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If it’s just the link at the menu item, you can just edit the page name and slug in page edit panel, then go to Settings> Pages and choose the new blog menu name from select box and click on Save. You know you’d also have to change title of the Blogs Directory page in yoursite.com/wp-content/themes/yourthemename/blogs/index.php in this line

@ronnie_fantastic Looking good.

1. Missing BuddyPress styles: Go to Appearance > BP Compatibility. and uncheck “Disable BP Template Pack CSS”
– you need the BP template pack CSS to properly align the BuddyPress sections.

2. Enable registration: Go to Settings > General and look for the line where you allow registration (it’s off by default)

3. “It has what looks like a 2 cell table with ‘Base’ written above it and the name/username within”
– This is the Profile page and it shows profile fields. BP Codex is your friend https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/

== I have “user groups” turned off in buddypress and “enable group forums” turned off too in bbpress. ==

@lucianoippolito
1. You need to turn off “Discussion Groups” in Settings > BuddyPress > Components if you only want Sitewide Forums (bbPress plugin) https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/#c-set-up-sitewide-forums-only
2. For good measure, delete “foro grupos” page in Pages > All Pages and delete it permanently
3. Delete bb-config.php file generated at root of your installation

Hi @mercime I’m using the Sahifa theme as well. Followed the instructions above precisely but still seem to be having problems getting BP up and running. Specifically:

1. When going through BP installation wizard, the 4th step “Theme” never loads. It just shows a completely blank space below the Components/Pages/Permalinks, etc. tabs. This doesn’t seem right…

2. While in the Theme tab, if I ignore that there’s just blank space and click “save & next” to complete the installation wizard, I still get the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page” message when trying to click on BP Settings under Plugins.

How can I fix this to get BP running properly?

For background, I’m running on WP 3.3.1 and BP 1.6.1

Thanks.

@wpinklady you have numerous issues in your installation. Answered you at link posted above. Please continue discussion there.

Re Events Manager plugin -> please go to https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/events-manager then click on the Support link and post the errors showing up when you activate Events Manager with BP on. Do provide more information about your installation for the plugin dev

Re “join group” link -> is this issue related to Events Manager? If not, have you checked whether this is a theme issue (change to bp-default) or another plugin conflict?

WP/BP versions? Single/multisite? where are you hosted? Windows/Linux?

Strange.

Try Pages > Add New –> Activity (in title and nothing in text area) then publish. Then go to Settings > BuddyPress > Pages panel and choose the newly created Activity page and click on Save. See if that works.

@villnoweric After activating BuddyPress, you need to go through the Installation Wizard https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/

Also, double-check Settings > Permalinks, it should be set to other than default permalink structure. BP requires “pretty permalinks”

I have the same issue – can’t post anything, and I posted the issue to “https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/having-problem-with-buddypress-and-events-manager/” as well.

Hope someone could help me figure out how to solve it. Thank you very much.

B. CREATE a blank sidebar-buddypress.php file

Open up the blank sidebar-buddypress.php and add content from:
– http://pastebin.com/W7tT40tw

Save file.

C. Upload header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php to your theme folder in server wp-content/themes/ronnie_fantastic/ in the same directory where your regular header.php and sidebar.php files are

D. Final note: Copy the style modifications for some BP elements https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/theme-dev-bp-template-pack-walkthrough-twenty-ten-bp-1-5/3/ and paste those at the bottom of your theme’s stylesheet, then adjust to taste.

@ronnie_fantastic thanks for following up. You will only need to create two new files, header-buddypress.php and sidebar-buddypress.php instead of changing 16 template files.

If you’ve revised any of the BP template files transferred to your ronnie_fantastic theme folder in server during the BP Compatibility process, please delete the 6 BP folders transferred to your ronnie_fantastic theme folder in server – /activity, /blogs, /forums, /members, /groups, /register – then re-run Appearance > BP Compatibility again to make sure that you have clean template files.

A. COPY your theme’s header.php and Save As > header-buddypress.php

Open up header-buddypress.php and at the BOTTOM of the file, below other code contained within, add code from:
– http://pastebin.com/DYBuCJe0

Save file.

@laprek please start a new topic for your yootheme downtown theme and post the links to the files I requested from free3dart above. We’ll see.

You can use a responsive WordPress theme and install the BP Template Pack plugin to make your WP theme compatible with BuddyPress. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes. This is the route you should take if you’re planning to launch your site this month or early next month. There’s still BP 1.6.2 coming out sometime December https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/roadmap and no set schedule as to when BP 1.7 is coming out yet.

@ant01 BP Codex is your friend
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/before-installing/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/setting-up-a-new-installation/installation-wizard/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/configure-buddypress-components/
– https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/

I suggest that you use BP Default theme while you’re setting up BuddyPress and test driving to see if everything is working as expected. If all’s well, then you focus on the theme:
– create a child theme of BP Default theme OR
– choose a WP theme and install BP Template pack plugin and go through BP compatibility process. We have a list of “template-packed” WP themes at https://codex.buddypress.org/theme-development/wordpress-to-buddypress-theme/#template-packed-wordpress-themes OR
– choose a free or paid ready-made BP child theme OR
– choose a free or paid BP-ready/compatible WordPress theme

@mistichd site crash as in white/blank pages or cannot access wp-admin? https://codex.buddypress.org/troubleshooting/blank-pages/

Which forum are you referring to – Group Forum topic or Sitewide forum topic? Have you tried changing to bp-default theme and deactivating other plugins except BP

I have found a plugin that can do so. But it will work upto wordpress version 3.2.1 and BuddyPress 1.2.9 or higher. You may try that.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-tinymce/

I have the same problem with my yootheme downtown theme. Have you sorted the issue?

Interesting. Which plugin?