Basic action: Go to Settings > BuddyPress > Settings panel – Group Settings – Check/uncheck ” Enable group creation for all users.” You can always set up a post/page where users can request that you create a group for them.
From what version did you upgrade? There’s nothing in the upgrade that would delete the activities. What theme are you using? If you change to bp-default theme, do you see your activities? Are your plugins (esp. BP ones) updated for BP 1.6?
@benzine You’re welcome.
== if I want to get rid of the sidebar, other than modifying my css for sidebar ==
Two parts in removing sidebar in templates where you want full-width
A. Near top of file, remove the line
`<?php if (get_option_tree('blog_layout_sidebar', '')) { echo '
B. Near the bottom of the file, remove the line
`<?php if (get_option_tree('blog_layout_sidebar', '')) {} else {echo '
‘;}?>`
and replace it with
`
`
== I also want to list the members like an album view sort like (in rows and columns – grid like) ==
This is now beyond BuddyPress template compatibilty. I would suggest checking out the styles used in themes set up with grids like those listed at http://www.dessign.net/grid-style-theme/ or posting or assistance at https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting or hire a developer at http://jobs.wordpress.net/
Marking this topic as resolved.
Great. It will not resurrect the old activities but will start “recording” your activities now.
== i need this plugin in order to make a community out of it. HELP!! ==
@business31 You need to follow up with the plugin author to update the plugin to be compatible with BP 1.6.1. Which plugin is it?
== My header-buddypress.php: starts with include ( ‘header.php’ ); then some html tag, no php ==
And therein lays the answer to the strange behavior. What hnla said above. header.php is a special template file which is not meant to be included in another file except via get_header call. To resolve your issue, create header-buddypress.php the way I mentioned above. Do the same for your footer-buddypress.php, footer.php is another special file which should only be called via get_footer()
@dasteralo2 First, deactivate BuddyPress. you’ve got to make sure that your WP multisite installation is working before activating BP. Now create a new blog w/o BP and see if your new blog has been created.
– If no subsite is created, then resolve the multisite issue first at the multisite forum https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite
– If a subsite is created, then activate BuddyPress, go through the Installation Wizard and choose BP Default theme for the meantime, and create a new blog.
B. At the bottom of the same 16 files, replace:
`
`
with the following (except for registration/register.php):
`
<?php if (get_option_tree('blog_layout_sidebar', '')) {} else {echo '
‘;}?>
`
with the following for registration/register.php:
`
<?php if (get_option_tree('blog_layout_sidebar', '')) {} else {echo '
‘;}?>
jQuery(document).ready( function() {
if ( jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).length && !jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).hasClass(‘show’) )
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).toggle();
jQuery( ‘input#signup_with_blog’ ).click( function() {
jQuery(‘div#blog-details’).fadeOut().toggle();
});
});
`
Save files.
C. Upload the 6 BP folders containing the 16 files you’ve just revised to your server wp-content/themes/Paediatric/
D. Copy the style modifications made in BP Twenty Ten at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste to your theme’s stylesheet. Adjust to taste.
Final note: not sure whether the options re sidebar locations will work in BP template files with your theme. Some themes have options that work, some themes not at all. Make the top and bottom revisions with /members/index.php to start and see how that works out first.
@benzine You need to change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your Paediatric theme folder in server during the compatibility process.
If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your Paediatric theme folder in server, replace all of them for a clean slate by deleting the 6 BP folders – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /groups, /members, and /registration – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility.
Download the 6 clean BP folders to your computer hard drive.
A. At the top of each of those 16 template files I linked to above, replace
`
with the following:
`
Then, in each of 16 files, delete the BP Templates’ Page titles where found (usually found in index.php files within BP Template folders) since the BP titles are generated automatically during the BP Installation Wizard and you don’t want duplicate titles in one page. Be careful with the activity/index.php file.
Save files.
– After you activated BuddyPress, did you go through the Installation Wizard? https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
– After you activated the BP Template Pack plugin, did you go through the process via dashboard menu > Appearance > BP Compatibility and finish Step 3 (match HTML structure of theme with BP templates)?
== the duplicate wp_head is not really giving me serious issues (apart from that redirect problem at the moment), however it’s wrong to have repeated js and css in a page ==
@substrato Re duplicate wp_head, how did you create header-buddypress.php? I do it by opening up header.php file and Save As > header-buddypress.php then at the bottom of that new file, add the necessary HTML tags which are not available in the BP templates. A possibility could be that you replicated wp_head in your our header-buddypress.php which I assumed you checked already?
@helllllpmeplease I can see the activity comments in the two page links you posted in IE8, then when I removed styles on the pages in FF15 the unstyled posts are there. This means that something’s gone awry with the BP compatibility process.
Download permalink.php from your server wp-content/themes/clearline/members/single/activity/permalink.php to your computer hard drive. Open it up with a text editor like Notepad and delete everthing within. Copy the following and paste it to your permalink.php file
`
`
Save permalink.php and upload to wp-content/themes/clearline/members/single/activity/ folder. Clear cache and check it out.
Issue is resolved when bbPress sitewide forums is deactivated. Posted in bbPress trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1951
Good luck. I use BP Gallery myself 
@benzine your page.php has `get_template_part( ‘loop’, ‘page’ )` so do post the code for loop-page.php in pastebin.com as well
Strange, I just logged in and created a ticket there a few minutes ago. Try again?
Created ticket for the duplicate forum posts issue above https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4524
@sooskriszta check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-media/ by rtcamp; not to be confused with the other BP Media hosted on Google
@loubas The BuddyPress default theme supports custom menus. Create a menu in Appearance > Menus and name the Home page to Welcome.
@mahdiar the culprit was the `display: block;` added in .`button span`
`.button span {
border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #FFFFFF;
display: block; // REMOVE THIS LINE
}`
Remove `display: block` and you’re good.
You might also want to change
`div.activity-meta {
margin: 18px 0;
}`
to
`div.activity-meta {
margin: 0 0 18px;
}`
so that the `activity-meta` div is aligned with `activity-header`/avatar
== I’m not using a custom theme, I’m using the buddypress template pack ==
@substrato Not clear. What theme are you using? Site URL?
– Only use the BuddyPress Template Pack plugin when you want to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. So if you’re testing/using the BuddyPress Default theme, you do not need to use the BP template pack plugin.
– Creating header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php is appropriate for some themes and inappropriate for others, all depends on the HTML structure of the theme.
Do post the url of conversation with “View” link which leads to blank page. If it requires us to log in, do provide a throwaway/testuser username and password.
@benzine horizontal scroll is not a CSS issue alone. You need to complete step 3 of the BP compatibility process. When I click on member benz benz, there’s no horizontal scrollbar but the sidebar has dropped to below content area.
Open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all code, paste code in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URL here. Do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files. Let’s see.
== I have tried uninstalling buddypress, but it didn’t even show a registration page after that. ==
@swagcannon change to Twenty Eleven theme and deactivate all plugins. Then check your registration in basic WP install. If that doesn’t work, try to re-upload WP files manually – via FTP/cpanel/filemanager etc. and check if registration works. If that doesn’t work, please go to https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting for assistance
