[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

Company Name and Job Title in place of Car etc as done with this premium plugin http://www.philopress.com/products/buddyprofiledata/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@mewrd you cannot bypass dealing directly with PHP files to customize some or all of your BP pages. Basically BP pages are rendered via the theme’s default page.php file.

i have tried to remove `<?php get_sidebar( ‘buddypress’ ); ?> from them -didnt help

What theme are you using? If you’re using a child theme of the BP Default theme, then that would work on the file you copied over from BP Default theme into your child theme’s folder in server.

However, if you’re using a WordPress theme with BP Theme Compatibility, for BP 1.7 per link hnla gave above you’re limited to customizing the HTML structure wrapping the BP templates to all templates or not at all (see last paragraph). Full customization of HTML wrappers (like removing sidebar for the Members pages only) is possible come BP 1.8 https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/template-hierarchy/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

closing this duplicate of https://buddypress.org/support/topic/admin-dashboard-pages-vs-website-pages/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@pewee123 WP/BP versions? New install or is this an upgrade? Are you referring to the old BP group forums or bbPress plugin forums for groups? Do you have any plugin or script directing Group’s home page to the Group Forum page?

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@mewrd could be plugin or theme issues. Have you done basic troubleshooting like changing to Twenty Twelve theme and deactivating all plugins except BuddyPress?

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@reiniggen if you’re on BP Default theme and you’ve deactivated all plugins except BuddyPress, and the issue is still evident, then please post ticket in BP Trac (login with same username and password used here) and include pertinent information about your installation – e.g. single or multisite WP, WP/BP installed in domain root or subsite, etc. Thank you. https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@ughbrandon my apologies, you have the latest version. I missed the point in version check, need glasses already. Please go to Appearance > Widgets and check that you haven’t placed two login widgets in one sidebar.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@tengwah I’ve added a link to the WP codex page about child themes in the paragraph before “Let’s Start Building” section. Thank you for the reminder to add the reference for those who are new to child theming.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@hkcharlie You can still use the old method from the front end, no problem. Know that there have been a lot of improvements in upcoming BP 1.8.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

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

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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; }

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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?

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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;
}

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

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

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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.

To resolve your issue, open up your theme’s page.php file and Save As > buddypress.php and ask the theme author to replace theme’s corresponding tags with the_title() and the_content(). Upload that updated buddypress.php file into your theme’s folder in server and you should be good to go.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

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

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

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

View source code of webpage and check what plugins are used in the site.

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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?

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

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

@mike245 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 https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bp-multi-network

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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 this issue, you can create your own link to the Create Groups page, just append /create to the URL of your groups directory page
e.g.
groups page -> http://example.com/groups
groups create page -> http://example.com/groups/create

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can instead add the patch to include the groups/create link in BP MyAccount section of the WP Toolbar https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1838 – coming out in BP 1.8

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 3 months ago]

@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 https://wordpress.org/plugins/bp-multi-network/

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

@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”

[@mercime Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

@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 https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/theme-development/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/