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it should be including jQuery v1.4.2 fully.

If you have a problem with append, it’s probably the way you are using it. It’s impossible to tell though unless you post more information about your configuration, javascript and error message.

if you are just changing text:

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

have a search on this forum… it’s a known issue… there are several threads with the solution

Which theme are you using? Does it work OK if you switch to the bp-default theme? Are you sure your theme has been written to make use of the slugs?

could it be because the BP_DEFAULT_COMPONENT doesn’t exist…. what is ‘updates’?

Delete your define for the default component – does it work now?

Have you done the basic first steps – deactivating your plugins, and switching to the bp-default theme – does the problem still persist in this case?

search these forums, this is discussed lots of times.

Can your site send standard WordPress admin emails, e.g. if you create a new user in the admin panel, does it send an email to you as site admin?

If not, you need to configure your WordPress mail correctly, before proceeding with BuddyPress

That sounds like a general WordPress question – have you looked in the general WordPress Codex documentation?

I don’t know anyone who uses those wp-admin screens to edit files. For large scale development, you should really be working on a local copy in an editing environment before publishing to your server.

You are probably best to find a suitable WordPress theme, and then use the BP template pack to make it compatible with BuddyPress.

Have a Google for WordPress Magazine themes

@r-a-y : p.s. I do agree with you on a number of things here – yes: new features as theme options (opt-ins, not outs), and yes: it’s probably part of a wider jigsaw – a well developed Codex would have helped, as would a much clearer / better signposted buddypress.org (invitations to test 1.2. and how […]

I do hope you’re wrong re: 2010! We have two clients for whom the layout / content of the activity stream is absolutely critical – we’ve been through many many design revisions (down to the pixel level!) to get it right for them. These things are important. WP also gives a clear warning over functions […]

@r-a-y – sure, we can get rid of them with some additional work on sites in development, but what about the installed sites – who’s going to schedule, manage and pay for their modifications? As you know, BuddyPress has real world 3rd party implementations – it’s not just in the realm of coders, who only maintain […]

@chouf1 – It’s a baffling decision by the core team – I don’t know why they thought it was reasonable to break the design of every child theme that’s been based on the bp-default parent. bp-default was not a standalone theme, it was a parent to hundreds of child themes. There was a responsibility to keep […]

We just went with a loop like this: 'new_blog_post', 'max' => 20); ?> @boonebgorges has talked about adding ‘exclude’ parameters to some of the loop functions, which could make this much neater – I don’t know the progress / state of that […]

hats off to @Chouf1 – a. for solving it, and b. for ‘tagging’ the thread as solved – we should all get into that discipline (although a button to do it automatically would be nicer)

ok… two solutions: 1. the nasty hacky – adding define (‘BP_DISABLE_ADMIN_BAR’, TRUE) in our theme’s functions.php Why nasty hacky: well it inserts inline CSS into our footer to hide the adminbar and remove the padding; that’s nastiest enough in itself, but it also uses !important to override anything we actually want to do – even nastier. […]

@hnla – posting simultaneously !