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Tks for taking the trouble to reply in such great details, hugo.

I’ve forwarded this to the developer for reference. I guess this issue is way beyond my limited knowledge to resolve; I’ll just have to wait for him to resolve it then.

Thanks again for your professionalism in handling this matter.

best regards,
eric

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Hi, guys.

The developer of my theme came back to me and said that the buddpress pages are using the “default page” templates from the theme itself now; that’s why nothing is appearing in the buddypress pages. They replied and said the buddypress pages should be using the buddypress page templates and asked if I have installed the buddypress page templates correctly.

I’ve tried changing to themes of other developers and the buddypress pages work perfectly. Does it mean to say that the buddypress page templates are setup correctly? What should I do now?

I understand that you guys did mentioned previously to check with the developer himself, which I did. However, this is the reply I got from him. I really feel like a ball myself. Please kindly advise me on what modification or action I ought to take now to enable buddypress.

The only thing that’s preventing the site from going live now is the buddypress. Please kindly help me.

Thanks.

best regards,
eric

P.S. Pls don’t point me to the codex again; I really have a difficult time understanding them.

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tks, Hugo…

I guess I’ll just have to go back to them for help then…

cheers

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tks, mercime… u’re the best…

Could you be so kind as to assist me in providing the code to tag the_content and the_title in the buddypress file and all its related?

cheers

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I want to thank you so much for your assistance in this matter.

You don’t know how much it means to me to have you pointing out that the first link is what matters in my case.

I’ll look into the child theme compatibility issue and making of the buddypress.php. Could you assist in providing the code to tag the_content and the_title in this file?

Lastly, is this all that I need to do? I guess in your own way you’ve answered my Questions 1 and 2. But how about No.3? Do I have to copy files from:

/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/
To:
/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/

as stated in your article?

I apologise for taking up your time in this matter and I cannot thank you enough for your kind assistance. Please forgive my newbie questions; I’m trying really hard to understand this and get it to work.

cheers

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I’ve tried changing it to Twenty Twelve and I can see the BP pages. So, it’s definitely an issue with my theme.

Ok, after reading and rereading the codex, these are the questions in my head:
1. Am I supposed to create a child theme?
If yes, is the child theme directory supposed to read /parenttheme-child/ or /buddypress/ ?

2. you mentioned about these list of templates:
– plugin-buddypress.php
– buddypress.php
– community.php
– generic.php
– page.php
– single.php
– index.php

I gather from the article that BP will use JUST 1 of this. Did I understand this correctly?
If yes, am I supposed to copy one of these files into the child theme directory?
If I’m not supposed to create a child theme, which sub-directory should this file be found in my theme directory?

For my case, I have none of the above files in my theme’s directory. The closest I have is mytheme/includes/news-single.php. Is this supposed to be the directory that this file should be found? Am I supposed to rename this file? Or am I supposed to rename and copy this file into the child theme directory? Or am I supposed to create a new php file altogether for my case? And, if so, how do I go about doing it?

3. You mentioned in your article that Template compatibility also runs a check to see if two directories or folders exist in a theme:
‘buddypress’
‘community’

I’ve checked and they don’t exist in my theme directory. Can I safely conclude that BP will use the files in the plugin and that I won’t need to create these folders in my theme? Or do I need to create them in my theme or child theme?

While still on this, you mentioned in your article:

“Therefore, you can modify any bp theme compatibility template by copying it over from:
/bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/
To:
/my-theme/community/ or /my-theme/buddypress/”

Am I supposed to create either community or buddy press and copy the files I found in the BP plugin /bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/ into them? And if I’m supposed to create a child theme, am I supposed to create these in the child theme instead and copy these into them? Or should I do nothing at all?

Please advise and assist me in this; I’m really very confused. Or if it’s in any way possible, could you list down the steps that I’m supposed to take?

Thanks.

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ha ha ha… u’re right, Hugo… tks for the humour…

I’m using Legatus Theme from Orange Themes and my website is http://www.modacustica.com.

I’ve installed buddypress 1.8 and I have all the 5 pages created without any problem. However, when I click on them, they are all empty. I’ve tried changing the theme to another and the pages were alright. So I kinda concluded that it gotta be the Legatus Theme.

Please take a look at my site and advise me on what I should do next.

Thanks.