[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

You’re welcome. Now it’s resolved, change/delete username and password you posted earlier, anyone can access your admin and wreak havoc in your main site with BP.

I’ve already changed it in your post above.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Looks like it’s fixed. When I visited earlier, I could see the front page out of whack without being redirected to wp-login.php. Now, the redirect is on and the site looks well even in Firefox on my end. I can also see the bp adminbar on screen.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@rcichetti I would recommend that you download another copy of the bp-columns theme and re-upload to your server. The theme’s not rendered correctly in your site right now – something got lost in download or upload of the theme and that’s most probably what’s causing the lack of adminbar in your site.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

Filed ticket https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/3096

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@FiestyLatina you’re welcome. Note that you will have to implement your theme’s HTML structure to some BP plugins, not all. You’ll know when you have to make the changes when you see the misalignment of your sidebar and content area on the page/s where the plugin is being implemented.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

@StevieG adding footer.php from bp-default to your child theme shouldn’t mess with your install.

So going back to “If I try to access the files in my child theme I get the error message ‘Sorry, that file cannot be edited’.” is this in relation to editing the child theme files via Network Admin > Appearance > Editor panel? If not, what files are you trying to edit and where?

EDIT- just found out you posted same topic in WP Forums and the problem as posted there was clearer

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

You can have your own functions.php file in a child theme. Just make sure that the new function you’ll be adding is not the same as the ones already in functions.php of bp-default parent theme.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 7 months ago]

And the reason why the styles I gave you are not showing up is because in the block before that, there is no closing bracket after the style declarations of `div.post div.post-content, div.comment-content` whew.

So change this
`div.post div.post-content, div.comment-content {
margin-left: 0px;`
to
`div.post div.post-content, div.comment-content {
margin-left: 0px;
}`

and it’s good to go.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

At the end of the BP template pack process, per instruction on screen, you need to add (hardcode) new navigation tabs or links to your theme’s header.php to link to BuddyPress components directory pages.

Add link to the components you enabled in BuddyPress settings. The default set of links are:

* Activity: http://yoursite.com/activity/
* Members: http://yoursite.com/members/
* Groups: http://yoursite.com/groups/
* Forums: http://yoursite.com/forums/
* Register: http://yoursite.com/register/ (registration must be enabled)
* Blogs: http://yoursite.com/blogs/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

duplicate of https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/problems-with-view-link-for-forum-topics-on-the-activity-list/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Open up custom.css file, then add this at the bottom :

`#header {
height: 160px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left;
}

ul#nav {
position: absolute;
left: 15px;
bottom: 0;
max-width: 1000px;
font-size: 14px;
height: 25px;
overflow: hidden;
}`

Adjust to taste. Save and upload.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Ok, BPcolumns then.

1. Save a file copy of your default.css file in the themefoldername/_inc/css folder to a safe place.

2. Open up default.css, find #header and change `height: 100px;` to `height: 125px;`

3. In same file, find ul#nav and
change `right: 15px;` to `left: 15px; `
change `max-width: 65%;` to `width: 100%`

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Just downloaded qawker theme and it actually “looks easy” to copy over HTML structure onto transferred BP files. The sidebar in that theme is called in the footer.php.

1. Download the 6 folders with 13 files transferred via BP template pack process to your qawker theme folder down to your computer https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#revise-templates

2. Open up each file with text editor and make the following changes:

At the top of each BP template file replace this section
`

`

with the one below:
`

`
as noted by hnla above

And at the bottom of each BP template file delete these two lines only:
`

`

3. Save files and upload BP template folders with revised files to server.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Also, just noticed you mentioned using a custom Artisteer theme … did you install the BP Template Pack plugin and go through the integration process? Can’t give any definitive answer based on the styles you just posted above – site url?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

https://codex.buddypress.org/extending-buddypress/customizing-labels-messages-and-urls/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@FiestyLatina this tutorial might help you understand better how to go through the process – https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

WP/BP versions? Did you add that function to your wp-config.php (the right place) or to theme’s functions.php file?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

rcwatson, did you change theme to bp-default theme? What’s in your htaccess file?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

The log in info you gave for test account in your site is rendering wrong password error.

“I have managed to fix the commonly broken sidebars on all pages except one”
I see you’re using the “Los Angeles” theme. I assume you installed the BP template pack plugin and went through the compatibility process. You might just have missed imposing the HTML structure of the Los Angeles theme files over one of the members files.

EDIT- I visited again and I see “Fatal error: Cannot redeclare searchfilter() (previously declared in /home/content/86/7052586/html/wp-content/themes/los_angeles/functions.php:220) …. ” on your site. If you added/deleted anything from your theme’s functions.php file, I suggest you delete/add it back whichever the case may have been.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

== If I try to access the files in my child theme I get the error message ==

The most basic bp-default child theme is a new folder name and a style.css file. What other “files” did you add to your bp-default child theme?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Clearly we have different interpretations re “shift the menu bar (which is on the header) to the left” which I find out that you meant making the horizontal menu a vertical menu on a left sidebar(?), theme? site URL?.

Some online assistance:
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

What do you mean by “forum is not available”?
You have white screen for URL http://yoursite.com/forums?

What BP/WP versions are you on?

What do you mean by “using the Arras Theme along with the Social”?
Did you install BP Template Pack or is “Social” a plugin?

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

@hsiaolungchang Read through the example of the BP Template Pack process https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/bp-template-pack-walkthrough-level-easy-2/

Note that there is usually a pattern to the HTML structures you will be imposing from your design onto the template pack files. The code you posted above for page.php is incomplete closing divs and get_footer code.

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

You could create your own home page by a) creating `home.php` (a special WP template recognized by BP) or by b) creating custom `Page Template` set as front page
which contain:
1. widgetized areas – see this bp-default child theme for example https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/buddypress-widget-theme
and/or
2. special BP and WP loops and/or template tagsto call in data
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/buddypress-template-tags/
https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/

[@mercime Participant 15 years, 8 months ago]

Post to the following forum so BPalbum+ devs will know it’s about their plugin
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/forum/