what worked for me was to copy the source code of my forum page and slap in into the home page
@harvey1233 If you want your forum index page as your home page:
1. Create a new empty Page named “Blog” or “News” or whatever you want to represent as the list of new Posts in your site.
2. Go to wp-admin – Settings > Reading – Front Page Displays > Choose Static Page.
3. For Front Page – select the name of your Forums page
4. For Posts Page – select the name you set in #1 above.
5. Click on “Save Changes” button on the same panel.
Please know that BuddyPress does not include any advertisements. It looks more like you’ve been hacked by the tone of your rant. Surf Cannon is the link to what? Do give a specific site uri.
@ubernaut the fix was in BP Default’s functions.php file. Did you check if it was corrected in BP Default theme? For that matter, did you try to apply the same fix in the functions.php file of Reviewit theme and see if issue is resolved with the fix?
Also i am trying to add CSS to My pages and cant figure it out. any tips?
One usually adds the styles to your theme’s style.css file. However, since you’re using the BP Default theme, any modifications made to the style.css file will be overwritten when you upgrade BuddyPress. It would be better if you created a child theme of the BP Default theme and add styles to that child theme’s style.css file. Or use a WordPress theme and install/activate the BP Template Pack plugin and go through Appearance > BP Compatibility process.
You could do that for HTML and CSS but I would think you’d rather stage this in a separate development installation via XAMPP/MAMP/WAMP That way, you’d be able to test the theme first and also have a backup of your theme should anything go awry in your server online.
I think you mean Javascript instead of Java, a different animal altogether. Again, I suggest you create/update theme in local server first. WordPress Codex for creating themes – https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
@chouf1 thanks for heads up on the admin login. I’ve removed the info above.
@bhupendra13 looks like the issue with permalinks/component pages have been fixed in your installation. You need to know that the BP Default child theme you’re using has not been updated for the last two years so there will be issues which would crop up later. I suggest updating the header.php file of the child theme.
I’ve just installed a buddypress theme … on my site and I’m totally lost as to how to add a login, members, groups, activity stream, forums etc.
You also need to install and activate BuddyPress and go through the Installation Wizard to assign the BP Pages. Did you already do all that? A BP-compatible theme still requires the BP plugin.
