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@stevieg – Could be a memory issue. You should be disabling all plugins before doing a core WP update.

@stevieg, there is nothing more that you are required to do than to remove the WordPress Admin bar, that they added.

Don’t get worried over nothing, updating to wordpress 3.1 is safe, it’s been a fare share amount of time since it was updated, so plugins can update their compatibility with it also.

Did you change the login name via a plugin or in the database? I’m looking at your site and the @mentions name in the usernav
is different –> @BNIWAdmin when the profile header says @stevieG

Something is off then because on every site i’ve ever used BP on the @name on your profile IS the login name.

@StevieG is your login name on here right? You should get notified of this reply because I @’d you. That’s how it works on every BP site.

@StevieG

Nothing has been changed in bp-default theme from Buddypress 1.2.7 to 1.2.8. You can see changes have been made only to core files here:
https://trac.buddypress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.7&old=3570&new_path=%2Ftags%2F1.2.8&new=4078

If you’re unsure about updating, keep a copy of BP1.2.7 handy so you can revert back to it if…[Read more]

@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 > […]

@StevieG

You can set the default avatar type in your WP backend under ‘Buddypress’ > ‘General Settings’.

@stevieg the template pack files are out dated.