[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@cicakchanson Marking this as resolved. Start a new topic if you have new questions.

== I’m hoping that I can help others in the community one day as well. Best! ==
Ole!

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

But if you do, always mention to “backup database first” otherwise ….

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

As Super Admin, you should be able to create groups anytime. Go to Groups Directory and beside the title of the page, you’ll find the “create groups” button. Or just add “create” in browser e.g. http://yoursite.com/groups/create

As for friends, you mean under your profile avatar, there’s no “Friends” tab/link?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Page editor is a WP issue. Deactivate all plugins and change to Twenty Eleven theme then work from there to determine which changed your WP page editor.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

What theme were you using before you deactivated BP and BP template pack? Go to server and rename wp-content/themes/YourActiveTheme to something like wp-content/themes/YourActiveTheme-xxx so that active theme will revert to WP default theme

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Use a language translation file to customize BuddyPress labels, messages, and URL slugs in one go –> https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Whatever happened to Canvas BuddyPress child theme? I recall reading that it was the most downloaded theme in Woo or something like that.

== I was hoping I could do the “header-buddypress.php” method ==

Sorry, per initial scan of your files, you need to use the first method for theme compatibility – changing 16 BP template files. If you still want to proceed let me know.

As for your concern about updates, come around BP 1.7 more or less, you won’t need to worry about this. We’d most probably will post some steps to upgrade the template files until them. Best thing to do is to backup DB and server files regularly.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

B. At the bottom of the same 16 files, replace:
`

`

with the following (except for registration/register.php):
`

`

with the following for registration/register.php:
`

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/wp-chatter/

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.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Based on the HTML structure of your theme, you need to use the first option, i.e., change 16 template files within the 6 BP folders transferred to your wp-chatter theme folder in server during the compatibility process.

If you’ve previously changed any of the BP template files in your 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
`

<div class="post clearfix maincontent" style="margin:0;" id="post-“>

`

Then, in each of 16 files, you’d like to change the BP Templates’ page title’s header tag from `

…

` or `

..

` to `

// Titles Of Respective BP Page Templates //

`, just watch out when you do this in the /activity/index.php page.

Save files.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Change the default tab opened when looking at a user’s profile (default is activity) –> https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

That is a theme issue, so you should contact theme authors.
An alternative would be to use a WP theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin then go through Appearance > BP compatibility process. We’ve “template-packed” a number of WP themes, check out if that WP theme is listed near end of https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

site uri?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/home.php

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== I added a new div to header.php called ropeheader. ==
Where before-inside-around-after within the header.php did you add div#ropeheader and its background image?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@glamor Check this out – https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@djwinner Good for you

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@mralexweber https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@aronprins Cool. What’s the link?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Following link shows you the steps of the BP template pack – compatibility process. Near the bottom of the link, you’ll find the list of WP theme’s we’ve “template-packed” so far. Check if your WP theme is listed there. https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

The Status Update Form shows up in the Activity Stream directory, in the member’s activity page and in the group’s activity page. You can remove the call for post-form.php from activity/index.php, members/single/activity.php and groups/single/activity.php files and then open up activity/post-form.php and delete all code inside it.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== I received a note that said “It looks like you already said that.” ==
I’ve seen this happen when you post large blocks of code with at certain times. What I do is to post code at pastebin.com and post the generated URI here along with my text and it’s all good.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

@neodjandre Open up your theme’s header.php file, copy all, paste in pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URI here. Then do the same for your theme’s index.php, page.php, sidebar.php and footer.php files.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

== i then tried to install the global forums ==
Please clarify, are you referring to the Sitewide Forums aka bbPress plugin 2.+ or are you referring to the Global Forums plugin by BuddyDev.com? In either case to gain back access to your wp-admin, rename the bbpress or global-forums folders via FTP/FileManage/cpanel to something like wp-content/plugins/bbpress-xxx or wp-content/plugins/global-forums-xxx

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Set which blog ID BuddyPress will run on if not on main site – add following to your bp-custom.php file:
`define ( ‘BP_ROOT_BLOG’, $blog_id );`
where you replace $blog_id with the blog ID number of subdomain/subdirectory site of your multisite installation – https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/changing-internal-configuration-settings/

As for themes – you can use a WordPress theme then install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the BP Compatiblity process. Check if your WP theme has been “template-packed” in the list near bottom of this page https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 6 months ago]

Do you have Sitewide and Group Forums installed or just Sitewide Forums only?