflict with BP. What have you done to troubleshoot issue?