Reply To: Forcing incompatible theme to work with Buddypress
I can deactivate all plugins and then reactivate, but I’m new to WP and not sure if doing so would re-set all of the settings for each plugin.
It shouldn’t, assuming your plugins are well coded. The vast majority of the time doing this causes no problems. But you don’t know 100% until you try it.
You might want to back up your database first just to have a copy to revert back to. It’s a good policy to do that anyways. I use: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-dbmanager/
You can set it to do daily or weekly backups to your server of your database. Pretty sweet.
As for your theme, that theme (Solitudo) looks like it has a ton of theme options. I’m guessing some PHP customization in there is breaking BuddyPress output. You may have to just dig in and deactivate/reactivate parts of the theme (at the code level) until you get things to work if you feel comfortable doing that. Specifically the functions, or functions in PHP files that are possibly called by the core functions.php file – I haven’t used that theme myself so not sure how it’s set up. Every theme is different so there isn’t some quick answer unfortunately.
Hope that helps.
