[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

== What would that do? I just did it and I see no change. ==
The recommendation to upload another copy of page.php was due to the fact that the div class in pastebin.com for page.php was different from the div class I posted which resolved the layout issue.

== Shouldn’t there be a button to send public messages ==
Make sure you did not disable the JS for BP. Go to Appearance > BP Compatibilty. The checkboxes should be clear. i.e. unchecked.

== And when I try to change the colors on the navbar to match my theme color… it doesnt change them. ==
Whatever change you add to your theme’s stylesheet should override adminbar’s styles as the latter is enqueued before your theme’s stylesheet per code you posted for header.php in pastebin. It just might be that you have overlooked some/same selectors to override adminbar styles.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Basic troubleshooting – change theme to bp-default theme. It would also help if you give additional info like WP/BP versions, issue happening on new install or updated install, etc.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

BP Codex – https://codex.buddypress.org/home/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

[Part 2]

Create a new empty file and name it sidebar-buddypress.php
Open up empty sidebar-buddypress.php and add the following

`

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 file.

Upload two new files created to amplifier theme folder in server.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

First of all, if you’ve made any revisions in any of BP template files transferred to your amplifier theme folder in your server, I recommend that you delete the 6 BP template folders and re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility so that new and clean BP template files will be transferred to your amplier theme folder.

Scan of source code reveals that you can use the second method to make your theme compatible with BuddyPress i.e. only create header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php files, instead of revising 16 BP template files. With this set-up however, you can only have a right sidebar as I have deleted the option in the template so that layout won’t break.

Make a copy of your theme’s header.php and save it as header-buddypress.php
Open up header-buddypress.php and add the following at the very bottom of the file below all other code

`

<div id=”post-“>`

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You’re welcome I recommend that you download or unzip another copy of your theme and copy the page.php file from there and upload to your theme folder in server. Double check that your page.php file has the `

`

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@soeasilyswayed Viewed page source. Checked reaction theme demo page as well.

At the bottom of the header-buddypress.php we created, replace:
`

`
with
`

`

The class .one you posted in pastebin had only 40px width

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Got it. Thing is, I see
`

`
in source when the page template you posted in pastebin.com link above had
`

` plus the next two divs I posted are not present in source code of what’s supposed to be your /member/index.php page

Where did you upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php? These should be uploaded to wp-content/themes/reaction/ folder, not elsewhere or it won’t work.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

I suggest you contact the plugin dev for BP Registration Options and ask if it is going to be updated and that you are willing to pay if need be – http://webdevstudios.com/contact/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You’re welcome. Marking this as resolved then

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Post what you did so we can work with you from there.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You also need delete the bb-config.php file at root of WP install as well (same level you find wp-config.php in).

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

BP Template Pack process copies 6 folders from bp-default theme within the buddypress plugin folder into the active WP theme – in your case, the swatch theme folder in server.

You can download BuddyPress, unzip, and go to bp-themes/bp-default/ folder where you’ll find the 6 folders (activity, blogs, forums, groups, members, registration) which contain the 16 files you need to revise. After you’ve done the revisions, upload those 6 folders via FTP/cpanel/etc to server wp-content/themes/swatch/ folder

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

You mean more than what you already see in Group Forums as well as in the Sitewide Forums? Like what?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

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

`

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

`

with the following for /registration/register.php file
`

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 and upload following the directory structure.

Disclaimer: this may or may not work depending on what that customized theme renders via options in the templates. If that occurs, you can point theme dev to this post and he/she would be able to direct you to a corrected structure.

Also, if there’s a php error after this has been uploaded, it might very well be that you would have to delete the breadcrumb code I included from the original woo file. I’m saying, just in case

Finally, you might want to check out the style modifications done for Twenty Ten child theme using BP template pack https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

All right.

@BlendNZjnr You’re going to have to change 16 files contained within the 6 BP template folders transferred to your swatch theme folder in server listed here https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#tplfiles

Download the 6 BP template folders (clean ones) to your computer HD.

A. At the very top of all the other template files listed in link above, replace from get_header to div.padder
e.g.
`

`

with the following :
`<?php
get_header();
global $woo_options;
?>

<div >

`

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Make sure that you have pristine copies of the BP template files i.e. that the files you tried to revise over the last week were replaced with the original BP template files.
– Delete the 6 BP template folders in your reaction theme namely: activity/ blogs/ forums/ groups/ members/ registration/
– Re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility and go through whole process until the end.
– Check the BP component pages again.

Otherwise, site uri?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

First: If you have BP 1.5.3.1 activated in a WP 3.3.1 installation, best practice is to only add plugins which are compatible with at least BP 1.5 or WP 3.3. If you install plugins compatible with lower versions of BP, be assured in all probability, you’d get fatal errors somewhere.

If you mean a single ning site (not the whole ning), it could cost you $4000 – $5000 to set up. Could be higher depending on your requirements. That doesn’t include maintenance, upgrade or server costs. Of course, could be cheaper with other devs. You could post at https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-jobs-board/home/ and/or http://jobs.wordpress.net/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Looking at the code you posted, I am 99% positive that you only need to create and add header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder instead of changing code in 16 files transferred into your reaction theme in server. Let’s give it a try.

Create the header-buddypress.php file. Copy content of your reaction theme’s header.php and post it in header-buddypress.php and add the following at the bottom of that file:
`

`
(updated)

Save file.

Create a new file sidebar-buddypress.php. and paste the following:
`

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 file.

Upload both files to your theme folder in wp-content/themes/reaction/

Finally, you might want to modify the default template pack styles, check out https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@AtlantasRealtor I would say backup database as always. Go to the lowest common and successful denominator by changing theme to Twenty Eleven and deactivating all plugins first.
– Given that, when you activate BuddyPress, do you now see the Installation Wizard link under the admin bar?
– If you do not see the the wizard, at this stage change to bp-default theme.
– Do you see the BuddyPress menu at the bottom of all other dashboard menus? If so, go through each one of those panels and configure.

– Yes, it is logical to make sure that your theme and connect plugins are compatible with latest WP and BP versions. However, I recommend not activating Genesis child theme nor Genesis Connect until you have BuddyPress working properly
– Btw, is this a new installation or is this an upgrade from previous WP version?

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

`function bp_dtheme_page_menu_args( $args ) {
$args = false;
return $args;
}
add_filter( ‘wp_page_menu_args’, ‘bp_dtheme_page_menu_args’ );`

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Default is that you receive email notifications for activity, messages, friends and groups. Go to your profile, Settings > Notifications

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Go to dashboard menu Plugins > Installed panel. Deactivate, then delete, then re-install BuddyPress and Activate. Before doing that, go to menu Settings > Permalinks and set to other than default/ugly permalink.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

@palmdoc it’s usually the issue with needing to add /index.php/ to your permalink. Check out if the following link will help you https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/iis7-web-config/

@FuriousCigars after changing to bp-default theme, clear cache and run Settings > Permalinks.

[@mercime Participant 14 years, 9 months ago]

Open up your theme’s header.php, copy the code and paste onto pastebin.com, click submit and post the generated URL here. Do the same for footer.php, sidebar.php, index.php and page.php

As for the buttons, you can use Firebug, a Firefox add-on, or use Chrome and right-click to inspect element and check button style conflict.