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@jen915 WP themes can be made compatible with BuddyPress by installing and activating the BP Template Pack plugin then going through Appearance > BP Compatibility process. The last step would basically involve copying and pasting from the code I posted above to a file created above per instruction and uploading it to server.

Since I have never used Karma theme, I cannot offer any guarantee that even after you’ve fixed the layout of the BP template files to adopt your theme’s layout, that there won’t be any javascript or AJAX conflicts – as I’ve seen in 2 of the more advanced themes.

Per roadmap, BP 1.6 ==> BP Group Forums will be migrated to Sitewide Forums/bbPress 2.1 which is more easily indexed by Google

@mercime Yes, they are all blank because I haven’t attempted integrating them yet. I don’t know code (just basic wordpress user here) so I was afraid I would mess things up if I started messing around, especially since the karma theme wasn’t made for buddypress. I contacted an outside expert to help me but just wanted to reach out to someone who possibly used buddypress with karma to see how it worked out, if it worked well, before I pay this person and take all this time to try to make it work. (BP Version 1.5.5, Karma 2.6.9, WP Version 3.3.2)

@jen915 WP/BP versions? Did you go through the Installation Wizard after activating BuddyPress? What are the URI’s of your BuddyPress Pages? I get blank pages when I go to your site and append /groups or /members to your domain uri.

Hi! I also chose the karma theme and then found out I couldn’t easily integrate buddypress. Were you able to do it successfully? My site is for a school and I want parents to be able to log in to see teacher pages. Do you think this is possible? testingfms.com

thanks for any input.

The best approach is to create a child theme, this is actually extremely simple, however it does require a number of steps.
1. You need to create a new folder under/in /wp-content/themes/

2. In that folder you need to create a blank file called style.css

3. in that file you add :
`
/*
Theme Name: my theme name
Theme URI: http://buddypress.org
Description: a description – non essential.
Version: 1.0
License: GNU General Public License
License URI: license.txt
Author: yourself
Author URI: ?your site
Template: bp-default
Tags: buddypress, two-columns, fixed-width, whatever other keywords are applicable
*/
`
To do this you will need some form of access to your site server either FTP or via your Cpanel/plesk file manager to create folders /files.

Once you have that done then it’s simply a matter of going to ‘themes’ in the dashboard where you’ll be able to select your new theme.

At this stage as you only have a style.css file BP uses all of the default BP theme files including it’s own styles so activating your new theme will cause no apparent change – good! However you now have the ability to use style.css to add CSS properties/ rulesets that will be read after the BP ones and thus overwrite what may already have been set.

Using the WP editor under ‘appearence’ you should be able to select your child themes style.css and simply add the line:

body {font-size: 100%;}

or:

body {font: 100%/1.4 arial, ‘another font’, sans-serif’}

If the above is too awkward to accomplish then you will probably have to settle for editing the bp-default stylesheet directly and changing the ’12px’ on the body rule for ‘100%’ but those changes would be lost in any upgrades and have to be re-done.

Not possible yet.

You will need to make a function that finds the role for the displayed user.
See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User
You will want to use a BuddyPress function in the ID paramenter instead of the wordpress functions shown in that codex article (see BP codex).

Havn’t looked into it fully for what your trying to do, but you will proburbly want to filter ‘bp_core_get_username’ and echo the function we made above.

Well, it’s one of the things I am more interested in to look at adding to core. Of course, just like anyone else, I need to make the case to the rest of the team that there ought to be a Like in BuddyPress, which is why I had a bit of an experiment in my Labs plugin.

If people like the idea for core, I would suggest they think the idea of a Like button through — bearing in mind we are changing how theming will be easier in 1.7 — in terms of where the button(s) should be, what should it do, any options it might merit, how it would replace Activity’s existing Favourite button. Perhaps even think about how it could be implemented in the code, and where the likes should be stored in a database, and how other 3rd party plugins could extend the Like button (I might want to make it work with my Achievements for BuddyPress, for example).

Once you’ve got something meaty, either post it somewhere on the BuddyPress.org forums, or make an enhancement ticket on https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/

@artsupplywarehouse the new links have been added to the Help Us Help You page. Thanks for the reminder to update the links.

I’m also interested in this, as forums will be an important part of my site when I put it up.

== Does the same thing in the bp-default theme? ==

Are you asking me if the issue will still be there using bp-default theme or are you telling me that it’s doing the same thing using the bp-default theme and mistakenly added the question mark?

The thing is, there’s something wrong with your BP theme – Bodybuilder Yukon ‘child theme – or your customization of the theme. I can’t even open up the site activity page. There are BP pages like my test account > activity > friends which is not rendering at all and the source code shows that it ends at “ Aside from which, each page takes too long to load, So different from what I see for example at http://demos.ithemes.com/buddypress/yukon/members/justin/

Is this a test site or did you install WP/BP in a physical subdirectory?

Something like this would do what you are looking for: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

I run it on a School Board site where students and teachers self identify what school they are from in a dropdown, and that link takes you to a member directory of all of the users who selected something similar.

If the options were small enough, you could probably create a custom menu for each item that would take people to the listing for each selection using the URL format: http://domain.com/members/?s=photographer.

You could do it manually with something like this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-verified/. I’m not savvy enough to suggest how something like this could be built, but you might find that this is a good starting point.

@wassimo – it would require a major rewrite of many files.
Much easier solution would be to find decent hosting.

Currently, favs are stored as serialized array in wp_usermeta.

The OP is just asking for a total count.
Pretty easy to hook in and ++ / — a count within wp_bp_activity_meta table.

But a custom table would be better, imo,
You could use it for a total count scan.
And you could get specific about favs based all members – not just favs specific to a member as per the serialized array.

AND – get it out of wp_usermeta table – hurrah.!
The use of that table is becoming a real scalability issue.
Things like last_activity in user_meta is slooooow.
I think boone wants to move last_activity for BP 1.7 and use an existing activity table.

So maybe a redo of favorites is a natural task for 1.7 ?

edit – just saw the Paul comment that says:
“During development of BuddyPress 1.7, I’ll be revisiting the Like in BP Labs.”

Cool.

@djpaul was creating something “like” this in his BP Labs plugin. Here’s a link: http://byotos.com/2011/12/19/bp-labs-you-may-like-this/

You mean your Archive Slug for your Sitewide Forums and the Page name were also xforumsx as per your post above, Buddypress Forums page ( http://msflights.net/xforumsx ) ?

That would require major changes in your theme files. See how @sbrajesh at BuddyDev help others do this http://buddydev.com/forums/topic/ajax-tabs
DISCLAIMER – you’d need to update some deprecated or revised template tags/functions.

That would be at line 27 of https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.5.5/bp-themes/bp-default/registration/register.php which should be located at wp-content/themes/yourCurrentTheme/registration/register.php